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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-03-08
SENATOR MORGAN HURT.
Thrown from His Berth on the Voyage
from New York to London.

rom New YORK 10 L0nQ0n.
LONDON, March 6.-Senator Morgan,
one of the representatives of the
United States in the Behring Sea court
of arbitration, who was a passenger
on the American line steamer New
York, which arrived at South
ampton Saturday, was injured on
the voyage. Since his arrival he has
become worse, and is now confined to
his bed at the Southwestern Hotel
at southampton. During a storm
encountered by the New York,
Senator Morgan was thrown out
of his berth and his head wa injured.
On Saturday last slight attack of cry
sipelas set in. He was examined by
three physicians this afternoon, and
they state they expect that he will be
about in week to attend to the bust
ness which brought him to Europe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-03-08
CARRIAGE MAX RS STRIKE.
Fv- Hundred Nen Walk Out at Chicago
Nine Tours D"mauded

CHICAGO, H., March l. About
800 uuion wagon and carriage
makers, employed chiefly by
the Kimball and Studebaker
com panies, struck to-day. They want
ed nine instead of ten-hour day,
and an increase OF pay on piece work.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
BRIGHT SPRING DAYS.

The Spring should be pre-eminently a
season of Gontentment, happiness and
hope. In these bright aud pleasant
months the country should enjoy its
highest degree of tranquility and pros
perity. But spring, it is well known, is
often period of discomfort and disturb
ance in the physical system. Important
organs of the body become torpid or ir-
regular in their action, and the fact is
instantly reflected in the mental cOndi-
ton of the individual. A disordered
liver means disordered nerves and dull
and unsteady brain. Anything which
will bring the physical system into har
mony with budding Nature cOufers an
enormous benefit upon the Nation, be-
sides the mere allaying of physical dis
comfort. Hood Sarsaparilla does this,
as thousands of grateful and happy men
and women can testify, and increased
use of this standard Spring medicine is
of more real practical Importance in pro-
noting health and quiet in the business
world than reams of abstract theOrizlng.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
PRACrICAL ANNEXATION.

Our Canadian neighbors are confront
ed by condition that knocks all theory
aside. Annexation is the only sure
remedy. A despatch from Quebec Of
April II, says: The wholesale exodus of
the French Canadian rural population
from the districts around and below this
city is clearly assuming all the proper
tons Of great national calamity. The
railway agents at Quebec and Lewis esti-
mate that they are going at the rate Of
100 to 100 per day from the different
stations along their lines, and, allowing
for the numbers departing from other
parts of the Province via Montreal and
other points, it is calculated that the
total French Canadian exodus to the
United States will not fall much below
20, 900 a month during the present and
the next two or three months.
This is beyond all question seriously
alarming, and not alone frsm the French
Canadian standpoint, for it means moi
only the loss Of so many of our popula-
lion, but the return of large sections Of
the country to state Of nature and I'M
Prodnctiveness, with little or no pros.
pect of their. ever being populated again
in our day, a. immigrants can never be
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
pRncREss nFLARnR

At no previous time in human history
has labor been so we'll and generally re-
wardsd as 1T is to-day. Thrifty and
judicious workingmen can live better
now than the wealthy classes did before
the war Invention and enterprise have
placed both the comforts and luxuries OF
life within the reach of the masses, and
the latter have only to be industrious
and avoid incorporate habits to avail
themselves of the diversified blessings
of modern civilization.
The Industrial World corrOborates
this theory by citing the following force
full facts:
THAT, according to the last United
States census, the average earnings of
Labor in seventy-one cities amounted to
S542 in 1890, against only $3.50 in 1880,
an increase in the ten years OF 40 per
cent;
"That, according to the same authori-
ty, in 1880, 5l4 per cent of the costs of
production went to labor and in 1890,
$50 per cent, whilst the margin left to
the manufacturer was correspondingly
reduced;
THAT. whilst wages have thus risen
prices have declined;
THAT, the introduction of machinery,
supposed to be hostile to labor, because
calculated to economize it, has been at
tended by rise in the workman's earn
ings; and
THAT, the continuous shortening of
the hours of work in many industries
has not, so far, reversed the upward ten
dency in wages.
statistical records aud legislative in
vestigations place these facts beyond
Jienufa Ir &c NOT RI no pnac-
toned that we are in the midst of an
unprecedented movement towards a
more liberal distribution of the awards
of industry among the toiling millions. {"
These things must be gratifying to the
toilers, class that was denied tue just
fruits of its labor for many, many weary
centuries.
Incidentally, in view of this pervasiVe
prosperity, the importance of preventing
radical changes, in the tariff or else
where, that may prove disastrous to the
high wage level now maintained, is ap-
parent. None of the geese that lay
golden eggs must be killed by legislative
laundering.
Invention has always been the hand
maid of Labor in the development of the
world, and so it will continue to be.
Every laboling man and woman should
hail every labor-saving invention as an
ally, not fear it as an enemy. 1t is me-
chanical improvement that has lifted the
laborer from slavish drudgery to the
high and independent estate he now en-
joys.
The inevitable logic of the figures sub
mitted shows that more pay for less
work is given now than formerly.
Yet, now as ever, slothfulness. intern
perance and improvidenoe will damn
their devotees. People who do not use
common sense can not enjoy the bounti-
full fruitage of golden opportunities
Troy Press.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
FAILING TRADE AND FALLING
WAGES.

The industrial and commercial history
of England or 1892 contains little that is
complimentary to the doctrine and poll
cy of Free Trade. While general pros
perity existed in Protection America
during the twelve months, England suf-
fered alike from failing trade and fall
ing wages. The whole industrial situa-
ton had to be gone over, and wages
were everywhere reduced. The greatest
strikes of the year centered about En-
glish mills, and the proportion of work
ing people on strike or without en-
ployment in Great Britain has not been
so large in many years. At the end of
1892. the unemployed alone, not consid-
ering the many thousand cotton SPIN
ners and others on a strike, were on an
average one in twelve of the working
population, a startling record of Free
Trade failnre. During the year British
trade fell off very sharply, the aggre-
gate loss approximating per cent, and
the total decrease reaching $l55, 600, 900.
Part of this, the S57, 225, 900 of decreased
imports, is due to the lower relative
price of many agricultural products,
such as cotton and corn, but the smaller
exports mark failing trade beyond ques-
ton. The farmers are in period of de-
preston, and can see little remedy for it
but lower rents, while the reduction of
wages has interfered with the comfort Of
all classes. Certainly it is a state of af-
fairs that does not invite imitation by
progressive and prosperous Protection
America. Leader.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
A TELEPHONE GIRLS SUNDAY
WORK

The suspension of Miss Sadie Means
of Columbia, S. c., from membership in
the Presby terrain church has excited a
religious controversy at the South re-
garding Sunday work by protested
Christians. Miss Means is young lady
of exemplary character who, being an
orphan without others means of support,
gains a livelihood as day operator in q
telephone exchange. Hearing that this
position forced her to work on Sunday,
the Session of the church to which she
belonged reprimanded her, and tried to
induce her to accept place as sales
woman at smaller salary. Miss Means
declined this Offer and asked for letter
of dismissal from the congregation.
The Session not only refused tho request,
although no charges against the appli-
cant were pending, but debarred Miss
Means from the Sacrament OF Commun-
ion. The Charleston Presbytery, to
which the young lady appealed, subse-
quently ratified this action.
The general ground of the opposition
to this decision is that it is against the
spirit of enlightened and tolerant Christ
ianity. The friends of Miss Means
claim in addition, however, that she is
the object of class persecution, alleging
that other members. of the same congre-
cation engage regularly in secular toll
on Sunday, and are admitted to Com
munion without hindrance or protest.
without denying the right of dsnomi-
nation or sect to make such rules as it
sees fit, it is insisted that these rules
should be impartially enforced. 1t is
plain that such rigid policy, should it
be generally adopted, would include
hundreds of thousands of men and
women now employed in hotels and pri-
vate families, on railroads and steam
ships and in the telephone and telegraph
service. Leading Presbyterians at the
South have expressed sympathy with
Miss Means, and sustained by this en-
couragement she has appealed to Synod,
which, her supporters confidently be-
lieve, will eventually restore her to her
former standing in the church.-N. Y.
Press
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
WIND AND sLEET IN VERMONT.

WIND AND SLEET IN NEhMON l.
The Shirkshire of 1898, was more than
the local storm it was here supposed
From the North, South, East and West
come the same story of disaster. That
of the Champlain Valley is epitomized by
a Boston exchange in these dispatches:
BRISTOL. April 2l-During a wind
storm Thursday night in South Starks-
boro', barns owned by John Orvis,
Nathan Morrison and Wesley Follansbee
were blown down, Mrs. Mary Young S
two barns were unroofed. The l. of
James Grace's house and roofs of many
other buildings were damaged.
In Lincoln, p. Graves's barn was blown
down; Elisha Purinton's barn destroyed
and three cattle killed; l.. Mathews S
barn ruined and cattle and sheep killed
and George Garland's barn destroyed.
In Bristol, W w. Riders barn was
destroyed and shed swept across the
road. N L. Varney's barn and shed and
Chas. Smiths barn were destroyed. 1t
was the hardest southeast wind ever
known and lasted over II hours.
RUTLAND, April 21-One of the most
severe wind and sleet storms in many
years prevailed in the western part of
Vermont last night and this morning,
and partial reports show that the dam
age will probably exceed 100000 If not
more. All through the towns on this
side of the mountains many barns and
outbuildings were demolished or badly
damaged, live stock killed, fences ruined
and thousands of valuable maple and
other trees blown down. At times the
wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an
hour and going out of doors was actual
ly dangerous.
In the hill towns, especially under the
mountains, the wind became veritable
cyclone, and the damage will be heavy.
Scores of barns are fat, while a good
many houses have been damaged.
In Bennington the storm resulted in
loss of life. The chimney of Judge Al
fred Robinson's dwelling was blown off,
and the excitement caused him to have
a paralytic shock, from which he died
this afternoon. He was 81 years old and
one of the county's best known men.
At the Bennington Soldiers Home 70
valuable trees were blown down while
much damage was done in the village.
The loss will exceed $4,000.
In Manchester large barn owned by
Mrs. d. E. Purdy was destroyed and
valuable cows and other stock killed.
In Dandy the lumber in the large
yards of s. L. Griffith was scattered over
100 acres and several barns destroyed.
In Castleton the roof Of the railroad
station was blown off and several large
barns demolished or damaged.
In Lincoln, Bristol, Starksboro' and
Ripton, mountain towns in Addison
county, several of the best farm barns
were blown to pieces and sugar orchards
damaged to the extent of hundreds of
dollars.
The storm seems to have been general
the whole length of this valley, but for
tunately very few people were injured.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
WITHOUT THE MAPLE.

"Pure maple syrup, 81 per gallon"
That was one of the numerous similar
signs that greeted the eye of a grocery
man and reporter as they walked along
Queen street on Saturday afternoon.
"That's pretty cheap for maple syrup,t'
said the reporter.
SIT would be if it were maple syrup"
retorted the groceryman.
"What is it, then? Maple syrup mixed
with brown sugar.
"There's no maple syrup in it. There
is hardly gallon Of real maple syrup
being sold in Toronto to-day"
"Isn't there some mixture of the genu-
inc article in it?''
mot an ounce. There are men in the
business who manufacture and sell imi-
tation syrup in large quantities. If they
work we'll you cannot tell it from the
genuine. An old grocer, of course, may
import little of the pure article from
away up North, but doubt if there are
half dozen in all Toronto who do tick
cept to fill special orders"
what about maple sugar?
sit is made in exactly the same way,
from brown sugar. The preparation to
flavor them is called maple favoring.
You can buy it from a druggist in the
northwestern part OF inc CITY. IL is very
cheap and costs only from 10 to 25 cents
an ounce, and one ounce will favor Is
gallons of syrVp."
Having received the address of the
druggist in question, the reporter went
up there and asked if they kept maple
haVoriDg.
eve do; any quantity Of it."
SIS it goodln
Gas good as it can be made. You can
taste it if you like"
He took a measure, poured into it a
little white syrup and few drops OF
flavoring, and handed it to the reporter.
1t was as clear as water almost, and yet
had the necessary maple favor. 1t sim
ply lacked the coloring brown sugar
would give.
you'll guarantee that7"
"Well, have had no complaints about
it, and have sold a good deal already"
SIS there anything injurious in itP'
Nothing whatever. 1t is simply q
composition of gums. You can rely on
it, for about all the maple syrup that is
being sold in Toronto is made from it,"
at will do for maple sugar, too?"
Just as well. "-Tor0nto Evening
NeWa
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
DIR CoUNTRY,s SUPREMACY


In speech delivered some time ago
Senator Dawes surprised his hearers by
declaring that the progress of the United
States westward had been so great that
''the sun will not go down tonight upon
our westward border until it shall have
risen on the coast of Maine" We have
been accustomed to hearing such express
sions used in illustration of the territor-
ial extent of the British empire, but, as
the n. Y. Press says, it is new expert
ence to hear it applied to the United
States.
The island named Attoe at the west
ern extremity of the Aleutian chain is
in longitude 70 degrees east from Green
wich. The eastern extremity of Maine
lies between GO and 81 degrees west from
Greenwich. The difference in longitude
is therefore moro than 12o degrees and
the difference of time over eight hours.
When the sun sets at o'clock on the
coast of Maine it is past o'clock the
next morning by Maine time before il
sets on Attoo Isle. Now the longest day
in Maine is almost 10 hours, and the
shortest night little longer than eight
hours. 1t is evident, therefore that the
midsummer sun setting at the close of 2
sixteen hour day on the eastern-mosi
island of Maine, must reappear over the
eastern Maine horizon at about the same
moment at which 1t disappears in the
west from the vision of person stand
ing on the westernmost island of the
| Aleutians. This is not quite true theo
retically, perhaps, since the difference OF
time between the points is trlfe lesi
than the length of the shortest night, al
computed in the almanacs, at the east
orn point. But the law of refractior
would abundantly compensate for tn,
difference. After the sun had in fac
sunk in the western ocean, his rays
bent downward by refraction in passing
through the atmosphere, would con
tinue for some time to light up Attot
and his disk to be visible to person
stationed there. On the other hand, b.
virtue of the same law, the sun would
appear TO the Maine fisherman before i
had really risen above the eastern hori
ION.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
TIE BENNINGTON BANNER, FRIDAY, APRIL o. 1898

induced to settle in this province while
there remains room in the United States
and the Canadian Northwest. The
worst feature, too, in tho situation. is
that there is no hope of stopping the
terrible drain on the life-bloOd of the
province. Episcopal mandements, APP
peals from the clergy, sermons against
annexation and emigration, colonization
societies, farmers clubs, repatriation,
attempts to divert the current to the
Northwest all have been tried and all
have signally failed. Indeed, the situa-
ton, instead of improving, has become
much worse, and it now seems only a
question of time when large portion Of
the country will become once more a
bowling waste.
It is idle to pretend that intemperance
is to any appreeiable extent the cause or
even one of the causes of the widespread
evil. There may be few localities here
and there along the lower St. Lawrence,
where whiskey smuggling has democrat
lied small portion of the population
within late years; but anyone who knows
anything at all about the social life of
the French-Canadian habitants of the
present day, at least in this section of
the province, knows we'll that there has
been vast change for the better in their
drinking habits
The fact remains that the great pri-
mary cause of the evil to which all the
others, real or imaginary, that commits
sons may discover, or think they dis
cover, from this until doomsday, are at
the most only contributary, is the sad
economic condition of this country side
by with the great and prosperous neigh
boring republic. The contrast between
the two is so striking that Jean Baptiste
may well be excused for thinking that the
change from one to the other cannot
make his actual condition worse if it
does not betterit.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28

Several hundred ancient Romans
grumbled because they did not share in
the distribution of the gold medals
struck by order of the Senate In honor
of the conquest of Armenia by Lucius
Verus, and wondered what had become
of them. The reason for it, however,
has Just been discovered, too late to be
of any use to the old Romans. The
Benedictine monks, while digging for a
foundation for their new monastery on
the Aventine Hill in Rome, came upon
an earthen pot containing four hundred
Of these medals. Some unpatriotic Ro-
man evidently scooped the lot for his
own benefit, but for some reason failed
to dispose Of them as he intended. The
Benedictines will not make similar
mistake.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
GUARANTEED CIIRE.

We authorized our advertised druggist
to sell DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con.
sumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this
condition. If you are afflicted with q
Cough, Cold, or any Lung, Throat or
Chest trouble, and will use this remedy
as directed, give it fair trial, and expe-
rience no benefit, you may return the
bottle and have your money refunded.
We could not make this offer did we not
know that DR.. Kings New Discovery
could be relied ON. 1t never disappoints.
Trial bottles free at G. D. Gibson's Drug
Store. Large size SOC. and $1.00.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
ToOCARELESS WITH THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE.

A clothing dealer in Boston, adVer-
tised all-wcol pantaloons for 81, advising
the public to make haste and secure the
great bargain, saying, "They will not
last long" Probably they would not
Neither will your health last long if you
don't take care of it, Keep DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets in your house. They
are indispensable to every family, as they
positively cure biliousness, with its end
less train of distressing ailments-sick
headache, irritAbility, constipation, diz-
illness and Indigestion; a marvellous spe-
cific for liver and kidney troubles, and a
pure vegetable compound. They are
sugar-coated, the smallest pills made,
and the best, because they DO all they
promise. All druggists sell them, and
the proprietors guarantee them, and re-
fund the price if they fail.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was q Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28

Is National family paper. and gives all the gen
gives the events of foreign lands in nutshell 1t
Gle" and '0ur Young Folks" Its Home and
wives and daughters Its general political news,
brilliant and exhaustive. Its "Agriculturar dep
Market Reports" are recognized authority in all
enables " to offer this splendid journal and the
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
THE oNE-Hoss SHAY.

The prculiar feature of the ''one-hoss
shay was, that it was 'built in such a
wonderful way'' that it had no weakest
part" The weakest part of woman
is invariably her back, and ''female
weaknesses" are only too common.
With the use of DR.. Pierce's FavQrite
Prescription, this may be avoided, and
women may be comparatively as strOng
as their brothers. Prolapsus, inhanma-
ton, liberation, periodical pains, leu
corrhea, dragging down sensations, de-
bility, nervousness, sleeplessness, de.
spondency, are only few of the Symp
toms of weakness of the female organs
which the "Favorite prescription is war
rAnted TO remove.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28

Reserving every pedigree animal for
breeders has been an outrage upon buy
ers and disgrace to breeds and breed
ers.