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Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-10
For Sale.

Store on Main street for sale; good To-
cation, living apartments over store,
steam, electric light, water and sewer
connections; all new. Price reasonable,
terms easy. Inquire at this office. 93tf&
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For Sale.

The well known Elon Clark farm of
1870 acres, situated in the west part of
Sh8ftsbury. Address-C. E. Over,
North Bennington. 93i2
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-10
SPECIAL BUSINESS LOCILS.

I-The Equitable Life paid policy
holders in the month of Novembe Der,
through the agency of W. H. S. Whit,
comb of Burlington, the sum of S21, 772.-
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Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-10
OBITUARY.
REUBEN A. RUDD.

Reuben A. Rudd was stricken with
paralysis on last Wednesday, and with
out regaining consciousness passed
peacefully away on Friday, at the old
Rudd homestead, in the west part of the
town, now occupied by Enos B. Arm
strong and family. Mr. Rudd, who was
IS years of age, was born and has always
resided in the house in which he died.
His declining years have been made com
Portable by the members of Mr.. Arm
strong's family, and every kindness
shown him as an honored inmrte of their
home. The deceased who had never
married, was Il son of the late Enos
Rudd, ST., and grandson of Joseph
Rudd of Bennington battle fame, and
the writer of the celebrated Rudd letter.
OF his immediate family one sister alone
survives him. Mrs. Joseph Maynard of
Hoosick. OF a genial and Kindly nature
he won the respect of all who knew
him and he leaves an unspotted record
for faithfulness and honesty in all his
dealings with his fellow men.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-10

gT Miss Morgan announces her an
nual ribbon sale commencing on Monday
Dec. 2nd, to last during three weeks.
9ltS*
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Lost.

On Main street, a wreath pin, enamel
and pearl. Reward will be paid. Leave
at 507 Main street. 9lt2&
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-10

House to rent Inquire of A. Buel
Sibley. SOtf#
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-10
BENNINGTON BANNER.

ag- Watch che date opposite yOWr
name on this paper. 1t ShO,os that your
subscription Is credited on our books to
that date. Ifthe date is not changed with
in q fen days from the time a remittance Is
made, notify the publishers.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-10
ELLEN S. STONE.

ELLEN S. STONE, wife of BENZ. S.
Stone, and eldest daughter of Uel Hicks,
formerly of Bennington, died at her home
in Mexico, N. Y, Dec. 4th. She was an
earnest, christian woman, devotng her
time to church, temperance, social and
domestic affairs.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
SURE TO GET MARRIED.
Is Every Girl Whe Sits at Th;a
Treasury Desk.

There is in the mail division of the
treasury department q very popular
desk, to which is attached the very
peculiar merit that the occupant is by
that occupancy placed on the sure
road to matrimony.
No ooner is the position made
vacant than there is a scramble
among the remaining clerks for the
lucky place, the fortunate candidate
feeling sure that it will only be O.
short time before she is advanced to
the Hymeneal grade.
Within the past ten years the desk
has been occupied by seven lady
clerks following each other in Quick
succession as embryo brides, and the
records during that time indicate
that they have come from all parts
OF the country only to finally meet
their destiny while occupying the
fateful desk.
Miss Birdie Walker, of Tennessee.
started the pace by marrying a resi-
dent of the district, after a few
months service. She was succeeded
by her sister from the same state.
who speedily followed her example
and left the enviable position open
to a newcomer. She arrived on
schedule time from Virginia in the
person of Miss Easby-Smith. who
shed the glory of famous Virainian
name over the talismanic desk for a
short time and then was led to the
altar by a journalist of Washington.
Next came from Delaware a relative
OF Senator Gray-Miss Sue Gray
who was followed in an incredibly
short time by a delegate from Mas
sachusetts-Eliss Mereine Dickev.
Miss Dickcy attracted much at
t%ention during her stay in the de-
partment through her remarkable
resemblance to Mrs. Cleveland. and
later married Mr.. Simon Flynn, who
at that time was connected with the
Washington branch of the Baltimore
Sun, and now manages a paper in
Spokane, Wash.
Pennsylvania also furnishes a rep
r%esentive in Miss Ella Newton, a
granddaughter of the first commits
sioner Of agriculture. Her marriage
to a well-known resident of this city
IS a recent event. The last gradu-
ate from this sought-for post is an
other southern girl, and was for
merly Miss Ida Lindsay, of Alabama,
but on Easter Monday she became
the wife of Dr.. Henry D. Fry, of
Washington, and the place is tenn
porarily u~noccupied.
This happy Illustration of rotation
in Office, as exemplified by the fem
mine contingent of wage-earners, is
the only one on record where nobody
kicks" for each woman thinks she
is advancing her interests either bv
hlllng the position or leaving it, as
the case may be.-Washington Post.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
LAMP AND CLOCK COMBINED.
1t Was a Common Continuance in the
Seventeenth Century.

1t Was a Common Contrivanee IN the
Seventeenth Century.
OF h various examples that have
been given of early specimens of the
clockmaker's art not the least interest
ing are the several types of lamp
clocks. One of these. says Casters
Magazine, was of a kind quite common
In the seventeenth century, and con-
sisted of d lamp burner placed at the
base of a glass oil receptacle mounted
vertically on a suitable standard. The
oil reservoir had attached to it a scale,
facing the burner and showing the
hours, beginning at four o'clock in the
afternoon at which time the lamp was
to be lighted in winter, and ending at
seven o'clock in the morning. The
lamp being lighted, the gradually de-
scending level of the Oil, as conbus-
ton proceeded, marked the hours. The
other device, of later origin, dating
back to the beginning of the present
century. utilized the same principle. 1t
consisted Of two communicating Oil
chambers, surerposed by a clock dial.
In n OF the chambers was placed a
lamp to illuminate. this dial, and
in the other was suspended a float from
a cord which passed around a small
pulley. The latter was mounted on a
horizontal axis ending in the center of
the dial. The loaf of course descended
as the Oil was consumed and carried
the index hand along with it, thus
making the hours precisely as in the
case already cited. At their best, these
timepieces could have had only an in
different degree of accuracy, yet they
probably served their purpose well, and
certainly are interesting at the present
time as illustrating some of the expedi-
ents adopted by m~echanicians of an
earlier period.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
coNcET OF NOTED PEOPLE.
Many of Them Were Confident That They
Had Made Their Names Immortal.

Many of Them Were Confident That They
Had Made Their Names Immortal.
It is of course pardonable that a
great man should have a high opinion
OF himself, says a recent writer. One
cannot find much fault with Words
worth, ever When one reads that he
spoke of himself as writing on, though
fully assured that his poems would be
unpopular, because he knew that they
would also be immortall
Many other poets have laid to their
souls h same attering JUNCTION, and
have. been content to wait for poster
1ty, which, however, has not ALWAYS
been content to read them. Horace,
speaking of his odes, said: 81 have
erected a monument more durable than
brass and more regal than the lofty
heights of the pyramids, while Shakes
peare in one of his sonnets used an ex-
preston so similar that one suspects it
at once of being borrowed:
Mot marble, nor the gflded monuments
OF princes shall outlive this lofty rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these con.
tents
Than uaswept stone, besmeared with sIuttisb
time"
Lord Tennyson, too. is reported to
have said the 'Bugle Song" in 1.-The
Princess" is the finest lyric in the Eng
Esh language. Walter Savage Landor
was of the opinion hat his "Imaginary
Conversations were of such literary
value that there had not been five vol
nmes of prose to equal them in two
thousand years. Coming to another
sphere of life from that of the poet
h cricket field, to-wit-we may men
ton old Lillywhite, who used to say:
Il bowl the best ball in England and
Mr.. Horene bowls the next" 1t is
quite true, doubtless; but even it's truth
was ov~ershadowed by it's beautiful
modesty.
1t is related of Victor Hugo that,
when quite unknown, he walked into
the office of a certain publisher and
tried to sell him some poems. The
publisher was not in q buying frame of
mind, and Victor, as he went out, said:
"You have to-day thrown away a for
tune. sir. / was about to make an ar
r~angement with Won whereby you
would be able to publish everything /
shall write in the future. You have
lost the opportunity. 1t is one that
will never occur again"
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
Water in Rocks.

Baron Nordenskjold has shown prac-
t1caIly that water can be found by Dor
ing into granite and other crystalline
rocks to a depth of from one hundred
TO one hundred and seventy feet. His
theory was that the variations in tenn
perature ought to cause shearing
strains between the upper and lower
layers Of the rock, which would make
horizontal %crevices into which water
o the surface would ~percolate, and
hat the water would be fresh. A well
was sunk in the islet of Arko, off the
Swedish coast, in 1894, and at one hun
dred and ten feet fresh vater was
found, supplying four thousand four
hundred gallons a day; since then six
other wells have been bored and water
found at about the same depth. The
oo1eet OF the search was to provide
lighthouses and pilot stations with a
permanent and plentiful upply of
water.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31

Columbus News: We are pain
ed to chronicle the death of Mr..
j. W. Lynn, which occurred at
his home near here Monday
evening.
Monroe Enquirer: Mr.. Ellison
Broom, of Goose Creek towns
ship. has just gathered his
thirty>first crop made with a
mule that has lived to the ripe
old age of forty-one years.
Salisbury World: Speaking
Of big things, Mr., Rufus Rogers,
living near China Grove, has
raised the biggest sweet potato
OF the season. Tt measured "a
by % inches and weighed ten
pounds and one ounce.
Elizabeth City News : The
barn, on a farm in the upper
part of the county, owned by
Mrs. w. f. Martin and occupied
by Mr.. Hollowell Bright, was de-
stroyed by fire Thursday night,
together with d lot of agricultu-
raj machinery and a large part
Of the last years crop of Bright.
It is supposed that the fire orig
mated from the torch of an in
cendiary.
Newbern Journal: At the
meeting of Synod just held in
Fayetteville, Rev. G. G. Vardell,
of Newbern. was elected a mem
Der of the Board of Regents of
the Orphans Home at Barium
Springs. This is the first tim.
the board has had a member S
far from the neighborhood of tb
location of the home but Synos.
recognized the Importance O.
having this portion of the State
directly represented in the man
agemeut.
Winston Sentinel: Sheriff
Lindsay. of Hamilton county,
Mo-, was in Winston to-day. He
is looking for w. F. Barnes, who
is reported to be under arrest at
Stoneville, on the r. and S..
road. Barnes is wanted in Mis-
souri, on the charge of forging q
note for $40O. He also stands
charged with stealing money
from some young ladies at a
house where he boarded while in
Missouri.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
ENGLISH DIFFICULT TO LEARN.
Few Frenchmen Can Pronounce the Lam
guase Without an Accent.

10" ATcuCu1Aeh Van TCOnOu0Co the Ian
guaee Without ar Accent.
The ~Frenchman, past or present,
who speaks English especially well and
does not pronounce English names
with an accent that is peculiarly
French is very rare indeed. President
Felix Faure now holds the honors
throughout all France for his excellent
English, and E~nglishmen resident in
Paris, as well Us the public men of
London, who have opportunities of
knowing. say that he quite equals Ma
poleon III. in his fuency a TAnglaise.
M. Faure, in fact, is the first Of the
presidents who has been able to pro-
nounce English well. Theirs, MacMa-
hon, Grevy and Carnot had a very i'm
perfect knowledge Of tina language,
and Grevy was especially weak, not
only in his pronunciation but in his
handling Of English verbs. This is a
curious fact, and q rather instructive
one, when it comes to be recalled that
nearly all the last kings of France
were good English scholars.
Among French statesmen Baron de
Ccurcel, the present ambassador of the
French republic at the court of St.
James, has a fine grasp of the language
of the country to which he is accred-
tied. This diplomat showed this in a
most marked manner during the meet
ings of the Behring sea fishery arbitra-
ton, in which he took a prominent
part. Clemenceau, the editor and dep
uty, has the reputation of sneaking the
best English in France, and several
times during his visits to London he
has addressed deputations of British
workmen in their w tongue, being
able to make himself amply under
by the mos ignorant man pres
ent.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
THE NEW WOMAN IN MASSACHU
SETS.

The chief of the Massachusetts
Bureau of Statistics of Labor
devotes the first forty-eight
pages of his report for 1894 to the
subject of the compensation in
certain occupations of graduates
of colleges for women. The OBJ
ject of the inquiry, which was
set on foot by the Association of
College AlumnB and transferred
to the bureau. was to learn if
possible whether graduates of
women's colleges were better
equipped for the successful pur-
suit of q gainful calling, whether
they we're successfully compel
ing with men il the same call
ings and whether they were re-
ceiving equal compensation with
men for similar work well per-
formed.
The inquiry upon which the
report is based was extended to
employers as well as employees,
and the replies received were
from AL employees and 10Y ems
ployers. The employees included
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
HOUSEKEEPING FOR GIRLS.
Commence by Keeping Your Owr
Room in Order.

Room in Order.
The habit of thorouohness in
housekeeping leads one to keep
rooms in good order and the table
beautifully appointed. I know a
girl who says that she takes great
pains with her room whenever she
thinks her Aunt Mary is coming
to see her, because Aunt Mary's
sharp eyes discover every speck of
dust, and observe every trifle that is
in the least out of order. Aunt Mary
is a bit of a critic, and her niece a
little afraid of her comments.
In other words, the aunt has made
a coward of the girl, / do not like
the idea of being in bondage to any
body, whether an aunt or a stranger.
1t would seem to me a far better
way to feel that one must answer to
ones self, and that one would not
feel satisfied unless she could look
herself in the glass and say: ''There.
everything is done in the best posi-
bic manner, and you cannot find n
fault with me to-day: Try to, if you
dare!'
| wonder whether you are particu-
lar to write notes of thanks very
soon after receiving gifts or acts of
courtesy? The value of a note of
thanks is greatly increased by its
being prompt. If some friend leaves
a bunch of violets at your door, and
you fail to acknowledge it until the
flowers have faded, your thanks,
when they do come, are tardy.
When flowers are sent to those who
are i'll, they, of course, cannot repay
the courtesy by a little note them
selves, but some one in the family
should do it for them. Your note
of thanks should be very genial,
showing that you are really pleased
by the kind attention and the hap
pier because of it. Do not be afraid
to write warmly and cordially on
such occasions. IF stiff and formal
you are unjust both to your friend
and yourself Round Ia
BILE,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31

169 teachers, II librarians and as
~sistants, 90 stenographers, %
nurses aud superintendent of
nursing, 10 Newspaper editors
and reporters. 10 clerks, Is tele-
graph operators and Is type-set-
tiers, the rest being distributed
among fifty different occupations.
Of the 451 six reported wages
less than $25 per month; SO re-
ceived 1875 and less than $50; IA
received $50 and less than $75; 80
between $75 and 500; 70 from
800 to 5000; two received 5000
and less than $500; two over
$500, and 48 failed to receive the
amount of their monthly salary.
To the question, Are men en-
ployed at the same grade of
work? 281 reported that they
were; 118 reported work that
differed from that of men, and SO
failed to answer. To the next
question, Do men receive more
pay than women for the same
work? $50 reported that men
received more pay, IS reported
the same pay for men and wo-
men, and five reported higher
salaries than those paid men
for the same work. To tie
question, Is the work of women
less valuable than that of men in
the same calling? 1872 replies
were received, PIP claiming tina
the services of women are as
valuable as those Of men, while
Al considered the work of women
more and 81 less valuable than
that of luen. Of the 1O4 en-
ployers only 80 responded to the
last question. 46 of whom re-
regarded the work of men and
women of equal value, 20 res
garded the work of men of the
most value and II gave indefinite
replies.
While this brief summary Of
the result of the investigation is
interesting in several of it's feat
ures, it fails in every particular
to determine the money value of
an education at a wcman's col
lege. It furnishes no compari-
son between the rate of compen-
sation received by college gradu-
ates and those educated in the
public or private schools, and no
Ineligible ratio between the
wages of men and women in the
same calling where men are paid
more than women. Massachu-
sets is notably ahead of any
other State in the collection of
industrial, economic, social and
political statistics, but in the at
tempt to get at the money value
of a college education for omen
the Bureau of Statistics of Labor
seems to have overlooked the
most important feature of the
inquiry.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
THE undoubted sen oiment of


The undoubted n5iment of
the people of the United States
is that, while we are prepared to
recognize the just claims of En-
gland, we are not prepared to
look with unconcern on the for
chile despoiling of Venezuela
The boundary question is a ques-
ton of fact and law, not to be
settled by brute force. The
question of the territorial integ.
rity of a South American Repub-
lie cannot be settled by an ads
vance of the armed forces of
Great Britain.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
SQUELCHiNG BORES.


Two Public Nuisances Receive Their Just
Deserts.
Many phases OF human nature assert
themselves in public convevances. but
to the man who takes especial de-
light in making his business affairs
known to the public a crowded |,
train is just the place.
There you meet the man going down
town in the morning who tells his
friend in general, but the whole car in
particular, what his business methods
are; how many dollars worth of goods
he sold last year, how he got the best
OF others in trade, and SO IN. What a
pore and a nuisance these individuals
are can be best appreciated by one who
is doomed to listen to these uninterest-
ing recitals of personal affairs.
On a train the other dav
were two OF this class of individuals
VINO persisted in making themselves
particularly obnoxious to the passen-
gers who wanted to read their papers.
They had hardly entered the car at
Canal street when their recital began.
and by the time Twenty-third street
was reached every passenger in the car
mad heard about their business affairs.
Il didn't see anything of hard times
last year." said the little man. s-Why.
john: my bookkeeper showed me the
to-day, and to my great sur
prise they showed a clear profit of sew
enty-hve thousand dollars. This year
l expect to double that. My travellers
on the road are sending in marvellous
orders for goods" etc.
HIS friend retaliated in kind, and SO
the conversation continued. Before
them sat a middle aged man, with a
d~yspeptlc, yet kindly look. The con-
versatlon OF the two men before him
evidently made him nervous, for he
loohed up at them several times with
something like anger expressed in his
race, n then began reading his paper
again, Or tried to, at least.
He stood it until Twentv-third street.
and then his patience became ex-
hausted.
Gentlemen" he said quietly but
hrmly, consider the fact that there
are other passengers in the car who
have rights as well as ourselves" The
two men regarded him with a~stonish-
ment. Remember, also" he eontin-
ued."that an elevate l train is not a TT
place to tell business secrets. | don't
want to know your business, and I
wish you would let me in peace, 50 that
l can read my paper"
We didn't ask you to listen to our
conversation" said one of the men,
angrily.
No. you didn't: but the people in
this car are not deaf and you have no
right to m~onopolize their ears with
details that they don't care a rap
about.
We'll, we paid our fare and can talk
if we like"
S you can, but don't disturb other
people. l don't want to infringe on
any ones rights. All | want to do is
to be allowed toread my paper. You've
been talking to me and the rest of the
car all the way up. Now, for a change,
won't YOU oblige by talking to your
friend only?'
The passengers in the car were evil
IDENTIFY in sympathy with the middle
aged man, and smiled and nodded ap-
proylngly. The two business CONVEX
~satlona1ists were embarrassed and soon
after got off at a station. When thev
had left the passengers complimented
the middle aged man for Kidding them
OF a nuisance.-N. Y. Herald.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
Fed Cotton In GEORGIA.

Red cotton has been raised at Alpha
retta, Ca, where a planter has quite a
quantity OF that curious stuff, every
stalk of which is a deep red, even the
leaf, boil and bloom. This novel crop
comes from planting seeds obtained
six or seven years ago from a freak
stalk of red cotton found growing il
Florida.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31

Spain, starting out by denying
for months that there was any
instruction in Cuba, has sent
more troops to the island to.put
down that instruction than En-
gland sent to America to put
down the Revolution, Or than
England maintains in India. And
still the insurrection has not been
put down.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
After the Wreck.

Maude (anxiously)-Tom I re-
fused Charlie Wallister when he
proposed to me this afternoon, and
he said that l had wrecked his life.
You don't think that he'll go and
commit suicide, do you?
Tom-Oh, no, I don't think there's
any danger that he will. He and ]
have just been playing pool together
all evening at the club.-Somerville
Journal.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
Name of II

Hudson river was named from Henry
Hudson. The Indians called it Maha.
Keneghtue, 'the flowing water" and
other appropriate names. Gomez called
It St. Anthony's river, and to the Dutch
1T was known as Mauritius river. in
honor of Prince Maurice of Holland.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-31
An Apparent Contradiction.

EH 6ppHTeHC ContTdUTCC1On.
Cobble = Did you know thai the
widow Pickett married had four chill
dren?
Stone That's strange. He told me
one of his reasons for marrying her
was that she was alone in the Morld.-
Detroit Free Press.