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Evening star., 1903-11-23
LOST LIVES IN PHILIPPINES.
Transport Arrives at New York With
Bodies Of 162 Soldiers.

Quartermaster General Humphrey is in
formed that the transport Sumner has ar
rived at New York from the Philippines
with the I'd Battalion of the 9th Infantry,
and the bodies of 162 soldiers who lost
their lives in the Philippines. Among the
passengers on the vessel were Major Cen
eral George w. Davis, retired. Mrs. Davis
and two daughters; Brigadier General j.
c. Chance retired Mrs. Chance and son;
Colonel McCauley, 9Th Infantry; Major E.
F. Glenn, 5th Infantry, Mrs Glenn and
four daughters; Major D. II. Boughton, ID
United States Cavalry; Captains w. III.
Chatfeld, 9th Infantry; w. II. Hart, sub
sistence department.; ]. H. Morrow, engi-
neer corps; Robert Field. 9Th Infantry;
Lewis Patstone, Philippine constabulary:
3. j. Williams, Lieutenants G. "A. Irott, w.
G. Fleischauer, G. NJ. Ekwaurzel, w. L..
Keller, Bruce T. Scheer, P. A. Oliver, John
j. Hudgett, Otto +. Michaels; John G.
Ashburn, contract surgeon, ana hVe mem
bers of the United States burlai corps.
Major Glenn was recently acquitted Of
charges of cruelty to Filipino prisoners
''rhe charges against me are now past
ISSUE" said he yesterday. therefore, 90
not care to discuss them or any question re-
garding the governing of the Philippines. 1
know that the American people Will give TO
the inhabitants OF those Islands better
government than they ever enjoyed before
AS for the islands as possession Will say
BILE of the islands in the orient, and have
seen them all. l have no plans for the
future except that we shall go into bar
racks at Plattsburg. Beyond that do not
know our next duty.
Arrangements have been completed 1or
disposition of the bodies on the Sumner
OF the total number, eighty-five Will be
turned over to relatives or friends for inter-
ment in private cemeteries In d1fferent
parts of the country. The remaining sew
enty-seven bodies have been forwarded to
this city by express for interment in the
national cemetery at Arlington. They are
expected to arrive here this evening and
tomorrow morning.
In accordance with the request of rela-
tives thirty-five of these bodies will be
buried Immediately after their arrival at
the cemetery, probably tomorrow or next
day In the case of the remaining forty
two bodies nothing has been heard from
their relatives with regard to their hnal
disposition. In accordance with custom
they will be kept in a vault at the ceme-
terry for a period of thirty days. and unless
claimed in the meantime will be given hon
orable burial in the national cemetery.
Included in the list of those to be buried
tomorrow the next day are the remains
Of Lieut. Col. Robert A. Caldwell OF the
Philippine Scouts and Capt. Franklin M.
Kemp assistant surgeon.
Evening star., 1903-11-23
LAKE-To-sEA COMMISSION.
The Idea Of a Neutral American-Cana-
dian Ship Canal.

From the Army and Navy Journal.
With the appointment by President Roose-
yelt of three commissioners, including COL
Oswald H. Ernst, Engineer Corps U. s. A.,
tn act In behalf of the United States in CO.
oneratiou with a similar body representing
Great Britain to investigate the question OF
water routes from the great lakes to the
Atlantic ocean, the first step has been taken
in one of the most colossal enterprises ever
proposed on the American continent Inc
authority for the Presidents action is con-
tanned in the last river and harbor Dill
The commissioners are particularly required
"to report upon the advisability of locating
a dam at the outlet of Lake Erie The
British members of the commission have
not yet been named, but the invitation to
appoint them has been formally accepted
and it is announced that they will be deslg-
mated within the present month.
The project which this commission is
charged to examine is so vast not only IN
its bearing upon the inland commerce OF the
North American continent, but in its posi-
BILE effect upon the political relations be
tween the United States and Canada, that
its serious consideration by a body of OFF,
cial experts representing the two govern
ments directly concerned becomes a matter
of interna tional interest. The enterprise is
genius in engineering and construction.
Who knows, indeed. but that a neutral
cana,, affordirg safe transit for the largest
ships between the great lakes and the sea,
would afford the final solution for all con-
troveres between the United States and
Canada? For 1t is true of canals, as of
seas that they but unite the nations they
divide"
The idea of an international commission
to inquire and report upon the effect of the
diversion of the waters of the great lakes
originated several years since with Mr.
Andrew II. Green of New York, who has
for nearly twenty years, from it's organiZa-
ton been member of a commission of
the state reservation at Niagara Falls. Mr.
Green has been observant of the schemes
for these diversions at Niagara and all
along the lakes with the United States and
Canada. He was in communica ton for
some years with national and state officials
respecting the Importance of creating such
a commission, and prepared and fos.ered, at
much time and labor, legislation to that
end, which was. finally accomplished Of
course, both nations must be represented to
be of any avail. 1t would have been well
If Mr.. Green had been appointed on this
commission, as he is already thoroughly in
formed as to the work it is to do
Evening star., 1903-11-23
italian Garden Magic.
ON the Century.


Some of those who have fallen under the
spell are inclined to ascribe the italian gar
den magic to the effect of time: but. WON
derworking as this undoubtedly is, it leaves
many beauties unaccounted for. To seek
the answer one must go deeper; the garden
must be studied in relation to the house
and both in relation to the landscape The
garden of the middle ages, the garden one
sees in old missal illumina tions and in early
woodcuts, was a mere patch of ground
within the castle precincts, where ''simples'
were grown, around central well-head, and
fruit was espaliered against the walls But
in the rapid Towering of Italian civilization
the castle walls were soon thrown down.
and the garden expanded, taking in the
fish pond. the bowling green, the rose ar
Dor and the clipped walk. The Italian coun-
try house, especially in the center and the
south of Italy, was almost always built on
hillside, and one day the architect looked
forth from the terrace of his villa and saw
that, in his survey of the garden, the in
closing landscape was naturally included !;
the two formed part of the same compo-
stion.
The recognition of this fact was the first
step in the development of the great gar
den art OF the renaissance; the next was
the architects discovery of the means by
which nature and art might be fused in
his picture. He had now three problems TO
deal with-his garden must be adapted to
the architectural lines of the house 1t ad-
Joined; 1t must be adap ted to the require
Evening star., 1903-11-23
FETCH DOCTORS ON THE CONGO.
The Men Who Have Just Stirred Up a
Revolt in the Free State.

From the New York Sun.
A dispatch from London says that fetch
doctors in the Lomami district of the
Congo state about 500 miles from the At
lantic, have stirred up many natives to re-
volt, fortifyng their courage to this point
by incantations which will render them in
vulnerable to the bullets of the whites.
Fetichism is recognized impedi-
ment to progress On the Congo Just as
the Congo state has made the crimes of
slave raiding, cannibalism and human sac
riftce punishable with death, so it has
placed the arts Of the fetch doctor on the
list of misdemeanors, and Furnishes these
men when they are caught plying their
trade.
These fellows live by their wits. They
keep alive faith in the efficacy of charms,
believe in wi chcraft and many other harm
full superstitions. Any one Is likely to be
accused of being a witch If he happens to
nave property that is coveted by the chief
or the fetch doctor or has incurred the
hatred of some one whom the fetch nan
desires to please. The natives believe that
the person thus accused Is a wizard and
when he takes the poison test, and staggers
and falls under the influence of the drug.
his guilt is considered as established, and
the bystanders rush at him and beat him to
death.
DR.. Bentley of the Baptist missions wrote
while ago that many hundreds of terrible
stories of this kind with much variety of
detail might easily be collected. He told
of a case on the lower Congo where eigh-
teen men were compelled to suffer death
because fetch doctor accused them of
causing the death of six men who had been
drowned by the upsetting of their canoe.
AS fast as the influence of the Congo
state is extended over its vast domain the
authorities are making much trouble for
the fetish doctor by diminishing his pres
Evening star., 1903-11-23

men, but carries on His work So in after
years there shall arise upon this corner a
more imposing edifice, and the glory of the
latter house shall be greater than the
glory of the former
Even as / look into your earnest faces
this evening there passes before me tho
vision of those men and women who once
trod these earthly courts. sang the songs of
Zion and mingled mutual prayers and SYM
pathies. Oh, glorious men ana sanity wo-
men. Souls looking on US from above-we
bring you the homage of grateful hearts,
for you have made possible these memoir
able days and happenings
How Men Can Aid.
Mr.. Middleton's subject was How Can
the Men in the Church Aid in It's eSuccess?"
He said: "a
1.-The way for the men to help the church
is for them to fit themselves for spiritual
work. And the way to do this is to put
ones thoughts on the future life, to drop
the all-absorbing problems of business
sometimes and to realize that the goods of
this world are pe,ishable. something more
Is necessary than to occasionally give
money. Work is the more important of the
two" -sE
Pastors of various Presbyterian churches
of this city will deliver addresses of greet
ing at the meeting tonight, beginning at
Z 80 O'Clock.
The anniversary celebration will be
brought to a close tomorrow evening with
a social reunion and reception In the church
annex.
Evening star., 1903-11-23

mentS of the inmates of the house, in the
sense of providing shady walks, sunny
bowling green's, parterres, or orchards, all
conveniently accessible and lastly, it must
be adapted to the landscape around it. At
no time and in no country has this triple
problem been so successfully dealt with as
in the treatment of the Italian country
house from the beginning of the sixteenth
to the end of the eighteenth century; and
in the blending of different elements, the
subtle transition from the fixed and formal
lines of art to the shifting and irregular
lines of nature, and, lastly, in the essential
convenience and livableness of the garden
lies the fundamental secret of the old gar
den magic.
Evening star., 1903-11-23
The Local Field.

What are the possibilities of our field?
The census of 1900 shows a growth of 21
per cent In the population of the national
capital Out of ten decades, eight show a
gain of over 20 per cent-some largely in
excess of this, so that it is easily possible
that our children may live to be members
of a community numbering three-quarters
of a million. of whom very large number
will reside in suburban Washington. Ac-
cording to the last report OF our building
inspector there were erected within the
past year about 1,200 houses, including
apartments With minimum civic growth
of 5000 souls it will surely happen in the
near future that 11th, 18th, 18th, 10th and
other streets running north and south with
the bisecting east and west streets will be
completely developed as 14th now is.
"Macauley I'm a moment of peSsmism por
trayed a New Zealander seated upon Lon
don bridge surveying a ruined city. l paint
you the fairer picture of our future Wash
ington-the queen of the vast republic, the
social, political, educational and religious
center of America, the hope and dream of
loyal hearts.
Into that commanding life and influence
may our sons and daughters enter as fully
as did our fathers and mothers, whose life
work in the history of our beloved church
during it's seventy-five years existence was
so potent and far reaching. Months shall
glide into years, years into decades We
shall be away, but true indeed, are those
noble words craven on the mural tablet
commemorative of the Wesley brothers in
Westminster Abbey-'God buries His work.
Evening star., 1903-11-23

tige and Furnishing him for practicing his
art. So he regards white men as his spe-
cial enemies and, If possible, stirs up the
native against them.
Evening star., 1903-11-23

1t matters little what 1t is that you want
whether a situation servant-a
want" ad in The Star will reach the perH
son who can fill your need.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
READSBORO

Rev N. ID. Sherman and wife return
ed home last week from visit of sew
eral weeks spent in Monroe, Florida,
Savoy and OharlemOnt.
Born, Saturday, Dec. 8 daughter
to Mr. and Mrs A. Martinelli and
grand daughter to Mr. and Mrs G..
Chiste.
Abe Bishop came back Saturday
from a several days business trip,
The village Bailiffs will meet Thurs
day night for the last time this year,
preparatory to auditing books, that the
reports may be printed for circulation
January lst.
Carlo Gozzio has accepted a posit-
ion with Bullock Mfg Co., as book
keeper.
Miss Hamer OF North Adams is
working for Miss Lizzie Stiekney.
Faxon Bowen and wife returned
Monday from a three weeks visit in
Melrose, Mass.
r. c. Buckley OF New York was in
town last week, in the interest of the
Platinum Co., of America.
Why don't some of our enterprising
young folks get up a Xmas Tree in
Music Hall.
Our merchants are getting in their
Xmas goods and all have unusual fine
lines this year People don't need TO
go away from home to secure an as
sortment, low prices and best goods.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
COSTLY HOGS
State Has Paid Almost $4,000
In BOuntieS.
DUE TO HEDGEHOG LAW
An Average Of Over $1,000 a Month
For Four and One. Half Months
So Far.
DUE TO HEDGEHOG LAW
An Average Of Over $1,000 Month

State Auditor II. f. Graham bas fur
nisbed a schedule of the bounties paid
by the state on noxiouc animals for a
part Of the fiscal year ending april /,
1903, the total amount paid out of the
state treasury being 81, 7s9. 45.
10 this connection it must be re-
membered that there was no compensa-
tion available for the dreadful ravsges
of hedgehOgs until December IL, 1902,
when bounty of 30 cents each was Of
fered for the slaughter ot these ami
mails.
During the period between Decem-
ber IL. 1902 and April 30. 1901, the
number OF hedgebogs killed on which
the bounty was claimed, was Z, 224,
which cost the state at 20 cents each,
the sum of 81. 167. 20 Hthis ratio is
kept up during the year, the cost of
hedgehog bouutles alone for the twelve
months will approximate s., 000, a very
tidy sum which many people think
could be used to better advantage else
where.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
Christmas Sale Of Pianos.

In order to reduce our stock before
January lst, we have decided to sell
% new pianos, the regular price of
which is $3.50, for $275 each. These
pianos are new, just in from the fac
tory; double veneered inside and out,
highly finished in fancy figured wal
nut or fancy figured mahogany, with
stool and scarf-fully warranted for
ten years, and will be sold on very
easy payments. Send for catalogue,
giving full description of style, finish,
etc. This is the chance of lifetime
to buy strictly first class piano at a
large reduction, and on easy terms.
Address: McKannon Bros & Co., 40
Church ST., Burlington, Vt.-3w
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
LEILA McINTYRE MARRIED.
Charming Bennington Actress Weds John
Hyams, an Actor.

Miss Leila Mcintyre, the pretty
young actress who scored such a sue
cess last year in the "Sleeping Beauty
and the Beast was married at New
York Sunday to John Hyams, who ap-
peared in the same company. Miss
Mcintyre who is Bennington girl is
much admired everywhere. a New
York paper of last Thursday printed
the following;
If there was sn air OF abstraction
about Leila MeInty'e last night, when
she made her first appearance in
'Mother Goose, at the New Amster-
dam theatre, New York. 1t was not
due to stage nervousness. She was
thinking of affairs of her own, 10
doubt, for her parents have said she
shall not become the wife of John Hy-
ANS, Sunday morning, and she and
Hyams have both asserted with equal
positiveuess that they will marry at
that time.
Miss Mcintyre, who plays "Jili'' in
the new psutomime, mother Goose, :"
says only John Hyams shall be her
'Jack," and Hyams adds that only he
shall fetch and carry for her in the "
hill struggle for life. So wages, the
domestic war and the sequel rests ir
the future. 1t had been originally ar
ranged that the marriage should take
place last Sunday morning, but the
plans we're discovered by Miss McIn-
tyres parents and thwarted. "But it
will be next Sunday sure," exclaimed
the plighted pair yesterday, ''and that's
no nursery rhyme" There will be no
elaborate ceremony, and for once the
Little Church Around the Corner will
not be the scene of theatrical we'd
ding.
Some justice of the peacO will prob
ably officiate-tbat ia, if the lovers out
wit the parents. Miss Mcintyre is 10
years old, pretty and clever. She wa
formerly one of the vaudeville team of
Mcintyre and Linton and last season
she played Beauty in "The Sleeping
Beauty ana the Beast " Mr. Hysms,
who is about 80 years old, appeared rs
the Doctor in the same production, but
he is now conducting vaudeville
agency. His rome is in Troy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
NO COFFIN
is WANTED
According To Trustee Livingston
Of the Street Committee.

Wanted, acofiin for the good roads
movement" This in substance was
an editorial item in late issue of the
Banner and Reformer. take it that
it was intended as joke, though not
labeled as such, for the editor of our
local newspaper is good deal given
to Righteousness, particularly in his
editorial columns.
But let that pass. Good roads, in
any event, sis no joke" and if there
is ever a movement in that direction
a serious movement, meant will
stand in no need of coffin. When
ever one of these great movements gets
started it acquires marvellous momen-
tum.
read recently story of two farm
ers who for the first time in their lives
stood beside railroad track on which
was an engine attached to a heavy
train Of cars. Said one farmer to the
other, "Hank, she'll never be able to
start it. 1t isn't possible. =" Finally
the steam was turned on, and, with
much putting, grinding and groaning,
the great train began to move very
slowly, then faster and faster, until
/ finally, with whirl of dust and roar
like thunder, it swung out of sight
around diBtant curve. Then the
farmer, drawing a long breath, re-
marked! "Ilank, by the eternal,
they'll neveFbe able 10 stop it. " y
So will it with the good roads
movement opce le It get under head
way and moth kQg will Ee able to stop
It or stand bt it til its good wori
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
EDGERTON- BUCK.
Charming Affair in West Arlington Last
Wednesday.

Charming Affair in West Arlington Last
Wednesday.
Avery pretty wedding occurred Wed
nesday, Dec ninth at the home of Mr.
and Mrs Il. G. Buck in West Airing
ton when their daughter Elva became
'he wife of Albert r. Edgerton OF
Manchester.
About twenty friends and relatives
of the bride and groom we're assembled
in the parlor, and at two O'Clock, the
bride and groom entered unattended,
and standing in front of bank OF
green, we're united in marriage by
Rev Mr. Furness of East Arlington.
The bride was very tastily gowned
in white etamine trimmed with ribbon
and lace, and wore white gloves, and
a pretty hair ornament in her hair.
Following the ceremony a very nice
Luncheon WAS served.
Mr. and Mrs Edgerton left for the
north on the evening train, and after
a ten days trip will be at home in
West Arlington.
Many pretty gifts testified to the es-
teen in which the bride is held, among
which were gold banded china set,
and silver spoons from Mrs G. A.
Derrick; ten dollars from Mr. and Mrs
w B. Edgerton: five dollars from Mr.
and Mrs White; five dollar gold piece
from Miss Fannie Mckee; two dollars
from Mary Edgerton; one dollar from
Mrs C. W. Sherman; two dollars from
Chas Edgerton; one dollar from Elsie
and Stella Harrington; Mrs Skinner,
pair of pillow cases; Mrs Harrington,
photo and brooch; grandmother of
the bride, ldoz napkins; Mrs Rawley
l pair towels; Mrs Foster, handker-
chief; Mrs Barrett, sofa pillow; from
the brides mother, embroidered waist;
Mrs Eaton pair towels; Mrs Lucy
Smith, amber beads; Mabel Farnham,
sugar shell; Mr. and Mrs Woodwork,
/ doz tumblers.
Our hearty congratulations are ex-
tended to both.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
NORTH PowNAL

Mrs Charles Crisp of Troy
few days with her parents last
MIR and Mrs H. w. Bond are
ing preparations to move into the
Cards house.
A new store house is being built d
the New England Lime Co. VIM. RuY
sci is laying the foundation.
The "Old Maids Convention" an
fair was quite success. About q
was realized.
Mable Pettibone is confined to
house by illness.
The first meeting of the "YouN
Peoples League was held Wednesda
evening in the church parlors ands
good time was enjoyed by all. A YER
interesting musical and literary pro
gram was given, after which a ligt
lunch was served.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10

is done.
Fun aside, ! take it that the editor
is fully convinced that good roads
are as essential to the community's
well-being as even railroad, if not
more so, and good streets are of more
Importance than good roads-meaning
good country roads outside the village
limits. But both are possible in COM
petent hands, even with the resources
now at command.
1t has been demonstrated in this
village the past year that with the
same amount of money as is usually
raised, that is, 20 cents on the grand
list dollar, netting about $4,000, much
better results cou,d be obtained than
has been usual. And so it may be
said that if the town, or the village
either, for that matter, would employ
competent men to handle the road
work their money would go hundred
per cent further than is usual
think it can be shown that fully
half the highway tax expended in the
town, as well as the villages, has in
past years been absolutely thrown
away. This result comes about
through incompetency-a lack of
knowledge of road construction as
we'll as road material.
1t is possible to go out into a
meadow where there is nothing but
loan, and without adding a spoonful
of other material or carting a spoon
full away to lay down a highway that
will be as hard and smooth as a race
track, absolutely imperNous to mois-
ture from top or bottom, and never
show in five years at least more than an
inch of mud on its surface. Still, of
course good material is the best to use,
but there is so much that is poor all
about us and so much of this poor
stuff has been used in past years and
used neutrality-suspicious. we have on
fuo "hOlS doout 40 POOi iOauo "S any
body in any part of the country can
boast of.
Now, Mr. Editor, let us start a good
roads movement, rather than advertise
for cofiins, and will guarantee that
the result will not only rebound to the
credit of the Banner and Reformer,
bat add to the dignity and standing of
the community in which we live. j.
II. Livingston.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-10
DORSET

A mission study class has been or
ganized by Miss Eloise Carhart. The
class are studying China at present.
Rev Chas. S. Carhart, G. NJ. Sykes
and Miss Louisa Sykes attended the
installation of Rev. John Barstow in
Manchester Thursday evening.
AT the meeting of the foreign Mis-
sionary Society to he held with Miss
Louise Sykes, Wednesday afternoon
a report of the meeting of the Won
ans Board OF missions at Ne W Haven
will hN given,