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NOTE THESE PRICES,
PANSIES, Fine Plants, per doz. 35c
VERBENAS, extra potted pIantSautps 35c
SALVIAS, from pots, per dOz Soc
SALVIAS, from seed bed, per doZ 25G
zINNIAS, from seed bed, per dOZ 25c
Geranums Coleus etc., etc. Come early and get first choice
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SCHOOL STREET, BENNINGTON

by the Republican party next year under
the impression that he will lean their
way on that question, they are likely to
be undeceived later. 1t may be that the
ex President will not acknowledge any
necessity of crossing this bridge before
he comes to it, but he is already definite
ly on record upon this issue in way
which can give the free silver men no en-
couragement. No one who recalls his
vigorous utterances at Albany and at
Bennington, when he was President and
legislation looking toward free silver was
pending, can have any doubt as to where
he stands"
While Mr. Bland was out saving Col
orado for the free-silverites, the entire
State of Missouri slipped over into tho
sound-money column. Mr.. Bland was
caughC mapping while playing too far
from his base.
"A telescope containing the largest
lens ever made will soon be mounted in
the observatory of Chicago University.
BY sweeping the horizon with this in
strument it may be possible to obtain
some trace of Adlai Stevenson.
Mr.. Carlisle's absence from WASH
ingtou shows his entire confidence in the
ability of the Treasury deficit to run it
self,
Spain in the Alliance affair promises
not to do it again. Pledges of this sort
were made many times in the past forty
or fifty years, and as often broken.
Spain has been keeping Punic faith with
the United States ever since the earliest
Cuban disturbances.
Newfoundland has borrowed over
S2000,00 in London at per cent, which
is but little more than was required f0T
the latest issue of United States bonds.
Two years of Democratic craftsmanship
has placed Uncle Sam on par with a
bankrupt colony. ." tx
Rev. Thomas Dixon created some
thing of a sensation by sermon at the
Academy of Music in New York on re-
Professionalism in New York a colossal
failure" cat present." he declared,
the majority of churches in the city saro
doing nothing, but are a positive him
drance to the progress of Christianity,
and are repudiaUed by the Spirit of
Christ. They are an incumbrance on the
face of the earth, plague to the ad-
vancement of truth, because they are, as
Christ says in the gospel neither hot nor
cold" AS an illustration he pointed out
that the Baptists in the last 20 years had
actually lost 2, $50 members, though To-
600 children have been born into that
faith in the meantime. And he went on
"The combined wealth of the Baptist,
Presbyterian and Methodist churches
here is S16,000,0O0. There are in these
churches the brainiest men of the age,
and yet they are not holding their own.
They are a curse, because they are only
maintaining the traditions of a dead
past Their machinery is so much sa-
cred junk, holy junk to be sure, but
junk all the same that should be put up
at auction and sold to the highest and
best bidder. What the people want is q
new church, a church that will be popu-
lar, church that will reach the masses,
and that is what the churches of New
York are at the present time trying to
avoid. Ninety per cent. of the popula-
tion of New York are tenants, the re-
mainder landlords. The churches of to-
day are trying to catch the 10 per cent.
and let the 90 per cent go by the board"
AT the next Michigan election con-
stituti0nal amendment will be submitted
requiring reading and writing qualifica-
tions for voters. The solitary Democrat
in the present Legislature may prepare
to retire to private life.