Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-02-06

sage to give-a message to young
men that hard work and earnest pur-
pose, Willingness to take responsible
ty and ability to use ones own head
piece are the conditions of success.
In other words, these qualities stand
for what is commonly known as
luck Nine times out of ten all
the luck that ever comes to man
comes as result of hard work
coupled with reasonable amount of
good sound common sense"
" The men the world calls lucky.
VIII tell YOU. every one.
That success comes, not 10y wishing.
But by hard work bravcly done"
Mir. Hill. the associate editor of the
Boston Boot and Shoe Recorder
threw in one Of the best things of the
evening in his recitation of the Woes
of Suffering Man" which was ad-
done and repeatedly brought
down the house.
The opening stanzas of II. X. Dun
hams. The Lay of the Ball Band
Boots" are worth reproducing:
" The wise men came from the North
and South
From East and West they came,
For high in the heavens they saw
star
That glowed with a rudy flame
Twas not in Orion's blazing belt
Nor in Ursa Majors paw,
Nor yet in the crown of the Pleiades
Was that wonderful star they saw.
" The sharps with their eyes to the tel
escapes
They peeked and squinted through:
sun many a day and night they looked
But not an astronomer knew.
" Then the wise men said, If it's up to
To find what the thing can be.
Wen do as was done in the year of
BY jinks. We'll 80 and See.
" So away they piked and away they
with an eye on the round red star,
But all of them came in the course of
time
To this spot where We now are.
" And there in the arch of the heavens
there gowed,
Rudy and round, the core
OF the great red star that had toled
them on,
And twas over the Dunhams store.
Then all the wise men laughed and
said,
oh, If WE aren't fresh galoots!
Why, We ought to have known that
this great red star
Glowed only for Ball Band boots.
We ought to have known that no
other star
Can pale its lustrous beams;
We ought to have known the light It
sheds
From Maine to Texas streams
And the wise men kicked themselves
full sore
With sevens, and mines and twelves
We ought to have known cried they,
because
we wear that kind ourselves.
" In fact we've found as the world
we've roamed-
We've learned again and again
That the Ball Band boots are the prin-
cipal kind
That are worn by real wise men.
And now that were here and the
thing is plain
on, what do you say if we
Just whoop it up for the Ball Band
boots
III q SoOu Olu JupllSt'
The real inspiration of the evening,
left to the last, was in the address
of NJ. V. BIGGER, president of the
Mishawaka Wooden company, who
amply justified Mr.. Dunham's intro
duction as man whose presence
always lends inspiration, whose words
carry conviction, and who always
creates unbounded enthusiasm" AT
ter expressing his interest and pleas
ure IN these annual occasions, Mr..
BIGGER said to the statesmen with
great earnestness: You are the men
who make the success of Durham
Brothers. Durham Brothers are all
right, but it's the stuff that's in you
that wins. Your confidence in the
honesty, integrity and reliability of
Durham Brothers and in the goods
you sell are your stock in trade" He
was proud of Durham Brothers and
of the splendid record of success they
had made, not only for their own firm,
but for the Ball Band" goods, in
spite of the attacks of the rubber
trust. Mr.. BIGGER gave figures show
ing how, beginning in 1889, with a
capital of only $4,000 and sales of
only $4,000, the Mishawaka Wooden
company had made a steady annual
gain of more than one-third each
year, until, in 1900, the firms output
of Ball Band" goods was $2,328,000;
in 1901, $3,027 900; in 1902, $4,048,0 900.
The emphasis of Mr.. Bieger's address
was put upon the fact that no bust
ness is worth doing and no success
is worth winning except on a basis
of integrity. honesty and reliability,
with absolutely just and fair business
dealings toward all 1t was with
this weapon that the trust had been
fought. With this weapon you can
conquer the world, the flesh and the
devil" AS token of his confidence
in the future of Durham Brothers,
he said, in closing, that his firm were
willing to put aside a half million
dollars worth of Ball Band" goods
for the coming years trade of the
firm.
Leitsinger's orchestra furnished
music during the banquet. The
young men at the tables threw in
some specialties which kept the fun
moving, as in their vocal rendering
of the chorus of the orchestra's selec-
ton, please Go Away and Let Me
Sleep" and later on in the introduc-
ton of an original song, rendered by
quartet, I'm the Good Old Summer
Time" the several stanzas Of which
abounded in hits, both on the firm
and it's employees, which those on the
inside Enthusiastically recognized and
enjoyed.
The invited guests of the evening