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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-11
Paine's Celery Compound

From l.. H. Andrews of Richmond. Virginia.
one Of the Fathers of the city-a prominent
business man, leader of public spirit, widely
known and highly respected comes this THIRD
letter-telling how Paine's Celery Compound
The discovery Of Dartm6tith's great physician
has never failed him when he turned to II for
new vitality, new health and for safety against
all sickness
MIR Andrews was cured OF:
Exhaustion,
Stomach and bowel trouble.
Weak appetite,
Chnls,
Rheumatism.
Sleeplessness
"wornout Feeling"
Letter No. 3.
'sOmt years ago, as you know. used Paine's
Celery Compound with highly gratifying re.
suits. Business care and worry had really
knocked me out Stomach and bowels in bad
condition with chills and severe spells of
rheumatiSm-had made life a burden to me-
For eight or nine months suffered this way
and was under treatment by two good physic.
ians, but they failed to relieve me permanently
ron the advice OF friend tried Paine IS Gel
cry Compound. My appetite returned The
chills ceas d could sleep well and that
worn out feeling disappeared entirely.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-11
Estate Martha E. Austin, Deceased
Notice Do sell Real Rstate.

Notice 70 sell Real Estate.
CTATE on ERMONT In Probate
- District Of BefungiC - - Court. held nj
the Probate once N Benn dgton, in aud for
SAID District, on the 2nd day of February,
A ID. 1904.
Present John " Carney. Judge.
Walter II. Berry, administrator of The estate
OF Martha 4. Austin, late of Bennington In said
district deceased. makes application 10 said
curt for license 20 sell all OF the real estate
Of said deceased, situate In the village
OF Bennington center, in the Town OF Benning.
ton, for bounds ana description reference
may be had 10 the land records III the Towr
Clerks office Of the town Of Bennington. repre-
seniing that the sale OF said real estate wifi Je
beneficial TO the estate Of said deceased. and
those Interested In said estate.
Whereupon II is ordered by said court that
said application be referred 10 session thereof.
70 be held at the Probate ONCE IN Bennington
In said district on the 18th day OF Feb A. ID.
1904 for hearing and decision thereon and Il is
further ordered that all persons interested ne
notified hereof, by publication Of notice OF said
application end order thereon three weeks sue
cessively In the Bennington Evening Banner a
newspaper published In Bennington and which
calculates In the nelghbOrhoOd of those inter.
ested. before said time Of hearing, that they
may appear at said time and place, and Il
they see cause, object thereto.
By the Court.
Attest, JOHN V CARNEY. Judge.
BOWS
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-11

ST. LOUIS. March 11.-Jack O'Brien
Of Philadelphia fought fifteen round
battle with Mike Schreck of Cincin-
natl before the West End club last
night and was given the decision at
the end OF the fifteenth round.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-11
Accused Of Crime Like DreyIu.

PARIS, March lin spite of OIL
cial rcticence and denials from the Jap
anese legation here it is again affirmed
that noncommissioned officer namet
Martin, who was employed in the min
istry of marine and who is now under
arrest, attempted to sell French nava
secrets to naval attache at the Jap
anese legation. The discovery of this
alleged attempt came as result OF
the accidental opening of letter ad
dressed to the noncommissloned off.
Ger by a naval captain of the same
name This letter was from an inter.
mediary.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-11

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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-11
FLOODS REcEoINe.
Damage Between PittHton and sun.
bury Estimated at $1,000. 900.

Damage Between PittHton and sun.
bury Estimated at $4,000. 900.
WGLKESBARRE, Pa. March H.
Investigation shows that the PennsyL
vania. Lehigh Valley and Delaware
Lackawanna and Western railroads are
badly damaged along the lire of the
river and that 1t will he several days
before traffic can be resumed. The road.
beds are washed out in many places,
and bridges are torn and twisted by
the masses Of ice. The total damage
in all towns between Pittston and sun
bury Is estimated at S6,5OO,OO0.
The up river gorges in the Susque
hanna at Sunbury broke last night and
are now passing down the river with
out causing much damage. The only
serious damage to Sunbury and vicini-
ty was the destruction OF the North.
cumberland bridge.
Three thousand men have been tax.
en- from EnOla and other points along
the Pennsylvania railroad where i'm.
provements are being made to clear
the obstructed tracks on the Columbia
division.
The gorged ice piled on the tracks
near Harrisburg has reached n height
of twenty feet at many points between
Shocks Mills and Collins. Between
Chickies and Falmouth there are points
where the ice is over the tracks for
depth of ten feet This ice during the
past two or three days has frozen into
comparatively solid mass. and it
will require several days to put the
tracks'in normal condition.
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NOTICE.!

The annual meeting of the Young Mems As
sociation for the election OF officers viii be held
10 the Library Monday, March 81, 1904 Polls
open at O'Clock and close at O'Clock in the
afternoon. II. II. WEBSTER,
Recording Secretary.
Bennington VI, Feb. "a. 1901.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

books Had the book in question been
written by the other Mr.. Churchill, the
not have been more warmly received Pos
sIbly 1t is true that some persons buy
Inc Crossing because they believe that
it is written by the English Churchill, but
luoglng from the way in which the press
far distant when, instead OF confoundine
the American Churchill with the English
Churchill, the opposite mistake will be
made and people will vote for Mr.. Win
ston Churchill for parliament under the
Impression that he is the author of 1.-The
Crossing.
Mr.. Albert Bigelow Paine's biography OF
Thomas Mast" who has been called 'sthc
Father of the American cartoon" will be
one OF the most interesting and delight
full of the autumn biographies, The Mac
milan company announce 1t for publca-
ton early in October. Illustrated with re-
productions of about, 900 of Mr.: Nasts
best cartoons. Mr.. Paine is formerly
OF Kansas man.
Grover Cleveland is not in the habit of
posing before the public as a literary
critic. But when he does talk about books
is on other subjects. Not Not longs long ago he he
was discussing recent political novels with
comptroller OF the currency Mention was
made of the Spokesman, The Lieutenant
Governor and finally of Brand Whitlock's
THE book Interested me greatly" said
the ex-presi6ent, because It deals with
politics know about" He then Went on on
to explain that The 18th District analyses
the character of a congressman who fails
to distribute political patronage to the
satisfaction of his constituents, and be-
comes involved in trouble thereby. In a
philosophical way Mr.. Cleveland added:
THE hardest thing man in public life
has to do is to pass around appointments
SO as to please everybody. The one who
has the distribution of offices must not
only consider the Individual cases, but
keep the whole situation in mind at the
same time. have had to suffer many
pang because of the way some of my
friends have taken refusals.'
1t would be entertaining to hear Mr..
Cleveland's comments on Whitlocl<'s new
political story, Her Infinite Variety, which
is as funny and amusing as The 18th Dis
trict was realistic and impressive.
Major Martin Hume, the author of 1.-THE
Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots"
(AdcClure-Phillips), left Wemyss castle
manuscript that Scotland has been long
ing to get sight of for many years. 1t
is the diary of David WemySs, Lord FL
cho, who went out with Prince Charlie,
Lord Elcho was then 26 years of age, son
of the fourth Earl of Wemyss, and from
his youth had been an ardent Jacobite.
He was opposed to the rising of As, but
which he commanded until the over
defeat of Culloden, and when
the young prince was compelled to fly to
the continent Lord Elcho went as his
that followed. a careful diary was kept,
and in it's pages, without fear or favor,
the last of the Stuart pretenders had his
base and vain character laid bare. 1t was
a triumph for Major Hume as histor-
ian when he was able to persuade the
owner of Wemyss castle to allow him the
use of papers and documents hitherto re-
fused to many distinguished applicants.
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Mr.. Bowser had nothing further to say.
put made ready to resume work The
presence of the officer of course attracted
further attention, and several vehicles
stopped in front of the house that their
drivers might learn what the rumpus was
starboard his helm and go ahead but he
would not take a bluff. He had showed
the mower almost eleven feet, and was
doing beautiful work, when the shaft
picked up a long piece of rusty wire and
wound it up to a stop. Then the police
hands, and words of satisfaction were
heard from the sitters.
If you want my advice" began the
officer. but he was interrupted with:
But ] don't"
''Then I'll give it to you just the same
Take it in! You are raising a row and
Yes, take it in!' shouted a dozen boys.
sitters.
IF you don't I'll have to take you in"
continued the bluecoat. Il don't say
there's any law ag1n a man runnin'
lawn mower, but he's got to do it with
out creatin' excitement. Here's a crowd
that is worked up to such a pitch of fren-
zy that it's ready to tear down buildin's
and murder Chinymen, and you've got to
get that machine into the back yard
become responsible to the law
Mr.. Bowser got it there, and towering
steps and closed the front door, he said:
Woman, have been guyed, Inundated
and brow-beaten, and it's all your
count. You will take the 1910 train for
your mothers home tomorrow morning,
and as soon as the necessary legal papers
vorce and alinlony."-( Copyright, 1904, by
T. C. McClure.)
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BOWsER'S LAWN PARTY.
He Buys a Lawn Mower, and Things
Happen.

When he had finished dinner the
other evening Mr.. Bowser turned up
missing for ten minutes, and when
discovered" again he had on an old
suit of clothes and there was a gen.
uine agricultural smile on his face.
''Are you going to dig a well or
chop wood or-or anything?" asked
Mrs. Bowser, as she surveyed him in
considerable surprise.
mot exactly" he rather sheepishly
replied. Saying nothing of the fact
that need exercise, and that I can
save 800 between this and October,
am going to cut the grass in the
front yard"
but how-with the butcher knife ?"
He sat down on the front steps. and
his agricultural smile broadened and
heightened until it took In hay. oats,
corn, wheat and potatoes, and had a
lightning rod man come along just
then he would no doubt have found
Mr. Bowser a soft mark.
1.-The boy will be here presently"
he finally answered. 81 have bought
a lawn mower, and it should have
been here half an hour ago. How
ever, there is time enough. Yes, I
have bought an So lawn mower, and
1 propose to put a stop to the ex-
tortionate demands of the scoundrels
who go about cutting grass They
have robbed me long enough. The
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The Last Man.

1t being ascertained that there was
in the whole country a citizen in hid
ing who had boosted in an idle moment
That he had never applied for a pension,
body Of patriots started out in search
of him.
When finally apprehended, the man
appeared logged and defiant.
4 am the possessor," he declared,
of a robust constitution, and none of
my ancestors, so far as 1 know, ever
took part in the War of the Rebellion.
Why should rob the public treasury %
And is this exclaimed the head of
the party, your only excuse? Have
you no regard. sir. for the customs and
traditions of your sacred land? Don't
YOU know that for years every lawyer
and every political party in the country.
from motives of pure patriotism, has
labored to get every man, woman and
child on the pension Hst?'
The culprit hung his head in shame
as the full enornity of his offense
burst upon him.
Now that recall the fact" he OBJ
served with a cunning smile, my third
great-aunt on my mothers side had a
stepfather VINO caught the grip while
shingling a house on the outskirts of
the Battle of Gettysburg
1--WE thought as much" exclaimed
the crowd triumphantly, hurrying MIN
on to Washington.-Sept Smart
Set.
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machine will save it's cost every
month
ST fail to see how" replied Mrs.
Bowser, after a little mental arith-
metic. I'VE have got about ten square
feet of grass to cut. We have had
it cut four times this summer, at Is
cents a time. We may have to have
price. The cost may possibly reach
81 for the season. How you can save
anything by paying out IS for a lawn
mower 1 fail to see. Besides
''I may not save over SIS or $40
this year. he Interrupted, but there
are other years to come. 1 am look
ing ahead. If 1 put all the back
yard into grass next year it will be a
regular bayfield,. 1 have also to fig
doctors in America are a unit in agree
ing that showing a lawn mower around
is the best thing ever discovered for
spinal complaint
land you have finally developed
that, have you?"
Before Mr.. Bowser had got ready to
answer a boy came from the hard
ware store with the mower. 1t was
painted red and green. and he was
dragging it along the sidewalk and
making as much noise as possible, and
he was, of course, followed by a goat,
two dogs and fifteen children. The
procession stopped with a bang be-
fore tte Bowser gate, and the crowd
was at once added to by children
from across the street. If there was
any circus going on around there they
wanted to see 1t.
you might have known how it
would be- said Mrs. Bowser, as she
surveyed the gathering and noticed
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Is 1t a Kansas Governor?

One day not long ago. Mr.. Francis
Lynde, the author of 1.-THE Grafters,''
was sitting in the grill room of his
club. An acquaintance came up to
him and said: ''Lynde, what did you
have against Governor Blank of
Blank that you should pillory him so
numerically in your book?"
The willy author laughed and re-
marked that he hadn't named Gov
ernor Blank, had he?
You might as we'll have named
him" was the reply. Everybody who
reads the book will recognize him.
Yet it is curious to note the diver
sity of opinion in regard to the per-
sonage from whom the Hon. Jasper T.
Bucks, grafter-in-chief, was painted;
and no two critics can apparently
agree on the state of which he was
governor One says it is very evident
that Montana is meant. Another
thinks that Colorado is the only pos
slbIe field for the plot. A third says
that any one can see that Kansas in
the Populistic period is the locale of
The Grafters-" And no one save Mr.
Lynde's acquaintance of the grill
room has hit upon the real governor
and the real state.
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on and the mower started again. To
the amazement of the children and
other onlookerS, it cut grass The
green blades flew into the air and how
cred over the machine, and the scent
of new-mown hay became apparent
admiration were being spoken on ev-
cry hand. when there was another
sudden StOppage. 1t was so unlocked
for that Mr.. Bowser'S heels left the
ground, and for an instant he seemed
about to take a header. There was a
general groan of disappOin tment as he
saved himself, and the old clothes-pin
he picked from between the blades
was looked upon as no real friend of
that crowd. Another pedestrian felt
called upon to stop and say something.
He was an old man and full of wis
dom. He was also deaf, and he shout
ed SO that he could be heard forty
rods away.
eff you knew beans from broom
sticks, you'd use a rake on that grass
hrstr' he beloved Some men allus
begin their work wrong end to-
For moment Mrs. Bowser was like one
parslyzed, and the cat stopped her pur-
ring to choke up, but no one was struck
dead. Mr.. Bowser got red in the face and
raging in his breast with a bland smile
and removed the obstruction. AS it was
thrown over the fence the children
scrambled for it, and battle royal was
liceman standing on the corner was at
tracted, and he came strolling down to
halt at the gate and inquire:
Dom the lawn-Inowin' act. Ell -
Just a little" was the reply.
Yes, he's mad at the grass and means
to give 1T fits" put in a small boy.
GER as he encouraged the boy with a
smile.
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that nearly every family on the block
was sitting out to get the air.
Don't you worry yourself, Mrs.
Bowser. 1 have bought a lawn NOW
| er, and 1 propose to use 1t, and if the
sight of a man using such a machine
sets the whole town rubber-necking
let 'em go ahead and gawp. You look
as pale and worried as if 1 was about
to commit some great crime, and that
blamed old cat, is rolling his yaller
eyes around as If he expected death
the next instant. Will you please in
form me what in thunder is the mat
ter? Do you expect the machine to
bust up and wreck the neighbour
hood?'
s'No, of course not. but you see, you
have never run a lawn mower before,
and-and-"
And I may knock down the front
fence or run over and kill three or
four peoplel Yes, there is some dan
ger of it, but 1 will be very careful of
1t for the sake of you and the cat. If
you fear bloodShed and devastation,
you had better hide down cellar till
it's all over. I shall now begin"
Mrs. Bowser and the cat knew that
there would be consequences, but like
loyal wife and a loyal tomcat they
trial. He descended the step with
dignified mien and made a brief in
spection of the mower to see if all the
wheels, braces. rods, cogs and cylin-
ders had come home with it. At the
hardware store they had assured him
that there was no sounding board to
get out of order, and no gasoline tank
to explode, and that any child four
years old could run it without danger
to the nearest brickyard. They had
oiled 1t for him, and all he had to do
was to flop the mower over and get a
move on him. The forty children on
the fence and the fifty people on steps
and stoops were more or less inter-
ested, but Mr.. Bowser is not the man
to turn back when he has put his
hand to a lawn mower. There was a
bur-r-r-r, and he was at work.
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Lawn moving and watch repairing
are not exactly the same thing, but
before you can repair q watch or NOW
a lawn you must look out for clothes
pins, brickbatS, castor oil bottles and
tomato cans. That mower had just
got a gait on her and was merrily
buzzing away when it struck a gen.
erous piece of brick which boy had
cast into the yard in throwing at a
cat, and was brought up short with
sound that put peoples teeth on
edge. There was a chorus of delight
ed EXPLANATIONS from the children.
They were guileless children. but even
the youngest of human nature rejoices
when a lawn mower is made to suf-
fer. The noise also stopped a man who
was passing, and he leaned over the
fence and sagaciously said:
"Cut your brickbats with an AK.
my friend. You will find it easier and
cheaper"
Mrs. Bowser's heart stopped still,
and the cat forgot to breathe. Both
expected the man to be slaughtered
in cold blood, but Mr.. Bowser only
gave him a plying look and waved
him to pass on. The brickbat was
picked out of the grass and tossed into
the street, and then steam was turned
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About the Authors.

The work of Henry Harland has not
always had that brightness and sun
shine which permeates every page of
his recent books. 1t is not generally
known that Mr.. Harland studied for
the bar and something over fifteen
years ago occupied post in the office
of the Surrogate of New York city
and lived in Beekman place. Under
the name of Sidney Luska, during this
period he wrote some very grim sto-
rieS, THE Yoke of the Thorah.'' Mrs.
PeXada." and made, a few years later
his contributions to that queer quar-
terly which he edited, 1.-The yellow
Book" Mr. Harland's last book. MY
Friend Prospero." is as far away as
possible in spirit from those earlier
works 1t IS all surshine aud b lent
ness'-as one critic characterizcs it.
Reign of Queen Isyl," whose reputa-
ton for perpetrating fantastical prac-
teal jokes had its start in a most dar-
ing escapade. Mr.. Burgess. on artistic
grounds had a great grudge against
the CogEeswel statue which stands in
an important corner in San Francisco
holding in one hand a glass of water,
and in the other a scroll marked Wei
come" It seemed impossible to remove
the statue legitimately, so Mr. Bur
CESS and several of his collaborators
in that original magazine. The Lark.
which he was publishing at that time
took a characteristic method to &C
complish their end They chose a
stormy night and pulled it to the
ground. The city of San Francisco re-
joiced the next day to find only the
water-nlled boots of the iron statue
remaining on the pedestal and the
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BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

Attracting Attention.
Warren Elbridge Price, who estab-
lished and owned the Book Lover three
years and was it's editor all the five
years of its existence announces from
"A East Twenty-first street, New York,
a new magazine for book lovers to be
called the Rose Jar 1t will be a veri-
table edition de luxe, but $500 copies
being printed for sale. Only yearly
subscriptions will be undertaken and
the price will be 81 per year of four
quarterly numbers. The Rose Jar will
be splendidly produced and cover a
held left unOccupied by the withdrawal
or the Book Lover. In size the maya
zine viii be a royal quarto, admitting
1uil Illustration and forming one fine
volume yearly A prospectus may be
had on application.
New Shakespeareana which is issued
view of Shakespearean and dramatic
study, is conducted by the Shakespeare
Wakefield. n. J. In its July issue it pre-
SentS \ series of illustrations of Kron-
oers castle, Elsinore, and scenes which
SS s1 master tragedy of Ham
I L An interesting editorial Was
Fortress of Hamlet the Dane?' states
that Kronberg castle was built to keep
the power of the Russian empire from
hlgn seas. r. j. Ashhurst writes of
,Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and
nected with the life and times of Shake
speare appear in the issue.
one of the signs of the. times is the
metaphysical movement called The New
Thought The cult issues large num-
Der of journals and reading room has
been opened in this city. Mr.. Henry
Wood of Cambridge is one of the veterans
of the movement. Mr.. Wood asserts that
the form of service of THE New
Thought has its sanctuary in the spirit
ual consciousness, and it's social compan-
ions are ideals. The current number of
New Thought contains Chips From the
Old Block" and Success Thoughts" by
William Walker Atkinson. Paul Tyner
writes of organized Individualfsm.' Ed
ward Earl Purinton tells of the Free
Reading Rooms of the New Thought
League
According to the lists published in The
Academy the two novels that are having
the largest sale in England at present are
Mr. Hewletts Queens QUAR- and Mr.
Winston Churchills 1.-The Crossing
of the former l have already written
says Mr.. Alden in the New York Times
saturday Review. Last week L noticed
the first adverse review of the book that
has so far been published With this ex-
ceptiOn. the praise that the book has re-
ceived has been unanimous. Mr. Church.
III s book is also highly praised The re-
are alone sufficient answer to the alb
surd charge that there is a prejudice hero
on the part Of critics against American