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Posse urcamc E,.cutioners.

ANDALU Ala. Feb. IA ne
gro named Pedigree was shot to death
by posse here. Pedigree forced an
entrance to the home Of a prominent
white citizen In the outskirts of the
town and assaulted young woman.
A posse soon located him. and he was
Identified 10y his victim. The posse
started TO Jail with the negro when the
prisoner broke away and began TO run.
and he was shot
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-02-21

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Feb. 2l.-Fol-
lowing labor troubles at the plant of
the Central Foundry company ut Bcs-
Sener Lee Morrison and ltaleigh
Jones. employees had n fight. which
resulted in Jones shooting and Instant
~ killing Morrison. \ stray bullet
from Jones pistol also struck aud IA
tally wounded James Lowery, II by
Stander. Jones was hurriedly locked
mp in the Birmingham Jail
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EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY
~ ds's store viii BE Open AL Day Tomor.

a member ~ the firm OF one 81 the
leading ladies' tailoring establish
ments In the country will be at u g
oak department OF Alexander Drys.
dale y Son all day tomorrow, Thurs.
day, prepared to take special made-tc.
measure orders for Spring suits, coats
and garments.
The display OF new garments will | o
most lavish aud worthy visit Of 10.
spection whether you are ready to buy
now or not. This gentleman we would
again repeat represents one Of the very
orst carmen, houses In the country.
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Federation Of Labor TO Aid Miners.

CLEVELAND. o.. Feb. 2l.-The full
strength Of the American Federation OF
Labor has been pledged TO the cause OF
the miners Of Pennsylvania and other
states IN their impending strike by
President Gompers Of the federation
here II should not speak Of coal
strike" he said. II hope II will not
come to that. The whole matter Is in
the hands OF the officers OF the United
Mine Workers Of America.
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MEETS AT BELLOWS FALLS
INVESTIGATING Commission Resumes Work al
Rutl. nd Tomorrow.

Br ttleboro, Feb. 20 TIE commission
a pointed to investigate state institu-
tions of Vermont met in Bellows
Falls today together with Atty-Gen c
G Fits of this place, to close up un-
finished business connected with the
investigation of the state prison a,
Windsor The committee will met
again in Rutland tomorrow to resume
the Investigations of the house of cor.
ection.
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APPOINTMENTS MADE.
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MVail. josenh Nrpsfmf'i ili ilrisgs
Assistant PoiilnF clerks PETER Long.
iin. : u lockwood. Efn~si Lambert.
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4 lynn.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. Yielding
to representations that careful inves-
tigaton will disclose the fact that he
was innocent Of wrongdoing, Postmas-
ter General Cortelyou has ordered the
reopening of the case Of James r. Met
calf, the chief of the money order diyi-
sion, who was dismissed from the
service. later indicted by the grand
Jury Of the District Of Columbia and
the case finally nolle pressed.
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Ch.r,e, r. Rooney Reelected.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2l.-ln the
spring municipal elections held here
Charles p. Rooney. the Republican
nominee and present member of the
board of magistrates, was elected to
succeed himself, and Edwin X. Borie,
who was named by the Democrats.
City party and Lincoln party. was also
ala.ta1
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Miss Susan u. Anthony Stricken.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Feb. III
While making preparations to come to
New York to attend banquet and re.
ceptlon In honor OF her eighty-sixth
Miss Susan b. Anthony, the
noted suffragist, was seized with a
stroke of paralysis at her home here
and now lies in critical condition, al
though hopes are entertained Of her re-
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-02-21

BURLINGTON. VT, Feb. 21.-Cor-
poral James Tanner. commander in
chief of the Grand Army % In Repub
lie, and Colonel John Ivcn.ile. adiu-
tant general both of washington, were
present and made brief addresses at
the FIRST business session of the thirty
ninth annual enc;mpment of the Yer
mont department of the q. 4. X.
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WASHINGTON CARD PARTY.
D. A. R. VIII Entertain Their Friends Tomor-
row Evening. y. ~

The card party to. be given by the
OAR chapter tomorrow evenin e in
Foresters hall will be fine affair.
The committee are making much effort
to do all honor to the day and to the
invited guests although many tickets
have been sold there is room for more
and the friends of the chapter and al
are cordially invited. Fine prizes,
choice refreshments, good music and
dancing will all be furnished.
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Dimmick Elected Mayor of scranton.
SCRANTON, Pa. Feb. 2l.-J. Benja-
min Dimmick, Republican, was elected
mayor of this city by majority Of
about 1000 over John Gibbons, Demo
crat. The present mayor is Republic
an. The Republicans carry the school
board and retain control of the select
and common council The election was
the most exciting in years
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-02-21
fREEMAN-FlSHER
AIRED Last Night At the Home Of Her
Sister,

The marriage % Clarence Buel Free
m n and Carrie Elizabeth Fisher, both
o Troy, took place at the home OF her
S ster, Mrs w II Mort at 202 Depot
treet last evening. Rev c W RowIey
fliciated.
The bridesmaid was Miss Clara T.
Headman and the best man VIM Fl
Thies of South Norwalk, Conn.
Following the ceremony din ner
was served to few invited friends
Mr. and Mrs Freeman have the best
wishes of large circle of friends.
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Pat Crave Free.

COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, Feb. I'll
Pat Grove has been released on bond
for 81 800 signed by his brother, John
Grove, and the latter's wife and Jo-
seph Nansel wealthy farmer of this
Groves trial on charge Of
holding up street cars has been put
avsr
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-02-21

Banker Dropped Dead at Boston.
BOSTON, Feb. 21.-Brigham N. Bull
ioak, president Of the Titchburg Ma
tional bank and treasurer Of the Fitch
burg Savings bank. dropped dead while
in this city on business. The cause Of
death was heart failure. Mr.. Bullock
was seventy-four years of age.
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soldier. Guard shreveport jail.

SHREVEPORT, La, Feb. 21e-The
city is quiet now, and it is not believed
any further attempt will be made to
lynch the negro, Charles Coleman. in
jail on the charge of numbering Miss
Lear. The militia guard the jail and
will do so until Coleman's trial has
been completed.
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yimpkips md Adams TO Re Ertradited

SALEM Ore. Feb. u. 49, Governor
Chamberlain has granted requistion
papers for the arrest and return to
Idaho of j. l.. Simpkins and Steve
Adams. wanted MS accomplices in the
murder of former Governor Frank
Steunenberg of Idaho. Simpkins 10 be-
lieved to be in this state Adams is
under arrest in Baker City.
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Suffered day and night the torment
of itching piles. Nothing helped me
until used Doan's Ointment. Itcured
me permanently. Hon John r. Gar
rett, Mayor, Girard, Ala.
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General, Miles 10 he Orator.

LINCOLN. Neb.. Feb. 21..-General
Nelson A. Miles'bas accepted an invita-
ton to be the orator at the annual com
mepcement of the Nebraska State uni
vsrsity on Thursday, June IA.
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A cro.. From w,,be,mius,

NEW YORK, Feb 21.-Her majesty
Queen wilhelmina has bestowed upon
Henry Pluygers, consul OF the Neither
lands at New York, the officers cross
Of the Order OF Orange Nassau.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-02-21

BOSTON, Feb. Ex-Governor Guild
has signed bill passed by the senate
and house providing for commission
of three men TO revise and codify the
insurance laws OF the state.
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Notice

There will be no Evening Banner
Westinghouse birthday.
Fridays Banner viii contain the news
for both days.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-02-21

Accidents will happen but the best
r gulated families keep DIR Thomas
Electric Oil for such emergencies. 1t
subdues the pain and heals the hurts
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MRS n BURKE DEAD
ps,ss A-sy A. Hs' lion, in tsisa Nos e.
DAY Nofnias

Mrs Michael iiurk. died With phoid
pneumonia at her HON. In Sodom. near
North Bennington yesterday. Nrs
Burkc's age vas ~ years. She vas a
much respected woman.
Deceased leaves husband and four
children. The funeral Wi b. held
Thursday afternoon.
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Is NAMES REMOVED
BY Board OF Civil Authority at Their ass,ii 9
Yesterday

Al the meeting 81 the board of civil
authority yesterday about - names Of
delinquent tax payers were removed
from the check list and they vii not be-
allowed 10 vote at the coming town
meeting unless same are paid before
The meeting assemblies
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tn Cure Id in on. Day

Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tab
cts. All druggists refund the moneyUf IL tails
to cure. K. ". Growers signature Is on each
hox o5c.
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a healthy ma is king in his own
right; an unhappy man is an unhappy
slave. Burdock Blood Bilters build
up sound health-keep you we'll
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Weather

Rain, colder late tonight. Thursday
fair, colder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

fixed upon her. Enjoying myself. He likes
me to enjoy myself. Besides. | am educat-
ing the children" You mean they are here
at boarding school while you are gaddinR
about. What is wrong with American edu-
last?" Last? Let me see! No. last
Christmas l WAS in Berlin. 1t must have
been the Christmas before. I think IF he
is the dear kind fellow you say he Is how
Is IL you haven't seen him for two years?"
Because. as / tell you. he Is at home in
Detroit. How can | see him when l am
here in Dresden and he is in Detroit? You
d. ask foolish questions. He means TO try
at'1 come over in the summer II he can
slEra the time. and. then. of course"
"As swer my questions. please. I've spoken
to you once about II. Do you think you
are performing your duty as a wife enjoying
yourself In Dresden and Berlin while your
husband Is working hard in Detroit?' He
was quite willing for me to come. The
American husband Is a good fellow who
likes his wife to enjoy herself" Il am not
asking for your view on the American hus-
band. l am asking your views on the Amer
lean wife-on yourself. The American hus-
band appears to be a sort Of stained-elass
saint and you American wives are imposing
upon him. 1t is doing you good. and 1t
can't go on forever There viii come day
when the American husband will wake up
to the fact that he's making "A fool of him.
self. and by overindulgence. overdeNotion.
turning the American woman into heart
less. selfish creature What sort of home
do you think 1T is In Detroit with you and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
ENrRANE 70 1HE PAIAtE Or TE GOWN PEENtE

it must be remembered that the task Of
governing Germany will become more and
more difficult year by year. The manifold
troubles and difficulties of the present
kaiser will be increased a hundredfold by
the time his newly born grandson ascends
the throne. Sedition is extending on all
sides and the socialist movement which
aims at the overthrow Of the monarchy and
the establishment of a social democrat tic
republic, is growing by leaps and bounds.
The socialists now command one-third of
the adult male citizens of Germany at the
elections. and by the time the imperial babe
Is emperor they may possess a majority OF
the electorate. What will happen then
That will be knotty problem for the new
Hohenzollern to solve. In foreign affairs.
too, the future of Germany does not appear
roseate. The tendency is Enthusiastically in
the direction Of a general coalition Of Eu-
ropean powers against isolated Germany
Colonial affairs become more and more
tangled and unsatisfactory month by
month. Sedition at home powerful combi-
nation OF enemies abroad-these are the
prospects which the latest Hohenzollern
must face.
Poor little fellow! No scion Of the slums
is more to be pitied than his imperial high
ness. RUDOLPH ELPHBERG.
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fulness they made! What lesson to the
common or European widow. the humpy
type of widow! One could spend whole
days In their company-I had done it
commencing quite early in the morning
with a sleighing excursion. finishing up
quite late in the evening with a little sup
per party. followed by an impromptu dance.
and never detect from their outward man.
ner that they were not thoroughly enjoying
themselves. From the mothers l turned my
admiring eyes toward the children. This is
the secret of American success, said 1 TO
myself. this high-spirited courage, this
Spartan contempt for suffering. Look at
them. the gallant little men and womenI
Who would think that they had lost a
father? Why. I have seen British child
more upset at losing sixpence Talking to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
Origin Of Word "Toddy."
From the London Chronicle.

Fifty years ago. according to a veteran
expert witness from Scotland in the What
Is Whisky case, people drank "toddy''-
that is to say. whisky. hot water and
sugar. 1t is not an obsolete beverage even
now. though undoubtedly an exception to
the general rule of cold water or soda in
these days. The really mysterious point
about this 'toddy'' is how 1t got its name.
To-day is the Hindoostani tart or tar
d." the juice Of the cocoanut or other trees.
which can be turned into fiery intoxicant
by being left to stand. IF we had a mind
to coco-nuts. or toddy." says Dampier, "our
Malayans of Achin would climb the trees
and fetch as many nuts as we would have
ana good pot of toddy every morning"
Probably some Scotch nabob brought the
word back with him from the east.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

the children over here? Tell me- is the
American husband made entirely of driven
snow with blood distilled from moonbeams
or is he composed of the ordinary ingre-
dent? Because if the latter, you take my
advice and go back home. i take it that
in America proper there are millions of real
homes where the woman does her duty and
plays the game. But, also, 1t is quite clear
that there are thousands of homes in Amer
lea mere echoing rooms. where the man
walks by himself. his wife and children
scattered over Europe 1t isn't going to
work. 1t isn't right that 1t should work.
You take the advice of a sincere friend.
Pack up-you and the children-and get
home" l left. 1t was growing late. L
felt it was time to leave. Whether she
took my counsel l cannot say. only know
that there still remain in Europe goodly
number of American wives to whom 1t Is
applicable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23

Copyright, 1906, by Jerome z. Jerone.)
AM glad I am not an American hus-
band. At first sight this may appear
a remark uncompiimentary to the
II American wife. It Is nothing Of the
sort. 1t is just the other way about
We in Europe have plenty of opportunity
of judging the American wife. In America
you hear of the American wife. you are
told stories about the American wife, you
see her portrait In the illustrated journals.
By searching under the heading Foreign
Intelligence you can find out what she is
doing. but here in Europe we know her.
meet her face to face. talk to her. flirt with
her. She is charming. delightful That is
why say I am glad I am not an American
husband. If the American husband only
knew how really nice the American wife
was he would sell his business and come
over here, where now and then he could see
her. Years ago, when first began to travel
about Europe. l argued to myself that
America must be deadly place to live in.
How sad 1t is, thought to myself, to meet
thus, wherever one goes. American widows
by the thousand. In one narrow bystreet
In Dresden l calculated fourteen American
mothers. possessing nine and twenty bright
American children, and not father among
them-not single husband between the
whole fourteen! 1 pictured fourteen lonely
graves scattered over the United States. I
saw, as In a vision, those fourteen head
stones of best material, hand carved,
recording the virtues Of those fourteen dead
and buried husbands. Odd. thought 1 to
myself, most decidedly odd, these Ameri-
can husbands! They must be a delicate
type Of humanity. The wonder is their
girls apparently. the majority of them.
Two three sweet children are born to
them. and after that there seems to be no
further use for them SO far as this world
ic cd fro no
strengthen their constitutions? Would
tonic be of any help to them? Not the GUS
tomary tonic, l don't mean. the sort of
tonic merely intended to make equity old
gentlemen feel they want to buy a hoop,
but the sort of tonic for which it is
claimed that If you poured three drops
upon a ham sandwich the next moment you
would hear 1.-THE ham sandwich-grunt.
Also 1t struck me as pathetic, the
thought of these American widows in their
thousands, leaving their native land, COM
ing over in shploads, to spend the rest of
their blighted lives in exile. The mere
thought of America. 1 took it, had forever
become to them dstasteful. The ground
that once his feet had pressed! The old
familiar places once lighted by his SMILE
Everything in America would remind them
of him. Snatching their babes to their
heav1ng bosoms, they would leave the coun-
try where lay buried all the joy of their
lives. seek in the retirement of Paris Flor
ence or Vienna oblivion of the past Also
1t struck me as beautiful-the noble res:g-
nation with which they bore their grief
hiding their sorrow from the Indifferent
stranger. Some widows make fuss, 60
about for weeks looking gloomy and de-
pressed, make not the slightest effort to be
merry. These fourteen widows-I knew
them personally, all of them; lived in the
same street-what a brave show of cheer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
switzerland's Prosperity.
From the Spectator.

The material prosperity Of Switzerland is
strikingly illustrated by the statistics just
published. During the last fifty-five years
the wealth of the country. not including
state property, has risen from E4O0. OOO, OGO
to s6S0. 100000 The remarkable feature of
these figures is the fact that no less than
two-fifths of this total has been acquired
by the hotel proprietors. whose annual in
come is estimated at upward Of $4,000, coo.
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Virtuous Deadwood.
d Cor. st. Paul Dispatch.

Deadwood Cor. St. Paul Dispatch.
For the first time in its history there 10
not a single county prisoner In the Lawrence
county jail. and the board bill for county
prisoners In June was less than for any
month during the last thirty years
Only a few years ago there were forty
two licensed liquor houses In Deadwood:
last July only thirty licenses were Issued.
and this year the number has fallen to
nineteen. The old time wild and wolly
Deadwood Is thing of the past and nothing
but tombstones and memory remind one Of
the days of Deadwood Dick Calmitv Jane.
wild Blu Hickok and the Beauty of Brim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
Some One Had Blundered.

The late Mrs. Craigie or John Oliver
Hobbies. the brilliant American novelist
was known. was a superb mimic Mimi
cry. as she had mastered 1t. is one of the
fine arts. One night at dinner, she MIN
licked a silly. empty-headed little lady.
whose husband lover OF gaiety, was in
clined to neglect his wife.
Mrs. Craigie said that this lady, while
spending the winter in the country, said
one day at the country post office:
Dear me, what a silly mistake you
post Office people have made
How. madam asked the clerk.
Why, she explained, with a litter, here
I have just gotten a letter from my hus-
band. who Is working hard In London, and
the envelope Is postmarked Monte Carlo"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-23
One Kind Of Man.

At a dinner in Newport Rear Admiral
Evans spoke with scorn of young man
who had married an old woman for her
money.
That chap calls himself a man. / sup
pose" said the great fighter. but
there are various definitions of the word
man, and the definition that would fit our
friend best Is the PEBBLES one.
"A Scot of PEBBLES said to his friend
MacAndrew:
Mac. l hear ye have fallen In love WI
bonny Kate McAlster.'
"'Weel, Sanders Mac replied, I was
near-verra- near-daein' 1t; but the bit
lassie had nae sIler, so / said to myself.
Mac, be a mon.' And I was a mon. and
moo pass her by wi silent contempt.