davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Don't Throw cudgels at Your Town.

Whatever failings you may have-and heaven knows all have some inat they should struggle day and night to try to overcome Ne'er stand within the market place and as you coldly frown, with all the strength that you possess. throw cndgels at your town. DO not unceasingly complain about her streets and squares The failures her officials have, the par. sons talks and prayers, Ana oo not !l an endless plaint your small opinion give or how much better things *were done Where you have chanced to live. 1T things are not what they should be and ought to be improved, Roll up your sleeves and go to work and have what's wrong removed. But let me say, whatever line of action you pursue. DO not destroy what you now have till you can build anew,
 Boston Globe
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Chicago and North Wcstern By
 To the Great North Woods.

Special low rates are in effect daily from all points via the North Western Line to the fishing and hunting grounds of northern Wis consin and the Upper Peninsula of Lake Michigan, including Gogebic Lake, Cisco Lake, Eagle River Woodruff, Manitowish, Mtrcer, Hay ward, Gordon, Radisson and to var ious Lake Superior points including Duluth, Superior, Ashland, Bayfield,, Isle Royale, Marquette and sault Ste. Marie. Booklets containing detailed maps, lists of hotels and camps and other valuable informa- tion on application. Geo. F. Brig ham, Jr,, General Agent, 311 N. 3 street, St. Louis Mo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Entranced.

The happy couple dashed through the showers of rice and old shoes and reached the train.
 "Oh, George" whispered the blushins bride, ''do you hear what they are shouting?"
 "No," replied George, trying to loosen 8 white ribbon that had been attached to his silk hat. What are they shout ing?"
 "'They're off! They're off"
 George smiled broadly as he helped her aboard the parlor car.
 "Oh, that's all right, my dear," he assured. "All couples are a little off when they are starting on their honey moon."
 And then began the rainbow tour per sonally conducted by Hymen.-Chicago News
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
POSY GROWERS
 IN SESSION

Philadelphia, Aug Ex-Governor Edwin $. Stuart welcomed the thous- and delegates assembled here today at the twenty-third convention of the So- ciety of American Florists and Orna- mental HOrticulturists. The annual reports of President William J, Stew art of Boston, Secretary P. J. Haus- worth of Chicago and other officers oc- cuped the greater portion of the open ing session. A great floral show and exhibition Of new varieties of flowers, plants, trees and shrubs was opened today in Horticultural hall. in connec- ton with the convention
 This evening the Philadelphia Flor ists' club will give a reception in hon or of President Stewart and the yisi- tors. The selection of the next meet ing place and the nomination of off, cers will take place tom5rgov, and the election Of officers eA Thursday. Among the amusements arranged for by local florists are shooting and bowling tournaments, open only to members of the national society
 The convention will close Saturday. after a final meeting os the executive board.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
He Couldn't Bend,

A young man engaged board ano lodging in private family who were extremely devout. Before each mea a long grace was said. To their dis may and horror the new boarder sa1 bolt upright while the others at table reverently bowed their heads. Whel the second day passed and the young man evinced no disposition to unbend the good lady of the house could en dure the situation no longer
 "Atheism?" asked she sharply.
 "No, madam" humbly responded the new boarder; "boil."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
When Did You Oil Your Watch

When did you oil your watch last Never? You may remember when VOW fabricated your sewing machine, type writer, lawn mower or grindstone- within a year, probably-but your watch you never oiled, that you can remember. Yet in period of eighteen months the balance wheel turns on its axis 13,996,S0O,OOO times. Expert Watchmakers say that watch should be thoroughly cleaned and oiled every eighteen months. Many persons wear watch for years, winding it up each night, and never oil it. Watches are Instruments of uncertain age; some run Indefinitely keeping accurate time without need of repairs. As a matter ,af fact, nothing is so neglected as this
 mall, delicate and useful instrument ,I-North American.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Something of That Kind.

"YOung man." said the serious gen tleman, ''did you ever pause and think that each tick of the clock brings you another moment nearer to the end of your existence?" SA
 T was thinking of something of that kind this very minute" cheerfully re, piled the youth, "only the idea struck me that each tick brought pay day that much nearer"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Real Distinction.

"Is Mir Scadds man of scientific distinction?'
 "Yes, indeed" answered Miss Cay enne. ''He has so many college de- grees that when he sends in his card you can't be sure whether it is his name or problem in algebra. Lon don Tit-Bits.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
A Puzzler,

An old white haired darky living on a plantation, not feeling we'll. had the doctor pay him a visit. The doctor told him as he was getting old he must eat plenty of chicken and sta! out of damp night air. But, sah. said the old darky, ''how can you OK pect me to stay in de house at night and still get my chickens?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Friends of Our Friends.

Nothing astonishes us, as a rule, more than the friends of our friends We invariably look upon them with suspicion and wonder. especially when we have heard a great deal about them, In what their attraction can possibly consist.-Lvndon Ladies' Field.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
A Quick Wit.

Husband-Did you notice how i'll tempered my colleague was this even- ing? He was annoyed because I have brought you new set of jewelry. Now he will have to get new set for his wife too. Wife-A disagreeable fel- low that man is. If I were you. would annoy him often.-Fliegende Blatter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
His Risina Day.

"He never did rise in the world til. he stumbled over lot O dynamite" the village gossip said, ''an' even then. like so many men in the risin' busi- ness, he never did know what he rig ferw-Atlanta Constitution.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Health Recipe.

One time man asked the poet Long the answer he received:
 Joy, temperance. and repose
 Slam the door on the doctors nose.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20

Doans Resulets cure constipation, tone the stomach, stimulate the liver, promote digestion and appetite and easy passages of the bowels Ask your druggist for them 25 cents a box.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20
Sweetness, s,

He (sympathizing with his bride, who has just been stung)-How intelli- gent was that bee, my dear, to know that we're on our honeymoon!-Judy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20

If everybody knew what one says of the other there would not be one friend left in the world.~Pascal,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-20

England and Australia are the only islands which exceed Cuba in their natural resources.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
EXPECT RECEIVERS
TO SAVE THEIR
BUSINESS
Arnold Print Works and Sub
sidary Companies
LIABILITIES ARE S1O,OOO,0OO
United States Senator w. Murray
Crane Of Massachusetts Is Made
One. Of the co.Receivers.

North Adams, Mass, Nov. S.-The
placing of the Arnold Print works of
this city and various subsidiary COM
panies, the Williamstown Manufacture
ing company OF Williamstown, Mass,
the North Pownal Manufacturing
company of North Pownal, and
the firm Of Gallup & Houghton of
North Adams in the hands of re-
ceiver, is regarded by business men
here as the best method of safe
guarding the interests involved and
the continuation of the properties
which gave employment to about 5000
hands in northwestern Massachu-
sets and southern Vermont.
The immediate control of the Ar
mold Print works and. through that
concern, of the various other compan-
les, is in the hands of A. c. Houghton
and William Arthur Gallup, his SON
in-law. The affairs of all the compan-
les are exceedingly intimate, so that
the appointment OF receiver for the
Arnold Print works on the petition of
Charles d. Houghton, a nephew of A.
c. noughton, and n creditor of the
Arnold Print works was followed by
receiyerships for all the other in
volved concerns.
The effect of this action is to pre-
vent attachment upon any OF the
property and any waste in the as
sets. Under the order of the court
the business of all properties must
continue in the usual course, under
the receiyership.
The aggregate liabilities are esti-
mated at nearly $4,000, 600
Boston. Nov S.-United States
Senator Winthrop Murray Crane was
appointed co-receiver of the Arnold
Print works OF North Adams today
by Judge Lowell in the United
States Circuit court on petition of
counsel for the creditors. His bond
was placed at 100000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
TRUSTEES MEETING
Special Village Meeting to be Held
November 19.


There was an adjourned meeting of
the village trustees Friday evening
with Trustees Gibson. Torrance, Ny
ers and Moore and Village Attorney
Holden present and President Lyons
in the chair.
In the matter of the franchise APP
piled for by the New England Tele-
phone and Telegraph company there
was some discussion relative to the
joint use of poles on the streets spec
ified, both the superintendent OF the
local telephone office, Mr.. Story and
the manager of the Bennington Light
and Power company, Mr.. I.arrabee.
being present. 1t was decided to lay
the petition on the table for further le-
gal investigation.
The petition for night police which
had been discussed at the last three
meetings was again before the board
as was also petition for a special
village meeting to discuss the advisa-
bility of purchasing the plant of the
Bennington Gas company 1t was ar
ranged that a special meeting for the
consideration of both propositions be
called November 10.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
HABITS OF PANiCS
Interesting Article in Current Har-
per's Weekly.

Experts in the national history of
finance show signs of being perplexed
about the habits of panics. The rule
based on past observations calls for
serious panic once in twenty years.
followed by protracted business de-
preston, with a sharp intermediate
Jolt midway between the more serious
collapses. We had great panics in
1887. 1857. 1873 accelerated by the
effects of the civil war;, and in 1898
We had jolts in lS4S, in 1884 and in
1903. Now. in October, 1907, after
nine months of stock liquidation and
declining stock values. punctuated by
several blue days in Wall Street,
comes a severe money panic which the
professors of finance find 1t difficult
to classify.
1t is a special sporadic jolt brought
on by overspeculation and artificial
and unexpected attacks on credit, or
Is 1t the great panic properly due in
1873 and thrown forward five or six
years by great destruction of proper
~ In two very expensive wars and two
earthquakes, by the enormous expans-
ion of business and building of all
sorts and by the disturbance of public
confidence attending the war on the
railroads and the corporations? IL
our present experience is in the nature
of an incubation which will make us
immune to the advertised panic of
1913, or insure our having 1t lightly,
We ought to know it for our consola-
ton under our present sufferngs.
We have no assurance to that effect
as yet from the doctors of finance,
who have not completed their dag
nosis. They do not declare as yet
that this is the smash of 1913, but in
cline rather to the opinion that 1t is
merely a bad financial collie from
which we may hope to make COM
paratively rapid'recovery. They will
probably agree, though, that it is a
kind of preliminary treatment that
warrants us in looking forward with
diminished forebodings to anything
that may happen in 1913. Mr., Car
negie's idea about 1t is that the habits
of panics have changed, and that they
are likely to be more frequent and
more destructive than heretofore be-
cause industrialism has taken more
and more the corporate form, He
calls them clearing cyclones" and
mot such catastrophes, after ALL"
No, probably not, for folks who have
quit farming and built themselves
substantial cyclone cellars. to which
they retire till storms blow over.
But for folks still active and with
crops out they are bad enough.
ner'S Weekly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
EXTRACTS ARE SHY
Vanilla Made of Tonka and Winter
green of Sweet Birch.

Burlington, Nov. 9--Following close
on the results of the analysis of medi
cines at the State Laboratory of Hy-
giene in which many medicines, some
of which are manufactured in this
state, were found to be wrongly la
beled among them being catarrh
cure at 81 an ounce which contained
nothing but common cooking soda,
and medicine labeled Mexican beans
which was found to be boraX, comes
the report from the laboratory of the
analysis of extracts for the past few
months. These comprises extracts of
vanilla lemon, wintergreen and pep
permint.
In most cases these favoring ex-
tracts, some of which are manufac-
tured in this state, have been found to
be much below standard and adulter-
ated. For instance, vanilla extract,
which is the alcoholic extract of the
vanilla bean, with or without sugar or
glycerine, has been found to contain
extract of the tonka bean which is
much cheaper, while at the same time
1t gives more pungent odor, and a
predominating taste over the vanilla,
but lacks the delicate taste and aroma
of the true vanilla. About so per cent
of these samples of vanilla were found
to be adulterated in this manner al
though part of them were labeled to
contain counarin' or tonka.
Many lemon extracts, which should
contain not less than 5 per cent of
lemon oil, were found to contain much
less than this, while the extract of
wintergreen, which should contain
not less than per cent of wintergreen
oil, were found in many cases to con-
tain oil of sweet birch and in one
sample of this extract neither was
found while others contain the re-
quired per cent of wintergreen oil.
Essence of peppermint which should
contain per cent. of peppermint oil
was found to contain much less in
many cases and in others only just
enough to give the extract a slight
odor. Most of these extracts are put
up in two ounce bottles and many sam
pies were found much below measure.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
RESTORED TO HEALTH.
THANKS TO PE-RU-NA
Friends Were Alarmed
Advised Change of Climate.

Miss Mildred Keller, 7lS 18th street,
N. W., Washington, d. c., writes:
~ can safely recommend Peruna for
catarrh. had it for years and 1t would
respond to no kind of treatment, or If it
did it was only temporary, and on the
slightest provocation the trouble would
come back.
~ was In such state that my
friends were alarmed about me, and
was advised TO leave this climate.
Then I tried Peruna, and to my great
joy found 1t helped me from the first
dose took, and few bottles cured
me.
at built up my constitution, / re-
gained my appetite, and l feel that I
am perfectly well and strong. mildred
Keller.
We have on file many thousand testi-
monials like the above. We can give
our readers only slight glimpse of the
vast array of unsolicited endorsements
Dr.. Uar tman is receiving.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
BOYS ESCAPE
Hugh keefe Of Rutland Who Attempt
ed to Wreck Train.

Rutland, Nov. S.--J. n. Barr. super
intendent of the state industrial school
at Vergennes. and one of the officers
at the school, were in this city yes
terday searching for Henry Sullivan
aged 10 years. who escaped from the
school Thursday night in company
with Hugh keefe OF this city. Keefe
was captured at New Haven Junction
yesterday morning and boy answer
ing Sulliyans description was arrest
ed at Whitehall last evening.
Sullivan was committed from Bur-
lington a short time ago for general
bad conduct and has been doing poor
ly in his studies at the school.
Keefe is the boy who attempted to
wreck the Rutland railroad flyer at
South SALISBURY last summer by plac
ing heavy ties on the rails in such a
manner that If the train had struck
them it would have surely have been
ditched. 1t was stated at the school
last night that until his escape he had
been one of the best behaved boys of
the institution.
The youngsters escaped while on
their way from one recitation room to
another.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
FAIRBANKS GOES
TO STATE PRISON.
FOR LIFE
Guilty Of Murder in the Second
Degree
Is PROMPTLY SENTENCED.
Asked What He Had to Say Fair.
banks Declared That He Did Not
XIII Mary Grout.
is PROMPTLY SENTENCED.

Brattleboro, Nov. 9.-(SpeciaD VIII
liam Fairbanks goes to state prison
for life of hard labor for the murder
of his niece, Mrs. Mary Grout.
The jury got the case at 3:45 yes
terday afternoon after a three weeks
trial and agreed on verdict late last
evening after taking IL ballots. The
verdict was then sealed and the jurors
went to bed.
This morning Judge Haselton open
ed court at o'clock to receive the
verdict which was guilty of murder
in the second degree"
Judge Haselton pronounced SEN
tence later in the forenoon, condemn
ing Fairbanks to hard labor in the
state prison for the rest of his natur-
al life. Before pronouncing sentence
the judge asked the prisoner If he had
anything to say Nothing" replied
Fairbanks, except that am not gull
ty.'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
VILLAGE VOTER S
ARE CALLED
TOGETHER
Special Meeting tuesday After
noon, November 10
TWO CONSIDER TWO PROJECTS
One Is to Provide For Police Service
and the Other Is to Talk Over
Buying the Gas Plant.

The following is the warning for
the special village meeting Tuesday,
November 10:
The legal voters of the Village OF
Bennington are hereby notified and
warned to meet at Free Library Hall
in said Village, on Tuesday, November
18th, 1907, at one O'Clock in the after
noon to transact the following bust
ness.
Article !. To see whether the Viii
lage of Bennington will instruct it's
Trustees to maintain a paid police
force and if so under what regula-
tons, and to see whether the Village
will instruct its Trustees TO borrow
such money as Is necessary for the
payment of said police force and If
not to designate from what fund they
shall be paid.
Article 2. TO see what measures
the Village will take, by the appoint
ment of a committee or otherwise, to
investigate the condition and value Of
the property and franchise of the Ben
nington Gas Company, with a view to
determine whether it is eXpedient for
the village 10 purchase, own and
operate the same, as public utility.
Article 3. To see what If any sum
of money the Village will appropriate
to meet the necessary expenses there
Of for the balance of the year ending
with the next annual village meeting
and to previous funds thereof by a
special tax or by authorizing the
m "A
amount.
Article 4. To transact any other
proper business found necessary when
met.
John H. Kelso, clerk.
Ward l.. Lyons, president
Bennington, VT. Nov 9, 1907
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
INSTALLING NEW MACHINES
Stocking Mill Compelled to Increase
Its Plant.

Increase of business at the stock
ing mill has made it necessary to in
stall 20 new machines at the Gage
street factory and they will be put in
directly. The company has had some
difficulty in getting help, but is find
ing it easier lately as the call for help
throughout the country is not as
great as it has been.
The company is also building 40
new machines for its factory at North
held and expects to have them install
ed before the first of January. Ever
since the now company took hold of
the business it has been getting
farther and farther behind in its or
ders and was compelled to either re-
fuse orders or enlarge its plant and
has concluded to do the latter.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES
The Gross Earnings for the Month of
September.

The following statement of the gross
earnings of the New York Central
lines for the month of September
New York Central and Hudson River
9,0S5.990 GO 605,753 60 inc
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
4,0S2,327 06 312,4S1 80 inc
Lake Erie and Western
49S,S25 20 33.117 rs inc
Chicago, Indiana and Southern
256,666 81 55,430 81 inc
New York, Chicago and St. Louis
SS2,116 95 1855 81 inc
Michigan Central
2,553,7S7 SO 276,574 16 inc
Cleve, Gin, Chic, and st. Louis
2,461,252 Al 234,235 63 inc
Peoria and Eastern
271,753 II 10,2S7 II inc
Cincinnati Northern
$4,000 80 400 20 dec
Pittsburg and Lake Erie
1,407,359 As 209,52S 40 inc
Rutland
314,341 81 40,727 04 inc
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
ANOTHER RECEIVER
The Houghton Mill at Wiliamstown
Now Involved.

Pittsfeld, Mass, Nov. S.--Henry d.
Warner today was appointed receiver
for the Williamstown Manufacturing
Co., at Williamstown, and the Gallup
& Houghton concern at North Adams.
The troubles of both concerns are due
to the embarrassment of the Arnold
Print works at North Adams, of which
Warner was appointed receiver We'd
nesday.
These are the last of the so-called
Houghton properties in western Mass
achusetts and southern Vermont to
come under receivership, the North
Pownal Manufacturing Co., at North
Pownal, having passed into the
hands OF Warner and Addison E. Cud-
worth of Londonderry, as receivers
yesterday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
Slate Workers to Meet at Fair Haver
Tuesday, November IL.

Fair Haven, Nov. S.--The Interna-
tional Slate Workers convention will
open here Tuesday, November IL. One
of the sessions will be public. While
topics connected with the slate work
ers strike will be discussed at this
public meeting, the convention will
make no effort to effect settlement.
Delegates are expected from Maine,
New York, Pennsylvania, and Vir-
ginia.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
DEFEATED WILLIAMSBURG
Brunswick Ten Pin Team Rolled Too
Fast for College Students.

The Brunswick ten pin team went
to Williamstown last evening and won
match game with the Williams col
lege students. The college boys roll
ed some good scores but were not fast
enough for the Bill Sears aggregation.
The score:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
BISHOP CRANSToN COMING
VIII Preside at Vermont Methodist
Conference at Barre, April is, 1908.

conference at Barre, April Is, 1908.
Spokane, Nov. S.-The list of con-
terence appointments made by the
board of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal church includes the follow
ing:
East Maine, Houghton, April 10,
Hamilton; East Swedish, Brooklyn,
April 3, Moore; New England, Wor-
tcester, April s, Hamilton; New Eng
land Southern, Bristol, r, l., April /,
Goodsell; New Hampshire, Keene,
April s, Burt; New York, New York
city, April |, Moore; New York East,
Brooklyn, April II, Burt; Troy Sara
toga Springs, April Is, Burt; Vermont,
Barre, April Is, Cranston.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-09
WEATHER FORECAST
Probabilities for This Section for tho
Next "a Hours.

For Eastern New York and western
Vermont partly cloudy with local
rains tonight or Sunday. Warmer to-
night in interior.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-08

Moved: Starcard Homeopathic Pharm-
acy. 420 South Broadway. Boericker &
Tafel medicine.