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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21
ARLINGTON

II S Wilson was in Bennington re-
Gently.
Miss Sara Hard has returned from
Dandy
Mrs Irving Grout who has been Wis
ting relatives at Townsend has return
ed home
Mrs Mary Adams was in Bennington
Wednesday.
Miss Mabel Rogers spent Thursday
in Bennington.
DrW S Phillips is confined to the
house by illness
There is a show advertised 10 be at
the hall next week
The Easter Offering at ST James
church amounted to Sl45.
Mrs James Cullen spent Tuesday
with her mother in Dandy.
James Cullen was in Dorset and
Dandy Tuesday on business.
Mrs Margaret Mann is assisting
with the household work at DR. w S
Phillips.
Miss Mabel Sculey is taking Miss
Mary Mann's place at the Arlington
for few days.
Mr. and Mrs St John McRae of
BrOosline, Mass. are occupying the
Bungalow for a few days.
Miss Sarah Mann who has been
spending few days with her mother
hrs Margaret Mann returned to her
work in Bennington Thursday.
Miss Mary Mann has had TO give up
her position at the Arlingtonfor few
days and is at home assisting her
mother Mrs Thomas Mann who had
the misfortune to iniure her hand quite
badly.
The wedding of Miss Hannah Leake
and Charles Russell took place at ST
Peters church in Albany on Tuesday
April 18th. The ceremony was per
formed 10y Rev Walton w Battershull
rector of the church. assisted by Rev
Malcolm Johnston of Gloversyille.
Miss Ieake is a niece of Richard Leake
and has spent many summers in town.
Two cousins assisted at the wedding,
Miss Maude b Leake acting as maid OF
honor and Miss Georgiana Leake as
one OF the bridesmaids.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21
Petition For Divorce
STATE OF VERMONT.
MaryJ Sails BENNINGTON
V. COUNTY COURT,
Nathan n. Sails June Term. 1915.

WHEREAS Mary Sails. OF Manchester In
the County of Bennington, has duly
filed in the ONCE of the clerk OF the County
Court for said County OF Bennington at Ben.
nlngton 10 said County, her petition for divorce
against Nathan Sails formerly OF said Man
chester, now OF parts unknown outside
this state.
Alleging as the causes for said divorce that
the said Nathan n Sails on the 18TH day of Sep
tember 1884, wilfully deserted the said Mary j
Sails and has continued said desertiOn for up
ward OF three years, and thence hitherto.
Further alleging that the said Nathan n sails
has at divers times committed adultery.
And pralln for the causes aforesaid that
bill of divorce be granted to the said petitioner
NOW THEREFORE,, The said Nathan N
Sails is hereby and by the publication hereof
In compliance with the statute for such case
made and provided, NOTIFIED AND RE-
QU IRED TO APPEAR before the Honorable
the County Court at the next stated term there
of, TO be held at Manchester, within and for
the County of Bennington aforesaid Oh the
first Tuesday of June 1906 on the first day Of
said term, then and there In said court to make
answer 70 said petition for divorce and 10 stand
10 and abide such order, judgment and decree
thereon rs to said court shall seem meet, the
premises considered.
Given nj Bennington III said County Of Ben
ningt0n, this 9Th day Of April. A. ID. 1905.
HARRY 4. CUSHMAN,
L. G. ARCHIBALD, Clerk
Attorney for Petitioner
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21
Petition for Divorce.
STATE OF VERMONT

STATE OF VERMONT
Ella Towsley, bennington County
william Towsley June Term 1906.
WHEREAS. q libel for divorce from the
bonds of matrimOny was filed In said cause
with the clerk Of the county court of Benning.
ton County, on tile 9Th day OF April 1906. alleg.
ing in substance the marriage OF the parties TO
said cause on the 25th day OF July, 1903. at
Pawlet, VT. that the parties have since resided
in Manchester, We that tile lihellee has treat.
ed the libellant With irtOlerable severity and
that he has refused and neglected, without any
Just cause or prOv0cation, to provide suitable
maintenance for the libelant
Aud praying for the dissolution of said mar
rage and for the custody Of the minor children
named In said libel ana for suitable allmOny,
And 1t appearing that the said William Tows-
ley Is without this state so that said libel can
not be served upon him personally;
IL Is therefore ordered that said lihellee be
required to appear on the first day OF next
term Of Bennington County court, to be held at
Manchester, in the County OF Bennington. on
the first Tuesday OfJune 1906, then and there to
make answer to said libel and that said libel
liant do publish this order three weeks success
Slvely In the Bennington Evening Banner, a
newspaper printed In BENNINGTON. in said
county, the last of which shall be at least six
weeks previous 10 the commencement OF said
term OF court
Dated at Bennington, in said county of Ben
ningtOn, this 9Th day of April 1916
HARRY r. CUSHMAN
Clerk.
+. c. ARCHIBALD,
Attorney for the Libellant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21

Bennington, VI, April II. 1906
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with Section 10, Act Number III of the revised
laws OF 1901, James +. Leahy has applied for o
license OF the first class to sell intoxicating liq-
uors at the Cottage Hotel so called, in the VII
lage OF Bennington bar TO 20 located In the
room now used for that purpose
Public hearing on said application will be
held in the commissioners rooms at the town
clerk 5 ofice Ia the Village of Bennington at 8
o'clock p. m, Saturday. April 2S 1898.
Frank Battles,
SH lockwood,
Walter II Berry,
License Commissioners
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21
Application for Liquor License,

Bennington, VT. April IA, 1905.
Notice is hereby given In compliance with
Section 10. Act Number III OF the revised
laws OF 1891, Dennis +. CrOnin has applied for
a license OF the first class to sell intoxicating
liquors at the American House. so called in
the Village Of Bennington, bar 10 be located in
the room now used for that purpose.
Public hearing on the said application viii be
held In the Commissioners room at the Town
Clerk once IN the village of Bennington at s
o'clock + NJ, April 2s. i90'
Frank +. Battles,
"a lockwood
Walter fl, Berry.
License Commissioners.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21
FOOD SALE

The Young Woman's club will have
a food sale in their rooms or Saturday
afternoon beginning at , O'Clock.
Baked beans, cookies, rolls, cake and
other eatables will be on hand. Stop
in on your way from the Fortuightly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21
FRANK +. HOWE, Editor and Publisher

Remember those three hundred
thousand homeless people in San
Francisco and leave a subscription to
the amount YOU can afford at the Ben
nington county national bank.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-21
AUCTION SALE
Saturday, April 2Sth
At 100 p. M,

public auction all real estate Bennington con
occupied Miss Leonard
NV home with 200 feet frontage adjoining the east
the Luther Graves pac and running
railroad thence lands of and Dewey
OF lot
fronting Elm street. leaving 10 feet frontage not built arn ana
Hodge all good
condition. greenhouse the place be removed This property on
village
lahd
building site for sale in Bennington
20 feet frontage Silver street.
we'll rented village shade and fruit
will sold whole plot to suit the putcha
err proposed the electric road
Bahman which paid
1925 in. wide This safe kept for and
perfect every way.
Terms suit the purchaser place
premises.
This property must be sold to leave town -
GEORGE +. HEATH
John Robinson, Aucioneer
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
orlaln of the Orange.

1t is to India and the Arabs as mid
dlemen that Europe, and through
Europe, America, owe this now fami-
liar fruit. The orange crossed from
Africa to Spain with Mohammedan-
ism, while, probably, the crusaders
are to be thanked for bringing it to
Italy and western Europe among
their trophies of the East. The very
name is really Arabic-"narranj'-
and of Eastern origin though the
legend that it comes from two words
meaning elephant" and "be ill.," be-
cause elephants at oranges to make
themselves i'll, is absurd. Probably
in French the initial IN" is dropped
off from narranj with the final m"
of the indefinite article just as our
ian apron" represents "a napron,"
and the spelling with an 90" points
to false association with "or" (gold).
--Habana Economista.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
Modern Samson in Canada.

Possessed of Samsonlike strength,
Albert Fisher saved his life by re-
markable exhibition of his power.
Fisher was employed as a stone
crusher, and his duties consisted in
feeding rocks into the huge machine.
To aid this he stood on a platform
just above the crusher. He had just
dropped a fifty-pound bowlder into
the machine, when his foot slipped
and he fell headlong between the
steel jaws.
No person was near to stop the
engine. Bracing his shoulders
against the steel crushers, which
were slowly closing, the sturdy work.
man elerted all his great strength in
one powerful effort. For a moment
the machine stopped, then the
massive sides drew apart, and finally
there was a rending of the steel
joints, and the crusher fell to pieces.
Quebec Dispatch to Philadelphia
North American.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
Girls in Germany.

The German girl leaves school at
about fifteen years of age, by which
time she has learned to sew, mend
and supposedly to speak English and
French. She has not learned higher
mathematics, but she learned the
small things which fit q girl for
housewife or companion, and that,
in Germany, is woman's only sphere.
However much we American girls
may ENJOY our COnesC We uaTG not
pity the German girls, for they have
something which takes their place
and of which we have no conception
until we reside in Germany a few
months.
Did you ever hear of a pension?
1t is one of the most enjoyable things
which exists. Certain influential la
dies, mostly widows or maiden aunts,
make known that they are willing to
take a limited number of young la
dies into their families. We went to
Hanover, two of us girls, with a hor-
ror and dread of boarding school,
as we heard pension" described.
we lOuhu OuI5SlNSS III u family Oh
eight girls, all from the very best
class of Germans, and ah placed I'M
der Frau Won H. s care for year or
more. None of the girls had any
special object in life; a few wanted
to learn how to keep house, a few
INDUCED In an hours music lesson a
week, but most of them came, as is
the German custom, for the sake of
becoming polished and being escorted
to concerts, theatres, balls, recep-
lions, student Kneipes, etc, oppor-
tunities not afforded in the smaller
cities, and even not in many cities
that are larger than Hanover.
Consequently our chaperon accept
ed invitations for the girls, parties
were given, and the great intimate
family spent year full of pleasure
Modern Women.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
STATUS OF THE BALD EAGLE.
be Feeds on ~ useiuI 70 Man.

Since the bald eagle feeds largely
on nsh OF various kinds IL of course
destroys species useful to man, and
to this degree must be considered IN,
furious; but the total amount OF this
harm would seem to be comparative
small, for much Of its dnny prey con
sists Of species not economically i'm
portant, On the other hand the de-
Nouring of vast quantities of dead is
that IL left TO decay would pollute
the air, is a positive benefit, It's de-
struction Of ducks, geese aud other
water fowl all of which are available
as food for man, is perhaps its most
serious because most frequent fault
but this is to considerable extent
local and confined largely to the win
ter and the seasons Of migration. 1t
attacks gulls and other non-gamc birds
so seldom that even were their eco,
ncmic value much greater than II
there would be little against the eagle
on this score, UPLAND game birds are
not often molested and song birds are
evidently considered too small to be
worth pursuit.
Although not often attacking large
animals, 1t sometimes kills fawns
This, however, is much more than Off
set by its destruction of such more or
less noXious mammals as opossums,
Taccoons, ground squirrels. prairie
dogs, rabbits, rats and mice.
The complaints lodged against this
eagle for the destruction of poultry
and the smaller domestic animals,
such as pigs and sheep, seem to come
largely from the southeastern United
States, in localities where the bird is
rather numerous. where other food Is
"a 4t-s. ~ -I-7la-7z 'sl----as - ---ssss.
ticated animals are easy of access;
but the total amount of this damage
Is, comparatively speaking, not great
The bald eagle is, moreover, almost
everywhere somewhat of scavenger,
a trait that should be set down to its
credit
All things considered the bald eagle
Is rather more beneficial than other
wise.-From Biological Survey Bulle-
tin.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
A Modest Plea.

No more subscriptions of lads"
for the Herald will be accepted until
the business men of South Fork de-
eide to guarantee us at least $40 per
week in cash advertising at our regu-
lar rates of 50 per column for dis
play ads and five cents per line for
locals. We have not tried to force
any one to take an ad in the Herald,
as we do not believe in earning our
living and begging for it, too. Our
actual expenses, including the cost of
our board, are almost $40 per week.
This does not allow us any other
salary than board, clothes and to-
bacco, We had $2.4O left when we
arrived in town May 10, and it has
taxed our ingenuity to keep things
moving, which we were enabled to
do through DR.. Anderson's kindness
in allowing us to run up a board bill
during the time he was running the
Merchants Hotel. We will lose about
500 If we drop the paper now, and
therefore shall not refund any sub
scrlption accounts. We have can
celed our order for ready prints and
closed our job department, and un-
less our business men are enterpris-
Ing enough to subscribe the above
amount of advertising without our
personal solicitation before we can
secure enough money to square our
board bill, we propose to kiss our
selves goodby and explore the jun
giles in search Of community that
does not expect us to live on smiles
and hot air.-Ozark (Mo) Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
The Shopping Sex.

The Englishwoman never knows
when she enter q shop what she
wants. She is swayed by impulse,
grabs wildly at everything she likes
or thinks she likes, and probably
comes back and grumbles the next
day. She is also completely lost if
the shopwalkers do not dog her
every footstep tolmploye her to look
at this charming toque" or condo
scend to "glance at this special line
in cheap skirts" But the American
woman resents any suggestion that
she does not know what she wants,
likes to be left severely alone, and
If interfered with may abruptly leave
the shop. But while she is less irri-
tating than the Englishwoman, she
is far more exacting. london Ex-
press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
LADIES' COLUMN.
Momen CIerks OF Lonp serylce.

In the executive departments in
Washington, where the business OF
the Government is carried on, there
is no belief In the Osler theory as far
as the women clerks are concerned
Several OF the most valued ones
working for the Secretary of State.
passed threescore and ten long ago.
Mrs. Eliza Gridley mother OF the
man who commanded the Olympia at
the battle OF Manila, is almost elgh-
ty, yet she holds a most responsible
position in the general land ONCE,
and knows more about records and
land law than any six clerks in the
department
Miss Mason, who is nearing the
same age, is pillar OF strength TO
seekers for information in the IL
brary of war records. She is the
daughter OF former Minister to
France. In the Department OF Jus
tice are women nearing seventy,
some OF them wives and daughters
OF former Judges, who work faith
fully and intelligently and who are
priced more highly than the younger
women who compose the greater
working mass in the departments 49,
Boston Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
NO MEDICINE
But Change OF Food Gave Final Re.
lief.

Most diseases start in the alimen.
tary canal-the stomach and bowels,
A great deal of our stomach and
bowel troubles come from eating too
much starchy and greasy food.
The stomach does not digest any of
the starchy food we eat-white bread,
pastry, potatoes, oats, etc.--these
things are digested in the small in
testines, and if we eat too much, as
most of us do, the organs that should
digest this kind of food are overcome
by excess of work, so that fermenta-
ton, Indigestion, and long train of
alls result
Too much fat also is hard to di-
gest and this is changed into acids,
sour stomach, belching gas, and a
bloated, heavy feeling.
In these conditions a change from
indigestible foods to Grape-Nuts will
work wonders in not only relieving
the distress, but in building Ndp a
strong digestion, clear brain and
steady nerves. A Wash. woman
writes:
About FIVE years ago | suffered
with bad acknowledgement, indiges-
ton, stipation-caused, know
now, from eating starchy and greasy
food.
II doctored for two years without
any benefit. The doctor told me
there was no cure for me- could
not eat anything without suffering
severe pain in my back and sides, and
became discouraged.
"a friend recommended Grape
Nuts and began to use 1t. In less
than two weeks began to feel better
and inside of two months was a
well woman and have been ever since.
Il can eat anything wish with
pleasure. We eat Grape-Nuts and
cream for breakfast and are very
fond OF It." Name given by Postum
Co, Battle Creek. Mich. Read the
little book, 1.-THE Road to Wellville, -
in pkgs. There's q reason"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
The Land of Old Age.

Among the most interesting pa
pers in the current magazines is the
series on The Land of Old Age"
now being contributed to Harper's
Bazaar by a writer who hides her
identity under the signature, IAN,
Elderly Woman" These papers,.
written straight from the heart of a
very wise woman, are revealing,
many secrets to young readers of the
Bazaar. In the December number
the writer says, among other things:
Age lops off your interest in one
thing, then another. Year by year.
absence and death thin the number
of our friends. Be our children new
er so devoted and loving, there al
ways have been and there always
will be days that have long arid
places in them for people who have
travelled far in the Land Of Old Age.
1t is no ones fault 1t is a part Of
life, no more to be complained of
than the loss of the suppleness of
youth. The Land of Old Age has
sparsely people districts. Shadows
move ABOUT uuueT the Sudue Vi trees
they are the shadows of the people
we used to love. Sometimes as we
sit doing in its tranquility we hear
sounds of footsteps that make our
hearts beat, the sound of dear voices
come to us, and then we wake up
they are only the dear echoes from
the past the reflections Of the things
that were. We know that never this
side of the great silence shall we
hear them with our waking ears.
"Then to us, sitting lonely and ST.
lent, come the voices of little chill
dren, living children and not shadows
that vanish If we dare to look at
them full in the face. They are our
childIe:,c children, and all at once
the silent country wakes up to life.
We know now why the Land of Old
Age is so still and empty. 1t is so
that the children may find plenty of
room there to play. To me, in all
the Land of Old Age there is no
dearer sight than those old people
you sc n with little children around
them "
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
PIinv on Gems.

Pliny declared that diamond was
so hard that If placed on an anvil and
struck with a sledge hammer it would
give back a blow of such force as to
SILVER both anvil and hammer to
pieces.
Another of his wonderful tales states
that ION the shore of the island of Cy-
prus there was a stone lion having
eyes formed of emeralds, which shone
so brightly that all the fishes were in
glorlously frightened away. The fish
ermen accordingly pulled the emeralds
out and put in glass eyes instead,
whereupon the wise fishes became bold
err and returned to their accustomed
nets. Jewellers Circular eWelily.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
Pie and PiefY.

A well-known Episcopal bishop,
while travelling through his diocese,
was entertained by a New England
woman famous for her good cooking.
AS the bishop, like most of the cler-
gy, was very fond of good things rS
eat, he partook freely of the delic-
iOus mince pie which was made in
his honor. Not long after the bishop
was taken suddenly i'll, and seemed
to be undergoing great mental as
well as physical suffering. The wom-
an went to him and said, But, my
dear bishop, surely so good man
as you cannot be afraid to die.
ooh, no." the bishop replied, mot
afraid to die, only ashamed to die.
-Harper's Weekly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15

The following answer to the exam
ination question, What is the differ
ence in form between prose and poe
try?" is quoted as a typical example
by Prof Pearson in Harper's Weekly:
1.-The chief characteristic of poetry
is Jagged appearance"
Another thus defined blank verse:
ut must have metre to it; the
lines all begin with a capital and are
of rather uniform length. In other
kinds Of poetry the lines rhyme with
one another, and the best poetry seems
to flow gently from the start to the
finish !"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
Fish in a Mineral Spring.

A remarkable discovery of the ex-
istence of fish in a highly mineral
lied stream, which issues from an
artesian bore at temperature of 112
degrees, is reported by our Brisbane
correspondent. DR.. ]. w. Barrett
and his son, while out shooting on
Dillalah cattle run, in Queensland,
had occasion 10 draw duck they
had shot from small reservoir that
had been formed in the course of the
bore stream. Movements in the
water led to the discovery that it
was alive with fish, although 1t had
never been artiilclally stocked and
was far distant from any river. A
specimen about six inches long, re-
sembling sea salmon, was secured
and shown to Professor Wilson, of
Sydney. who has not been able to
identify it.-London Daily Mail.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
Rapid TrestIe Building.

The rapid reconstruction of tres
tie was recently carried on at Calves
ton, Tex. Fire destroyed 400 feel
of the long railroad trestle which ex
tends from the mainland to the city
and stopped traffic. The construction
forces and materials were Immediate
ly started to the work, and by mid
night of the same day the trestle
was sufficiently repaired to allow traf-
fic to be resumed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-12-15
Catnrrh Cannot Be Cured

With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, rs they cannot
reach the seat of the disease Catarrh is u
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure 1t you must take internal remedies.
Hall s. CataIrh Cure Is taken internally, and
acts directly on thebIood and mucous surface
Halls CGtarrh Cure is not quack medicine.
1t was prescribed by one Of the best physi-'
clans in this country for years, and is reg
ular prescription. 1t Il composed Of the
best TONES known, combined with the best
blood purifiers, acting directly on the mu-
cous surfaces. The perfect combination Of
the two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
+. j. CHENEY Il Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists price, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.