davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen
Counties Of the State.

kQuuAiGe W AUg 9Aatgs
DR.. Samuel A. Farrand, a native of
BridpOrt died Sunday at South
Orange, ~ J., in the midst of pre-
parations by the alumni of Newark
Academy to celebrate the fftieth an
niversary Of his being headmaster
Lamoille Commandery, No 10,
Knights Templar at Morrisville,
which for several months has been
working under a dispensation, has
received its charter and been duly and
lawfully constituted. The comman-
derry now has membership of over
sixty
Judge of Probate Thomas c. Rob
bins of the Rutland district, who is
to retire from ONCE December | af-
ter thirty years service, was given a
surprise Thursday by his lawyer
friends, it being his SIND birthday
anniversary. A big delegation called
on him at his office and presented
him Morris chair.
The arguments in the case of State
VS.. George Mcclellan, charged with
the larceny of a mail bag at Shell
burne last summer, were made In
Chittenden county court Thursday.
The mail bag was a private one and
belonged to DR. w. Seward Webb.
The jury returned a verdict of grand
larceny. Mcclellan will be sentenced
later
II appears that A. D. V. Piper, of
Jamaica, one of the attaches at the
state house Montpelier, is able to
put a billiard ball in his mouth. To
do this Mr.. Piper is obliged to stretch
his mouth considerably but is not
greatly inconyenienced. A bet that
he couldn't do it was readily taken
by Mr., Piper but on trying to remove
the ball he was unsuccessful. Friends
scurried for physicians while others
stood by and pried the ball out.
Judge w. II. Taylor has overruled
the motion made in Washington county
court by the defendant that the YER
dict of $4,000 be set aside in the case
of Fraser VS. Blanchard tried some
time ago. The case will now go to
supreme court on exceptions. The
trial of State cases has been suspend
ed in county court for a little time
and civil cases have again been taken
up.
AS Hi Stanley of Springfield, was
returning home in a rig from days
visit to Bellows Falls Wednesday
evening he vas drowned above
Goulds mill, a mile and a half from
Springfield Mr. Stanley was a Swede
and had been a resident of Springfield
for eight years On his way home the
horse acted badly and, in being so
dark. Mr. Stanley could not tell where
he was going. The horse baked and
backed him into the river The horse
and wagon were discovered about 9
o'clock The horse was valued al
$500 and had a record of 222A. The
body of the man has not been found
vet.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

James Myers was in Pownal Friday
duck" hunting.
Charles Hawkins az Shaffsburv was
visitor i'm town today
g, WIS. bertrand Oh Narrensburg' y.
~ p. 'IIl OF Main street IeIt rms
e,',' MON ,, Tor III snort WISH IH Spring
NV 'N' -H"7'.
,,. 99,ole Cat'le Commissioner II $.
v. ''i9"ii "I Arlington Us in town today
"" "'9ii''ss
o M Barber returned This noop
from Montpelier where he has baan
spending the week
Mrs Joseph Sbaupbno.sav of Citr
ton Mass. Il visiting her riacss tb.
Misses Ouiul3u off Grant s,rse,
49,. i'y I'i"+' water Dis being extended
N, ~, i'''.''e W. 2leel from SCUM TO the
10y, -. bennington Us building ON
an
o., MISS agnes SlIeeter. a teacher IN
,nv pubic school I'D the vicinity of
a -, ' 49, ~ NI9''ihs al her nome
~" ""s' s'e'D
James McDermou who came here IN
attend the funeral of his aunt Mrs
Frank j. DIVER. has returned 10 his
home i'm Schenectady
A. , ~,
~. alu 'iIs. Leroy " braht OF
., .'u'i, S1'''l nave returned IRON Wis
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
Mash-n.curci s-.elLessnsss.

a unique machine has iJst been put
ON the maUNc. which claims 90 cure
sleep.ossncss THE machine resembles
am instrument like au electric fan. the
wings OF the tam being studded with
small round mirrors lt is based on
the principle that most nsomulacs can
sleep az the window OF au express
train. The sight of the landscape rush.
ing by them invariably brings on a re-
freshins nap The machine with its
whIrl and glitter of revolving mirrors
acts ON the eye aud brain IN the same
soothing manner and sends the patient
on Into a deep s.umbcr.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
REV. FRANK eRANsTAFF, D. D.
Preacher at the United Church Ser
vices Next Thursday Night.

vices Next Thursday Night.
DR.. Granstaff is a native Ohioan,
growing up in the southeastern part
Of the state in the midst of a colony
of Southern people, traces Of whose
phraseology and accent still cling to
him. He graduated with honors from
Muskingum College in 1884, entering
Lane Theological Seminary, Cincin.
natl Ohio, in the autumn of 1885, fin
ishing his theological training at that
institution in May 1888,
His first pastorate was at College
Corner. Ind, Immediately following
Rev. ]. Wilbur Chapman, ID. d. After
one year and a half in this village,
he was called to the pastOrate of the
Fifth Presbyterian church, Cincinnati,
Ohio. After four years, during which
new house of worship was erected
and the membership almost doubled
he was called to the Second Presby-
terian church, Newark, Ohio, one OF
the largest and most important con
gTegations in the state, to which work
he gave himself for eight and half
years
For four years and until September
1905, DR. Granstaff was the leader i'm
the great work of the First Presbyter-
ian church, Marion, Ohio, leaving that
field only at that time to take up the
distinctive work of an evangelist.
For seventeen years Dr. Granstaff
filled the office of both pastor and
evangelist. In the last five years the
calls to do evangelistic work were so
numerous and the duties of his pastor
ate in Marion becoming so heavy,
though he had an assistant pastor
and two city missionaries associated
with him in the work, he was i'm
PEELED at last to give up the latter and
devote his entire time to the former
calling.
DR. Granstaff is now working under
Dr. Chapman personal direction and
has engagements throughout the en-
tire evangelistic season. DR.. Chap
man regards him as one OF the lead
ing evangelists of the country. Ben
nington is favored in having a strong
preacher for the Chapman mission.
DR.. Granstaff's first sermon in Ben
ninngton will be preached in the
Second Congregational church, Thurs
day evening November 49, The
chorus will sing the first hymn at
1880
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
WreekIno the TypewrI,er.

we sold one of our machines 10
Mrs Van Rensa'eor for her boy" said
the typewriter man when he had fixed
the machine so o. could write: The
quick brown fox Jumps over the lazy
dog all right 'llp was ten years old
II was Christmas time. She bought
20 for one % his Christmas presents.
u cos, her "a hundred dollars Two
DAYS after Christina She 'phoued me
to come up aud 500 about the ma.
chine ] wish you could have seen 10.
Th' boy bad taken i' an TO pieces lie
hadn't 'eit tvo little pieces OF DC to-
ee.b'r AMY more. Hc hod IL IN soan
box lt NH# .ha worst wreck OF ma.
chino you otu SAW Or took me two
days 600 nu 10 together 1r3in have
ucl. hope. nr lfgi r.v'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
GODDARD GIRLS LOYAL
Decline to Play Basket Ball With
Schools Barring Mates

Montpelier, Nov. l4.-The Goddard
Seminary athletic girls are now hav-
ing their innings, and because the
Montpelier high school and Montpel-
Ter Seminary boys have declined 10
play base ball and football with the
Goddard team the girls of Goddard
nov declare that they will not play
Montpelier high school girls at bas-
ke ban this winter The present in
dioa.ions are that athletic relations
between educational institutions in
the two cities win not Doe resumed
This coming winter
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
REMINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

The best oil Heater in town for
$396 at Ramsdells
Yesterday, Friday the thirteenth.
was am meyenuul day
clan, cbo,.dor t,rio,,, t,. ro ,io..
or o,,art m Auar,s r,a,t..,
w. j.. Gokay has returned from
'''
Misses Grace and Ida Livingston
visited iu North Adams Friday
\,,,l.,, I,,f, and ung, ,i5ri.b
,rs :, Woo5f,rd ,oH.y I..r bIr,in.
The Molly stark bridge club viii
meet with Mrs. Frank j. Howe Mon
day evening.
Mrs John s. Holden Went 20 Hard
wick this morning 'o VISIT her daugh-
Ter. Mrs George IA Bicktord
IT.r,, p.rr., of tr..,.,r.
"a former r..ident az mis- ioVn s
srspdipg , f.u d.,s b.r.. am trsireys
Edward stone left early this morn
he rap9irder of tb. onan door se,.
.0,. ..,r,i.i,,, az. , l.rs. ,,,,rt mitch
me- saw i'm tb,i yicinirs l,st srmme,
one OF the youngest hunters 20 So.
cure q buck IN me state Is Edward
SchulN OF NooaloIa VINO secured
lou pouhd DUCK az Wooulord hoioN
v YEA, old
One OF the largest bucks Killed IN
this county since the opening OF the
deer season was secured IN Arlington
by wallace harrington OF Soutn
Shaitsbury during the early part OF
ala ana WEIGHED an mounds 4, has
he hee, nair ~ sntlars soon in mis-
sec,ion 4, man vears
The members OF the Is. II. ). senior
class who are TO take part IN Their
play. Sowing Ills wild oats held
their regular weekly rehearsal IN
odd Fellows hall this morning Inc
members OF the cast are WORKING
hard TO MAKE the play the drainauc
', 90
The annual inspection OF FRANK
Ray Camp OF Sons OF Veterans viii
be held Monday night, Nov. 10 ana a
full attendance is requested. The IN
speeding officer VIII Dee Assistant ID
vision Inspector Ernest j.. Lambert
by order OF A. J." Stewart commander
Fred w. Spear, secretary
A largo number of people gathered
I'm y IS O p hail Friday evening
and enjoyed the social dance held by
the entertainment committee OF the
New England order OF Protection ana
q tidy sum was Melted as result
Woods orchestra was Boz attendance
Tho following seryices will NE held
a., ,ho NnthoJiet Eniscop,I church to.
,n,rrov Tbe nasior Row IA y
powo vul nreorb nj tO.go n m
Swnd,y srbool win meef M ~ noon.
ma mpi,r / s,yue ot q IA m nnd me
,!,vortb .aeur M q 40 m nm AL
mn. nyeninr service ,t -.au Row e. IS.
AIMS viii rr,,cb i'm .,cbopre with
Oh. 'p,.for You mr.. cordially invited
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
JAIL FOR SHANGHAI EDITOR
Convicted in British Court of Libelino
Judge Whitley

Shanghai Nov l4.-The criminal H.
bel suit brought against Mr. O'Shea.
editor of the China Gazette, by Judge
Nebeus Wiley Of the United States
Exuaterritorial Court was decided
Yesterday in favor Of the plaintiff. Mr.
O'Shea was sentenced TO two months
Imprisonment The trial began four
days ago before The British court Of
Shanghai The proceedings were la
ken by the British authorities al the
request of Judge Whitley
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14
NORTH BENNINGTON

The ladies' of the Congregational
church will give turkey supper
Tuesday evening at o'clock.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-14

Pleasant. sure, safe little pills, are
DeWitts Little carly Rsers. Sod
By d. A. Ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

in one-eighth of one plank of the plat
form I know the spellbinder is going TO
talk about: just as soon as he begins TO
loosen up. IL he's a ripper at the SPELL
binding thing. and just as soon as his
voice begins TO hoarsen and to break in
his earnestness. why. hang all of my
ideas. l don't care anything about 'em.
I'm the podner and the side kicker and
the sergeant of the guard for the fellow
that's up yonder on the platform getting
the fine. big wheezes out of his system.
and, for him. I'd eat every splinter of
the platform he's advocating, and eat ii
without salt. vinegar. oil or any other
kind of Classifying dressing. yes. l would.
Just to show you what a mush I am
under the witching power of eloquence.
let me give you an instance: Pretty
nigh twenty years ago 1 heard in the
House of Representatives a debate be-
tween Bourke Cochran and Tom Reed
on the French spoliations claims. Some
names. those, eh. i'm the speechifying
line? Some. Mind. I'm not abiding to
those two as spellbinders. I'm only try
ing to slip you an idea of what piece of
jelly ] am when these enchanting talk
testers that know how get me under the
guns of their eloquence. 1t was pretty
near an even thing, that time. between
Bourke and Tom. That's the way it
was critically sized up. afterward, any
how Both men. In different ways. were
champions as orators and debaters.
We'll, when Cochran. with his huge
Danton-like voice and his miraculous
facility for picking the right word at
dead gallop-when Bourke was handing
out his side of that French spoliations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

The fact that one or other of the ma
tional committees slips him a piece of
change for getting hoarse doesn't knock
him with me. You couldn't expect the
spellbinder to spellbind for nothing. He
needs the laundry money like the rest OF
us and the eats. And. If he talks to earn
his money, why. the fellows who talk
without receiving the cash in hand for
their palavering have some other motive
or purpose in view. They may be talking
for future jobs. OF for present prest ge.
It's a sure thing that none of 'em talks
for nothing. And If the spellbinder takes
his out in kale right In the mitt, what's
the difference? 1t doesn't affect the quail
ity Of his spellbinding.
1.-THE spellbinder who is jerry to his job
can win me every tine, IL he can't. III
be dad-blamed. A republican spelbinder
who's there with the proper quality of
dope can make me the blacklist kind of a
republican while I'm listening to him. On
the following night, when I'm listening
to the het-upness of crackerjack demo-
cratic spellbinder why, l turn right
around and become che dOg-gonedest
democrat you ever heard OF in all your
born days.
That's what they call the power OF
eloQuence. I reckon there's not man In
North America who's so gee-whiliikins-
ishly swayed by what they call the power
OF eloQuence as / am. That stuff gets my
sentimental and emotional and hysteric ii
goat right where the Angora Ives. I'm
for the boy that's doing the talking. The
fier!er and hOarser he gets, why, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

thing. whee. i wanted 10 jump right
down out Of the gallery on to the floor
and give Bourke the four dollars and r.
half that had in my pocket and a prom
lssoly note for every cent that I expected
to earn for the balance of my life, Yee-
ow. boy, bNt there was some eloquofy-
ing. Bourke knew how He had me in
his vest pocket. l was a rag before him.
He melted me down to two cents worth
OF lard in brown paper parcel
Then, when Bourke got IL out Of hts
carcass. why. Tom Reed numbered out or
his chair and turned his big Chinese
mandarin face toward the side Bourke
was on, and in about four minutes by a
split-second watch I was ready tn vote
for Tom Reed for President of the
United States and Sultan of Turkey and
King of the Moon and Ruler of the MILKY
Way and any other burned old thing that
they'd set him up for. Yip-ee, Reed,
He was the boy for mine. He had the
cold, creepy chlls rustlng up and down
my spine and playing tag with each
other. and l so completely forgot bout
Bourke Cochran that didn't know such
human being had ever lived aud
breathed
And there I was, then. Just gelatin
under each and both of them i'm their re-
spective turns, and here l am now, about
twenty years later, and still the same
gelatinous mass under the spelbindinc
proddings of the boys who know how ~
shoot II out OF their chests the right way.
Maybe I'm d weak and flabby and fiaccid
character and all that. If so. I am glad
of ii. But / sure do love the spellbind-
ers and certainly do fall for their stuff"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27
SARCASTIC OVER WIFES LITERARY TASTES

lap up that one-one habit that you've
picked up lately. anyhow? Sounds like
bum samovar tea where the samovarers
don't have anything human to eat. One
has to do all O. that. you say? What's the
matter with two doing it?'
Il merely meant to say" said Mrs.
Jobson, not bit rumpled. that it is
more or less necessary to keep up with
these books that make so much talk In
the world, and even If the books are not
worth reading. why"
HUH put in Mr.. Jobson. raspingly.
That's like a woman. Sheep. Plain me
'rinos. Can you imagine man reading
a piece of junk in book form. just be-
cause some other men tell him it's all
right? Going through with it, 1 mean?
II man picks up lemon that's called
a book, and gets next to its citrous quail
ity right away, why, he fires it through
the window or chucks it into the fire or
hurls It at the cat, and that's the end
of It. He doesn't read the fool thing. He
couldn't read it. 1t isn't in him. But a
woman? Huh! You're all alike. You Go
everything that the rest of you do. Great
lot! Great"
"Oh. WELL" remarked Mrs. Jobson
soothingly, this book has been enormous
ly talked about. you know. and. of course
One-I mean, I'd really prefer to read It
and know what it's all about than to have
all Of my friends insist upon telling me
all about 1t every time they see me, and
quote from 1t. and all that. Really. am
rather ashamed of reading it, because it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

whether he's boosting the republican or
the democratic or the socialist or the pro-
hibition or whatever old ticket. I'm for
the boy that's doing the perfervid breath
ing and the arm Hacking, and ! want him
to go on forever!
1.-THE spellbinder sends ME back Few
tens of thousands of years and makes
cave dweller out of me, sure enough. lie
hits me where I'm elemental. primeval.
hairy. wolfish and bowling son-of-a-
tadpole, He takes me out Of the dinky
little old two-bit world that We have to
live in and makes me hear the thunder
ing surf play its booming rataplan on the
lava cliffs a million years back. and
can just loll around in my seat. a-llsten-
ing to the right kind of spellbinder
and see the little white caps of JOY burst
ing upon tropic shores.
ITS music to me. the spellbinder stun.
and I'm not bowed down with shame and
cnagrin to admit it, either. Music Big.
rumbly ORGANISM. diapasonish music.
For the fellows expressing himself see?
He's saying it out loud. He's taking
lot of air deep into his chest and he's
tossing 1t out again like somebody un-
afraid.
"Dcss he believe all that he's saying?
Well. 'he makes me believe that he be-
lfeyes II. and that's all that's necessary.
I'm lust putty under the bellowings OF
these fellows If they know now to below
rieht-iust mush. / know 1t perfectly
well. and I'm not ashamed of it. I yield
TO the thrill OF the moment and have
nine dollars worth of fun out of every
minute 1t doesn't make any difference
to me whether 1 start in by not believing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

on earth doesn't care hang for decency.
why. Of course. you've got to fall in
with the swim and go and do likewise.
From what I've heard about that wretch
ed piece of fiction. If 1t had been publish
ed hundred years or SO ago the author
of it would have been drawn or quartered
or hanged at Tyburn or Newgate or
some such place for deliberately attempt
ing to ruin the public morals. That's what
l hear about it, and yet you-
my dear. the book Is too ineffably SILL
~ to have any influence even on the mind
of lunatic If it were a work Of art it
might be different, but it is decidedly
the chambermaidiest piece of fiction that
] ever read. and therefore one has only
to laugh while reading it. and"
We'll. 1 don't hear YOU laughing so
hard over it, cut in Mr.. JObson. I've
been watching you read that shameful
thing for the last couple of nights. and
you've been all huddled in heap over
it. and nobody's been able to drag a
word out of you. Don't Try to work off
that laugh gag on me. I'm fully aware
that you couldn't see a joke II it were
as big as the Washington monument.
but If there were anything laughab!e in
that book instead Of
oh 1T really Is not worth becoming
warm about" said Mrs. Jobson, rather
disdainfully tossing the book on 20 the
table beside her L have only half fin
ished it. but 1 am perfectly willing to
take the rest of II for granted"
well. I should think you would be.
broke in Mr.. Jobson, with intense dig
nifty. Il should think you'd have enough
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

more I'm for him. When he shakes his
hair into a mop down over his eyes and
lets out IL bawl that shakes the DOING
spiders out of the fiag-draped rafters.
why. I'm there TO enlist in his army and
so out to the middle of the danger zone
with him and fight with and for him and
by his side Till every DANCED redskin left
on earth bites the dust. that's what am.
TT doesn't make much difference to me
what the spellbinder's saying. It's how
he says it. That's what gets TO and be-
meath my pelt-his way of getting it out
of his system.
The campaign arSuiIer can't get ten
cents worth of enthusiasm out of me.
His declarations to what the platform
means and ali that are not what 1 want.
1 want the boy with the flaming eye and
the touSled hair and the swollen forehead
veins-the one who gives the table clout
with his fist that all but splinters il. and
who races down to the edge of the plat
form as If ne was going to jump into
the crowd and break whole lot of peO-
pies arms: him for muh,
Maybe the reason why the Spellblpder
gets the big rise out of me is because he :;
in earnest for the time being, anyhow.
He's warmed up. He's airing his vocal
chords Y'see, most of us never have much
of a chance TO get right up and boiler. We
SLOUGH around. talking in undertones, be
cause that's what the world expects of
us. We never get any show to declare
ourselves right out loud. If we uncoiled
the kind OF stuff that we sometimes feel
like working out Of our midriifs. why,
we'd be pinched for lunatics OF rummies.
or something. And SO we're always more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27

pride not to wait until called the turn
on you in these matters ana instructed
you to abandon these corupting in
fiuences," and Mr. Jobson idly picked up
the red-bound book and opened 1t in
the middle and gazed ccntemptuously
at the open page before linn. His con-
temptuous expression quickly changed
to a sort Of puzzled interest. However.
and Mrs. JobSon noticed hat he turned
over a page Of the volume
Perhaps" she slyly suggested. 'you
would like to read it? am sure you
would not care for 1T, my dear, and II
] were YOU
That will be about all O. that" said
Mr.. Jobson. glancing up sternly from
the page he had been absorbing. L
believe I have not as yet arrived at the
stage of my dotage when it is necessary
for you to dictate to me as to my read
ing matter. I haven't the slightest de-
sire on earth to read such unspeakable
twaddle, but / am only actuated, In
glancing over a couple of pages, by
curiosity to see what there II In the
thing that could keep you all punched
up for a couple Of evenings" and Mr..
Jobson buried his gaze on the page and
leaned back in his deep chair. Pres
emily he turned over to the start OFF Of
the book and began to satisfy his
curiosity" at that point from the be-
ginning.
Mrs. Jobson picked up the paper and
read 1t quite through. and still Mr. job
son continued to rifle the pages of the
red bound book. BY this time he had
forgotten all about her. apparently.