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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
The Work of the Wild Flower Preserva-
ton Society.

The wild flower preservation society of
America will have its work presented to
a Brattleboro audience next Wednesday
evening in an address by Charles L. Pol
lard of Washington, secretary and reas-
urer of the association. Mr.. Pollard is
making a tour of the East giving free lee
lures in a systematic crusade to spread
a knowledge of what the association is
striving to do The lecture will be given
in the Baptist chapel under the auspices
of the young peoples society Of the
church and the public is invited to be
present The lecture will be well Illus
trated by finely colored stereopticon
slides. The work of the association has
recently been made much more effective
by a fund that is now available for its use
through a legacy. This fund enables Mr..
Pollard TO journey about the country
giving the lectures also enables the asso-
citation to distribute much greater
amount of plant protective literature.
The need of wild flower protection is less
apparent in Vermont where the cities and
towns do not occupy such a large pro-
portion of the land but in the more thick
ly populated districts of the country the
more delicate wild flowers have been al
most eXCeTminated by thoughtless pick
ing. Even here a word of caution Is
needed in the case of several of the wild
flowers. The trailing arbutus is stil
common enough close to the town of
Brattleboro but in the best known places
ii has been picked so recklessly that the
flowers are much smaller and the foliage
much less luXuriant than formerly. A
little care in picking would leave arbutus
as beautiful within a mile of town as it
is back on the hills. The three sugges-
lions which the association makes most
forclbly are to use moderation and not
pick all in sight, to use care in picking
and not tear up che roots or break the
branches unnecessarily and to use judg-
ment and not pick the rare flowers or
those which would die before reaching
home. Mr.. Pollard is an interesting
speaker and it is hoped that a large num-
Der will be present to hear him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17

ly heavy. They are four or five inches
high and the lions are about the same
size.
a COW was another popular design and
could be found standing with her tail
curled over her back for a handle, or as
an ornament lying down. The toby jugs
were also much in demand and came in
various sizes, and a famous one was
head of Benjamin Franklin with a cock
ed hat. A patent medicine notified
tie was made in this same motteled
ware, and also bottles of vari-
Gus sizes in the form of books. They
had on them impressed where the title
should be names such as these: Her
mit's Suffering" "Lady's Companion"
Holy Spirits" Departed Spirits" and
for those who did not approve of such
levity there could be obtained those
marked just Bennington Companion"
Very rarely in remote places you may
come across some of these bottles whose
owners think that they are nothing but
just "mottled ware" and If you have
your collectors luck with you, they may
be bought cheap. Thus three specimens
were picked up in Maine last summer for
81 each, and as they were marked and in
good condition the finder turned over her
original outlay many times
The mark of the fourth stage of the
pottery was a ribbon scroll queerly twist
ed, and having on it the letters "U. S.
p, with a number which indicated the
pattern. These letters stood for United
States pottery company" for in 1S49 or
1850 the firm name had been changed to
this. There are but two other marks con-
nected with Bennington ware, and these
are one oval and one ocCagonal. Both
contain the same wording, United States
Pottery Co, Bennington, VT"
After the closing Of the pottery in 1858
almost any one who had skill to work the
clay or use the old models seems co have
been allowed to do so. Consequently
there is more or less ware made on the
familiar patterns, but of inferior quality
and generally unmarked. 1t has neither
the rich glaze which was a characteristic
of the real Bennington, and in which
point it excelled Rockingham, nor che
fine colors
In 1878 fire destroyed what was left of
the old models and patterns and the
works as well. This was fortunate for
those collectors who had obtained their
pieces of old ware, since 1t has enhanced
their value
There are collections which include one
or more specimens Of all the L-fferent
wares made at these works. but they are
few and far between. The pictures do
not give a good idea Of the beauty of
the pieces, for their chief merit, besides
their origin and scarcity, is their beauti-
full color and glaze. In the handling Of
many thousands of pieces Of china, one
expert admits that he has only come
across about a half-dozen of marked spec
linens of Bennington ware in good con-
dition.-[New York Sun.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
AGED Mans EventfuI Life.

Charles Davenport of Putney has
several distinctions 10 his credit. He
is the Oldest man in town, having just
passed his 9ith birthday anniversary
He is the oldest of five generations in an
unbroken line who are now living, and
he is the only survivor, so far as he
knows of the old Connecticut river boat
men who ran flatboats between Hartford,
Conn, and White River Junction. Mr.
Davenport has been i'll for some time, but
is now recovering his health. He has
vivid recollections of his boating days
and tells some interesting stories.
Mr.. Davenport was born in Dummers-
ton April 20, 1913, and was a son of
Charles and Lydia (Kathan) Davenport
His uncle, John Davenport, owned
steamboat which piled on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers between Pittsburg and
New Orleans and when he was a young
man Charles Davenport began work as
engin, er on his uncle's steamer
For two years he remained at that post,
and n one occasion he had narrow 6s-
cape The steamer took fire while az
anchor in a port in Arkansas, and after
figh ing fire until the flames were beyond
con rol he jumped overheard and swan
ash re.
When he returned home he found his
bro her. George Davenport owner of a
led by poles, or sails when feasible. Mr.,
Davenport began work for his brother
and Cwelve or thirteen years he was cap
tain, carrying sOapstone principally on
the downward trip and returning with
merchandise. Afterward he took up car
pentering and stone masonry.
He married Hepsibeth Amidon of Dunn
merston. She died 80 years ago. Mr.,
Davenport was then running the ferry
between Putney and Westmoreland, n.
II. His second wife was Rocella (Page)
Campbell of Brattleboro. She died after
thirteen years For fourteen years Mr..
Davenport has lived with his daughter,
Lydia, wife of Charles Kilburn, in Put
ney.
Mr. Davenport has two sisters, Mrs.
Martha Colburn, aged rs years, of West
Chesterfield, n. H., and Mrs. Elvira Had
ley. aged 80 years. of Buffalo, n. Y. His
children, all by his first wife, are Mrs.
Artemas Fields of Rosedale, Kansas, Mrs.
Eliza Plimpton Of Warren, Mass, Mrs.
Charles r. Davenport of Chesterfield Fac
tory. N H., Mrs. Bradley Leach Of West
moreland, NJ H., and Mrs, Charles Kill
burn of Putney.
In his younger days Mr. Davenport was
very muscular, and he often engaged in
lively tussles with a tame bear which
was a mascot on his uncle's ship. He
never had serious illness until last
winter.
The five generations in direct descent
are Charles Davenport, Mrs. Charles Kill
burn, May, wife of George Guy, of
Springfield, Mass, Georgia May, wife OF
Albert Pinard, of Springfield, and Albert
Pinard.-[Boston Globe.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
The BLESSING of seventy Years.

When I passed the SEVENTEEN mile
stone, ten months ago, l instantly real
lied that / had entered a new country
and a new atmosphere. To all the public
l was become recognizably old, undeniably
old; and from that moment everybody as
sumed a new attitude toward me-the
reverent attitude granted by custom TO
age-and straightway the stream of gen.
erous new privileges began 20 flow in
upon me and refresh my life. Since then,
have lived an ideal existence; and I now
believe what Choate said last March, and
which at the time didn't credit: that the
best of life begins at seventy; for then
your work is done; you know that you
have done your best, let the quality of
the work be what it may; that you have
earned your holiday--a holiday of peace
and oontentment-and that thenceforth,
to the setting of your sun, nothing will
break it, nothing interrupt it.-[From
Mark Twain's Autobiography, in the
North American Review
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
Houshton & slmonds Have Bought the
sprInqfieId Department Store.

Houghton & Simonds have bought this
week in Springfield (Vt) the Springfield
Department Store, owned by e. II. Kim
ball 1t is the corner store in the Adna-
brown hotel block and was formerly
owned for many years by Reyes q Hill.
The stock consists principally of dry
goods, with departments of groceries and
shoes. The last two, however, will be
discontinued at once and the entire store,
after a clearance sale, will be devoted TO
dry-goods, while the large daylight base
ment will be fitted up as model garment
department.
New fixtures will be installed and the
owners of the building will put In new
show windows and a handsome new
corner entrance.
AS soon as the alterations are COM
pleted, the store will be stocked with
large and complete new line of dry-goods,
fancy goods and garments.
BY having the outlet of two stores,
Houghton & Simonds will be enabled to
obtain lower prices when buying many
lines of goods
A. M. Houghton, who has had charge
of Houghton e Simondss mail order de-
partment in the local store, will be man
ager of the Springfield store. He has
already taken up his residence there.
Springfield is at present the boom
town. Of the state. Besides additions to
all the present factories being built, the
Tones * Lamson Machine Co. is con-
strusting a new shop 400 feet long that
will employ $50 to 300 men and one con-
Germ alone is building 25 tenements.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
The Poet of the Canadian HabItant.

The late DR.. William Henry Drummond
became the poet of the French Canadian
habitant because he loved the habitant.
All the back parishes of Quebec, in which
the habtant, the descendant of the pi-
oneer of the Canadian woods, makes his
home, were as familiar to DIR. Drummond
as the streets of Montreal. DR.. Drum
mond admitted frankly that the society
of the backwoodsman, whom he has made
famous in literature, was dearer to him
than was that of his English speaking
and more artificial friends. DR.. Drum
mond's best known poem is ''The Wreck
of the Julie Plante," which is a striking
example of the dialect he employed;
on wan dark night on Lac st. Pierre
De win she blow, blow, blow,
An de crew of de wood scow Julie Plante
Got scarf an run below.
For de win she blow LAX hurricanes;
Bimeby she blow some more,
An de scow bus up on Lac st. Pierre
Wan arpent from de shore.
De captinne walk on de fronte deck
An walk de him deck too.
He call de crew from up de hole;
He call de cook also.
De cook she's name was Rosie;
She came from Montreal;
Was chambre maid on lumber barge
On de Grande Lachine canal
De night was dark LAX wan black cat,
De wave run high an fas',
Wen de captinne tax de Rosie girl
An tie her to de mas;
Den he also tax de life preserve
An jomp off on de LAX
An say "Goodby, ma Rosie, dear;
l go drown for your SAX"
Mex mOrnin' very early
Bout hat pas two, tree, four
De captinne scow an de poor Rosie
Was corpses on de shore,
For de win she blow lax hurricane;
Bimeby she blow some more,
An de scow bus up on Lac st. Pierre
Wan arpent from de shore.
Moral
Now, all good wood scow sailor man,
TAX warnin' by dat storm
An go an marry some nice French girl
An leev on wan beeg farm.
De win can blow lax hurricane,
An s'pose she blow some more,
You can't get drown on Lac st. Pierre
So long you stay on shore.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17

Now that the white heat of discussion
about spelling reform is past, the Con
LESSONS of a Spelling Reformer," by
Prof. T. r. Lounsbury of Yale, appears
in the May Atlantic as a cool and semi
official utterance on this subject The
writer shows that, as we have entirely
lost our phonetic sense, and have, in the
most inaccurate way, attempted reforma-
ton by etymology, the only hope of
permanent new spelling can come from
the adoption Of a system which appeals
to the rising generation. Prof. Lounsbury
makes this important point that our
present photography is particularly OBJ
jectionable, because it puts the intellec-
tual faculties to sleep at the most ac-
tive period of life. What little reasoning
power the child possesses appears use
less in the mazes of such words as read,
head, red, bead hear, and bear,
and what has been muddled in child
hood is apt to remain muddled the rest Of
ones life"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
.BRATTLEBORO LOCAL NEWS
WoMAN's CLUB MEETING
Good Work In the Past and Encouraging
Outlook-Officers Elected-$1o12 from
Chdren's Penny Savings


The reports submitted in the annual
meeting of the Brattleboro Woman's club
Wednesday afternoon indicated in some
measure the good work which has been
accomplished by the various committees
in the club during the past year. The
chairmen of committees who reported all
told of activity and encouraging things
TO far outweigh the discouragements, and
plans for even more effective work were
mingled with the account of what had
already been done.
officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Mrs. George E. Warner; vice presi-
dents, Mrs. c. c. Fits, Mrs. c. L. Stick
uey; recording secretary, Mrs. H. c. Rice;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. L. w.
Hawley; treasurer Mrs. G. G. Staples;
director for one year, Miss Izetta stew
art; directors for two years, Mrs. j. ID.
Barrows, Mrs. Nj. j. Moran, Miss EN-
ma Gregg. The present membership OF
the club is 225, and the organization is In
good financial condition.
Mrs. Warner gave a general summary
of the work of the year in her address
as president. She spoke of the Feasibility
OF conducting the club on a department
plan instead of as a unit, as heretofore
Mrs. Leroy F. Adams reported for the
education committee, speaking in detail
Of the penny savings scheme which had
been used with the school children. The
total amount which the children saved
was S101231, of which S6ll.55 has peeh
transferred to individual bank ac-
counts. Mrs A E. Hobart reported for
the kindergarten committee, telling OF
the summer school which was conducted
Last year for six weeks and of the plans
for the school this year. Mrs. Cora e.
Leonard reported for the philanthroplc
committee telling of the sewing classes
for children and other good works. Mrs
John c. Dewitt reported for the ways
and means committee. One of the most
interesting reports was given by Mrs H.
r. Brown for the civics committee, which
has worked with the public Improvement
committee of the board of trade and has
raised sufficient money with the $50 APP
propriated by the club to care for the
flower gardens and the Prospect Hill
bank. The committee hopes to place
baskets on the streets for waste papers
ana rubbish which now make the street
unsightly. One of the points on when
the committee places much emphasis Is
protection of trees in the village
Lunch was served at the close OF the
meeting, during a social half hour.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
Railroads viii Spend $1,000, 900, 900 in I'M
provements This Year.

The Chicago Record Herald says that
American railways will spend close to
81, 900, 900, 900 this year TO secure more
equipment, power and trackage 1t is es-
timated that between 100000 and $4,000
freight cars will be added to the total
equipment of the railways, fully $4,000
passenger cars will be built, and more
than 5000 locomotives will be added to
the steam power which is now available.
1t is estimated that the railroads will
pay fully 1872 100000 for about $500, 900
tons of steel rails. The output last year
was about $3.50, 900 tons. 1t is said that
the western railroads will use fully $780,
900 tons of rails and that nearly 1000, 900
tons of this will be rolled in the eastern
mills.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
WITH A LOVING CUP.
Herbert F. Brooks Honored by His EN-
ployers, Martin L. Hall & Co., at Annual
Banquet In Boston.

A very pleasant trade event was the
annual banquet given by Martin l.. Hall
& Co., wholesale grocers, Boston, 70 their
statesmen and heads of departments at
the Parker House, Boston, Thursday
evening, May 2. All told there were in
the neighborhood of 40 present. The
browning event of the affair, which was
marked by the utmost unity of feeling
and the truest fraternity, was the pre-
Mr. Herbert f. Brooks, who is one of the
best known and most highly regarded
statesmen in New England. Probably no
Wholesale grocery salesman out of Boston
has a wider circle of acquaintances than
Mr. brooks. and he is equally esteemed
by his fellow statesmen and customers
Possessed of a cheerful nature and OPP
timistic temperament, Mr.. Brooks is al
ways a genial companion. 1t was our
pleasure to see the loving cup presented
to him by the firm, and the day following
there were many callers at the store, who
came to congratulate Mr.. Brooks and to
see the token of esteem which he had re-
ceived from the firm The cup was hand
somely engraved as follows
Presented to
Herbert f. Brooks
A token of love and appreciation from
Martin l.. Hall & Company
May 2, 1907
The above article, which tells its own
story of an extremely pleasant recogni-
ton to one of Brattleboro's worthy citi-
zens, is from the New England Grocer of
May 10. The loving cup, which is OF very
handsome design, now occupies place OF
honor in Mr.. Brooks's Canal street home.
Mr.. Brooks is undoubtedly the dean of
grocery statesmen in New England, with
over 40 years of continuous service to his
credit
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17

And all that glitters is not guilt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17

Students Of the much exploited univer-
sal language, Esperanto, are interested
in the coming congress in the interest of
that tongue at Cambridge, Eng. More
than 5000 delegates will be present,
representing nearly every country in Eu-
rope One of the noteworthy features Of
the program will be a presentation of a
ShaKspearian tragedy entirely in Espe-
ranto. Policemen and restaurant walters
in Cambridge are studying the language
in order to be able to converse with the
foreign delegates.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17
For over sixty Years.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for over. 90 years by millions OF motheIs
iect success. 1t soothes the child, sottens the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie ana Is
he best remedy for diarrhoea. It Will relieve
druggists in every part of the world. Tween
ty.hVe cents a bottle. BE sure and ask Tor
Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup" and take
no other kind.
Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs act,
June 30, 1906, serial number 1908.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17

Henry van Dyke has found "a little
river in Southern New Jersey down which
he made an excursion in the springtime
He will Write about IT in the June Scrib-
ner under the title, Between the Lupin
and the Laurel"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-17

Every nervous person should try Carriers
Little Nerve Pills. They are made specially
Tor nervous and dyspetic men and women, and
are just the medicine needed by all persons
Who, from any cause do not sleep well, or
who fail to get proper strength from their
tood. Cases of weak stomach, Indigestion
dyspepsia, nervousness and sick headache, etc,
readily yield to the use Of the Little Nerve
lllls, particularly II combined with Carter .
Little Liver Pills In walls at rs cents.
Harsh purgative remedies are fast giving
way to the gentle action and mild effects OF
Carriers Little Liver Pills. II you try them
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-07
RESPITE COMES
To STOWAWAYS

Deliverance in part came about noon
Always marooned on board the steam
ship Kumeric. Thus far it is but
reprieve from the laws sentence of de-
portation to the far away islands from
which the unfortunate people have
come. Yet there may be a chance for
full pardon of some if not most of them.
Raymond c. Brown, chief inspector
of immigration here, received a cable
gram from Washington directing him
to land siXty-five of the seventy-three
stowaways in quarantine for examina-
ton. This last word may contain a
ray of hope that some at least of the
people may give reasons for allowing
them to join their more fortunate fell
low-pa passengers admitted without ques-
| ton to domicilfation in the free sun
shine of these islands
| Eight of the stowaways were exclud-
ed from the order. They were not to
be allowed to touch the shore, or even
| to be transferred to another ship, but
must be taken hence in the vessel that
brought them. The reason for such
stringency with regard to these eight
criminal class" One man and one wo-
man of the number, indeed, were taken
| out of jail at Funchal on the eve of the
Kumeric's departure and smuggled on
board They are said to be a bad lot,
all, whose looks would condemn them
anywhere Some are diseased.
BY the cable order purpose of su-
| ing out a suit of habeas corpus to bring
the stowaways ashore was forestal.ed.
| The matter had advanced nearly to a
head in the hands of E. A Douthitt
and E. NJ. Watson, attorneys. In the
meantime the embarkation of Japanese
for British Columbia in the Kumeric,
anchored off the harbor where she had
been for two or three days, mad actual
" begun. It was looking blue for the
stowaways when the relieving mandate
came.
Acting Governor Atkinson could
scarcely believe the news of the order,
when told it down town by an Adver-
tiser reporter, as he was in momentary
expectancy of receiving some reply to
urgent messages he had sent to Wash
ington respecting three of the stew
aways It was in the interests of hui
mainly that he exerted himself in be-
half of these-a mother, a daughter
and a son. respectively, of as many
Portuguese countrymen anxiOusly
waiting to welcome them to Hawaii.
The little boys case as already pub
lished is especially pathetic. He is on
ly five years old and was born soon
after his father had emigrated to Ha-
wall His mother died and the little
fellow was shipped out to be cared for
by his father. 1t is said, moreover,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-07

that the lad was duly entered as pas
senger but his name inadvertently left
off the Kumerics manifest.
For the deportation of any of the
in quarantine who fail to pass
the examination the immigration au-
thorities will hold the agents of the
Kumeric responsible.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-07

wgwagThat saphedde saphedde-Ye indeed
I WigwagIm quarter l
Record.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-07

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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-18

that he is not to construe his duties as
requiring that before proceeding in the
matter of an unlawful inclosure, there
must first be filed with him formal
complaint by some person or persons
acquainted with the facts, but it shall
be his duty, as herein above stated. to
take the initiative himself"
In this connection you are further in
struggled, by direction Of the President,
to at once notify all Of the special
agents and receivers and registers Of
local land offices throughout the United
States, and to give the widest publicity
thereto that the provisions of said &C
Of February %, 1885, for the summar!
destruction Of enclosures and obstruc
tons existing in violation Of said &C
will be rigidly enforced on and afte
/ April |, 1907.