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Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

An important liGuor case has been de-
cided in Iowa. 1t sustains the constitu-
lonalty of the Iowa statute for the reg
ulation of the. liquor traffic, familiarly
known as the Mulct law. The opinion
written by Justice Beemer, received the
Endorsement of the five republican mem
bers of the court, while Justice Kinne,
the Democratic member, filed dissenting
opinion. He pronounced the law uncon-
stitutlonal, and bold attempt on the in
tegrity of Republican Government The
Mulct law was passed by the last Legis-
lature, as a compromise measure be.
tween license and prohibition. Under its
provisions prohibition remains the gen.
eral law of the State, but upon a petition
of the majority of the voters of cities of
over 5000 population, and of 6j per cent.
of the voters of the counties having no
cities of that size, City Councils and
township authorities may inflct mulct
tax of 5000 and upward per annum upon
places where liquor is sold, and the pay
ment of this tax shall be bar to prose-
cution under the prohibitory law.It went
to the supreme court because the Judge
below, while ruling that the statute was
constitutional, expressed the opinion
that there was room for doubt. The
State appealed, the main contention be-
ing that the Legislature delegated the
law-making power to the people of local.
tiles, to City Councils and township trus-
tees in contravention of the fundamental
law of the State. This view the majority
of the Supreme Court rejects, while 1t is
supported by Judge Kline in his dissent
ing opinion.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05
WOOdfOFd,


Mrs. +. A. Gleason and Miss Sarah
Stevens are very i'll.
VIM. Mallory led the Wednesday even
ing class meeting. Mr., Mallory is de-
voted Christian man.
Thomas McElroy and wife have moved
from North Bennington to this place. Mr..
McElroy is sawyer at Harbour Brothers
steam mill.
Clark Breed was hit by falling tree
and sustained injuries that laid him up a
week.
Arthur Eddy, who went with his par
ents twelve years ago when he was ten
years old to st. Paul, Neb, recently went
from there to San Bernardino, Cal, and
is clerk there for his uncle, Glen Kendall
in a collection office.
Monday Miss Lura, young daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Harbour went to
to Hinesburg to live with her aunt, Mrs.
Rev. John Fort, and will attend school
there.
Ella Hayes and Bertha Hurd of Hoo
sick Falls, n. Y, visited at the Hurd &
Higgins lumber camp last week.
Miss Mary Harbour of Bennington,
visited her cousins here last week.
George Russell of Hartwellville, came
over to Bennington the fore part of the
week and on his return dined with John
Wilson John says that George 'did the
honors" in fair shape until he went out
to hitch-up, when he helped himself to a
piece of beefin the back room that Mrs.
Wilson had just purchased and placed it
.,nInr tl,n hlnn nts in his slninh NITnrln''
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

A Methodist minister in Los Angeles,
Cal, prayed for a librarian, young
woman, who had offended him in the
matter of the choice of books, to the dis
credit of the lady. She sued him for
SANDER, and the decision has just been
rendered in favor of Miss Teria L. Kelso.
The clergyman was Rev. j. C. Campbell.
Judge Clark overrued the demurrer of
the defendant that his statement was
privileged because it was uttered in the
course of prayer before his congrega-
tiOn in the church. The court holds that
the communications made by pastor to
his congregation is privileged because of
such relation. Ministers better stick to
the Prayer Book.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

The Democrats of st. Louis are rat
tied" There was a municipal election
in that city and Democratic stronghold,
Tuesday, and the Republicans elected
men to all the offices. The city council
will be unanimously Republican. The
majority is 10000 in a total vote of 3d.
900.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

Chicago elected Republican Mayor
this week by over 5000 plurality. The
entire republican ticket was elected, with
the exception of few isolated aldermen.
The Republicans. moreover, elected an
alderman in a strong Democratic wand,
"Hinky Dink" McKenna being the Dem
ocratic candidate. The days of "Hinky
Drinks" and Others like him have passed
away.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

Although Gov. Altgeld would not
oblige our Governor in the matter of ex-
tradition, he has made an interstate con-
cession by adopting one of our State hol-
idays, says the Boston Journal, that is to
say, he has made our Patriots Day, April
10Th, a holiday, under the name of Ar.
Dor day.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

The public debt was increased SlS,32O-
105 during March. Add this to the Sl63,-
600, 900 incurred by the issue of bonds.
And so the era of "Grover and clover
rolls on, meantime everybody continues
to pay the Cleveland tax, either in re-
duced wages or trade, or i'll restricted
hours of labor.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

Tuesdays Democratic evening papers
were filled with great gains in Ohio"
Wednesday it was learned that in some
of the Ohio cities woman suffragsts
voted Populist and Prohibitionist so that
some of the towns went over to the Dem
ocracy, Columbus was one. 1t elect.
ed a Democratic mayor on Monday by a
plurality estimated at 1000. 1t went Re.
publican last fall by 5000, 1t is sup
posed that the people had grown thirsty
under sober government. The New York
Suns correspondent says that until two
years ago Columbus was known as a
"wide OPEN town. The saloons never
closed during the year, theaters and bill
lard rooms were also in full blast. and
"tin horn gamblers" and keepers of i'm.
moral resorts ruled the town. All this
was changed by the incoming of a Re-
publican Administration. But Column
bus has gone back to its first love.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-05

The tide goes rolling on in 1895 as in
1894. The Rhode Island State election
this week resulted in Republican sweep
and Chas. Warren Lippitt was elected
Governor. The plurality for the head of
the Republican ticket will be 1O,SO1, as
compared with 6,5O7 for Governor Brown
last year, although the total Republican
vote was over 1000 less than it was last
year. The Democratic vote fell off from
5000. and the total vote cast Tuesday
was q, ,7G3, as compared with "a, ,S63, the
the vote cast last spring. Things are
working and Democracy and free trade
are doomed
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Publishers
Terms, Sl5O per year, strictly in advance
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23
Tell the Glad Tidines Again.

Ring out, glad bells, and young and old
With shouts the music swell,
And let the tale again be told
By tongue and G1anginG bell.
The honored natal day is here
On which to us was given
The hero grand by whose strong hand
Oppresaion's chains were riven.
Mid all the hero names, not one
Lives in our hearts like Washington.
When in the grasp Of Tyranny
Our country PROSTATE bowed,
When Wrong held sway on land and sea,
And Right by force was cowed,
The latent fires In patriot hearts
To mighty flame burst forth,
And loud the call for freemen all
To rise and prove their worth.
Scarce had the echoes died away,
Ere legions sought the fields of fray.
In that great hour of need, the Lord,
In mighty wisdom, raised
A man to WELD the leaders sword,
Where fires of battle blazed.
A man of valor, in whose breast
Was throned loyal heart,
A man whose hand was nerved to rend
The CALLING chains apart.
And hurl the hosts of royalty
Back In defeat across the sea.
Our stricken land Ger hill and plain
Was wounded with the graves
In which through all these years have
lain
The fallen hero braves.
The tangled grass on prairie wide,
The leaves in shaded wood,
The timid flowers in Natures bowers,
Were stained with patriot blood
All! Great the sacrifice that we
Might taste the fruits of Liberty.
By hand of Peace the storm was stayed.
Smoothed was the wrinkled brow
Of scowling War. Subdued, dismayed,
Shattered their boastful VOW,
Our foemen in their ships again
Sped Ger the trackless sea,
While gladstone notes from myriad
throats
Praised God for Liberty,
And DER the land by vaior saved,
Our war-rent flag in triumph waved.
Then ring the bells, and young and old
With shouts the music swell
Let the glad tale again be told
By tongue and Changing bell
The honored day again is here
On which 70 M WAS aFauna
That hero grand By WIS EgloIsf IsT'ss =. -
Oppression's chains Were riven.
Till hand Of Time blot out the sun.
Well hail the name of Washington.
Capt. Jack Crawford.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23

riers which INSTRUCTED them and began
to ascend the river and take such steps
as he deemed necessary. The house was
erected in 1850 and stands to-day just as
it did during Washington's occupancy.
1t is plain one-story building, with a
high sloping roof much higher than the
body of the house. 1t is built of stone
with walls two feet thick. The roof is
supported by long timbers of red cedar,
rough hewn, which to this day give out
the delicate perfume of this wood. The
main room on the first floor is low, with
heavy rough-hewn timbers sustaining the
floor above and is called "the room of
seven doors and one window" On one
side is a huge open fireplace big enough
to roast an OK in. Standing on the hearth
stone one can look up the tall chimney
and see the sky above.
This property remained in the posses
sion of the Hasbrouck family until 1840,
when the title became vested in the State
of New York. In 1850 it was placed by
act of Assembly in the hands of the
Board of Trustees of the village, to be
preserved as nearly as possible as it was
at the time of its occupation by Wash
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23
A WONDERFUL LIGHT.
1t Will Give Illumination of About
25O,OOO,OOO Candle Power.

1t Will Give Illumination of About
25O,OOO,OOO Candle Power.
The idea of an electric light which,
fed by a current from a dynamo actu-
ated by a forty horse power engine,
and giving 1000 candle power, can
have it's Illuminating power intensified
$4,000 times, is not easy to grasp. It
means the projection Of a stream Of
and 1t is no wonder that the announce!
ment that such light is about to be-
used In thfs country has been received
with some increduIity in Europe Yet
this is the efficiency of the light which
will be shortly erected at Fire Island
for the illumination of the adjacent
coast and the protection of the fleet of
ships entering New York harbor. A re-
mote suggestion of the power of this
lamp may be arrived at by bearing in
mind that an ordinary oil lamp is about
thirty-eight or forty candle power, and
then trying to imagine the combined
beam of 100000 lamps. The ordinary,
electric street light may be put down
at 100 candle power, and 100000 of
these would about represent the
strength of the Fire Island light
The most powerful oil lamp vet made
is supposed to shine out on a clear
night for a distance of thirty-five or
forty miles, but the new light will flash
its welcome rays to the incoming Euro
pean liners when they are 12O miles
away. The light revolves rapidly and
throws out its beams with the intensity
of speed of lightning The motive pow
er which actuates it is a simple clock
work arrangement contained in box
two feet square, and although the re-
volving portion of the light weighs f1f.
teen tons, the mechanism controlling it.
is so delicate that the pressure of two
fingers will turn it. The value of this
marvellous lamp can only be determined
by practical working, but it promises 20
represent an immense stride in the sol
ence of coast lighthouse Illumination
PHILADELPHIA Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23

stone house about half mile east from
Camp Hill station, on the North Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. This house is still stand
ing. 1t faces the south and is two and
a half stories in height. 1t was modern
lied in 1854 and a large wing, originally
the dining hall, removed from the west
end. In Revolutionary days it was a sort
of ''baronial hall" owned by George EN-
len, wealthy Philadelphia. Charles T..
Altman is the present owner and occupant.
A very interesting building is the house
Washington occupied at Valley Forge in
1777-177S. 1t is still standing and is in
a good state of preservation. About it
are gathered many associations, which
are calculated to move the patriotic per-
son deeply.
In June, 1871, Washington moved from
West Point, where he had been for some
time, to Morristown, n, J. Here he made
his headquarters at the home of the
widow of Col. Jacob Ford. The house is
still standing. At the present time it is
in the possession of the Washington As
ISOLATION of New Jersey, incorporated on
March 20, 1874, for the express purpose
of preserving it through future genera
lions sacred with it's peculiar historic as
sociations. The house and grounds have
been entirely restored, and are beauti-
fully kept up. 1t is used as a museum,
many interesting and valuable relics, in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23

Elsie and my Patience did nothin' but
talk bout Santa Claus and a saw-dust
doll with a real china head in Uncle
Wick's store-window at the Corners
OF course, Bill was willin' to give Elsie
a squad of dolls, and l heard him ask
Uncle Wicks myself how much il
would cost to send to Boston for a regu.
lar one that could talk and roll its eyes
Then Bills DANCED stubbornness would
rise up and whisper, "How could man
that didn't believe in God celebrate
Gods birthday?'
That's what Bill asked me one morn
ing, as he was putin a new pole in his
hobs. l knew Bill was gettin' unset
| tied, and that when Elsie got up in his
lap and whispered in his ear, 81 des
Santa Claus is dom to bring Uncle Bill
new pair of wristlets," it was more
| than barrel of words from me.
Martha helped knit those wristlets
first green yarn and then a red one,
with frill of brown at the end Bill
caught them at it once when Elsie
came over to spend the eYenin'. He
rushed out to the barn to look after his
4-yearold, and when he came back he
complained that the saber cut he got at
Lookout Mountain was troublin' him
some
ran over to Bills Christmas night,
to ask Bill and Elsie over to eat pop
corn, hickory nuts, and such like, and
found Bill putin Elsie to bed. There
was hard look in his face, and knew
that it was no use askin'.
l stood still for a moment, and took
off my muller to change the wet spot
from my mouth. Elsie didn't notice,
and kneIt down by the side of her crib
in her white mighty, and prayed, ''Now
l lay me" just as Jane Foster taught
her. When she got through she stopped
a minute, and then added little one of
her own. / remember it just as we'll as
though 1 heard it all over again to-
night. She kne1t down at Bills knee
and said:
80 Dod 1 want to say a little prayer
for my Uncle Bill. 1 des he forgets TO
pray sometimes. Uncle is a dood man,
bod. He loves me, and set the leg of
my little chicken, Bright. Now it is all
well, bod. OF course you don't know
Uncle Bill, bod, as well as Elsie, so
want to tell you, so Santa Claus won't
forget him. Dood night"
Then she kissed her Uncle Bill, and
snuggled in between the sheets.
l guess that finished Bill COMBS
stubbornness. Martha said the next
day, when Elsie rushed into the house
with her arms full of presents, that Bill
would spoil the child; but knew that
could Bill have got over to Boston that
night and back in time, Elsie would
have had that doll with the rollin' eyes
and talkin' mouth. Bill was always
that wayne never did things by
halves.
Bill was ailing all the winter We
hoped he would pick up in the spring
Martha used to send him boneset tea,
and twice he had the doctor, but 1t
didn't seem to do him much good. He
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23
Luck in Fairy stones.

Fairy stones are che latest and e
young woman from the South has set
her friends sending around for them.
They are said to bring their owners
luck, s'but if you let any one touch 1t,
continued this believer in luck pieces,
you spoil the charm" This fairy stone
seems to be bit of petrified earth with
what looks like cross marked upon it
and is said to come from St Patrick, in
Virginia, where there is a mountain full
Of them, supposed to have been planted
there by the fairies as far back as the
days of the cruciixion. Believers in
such things or folks who love to pick
up fads are having these fairy stones
mounted as pinG, watch charms, etc.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23

for q weeks visit. Marshall, who was
an ardent Federalist, got ready, and in q
few days reached Mount Vernon. Wash
lngton received him with great cordially.
After dinner, when all the other company
had retired to the sitting room, he de-
tanned Marshall and soon told him why
he had sent for him.
81 am uneasy, Major Marshall" said
he, tat the rapid growth of these demo-
cratic societies and alarmed at the ten
dency toward the disintegration of our
present system. The press is attacking
all who wish to maintain the Federal
Government In Its integrity and strength
with great violence, and fear the result
of the approaching elections. We need
our strongest and most patriotic men in
Congress, and I want you to return to
Richmond and announce yourself q can
dldAte."
Marshall replied that 1t was impossible;
that he was q poor man, dependent upon
his practice at the bar; that the pecuniary
sacrifice would be more than he could
bear In his present straitened circum-
stances. Washington argued with him,
and finally got wrought into violent
passion. He told Marshall that no patriot
would refuse to serve his country in such
an emergency that he had been making
personal sacrifices for the public all his
life, and that no one deserving the name
Of a man would refuse such a call.
Marshall, in describing the occurrence,
said he had never received such torrent
of abuse in his life. He thought at one
time Washington would jump on him
from across the table. He retired that
night, but could not sleep. The insults
given him seemed to blister his brain.
After rolling and tossing for a time he
concluded he would get up early in the
morning, slip out, get his horse, and start
home before breakfast. Morning at last
came, and as soon as he could see well
he dressed. Fearing to awake Washing
ton, he took his boots in his hand and
started down the stairway in his stock
ing feet; but to his horror he met Wash
ington in the hail.
'Where are you goiGs, Maj Marshall?"
said the old General
81 was going out, sir"
''It is too early for you TO rise, sir. Re
turn to your room and I will have you
called when breakfast is ready"
Marshall returned to his room, as he
said, ito await further orders"
At breakfast Washington was polite to
him, Afterward he informed Marshall
that the horses were ready, and that they
would ride over the plantation. They
rode, returning at o'clock to dinner. No
allusion had been made to the row of the
previous night. The result of it all was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23

liked best to sit up by the arch, and
watch Elsie and my little Patience play
"keepin' house." or take Elsie in his
arms and listen to her prattIe
He didn't go to church, but he used
to talk with Martha off and on. an he
seemed to remember a powerful num-
Der of things Elder Preswick said down
there in Virginia. 1 never gave Bill
much credit for memory before.
1t was long during the spring plowin'
that Bill took to his bed, complainin' Of
that old saber cut. We didn't think
much of it, until one day his hired man,
John, came runnin' over just as we was
doin' the early milkin, and said Bill
was dyin'. Martha rolled down her
sleeves and took off cross lots.
Bill was asleep when we came in, so
we tiptoed to his room and stood at the
foot of the bed. Martha said after
wards that Bill looked almost beautiful
as he lay there The window was open
"a ttsae nglll-~.e. stile apple ksazsoms on
sae giIly-a5wer tree that Bill and Jane
planted when t1ey were children came
into the room lad kinder carried me
back to the days when we We're boys to-
gether, and Jane and OLD Squire
Coombs were alive. | must have been
dreamin', for my lids got wet and Mar
tina pulled my arm. Bill had his eyes
open; he saw us and smiled, and then
put out his hand for Elsie.
The mornin' sun kinder come in
through the apple trees and fell on FL
sizes yellow hair. He drew Elsie up
closer and closer and whispered low,
SO the doctor couldn't hear and tell the
folks at the grocery, but Martha and L
heard and always thought the doctor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23

phia, arriving there on November 20,
and remaining until March %, 1882.
During this lengthy period his headQuar-
tiers were at the house of Benjamin
Chew, No, ITO South Third street, be-
tween Walnut and Spruce streets.
One of the last places where Washing
ton established himself was at Newburg.
He arrived there from Philadelphia and
Joined the main army, which had been
ordered to proceed to that point. The
house In which the quarters of the COM
mander-in-ch were located was situat-
ed on a bluff which overlooks the Hudson
for eight miles to West Point. From this
outlook he could ascertain at once when
the enemy's ships broke through the bar
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-02-23
THE MAJORS STORY.

You see, there's no harm in tellin' on
Bill, now that Bill is dead and gone. As
a professin' member l feel it almost a
duty. There are people l could name,
professin' members too, who have con-
sarned themselves with Bill's membry,
and kinder insinuate that Bill died out
of the fold.
Bill, Bill Coombs, weighed nigh onter
200 an stood six feet in his stockin's. 1
don't say but that Bills looks were agin
him, as men go, but some way our
babies never seemed to mind, and Mar
tina argued that there was some good IN
q man that babies loved.
Yes, Bill would swear. l don't deny
It. He swOre right in the presence of
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did, leastwise he never says anything
against Bill.
Jane" he sometimes forgot and
called her Jane; that was her mother,
Henry Fosters wife that was, tell
God what-you-told-h im-Christmas
that your uncle Bill ain't-a bad
man"
Then Elsie prayed, while Martha
sobbed softly like in her sunbonnet and
l looked hard out into the apple tree.
Bill went right on smilin', but when
we spoke he never answered.
Elsie crawled up tenderly like onter
the bed, and kissed the smilin' lips tim
idly, and then turned to Martha and
said, with a frightened, glad light In
her baby eyes, just as though she I'M
derstood it all, Uncle Bill is With
od.'-Utica Globe.