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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-15
CAUGHT IN ELEVATOR
Israel Lassor Seriously injured at Rut-
land Wednesday,

Rutland Nov 14.--Israel Lassor, "a
years Of age, who for the last six
weeks has been employed as elevator
conductor in The Mead building was
seriously injured yesterday afternoon
by being crushed between the door
Of the elevator and the first floor Of
the building. His right side is crush
ed four ribs being broken, his right
collar bone fractured, his right knee
and leg bruised and his head severely
bruised and cut
A voting woman who Is employed in
an Office in the building is said to have
told several Of her friends that she
had stepped into the elevator and had
started it herself. Mr. Lassor tried to
step into the car while It was going
up but slipped and fell so that the
floor Of the car caught him on bis
right side. There is a hole in the wall
plaster on the side Of the building be-
tween the floors the shape of a man S
head which is thought to have been
made by Mr. Lassor's head being fore
ed into the wall.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-15
WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for This Section for the
Next "a Hours,
For Eastern New York and western
Vermont fair tonight Saturday fair
and slightly warmer in interior.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-15
"THE LION ANo THE MousE'
a Pleasing Play Pleasingly Produced
at the Bennington Last Evening

Pleasing Play PleasInqly Produced
at the Bennington Last Evening
Seldom Is a production given at the
bennington opera house that meets
with more general approval chan did
Charles Klein's THE Lion and the
Mouse pitt on last evening by Henry
u. Harris well balanced company
The play is not only strong IN itself
but it is written along lines that ap'
peal TO the thinking people Of the pres
emit day.
Politics and high finance are two
subjects OF vital interest to every in
teil'geut American Just now and these
features are iTterwoyen into the plot
which, too, OF course, contains the us
nal love story, in q manner that cannot
fail 10 appeal to any audience. The
house last evening was one OF the lar
gest Of the season and It was apparent
from the rise OF the curtain on the
FIRST act to the closing scene that the
interest never tagged.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-15
SOME CORRECTIONS
Average Loss Of Gas In Nelghborhood
of IS per Cent.

Editor of the Banner: In your issue
of last evening, | was made to state
in my letter, through a printers error,
that the average leakage of gas plants
was per cent, while ours showed only
6 per cent" 1t should have read 10
per cent and 6 per cent. Your print
er also caused ME to state that by
doubling the output of the plant, the
6 per cent leakage would probably be
reduced by over half, or nearly so.
1t should have read one half, or nearly
so. BY correcting the above, you will
oblige,
Yours truly.
w. r. Putnam
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-15
LOCAL cLoTHIER IN TROUBLE
So Mr.. Cole is Obliged to Sacrifice on
His Stock.

Because of the financial stringency,
Chas, G. Cole, the clothier has been un-
able to secure the usual banking aid,
Maturing bills have forced him to the
resort of cutting to cost or less his
stock of clothing to raise money quick.
ly
In the thirty-siX years this firm has
done business in Bennington we don I
believe they ever failed to meet their
obligations and from the drastic cuts
Mr.. Cole is now making it is evident
he means to pay his bills even at a
great sacrifice on his merchandise.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-15
ARLINGTON

Red Mountain lodge No &C., T. and
A, NJ. will hold their regular commune
cation Friday evening, Nov. Is.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05

that they are in reality paying more
for an inferior grade of goods than
those sold by the home merchant,
which probably cost them few cents
more.
Since the catalogue house has
sprung into the commercial world and
begun operations in the United States,
all kinds of schemes have been tried
and worked to get the money from
the people that are always looking for
bargains. No expense has been spared
in their struggle for the almighty dol
lar of the country people, and they
have been so far successful, at the
great expense of the home town of the
people that sent their money to these
concerns.
Magazines have been started for
the sole benefit of the catalogue house,
and these circulated among the coun-
try people at ten or Is cents year.
They build up a circulation on this
low price of hundreds of thousands;
this circulation brings to them mil
lions of dollars in advertising from the
catalogue houses and this money ex-
pended for advertising is more than
doubled from the sales of these con-
Germs to the country people who are
losers by the transaction.
Catalogues are sent out telling the
people that the house from which they
came is the cheapest place in the
country to buy, and it is, if the person
receiving this catalogue wants cheap
article, not only in price, but also in
make and material. The farmer re-
ceives this catalogue, looks it over,
and after reading the well composed
guarantee or assurance that the goods
described in it are the very best that
can be found anywhere, sends in an
order. The house receives the order
and Immediately ships the articles
wanted The farmer drives many
miles to get them and when the box is
opened it is found to contain some
thing much below his expectations.
but this does not satisfy his mind on
the fact that he has been duped and
that he is not getting his full money
value. In a second order he may be
treated the same as the first one, but
still he may think that he has saved
money by buying it where he could
get it cheap.
At the same time the merchant at
home has the goods on the shelf in
his store waiting for them to be taken
away so that he can replace them with
newer goods, thereby keeping his
stock fresh and up-to-date. 4 he has
net, the article wanted he can order it
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05

THE stir caused in Madison over the
resignation of John G. Spooner, as U.
S. Senator, is akin to the confusion of
astampede of Texas steers and nearly
all the prominent men in Wisconsin
that are in political life are candidates
for the position. OF all the men talked
of it seems that Isaac Stephenson, ION
account of the great services he has
rendered the party at various times,
being a millionaire will stand the best
show to secure Spooner's seat for the
unexpired term. But what come down;
from Spooner to Stephenson. Ye Gods!
What the republicans ought to do to
make things harmonic with results of
future elections, is to elect Neal Brown.
of Wausau, to the position.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
Authoress, Method of Work.

1t had been the habit of Mrs. Craigie
John Oliver Hobbes) for many years
to begin her work at eight o'clock in
the morning, no matter how late she
had been up the night before. Off
and on she wrote till 1870, never
being able to do more than half an
hours work at time, a disability
which makes the amount she pro-
duced the more amazing. After lunch
she wrote again until it was time to
pay calls and to talk at tea tables
as idly as if she had been idle all
day-a feat of unbending which few
women, and fewer men can perform
But after dinner she was all avs
tired. 'At night" she confessed, 81
never by any chance do anything
cannot even write post card then"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
PENSION ACTIVITY.

Many old soldiers in Wausau and
Marathon county are taking advantage
of the new pension law passed by con
gress Feb. 6, which has already gone
into effect.
The new law provides that any per-
son who served ninety days or more in
the military or naval service of the
United States during the late civil war,
or sixty days in the war with Mexico,
and who has been honorably discharged
therefrom, and who has reached the age
of sixty-two years or over, shall, upon
making proof of such facts according to
the rules and regulations as the Secre-
tary of the Interior may provide, be
placed upon the pension roll, and be
entitled to pension as follows; in case
such person has reached the age of six
ty-two years, twelve dollars a month;
seventy years, fifteen dollars per month;
seventy-fve years or over, twenty dol
lars per month, and such pension shall
commence from the date of the filing of
the application in the Bureau of Pen
sions after the passage and approval of
the Act Provided that pensioners who
are 62 years of age or over and who are
now receiving pensions under existing
laws, or whose claims are pending in
the Bureau of Pensions, may by appli-
cation to the Commissioner of Pensions,
in such form as he may prescribe, re-
ceive the benefits of this Act and moth
ing herein contained shall prevent any
pensioner or person entitled to pen
sion from prosecuting his claim and re-
ceiving pension under any other gen.
eral or special act: Provided, that no
person shall receive pension under
any other law at the same time or for
the same period that he is receiving
pension under the provisions of this
act.
Section second says that rank in the
service shall not be considered in appli-
cations filed hereafter
Section third says that no pension at
torney, claim agent or other person
shall be entitled to receive any compen-
sation for services rendered in present
ing any claim to the Bureau of Pensions,
or securing any pension, under this act.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
ON A LONG BUSINESS TRIP.

Ed. j. Falk writes to the PILOT from
Mckinney, Texas, dated Feb. 25 Mr..
Falk left Wausau, October 25th, on a
business trip through Minnesota, South
Dakota, Indian Territory and Texas
He contemplates extending his trip to
Colorado and Wyoming, and expects to
reach home in May or June. He says
he was in Indian Territory in Deem
Der and January, and at no time during
daylight was it lower than 40 degrees
above zero, and at times it was as high
as so degrees above. Small gas and
coal stoves are used for heating down
there. He says that the Texas wheat
crop was almost destroyed on account
of the warm weather which permitted
insects to infict widespread damage to
growing grain. Mr.. Falk says that
travelling is about as cheap in the South
as in Wisconsin.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
Court Of Last Resort

4 am sorry, said the poet, "but l
am Obliged to call your attention to
the fact that a line in one of my re-
cent compositions was entirely per-
verted and the meaning painfully dis
torted by the compositor."
Young man. replied the editor.
that compositor has gone through
more poems than YOU ever wrote. or
ever read. He has put in his life set
ting mp poetry Of all kinds. spring and
autumn styles, and heavier goods for
winter He may have changed your
poeEa; but when you say he harmed it.
you presume. When a man of his ex-
perience makes up his mind to change
q piece of poetry. a person in your Do
siticn should not attempt to criti-
else. STRAY Stories.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
RESCUED HIM WITH pETTIcoAT.
Bull freed Swain and the Girl Lured
the Beast Away.

A bull and an opposite red petticoat
were the means of reconciling George
Hoyt and Miss Ella Goodman, who
were lovers once, but estranged more
or less of the last year.
Hoyt and Edward Cowles were
walking through field at Oxford,
Conn, when they were charged by a
bull. A tree in the middle of the field
afforded them an asylum. They gained
it by the thin margin of coat tail.
The bull laid siege, and for an hour
the young men surveyed the horizon
for rescue. Then a carriage APP
preached. and they signaled it with a
coat on the end of a long stick.
The carriage contained a young
woman whom neither recognized at
that distance. But she proved to be a
person of resources. Tying her horse
to the nearest rail fence, she vanished
into the nearest clump of bushes and
soon reappeared, waving a scarlet pet
ticoat.
For ten minutes she stood on the
stone wall and solemnly wigwagged at
the bull with the flaming piece of APP
parel. Then the bull took notice.
AS be approached the young woman
fed down the field along the wall, still
waving the silken scarlet challenge.
The bull pursued. believing. At the
far corner of the field fence barred
his progress. On the safe side of the
fence the young woman kept on wav-
ing while the two young men slipped
out of their tree and then out of the
field.
They FASTENED tc meet and greet the
young woman. Much to the surprise
of Cowles, Hoyt and the heroine fell
into each others arms as soon as they
we're near enough.
The girl was Miss Goodman. Hoyt
had in his pocket the ring she had re
turned to him. He put it on her finger
and she said, it is said. that it would
stay there until certain day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05

fairs, and he is ever on the go looking
to the interests of the people.
The people like to be entertained
and they will come many miles to
some amusement given by the mer-
chants of the town where they are
ever ready to go to sell their farm
products. The merchant cannot give
these entertainments unless he has
the support of the people and 1t is not
fair to expect this of the men that are
striving for livelihood, when the peo-
pie send their money to a concern in
some far away city that will neither
contribute to any of these enterprises
or take an interest in the surround
ings thereof.
Home trading makes home indus
tries, brings more to the town and
keeps them there, and it helps to build
up the place. But the town will be at
a stand-still so long as the people per-
sist in this way Of robbing the home
merchants of the right to live and do
business among them.
If the people will keep their money
at home there will be no need for
complaint. The place will assume a
lively air, 1t will take on a metropoli-
tan look, and the people will say to
their neighbor that business is good,
and it will be, as long as the people
continue to trade in the home mar
kets. The least that a person can do
toward the betterment of the COM
munity and his own interests, is to
keep the money at home and see to it
that it is put where it is most needed
and wanted.
This should be a vital question to
all concerned in the welfare of his
community and it should be an estab-
lished rule that one should not seek
for things in other parts that he can
get at home.
FENTON ]. LAWLER.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
He Prefers To Be Ont.

The resignation of Senator Spooner
comes like bolt of thunder from a
clear sky. and yet it is but the sequence
to his recent open stand for tariff revis-
ion. 1t is in fact but the plain admis-
sion that he realizes the jig is up with
present trust protected, tariff robbery
and reasonably wise men better leave
It's sinking ship.
No reader familiar with current pub
lie events and their chief characters,
but recognizes in Senator Spooner one
of the ablest men of our day, though
unfortunately he lacks what is more
important than ability -moral courage
to cut loose from party, policy and
friends when personal conviction so de-
mands.
Senator Spooner for years has not
been in accord with his party on its
leading national policies and disinclined
to be with the opposition, he simply re-
tires. Already in 1899 he denounced
the war with Spain, yet when his party
was driven into it he acquiesced He
opposed the acquisition of the Philip
pines and warned mis- party from
launching out on an unrepublican craze
for expansion in foreign conquest, yet
floated with the party stream when his
warning failed to stem It, He has
realized as he himself said recently, for
years that the present Dingley tariff
was detriment to the country, but
said nothing until ready to retire from
public life.
It's the lack of courage here that now
places Senator Spooner among the has
beens and soon-to- be-forgotten charac-
tiers on the public stage. He win not
stand among the immortals-a Sumner,
Chase, Trumbull, Schurz and others
because at the crucial test be failed in
that true courage of patriotic states
manship, the placing of country above
party and the fearless, open adherence
to conviction of duty, even at the sacri-
flee of party and friends.
But the most significant point in the
senator's retirement is its plain admis-
sion that republican standpatism and
trust subscribing has reached the end of
its rope and is doomed to miserable
failure and defeat two years hence
In a nutshell-it means VIM j Bryan
as the progressive leader and victor in
the next national contest and Mr.
Spooner prefers to be out when that
time comes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
First publication March 5. last April ..

Summons.
Circuit Court. Marathon County State Of Wis
consin.
Joe Damitsch, Emil Damitsch, Barbara
Smith and Margaret Burgoyne.
Plaintiffs,
Peter Hammel and Caroline Hammel, his
wife, Amos A. Holbrook, pieIey Doods,
and their unknown heirs,
Defendants.
The State of Wisconsin, to the said defendants,
and each of them:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service of this summons,
exclusive of the day of service, and defend the
alb owe entitled action in the court aforesaid; and
in case of your failure to do, Judgment will
be rendered against you according to the de-
mand of the complaint copy of which is here
with served upon you.
REGNER q RINGLE,
Plaintiffs Attorneys
P. o. Address, Wausau, Marathon County,
Wisconsin.
Note-The above action is brought by the
plaintiffs to establish their title and claim and
to forever bar the above mentioned defendants,
known and unknown, against having or claim
ing any right or title adverse to the plaintiffs in
and to the following described premises, to-wit:
The west half of the northeast quarter of sec
ton twenty-five, township twenty-nine north. of
range number nine east.
REGNER d RINGLE,
Plaintiffs Attorneys,
Dated Jan %, 1907. Wausau, Wisconsin
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05

A LEARNED professor in Italy has set
forth, in all earnestness, that this world
will be badly disarranged the latter
part of this month by being struck by
the tail of a comet Prof. j. A.
Brashear, of Pittsburg, scouts the idea
and says: 1.-The tail of comet is no
more attenuated than puff of steam
and if one should strike the earth it
would not be perceived so readily nor
have as much effect as the aurora
borealis." Every little while crank
will rise and announce the end of the
world. He does it for notoriety. OF
the million times that this has been
predicted, not once has there ever been
the slightest disturbance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
MAY MEAN MUCH.

In another column mention is made
of the incorporation of company
which plans to build an electric railway
from Grand Rapids north, to connect
the cities of Grand Rapids, Stevens
Point, Wausau and Merrill. In com
menting on the incorporation of this
company the Oshkosh Northwestern
says:
cat present this city has an excellent
interurban service both north and
south, and ten mile line extending
west to the village of Omro. There is a
very good prospect, moreover, that the
latter line will before long be extended
to Berlin, thereby bringing another
prosperous section within easy and
quick communication with this city
Beyond Berlin, however, in the direct
ion of Grand Rapids and Stevens Point
there is another rich section to be open
ed up in the same manner, and it is a
safe conclusion it will not be many
years before this gap will be also filed
by the construction of an electric line
The accomplishment of this "a
will naturally be hastened by the build
ing of the proposed electric line from
Grand Rapids north, as there is always
a tendency to connect up disiointed sec
tons of interurban systems, thereby let
ting them serve as feeders for each
other and increasing the amount of
travel by extending and improving the
service. Moreover the prime movers in
the Wisconsin valley electric line pro-
ject are men who are directly and close
| Iy associated with Fox river valley in
terests, including Mr., H. F. Whitcomb,
president of the electric road between
this city and Fond du Lac, and Mr.
George j. Whiting, the prominent mill
owner and capitalist of Neenah. If
| these men and their associates succeed
in establishing a prosperous electric
system between the cities of Grand
Rapids, Stevens Point, Wausau and
Merrill it will be quite natural for them
to seek south and eastern outlet in
the direction of this city, while if the
Winnebago Fraction company extends
its Omro line to Berlin, as seems quite
probable, a further extension to Grand
Rapids may eventually look good" to
this latter company.
''Of course Oshkosh does not care
who builds the lines, so long as they are
CONSTRUCTED and placed in operation.
This city has already learned by ex-
perience the great value of electric
roads radiating in different directions,
thus placing the surrounding sections
in closer touch with ach other and
with the eenters of trade Oshkosh
trade has been materially increased by
the interurban lines already reaching
this city, and for several years it has
been the hope of local merchants that
the Omro line would be extended to
Berlin. The new project of another IN
terUrban system in the Wisconsin val
ley gives hope that even Berlin viii not
remain the terminus of this western
line of interurban road, and that the
time will come when Oshkosh will be
directly connected by electric lines with
the cities of Grand Rapids, stevens
Point, Wausau and Merrill
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
FINED AT AMIGO.

From the Amigo papers we note that
the Parker's Own Co, which exhibited
in the opera house here recently,
furnished plenty of work for the police
force of that city. The company gave
one performance and was booked for
another, but the authorities considered
the company so rank that it was not al
lowed to show the second night In
half baked kids the company, men and
women included, took possession of a
shady saloon and the whole bunch Sin
Guiding saloon proprietor, got
'pinched'' and paid fines the next
morning.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-03-05
MOSES A PHYSICAL GIANT?
On Biblical Authority He Must Have
Had Immense Strength.

Did you ever figure on the prch-
able size and immense strength Of
Moses, hasing your calculations on
the dimensions of the taales of stone,
as given by the Talmudic writer's? In
the Talmud folio So, column 8 it is
said that the tables of stone upon
which the commandments were writ
ten were six ellis long, six ellis broad
and three ellis thick. In the Bible,
Exodus xxi, Is. we are told that
Moses went down from the mount,
and the two tables of the testimony
were in his hand"
Hand mind you, not hands,
thoush it must be admitted that it
would nave taken a strong pair Of
hands to perform the task of carry
ing them, even on the level Now, we
VIII put the Talmudic and the biblical
accounts together and apply the
mathematical rule. The Hebrew ell
or cubit was, at its least estimate. a
measure of is inches, which would
have made each of the tables q stone
block nine feet long nine feat wide