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CASE OF CONSCIENCE.

"Some of the lawmakers" said a
veteran lobbyist, who had had expert
ence in many capitals, "have very curl
Gus consciences. l remember on one
occasion that it became necessary to
have certain man in a certain state
Legislature on our side in a little legis-
lation of Importance, and 1T was my
duty to look after him. did so, with
various attentions, including wines, din
ners, and so on, and, at last, as couldn't
fix him, pumped $1,000 bill at him.
Ny, my, but he was hot!
"'No man can bride me, sirl No man
can bride me, he fairly yelled, and he
tore up and down in such violent man
ner that discreetly pocketed my thou
sand and left him. The next day.
don't know, of course, how it could
have happened-one or two newspapers
that didn't like my man published an
intimation that the lobbyists were TAX
ing care of him. Then he was hotter
than ever, and the next night 1 sent a
lady lobbyist in my employ to see him.
She came back to me in an hour without
the thousand dollars, and said he was
all right. Then / saw him, and the next
day he had card in all the papers to the
effect that he had repealed with scorn
the advances of lobbyist, and that he
had accepted a bride from no man.
When the bill came up he voted with us,
and no comment was made because he
had been on the fence anyway, and no
body, except the few, knew how he
would vote. All the same, he took a
roundabout way to avoid telling a
straight lie, didn't hep" and the lobby.
ist laughed.-Detrolt Free Press.
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MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING
WELL.

Mrs. Brown was sick. Her friends
said she would never get well. whats
the trouble?' 80, some kind of female
weakness. The doctors have given up
her case as hopeless. She may live for
some time yet, they say, but as for cure
that is quite out of the question"
81 don't believe it," said women, who
heard the sad news. 81 don't believe
she's any worse off than 1 was five years
ago, from the same trouble, and don't
look very much like a dead woman, do
I?'' She certainly did not, with her red
plump cheeks, bright eyes and $50
pounds of good healthy bone, flesh and
blood. "I'm going to see her and tell her
how she can get we'll" She did so. She
advised Mrs. Brown to take DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. Mrs. Brown took
the advice, also the medicine which cures
all kinds of delicate diseases so common
among women, and-got well. That was
two years ago. Last month she pre-
scented Mr.. Brown with ten=pound son,
and mother and child are doing well. !"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
U S. GUNBoAT, BENNINGTON.


The Boston Herald of the 9th, gives an
account of this boat, part Of which
will interest our readers, as follows:
1.-THE gun boat Bennington, one of the
handsomest boats of the new navy, lies
at anchor off the navy yard, where she
attracts considerable attention by her
fine appearance.
1.-THE Bennington is officially classed
as a guDboat, but she is larger than any
modern gunboat atloat. and might more
properly be rated as a third-class, unpro-
tected cruiser.
'She is sister ship of the Yorktown
and the Concord, both of whom are IA
miliar to the Herald's readers.
"She was built by N..F Palmer & Co.,
laid in 1888, and the vessel launched on
June 8, 1890.
''She is built throughout of steel, and
is of the following principal dimensions:
Length between perpendiculars,2 30 feet ;
beam, SO; mean draught, IA feet; dis
placement, LOO tons.
''The battery is a heavy one for YES
sci of her size, being composed Of six
siX-inch breech. loading rifles, two six
Founders, and on one-pounder rapid
FIRE guns, two 81 nm. Hotchkiss revol-
veT-cannons, and two Gatlings.
Sin addition, there are eight torpedo
tubes. One of these is conspicuous, and
will be at once noticed by anyone look
ing at the vessels bow. 1t Is right in
the stem, few feet above the water
line, and is circular in form. The others
are placed three ON each broadside and
one in the stern.
1.-THE Bennington carries no armor,
and her curved deck, although water
tight, and therefore preserver of buoy
ancy is too thin to be regarded as pro
tecti e.
"Her speed is about II knots and her
engines exhibited 1896 indicated horse
power.
'She is in every way an excellent YES
sci for the peace duties of navy, such
as ordinary cruising, caring for Ameri-
eau interests where threatened, etc. For
this purpose she is really a more desir-
able vessel than the larger cruisers, be-
ing not only swift and well armed, but
of light draught, cheap of cost, and mex
pensive to maintain in commission.
'Ihe Bennington will probably remain
at Boston or in the neighboring waters
until after the New York has completed
her trial trip during the present month.
She is here mainly on duty pertaining
to that trial, but will also undergo some
repairs at the navy yard, where she will
be locked"
Accompanying the above was large
engraving Of the steamship named after
our historic town, in whose cabin will
shortly be placed a large photogravure
of the Bennington Battle Monument
the public-spirited contribution of Mr.
| L. w. Bradford.
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THE RED OF THE ATLANTIC.

Proceeding westward from the Irish
coast the ocean bed deepens very gradu-
ally; in fact, for the first 230 miles the
gradient is but six feet to the mile. In
the next 20 miles, however, the fall is
over 5000 feet, and so precipitous is the
sudden descent that in many places
depths of 1900 to 1900 fathoms are en-
countered in very close proximity to the
100-fathom line. With the depth of
1900 to 1000 fathoms the sea bed in this
part of the Atlantic becomes a slightly
undulating plain, whose gradients are so
light that they show but little alteration
of depth for 1900 miles. The extraordi-
nary fatness of these submarine prairieS
renders the familiar smile of the basin
rather inappropriate. The hollow of the
Atlantic is not strictly a basin whose
depth increases regularly toward the
centre; it is rather saucer or dish-like
one, so even is the contour of its bed.
The greatest depth in the Atlantic has
been found some 100 miles to the north
ward of the Island of st. Thomas, where
soundings of 1916 fathoms were OBJ
tanned. The seas round Great Britain
can hardly be regarded as forming part
of the Atlantic hollow. They are rather
part of the platform banks of the Eu-
ropean Continent which the ocean has
overAowed. An elevation of the sea bed
100 fathoms would suffice to lay bare the
greatest part of the North Sea and join
England to Denmark, Holland, Belgium
and France. A deep channel of water
would run down the west coast of Nor
way, and with this the majority of the
fiords would be connected. A greater
part of the Bay of Biscay would disap-
pear, but Spain and Portugal are but
little removed from the Atlantic depres-
sion. The 1OO-fathom line approaches
very near the west coast, and soundings
Of 1000 fathoms can be made within 20
miles of Cape st. Vincent, and much
greater depths have been sounded at
distances but little greater than this
from the western shores of the Iberian
Peninsula. Nautical Magazine.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Life is succession of lessons which
must be lived to be understood. All is
riddle, and the key to riddle is another
riddle. There are as many pillars of illu-
sion as flakes in snow storm. We wake
from one dream into another dream.
The toys, to be sure, are various, and
are graduated in refinement to the quail
ity of the dupe. The intellectual man
requires fine bait; the sots are easily
amused. But everybody is drugged
with his own frenzy, and the pageant
marches at all hours, with music and
banner and badge.
1t is wonderful how few real blessings
there are that any person who lives by
labor cannot enjoy just as well as the
men who roll in wealth. The million
aire cannot surpass the ordinary worker
in his appetite for food; he cannot coax
any sweeter or more restful sleep. The
air is just as pure and braclng for the
worker as it is for him. He cannot love
his children any better than the poor
man loves his-cannot be any truer to his
friends.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
CORRESPONDENCE.
our MINNFsOTA LETTER.
DANEwoop. April 80, 1898

LAKEWOOD, April ~, 1875.
To the Editor of the BANNER:-DEAR
SIR;-We have had more snow, a foot and
six inches deeD within a fortnight and
there are considerable patches still visi-
BILE. Farmers are looking little blue at
the lateness of the season, very little
of anything is planted yet in this lati-
tude.
My special purpose in writing is to
tell you several incidents of the pioneer
ing times. You may call them tales or
tails whichever you think best, but to
my story.
''Why the cow did not come home"
Mrs. Nelson, the mother of the family
where l board, was farmers daughter
in Jutland, Denmark. Her father, who
had twenty three children, had a large
farm we'll supplied with all sorts of do
nestle animals. Thus from early child
hood, the farm animals have been her
familiar friends and she takes a special
interest i'll them. When they first be-
gan keeping cattle here in the wood, she
was troubled to get them home at night
and had some experience in getting lost
when she went alter them, but after a
time they learned to come in answer to
her call. One night they all came home
but one and she could hear the bell and
the COW lowed in answer to her call, but
still she came no nearer and being afraid
to trust herself out in the woods in the
darkness, she waited until morning be-
fore going out to see what was the mat
ter. The COW continued to answer her
as she went towards the place from
which the lowing came and she found
the COW in a brush pile caught by the
tail
The other tail belonged to a favorite
OK and the tale is as follows: When this
was trackless wilderness las some of it
is yeti, getting lost was common occur
renee. One night a neighbor of theirs
lost his bearing in the woods and went
to COW bell which he heard, finding the
bell was on an OK that he recOnized, he
reused him by the salutation: come
Bright, go for home now and show me
the way" Fearing that he might lose
his guide in the darkness, he seized the
tail which he held firmly until the OK
stopped at the gate where he was in the
habit of being admitted. The man was
now so near home that he found the rest
of the way alone.
The next day Mrs. N. saw this neigh
Dor and remarked to him: 81 don't know
why Bright came home last night, but l
heard his bell" He then told her of his
nights adventure and how Bright had
become his guide. have just read the
above to Mrs. N. and asked her what
more?" She said, II did not think you
were going to put it in the paper, but we
all had lots of trouble in those times"
She went ON to tell of man who went
out to hunt the COWS and getting lost
he spent the night in hay stacl- and
his wife reused the neighbors to search
for him. Yours truly,
G. E. BRECKENBRIDGE.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
ELECTRIC BITTERS,

This remedy is becoming so we'll
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
praise.-A purer medicine does not exist
and it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all
diseases of the liver and kidneys, will re-
move pimples, boils, salt rheum and 9th
er affections caused by impure blood
Will drive malaria from the system and
prevent as well as cure all malarial
fevers.-For cure of headache, constipa-
ton and indigestion try Electric Bitters.
Entire satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded.-Price SOC and 81 per bottle at
G. D. Gibson's drug store.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
HOODS CURES.

In saying that Hoods Sarsaparilla
cures, its proprietors made no idle ex-
travagant claim. The advertising of
Hoods Sarsaparilla is always within the
bounds of reason, because it is true; ii
always appeals to the sober, common
sense of thinking people, and it is fully
subsUantiated by endorsements, which in
the financial world, would be accepted
without moments hesitation.
Read the test nonials in behalf OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla, all from reliable,
grateful people.
They tell the story. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla cures.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
IT SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOUSE

]. B. Wilson, 81 Clay Street, Pa,
says he will not be without DR.. King
New Discovery for Consumption, coughs
and colds, that it cured his wife who was
threatened with pneumonia after an at
tack of la Grippe, when various other
remedies and several physicians had
done her no good. Robert Barber of
Cooksport, Pa, claims DR.. Kings New
Discovery has done him more good than
anything he ever used for lung trouble.
Nothing like it. Try it. Free trial bot
tie at c. d. Gibson's drug store. Large
size bottles SOC and 81.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

And now it is proposed to abolish in
the navy the time-honored custom Of
dividing the ships crew into two watch
es, the starboard and the port, one Of
which had always to be on deck at sea.
Instead, the crew is to be divided into
four parts. 1t is no wonder that the old
salt feels out of place on the new ships
with their new trappings. What with
the new guns, the new mechanism, the
new gearing, and now new system of
watch, Jack will think that he has fallen
upon new age where tradition is not
resnected
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Bill Nye has graciously confessed
his inability to do justice to the great
trees of California because other ADLER
and more eminent liars had visited them
before him. The conflicting reports
that come from the Hawaiian Islands
regarding the social and political situa-
ton there suggest that some of Mr..
Nys's distinguished predecessors must
have continued their tour to Honolulu.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
PERSONAL.

A young lady of seventeen summers,
highly educated, refined and of prepos-
sessing appearance, desires to form the
acquaintance of some nice young man,
whom she would advise if troubled with
dyspepsia, to use that great blood puri-
fer, Sulphur Bitters.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
POOR BUT HONEST.

Charlie Sullivan is a poor but honest
Irish lad, who, while walking down
Washington street, found wallet con-
tanning money and checks to the value of
several hundred dollars. Although al
most destitute, he returned it to its own
ers, Messrs. A. P. 0rdway 6 Co., pro-
.prietors OF Sulphur Bitters, who gave
him liberal reward, and also gave him
six bottles of Sulphur Bitters for his
mother, who has been terrible sufferer
from rheumatism, and who returned
many blessings after being cured by
their use.-Weekly World.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
BucIslen,s Arnicn saIve.

The best Salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains.
corns and all eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25c per box,
For sale by @. d. Gibson.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

If typhus could get by the New York
quarantine what reason have we to sup
pose that cholera would be any less sue
cessful in evading the Tammany health
officers?
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Deans Rheumatic Pills absolutely cures
rheumatism and neuralgia. Entirely vegetable.
Safe.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

We are not so much troubled by the
events of life as by our own reflections
upon them.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

The last excessive feelings of delight
are always grave.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Customs and incidents which are co m
mon-place to most men are the op portu-
mites of great men.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

-''I have used Salvation Oil for frosted
feet and backache and found it to be the
best remedy and pain killer on earth.
Mrs. Maggie Meider, Mt. Pleasant, West
moreland Co., Pa"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemps Balsam will stop the cough at
once. 47y1
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Snow and lie still linger tenaciouslY

Snow and Ice still linger tenaciously
The ice on Lake Memphremagog had not
gone out up to May 1. and as recently as
April 2S resident at Tuck's Landing
crossed the ice with his wife in sleigh.
A horse was not used, the man pushing
the sleigh ahead of him to Georgeville
and return. Snow is two feet deep in
places on the highway at Tuck's Land
ing, and yet full-blown flowers were
picked on the last day of April within
twelve feet of a big snow bank, and
rhubarb was cut in the same garden,
not grown under glass, on the same day.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

The Chinese whose cases will go up
to the Supreme Court to test the con-
stitutionality of the Exclusion act are
named Lee Joe, Wong Guam and Fong
Yum Ting. These names ought to hold
a distinguished place in the regard of
the Celestials if the cases are decided
against the Government.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

-Yoshi Hoti, the eldest son of the ia
panese Mikado, who is coming to the
Worlds Fair, is only IA years old, but
he is said to be as precocious as most
American youths of 20.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

I have used DR.. Deans Dyspepsia
Pills for indigestion and stubborn con-
stipation, and found them to work like a
charm when all other remedies failed to
benefit me. l cheerfully recommend
them to all suffering with above troubles.
VIM. j. MOORE,
Contractor and builder, ATLANTA City,
N. j.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

81 have been using DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup for some time. 1t cured my baby
of very bad cough. 1 believe it was
the means of saving his life. Mrs. Thos.
Hinton, Centreville, N. J.p
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Mrs. Potter Palmer,N offended by
some of the ladies who made criticism,
proposed to retire from her social SUI
premacy in the Worlds Fair. Then nearly
all the ladies wept and called her
''queen," and she relented. Two or
three of the strong minded stood out
against the charmer. The weeping was
not universal.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Wee Hun Penk, who was cook in a
mining camp only three years ago, owns
the whole of one and half of another i'm
portrait mine in Arizona, and is reputed
to be worth at least 100000.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

Why weary your throat and patience
with that wretched cough when bottle
of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup will cure you
nrOmntlV
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

The Duke of Argyll has been making
a special study of the ''seven centuries
of English misrule'' in Ireland, and has
just completed work in which are to
be brought to light many new and I'M
noticed facts bearing on the subject
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

The vast facilities of the j. G. Aver
Co., of Lowell, Mass, enable them to
placr the superior blood purifer-Ayer' S
Sarsaparllla-within easy reach of the
poorest invalid. Don't be induced to
take "cheap" substitute. Always re-
member that the best is the cheapest.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

In all cases, where mild but effec-
tive aperient is needed, Ayers Pills are
the best. They improve the appetite, re-
store healthy action, prom te digestion,
and regulate every function. No pill is
in greater demand, or more highly rec
commended by the profession.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

i feel it my duty to say few words
in regard to ElY's Cream Balm, and do
so entirely without solicitation. l have
used it more or less for half year, and
have found it to be most admirable. 1
have suffered from catarrh of the worst
kind ever since l was little boy and
never hoped for cure, but Cream Balm
seems to do even that. Many of my ac-
quaintances have used it with excellent
results.-Oscar Ostrum, As Warren Ave-,
Chicago. Ill,
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19

There is no excuse for man to ap-
pear in society with grizzly beard since
the introduction of Buckingham Dye,
which colors a natural brown or black.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-02-09
HELPING HER ALONG.
An Accommodating YouDgster Who Was
Euupl in fl,e Ocrasipp.


Equal to tho Occasion.
ut don't do ter git dskeeragod bout n
boy. He may disappoint you pleasurably."
The old fagman surveyed the stretch OF
track in both directions rs he spoke, then
rolling up his bright but well worn banner
sat down upon an old hand car beside the
road. His vocabulary was more extensive
than accurate, and it was often necessary
to exert ones imagination in order to ar
rive at his full meaning.
ITS pretty hard, h." he said "to look at
pant boy an see the Dan'l Webster or,
moreover, the lord Chesterfield in him. But
II may Turk there in subtle guise, how
, Bomdevcr.
~ have tended this ere crossin thirty
years, an everythin from that school there
on the hill has ter come over this track, an
have got pretty well versed in the habits
of young ones.
when people lowed Briggs boy was
destinated ter hang pendent from the gal
lers, 1 used ter cry Halt He amt nothin
but a yearln,' says |. Wait ten year or
so fore yer vote him sech an ag-gre-jus
failure An he did turn out ter be fa-
mously + ,ard on"
what did ne do?" asked the listener.
well, | he'd trouble 'nough with him.
He was internally pcrsistn in gittin be-
| hind me an shoutin out 'War-hoo! war
hoo ter see me jump "a rod or two. Up to
all sech capersl But the time he took
Miss Toppum down hill was a clincher.
He give her a lift, as we say, figurative.
Eyer see twas good slidin on the hill that
winter, an the sleds was fXin over this
crossin two minute contiguous. Briggs
boy was leadin the band, rs usual He was
OH a single sled that day.
| IL see him start from the top of the hill,
an he was Jest under full way when no
ticed Miss Toppum walkin long moderate,
right in the rut where the sleds was goin.
She's sixty year old. an consequentiallyv very
hard of hearin; SO she didn't pay no 'tention
ter the shoutin.
The lad tried ter turn his sled out, but
twas SO deep in the rut that he couldn't
so he jest give little spring, fur he was
steerin by the leg, an flung himself owe,
with his feet forward, an holdin out his
arms let slide right at her.
She sot down sudden, but firm, an he
held on TO her; an long they come, ! could
see EN- some distance, an the boy was SC
hid it looked fur all the world as if Miss
Toppum was out slidin.
Il could see when they went by me that
tho old lady hednt made up her mind
whether she was dreamin or whether she
was TUX up by cyclone.
| she lives right there in that house. al
they slowed down and stopped right il
front o the gate. She was all of a whew
but that boy jest got up an TUX of his car
an says, periite as can be:
"'Oh. no trouble at all, madam wa.
comm your way an was glad ter save yel
the walk. ''-Youth's Companion.