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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-09-03
Done In style.

what is that fearful DIM"
THAT is a duel between Count
Fucashi and Prince de Brass. Being
prevented by social engagements from
attending in person they have sent
monographs.
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WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for This Section for ure
HeSt "a Hours
For Eastern New York and Wsstern
Vernon, fair tonight. cooler iAte1'r'
Friday 'sir and warner.
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REVISED RETURNS
GIVE PLURALITY
OF 29,376
Almost Up to Landslide Of Four
Years Ago.
HEARST TICKET RAN POORLY
5ackus, independent Candidate, Got
Only I2oo Votes In State Demo-
orats,EIect 81 Representatives.

After one Of the hottest fights for
representative in the history Of Mid
dlebury the voters OF that town elect
ed Allen Calhoun as representative
last night, having balloted almost con
tinuously for 81 hours. Calhoun's ma
iority was only fi"e votes, and his
election was only made possible by
the withdrawal of DR.. d. G. Noble,
who entered the fight on the fourth
ballot
The election for representative at
Greensboro in Orleans county has
been adjourned until tomorrow. At
Chelsea, in Orange county, the vote
will be taken today, the supply of bal
lots having given out after the voters
had been to the polls seven times. At
Middlebury Allen Calhoun was elected
tonight on the 18th ballot after one
of the opposing candidates had with
drawn from the contest Reports
from Hinesburgh, Chittenden county
tonight, were to the effect that the
voting was still going on. Returns
were still lacking tonight from Hunt.
lngton, In Chittenden county, Guild
hall, Essex county; and Duxbury,
Roxbury, Worcester and Waterbury
In Washington county.
Complete returns from Tuesdays
election in Vermont on the vote for
governor, received late yesterday aft
ernoon, show the following result:
George H. Prouty, republican. A..
PSI.
James E. Burke, democrat, 1898.
Quimby s. Backus, independence
league, 1857
Eugene NJ. Campbell, prohibition,
S26.
]. H. Dunbar, socialist, 479.
The total vote Of all parties was
66,747 and Prouty's plurality over
Burke was 29,376.
The republican leaders received
the election returns today with con-
Siderable satisfaction.
Inc incoming Legislature will have
two democratic senator's and abou.
80 democratic representatives and
six independents in the lower huose.
-Four years ago the House stood 206
republicans and "a democrats, so that
the republican majority the coming
year will be practically unchanged
and will insure the election of a re-
publican successor to the late Sen.
Redfield Proctor
The election of a democratic mem.
Der of the state senate gives the DEM
ocratic party representation In that
branch OF the legislature for the first
time since 1902. At the last state
election in 1906, not a single demo
crat was elected to the state Senate
Millions of bottles of Foley's Hon
ey and Tar have been sold withou
any person ever having experience,
any other than beneficial results from
its use for coughs, colds and lun,
t trouble. This is because the genuin,
I Foley's Honey and Tar in the yellow
, package contains no opiates or othe
! harmful drugs. Guard your health b,
refusing any bN-tfe genuina = Orin
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
BUILT ON coNcERTINA PLAN.
lfghtkeeper Measures Six Feet Six
Inches in His Stockings.

Like the towering pines that fringe
the North Carolina coast. upon which
he was born, in sight of dreaded Hat
teras. Fabius Evans Simpson. the as
sistant keeper of Lazzaretto light
house, at the entrance to Baltimore
harbor, can lay claim to be the tallest
lightkeeper in the Fifth lighthouse dis
trict, IL not level with the tallest in
the service from Maine to Rio Grande.
He is only 20 years old and is built
on the concertina plan. When he
rises from a sitting posture one won
ders how much more remains to be
unfolded before he is Strengthened out.
He is six feet six inches in his stock
ing feet.
His parents were reared alongside
the sea. and he comes of a family that
has figured in the annals of the light
house service. Alpheus w. Simpson.
father of the young man, was keeper
OF North river light station, and his
uncle, Fabius Evans Simpson, is now
In charge of the exhibit of the light
house board at the jamestown expo
sition. Another uncle, A. ]. Simpson.
is keeper of Southwest Point light, all
in North Carolina. Young Simpson
says he will stick to the business. be-
lieving he has inherited an ambition
for the service in which his family has
figured for many years.
He could not furnish a full length
picture of himself. He said he tried
to get photographer in North Caro-
lima to take all of him, but the artist
said he could only do it in sections,
and then paste them together, which,
he thought, would give an idea of his
clients towering figure. To do so
the photographer wanted to charge
extra for the second section, and the
picture was not taken.
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Around the Globe 81 rIm...

Boston.-A bewildering record of
miles sailed is that of Capt. Gerhard
Eckhoff. master of the Dutch tank
steamer La Hesbaye. who Is now
crossing the north Atlantic for the two
hundred and thirty-sixth time, his
tenth trip as master.
Here are some Of Capt. Eckhors
distinctions: He has circumnavigated
the globe 81 times. 775 900 miles. Since
starting out to sea at the age of IA he
has logged 100000 miles, he says.
He has never lost a man or a ship.
He was never in collision at sea, and
he never came near anything like q
serious accident. He Is now on his
one hundred and eighteenth round trip
to Antwerp.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29

Children of Other Days Were Not as
Good as Supposed.

Don't do as l do; do as I say to
DO" is the advice which nearly all
parents could give to their children
for, verify, the pranks Of father and
mother in the telling sound very much
worse than anything of which the mod
ern child is capable.
Here are few stories which a GER
tain wellknown doctor tells to his
very dignified little daughter-who, by
the way, listens in establishment, dis
approves entirely, but recounts to her
friends with a disappearing pride. II
such thing is possible. in the whole
affair
I'VE certainly must have been rath-
er bad children, my sister and T."
prefaced the gentleman the other day
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him back seven years and plotting out
all memory of what had happened
between his fourteenth birthday and
his twenty-irst. And so it happened
that when, with his twenty-eighth
birthday, came memories of the
twenty-first, he remembered his bride
and went to take her the cake and the
wine, and behold, there, meath the
wedding veil, lay the bones and the
dust of her whom his retainers had
sought for weary months.
Then there is Sir Gilbert Parker's
''The Right of Way" the tale of the
young lawyer who, struck on the head,
roamed among the loggers, his brain
a blank, until another and an equally
great shock restored reason. And to-
day Booth Harrington is contributing
to Everybody's in The Guest of CUES
nay a story on precisely the same
line, of a brilliant mind stricken and
then restored in both instances by
shock
And If the alienists now studying
Mrs. Balls case decide that shock
alone will restore her reason and pro-
vide the key to the mystery of the two
lost children, will the law permit
them to apply the test, to administer
the shock?
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In telling of those "pranks" played In
his youth. Il remember on one occa-
sion We broke up dinner party by
sending plate warmer changing down
the steps. Another time we succeed
ed in ripping open every feather pill
low in the house and playing snow
storm with the feathers before any,
body caught us. / stood at the top
OF the stairs and showered down the
feathers while the other children held
umbrellas over themselves down
below.
But the best thing we ever did
was when my sister and / decided we
wanted to collect some money. / got
an organ and she took plate and we
went out to collect the shekels. We
must have found the job very pleas
ant, because we got out into the sub
urbs. and then somebody recognized
the crest on the plate my sister was
carrying and took us home. Then
there was the time"
And judging by all the stories told,
these children of some years ago were
by no means good as gold, who al
ways did as they were told" and
nothing else.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
FRUIr-EArINc DOG A PET.
Nellie, a weII-known Redinoite, Has
Hosts Of Friends.

Reading. Pa.--Dogdom in this city
probably has no more human-like
member than Nellie, the beautiful car
riage dog belonging to Mrs. Thomas
Sigman, and the pet of all the friends
and business men of this city who
visit the ONCE of Alderman Sandt, a
brother of Mrs. Sigman. Nellie Is
part and parcel of the office. and.
though gentle as a lamb, she takes
good care Of the personal effects of
the alderman, II he should have oc-
casion to leave the building for a short
time
Nellie is five years old, and her
blood lines show that Reading has no
liner specimen. She is q perfect car
riage dog, and can follow any horse
with her nose close to its heels.
One peculiarly of Nellie is that she
absolutely refuses all canine COM
pany. Any person, however, who
treats her kindly becomes her friend
Immediately, and children are her al
most constant companions.
Having an army of friends in this
city, she has learned to eat apples,
grapes, peanuts, almonds, candy, ice
cream and other delicacies, which are
rendered to her by her good friends
nearly every day.
When Nellie is In pain she has a
peculiar way of begging for medicine,
and takes the pain-killer gladly.
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FIGHT TO EDUCATE A CHILD.
TweIve-Year-old ceIIist, Barber's
Daughter, Is Musical Genius.

New York.-Helene Scholder, the L.
year-old cello prodigy. has been grant
ed permission by the courts to go to
Europe to continue her musical educa-
ton there.
The decision is the elimination of a
remarkable lawsuit between a New
York cello Instructor and the girls IA.
Their, Maurice Schclder.
Like her elder sister, Henrietta, who
attained fame as q child pianist,
Helene Scholder had the unusual ex-
perience of seeing wealthy men and
women vie with one another for the
privilege of giving her a musical edu.
cation. There was litigation before
Henrietta was allowed to go to Eu-
rope to study also.
In the case of Helene the father had
signed ten-year contract with Prof
Karl Grienauer to leave the child un-
der his tutelage. A dispute arose, and
Scholder had an opportunity to send
the girl to Europe.
Then the professor applied for an in
junction to restrain Scholder from
sending Henele away. The application
has just been thrown out by Judge
Leventritt in the supreme court.
Scholder, the father of the musical
children, is a barber. His ambition
was to become professor of music.
but lack of funds interfered and he
became a hairdresser, sitting the pas
sion for music.
His eldest daughter. Henrietta. has
just returned from Vienna. where she
spent four years under Theodore
Leschetzky. studying the piano. The
bills for tuition were paid by Gen.
Thomas H. Hubbxi.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
HERD OF 10000 SHEEP.
Moved to Winter Range in Utah Under
Heavily Armed Escort.

Denver.-Under the escort of a
small-sized army of heavily armed
men combined herds of 10000 sheep
are being driven from the summer
ranges in Montrose county, Col, to
the winter ranges in Utah.
In order to reach this latter sec
ton it was necessary to pass through
that portion of the western slope
heretofore used exclusively by cat.
tlemen. Because of the alleged dam
age done by sheep to grazing lands.
cattlemen strenuously object to their
presence In any numbers whatsoever
and frequently in the past attempts
to drive across cattle range, have re-
suited In assaults on the herds. MUIR
ders and the Wholesale slaughter of
sheep as a warning that the offenses
must not be repeated. >
This year the flock masters who
summered their sheep In Montrose
county combined for protection and
are driving their animals in one big
bunch In charge of 80 herders with 80
armed men as guards. This typical
western caravan has so far met with
no determined opposition.
The 10000 woolies make an impress
sive sight, stretching In solid mass
almost as far as the eye can reach.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
PIa Was Her Nameaake.

Atlantic City, N because Lewis
Foote OF Absecon killed Jenny" pet
hog that had been named after her.
Mrs. Jennie Lewis has sued Foote for
$160 damages.
Foote acknowledged having taken
the pet to board, but testified that he
had killed and marketed the porker to
secure payment Of the pigs board
which had not been paid by the wom-
an owner. The jury returned verdict
Of nc cauge for action"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
An AII-Round Man.

William v. McManus. the new pres
ident of the Letter Carriers associa-
ton of New York. had been discussing
the ideal letter carrier.
With a laugh he ended:
Yes, the ideal letter carrier needs
to be as all-round. as many-sided, as
divinely gifted, as the man a Cincin-
natl suburbanite advertised for last
month.
The advertisement ran:
Wanted-A man able to teach
Spanish. water color painting, and the
violin, and to look after the bull"
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Shock May Restore Reason.

Her present condition in nowise re-
sembles her former unfortunate state
Then she was violent and Aoisy. Now
her mind is simply a blank. And DIR.
Goss, superintendent of the asylum
who has been studying her case be-
lieves that unless her brain receives
some terrible shock her memory win
never be- restored. Her recollections
of what happened between the time
she took her children under the shell.
ter of her cloak and reason resumed
its sway in ward of the asylum will
be aroused only by a shock as great
as the enc which robbed her of rea-
SON.
And what shock was that?
This is the question which is baf-
fling physicians, detectives and rela.
tiyes. of the unhappy family.
Did Mrs. Ball accidentally set her
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29

This woman says Lydia r.
xnknam'g vegefeble Compound
ssveo ner me- mead her letter.
Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Mannine.
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
" I can truly say that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound saved my
Life, and cannot express my gratitude
70 you IN words For years I suffered
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
How II Was Done.

Mother examining school report)
How did you come to have such
good marks In arithmetic this week?
Tommy-Well, you see. it was this
way: We had ten examples day.
and I got the teacher to help me to do
five. and Eric Jones got her to help
him on the other FIVE. Then We
snapped helps. see?-Harper's Bazaar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
Medical Advice

Lady Patient-Doctor. what do you
do when you burn your mouth with
not coffee?
Doctor-Swear.
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house on fire, and then, in a spasm or
terror, race away with her children
from the results of her carelessness?
And if so, at what psychological
moment was her reason destroyed
at sight of the flames, or when she
found herself alone in the woods with
her children?
Or did she feel the approaching re-
turn of the dreaded malady, and, fear
Ing for the future OF her children with.
out her care and oversight. spirit them
away? And, il so, where did she
leave them?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29

If you are looking for happiness.
why not try to look on the bright side
of things?
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Resembles Famous Stories.

Who does not recall Julian Haw-
thorne's great story. Archibald NAL
maison," whose hero. from brain
shock, reverted every seven years to
the mental state of seven years be-
fore, recalling in minutest detail every
thing that had happened when this pc
culiar psychological and mental par
oxysm had overtaken him? And poor
Archibald. when he was %, remem-
,bered that on the night when he was
Fl he had hidden his bride of an hour
in dungeon. where none of the merry
wedding guests might find her, while
he went to bring her wine and cake
from the wedding feast. And as he
went down the winding stairs the
hand of time had touched him, setting
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29

came from all over New England to
join in the search. The Brockton En-
terprise offered a reward of 800 for
the recovery of the children, dead or
alive. Brockton citizens raised $500
more. and more detectives, profess
sional and amateur, flocked to the
scene.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-29
May Have Sent Children Away.

OoAHe lew brocktonlteS believe that
because the air had been full of
rumors' regarding unhappiness in the
Ball home she really did arrange to
have some one come with a red auto
mobile and take her children where
they might be cared for.
But such reasoning does not satisfy
the majority of those who have
worked on the case. The majority
believe that the woman, in horror at
the malady which was slowly creep
ing upon her, took her children to
some lonely spot and killed them.
then with the cunning of the madwom-
an, hid them beyond all finding. Per-
maps the torn hands came from dig
ging in the half-frozen ground that she
might hide the silent little forms.
Perhaps the scratches on her throat
came not from her own fingers. but
from the tiny hands fighting for their
lives. And who shall say at what in
slant reason was dethroned, or what
act Of her own or another swept like
a sharp knife through the tottering
brain and left il blank?
Perhaps Mrs. Ball knows to-day
where the children are, and, with
demoniac cunning, refuses to let the
father claim his own flesh and blood.
Perhaps, If she would. she could lead
the searching parties to the very spot
where the silent forms are buried.
Perhaps her mind was never a blank
But history, medical and otherwise,
gives her the benefit of the doubt.
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Above is sufficient seed to grow IS Blu.
OF rarest vegetables and thousands of bril-
hant flowers and all is mailed to you
POSTPAID FOR 12c.
or II you send Ice, we will add a package
OF Berliner Earliest Caulihower. John A,
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His ElevatIno oecupatIon.

US EtevdtIHo OccupatIon.
You ought to be satisfied. Though
poet. you never starved in a garrett"
NO; but getting the Job of running
the elevator was all that saved me-"
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Woods Thoroughly Searched.

Woods Thoroughly Searched.
Every inch of the frozen woods
into which the woman and her chill
dren had disappeared was raked over
The Avon reservoir. beyond the woods
was dragged. Farmers all around
Brockton neglected their affairs in
their frantic efforts to unearth the
bodies of the two little ones. The DO.
lice matron of Brockton was sent to
the asylum at Taunton in the hope
that talking, woman to woman, she
might obtain some clew from the de-
mented mother. But she came home
with word that her attempt had failed.
Mrs. Balls mind was a blank.
Then came day when some chill
dren playing in the woods near the
suburb of Holbrook, five miles from
the Ball home, came upon some juve-
nile raiment-a boys blouse, two
union suits and a little girls under
skirt. These were partially but not
completely identified by the distract
ed father, for man-like, he was not up
on the details of the family wardrobe.
And then, while searching parties
raked and scraped the woodland in
which these garments had been found,
the father received word that his wife
seemed to be quite rational again.
Mothers Memory Gone.
So to the Taunton asylum he hur-
ried alone. Unaccompanied by hys-
terical women or keen-eyed detectives.
he hoped that in a quiet, heart-to-
heart talk with his wife he might OBJ
tain some clew to the whereabouts of
his children.
"I-took my children under my cloak.
They were cold and crying. The rest
is blank"
Behind that moment of motherly in
stinct when she stretched out the pro-
lection OF arms and wooden folds to
envelop her shivering children. Mrs.
Balls memory cannot go. Sometimes
she gropes wildly for facts, and says a
woman in a red automobile took the
children away. But always she real
ICES that the children are gone, that
none can find them, and that behind
the veil Of her clouded mind lie the
facts which she cannot reach.
Grave physicians and alienists have
visited this woman, striving to decide
whether it Is lapse of memory pure
and simple, or a return of the mental
malady from which she suffered four
years ago. At that time she was con-
fined to the asylum because, on the
death of her youngest child, she had
developed curious homicidal mania.
brought on by excessive grief. But as |
time cured the wound her mental |
equilibrium was restored, and she re-
turned to her home, where apparently |
she was devoted to the two remaining
children.
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Onions, Onions, Onions.

900 bu. of Salzer's Red Globe Onion
per acre at SOC a bu. brings $4,000. That
pays.
$4,000 from 8 acres Salzer's Mornina
Star Cucumber is well worth taking along,
$40 bu. Salzer's IL Fodder Earliest and
Best Pea sold in the green state at sl.50
a blu. makes $4,000 per acre. Such yields
Salzers pedigree vegetables stand for.
FoR 12c
and this notice the John A. Salzer Seed
CO., La Crosse, Wis, in order to gain
25O,00O new customers during 1903, will
mail you free their great plant and seed
catalo1 fnrefhar With
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important 10 N0ottera.

important to Mofhers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that It
signature Of kHzZzM
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.