The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-03

that the State has nevertheless main
tanned its rank as fourth among the coal
producing States of the Union ana sec
ond in the production of coke"
"A lasting machine which enables one
operator to last 5000 pairs of shoes a
week is one of the latest things in labor
saving machinery. 1t tackles anything
from light feminine footgear to the heaY-
lest brogans.
Joe Howard says cremation is the
proper caper." But isn't it too solemn
an operation to be characterized with
jockularity?
The cause of gold exports and the
remedy is thus described by Winthrop
Smith. banker: 1.-THE whole trouble lies
in the fact that Europe has not as much
gold as there is needed to do the bust
ness that is done there. The reason why
this affects us is because we allow Eu-
rope too great control over our trade.
II Secretary Foster should sell $5,000,000
United States bonds in London, Paris
and Berlin next week, and ship the gold
proceeds direct to Washington On gov
eminent vessel, and give notice that he
proposed to continue the operation while
gold was purchased in New York for ex-
port, to the extent of $50, 1000, 900 or $780,
100000 the Withdrawals of gold to Eu-
rope would cease in ten days.
The following poetical appeal won
for its author, the editor of the Rocky
Mountain Celt. the prize of 81 900 offered
for the best appeal poem to newspaper
readers to pay up their subscription:
olives of poor men oft remind us, hon
est men won't stand no chance. The
more we work there grow behind us big
ger patches on our pants. On our pants,
once new and glossy, now are stripes
of different hue, all because subscribers
linger, and don't pay us what is due.
Then let us be up and doing; send in
your mite, however small, or when the
snow of winter strikes us we shall have
no pants at ALL"
Han Quay, China's richest banker is
said to be worth the incredible sum of
nearly $2,000,000, 900.
Miss Helen NJ. Winslow, we'll known
among the writers of Boston, is to enter
book dealing with the labor question,
entitled 'Salom, Shepard, Reiormer,'
and its publication is set for the first of
March. The author puts forward some
advanced ideas regarding the ability of
the condition of labor.
Mans unscrupulousness and mans
creduity were strikingly illustrated in
the recent gold mining excitement start
ed by Spectators in San Juan county,
Colorado. Stories of marvellOusly rich
finds were circulated over the country
by telegraph and were credited by eager
searchers after wealth. More than three
nd 70 do
their way, at much expense and consid-
cradle difficulty, to the reported locality
of the mines, expecting to gain fortunes.
When they arrived they found that they
had been grossly deceived and that there
was not gold enough to pay for the tools
they took with them. But some I'M
principled parties doubtless made money
by the imposition.
Lanes Family Medicine Moves the Bowels
Each day. Most people need to use it.
The suicide of Edward Just of New
York, retired capitalist worth two mil
hon dollars, is not without moral.
Having made all the money he cared for
he withdrew from business and sought
to enjoy his leisure. But ennui and idle
ness proved a heavy burden. On the
morning of his death he remarked at the
breakfast table: 1.-THE worst thing man
can do is to give up business. He ought
always to have something to occupy his
mind" There is nothing unmanly in
ones Withdrawing from business if he
has competence. But for his own COM
fort he needs to know how to use his
leisure.
Judge Schofield of the Illinois Su-
preme Court, whose death is reported,
was in many ways a remarkable man.
To him was rendered the Chief Justice
ship of the United States Supreme Court
during the Cleveland administration, and,
ambitious lawyer that he was, he declined
it. He gave two reasons for so doing.
The first was that he did not think his
abilities were commensurate with the
duties and demands of the high office,
and the secon that he could not afford
to support his family in the style re-
quired by the position and he would not
leave them. Such instances are rare in
our history, and are worthy of more than
a passing notice.
The display of Populist lawlessness
at Topeka is bad thing for the credit of
Kansas, but il gives the rest of the coun-
try an impressive object lesson OF Popu-
list tendencies.