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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-20
Queen Alexandria pinInnanx

Very recently while at Buckingham
palace it came to the queens knowl.
edge that one Of the upper house.
maids, who had been in the royal serv.
Ice for years, was very unhappy over
love affair, says p. r. o.
The queen sent for the girl and after
advising and consoling her sent her to
Sandringham for change. Then the
queen summoned the lover and after
good-natured homily with humorous
tact sent him to Sandringham. too.
The couple have since returned, and
there will be a wedding at Bucking.
ham palace soon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-20
MISS MARGARET TleRNEY

A large proportion Of the operations
performed in our hospitals are upon
women and girls for some organic
trouble.
Why should this be the case -?
Because they have neglected them
selves, as every one of these patients
In the hospital beds had plenty of
warning in those dragging sensations,
pains at left or right of abdomen.
backaches, nervous exhaustion, in
fammation, liberation, displace-
ments, and other organic weaknesses.
All Of these symptoms are indica-
tons of an unhealthy condition of the
female system and If not needed the
penalty has 10 be paid by dangerous
operation. When these symptoms
manifest themselves, do not drag
along until you are obliged to 60 to
the hospital and submit to an opera
tion--but remember that Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
from native roots and herbs, has saved
hundreds Of women from surgical
operations.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, has cured more cases Of
feminine ills than any other one
remedy. Such letters as thefollowing
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-20
FALL
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS

Examination for the certification OF
eachers will be held as follows:
Manchester Center, at the school
house, beginning at 10 a. m. Friday,
November Is, and at 9 a. m. Saturday,
November l6.
Bennington, at the schoolhouse on
School street, Friday and Saturday,
November % and %, beginning each
day at 8 a. m.
Candidates unknown TO the examin.
er must present certificate of good
character from some town or school
official.
ALBERT w. VARNEY,
Examiner of Teachers
for Bennington Cou nty
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-20
Heart
LikeaClock

The pulsation of the heart
marks the passage of the blood
through the veins, just as the
ticking of a clock indicates the
flight of moments Of time.
Palpitation, huttering or irreg-
ular action reveals the fact that
the heart is running down
and unless strengthened, is
liable to stop at any time I'm.
der some weakening influence,
such as excitement, over-work,
or intense mental or physical
strain. To regulate the heart
action, you should take
DR.. Miles Heart Cure when
any symptoms Of a weak heart
is apparent. 1t has no equal.
Sometime ago had very severe
pain around my heart, and most of
the time had a heavy beating OIL
throbbing OF the heart. 1t would beat
so that when | lay down at night IL
would sound like a small clock In bed
with me. could count the ticking.
With every little exercise. or walking
I felt like my heart would give out.
and would be so tired | would have
TO lie down and rest. / suffered quite
q while In this way. then / concluded
to try Dr. Miles Heart Cure. I had
not taken It long until began to feel
easier. and so continued. and the med
icine entirely cured me. am very
grateful for the great good received
from DIR. Miles Heart Cure"
JOSEPH BROADHEAD.
Findlay. Illinois.
Or. Miles Heart Cure Is sold by
your druggist, who will guarantee that
the first bottle will benefit. II II falls
no will refund your money.
Miles Medic Elkhart, Ind
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-20
This is Worth Rememberlna.

As no one is immune, every person
should remember that Foley's Kidney
Cure Will cure any case of kidney or
bladder trouble that is not beyond the
reach OF medicine. Quinlan's Phar-
macy.
Announcement.
| have opened a ladies' tailoring es.
adjustment In the Library building
and am prepared to do all first class
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order. Have had 10 years experience
In best New York shops and guarantee
all my work to be first class. Work
the best and prices reasonable. VIII
appreciate trial. Cleaning, pressing
and repairing done very reasonably.
M. Epstein,
The New York Ta.1or
Next door to library.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-20

of female weakness invited to
promptly communicate with Mrs Pnham at Lynn Mass From the
located and the quickest and surest
advised experience female
Pnkha probably the knowledge that help
advice is free and always helpful
Ask Mrs. Pnkham's Advlce-A Woman Best Understands Womas Ills
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12
Runaway Mike.

With one of the large circuses
there is an elephant with the name
of mike" tackled to him. Mike
is one of the most docile "bulls''
(elephant) in captivity. Mike has
one very bad habit, he will take to
the Jungles (meaning runaway
whenever the opportunity offers
him the chance to run. The first
time the writer gazed on the won-
derful Mike he was carrying enough
log chains to move house. The
writer naturally thought Mike was
a bad "bull." On becoming fa-
miliar with him, l noticed that he
was always ready to play with me
and showed a very good disposition
instead of bad one. I asked his
keeper one day why they kept
Mike chained up SO tightly. The
keeper smiled and said: mikes
all right, but he will hike to the
jungles if you don't keep the hop
Piles on him"
Shortly after the writer joined
the show, that Mike was trooping
with, new boss elephant man
joined. The new boss pullman
fell in love with Mike from the
jump, as it were, and seeing what
. kind bull Mike really was. ordered
the hopples taken off at once. The
writer was within hearing when
The following conversation took |
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12
Mullen Leaves.

Paper Read Before the Chautd,Qta Circle.
OF course you all know what
mullen is; big useless weed !;
rank and destructive. Its leaves
spread out and poison the growth
of everything around; they keep
out the sunlight, the rain, and even
the dew, leaving nothing around
them but dwarfed and stunted life.
It can be found in the gardens,
yards, highways and byways, and
when this weed once gets start it
spreads everywhere until You can
see almost nothing but mullen.
When / was eighteen years old
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12

just what the day represented ( d.
not know Probably it was tht
day on which Empress Ann trim
med her toenails. While celebrat
ing this day they got into a fight
among themselves, and when the
smoke of the battle cleared away
Eve Chinese were found dead
/ Any man who holds an elective
Office knows that the best way to
secure a hammerlock grip on the
average mans vote is to give him
a chance to pick up a little easy
money, so the sheriff in the county
in which the fight took place, dep
Utilized about one hundred voters
and they arrived IN camp armed to
the teeth. The sheriff and his
deputies corralled about dozen
of the supposed ringleaders and
threatened them with all kinds of
punishment if they did not point
out the chinks who took part in
the shooting. When the sheriff
saw that he could not pump them
thru the medium of threats, he
offered them bait i'm the shape of
q bride, but they refused to bite.
Now it is we'll known that man
from the Flowery Kingdom will
not peach on one of his country
men, but when it comes to knock
ing against a white man, John is
right there with a big trip ham.
mer.
The sheriff made no arrests be-
cause he knew it would be impos-
sible to secure a conviction, but
before leaving he and his posse
searched all the tents and huts for
firearms, and incidently glued onto
a great number of trinkets. Several
white men, including yours truly,
followed in the wake of the posse.
In one of the tents I spied jew
eled Chinese god which the sheriff
and his men had overlooked. It'll
was case of love at first sight be-
tween me and the little pagan god.
He had such beautiful eyes, they
sparkled like diamonds. In fact, /
[ believe they were diamonds, so
grabbed Joss by the neck, pulled
him down off his throne and poked
him into my pocket head first.
placed his Josslets in a bag in
which I kept my wardrobe, out
someone went thru the bag and
eloped with Joss.
After the riot every Chinaman
n the camp quit his job and this
necessarily threw me out of employ
nent. l could have went to work
Is a common Iaborer, but after FILL
ng the dignlfed position of herder
would have considered it dis.
race to have been seen pushing a
'ulgar wheelbarrow or manipulate
ng a plebeian shovel. f. M.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12

oA@S CesaAO tluICs q tnluuOAC lOcoOA
1t came about in this way: Ny
father, who was down East farmer,
came to me one day and told me
to hitch up horse and go to an
adjoining town and gather large
bundle of MULLEN leaves, saying
that he wanted to use them in
| doctoring sick horse. Well, I
went about ten miles and then be-
gan to inquire of the farmers where
| could find some MULLEN leaves.
The first farmer l asked said:
Mullen? Why, there's plenty of
lit! You can find it everywhere,
in the front yard, back yard, field
or lane
| Well, gathered good-sized
bundle and went home rejoicing.
When | arrived home and looked
around for MULLEN, could see
tons of it everywhere. When I
called my fathers attention to it
the next morning, he laughed and
said: "WeIl, George, when you
again go looking for MULLEN, you
had better look at home first. This
little lesson has been brought
home to me very forcibly several
times since then; | have never for
gotten it.
How often have I been reminded
of the fact that in every walk of
life, in every class of men, in every
business enterprise, in every
home, and in every human being
you can find MULLEN if you look
for it. The more you look the
more you will find until you for
get everything else and see moth
ing but MULLEN leaves. Before
you began looking for MULLEN
everything looked bright, you saw
no faults but only the good quail
ties that others possessed. How
many times have you during your
lives held positions where all the
conditions suited you-board good,
wages satisfactory, hours of labor
agreeable, and you contented?
Then some chronic fault-fnder
would begin to kick. Every day
he would find fault at something
until you, too, began to look for
MULLEN. Yon began to think the
board was not SO good as it might
be, and finally you quit a good job
just because you were looking for
MULLEN. The chronic fault finder
is the worst enemy contentment
has. He will cause more mon to
leave their position than a bad
foreman, and perhaps you have
noticed that, while other men leave.
he always etays.
One of the worst ofsprings of )
MULLEN is jealousy, the green-eyed
of disordered brain.
jealousy exists mostly in the i'm
agination, and it causes sorrow
where once was gladness; turns
owe into hate and misery into des-
,air. It breaks up happy homes,
separates husbands and wives,
makes orphans of innocent chill
|ren, and all this because of a de-
ire to look for mullen.
One evening gentleman called
pon an astronomer who had been
tudying the sun all day looking
or new spot. During the con-
ersation the caller referred to the
leather and said that the day was
most beautiful one. The astron-
mer smiled and said: "Do you
now that, altbo I have been look
lg at the sun all day, I had not
oticed whether it was bright or
OF. I discovered new spot and
was so interested that I did not
% anything else" If we look
n good we will find plenty of it,
Id if we look for MULLEN we are
ire to find it. If the astronomer
i'd been looking for clouds, no
,nbt he would have found them.
Josh Billings, the humorist,
ice said: II find great deal
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12


Boss Jim, take that bull Owe
to the stake and chain wagon ant
knock those hopples off. He
carrying enough log chain to pull
over the whole show
Keeper-.1'l tell you. Doc, i
you have them hopples taken of
of Mike, there'll be some all nigh
horse-backing to do around thil
trick
Boss-"What do you mean b,
all night horse backing?"
Keeper-"Jus as soon as you
take them things off that bull he's
going to travel some and don't you
forget it."
But the boss thought otherwise,
and SO the hopples were knocked
off one morning just before parade
time. The writer being very much
interested watched the proceed
ings with great deal of interest,
and particularly noticed Mike
stepping high, as it were, as soon
as the hopples were off and acting
Very much as tho he was the big
Lam. Soon after Mike was re-
lieved Of his excess baggage, or
rather the log chain hopples, the
parade left the lot. While going
up one of the main streets of the
small city in which we were show
ing, the writer was riding horse.
back just ahead of the herd of ele-
plants and telling the farmers to
watch their horses as the elephants
were coming, when l heard some
one yell, there he goesp' On
looking around, I could just see
Mike hiking thru the crowd and
making off down a side street as
Fast as l ever saw an elephant
move. The writer was one of the
three outriders of the parade, SO
We left the parade and set sail for
Mike.
The keeper proved a true proph-
1t, and it certainly was an all.
llght horseback ride. Mike was
discovered about fourteen miles
rom whore he left the parade.
When the three horsemen, of which
he writer was one, laid eyes on
Nike he was contentedly eating
lp stack of hay belonging to
armer who, with his family, were
t safe distance viewing Mikes
performance of eating hay.
Mr.. Farmer claimed that Mike
ad eaten $1,000 worth of hay, and
Informed the rescue party that
OF until the $1,000 was paid could
70 take the elephant. This was
eally very funny, as the farmer
ouldn't be coaxed near enough to
ne elephant to hand him peach
q pole two hundred yards long.
he boss elephant man, who was
ne OF the rescue party. inquired
by Mr.. Farmer valued Mikes
zeal at $1,000. The farmer said ,
lat show folks what owned ele.
hants had lots of money, so he
i'd been told, and he thought he {
lould be paid for the fright him. I
If and family received, as we'll as !,
r the hay. Y
The boss elephant man gave
r. Farmer $500 for Mikes meal, !,
ID we started across country for /:
Q show town and reached there :
st in time for Mike to be rehop- :
ed and loaded with his fellow I
for the next stand. g
is needless to say that for the f,
st Of The season Mike wore chain a
pples. ZIM. 8
Mullen Leaves. .
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12
Chauta,,qua Circle.


gang of chinks employed in
constructing the grade or roadbed
of a new railroad. The first place
that l ever worked where Chinese
were employed was on the SIAM
pede Tunnel which Contractor
Nelson Bennett cut thru the Cas-
cade mountains. Before this tun-
mel was bored the N. P. r. r..
crossed these mountains by the
means of switchback, and [ will
venture to say, that every passenger
carried over this switchback cost
the company at the rate of twenty
five cents a mile.
The whole time that [ worked
at this place I filled the position
of nipper. A nipper's work con-
sists in looking after the tools and
carrying them to the blacksmith's
shop to be sharpened. l held this
Job down for five months and
probably [ would have remained
longer only my foreman came to
me one morning and told me that
large contractor in Oregon had
offered him the position of walk.
ing boss, that he had accepted the
same and asked me to 60 with him.
He also informed me that twelve
or fifteen hundred Chinese were
employed on the grade work of
the new road. He also promised
that if [ went with him he would
make me a herder at the first op.
portunity.
We arrived at the camp in Ore
gon on Saturday afternoon, and
my friend took charge of the whole
works on the following Monday.
There were three or four small
tunnels to be bored on this con.
tract and other heavy rockwork.
For the first few months I filed
the double position of nipper and
powder monkey. The powder
monkey has charge of all the ex-
plosives and is custodian of the
key that locks and unlocks the
cave where the powder is stored.
There were about one thousand
white men and twelve hundred
chinks on the work. Hammers.
men in the heading of the tunnel
were paid $3.50 day, on the bench
$500, and the manipulation of the
short-handled number two got /
$3.50 and $2.75 day. I do not
know what the Chinese were paid, !
but L understood 1t was eighty I
cents, and that was more than q
they were worth. Contractors =
would not employ them If they 9
could get enough white men. .
1t has been said that if China !;
really knew her own strength she q
could easily conquer the world. I I
don't know about that, but l do know r
that when it comes to killing time
the chink is the greatest soldier on s
earth. These Cinnamon are hired v
out just as we are here. A Chinese v
agent furnish the contractor with &
so many men at so much per head, a
and on pay day the contractor pays a
the agent, not the individual chink. v
[ never saw a Chinaman working 8,
in the heading of tunnel. He h
makes poor hammersman and as O
3 mucker in q rockcut he is next W
to useless, because he will not use n
4 short-handled shovel. John does W
not like to bend his back and is b
mostly on surface work q,
where he can use long handled Sc
two. When I had been al
at my combination job q
Or about two weeks the walking al
Joss told me that the company's a
loctor had informed him that one T
# the herders was very sick man VI
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12
The Chinese Helder.

true. ALt0I uodIluS tuIS 6du Du
joyful news I invested in box O
foot powder and got ready to slid
into the sick herder's brogans tn
moment he turned his toes up t
the daises, but [ was disappointed
for instead Of turning up his toes
he began to take on flesh andin
few weeks he had jowles like ,
butchers bulldog and a girtf
measurement as large as that of .
beer trust president. The frs
vacancy that did take place in the
ranks of the herders was after
had been in camp six months, anG
this vacancy was caused by one Of
them being killed.
Now this fellow who was killed
was known as a contractors man
By that | mean he was an econo-
mist, and-when he had any blast
ing to do he would cut the fuse so
short that when he touched it off
he had hardly time to get out of
danger before the powder exploded.
The day this fellow was killed he
was engaged in blasting tree
stumps. He had charge of
powder under three or four stumps,
and, whether his death was caused
by premature explosion or the
result of using too short fuse, [
do not know, but whatever the
cause, he was blown skywards, and
while he was still In the clouds one
of his chinks looked up at him and
said: 81 savoy that darn fool a
long time" Think darn was the
word he used, but it may have
been stronger one. We buried
this poor fellow a few hours after
being killed. / do not know
whether or not the herder who
made a short address at the grave
was a Holy Roller or Holy
Jumper, but | know that when he
was full of Chinese gin he was a
holy terror.
The following day after this fatal
accident the ambition Of my life
vas realized. | was appointed a
lerder. Now there was more
money in the combination Job than
here was IN herding flock of pig
ails, because [ used to sell the
'mpty powder cans to both the
links and the white men at the
ate of three for ten cents, and on
n average there was fifty cans
sed a day. The Chinese used
be cans to build huts and make
toves, and the white men used
hem for a boiler to exterminate
be microbes on their flannel shirts.
hen, again, if the powder monkey
1anted to emulate some of our
reat captains of industry, he could
o little graft on the side by SELL
lg powder to small contractors
nd to men doing station work, but
never put tainted dollar in my
ocket.
The herders occupied separate
eeping quarters from the other
orkmen and had a Chinese SER
ant to make up the beds and keep
le place looking neat and tidy,
I'D that was one reason why I was
lxious to get the job. There
ere too many bugs of the seam
Iuirrel variety in the large bunk
ouse for comfort. I had bunch '
forty chinks to look after. It 9
as the softest snap I ever had in
y life. l had a big Umbrella
it'll spike in the end of the a
andle which I stuck into the l
ound and under this canopy /
tand smoked and watched my men y
work. I never saw Chinaman
lench his thirst with water. They q
drink tea. and everv gang had ]
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1907-05-28
Grohberso9tbum.
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