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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
Love and MoonIIuht.

But by no means least amusing are
the sweet young things who, under the
spell OF the sea, have found their af-
finities. II makes the old young. and
the young very, very old-the sea
and, unless one Is girl proof, love
proof or married, there Is no telling
what may happen between port and
port. There was once Benedict who
was wont to fervently exclaim: "Oh,
there's no place like homeland thank
God there isn't" but 1t Is perfectly
safe to say that lie didn't fall In love
with her on the billowy ocean, where
only afilnities meet. Why. the very
letters, II. A. p. A. G." which appear
on the house flags and menu cards OF
the Hamburg American line. have
been interpreted to mean: Here Are
Pretty American Girls" And any
American girl will tell you that the
man who cant be induced to propose
when the moon is shining DER the sill
very sea is too much Of stick to be
worth bothering about. II you don't
believe me, ask any good-looking CIR
who has crossed. and then ask any
man.-Bohemian.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
AND II WAS SO veRy CLEVER.
Horace walpole Figures In Curious
Case Of Mistaken Identity

II heard a very funny story the
other night about Horace Walpole,"
said Mrs. Blake Il wish could re-
member who told It. Henry, can you
remember? Was It Mr.. Sellers?"
mol" said Blake, stidly. 1T wasn't
Sellers"
81 wonder II It could have been Mr..
Windsor"
mo" repeated Blake, ut wasn't
Windsor"
Before Mr.. Blake had a chance TO
express an affirmative or negative
opinion OF that hazard as to the source
OF the Walpole anecdote, Mr.. Barton
came in. Mrs. Blake, being by that
time sure of herself, tried on him her
recipe for winning universal affec
ton.
"Oh, Mr.. Barton" she said, Il en-
very glad TO see you. have hardly
stopped laughing since saw you the
last time"
Mr.. Barton, cadayerous man witt
solemn eyes, looked rather foolish
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
Guess David Would.

Four-year-old Joe is very fond Of
Bible stories, and evidently follows
the example Of his bestowed hero as
to meditation "in the night watches"
He wakened his mother one night.
after midnight with the question
Mamma, where is David now?"
''In heaven, guess, joe"
"Will l go to heaven when die?"
II hope so, joe"
Mamma" the little voice was very
eager now, do you spose when I get
there David will Just let me hold his
sling.shot little while?"-DelIneato
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
Woman Operates Alaska Copper Mine

On the west coast OF Prince OF
Wales Island. Alaska, little Travelled
and of the heaten paths of sea COM
merce. is a copper mine which for
several years has been operated under
the management Of a woman. II has
been a successful venture. made 30
from careful management. and the
owner. lola Wyman. is perhaps the
only woman in Alaska who is ship
ping ore out Of that territory. For two
years she has been sending her prod
uct to the Tacoma smelter.
Mrs. Wyman is OF middle age, with
rudy cheeks and with health enough
for half dozen city women. She
keeps as much track Of the copper
market and the copper situation as
any other miner.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
Poo Wage. IN British Army.

In the British army the daily pay OF
second lieutenant is 5s, Sd. with
deductions), and when that officer
goes on a government transport he
has to pay 6s. Cd. day for his food
alone. The pay of a major is 13s I'd.
day, average service IS to 20 years,
so he would be about 40 years of age
and very likely married. There are
no married quarters for him and he
is allowed no lodging allowance Hith.
erto he had hopes Of better pay and
allowances when he Secame command.
ing officer of regimental district, but
those appointments have been swept
away and a major has nothing to look
forward to as such, unless he Is a STAFF
college man. The only officers who
receive a living wage are tie STAFF,
the royal engineers and the depart
ments. The regimental officers, the
backbone of the army, receive little
or nothing and, unless they have
friends who can provide for them
with an annual allowance, they are
bound to get into debt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Us Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Charles Taylor of Lincoln street is
2riously Ill.
James Ellsworth is spending the
day in Troy.
Social dance at Foresters hall
Thursday night.
Edmund Carrigan of Stafford street
was in Hoosick Falls Sunday
Mrs. Kate Young OF Schenectady is
the guest of relatives in town.
Mr.. and Mrs, HOLMAN of Chicago
are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Rob
ert E. Healey.
Miss Mary Dow who has been the
guest of Mrs. Thomas Mangan has re-
turned to Troy.
There will be a social dance in For
esters hall Thursday night. Attend
and see the circus come in.
Matthew Maher of Division street
has returned from three weeks va
cation with friends in Glens Falls.
Circle No. 5 of the NJ. L. church
will meet with Mrs. G. l.. Hudson
Wednesday afternoon from 3 to s.
Cyrus Estes and family are moving
today from SALISBURY into the tene
ment over Houran's store on Main st
Samuel Keyes Jr., and wife of Eas
ton, Penn. are guests of his uncle
George Balkan and other relatives il
town.
All flowers for the flower show
should be sent TO the Congregations
chapel by 10 o'clock Wednesda!
morning,
The Mt. Anthony Country Clul
baseball team went to Manchester thi
forenoon to play game with tn
Equinox team.
Miss Gertrude Levin left this nool
for New York where she will pass
number of weeks in the wholesal,
millinery houses.
Michael Patterson and Christophe
Mahoney have returned to North AID
ans after spending few days will
friends in town.
Edmund J. Carrigan has resume
his duties at the Bennington Machin
Works after three weeks vacation
portion of which he spent in Bo'
ton and vicinity.
The funeral OF the late Mrs. Al
drew J. Armstrong was held this al
ternoon at O'Clock from her HON
at Bennignton Falls Rev. Phil
Schuyler, pastor of the Episcopa
church oficiated. The bearers weT
her three sons and Mr.. Sipperley @
Hoosick Falls. The burial was i
the Hinsdillville cemetery.
Peter Bushee and his son Raymon
were each fined Sass in municipi
court this forenoon for creating a III
turbance Sunday at the home of Fran
Watt in Bennington Falls Sunda.
They were arrested by Deputy She
if John Nash and were arraigne
Monday when they pleaded not gui
ty. This morning they changed the
plea from not guilty to guilty and wei
hned as stated.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
The Dog, the Cat and tn. Lady.


Yesterday evening. shortly after
seven o'clock. daintily attired young
lady was passing our galleries in Re-
gent street, where is now on exhibit
ton collection Of old sporting prints
The galleries had just been closed and
the stan gone. and the housekeeper's
peat was enjoying the cool of the even
Ing outside. when the lady's compan-
Iona ferocious bulldog-few at the
cat and both dashed through the win
dow. doing damage to the extent of
Haany pounds. The cat was almost in.
stantly killed. and as the usual crowd
quickly gathered, milady discreetly
hailed a taxicab and, followed by her
sporting companion, who seemed none
the worse for his dash through half
inch plate-glass window, drove quickly
from the scene.-London Telegraph.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
BELIEVES IN woMEN's CLUBS.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Thinks Them
Power for Good.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. now almost
nonagenarian, is still moved by
living enthusiasm for the cause she
has 30 long supported To a young
southern writer who was introduced
to her in Boston last year Mrs. Howe,
after due exchange of conversation,
said; "And now, my dear, go home
and start little club for women; any
kind OF little club, but make them
meet and read and talk. That is what /
did. can't tell you how many little
clubs I've started In my day" One
can easily realize what a godsend to
dull and shut-in lives Mrs Howe's
clubs may have been a half century
ago. when the outlets to women's
lives were fewer than they are now.
Clubs nowadays, however, are accused
Of drawing women away from more
serious and worthy pursuits than they
can furnish them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
How About Uncle?

We'll Georgia, you've been fishing
with your uncle, have your"
Yes, sir"
"Your uncle told US he caught q
dozen big fellows. Can't you tell us
how many you caught?"
No response from George.
But you haven't lost your tongue
have you? Hoy many did you catch p
81 haven't lost my tongue, sir, but
papas sittin' Just over there and he
always Furnishes me for lying.
Yonkers Statesman.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
woman,s Record Bass Catch.

The largest striped bass caught by
q woman with rod and line on this
coast was captured few days ago
in Larkspur slough by Mrs. Carrie M.
Blundon. The fish scaled 20 pounds
dressed. and was replete in spawn at
the time Of It's death. The successful
fisherwoman said that she was using
very light rod at the time the big
fish snapped her clam bait from the
mud bottom, but the battle 1t gave for
its freedom was not what the angler
expected. In fact, 1t succumbed with
in ten minutes Of the time It was
hooked. Mrs. Blundon is. however.
very proud of her schievement.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
FOR THE USERS OF TOBACCO.
Assertion That Plant Was Certainly
Placed Here for Good Purpose.

II is passing strange that, with all
the experience at command, the ply
siologists are never in agreement as to
the effects of the smoking habit Even
where lay opinion has been fairly well
established by the apparently well d.
gested views Of the scientists with re-
spect to certain phases OF the whole
problem, they are wholly liable to up
setting by the latest opinion. For ex-
ample, two considerations have long
been thought to be determined-that
moderate indulgence in tobacco need
not be denied, and that the lad not
out OF his teens would better abjure
tobacco altogether II may be assert
ed that man Is not smoker by ma
ture; and certain effects Of tobacco
seem to indicate, without especial ar.
gument, that the longer the acquire
ment Of the habit is postponed the bet
ter for the human system. At the
same time the remote antiquity OF the
tobacco plant suggests that 1t is one
OF natures unassisted growths; and,
IL It were not designed for man to en-.
Joy In security, neither Is II at all
clear that 1t is to be classed with ma
lures observation-disclosures jour
nal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
Entitled to Admission.

Rev. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain
Of the senate, went over to the state
department a short time ago to see
Secretary Root. He didn't know 1t!
was diplomatic day at the department,
when only diplomatists are received
during certain hours.
He started to go into Secretary
Roots Office when messenger
stopped him.
Are you foreign Minister"
mo" replied DR.. Hale, Il am do
nestle minister" and that settled that
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18

skeptick-Well, then II your oil COM
pany il so prosperous and straight
what have its earnings been?
Boomer-Well-er-I can tell you
In round numbers
skeptick-Well, then, II your oil
company let the numbers be square;
II you can.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
A Matter OF SUSPENSE

Il see Comeup has hung up your &C.
count for supplying him with his fam.
lily tree"
yes; didn't like the crop l found II
bearing"
What was that?"
Hemp"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18

EXTINCTION q NpOD-Contraeior Ia
n buisdingand-SlN roofing ni'"- us sont
= 49, .
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-18
CONTRACTORS AND suiIot {

JAMES SILK. contractor ano Dulldr)
j repairing rebuilding ana 4nop w"ff rnH
0nionstreet
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

for my greatest fear that should be SLOWLY
drowned in that indescribably awful place For
hours and hours before taken out I could
hear my rescuers walking about above me and T
was filed with anger born of my plight and NV
nervous condition, anger due to my strange be-
hef-delirious, no doubt-that they did not want
TO rescue NE. / shouted and shouted as loud as
could, but maybe it was only feeble cry You
cannot tell exactly what you are doing in such
conditions
After many hours there came an answer-ths
nu'1ied words of my comrades breaking through
the awful silence and bIackness surrounding me
fou cannot imagine the sensation nor can l tell
you how welcome those voices were when knew
tnat they had recognized the fact that was alive
and realized that had a chance to live and meet
my loved ones once more Then came the terror OF
the thought that in their wonderful efforts to save
me some part OF that tangled mass Of vrecl,are
might give way. and, Well at last hole
was dug through letting in the clear air; and then
theY sent down stnulants through tube from
above and then the strong arms of the rescuers
were about me- and then. by Gods great provi-
oence. was brought back to life.
My back was lame. my limbs were swollen
rTom the long stay in the water but nv friends
Were there. and words of mine can ever sufH-
ciently or adequately thank them"
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
PREFER DEATH
TO EXERTI0N.
india FIMINE VICTIMS
H4RD TO HELP.
FataIistic Indifference, Deceit, Sus'
picion and Dishonesty Hinder
Relief WOrE.

From time time the feelings Of the civilized
world are narrowed with tales Of famine and pest-
ience prevailing in India Every few years the
rain fails in Central India, and Death stalks
through a territory one-ffth the o. the United
States and. population p per cent greater,
reaps harvest of millions Famine, with its train
OF diseases, is again threatening area in
the heart Of England's great dependency equal
that OF ali the New England States. New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the
District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, the
Carolinas, Georgia, Florida. Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. combined, with population two and one
half times greater than that OF this section of
the United States. This has lain baking un-
der q FURNISHED sun until the heat rolls up from
the dust laden earth il waves, and the mind al
most gives way under the strain of the monot-
onous round of rising sun, with its assurance or
another DAY of ovenlike heat and setting sum-
with its pitiless promise of repetition when it
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
GOVERNMENT RELIEF.

The Indian government is always on the alert Tor
the symptoms of approaching famine Keller
takes the form OF public works. grain is shipped TO
stricken districts by the trainload and relief
csnlps are provided for the distribution Of food.
LAS the advances Mr.. Aitken says, and
the famine grows severe il becomes neces-
sary open kitchens for the gratuitous distTibu-
ton of food 10 the thousands Of starving persons
who are too weak work. This would be un-
necessary II the people had sense and could see
that It better to anticipate emergency than
wait for il 10 oveTwhelm them But rather than
so away 10 relief work soon as il is opened
OF thousands linger in idleness their home
steads until they become paupers. They reduce
their daily allowance OF food and exc it out with
leaves and seeds which they collect in the woods:
they sell their implements of industry for a frac-
ton OF their value, and their and any vessels
and cheap personal ornaments they possess, and
also the doors and rafters of their huts; and many
of them take robbery.
BY nature and habit they not steady work
Therefore many leave the works and wan
der about the country the chance Of subsisting
what they pick up. They only half
clad, even according to the Indian standard, and
many Of them scarcely clad ell. II they
have children with them, they desert them one by
one. leaving them to public charity If they enter
a town and 10 jackals and wolves II they are in
the country. They grow weaker from day TO day
taking shorter walks and longer rests, till they
sink down to rise more
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
BIG TRAIN SHED
Is COMING DOWN.
MORE DIFFICULT THAN TO
PUT II Up.
Nc7c Temporary One for Grand Gen.
traL Station WW COrer Forty
-4cres Of Tracks.

To make room for what will be, when it is
completed, probably the largest train shed in
the world, the old train shed which has formed.
since 1871, so conspicuous part of the Grand
Central Station is being torn down and broken
up for junk. AS possible after the old
shed is out of the way work will begin upon
the construction of giant temporary shed,
which shall cover all the tracks old and new,
entering the Grand Central Station, between
Vanderbilt Place and Lexington avenue, during
the years of work on the terminal.
This enormous she'd while ii will not be built
TO so great a height as the present structure.
will be modelled along much the same lines
Some idea of its great siz0 is to be had from
the fact that 1t will be about four city blocks
wide and eight city blocks long, covering prac-
tically all of what is "the yards" just
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
a MILLION DOOMED.

Now. write, i have the appealing prospect
before that. the sole condition of my living
shall see all this once more during next March
April and May. For nothing that love and money
do will prevent million more Of people
from perfshing IN this way.
THE extraordinary and continuous mortality Of
the pauper camps is attributable TO two clearly
defined causes One OF these is the perversity Of
the paupers themselves. European paupers arc
neither reasonable easily manageable but they
different they be from paupers here
Indian paupers look upon death a less evil
than discomfort and Inconvenience. And discom-
fort does not to them being without Clothes
lying on the ground. living on dry crusts hav-
ing nothing 10 do. II means having make an
exertion being put out OF their usual way, or
being deprived OF tobacco and spices They are
seldom happier than when they sit for hours
doing nothing Strangest Of all, they do not use
violence, a rule. A number of them may be
fsrnishing, with plenty CT food lying exposed be-
fore them: yet native peon sufices TO keep the
crowd of In accordance with this indifference
20 Efe they Will leave the camp and wander
away, seemingly out Of mere restlessness. and
turn up at another camp with lying story, or
come back to the camp they have left In such
state OF enaciation that their death within q few
days is certain. Energetic efforts made in
the Madras famine 70 detain the paupers by force
but in the last two farnines only persuasion and
threats were resorted to. However, people can
laugh at threats who prefer death restraint and
starvation q tncoryeufeuce
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

they can TO promote suffering Of the sufferers
and increase the cares of those who are hePi"s
them They break lose the dishes in whlch theS
get their food after every meal. They pollu'e 'he
precious water supply. They tear down thelF sheus
and use the materials for fuel. They ihsoiehIF
disobov +he simplest sanitary rules with a fla
grancy which cannot be described II olanhetS or
clothes be given them, is so1nttimes done oF
the thousand they go off with them and sell t1e'
I've OF the money for day or two. Stare iot q
dav or two more and then come back TO the camp
!, . diving state More than once-possibly more
than a hundred times-a systematic trade IN blank
cts has been found to be going on between the
par1pers and A dealer in the bazaar, who paid a
rrife for the blankets often they were brought
TO him and then sold them again at fun price 10
tba camp authorities. The camp servants cOnnive
ct this trade and sometimes of them is himself
.lca1
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
ROB THE DYING.

'.Au this is not the worst that the paupers do
They rob the dying Of food and blankets; they
throw away food given TO them if they see some.
thing better given TO the sick. Mothers snatch
away milk which is being given to their infants, or
they take away all their children and give them to
the jackals unless they are allowed TO eat with
them and share their special food
Other instances Of this callousness recited
by Mir. Aiken. On one occasion he was visiting
a certain camp 1.-The mortality of adults at that
caup' - he writes was from thirty forty daily
and l saw nineteen bodies burned On one pyre
We went into the hospital shed. where some two
hundred men and We're lying. nearly all
Of whom were 10 die within seven days SwarnS
of flies were crawling over their faces Some of
the moor sufferers raised a hand and then
10 drive off the flies. others could only move their
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19

shall rcappear in the course Of a few hours.
--AI human hope is now taken away that dire
famine can be averteG." says Benjamin Aitken.
who las wide experience with famines in India.
writing in the current number of The Contem-
porary Review
One Of the most disheartening things in the world
is eEdeavor give great gifts TO people VINO do
not appreciate them. Only farseeing men, with
great stores Of optimism. keep on trying 70
help persons who would rather not have what is
best for them. Helping the Hindu when famine
forces him forth from his barren home in search
OF food has its discouTaging side. according to Nj
Aitken. Apparently there times when lie is
more trying than a peevish unreasoning child.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
BRUTAL AND PERvERSE.

The brutality Of the perishing people is equal TO
their perversity. They 90 not know the feeling OF
gratitude. although they profuse in expressions
OF II when they desire to allay suspicion. They
practise deceit with amazing cunning and audacity.
They are unaffected by the sight OF the highest
gentlemen in the land wearing out their lives to
save them. or by the sight Of lakhs of rupees being
lsyished for their benefit, by the sight Of dozens
Of their own countrymen struggling with the i'm
possible task Of feeding them. They will not do a
hands turn TO relieve these. help the hun
dreds who are famishing and sinking and dying
around them. On the contrary, they do everything
New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
RAILROADS.
New SIEJs w. JERSEY :s5 Sc I, gGENTslI

NEW JERSEY GENTSlI
"VERY EVERY HooF eGiS On On FTaaiELAB5Lszi TaE H6a-ss
FOR PHILADELPHIA. Ly " as5
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days. 7-50. $50. $50. 1880, Ii. So sun
1880. 1-50. ESQ. $50 45O. $50. q "a N,
$50. 1870 11-5O .. m. 20
Lv. LIBERTY ST-:-I3o. $50. 7oo
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LOO. 1-30 200. 800. 400 43G. 5eos = a,
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DAYS; 1-30. 500. 200. 1000. Ifoo a sun
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FOR BALTIMORE AND WASHINGr1.3S,,ss, q,
Lv. W. 23d T-;-7.5O. ESQ. 1i.5o iox
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FOR ATLANTIC CITY. Lv. w
SeS0 a. NJ; q25o s3sa t. only). s.20 >. :
Lv. LIBERTY ST - 1000 a m
sats- only. $40 p m Sundays. 1000 ~
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- LS- d9 81. LIBERTY 5FIT1 sT51dOo; II 1000 4 4
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FOR LONG BRANCH. ASBCRY p,,.
AND OCEAN GROVE Nv. W. 235 SIX
SD. 1I-2O a. m. 100. $50. $50. 500 ss-
11-5o p m Sundays. $50 a m, $50 -
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midnight Sundays. 400. 900 a. M. al
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Time tables NAV be obtained a. scfr,,.
Offices. Liberty ST West 23d st Tsi ,,.s
Chelsea, 8 Astor House. PAS. 49, f3T.5 ~ ~
Broadway. 1872 FIFTH Av 2SI Fifth sv L4ss =
Union Square West. 27sS Third Av -
West 125th St. 245 Columbus Az w -
York: 4 CoUr. St. 343. 344 Fulton {,
NOstrand Av., Brooklyn: 800 Pros5,sss 20
Williamsburg. New York Transfer C,o -,
for and checks baggage 70 destinatior,i
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