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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
bryan at the vatican.

ROME, Dec. 14.-William Jennings
Bryan, accompanied by his son. has
been received in private audience by
the pope. Mr. Bryan was presented
by Mgr Kennedy. rector of the Ameri.
can college, who acted rs interpreter.
His holiness spoke with great interest
of the Catholics i'm the United States.
After the audience Mr.. Brya2 express
ed himself as highly pleased with the
pope's kindly face and bearing Be
fore going to, the Vatican Mr.. Bryan
visited several of the interesting sights
of Rome, including the Coliseum and
the Roman forum He took particular
interest in the spot from which Cicero
Numbered his invectives against Gait
line Later Mr.. Bryan lunched with
Ambassador Meyer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
The WAGE QUESTION
United States Commissioned
Wright,s Cooperative Ideas.
PRESENT SYSTEM WILL PASS AWAY
Cooperation WIN Take Its Place.
Labor Question Means the Strug-
gle of Humanity For High
err Standard of Life.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IA. The
wage system will pass away. In its
| stead believe, there will come a sys.
TEN which will be composed of the
profit sharing and the cooperation
ideas. The great labor question means
the struggle of humanity for a higher
staDdard Of life. The employer must
consider his employee as well as the
stakeholder as an investor"
These words were contained in an ad-
dress upon The Wage Question made
by Carroll d. Wright, United States
commissioner Of labor, before the Socl-
ETY. of Ethical Culture of this city.
OF scarcely less interest than his pre-
diction of new labor system was
Colonel Wright's approval of plan TO
insure labor against incapacity result
ing from accident, illness or advancing
age. The German idea was quoted, I'M
der which the employer pays one
fourth the cost of sick and death ben
eft policy, the employee one-fourth and
the government one-half
England" said Colonel Wright, has
taken up this system, and we Of the
United States are steadily approaching
it,"
Continuing. Colonel Wright said:
Capital charges TO the consumer the
depreciation of property and machln-
cry. Why should not the depreciation
of labor machinery-its hands, its
brains, its body-be included in the
final cost2
1--WE see in every progressive commu-
nifty that the demand Of the working
men is no longer for a wage sufficient
to enable him to keep body and soul to-
gether
Labor has been taught TO feel that II
is a social as-well as an economic pow
er in the community, and this educat-
ing process has gone on until the de-
mand for labor is for a reasonable mar
gin beyond that fixed by the iron law
OF wages.
"The wage system will pass away.
1t is, as has been shown, unsatisfactory
in many of its applications. 1t depends
too largely for its equities upon the
generosity and great mindedness Of
employers. That there are many such
who would scorn to influence the votes
or actions of their employees and who
would be incapable of taking petty or
great advantage of their workmen is
happily true. That there are others,
however. who make use of their oppor-
tunities proves the weakness of the
system and argues for a greater meas
ure Of independence for those who la
Dor.
1.-THE system that will take the place
OF that under which mere wages are
paid probably will be composed Of the /
profit sharing and cooperation plans. /
The work people will then acquire the /,
interest of investors. the more capable |
will rise TO their opportunities, and the /
less worthy will find their level"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
burned Cable SOON. Am CircuIt..

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec A. 49, A
trunk line cable containing sixty wires
Of the New England Telephone and
Telegraph company was burned by
contact with an underground electric
feed wire in Chadwick square here.
Several feet of the cable was melted
and all telephone communication with
the north end of Worcester and north
ern Worcester county. including a serv-
ice containing 100 private telephones,
put out of use. A fire alarm circuit
covering the same section OF Worces-
ter, fifteen boxes in all, with territory
including many square miles, was to-
tally interrupted Firemen were de-
tailed TO patrol the north end Of the
city all night
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Dee. IA
The case of Senator Farris on the
charge of accepting a bride of $1,000
from d. J. Kelley for his vote to defeat
the passage Of the alum baking pow
der bill in the legislature of Missouri of
1901 comes up in the circuit court to
day for retrial. The former trial two
months ago resulted in hung jury
Attorney General Grow, who has been
Ill in St Louis. will take charge of the
prosecution
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Five Killed on baltimore and OH,

PIEDMONT, w. Va, Dec. 14.-Flve
men were killed and several severely
injured by the overturning of two en-
gines attached to heavy Baltimore
and Ohio freight train on the seven
teen mile grade near this city. While
descending the. grade the train, to
which were attached two engines, left
the track. The engines and nearly
all Of the twenty-four loaded cars tum.
bled into a deep rayine, carrying tho
trainmen with them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
LoUlsIANA's pUNcgAOF.
Research IR TFeneh Arshivsy pEfz1r
Out InteFes6imw RacoRes.

PARIS, Dec. 14.-Under the authOri.
ty Of NJ. Delcasse, minister OF foreign
affairs e. Spencer Pratt, former Unit.
, ed States minister to Persia, is max
ing extensive researches in the arch.
ives Of the foreign office relative to the
transfer Of the province Of Louisiana
by France to the United States: The
investigation has brought to light all
the clrcumstantial details Of the trans.
action, including the confidential letter.
of the French minister at Washington
advising his government as to the va
rious stages of the negotiations and
the letters and documents signed by
President Jefferson and Secretary of
State Madison. Many of these have
hitherto been unavailable owing to the
rules of the foreign ONCE, which have
prevented the copying of documents 10
the archives.
In speaking of his investigations Mr..
Pratt said:
zone Of the most curious documents
found il an autograph letter Of Louis
XIV. giving away the vast Louisiana
territory to his cousin, then king of
Spain, as a present. The fact Of this
gift has heretofore been known only in
a general way, but the text Of the let
ter discloses the casual nature of the
gift and also the fact that Louis XIV.
previously offered Louisiana to Great
Britain, which refused to accept it.
The letter of the king of Spain &C.
cepting the present refers to the fur.
Their strengthening of the union of the
two nations by number Of royal in
termsrriages. Later documents show
the recession of Louisiana by Spain to
France and give minute details of the
sale by Napoleon of the province to the
United States"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Condemned Man slammed Insanity.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Trapped by
commission Of clever alienists into a
confession that he~had been shamming
insanity for year and half William
II. Ennis, the former Brooklyn police
man who killed his wife and shot his
mother-in-law, has made full and
complete admission of his guilt and
the generalization of the crime, for
which he will die in the electric chair
today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
HORSES ron WA.
General w. H. Carter Investigating
the British RemOunt system.

LONDON, Dec. 14.-General William
H. Carter Of the United States army
who has been investigating the re-
mount system Of the British army with
view to reporting to the general staff
Of the United States army, had fare
well interview with War Secretary H.
o. Arnold Forster here and leaves Eng.
land today for the Transvaal.
At Aldershot a squadron of the cele.
brated Fourteenth hussars and bat
terry of the horse artillery were special
ly paraded for General Garter, who
highly praises these organizations and
particularly their horses. The gen
eral thinks the excellence Of the Brit
ish cavalry and horse artillery is due
to their system of supplying remounts
and to the efficiency of the corps of rid
ing masters.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Indinnn's wenIthiest Man Dead.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. l4.-Judge
James Cheney, said TO be the wealth
lest man in Indiana is dead here. He
was born in Vermont in 1917 He set
tied at Adrian, Mich, in 1882 and 10y
trading accumulated a fortune prior to
the panic of 1897. He assisted i'm CON
structing the Wabash and Erie canal
and moved to Defiance. q. His fortune
is estimated at $2j,OOO,OUO.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Three Kmed In Wreck Near AIbia.

1hree Killed IN wreck Near Aibia.
OTTUMWA. Ia, Dec. 14.-Five per-
sons We're killed and ten injured in
wreck on the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy road three miles west of
Abba The westbound passenger train
was in some manner derailed while
running on to the Cedar Creek bridge,
and FIVE cars were wrecked by colliding
with the steel girderS al the bridge
The wreckage Immediately took fire,
and several of the victims were badly
burned
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Horre Thicf kiIIed HimreIf.

ELWOOD, Ind, Dec. 14.-John Has
kett, aged twenty-seven, killed himself
at the home of his brother in Aroma
to avoid capture for stealing a horse
and buggy. Five minutes after his
death the officers arrived He had
been pursued throughout the night
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Brother OF Mayor johnson nead.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 14.-Wn-
liam L. Johnson of Detroit Mich,
brother of Mayor Tom l.. Johnson OF
Cleveland, is dead here from hemor-
rhage. Mayor Johnson was at his
brothers bedside and has accompanied
the window and daughter with the
body to Brooklyn for burial.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14

METZ, sace-Lorraine, Dec. ii. -
Several wagon loads of American ba-
con and quantity of oil were destroy
ed in a ire at the customs shed of the
railway statE here, The damage is
estimated at $4,000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14

q Vermont towns, with few cases of
small pox, diphtberia, or scarlet fever
thilk they are in trouble, but it isn't
much compared with Butler, Pa, a
town about the size of Rutland, which
has had 1900 cases of typboidfever d
scores of deaths during the past few
weeks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Cause of chicago Fire AGAIN,

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. II. - A
special from Gardner says a COW kick
ed over a lantern in the barn of Frank
b. Page, two miles from Gardner yes
terday morning, starting a fire that de-
stroyed the building, fifteen head OF
cattle. thirty tons of hay and farming
implements and entaillng loss of So
800. The barn was built in 1916
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14

LONDON. Dec. 1.-THE Tokyo cor
respondent Of the Times says it is gen
orally believed that the reply Of the
Russian government to the proposals
of Japan concerning the far eastern
situation makes for rapprochement
between Russia and Japan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
FRANK E. HOWE, Editor and Publisher
Members of the Publishers Press.
Telegraphic news received up to
the hour of going to press.

1t lie reported that Gage street
woman who vas i'll Sunday asked her
husband to get dinner for the children,
but when it was ready it proved to be
supper for it was bedtime directly af.
ter.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
E. A. BOOTH
" BY THEIR FRUITS
YE SHALL KNOW THEM

Henry D. Fillmore at age q, bought
of the Northwestern Mutual Life In
surance Co. $500 Single Payment
Fifteen Year Endowment, paying there
for SlOl6.3O. This policy is now an
nounced to be worth in cash $4,000
at maturity, showing an investment
return of FOUR and THREE
EIGHTHS PER CENT. COMPOUND
INTEREST.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Wnrrhln EInrn am the nnrl,n.

VICTORIA. B. c.. Dec. a. - The
British warship Flora has arrived at
Esqulmalt for repairs, necessary as a
result or her stranding at Village point.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14

D. VICTORIA. b. c., Dec. IA. 49, The
japanese sealing schooner Seikotu Ma
ru has been lost with all hands. She
carried five British Columbia sealers
on board.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
Omaha Flour Mil burned.

OMAHA. Neb.. Dec. 14-The -four
mill located at Thirtieth and Lake
streets and owned by the Model Mill
ing company was burned last night;
loss. $4,000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
First National Bank of North Bennington, VT,
will be held at their banking house on Tuesday.
the fifth day orJanuary, 1904, at 10 O'Clock a.
m. for the purpose OF electing Board of Direc-
tors for the ensuing year and for the transac-
tion of any other proper and necessary bust
ness. s. B. HALL Cashier,
North Bennington, December 3, 1858.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14

Second hand furnace for sale cheap.
In good condition. Large enough for
ordinary house, store or shop. Apply
at the Banner & Reformer office.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14

PORT SAID. Dec. 14.-The United
States cruiser Brooklyn will leave Bel
mt today for Alexandria.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
FOR SALE.

large heavy six hole @ inchJ Cooking
Range, with reservoir and high double warm
ing closets. For either coal or wood. Suitable
for lumber camp or large Kitchen
W, A. Root, 121 South St, Bennington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-14
RYE
MEAL 50.
Fresh ground for table
use al the
PUTNAM
Wholesale and Retail
Mill, Bennington, Vt.
HAVE YOU
CEMETERY WORK
TO BUY

furnish direct fromgthe manufac-
turers at the quarries.and set up the
work complete in any cemetery in the
country. Everything in the line of
cemetery work from Sl5 marker to
the most expensive Monument, Maus-
oleum or Receiving Tomb
! have sold since January ], 1908
one $4,000 Receiving Tomb, and a
1000 Mausoleum in New York City,
a s., 200 Mausoleum in Detroit, Mich.
and a number of Monuments costing
from $50 TO 5000 each.
| personally superintend the settin"
of my work and make my own collect
ions. You can save 10 to % per cent
on cost of your work and be sure Of
first class material aud work by order
ing of me direct from the quarries.
Special prices given on work sold in
time to be built this winter and set
next spring. If you have work tn buy,
drop me a line ard state about how
much you wish to pay aud | will fur
nisn you with designs to choose from.
~
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

Turkey doesn't propose to give up
without a fight There are now 472,-
400 men under arms. This great
army can be increased almost up to
the limit OF the men able to bear arms
within the length and breadth Of the
Turkish empire in case OF a serious
war. Mobilization might be difficult,
If the last time the Turk called his
men together is to be called any eri-
terion.
Nevertheless, to-day the available
strength Of the Terrible Turk shows
a total Of more than 10000 officers and
l,973,000 men and 1912 guns.
The Turkish Mahommedan male
population proper for recruiting pur-
poses Is about 5000 OO0 that number
includes males Of an ages from child
hood up, except the Arabs Of Yemen,
Syria and Tripoli. who are more or
less nomadic and not amenable 10 milf
tary service. Counting one out Of
every four, the total Of all available
military material from the age Of II
10 54 is 100000
The yearly recruiting contingent is,
according to regulation between Co..
600 and 10000 men, which gives on
paper from 1878 up to to-day twenty
FIVE contingents. or a total Of l.750.-
600 men having military instruction.
This figure supposes that every 70,-
900 men enter the army. each one fit
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

have. as shown above, 1900 pack ami
mails, bringing the total TO lls.400
pack animals. which would make a
moving column Of two abreast extend
ing for 1876 miles
OF the 10000 officers given in the OF.
fetal report. only 1000 have military
school instruction. The rest come
by prorotion from the ranks withCat
having passed any examinations or re.
ceived any higher military instruc.
tion.
The soldier Of the rank and file has
only the simple exercise drill. He Is
excellent In endurance. and has few
equals in defensive positions; on the
offensive he Is good in the mass; he
has little initiative and but slight self
help. In small patches he quickly
loses the sense Of discipline and be-
comes a Bashi-Bazouk. the laughing
stock OF Europe.
In the Turkish army such things as
field exercises OF manoeuvres are un-
known Therefore. scouting and ont
post service Is almost non-existcnt.
and the officers. especially in the high
er STATS. have no practice in handlina
troops in the field. The Nizam are
armed with Mauser repeating rifles.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

Turkey has set for itself sissy
phean task-to remain In Europe as
an independent power. To-day insur-
rection springs up on every hand BuI-
garia is Itching for war. Macedonia is
already inhamed with rebellion. Ser.
via and Montenegro only await the
word TO join in. The much-massacred
Armenians are thrlsting for a chance
10 avenge the thousands Of their kin.
dred who have already been butch
cred.
Greece. Roumania would doubtless
join in-both have old scores 10 settle.
with Russia and Austria at once mix.
ed up in the fray. Italy. France and
Germany might see their way clear 10
take a hand. and even far away Eng.
lanSt once friendly to the Turk. might
join issue.
Turkey occupies a peculiar place Ia
Europe II Is really more Oriental
than Occidental Yet ii holds many
OF the keys 70 all Europe. Russia finds
itself blocked for free passage 10 the
Mediterranean. Austrla's frontiers are
much haraased The little European
kingdoms resent the sultans doml
ueering u ays
To the average European the Bal
kan question Is the grayest Of an those
political problems which are con
tinually besettlng Europe and rs
closely gathered monarchies. The
expulsion Of the Turk has been In
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-11
THE CITY OF GOLD
RambIs Throuah Johannesburs
lsPEclAL G REsP ~ EN Q (

many pounds. it gives. There is a pas
sage and there are some steps leading
downward. and there is another door
outlined in light. This yieIds to a
push.
We-that is. you. the police, and ~
do not apologize, even though we have
obviously broken up what promised to
be successful evening The curl
ously-eolored board supported on
trestle table. and the weird. pawnlike
pieces scattered at our unceremOnious
intrusion, are Implements employed in
the game Of fan-tan It is an institu-
tion that Ho Xxi, the Chow, carries
away from his fatheriand it is the
outward and visible demonstration Of
his patriotism.
John Ho ri, Wunhi, Ho Ku and
Chow Ke. ia no wise perturbed, sit
around the wall Of the dug-out in
which this classical game is played
There are four vacant places at the
board. and there is a trap near the
roof to which a ladder .ascends. The
banker has departed Gambling is
Nili4Nr even III uoD4nAI1bhAt anu AH@
players fall in, outside. from whence
they will march TO the police station
with great docility.
There is another door leading from
the gambling den. It is locked, evident
ly from the other side. but the SER
geant's shoulder is better than a skele-
ton key. Crash The room is bare
except for a frame bed and a table. On
this is a candle spluttering in its sock
ct. On the bed lies a man who does
not move. his eyes are half closed, his
hand grasps a pipe, and the sickening
stencil OF opium fills the room.
Wake up, Johnny, where's your
pass, eh?"
Leave them to arouse him, and fol-
low the police captain to the Joss
house. The priest opens the door Of
a tin shanty, in no wise differing from
the dozen about, except that the in
terror resembles for all the world a
large-sized tea-chest turned inside out
Here. gold on black, certain moral
precepts Of Confucius crawl up the
walls like so many auriferous spiders.
On the altar is a small image OF a
black-bearded god. Before the altar,
joss sticks, wooden swords. spears,
and tinseled baubles. Not so very in
spring and certainly nothing to JUS
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

In some European cities. notably
Amsterdam and Charlouenburg. a
suburb qf Berlin. there are museums
for prevention OF accidents 10 work
men and for advancing the cause OF
hygiene ia industrial centers.
So useful and beneficial to the work.
ing classes have these museums
proved TO be that the idea IS to be
Initiated IN Paris by an annex to the
Conservatolre des Arts et METERS.
Nothing of a gruesome nature Is to be
exhibited. but Illustrations and mod
els Of life-saving apparatus under all
conditions. viii be shown
Models OF various kinds OF ma
chinery known TO be perilous 10 work
men will be seen in full working order.
together with the means Of protecting
oneself from dangerous contact with
moving wheels, cogs. flies, knives and
belts.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-11
NEw ERA FOR IRELAND.
Significance Of a Movement Unob
sritei,,af,, rofro H.,

Significance Of a Movement Unob-
trusively Going On.
Charles Johnson writes in the
North American Review: II recently
met a good many sons Of the older
Irish race who for two generations or
more have been at home in the new
world. They have gained an the ca
pacity, energy, command Of the arts OF
life, which one thinks Of as American:
yet they have retained deep in the
hearts core that tradition OF Ireland
as a land to be reverenced and loved
which only a few chosen countries in
the worlds history have been able
deeply to inspire. These men are re-
turning TO Ireland but in a new role.
They are buying and restoring some
Of the castles and great country
houses that the aristocracy OF the
English garrison are letting slip
through their fingers. They are re-
storing. without premeditated or con
scious intention, the older Gaelic no.
bility, in eclipse since AnglO-Norman
days. 1t is the beginning of q move
ment which viii undo the flight Of the
earls. These returned colonists will
be in a sense the flower of the Ameri-
can genius and temperament; yet
they viii be profoundly and genuinely
Irish; and few things promise better
for the future Of Ireland than the
movement Of repatriation which has
thus set in, almost unobserved and un-
recorded. 1 have in mind two country
seats. one in Galway and the other IN
Kildare. which are, as It were, the
first fruits Of this great movement Of
restoration"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-11

Silk beaver hats viii be extremely
fashionable this season. The newest
have the surface exactly like that Of
mems silk hats "A few have the pile
brushed the wrong way Some have
long, thick nap. These hats are to
be had In fawn color, beige and pastel.
They are trimmed with velvet folds
and ostrich feathers. A stunning
beaver plateau shape IS shown at one
Of the shops. 1t is in pale beige tones
and is lined with light blue tulle,
shirred so as to form a series Of little
puhings with a narrow band Of the
beaver between each line Of the shir-
ring. The crown is trimmed with a
twisted band Of chiffon velvet, the
shade Of the beaver, and this is secur-
ed with a handsome turquoise buckle.
On the left side Of the crown are at
tached two blae ostrich feathers, shad-
ed from blue to white, one curying for
ward and the other toward the right