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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

daughter OF the late Gray A: Taft. jr:. of
Boston. Mr.. Woodbridge is the son of the
late Maj. O. E. Michaelis. U. S. A.
Mrs. Peter d. Martin. who was Lily DEL
richs. is expected at Newport from San
Francisco the first of the month. Mrs.
season in order to stay in the stricken city,
which is her home. All summer at her
residence. 204O Broadway, San Francisco.
which was in the unburned district of the
city. she has been giving hospitality and
succor to the afflicted Mrs. Martin wrote
in the early part of the season that she
could not bring herself to think of frivolity
of any kind with much suffering at her
very door, but now she needs rest ana
change. Her advent Is looked forward to
by the cottagers.
Baron Komura who recently was ap-
pointed ambassador to Great Britain, ar
rived in London Thursday.
Prominent among the guests stopping at
Buena Vista Springs this summer are the
Japanese ambassador and ViScounteSS
Aoki, who spend their time in sitting out
doors and driving. taking short walks and
playing cards. They are agreeable CONVEX
sationalists and create no end OF interest
among the guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. C. Creecy, accompanied
by Mrs. A. w. Creecy and ID. B. Creecy,
have gone to the Mt. Pleasant, in the
Breton Woods. for the month of August.
They spent part of last summer at the
make it their resting place for few weeks
each summer.
The minister from Costa Rica and Nine.
Calvo and their children have returned to
Washington from their months stay in the
Blue Ridge mountains
It was announced at the Naval Academy
Friday that Secretary of the Navy Charles
]. Bonaparte will deliver the graduation
address to the eighty-six members of the
taking SDecial
course. and who will be graduated in Sep
TENDER. The final examinations of the
members of the class will close on Sep
TENDER s. The graduation exercises will be
very simple. The class may give itself a
farewell ball. as there is no next lower
class at the institution now to tender this
usual courtesy; but aside from this there
will be no social features attached to the
graduation.
Newport Is all I'm fiutter over the re-
cent attempt to rob the home of Mrs. It.
Townsend Burden, her famous jewels be.
visit. 1t was the iady's pet poodle that
saved the day. and Zizi Is now the hero OF
the hour. This Is the second time the Bur
the first occasion $25, 900 worth being taken.
]. v. Henry Mott. brother of ex-chief
Justice Charles Cooper Mott. is visiting
Mrs. Edward Potter at Newport
Miss Katherine Barney has been visit
ing In Southampton for several days.
Among the arrivals in Lenox are Sir
| Gilbert and Lady Carter. from Barbados
| Sir Gilbert and Lady Carter are friends
| Of Mrs Hartman Kuhn, and have many
| Lenox acquaintances.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Waterbury have
| arrived at Newport from New York and
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs Payne
| Whitney. They made the trip from New
| York by automobile, and made the best
| record between the two cities yet made by
lsuv ut the cottagers They left New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19
The Reason Why.

From the Baltimore American.
Il wonder why they call dramatic poetry
bank verse"
THE transformers who play Shakespeare
at one-night stands say because there is
nothing in it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

and vigor, physically and mentally, amid
the circle of six children and nine grand
children.
The children are Morris, Daniel B., Alex
ander B.. Mrs. Louis Stern wife of Rabbi
Stern: Mrs. Henry ]. Bresiau. and Miss
Hanna Gusdorf. Relatives and friends from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

ington Hebrew Congregation for foI.
years. grand president of District No. g.
o. X. S. B.. and held different positions
of honor and trust in various other char
liable and fraternal organizations.
Mrs. GuSdorf. nee Goldman, was born
In Germany October 49, 1885, and came to
this country in 1854.
The venerable couple enter upon the sec
ond half-century of their welded life en-
1oying the happy privilege of good health
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

various parts Of the country are expected
to be present at the happy celebration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

Mrs G. Karger and family have closed
their home on 18th street and are In Cincin-
natl as the guests of relatives. Mr.. karger
has Joined his family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

The minister from Costa Rica and Nine.
Calvo and their children have returned to
Washington from their months stay in the
Blue Ridge mountains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

Mr.. Nathan Frank and Mr. Sidney Frank
are spending their vacation at the Blue
Mountain House, Blue Mountain, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

Mr. and Mrs Lawrence Waterbury have
arrived at Newport from New York and
are the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Payne
Whitney They made the trip from New
York by automobile, and made the best
record between the two cities yet made by
auv ut the cottagersl They left New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

Mrs. Phil King, accompanied by her Sis
ter, Miss May Harris. returned to Wash
ington on Monday after spending six weeks
in Atlantic City at the Hotel Dennis, and
has opened her apartment In the Imperial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

daughter of the late Gray A. Taft. jr., of
Boston. Mr.. Woodbridge is the son of the
late Maj. o. E. Michaelis. U. S. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

Mrs T. Solomon and Miss Julia Solomon
are spending this month at Atlantic City.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
ready for shipment about the middle of
January.
bucket shops Driven from the state.

with the passage and approval Of the
bill relating to bucket shops by the
legislature the last of the bucket shops
in the state has been closed S. Hollster
Jackson, who was elected states attorney
of washington county in 1904, and who Is
now serving as representative from the
city Of Barre in the House, is the author
of the bill that has brought about this
situation. While holding the Office OF
states attorney he undertook some prose-
cutions Of bucket shops, and while he sue
ceeded in closing them he found that the
law was defective in some respects.
These defects are remedied by the new
law, which declares sales of stock with
out payment, or on margins, to be gam
bling, which raises certain presump-
tions regarding the offer of stock for sale,
and which imposes penalties, not only
on the concern making such offers, but on
those who advertise such offers. AS re-
suit bucket shopping is dead in Vermont
Barre, Burlington, Montpelier, st.
Johnsbury, Bennington, Bellows Falls
and Brattleboro have all suffered from
the bucket shop evil, and hundreds of
thousands OF dollars of Vermont money
have been sunk in that way in the last
dozen years. Part of II has been lost
through the rise and fall of stocks, but
more through the failure OF the bucket
shop houses.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
Professors Not Literary.

Not long ago there was something said
In praise Of the contributions to literature
which are being made by the members
of the faculties Of American colleges
Some OF these contributions make excel
lent reading and some do not Prof.
Stoddert of Kansas university. for ex-
ample, has done much to increase the
worlds pleasure by his nara tives OF
travel in the West, and stu more recently
by his editing of Audubon's Western
Journal There are others whose work
may be called literary. but most of the
work Of our American college professors is
simply valuable They have compiled
great masses OF material Their work has
been thorough and therefore is trust
worthy. They have indeed. laid up great
historical material, which some day will
be used by deft literary worlxmen for the
instruction and entertainment of the
people who read. Now their tasks are
done for those who study.
Perhaps II is pity that this should be
so, judging from purely literary considera-
lions. II seems TO us a waste of time
to make books that no one but pundits
can read. and II Is certainly wrong to
carry. as some of our college professors
do. their scorn Of style to such an ex-
treme that even their elementary BOOKS
whether for schools and colleges or for
general reading are unbeautiful and oc-
casionally very ugly in their dry and
| juiceless deformity. There is nothing
more highly disdained by these accurate
searchers for facts, these just judges.
than the imaginative qualities. the grace.
and the attractive English OF those whom
they denounce as literary historians"
And yet Gibbon was more learned and
1 more precise than most OF them.
Macaulay instructs as well delights
his readers. The once-despised Anthony
Froude-despIsed mainly because he
wrote so WELLS now asserted TO have
been a more thorough and more patient
| Investigator than was his enemy. Free
man. who also, IL is fair to say. wrote
| with eloquence which is often accounted
a resort for those whose knowledge is
less than II ought to be. or. worse still.
less than the eloquent writer pretends to
possess. II has been said of certain
distinguished faculty that good writing
by a student will not be tolerated by any
| OF its professors except those who teach
| writing and rhetoric.
This sort OF spirit Is too common IN
most OF our institutions. Fine writing
has been too much derided among us;
often we might as wen make sport OF
fine feelings. The emphasis on plainness
OF speech has 30 frequently led TO sfipshod
work, to the use OF slang, which indicates
a meager vocabulary, that mangled Eng
lish has come to be the fashion among
all college students but a few.-rHarper's
Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16

After travelling across two continents
and taking his life in his hands every day
by looping the loop on bicycle Robert
Vandervoort known as "Diavalo," was
killed in a freight wreck recently at
Rome, N. Y, while at work as a brake
man on the New York Central railroad.
Work will be begun soon on the con-
struction of a tunnel between Windsor,
Ontario, and Detroit, Mich, under the
Detroit river. The Michigan Central
Railway company is back of the enter
prise, and II is said that the Grand Trunk
and Pacific and Canadian Northern rail-
roads have agreed TO share the expense,
which is estimated at $780, 900, The
tunnel VIII be seven miles long and ir is
expected that 1t win take seven years to
complete IL.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
Deposits Of s52,os7,e9 In Vermont Saw
lnas Banks and Trust Companies.

The report of the state inspector Of
finance, Luther A. Cobb, shows that the
savings institutions and trust companies
have deposits of $50 0S7 ,699.0S, an Increase
of $2,717,719.40 over 1905 With one ex-
ception this is the largest gain in de-
posits in any one year since the depart
ment was organized. The number OF de-
positors has increased 1922 and now there
are 81 $50. Nearly one-half the people In
the state are depositors in the banks.
The resources Of the banks have increased
SO, 113 ,096.76 during the past year The
surplus and profits amount to SO, 43S, 331 73,
or 6 3-5 per cent of the deposits The
taxes paid were S346 5O7.19. an increase of
500, 045.47 The dividends to depositors
were 81, COZ, 549. 90, an increase OF $1,000
| for the year. The inspector recommends
a reduction of the rate of taxation on
money loaned within the state, the re-
moval Of tax on deposits, also examin-
atoms OF banks other than those made
regularly. There are in the state As saw
| ings banks, OF which 20 are trust COM
panies and % mutual savings banks.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
WORK THAT TELLS.
Plenty of 1t Has Been Done Right Here in
Brattleboro.


Cures that las. are cures that tell. To thor
oughly know the virtues of medicine you
must investigate the cures and see il they
prove permanent. Doan's Kidney Pills stand
this test, and plenty of proof exists right here
in Brattleboro. People who testified years
ago to relief from baekaehe. kidney and uri-
nary disorders, declare that relief was
permanent and the cure perfect. How can
any Brattleboro sufferer longer doubt the evil
dencel
Mrs. E. E. Whitney, living on the Bonny-
vale road, about four miles from Brattleboro,
VT, says; SIN testimonial gave eight years
ago / told the people of Brattleboro wha,
wonderful benefit Doan's kidney Pills had
given me. had been annoyed for years with
attacks of pain in the small of my back and
with other symptoms which plainly showed
that the kidneys were not acting properly. ]
commenced using Doan's Kidney Pills and
they helped me from the first. and continued
taking them until had used several boxes
am getting along in years and can hardly
expect complete cure, but Doan's Kidney
Pills are certainly the finest remedy know
of and it is blessing to know Of a medicine
which brings such prompt relief. 1 certainl,
speak we'll of 1t to my friends"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New York. sol'
agents for the United Sites.
Remember the name-Doan's- sand take ne
other.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
IN OUR OWN STATE
Death Of Last Widow Of a Rev.
olutionary Soldier
Mrs Esther Damon Of Plymouth Union
Was Married at Fl to Noah Damon,
Then 76 Years old.

Mrs. Esther Damon Of Plymouth Union
Was Married at Fl to Noah Damon,
Then 7e Years old.
Mrs. Esther Damon, 90, the last widow
of a Revolutionary soldier on the United
States pension rolls, died Sunday at her
home in Plymouth Union, Windsor county.
She was born in Bridgewater, VT, August
l. 1914 and was an own cousin of Charles
Sumner, the distinguished Massachusetts,
statesman. Her father died when she
was eight years old, but by hard
struggle the daughter obtained SUFFICIENT
schooling so that she began teaching
school in Plymouth Union at the age of
II. At the age of 81 she met Noah
Damon, a tottering veteran of the Rev
olution, 76 years old, who Othello-li6e,
told stirring stories of his battles that
entranced her, and two weeks after their
first meeting they were married. Damon,
who enlisted at Milton, Mass, April 10,
1775, served five years in the Revolution
airy war. He was penniless at the time
of his marriage to the young school
teacher and was burden to her in the
years that followed. He died in Plain
field, NJ H.. where a daughter by pre-
vious marriage lived. Mrs. Damon sup
ported herself for years by sewing and
nursing. She received a pension of $50
a year, which was afterward increased to
$12 a month. In 1890 she became ac-
uuainted with Mrs. Snow, an aged widow
living in a small cottage on the mountain
side in Plymouth and went 20 live with
her. The two became greatly attached
to each other, and Mrs. Damon regarded
Mrs. Shows death in 1908 as the saddest
event in her own life. Mrs. Damon was
a great reader and she had a strong de-
sire to visit Washington and from there
to journey into Virginia to see Mrs
Rebecca Mayo, another Revolutionary
widow who died in 1904. Mrs. Damon
might have passed her last days in pow
erty had it not been for the accidental
discovery of her condition two years age
by the members of Palestrello chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
of Wallingford.
The society got bill through the leg
islature giving her 5000 for her support
Each chapter in the state was induced t
contribute 81 a month during the bal
ance of the old lady's life. and Congress
doubled her pension of $12. She wa
made a Daughter of the American Revo
luton, her grandfather, william Thomp
son, having been a Revolutionary soldier.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
Eleven Stab Wounds In Body Of Thomas
RIVER, Murdered at PownalI.

HyCFg at TOWndhs
Drs. B. H. Stone of the state laboratory
and c. H. Beecher Of Burlington, sum-
moned by Atty Gen Fits, performed an
autopsy Thursday afternoon on the body
of Thomas Ryer, the hunchbaok teamster,
whose body was found near the dugway
in Pownal November 8. The physi
clans found II stab wounds on the
mans body, four of them through the
heart Ten ribs we're also broken and
there were mutilations of an even more
fiendish nature. The wounds had been
made with two-edged knives and as some
of the cuts were wider than others 1t was
plain that more than one person had a
hand in the crime.
No arrests have been made and the
officials have as yet found no direct clue
to Ryer's assailants, though the wounds
appear to have been made with knives Of
the kind often carried by Italian laborers.
States Attorney William r. Daley OF
Bennington conducted an investigation
at Pownal and visited the camp Of labor
ers employed on the new Bennington and
North Adams electric railroad, one OF
whom discovered the body.
A photographer. while searching for a
spot to place his camera, came upon a
pocket knife and razor hidden In the
leaves, and 1t was believed that these
were the weapons with which the crime
was committed until the autopsy dis
proved it. They are now thought to have
been the personal property Of Ryer taken
from his pockets after the body had been
dragged to its place OF concealment.
On the night he received his pay Ryer
was seen in the company OF an Italian
who also had been employed on the rail-
road. They were drinking, and It is
known that Ryer had at least IS at the
time.
No relatives of the dead man nave
been found The body was buried in
Pownal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
Granite for President Mckinley sar-
oopaahI to Come from Windsor.

COpd9Hi 10 SOT0G ITOU0 NiUooOTs
The granite for the President McKin-
ley sarcophagi in the mausoleum at Can
ton, o., will come from Vermont, the con-
tract for the rough stone having been
made with ]. c. Enright, proprietor OF
the Enright granite works in Windsor
The famous green granite quarried
from Ascutney mountain will be the
material used, the supply coming from
a new quarry just opened up on the
farm of s.. G. Mower in West Windsor.
This granite is of a finer and better
quality without the seams, veins and
light colored defects found in some of
the stone which has been taken out from
the old quarries and still having che
rich, dark green color which has made 1t
famous. Some of 1t may be seen in
bia college, New York, in the Hochelaga
bank at Montreal and in the Journal
building in Boston.
The contract calls for six pieces of
granite IA inches thick, which will form
two receptacles eight feet and ten in
ches wide and two feet six and one-half
inches thick, with a smaller stone be-
tween. The whole win be surmounted by
two capstones each one foot and two and
three fourths inches thick, cut and pol
ished according to designs submitted to
the commission having the work in
charge, by II. VanBuren McGonigle, the
will resemble somewhat that of Napoleon
in the Pantheon at Paris, the figure and
wings upon the top being lacking, how
ever.
With increased facilities for getting
out the stone which will be employed,
1t is expected that the blocks the largest
of which win weigh nine tons, will be
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16

The motion to dissolve the injunction
restraining a majority OF the stock
holders OF Hotel Low. Bradford. from dis
posing OF the property was argued re-
Gently before Judge James NJ. Tyler This
injunction was served Oct. 29 last. Judge
Tyler denied the motion and appointed
Jerome B. Hale receiver OF the property.
A minority OF the stockholders procured
the injunction because a majority wished
to sell the property, the purchaser to take
the furniture at $4,000. to which they OBJ
jected as they claimed they had no in
terest in the personal property.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
DR.. KENNEDY'S
AVORITE
REMEDY
Breaks no Hearts, Excuses
no Crimes.

DIR. David Kennedy's FAvoRITE REM
EDY is not disguised enemy Of the human
race where it cannot help, it does not
harm. 1t is composed of vegetable ingre-
dents and does not heat or inhame the
blood but cools and purifes it. In all cases
of Kidney troubles, Liver complaints, Con-
stipation of the Bowels, and the delicate
arrangements which afiiict women, the ac-
ton Of DIR. Kennedy's FAVORITE REM
EDY is beyond praise, Thousands of
grateful people voluntarily testify TO this,
In letters to DR., Kennedy; and with q
warmth and fullness of words which mere
business certificates never possess. II
makes no druhkards--excuses no crimes
breaks no hearts. We challenge trial and
areconfident Of the result. ONE DOLLAR
Bottle. All druggists. Bear in mind the
name and address; DR.. DG0id KENNEDY,
Rondout, New York. Write for free sam
pie bottle and medical booklet fun Of valu-
able medical advice. Mention this paper.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16

tered against his teeth. Edwards leaned
forward
''Rlnberton," he said, I'VE have found
Kirkland"
The wretched man glared at the impas-
sve face close to his, like wild beast.
He half raised himself in his chair, and
his right hand went out to a drawer.
Shut that drawer" said Edwards,
Towering over him, ''or I'll brain you with
this ruler. Would you add murder to
your other crimes7 Sit down, ! say"
Rinberton collapsed, as II his heart had
suddenly ceased to beat. Spare me,
Edwards" he cried. For the sake of old
days, for the sake OF my sonny only
boy-spare me. j was led away by Sheref
whose tongue would vile n bird of the
bough. was dazzled with the prospect
Of getting rich quickly, and yielded The
prospectus was written by me. but from
notes supplied TO me by Sheref. His was
the brain that conceived II; / wish my
hand had been shriveled before It exc
cuted 1t. Let me give restitution, do
anything; but do not bring me to open
shame"
Twice." said Edwards, you have stood
in the path Of my niece--you now stand
in It. But for old school days and for
your sons sake I'll hold my hand on one
condition, though It is almost a crime
TO do so. This is my bargain. on the
day that sees your son and my niece
made man and wife, with a sum settled
on her by you equivalent TO her loss by
your infamous company, ] destroy all evil
dence possess Of your guilt"
Edwards stood by the study fire in his
empty house a few hours after the we'd
ding. Rinberton had fulfilled his part OF
| the contract and Edwards was now full
! filling his. All the papers were burning
| except a single letter which he held in his
hand and read over and over again before
| consignng 1t to the flames.
Dear Edwards" It ran, I'VE have
| found Kirkland. Our bad luck pursues us
| He was found on a hillside in Rhodesia
| lying six feet beneath the sod, with a
slab OF granite on top TO keep him there
until the judgment day"
1T was risky" murmured Edwards. as
ne damned the letter into the middle Of
the fire with the poker. Yes, deuced
risky; but I thought l knew my man.
IA. II. Browne in the Bystander.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-16
w. H. slIsby Of Newbury Killed In Rum
away Accident,

William H. Silsby. 70, one OF the most
active and highly respected citizens Of
Newbury was killed near his home Mon
day. He was walking toward his house
when he was knocked down by runaway
team owned by George King. He died
two Eours later. Several bones were
broken and he was injured internally.
but had lived in Vermont many years.
He was a veteran of the Eighth Vermont
regiment. He represented westmore in
the legislature in 1870 and Newbury in
1894. His son, Albert, was the represent
tative from Newbury two years ago.