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Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16
BENNINGTON,
SPRING, 1894
ESTABROOK'S
Granite and Marble
WORKS.
MAIN STREET, DOOR WEST OF EXPIRES
AND TOWN CLERKS OFFICES.
MAIN STREET, DOOR WEST OF EXPIRES
AND TOWN CLERKS OFFICES.

To THE CITIZENS OF BENNINGTON
AND YICINlTY-I am prepared TO furnish any
thing wanted in the line of cemetery work at at
least 10 per cent less than you can buy the same
quality of stock or work of any agent or outside
party, as that is the agents commission, or it
will cost party from away if they come them
selves to sell and set the work at least 40 per
cent more than it will me, as l live here and sell
and set my own work, and receive my granite in
the rough state direct from the quarries in car
load lots at low rates. l have force of compe-
tent workmen to cut. polish and letter the work
here in my shop; have had four car loads Of
rougL granite in the past two months; am fur
nishing 10 monuments and number of markers
and tablets from Landgon's best dark Barre
granite which are to be set before Decoration
Day Call and see my stock and how do my
work, and if YOU have work to buy give me a
chance TO figure on it. l have nearly fifteen hun
bred dollars worth Of marble monuments and
tablets on hand, and will sell you any of these at
a very low figure, as l want the room for granite
work. The above are facts which will prove to
you if you will call and see me.
Soliciting your patronage, l am very respect
fully yours,
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16
A Story With a Moral.

A story is told on a young society man
Of neighhoring county that might have
Deon serious instead of ludicrous. He paid
visit to his hest girl, and while getting
out of his buggy both the suspender but
tons on the rear of his trousers gave way.
To prevent embarrassment a couple of
matches were substituted for the PREACHER
Gus buttons, and all went well until, by
the friction against the back of the chair,
tho matches became ignited. A conflagra-
ton was narrowly averted, and the young
man is not over his fright yet.-Wmches-
ter Democrat.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16

For primary secondary and tertiary
syphilis. for blood poisoning, mercu-
rial poison, malaria, dyspepsia, and
in al. blood and skin diseases, like
blotches, pimples, old chronic ulcers,
eczema we may say, without fear OF
contradiction, that p. P. P. is the best
blood purifier in the world, and makes
positive, speedy and permanent cures
In all cases.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16
Don't Fail to Send for 1t.

MRS. MARY GIBSON, 500 MAIN STREET.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16
TWO SINGERS.
A POET.

A POET.
He sang his songs Of battle won,
OF frost and warmth, Of stars and SUM-
He sang of poets and Of fame
The silver trumpet Of name;
He sang of love, Of golden wine.
Men called his songs divine.
He died when he had played his part,
Frost on his hair, spring in his heart.
No fairer gift from life he wrung
Than the same joyance he had sung.
Died, with no thought Of higher thing7
His songs his only wings.
A COURT SINGER
Singer an to the king.
Yours be the glory to fight
Nobly and well for the right
Mine it is-only to sing.
Others sing sunshine and snow,
Sing of the stars in the sky,
Sing Of the kings palace, but
Weeds in his garden that grow.
All, for the voice Of the sea,
Songs such rs thcirs-tho divinei
HAPPY the king heareth mine
Such as wish they might Ee
If l should die with the year,
Grieve for no tale half told,
Song on the lips grown cold.
Nay, for the king will hear.
Josephine Peabody.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16

In word, this story, thoroughly Pari-
sian, ended in marriage. the
| Erench
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16
Got There. Doubtless.

Mother Ito suitor)-No; can never
give you my daughter. have quito made
mp my mind.
Suitor-Then am doubly disappointed.
vowed that would have lovely wife
and young looking mother-in-law.
-Well-er-you may call again.
may change my mind.-Burlington Ga
Eetta
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-16

10 Wanted: Music scholars. New
England Conservatory method taught,
Apply to Mary L. Rawson, 315 Elm st,
soft
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

| A host should not stand while carving.
| There are II railroad gauges in use in
America.
The noblest art is that of making 9th
ers happy.
The overcurious are not overwise.-
Messenger.
A man must have clear head to do
good work.
Stitches in time will never prevent the
day from breaking.
There are about IA 900 miles of railroad
in operation in Canada.
The shortest man in congress is John
r. Fellows Of New York.
Cervantes' father was soldier, and he
himself served in many wars.
In Scotland the total acreage of nur-
sery grounds in 1892 is given at $685.
"Woman, wind, time and fortune
change" says the Portuguese proverb.
The police system in all its branches
costs England nearly $50, 900, 900 a year.
If cattle leave off feeding and chase
each other around the pasture, expect
rain.
Don't place an easel with large pic
ture thereon in the middle of the parlOr
floor.
Sir Walter Raleigh had court suit of
armor made of solid gold inlaid with
jewels
A sign in Waynesville, Ca, bears this
inscription. lax handles. ink, pens and
cheese"
Many people consider that fish are in
the best condition for eating just before
spawning.
A complete line Of cable and telegraph
was opened between London and Bonn
bay in 1865.
Statistical reports show that the value
of sheep focks is greater by $40, 100000
in 1892 than in 1870
1t has been said that fool may ask a
question that wise man cannot answer.
yet both may be better for the question.
A big raft on the Joggins pattern,
containing $780, 900 feet of timber, was
successfully launched at Fort Bragg.
CAL, not long ago.
There are hermits in China who tear
out their eyes in order, they say that by
closing the two gates of love they may
open the thousand gates of wisdom.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29

Eastern states might we'll take q les
son from the west in the matter Of high
er education. With the exception OF
Massachusetts, and Connecticut our com
munities on the Atlantic border are sad
ly deficient in this respect. 1t will soon
be question whether those desiring the
best university education for their chill
dren should not send them to some of
the great institutions in the west rather
than the older centers of learning in
Europe.
Foremost among establishments of
this kind in the new University of Chi
cage, which promises to eclipse every
thing in the way OF facilities for study
ever attempted on this continent The
buildings are models Of excellence and
no expense has been spared to secure as
professors those who are pre-eminent in
every department OF human knowledge
In higher mathematics, astronomy, en-
gineering and applied mechanics the
west far excels the east.
Even the smaller towns have public
libraries, generously supported by the
local authorities, and open in the even
ings, affording unlimited opportunities
for self education which would put to
shame New York, with its Inadequate
facilities. The east should wake up, or
it will be found that this process will
surely transfer to the west the scepter of
influence, for knowledge is power"-
New York Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29
Life In Suburban Towns.

A French woman recently wrote to a
Paris Etterateur asking for a remedy for
the "one-day- like-another complaint
Il live" she says. lin dull provincial
town, where there is not woman who
can read or talk: if read, have no one
to discuss the book with, and l have ar
rived at the desperate point of despair
where would like to bite some one.''
The htterateur, according to the &C
count, did not much help her, as he
merely, in reply admitted the fact in
quotation from De Musset. which was
in effect that there is no more common
trouble in life than the trouble of a COM
mon soul.
Perhaps the only echo Of the French
womans wall could be found over here
in the suburban towns of q large city.
The smallest detached villages and
towns of America seem to have occu-
patton and excitement of one sort or an
other that make life endurable Those,
however, which are merely the overflow
of metropolitan center are often the
loneliest places on earth.
81 have almost died with the monotony
of my life," said woman living in a
small Jersey suburb recently. until
now, when | can get into New York
Oftener, because my children are out of
the nursery. There is absolutely no
neighborhood life, everybody looking to
town for social recreation; there is only
half hearted interest in church affairs;
it is as different from an independent
village as possible. New York Times
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29

|everal newspapers have asserted
It the newly enfranchised Colorado
men will be able to vote for state
GERS only, and that, in order to en-
b them to vote for federal officers,
hange of the U. s. Constitution
bid be necessary. There is no
'ndation whatever for this state
| hit, and it is difficult to see how
b mistake arose. The U. S. Con-
1tion leaves the states free to fix
r own qualifications for suffrage,
'ept that it forbids them to dis
|hchise any one on account of trace,
pr, or previous conditions of servi
r." 1t furthermore provides that
ach state those persons who are
tiled to vote for the most MINER
branch of the State Legislature
i be entitled also to vote for
nbers of the United States House
Representatives The women of
pming have voted for President of
United States and all federal Of
IS ever since Wyoming was admit
as a state; and the women of Col
10 will do the same.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29

be Georgia legislature has recent
hssed unanimously bill admitting
women teachers of the state to the
bal branch of the State Universe
The same legislature, I am sorry
Ly, also voted down a bill for a re-
Ratory for young criminals and
clings to the old barbarous plan
which boys, convicted for petty
/ es, are sent to the prisons and
IA gangs with old and hardened
inals.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29

here is a common belief that alco-
gives new strength and energy af-
fatigue set, in. The sensation of
que is one of the safety valves of
machine; to stife fatigue, is like
ing the safety valve so that the
er may be overheated and explo-
result. 1t is commonly thought
alcoholic drinks aid digestion, but
Pality the contrary would appear
the case, for it has been proven
meal without alcohol is more
fkly followed. by hunger thar a
u with alcohol. In connection
the sanitation of armies, thOus-
of experiments upon large bod
pf men have been made, and have
to the result, that, in peace or
in every climate-in heat, cold or
soldiers are better able to en-
the fatigue of the most exhaust
marches when they are not allow
ny alcohol at all. That mental ex-
bns of all kinds are better under
) without alcohol is admitted by
+ people who have made the tri-
1t appears certain that from 20 to
er cent of crime, so to 80 per cent
l poverty and from 10 to 40 per
of the suicides in most civilized
ltries, are to be ascribed to alco-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29
A New Surgical Needle.

A recent discovery in surgery is new
needle with an automatic spring eye
which disappears when passing through
the tissues and reappears when the pres
sure is removed. The eye is sprung into
a slot on the concave side of the needle
near its point. It is the invention Of a
prominent surgeon who aimed to secure
a stronger needle with an eye which
would carry a thread without tearing
the tissue.-Cor. st. Louis Post-Dispatch
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29
BOYS, READ THIS.

Chauncey Depew, against whom no
Q would think of charging Puritan
spirit, speaks as follows on the tenn
rance question:
Twenty five years ago knew ev-
y man, woman and child in Peek
H. And it has been, a study with
! to mark boys who started in every
'hde of life with myself, to see what
eame of them. 1 was up last fall,
d began to count them over, and it
s an instructive exhibit. Some of
fm became clerks, merchants, man
lecturers, lawyers and doctors. 1t is
narkable that every one of those
It drank are dead; not one living at
age. Barring a few who were tax
by sickness, every one who proved
Freck and wrecked his family, did
through rum and no other cause.
those who were church going peo-
who were steady, who were fru-
and thrifty, every single one of
m, without an exception, owns the
use in which he lives, and has some
ing laid by, the interest of which,
ii his house, would carry him thro'
ny a rainy day. When a man be-
mes debased with gambling, rum or
pix, he does not care; all his finer
lings are crowded out. The poor
men at home are the ones that suf-
suffer in their tenderest emotions,
Ter in their affections for those
ON they love better than life."
; will be a great blessing if boys
not only read this, but will deter
be that, with Gods help, they will
Fer drink the first glass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29
Gerr,HnY's Forests.

In Germany 20O.G0O families are sup
ported from the care Of the forests, upon
which about $40, 100000 is expended an
nually, 100000 people more finding en-
ployment IN the various wood industries
Of the empire. The forest account shows
an annual profit Of between S5.OOO.000
and 5000, coo. Chicago Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29
taxation without representa-

10 taxation without representa-
% was the keynote again struck
be Massachusetts, Woman's Suf-
b Association in its celebration, at
! uil Hall, of the 10th anniversary
lie famous "Boston Tea Party"-
lime in favor of not only the %,
Eomen who pay taxes upon one
lred million dollars of property in
on alone, but for all women in the
!. May Faneuil Hall prove as ap-
|riate a cradle for wOman's en-
basement as it did for the great
E a century ago.-Union Signal.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-29

SIS Gertrude Mitchell of Liverpool,
ars of age, has achieved the first
J in all England and Wales in the
hinations for the Queens scholar
Her triumph is gained over 4, $50
|betitors.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08
Making Only Perfect Goods.

Eyes, said, years ago, David Maydole, the
well known hammer maker, II have made
hammers in this little village, my native
home, for IS years" "Weli, them said
the late James Parton, historian and lee
turer, shouting into the best ear Of the very
deaf old gentleman, by this time you
ought to make pretty good hammer"
mo, | can't" was the reply. 81 can't
make pretty good hammer. l make the
best hammer that's made. My only care is
to make II perfect hammer. make just as
many of them as people want and no more,
and | sell them at a fair price. Ii folks
don't want to pay me what they're worth,
they're welcome to buy cheaper ones some.
where else. My wants are few, and Pm
ready at any time TO go back to my black
smiths shop. That's where / worked 10
years ago, before | thought about making
hammers. Then | had boy to blow my
bellows: now have 115 men,
DO you see them over there watching
the hammers cook over the charcoal fur
mace, rs your cook, if she knows what she s
about, watches chops broilingY Each of
my hammers is hammered out of piece of
iron and Is tempered under the inspection
of an experienced man. Every handle is
seasoned three years or until there Is nc
shrink left in it. Once | thought | could
use machinery in manufacturing them
now | know that perfect tool can't be
made by machinery, and every bit of the
work is done by hand. I've had head car
penters think | ought to make their ham
mers n little better than the ones | made
for their men. | say to 'em all, | can't max,
any better ones. When | make IA thing,
make it as well as can no matter who its
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08

at would be amusing" remarked a ply
stefan lately, "if it were not so often dis
astrous, to watch the pellmell fashion in
which persons 90 at remedies and sup
posedly beneficial health suggestions.
They go to the springs, and because some
mineral spring water is advised in some
case they jump at the conclusion that all
spring waters are good for any case. They
drink them wholesale and indscriminate-
~ often with serious i'll effects. Exactly
the same thing is true OF sea bathing. This
is needed tonic and stimulant to son e
persons and the direct reverse to others.
have seen delicate women come out of the
surf with teeth chattering and faces blue
and pinched in the chill they have received
That effect of their plunge is distinct
evil, and they really need remedy to re-
cover from the consequences of one SC
called. 1t is the same with Turkish baths,
bicycling, exercise of any sort.
Reckless and unneeded use of good
thing makes it "A bad thing. | am trying
now to recover the vitality of little child
of years which has been lost through his
mothers ignorant treatment. She has al
most bathed her child to death In her
zeal for his cleanliness and because she
thought frequent baths the proper thing
she has given him two day right along
and she has simply washed his strength
away. This is especially true of the pres
ent time when every separate individual
may advance new notion, and because il
is new get hearing and perhaps a follow.
ing 1t would be grand thing for the
race if the therapeutical world could de.
yelop a solution of common sense and have
it ladled out every morning like Mrs
Squeers' treacle to about two-thirds of the
civilized race"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08
ODDS AND ENDS.

There is a rage for old silver at present.
A caterpillar contains more than 1000
muscles.
The secret Of success is constancy to pur-
pose.-Disraeh.
The emerald is now one of the rarest Of
precious stones.
The earth receives only one two-billionth
OF the heat of the sun.
A letter written in London made a tour
of the world in 62 days.
Over !, 900 steamships are traversing the
four great ocean routes.
The primitive sensation of light in the
eye is that which corresponds to violet.
Gainsborough, the English portrait and
historical painter, was the son of tailor.
| Clement Spelman of Nottingham was
buried upright incased in pillar in Mar
burg church.
Have your eye steadily fixed on the mark
at which you wish to shoot and direct your
arrow Alright.
Apply blotting paper, stepped several
times in n solution of oxalic acid, to fresh
blots on paper.
The condor, when rising from the earth,
| always describes circles in the air ana can
rise in no other way.
The last Duke of Bedford died violent
death by his own act Disgust with life
was said to be the cause.
The Salt sea, which once covered the
Yuma desert, was the home of oysters from
IA to 90 inches in diameter
The largest library is the National IN
Paris. 1t has 100000 volumes, besides
manuscripts and pamphlets.
The woman of the world is a queenl II
matters little where you find her. If she be
mistress of herself, she is u ruler of men.
The American sponge grounds, more cor
rectly known as the Florida sponge grounds
are situated along thesouthern and western
coasts of that state.
The school board of Auburn, Me-, has de
cided that it takes six children to make 4
school, and they intend closing up al
, schools having less than that number.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08
ELATED JAPS.

When a semi-civilized nation
begins to feel its oats, egotism leads
the race. Japan is such a nation,
and she has evidently been overied
at the crib of Western civilization.
The laps, and especially Japanese
statesmen, seem to scorn the usual
methods of national and political
evolution which have characterized
the rise and progress OF Europe and
America; and since, a few years
ago, the wall Of her eXclusiveness
crumbled before the echoes OF
American cannon, Japan has swung
from the extreme of conservatism to
the extreme of radicalism. Unhap-
pilv for her future national develop
ment, she has become a political
egotist and will yet have to learn
the elementary lesson that a
national fool cuts less figure as a
political factor i'll the worlds his
tory than does a national coward
The latter has a standing claim Oh
the protection of more powerful
nations: the former invites, and
nine cases out of ten, receives de
served rebuke.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08
BY AUTHORITY.
NOTICE.

Owing to the intention of the under.
signed of visiting officially the offices
under the various Departments, "public
accountants" and others having business
with the Auditor General are requested
to call at his Office between the hours..oi
8 and IL a. M, except ON Treasury pay
days, when the usual Government office
hours will be discovered.
The attention of public accountants
in Honolulu is also called to the law
which requires that their returns to tn,
Auditor General shall be made not latel
than the tenth day of each month.
II. LAWS,
Auditor General.
1G1-l0t
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08

Having driven the Chinese van
guard from their foreign guns on
land and sea the Japanese states
men, who shuttle their feet when
they walk, have fallen into the
error that it is the guns which win
a battle and not the men behind
them. 1t would be sort of a war
comedy, perhaps all too serious, to
see nation pulled up with ego
tism, as Japan, learn the difference
between men and guns after the
echo of the Auglo-Saxon football
was upon her shores and the fatal
circle of England's armament was
drawn about her harbors. Japan
and her statesmen should take a
pointer from England and the
United States, who are as brave as
average nations and as wei
prepared for war, and yet, being
the most powerful representatives
of East and West, are following {
joint policy of preserving the inter
national peace in the interests o
other nations as we'll as themselves
because as civilized nations they
understand and fear the conse
quences Of war.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08

IT will probably be shut up
with those who have advocated the
fight or vote" policy, since the
close of the registration board has
forced them to the alternative of
putting up
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08
Higher Prices for Hides.

IN July, 1898, owing to the fl
II nanCial depression, in the
United States, or other causes,
hides declined in price NO the
lowest point ever known. Hides
that in May brought cents per
pound, in July brought only 3
cents. But prices had been
steadily declining for two years,
now a change is coming. In
July last prices again started up,
and in the small space of two
months a jump from 81 to ~
has taken place in San Francis
co markets. These prices are
for the average Hawaiian hide.
This will be cheering news to
the Island butcher, as for the
past year it has hardly paid him
to salt and ship his hides.
All who have hides to sell
will please remember we are
paying the highest prices : for
green sailed hides.
M. w. McC HEsNEY Sons.
October I, 1894.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08

IT is just possible the Govern
ment has something else to do be-
sides following the vagaries OF a
harmless oil man around the
world, as has been naively sug-
gested, probably in banter. MOI
does the Republic probably intend
to enforce the lesson of experience
being now daily learned by Royal
ist leaders, otherwise than by sug-
gestive silence.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-08

THOSE who predicted there
would be little registration under
the Republic will doubtless not be
heard from hereafter, as some OF
the loud mouthed" have them
selves solicited and received voting
PRIVILEGES.