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Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28
Manchester Centre.

Percy Gilmore has gone to Burlington
for treatment in the Mary Fletcher Hos
pital
Regular convocation of Adoniram
Chapter, o. E. S., next Tuesday evening,
Jnly I'd.
Miss Grace Townsend OF Salem, N. Y,
is spending the week with her friend,
Mrs. L. D. Combs.
John Noble of Montreal, is now max.
ing his annual visit to his old friend Car
son Mechin.
Mrs. Harvey Rowe of Middlebuay, is
spending two or three weeks with her
son, Charles B. Rowe.
Miss Maud Mattison has returned from
the Klmball Union Academy, Meriden,
n. H., where she has been attending
school for the past year,
Mrs. Ida Vaughan Waite, wife of Geo.
Waite of Rutland, died of peritonitis in
the hospital in that city on Monday even
ing last. Mrs. Waite was born and al
ways resided in this village until within
a few years and her remains were
brought here for burial. Her funeral
services were held in the Episcopal
church Wednesday afternoon. Her hus-
band and three sons SURVIVE her.
The Rev. Mr.. Kelton had a runaway
last Sunday morning which came near
being a serious affair. The harness was
not properly adjusted upon his horse and
soon after leaving his house the thills of
the carriage dropped and frightened the
horse which ran. The carriage ran into
a post in front of Mr.. BonesteePs house
and its occupants were thrown out but
not seriously hurt. The horse brought
up in Mr.. Bonesteel's garden among the
pea brush.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28
Relief in Sly Anurs

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the NEW
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE" This new remedy is great sur
prise on account gifts exceeding prompt
ness in relieving pain IN the bladder,
kidneys, back and every part of the uri-
nary passage in male or female. 1t re-
lieves retention of water and pain in pass
ing it almost Immediately. If you want
quick relief and cure this is your remedy.
Sold by j. 7. Shurtleff, Druggist, Ben
nington. 12y1
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1895.

Imprisonment for debt was a common
practice.
There was not public library in the
United States.
Quinine was unknown; when man
had ague fits he took Peruvian bark and
whiskey,
Almost all the furniture was imported
from England.
There were no maps, charts or globes
in the school rooms.
An old copper mine in Connecticut
was used as prison.
Every gentleman wore queue and
powdered his hair in 1795.
There was only one hat factory, and
that made cooked hats.
Crockery plates were objected to be-
cause they dulled the knives.
No large river in the United States had
been spanned by a bridge.
A horseman who galloped on a city
street was fined four shillings.
Books were very expensive. 1.-THE
Lives OF the Poets" cost SIS.
Virginia contained fifth of the popu-
lation of the whole country.
A day laborer considered himself we'll
paid with two shillings a day.
Dry goods were designated as "men's
stuffs'' or ''women's stuffs."
A man who jeered at the preacher or
criticised the sermon was fined.
Stoves were unknown; all cooking was
done before an open fireplace.
The only recognized method of i'm
parting information was by the liberal
use of the rod.
A hundred years ago people worried
about the same things that are distress
ing you, and they are dead now, and
their worry did no good.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28

term: Sabrina Twitchell, Harmon Beck
er, Lew Montgomery, Gilbert Twitchell,
Jay Mcdonald, Ruby Montgomery. Num-
Der registered, II. Alice II. Madison,
teacher.
The Eagle Square Works will close
down Saturday night for a short time in
which to inventory and make needed re-
pairs.
Mrs. G. A. Moon has not been as well
of her lameness lately and. is still obliged
to use a crutch.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28
East Arlington.

Harley Haskins and Miss Effie McDon-
aid were married June Goth.
Andy Hard and his bride are at his
fathers, G. B. Hard.
The school in the village closes on Fri
day of this week.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28
Bargains in Ladies' Shirt Waists

VIM. II. Frear & Co. have 80 dozen
ladies' shirt waists which are damaged
by being wet with clean water only,
which they are selling at 25c each. All
cOlOrs and all sizes. Order Immediately
for such rare bargains do not last long at
Frear's Troy Bazaar.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28
B-The BANNER, delivered at your
door, costs but
sc for week,
15c for month,
4Nc for months,
75c for months,

not now subscribers, wishing the SEMI
WEEKLY BANNER delivered at their res
licences every Tuesday and Friday after
noon can have 1t at the following rates:
l week, cents; l month, 10 cents; 8
months, 40 cents; six months, IS cents;
year, $3.50. Pay the carrier or send
money and name to this office, and the
paper will be delivered regularly for the
time paid for. Try it.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28

Beecham's pills for consti-
patton 100 and 25$. Get the
book at your druggists and
go by it.
Annual sales more than eoooop AozoA
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-28
SAFE DEPOSIT

Make your cash deposits at
No. sol Main Street, Free Lii
brary Building, whether it be
small or large sums. Gold
value given for It with a iber-
al discount as interest, be.
sides, you hold the best Sc
Curities that can be given and
enjoy all benefits Of same.
This is more than the earth,
for its Of the earth, and its pro-
auctions in fabrics of wearing
material shaped by skilful
hands into clothing, furnish
ings, hats, caps and other
wearing articles made for COM
fort, decoration and durability.
C. R. SHELLEY,
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TORRENT.

ITO RENT-Several desirable tenements. Pos
/ session given Immediately. WILLIAM K.
HAWKS at
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
A True Silver Ring.

do not think that this country,
holding so vast proportion of the
worlds supply of silver in it's noun
tains and its mines, can afford to re-
duce the metal to the situation of
mere merchandise" If silver ceases to
be used as money in Europe and Amer
lea, the great mines of the Pacific slope
will be closed and dead. Mining en-.
terprises of the gigantic scale existing
in this country cannot be carried on to
provide backs for looking glasses and
to manufacture cream pitchers and
sugar bowls, A vast source of wealth
to this entire country is destroyed the
moment silver is permanently disused
as money. 1t is for us to check that
tendency and bring the continent of
Europe back to the full recognition of
the value of the white metal as a
medium of exchange. james G..
Blaine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
THE PARTIES INTERESTED.
The Run on the Treasury for GoId-Plaus
Suggested to Prevent It.

The Run on the Treasury for Gold-Plans
Suggested to Prevent It.
1t is not the outside world that is in
terested in the matter of the gold re-
demption of notes, but the people of
the United States who hold the notes.
All the interest the outside world has
in United States gold is in the country
having enough of it to pay the prin-
cipal and interest of debts to foreign
ers. Indeed, SO far ss quantity or
amount is concerned, the interest of
the outside world does not even extend
so far as that, for everybody knows
that only small part of foreign debts
are paid in gold, much the larger part
being paid in other merchandise, and
as to this part the foreigner is only in
terested in being paid in merchandise
at gold values, and for this reason de-
sires the United States to maintain the
gold standard.
The run on the treasury for gold that
causes pain and anxiety is the with
drawal of gold for export. This kind
of a run hurts because il diminishes
the power of the government to re-
deem, and because it causes contrac-
ton of the currency, increases the
value of money and decreases the value
of property and products. But the de-
mand for gold for export is demand
that has to be met. This demand is
not subject to government control.
This demand is one that would not be
met by having stock of gold locked
up and the key thrown away. But
would it not help matters very much
If in this country the entire work of
ultimate redemption was not put upon
gold, but upon coin" which would in
clude silver also; or, better still, if the
that amount that would remain at par
without any other kind of redemption
than being received for public dues,
and no coin redemption was attempted
except of coin certificates that were
issued for convenience in place of the
coin itself?
Or, why not try the plan that works
SO successfully in the Netherlands,
where silver and paper money are the
currency for domestic use and the
stock of gold is left absolutely un-
guarded and unrestricted for interna-
tional use.
Holland is not troubled by run on
the treasury for golds" nor does it find
any trouble in keeping stock Of gold.
In fact, the course of the Bank Of the
Netherlands exemplifies the truth of
the teaching of the economist Jevons,
that all the gold nation needs is what
will meet the demand for international
purposes.
The treasury of the United States im-,
itates Holland in permitting free access
TO its stock Of gold for export purpossk
bus the government of the United
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
SILVER AND PRICES.
The Value of Wheat Drops with the De-
preston of the White Metal

The Value of Wheat Drops with the De-
preston of the White Metal
A recent agricultural bulletin shows
that the average price of wheat for 1894
is 800 cents per bushel less than the
average from 1880 to 1890. At 40. cents
per bushel on December /, 1t had
touched the lowest notch In IS years.
Cotton averages 40 cents pound, the
lowest figure in the history of this
staple. All other products of the farm
have gone down in proportion, except
oats, barley and corn, which show a
slight advance.
The cause of this decline in the prices
of SO many of the agricultural staples
is evidently not due to over-production
and over-supply. In series of care
fully collated tables, in a report on
the causes of the prevailing agri-
cultural depression, Senator PETER, of
Kansas, has demonstrated that these
causes, so stoutly urged by the gold
bugs, have little or nothing to do with
the price of wheat. From 1884 TO 1892,
inclusive, the average production of
wheat per year was 2, 1917, 912, 900 bush
els. In 1884 the crop was 90, 1857. 600
bushels above the average, and 36, 209,-
600 above the production of 1892, but in
spite of the great increase in popula-
ton and consequent larger demand,
the export price fell from $40 In 1884
to S1.03 in 1892. In 1891 the crop was
95 per cent above the average, but
prices were better than in the proceed
ing year.
Facts thus established by statistics
demonstrate that the trouble is not in
over-production but in the currency
in the decentralization Of one-half the
money Of the world, which has sent
prices sliding down from a double
standard to a single standard scale.
Side by side with the decline in the
price of silver, as compared with gold,
the decline in the prices of agricultural
staples has been going on. The single
standard bears more heavily on the
purely agricultural states than it does
on the mining states, for while the lat
ter can produce gold, the former find
all of their products depressed in price.
This fact is working among the peo-
pie, and when it is fully realized, the
restoration of silver as money and the
consequent restoration of the prices of
agricultural staples will not be de-
layed. News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

States fails to provide the people with
s currency of silver and paper that
| will stay at home and not be subject to
contraction by expectation. and which
will permit che use of gold for export
purposes to whatever extent there is a
demand for it for such purposes.
Exception may also well be taken to
the proposed method of putting notes
in circulation through the agency of
banks upon the security of bonds.
That does not differ materially from
the present national bank system. The
proposition to charge the banks inter-
est on the notes does not help the
matter. If that were done the banks
would recoup themselves by charging
a higher rate of interest on loans. 1t
seems to the writer that If 1t is the
business of the government to furnish
the circulating medium, it is also its
business by provide for putting 1t in
circulation when and where 1t is need
ed. The Bank of the United State, or
the two banks in which the United
States were stockholders, and that OPP
Grated from 1901 to 1912 and from 1916
to 1886, had branches throughout the
country for the accommodation of the
people. These banks were more near
ly national banks than the institutions
that now go by that name, and they
were highly successful institutions 1t
is true there was a prejudice against
them, but it proceeded from political
rather than business motives. Some
such system as was illustrated by these
banks would be much more sensible
than the present plan of sub-treasuries
where the government revenues are
simply held for circulation. The re-
moval of the deposits from the bank of
the United States by President Jackson
was one of the causes of the panic of
1887, because il resulted in contrac-
ton of the currency by depriying the
people of the use of these deposits in
the way of loans. Cor. Los Angeles
(Cal.) Herald.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
Powers of Government.

A correspondent of California pa
per believes that "if the government
has the constitutional authority to
delegate to corporations the right to
issue money, it certainly can perform
that which it presumes to delegate to
others. Simplicity should be sought
The plan should be Invested of all fric-
ton" He further says the people of
his locality regard the money ques-
ton as the most vital with which the
American people have TO contend, and
If 1t Is properly arranged that many Of
the other evils from which we are
suffering will adjust themselves"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
Only One Plank.

Los Angeles, CAL, has silver league
with only one plank in its platform.
This declares in favor of free coinage
of silver at the old ratio of 10 to l of
gold; paper money to be issued by the
government; the government giving
preference to neither gold, silver or
paper; all three to be legal tender for
oil debts, public and private. Gold
contracts to be prohibited by law.
Volume of circulation to be common
surate with our domestic commerce.
No banks of issue to be allowed. The
existing national banks to be disposed
of as fast as their charters expire.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
FREE COINAGE OF
SILVER.

The free and unlimited coinage of
silver, the product Of American mines,
at the old ratio Of 10 Of sixer to Of
gold, is the only solution of and
remedy for the disturbed and unsatis-
factory condition Of trade, manufac-
ture and general business Of the coun-
try. The surreptitious act Of 1873,
divorcing silver and gold in our none
tary system, was crime of untold
magnitude. 1t was the rankest kind
of class legislation in favor Of the
wealthy against the producers of
wealth, and hostile to the prosperity
of the United States. 1t was an act
of treason because done at the instance
of a European syndicate and for oribe
money, "giving aid and comfort to
our country's enemies" To shield
the guilty parties, the well authentic
Gated facts, often published, have been
vigorously denied.
The Enquirer will continue to ex-
pose this objectionable crime until
right and justice are done the people
by the full restoration of silver to its
old companionship with gold. We
need the assistance OF the people in
disseminating the truth, to which end
we invite all in your selection of pa
pers for the coming season to include
the Enquirer, that costs only $I.oo a
year. ISSUED twice week.
Liberal commissions and cash re-
wards given to club raisers. Sample
copies free. ENoUIRRR COMPANY,
Cincinnati. O.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13
A MIDNIGHT VISITOR.
Every Mother Should BE Prepared to
Eattle with Croup-Tl,e Best Remedy.

-
Eattle with Croup-T'lse Best Remedy.
(Fron, the Providence, II. l., IstegrdDa.)
What word carries more terror to
mother than Group, that insidious visitor
who steals upon her children at night when
drug stores are closed and physicians not
within reach. Group does its deadly work
quick, and if not met at the outset with
stringent methods is almost sure to prove
conoucrcr. Every mother should keep a
remedy where she can reach it at the first
ominors bark. 1t has been truly said that
bottla of Perry Davis Pain-Killer on the
medicine shelf insures greater safety from
such ills than would a doctor in your house,
Pain-Killer was the chief remedy of our
grand fathers and with all the advances ofsci-
encen6thing has been found totakeits place.
For Group it is without an equal. An
instance of this was yesterday cited to
reporter by Mrs. j. B. G. Hoskins, of No.
80 Marion Street, the wife of one of the
sturdy wleelwrights of Providence, R. /.
Nobody knows the anxiety, the torture
of mind | have experienced because of
Group. Hours of sleep | have lost while
watching at the bedside of my boy, who has
suffered almost thousand deaths from
Group in its worst form. l tried every
remedy that kind friends could suggest.
All failed me, and was in despair. Pain
Killer finally conquered the terrible disease.
Ny boy is now seven years old, and whenever
I see that Group is returning give Pain
Killer In twenty minutes the trouble is
over and we both go to sleep.
''Pain-Killer? Why wouldn't be with
out it in my house moment for kings
ransom / feel as though it cured my 20
year old son of bronchitis after all other
remedies failed, and it saved me the prob
able loss of limb from broken artery,
caused by the kick of vicious horse.
Pain-Killer at once reduced the swelling
and prevented blood poisoning."
dec 26-1v
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13

Valentine fled toward the railroad
tracks, and it is probable that he has
left this section. He may have gone
TO Scranton. Pa, for it has been
developed that he quietly sold out his
business few days ago and declared
his intention TO depart for Pennsylss
vania to morrow. He exhibited let:
ter from Scranton rendering him the
secretaryship of the Young Mems
Christian Association CT the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad.
AT a la;e hour tonight Mr.. Fleming
is still watching Valentines house and
former haunts
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13
THE HUSBAND.

At the SorOsis dinner the other evening, sa
the New York Recorder, the lady who respon
ed to the toast 'Our Husbands" gave the Il
lowing verses:
Who wedS because we are so dear,
And then forgets-when it is here
The anniversary every year?
The husband.
Who. when he's DOMINIC evening clothes,
Would with an angel come to blows,
And lets the whole house hear his woes!
The husband.
Who sometimes makes US quail and quake
With tales about the bread and cake
His mother used to make and bake?
The husband.
Who calls the landlord with frown,
And then slips out and goes uptown.
While wiley talks that landlord down!
The husband.
But when the clouds are dark and gray,
And ruin seems not far away,
Who takes the helm and saves the dayT
The husband.
Who grumbles lots, as we well know,
That here no wine shall ever flow,
Yetin his heart is glad it's so?
The husband.
And so, in water, pure and clear,
Fit emblem of our sisters here,
drink the health of those so dear
Our husbands.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13

In the meantime he is nearer to You
than you are to him, for your eyes can
not detect his presence, while his eyes
hold you sin full survey" and his hand
is leading you through dangerous
places.
Death brings sharp pain, but faith
brings peace. The by and by will come,
and with it reunion of severed ties
Until then be calmly restfulia the love
of God and let His will be done, not
yours.-N Y Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13
TO INVENTORS.

If you have made an invention you want a
patent. And you want a good one. There are
various kinds OF patents. Some of them are
not worth keeping around the house. They
don't protect 1t is as unsafe to trust to them
as to lightning rod without a ground con-
nection That is the kind an inventor is like
1y to get when he draw IS up his own specifca-
tions or truSts the work to an irresponsible
attorney. 1t is not the kind dealt in by the
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This able Company employs the best legal
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conducting interferences, prosecuting rejected
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13

The intense cold in China is imped-
ing the operations of the japanese
army. About Wei Hai-Wei the oper-
atioDs of the fleet have been impeded
by snow storms. An attempt to recap
ture the forts was made by the Chi.
nese, but repulsed.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13

In the West Virginia Senate the war
on the school book question broke out
and one Senator charged that the
journal of former session of the Legis-
lature had been talnperedswith.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13
A High Commitment.

BOLTON, CONN., am very much
pleased with the effect of your Sim
mons Liver Regulator, and have rec
commended it to good many friends. y
e. A. Rose.-Your druggist sells it
in powder or liquid the powder to be
taken dry, or made into tea.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13
STANTON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER

Two additional battalions of Italian
troops left Naples Wednesday for Mas
sowah. Egypt. This is the last draft
of soldiers required to complete the
Italian defensive measures against the
Tigre Dervishes.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13

DR.. Parkhurst talks like he thinks
he has killed the Tiger. He is publish
ing Our Fight with Tammany." but
he may live to see that it was onlv a
little skirmish in which the vanauished
is wounded little but not dead
Fredericksburg Star.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13

Am l mistaken in deeming you a
coworker in the tield?' asked the trav-
elling evangelist.
II don't know what field you work
in" answered the tall man with the
white tie, hut am in the fire escape
business. r-Indianapolis Journal.