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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-21
Loretto Academy Destroyed.

CAIRO. H., Nov. 19.-Fire has de-
stroyed all the buildings of the Loretto
academy. located in this city, with
their contents. causing a loss of 500
600 The academy was one of the old
est educational institutions in this sec
ton, having been established by the
Loretto sisters during the war and
conducted by them until last year,
when it Dame under the control of the
Benedictine sisters.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-21
GAS ENGINES FOR WARSHlPS
Naval Experts Predict the Passing Of Steam
Engines.

Berlin, Nov. 1S.-The German navy
officials are giving close study to the
possibilities Of gas engines for pro-
polling war ships. 1t is reported that
the admiralty is having rather large
vessel fitted out Herewith for the pur.
pose Of making experiments. A dis
cussion on the subject attracted unus-
ual attention at today's session Of the
German society of naval architects.
The chief paper was read by Engin-
eer Captaine of Frankfort on-the-
Main who predicted that gas will dis
place the present steam engines as
well as the turbines. According to the
engineers calculations, the present
machine Utilities only Il to IA per cent
of the Goals energy, whereas gas en-
gines utilize twenty six per cent.
The speaker described an invention
of his own, which he copiously illus
trated by models and magic lantern
pictures, whereby he proved that gas
can be successfully adap ed to driving
marine engines. The Thorneycrofts,
English marine engineers, are now
building vessel to be fitted with a
600 horse power gas engine.
The German engineer doubts whether
the existing types of gas machines are
available to above thousand horse
power bnt he says his invention solves
the problem for larger sizes. The
merit of the new machine, besides
doubling the energy from coal, will be
a great saving in room and in weight.
The Emperor was an attentive lis
tener to the engineers paper and af-
terward heartily shook the speaker S
hand.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-21
The Original.

Foley & Co., Chicago, originated
Honey and Tar as throat and lung
remedy and on account of the great
merit and popularity of Foley's Honey
and Tar many limitations are offered
for the genuine. Ask for Foley's Hon
ey and Tar and refuse any substitute
offered as 20 other preparation will
give the same satisfaction. liz is mild
ly laxative. 1t contains no opiates
and is safest for children and delicate
persons. For sale by b. A. Quinlan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-21

named bank, do solemn.y swear that the above
statement Is true to the best OF my knowledge
and belief 3 b. HALL. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th
day of November, 1901.
r. SCOTT Notary Public.
Correct, attest;
f. B. JENNINGS
GIAS,; Z; ,wEElLttlNG, Directors.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-21

No. t30
DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF T 1E
III First National Bank at Bennington in the
State of Vermont, at the close OF business, NO.
yember TO- 1904.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-21
l.. f. ABBOTT,
W. II. BRADFORD,
GEO. r. GRAVES.

No, $50.
DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
IL Bennington County National Bank at Ben
nngtOn in theSate OF Vermont at the close OF
business, November H. 1904.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
DERELICTS ON THE SEA

Some interesting Information re-
garding the number of halGsunken
vessels that float the ocean, their re-
markable voyages and on methods of
destroying these ocean wanderers are
given In a recent paper by H. H..
Lewis. The statistics collected SO far
state that the average number of dere.
licts annually sighted in the Atlantic
Is 232. The year 1893 was the most
prolific, AIS floating derelicts of every
degree being reported to the bureau.
Take the remarkable case of the
Fannie e. Woolston. Left by her
crew off the American coast in 1891
she drifted for three years and six
days, covering in that time more than
10000 miles. In the course of her
wandering she followed the gulf
stream over to England, then took a
Jaunt down the European coast, and
finally, true to her country, returned
by devious ways over the equator
back to America, where she was
wrecked three degrees north of the
spot where she started adrift.
The schooner B. r. Woodside. an
other famous derelict, began her car
eer several hundred miles east of
Savannah, She started off toward
Europe. by way Of the gulf stream.
changed her mind when near the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

Canary Islands and turned back to
within twenty miles of her starting
point. Then she drifted south to the
Islands of Florida, became mixed up
in storm and went zigzagging across
the ocean. She crossed her own path
number of times and was sighted by
forty different shipmasters, who made
haste to report her maneuvers to the
photographic bureau. She was a
particularly dangerous specimen Of
the genus derelict and there was
great relief in marine circles when it
was reported that some enterprising
craft had picked her up and towed
her to Abaco, New Providence.
The honor of being the most re-
markable derelict probably belongs to
the Ferd B. Taylor, the craft that was
run into by the Traye in 1892. The
sharp bow of the transatlantic liner
cut the sailing vessel square in half,
and by all rules of marine procedure
should have sent her to the bottom.
Strange to relate, however, the two
parts remained afloat and each start
ed off on it's own hook to become
member of the profession of derelicts.
The stern was blown north and finally
brought up on Wells beach, and the
bow, guided by an inshore current,
went south and came to grief opposite
the Carolinas.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Paper Car Wheels.

In making paper car wheels. 12O to
$50 layers are put together with flour
paste and subjected to a pressure of
500 tons while at temperature Of
12O degrees Fahrenheit. The blocks
are then turned in lathe, slightly
larger than the tire, and the hole is
bored for the cast iron center. In
turning, the paper blocks make a
shaving that resembles strips of
leather. The average lite Of the tire
OF paper wheel is aoout 800 900
miles That represents about one and
one-quarter inch wear. The centers
do not seem to be affected by service
and they are always good for renewal
of tires unless some accident haDpens
To them
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

Ed 5ruhys Quick Wit and
Threafen Kin Iino

Pleased Infatuated Woman Who Had
to Kill Him.
the result being that he got a cork
ing good story to the effect that the
woman was the rankest kind of hum
bug. Bruff printed the story next
morning and it caused a genuine sen
sation, but the woman never lost her
grip, driving out that afternoon with
her four-in-hand.
Late that night Bruff was in the
lobby of the Kimball talking to Ed
Galloway, the night clerk, when the
cattle queen swished down the steps
and, walking up to Bruff, asked if he
was responsible for the story in the
Constitution.
have that honor was his reply.
" Then, sir, l am going to kill you,
almost yelled the woman as she drew
a gun from the folds of her dress.
This didn't alarm the little news
paper man in the least, but, lifting his
hat, he quietly remarked:
Fire away, madam; | had rather
be killed by pretty woman any day
than to die natural DEATH
"Bruff won out, for the woman
laughed and retreated upstairs."-
Washington Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

Threatened
The nerve of newspaper men fire.
quently keeps them from serious trou-
BILE, as well as getting them into it,"
remarked Representative Livingston
of Georgia, while talking to a group
of friends in the cloakroom. GAS a
whole they are generally a pretty
clever lot and prepared for any emer.
gency, and l suppose that they make
about as few mistakes as the average
run of men.
Il shall never forget an incident
which happened several years ago in
Atlanta, and laugh now every time
think of it. A dashing young wom-
an came to Atlanta and engarged the
SWEETEST suite OF rooms at the Kim
ball, and she sported diamonds as
large as walnuts and drove four-in-
hand. 1t was given out that the
young beauty was Miss So-and-So, the
cattle queen of the west. and that she
had money enough to burn up a stock
yard of wet cows.
ED Bruffey OF the Constitution had
an idea that the woman was a fake,
and he soon had the wires hot with
messages making inquiries about her,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10


The wind was rising easterly the morn
ing sky was blue.
The Straits before us opened wide and
we looked toward the Admiral where
high the Peter flew,
And all our hearts We're dancing like
the sea.
''The French are gone to Martinique with
= four-and-twenty sail,
The Old superb Is old and foul and
slow;
But the French are gone to Martinique,
and Nelson's on the trail,
And where he goes the Old Superb
must 60"
So westward hol for Trinidad, and east
ward hol for Spain,
And ship ahoy" hundred times a
Round the world If need be, and round
the world again,
With lame duck tagging all the way.
The old Superb was barnacled and green
as grass below,
Her sticks were only fit for stirring
grog;
The pride of all her midshipmen was ST.
lent long ago
And long ago they ceased to heave the
log.
Four year out from home she was. and
ne'er a week in port.
And nothing save the guns aboard her
bright;
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

ISdItny 1roWth "
A remarkable recuperative power
following an injury was found after
examination of the Sequoias of the
Converse Basin. The effects of GER
tain tremendous forest fires occurring
centuries ago are registered in the
trunks of these trees and the record
completely concealed by subsequent
healthy growth. Among a number of
similar cases the most instructive rec
ord of these ancient forest fires was
observed in tree of moderate size
about fifteen feet in diameter-fve
feet from the ground. 1t was 270 feet
in height and 2,171 years old.
This tree when felled had an enor-
nous surface burn on one side thirty
feet in height and occupying eighteen
feet of the circumference of the tree
this was found to have been due to
fire occurring A. d. 1897. The tree,
when cut, in 1900, had already occu-
pied itself for 103 years in it's efforts
to repair this injury, it's method being
the ingrowing of the new tissue from
each margin of the great black
wound. When the tree was cut the
records of the three fires were re-
vealed. The history of the tree was
as follows:
271 B. G. it began it's existence.
The first year of the Christian era
it was about four feet in diameter
above the base.
245 A. D., at SIG years of age, oc-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
10000 Plants for H.

This is remarkable offer the roSu
"a. oalzer Seed Co., La Crosse Wis
makes. They win send You their h bS,,
plant plant and seed catalog, together vitS
I'OO0 fine, solid Cabbages
1000 delicious Carrots
S'OOO blanching. nutty Celery
1000 rich, buttery Lettuce
1000 splendid Onions.
i'oOO rare. luscious Radishes
LOCO gloriously brilliant EIo,,,o,..
Ihls great offer is made in or5"r - -
lheuce you to try their warranted seeSo
w n,i,p when you once plant them se voI,
wiz grow no others, and " you
ALL FOR BUT Ice POSTAGE,
proVi9ing you viii return this not,o0
ase ny you In, Will send them zoe in post.
age of the famous Beriiner Ce',l e pack
CIV. N. ID Saulllower.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
500 Reward S1OO

tb Ieauers or this paper will be pleased 20 learn
has Is at least one dreaded disease that science
CataprS 41ie TO cure In all its stages and that Is
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surfacSss aOsg directly upon the blood and mucous
fonnda vs OF the system, thereby destroying the
strensti ~ SI the disease, and giving the patient
inc ~ building up the constitution and assist
so rn,b ~ IN doing Its work. The proprebors have
One Hndre69 IN Us curative powers that they offer
cure Send for list of testimo5ais 'i'@' ~ 4N'''
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sod by all Druggists, 75c. w. ioiooO' "
rake Halls Family Pills for combination.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
A ZIG TREES CENTURIES OF LIFE.
remarkable Reeuperatns
Healthy Covers Wound by Fire

hown by Monarch of the Forest
Vers Wound by Fire.
CURED burning on the trunk three
feet wide. One hundred and five
years were occupied in covering this
wound with new tissue. For 1,196
years no further injuries were regis.
tered.
1441 A. D., at LIP years of age, the
tree was burned a second time in
two long grooves one and two feet
wide, respectively. Each had its own
system of repair,
One hundred and thirty-nine years
of growth followed, including the time
occupied by covering the wounds.
1880 A. D., at 1851 years of age, &C.
Cured another fire, causing burn on
the trunk two feet wide, which took
sue.
Two hundred and seventeen years
of growth followed this burn.
1897 A. D., when the tree was 2,068
years old, tremendous fire attacked
it, burning the great scar eighteen
feet wide.
One hundred and three years, be-
tween 1897 and 1900, had enabled the
tree to reduce the exposed area of the
burn to about fourteen feet in width.
1t is to be noted that in each of the
three older burns there was a thin
cavity occupied by the charcoal of
burned surface, but the wounds were
finally fully covered and the new it's
sue above was full.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Stops the Cough and
Works OFF the Cold
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price Csc.
Blind cave-Fishes.

An interesting addition has recently
been made to the Natural History
Museum, South Kensington, London,
by the receipt of specimens of some of
the blind cave-fshes of Cuba. The
special interest of these fishes lies
in the fact that their alliance is with
saltwater forms which exist in the
neighboring sea, and not with fresh
water fishes, as is the case with Am
blyopsis and its allies of the great
cave of Kentucky. There can be little
doubt that the Cuban caves in which
the blind fishes are found were form
erly in communication with the sea,
and that the ancestors of these fishes
entered the caves from the adjacent
ocean.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

But Captain Keats he knew the game
and swore to share the sport
For he never yet came in too late to
fight.
So westward no! for Trinidad. and east
ward no! for Spain.
And Ship ahoyl" a hundred times a
day.
Round the world If need be, and round
the world again,
With a lame duck tagging all the way
Now UP, my lads" the captain cried.
FOR sure the case were hard
IL longest out were first to fall behind /:
Aloft, aloft, with studding sails, and lash
them on the yard
For night and day the Trades are driv-
ing blind"
So all day long and all day long, behind
the fleet we crept
And how we fretted none but Nelson
guessed;
But every night the Old superb she
sailed when others slept,
TIL we ran the French to earth with all
the rest!
twas westward no! for Trinidad, and
eastward no! for Spain,
And ship ahoy!" a hundred times a
day:
Round the world If need be. and round
the world again.
With lame duck tagging all the way.
Henry Newbolt, in The Spectator
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Fruit Tree craftino

me grating Of fruit trees has to-
10y pecome such common operation
enat there is no need to present the
oiu,1ary methods, but what is less
wen wen. known is that one may take young
. .t OF certain species and graft
Inem on the branches of other trees.
80 nature Paris, publishes a photo
sLapn showing how pear of one va.
parent y 49, -
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Hard Choice for Motho.

When a sword and a pair of sois
sors, according to Gregory of Tours
was sent to the queen by the King.
Childeber and Lothaire, it was mean,
Tor her to choose the fate of her sons
whether they should be put to death
be deprived of their hair or enta ~'u !
convent.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
snipe In an Irish Boo

A young Englishman was being
urlVen past promising-looking Irish
oog the other day and inquired of his
JarVey II there were any snipe in it.
rs II shnipe, sorr?" was the reply.
"shure, if We went in widout a gun
they'd ate yez."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
severe on Senator Plat.

DR.. Parkhursts attention has been
called to morning newspaper account
of an interview with his dear old
friend, Thomas G. Plat, and particu-
larly to the senator's assertion, 81 am
in town for business and religion. -
Then with contemptuous snort:
''Why use eight words when nix would
do? II Platt's going into religion It
must be for business"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
DUCKS KILLED BY LIGHTNING
Remarkable Effect of Electrical Storm
Near Nantes, France.

Remarkable Effect OF ELECTRICAL storm
Near Nantes, France.
An extraordinary effect of lightning
is reported from Lake rGrandlieu, in
the Nantes region. A violent tempest
burst over the lake, with vivid light
ming and thunder. A number of boa;s
were on the lake, and while they were
hurrying to bank there was ire
mendous peal of thunder. Almost i'm
mediately there fell among the boats
the dead bodies of a large flock Of
wild ducks, some of them roasted to
nicely, and some charred to Gin
der. Roast duck cooked by lightning
reads like novelty, even in the
freaks of meteorology. If it could
only be adapted to the quick lunch"
systemi
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
HAPPY WOMEN.

w o u | dn't
an y woman
be happy,
After years
of backache
suffering,
ID a Us OF
m / s e r y,
nights of I'M
rest,
T h e d s.
tress Of uri-
nary trou-
bles,
She finds
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
The MeetIn: of the National Irritation
Congress.

To be held at Ell Paso, Texas, this fall
promises to be of great interest to
jewellers in nter-Mountain country
and addresses will be made by Amer.
lean and foreign irrigation authorities
An interesting program, including a
genuine Mexican bull fight. win he
given by the citizens For further in
formation regarding date of above
meeting, railroad fares, etc., address
=; F. Warren, room No. All, Dooly
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
Was Andrew Jackson,s Jockey,

Aston Gibson, one of Andrew Jack.
sons favorite jockeys, is living quiet
ly at Calera, Ala, having nearly
reached the age of 116 years. He was
born July 4, 1888, in South Carolina.
and there is documentary evidence OF
his great age. The old man still takes
much interest in racing matters. With
Gibson is his wife, whom he married
in 1889. She was born in 1916.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
WHEN SHIPS WE'RE HEARTS OF OAK.

Up and Was
With Her at ne
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

10 You've WoMEN:-I suffered years with dysmenor
fhea pantul peods much that
knew meant three four days of doctor said
this due named condition the uterine appendages oand
by repeated and neglected IN ff e N
II young girls only realized how dangerous cold at
@ critical time much suffering would be
Ter Lydia % Pnkhsms Vegetable that only
medicine which helped Within three
tSe noticed marked improvement general health
sne me OF my next monthly period the had diminished
ab Kept up the treatment and
another person am in perfect health eyes brighter have
aoded IL pounds to weight
nappy-NlIs AGNES MILLER, 25 Potomac Ave, Chicago
Ehe monthly sickness rejects of a
health Anything unusual at that prompt
attention
thaG Lydia Pinkham's
struation and makes painless. 80
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10

When Answering Advertisements
Kindly Mention This Paper.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
DURING LAsr YEAR.
Room for Millions.

FREE Homesteads given away. Schools,
churches, Railways, Markets, Climate,
everything to be desired.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-02

of rulers to mercy and to justice,
how magnificent becomes the service
of these old soldiers of the Union, tc
the flag that stands for all oul
fathers hoped for.
Soldiers, your service and youl
suffering has not been in vain. You
are not forgotten nor will you be
Each annual roll call may find some
one gone from your ranks to the
silent camps of eternity. We lister
for his answering voice but hear nc
spoken sound, and yet he is mo-
dead. To live in the hearts of &
nation is not to die.
Rev. Curtiss pronounced the bene'
diction.
The large audience joined thu
quartette in singing America anc
thus ended the days services.