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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Fertile Lands Of the eIob..

1t is estimated that the fertile lands
of the globe amount to 2S,000,000
square miles. the steppes to 100000
and the deserts to 100000 Fixing
207 persons to the square mile for fer
tile lands, ten for steppes and one for
deserts as the greatest population that
the earth could possibly nourish.
scientists have arrived at the conclu-
sion that when the number OF inhab-
itants reaches 5000. O00,0 900 the earth
will be peopled to its full capacity. At
present II contains somewhat more
than one-quarter Of that number. II
the rate OF increase shown by the
latest census statistics should be uni
formly maintained the globe would be
fully peopled about the year 2072.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Sold at "candIe Auction

Candle auction" is an ancient Gus
tom which still survives in Somerset
shire, Eng. A valuable piece OF
meadow land in the village Of Tat
worth was sold recently by auction
while the candle burned The cere-
mony consists of the burning Of an
inch OF candle, the last biddei before
the candles final flicker becoming the
tenant for the ensuing year. Previous
to the auction freeholders assembled
for supper Of bread and cheese, beer
and picked herrings, the funds for
this being provided from the "colting"
Of the new tenant Fines are also i'm
posed for speaking. nose blowing,
laughing out loud and moving, other
than bidding, while the candle is burn.
ing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
The Shrinking Sun.

One hundred years ago the diameter
Of the sun was four miles greater
than It is now. One thousand years
ago the suns diameter was 40 miles
greater than II is at present Ten
thousand years ago its diameter was
400 miles greater than 1t Is to-day.
The present diameter Of the sun is
$4,000 miles, and II this diameter
were to shrink tomorrow to the ex-
tent of 10000 miles the change would
not be appreclable to common OBJ
servatlon, though much smaller
change would not elude the delicate
astronomical measurement - New
York American.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
COMMON LOT OF ALL MANKIND.
Who is There Among Us Who Can
Escape from Worry

Calmness and serenity are recon-
mended for almost everything in these
days Horace Fletcher considers
these qualities even more important
than chewing, in the attainment OF
health. The beauty doctors say that
no cosmetics will avail to prevent
wrinkles and preserve youth without
calmness and serenity, and they are
said to be the most potent OF all
charms in her who would be pleasing
to the opposite sex. BE serene,
sweet maid" says the authorities;
let who will be viyacious"
1t all sounds very simple, but In
order to follow such advice 1t would
be necessary to be hermit, and then
what would be the use OF being well
or beautiful or attractive? How can
anyone be serene who plays golf, or
has cantankerous relatives, who wants
to argue about woman suffrage or re-
ligion, or who has not sure and GER
tain and adequate income? Man that
is born Of woman is born to worry, as
the sparks fly upward, and 1t is only
adding irritation to his other woes
10 tell him that all good things may
be his II he will only be serene.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
In a SINGLE Nlaht.

Henry Bergh was discussing In New
York the prize that he has offered for
humane device for slaughtering ami
mails.
Some people think that animals
are now slaughtered in as humane a
way as possible" said Mr.. Bergh, who
is the nephew of the founder Of the
great American s. p. G. A. That is
a fallacy. yet II is a fallacy believed
In very widely 1t Is as widely believed
In as hat other fallacy of which the
two dog takers joked.
Two dog takers were looking in the
lost and found column OF news
paper.
Here y'are, said the first. Lost
black poodle; S25 reward" There's
yer chance. Jim. Take 'em that there
poodle we collared yesterday
"But It's a white poodle. Jim OBJ
jected.
"'Never mind. Tell 'em excessive
grief has - and so forth - under
stand?'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Retributlon.

All infractions of love and equity In
our social relations are speedily pun
ished They are punished by fear.
Whilst | stand in simple relations TO
my fellow-man, have no displeasure
in meeting him. We meet as water
meets water, or as two currents Of air
mix-wlth perfect diffusion and inter-
probation OF nature. But as soon as
there is any departure from sim
plicity, and attempt at halfness. or
good for me that is not good for him.
my neighbor feels the wrong: he
shrinks from me as far as I have
shrunk from him; his eyes no longer
seek mine; there is war between US:
there is hate in him, and fear in me.
Emerson.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

M. J. Roche visited friends in Hoo.
sick Falls ON Sunday.
Wanted. One or two loads of rye
straw Il. l.. Sibley. IT
E. y Garfield of Schenectady spent
a portion of Sunday In town
Mrs. F. M. Crawford is spending a
few days with friends in Rutland.
walling Dewey and Maurice Wall
are spending a few days at White
River Junction on their way home
from the target practice at Mortified.
The Knights of Pythias who will
attend the big X. OF p encampment
at Boston leave here for North Adams
tomorrow morning at 6:l5 TO catch
the morning train for Boston.
Edw Hawkins and Louis Madison
of South SALISBURY were in town Sun
day on their way home from a two
weeks trip TO New York and other
places in Mr.. Hawkins auto.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
camphor to Break Up a Cold.

One of the most efficient remedies
for breaking up a cold during its
earliest stage is camphor. When the
eyes begin to water and there is the
accompanying tingling, of the nose and
feeling Of chilliness, place three drops
of camphor on lump OF loaf sugar
and place the sugar in the mouth.
Repeat this every 10 minutes till
four or FIVE doses have been taken.
At the same time place the feet where
they will become thoroughly warm.
This will usually prove effectual in
breaking up cold II the cold Is taken
at Its very beginning. For child but
one drop should be placed upon the
sugar, and five or six doses admins
tered.-Health.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
The ArtIss. Red Indian.

The influence Of the fur-trader and
the mission schools have had marked
effect upon the Ontario Indians. They
have to a large extent adopted modern
dress, and many Of the young men
can be found at work in the sawmills
and as river drivers. The women, too,
manage to keep step with their lords
in this march toward civilized appear
ances. / have seen moccasined feet
peeping from beneath the folds of vel
vet gowns Of royal purple. On the
bank Of Rainy river came upon
community of wigwams and tepees.
About an open FIRE crouched three old
hays, filthy and hideous. But In the
door OF tepee not ten feet away
stood young squaw--perhaps
daughter OF one OF the hags-doing
her hair with a curling iron.-Wide
World Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Kaiser make. the alsu... Book.

The kaiser, who has not until now
given the world assurance Of being
a bookmaker. has. as might be OK.
pected, started with 4 record. The
volume which he has presented.
through the German ambassador at
Washington, to President Roosevelt.
bulks so big as to Be beyond the wit
OF man to give II natural conveyance.
and Baron Speck Won Sternburg was
fain to convey II to the White House
In vehicle. The volume stands some
six feet high, and is rather more than
half as thick. 1t further differs from
all other books in being without a
title. It Is. II appears, q gigantic en-
cyclopaedia Of Germany. and from It's
place in the congressional library It
will tower lofty monument Of the
Fatherland.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
HOW LONG HAVE
YOU HAD 1T

Kidney disease may develop sud-
denly and become fatal In few
weeks but this is rare. 1t usually
appears with mild symptoms, al
though as the kidneys are not sensi.
tive 1t may have been developing for
|months-even years. 1t is usually
durable the first few weeks-in fact
1t often gets we'll of itself But IL It
has been long enough in the system to
have become chronic (fastened) the
books then declare 1t to be incurable
Right here is the crucial question:
viz, how long have you had It? II il
has been in the system for some
months, there is only one thing known
that will reach It and we have sent
for 1t. II differs from all kidney treat
ments in this tremendously important
point--it is the only one that reduces
inflammation and corrects the kidney
function AFTER 1t has become chron-
lc, as well as before. As there is no
sharp dividing line marking the time
when the trouble changes to the
chronic form isn't II as clear as noon.
day that thoughtful people with kid
ney disease should take at once the
only known specific that reaches It
In all stages?
The annual deaths are over $1,000
40 per day These census figures
show how appallingly serious and pre-.
valent this thing is getting to be that
lis innocently referred to In the homes
as kidney trouble.
If you have kidney trouble start
right. Call and let us tell you how
chronic kidney disease has been
brought under control
For sale and represented In Ben.
,nington by w l.. Gokay and b A.
Quinlan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
VERMONT NEWS
Items or interest From Fourteen coun
ties of the State.

The Rutland County Agricultural
Society has been awarded an insur-
ance of $4l50 for recent fire damages
and will begin the rebuilding of its
grand stand at once.
A. f. Holman, second selectman of
Braintree, has been arrested on the
charge of SANDER on complaint of
Herbert Flint. He was placed under
$4,000 bail furnished by Theodore
Williams.
The Oryille Marble Co., of Claren-
don Springs will furnish the marble
for the new state educational building
TO be erected at Albany N. Y, at a
cost of $S.000,000. The building will
require 100000 cubic feet of marble
and it will take over a year for the
Orville company to I'LL the contract.
Fay j. Johnson of Mortified, super
intendent OF streets, met with seri-
GUS accident Friday while piling some
lumber. He stepped on board which
broke under his weight, letting him
to the ground, distance of two feet
He landed on the end of the broken
board which was showed into his
groin, inHicting a serious and extreme
" painful wound. He was immediate
ly hurried to his home and medical aid
was summoned.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Edwards, of
lNewbury, celebrated the sixtieth an
'niversary of their marriage July 20.
Early In the afternoon James Hale
took them for a short ride in his
automobile. Mrs. S. +. Chamberlin, a
sister of Mr.. Edwards, who attended
the wedding sixty years ago, was pres
lent During the afternoon and even
ing about 30 of their friends and
neighbors called to offer congratula-
tons and presented Mr. and Mrs. Ed
wards with a purse OF 500.
A telephone wire which had be-
come loosened until 1t sagged across
the road caught across the top of a
carriage In which Mrs. l.. e. Jennison
and Mrs. Forrest Jennison of South
Windham, were driving to West Town
shend the other day, tearing the en-
tire top and seat off and throwing
both women violently out. Mrs. l.. Il.
Jennison suffered the fracture of one
arm and her face was badly bruised
and she sustained minor bruises, The
younger Mrs. Jennison although not
30 badly injured, was badly shaken
up.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Holland Has Cheese Carriers Guild.

Holland Has Cheese Carriers Guild.
The cheese carriers OF Holland form
very ancient and exclusive guild and
no one who is not extremely clean in
his habits and spotlessly white in
dress would have the slightest chance
of getting employment in the guild
The cheese markets, which are held
once a week during the summer in
the principal towns Of north Holland,
bring an element Of gayety in the
lives of the farmers, their wives and
daughters, who always don their very
best and wear all their gold ornaments
and pearls for the occasion. At the
same time the shopping for the whole
week is done and carried back to the
farms in the empty cheese carts. The
May cheese, which is brought to mar
ket in June. is said to be the very
best and choicest.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
what Becomes Of the Coli sallsY

In the afternoons when the dishes
are washed up Ciss goes and sits
down by the golf links There's
place where many of the gentlemen
send their balls over Ciss takes
basket of apples with her and when
a ball comes near her she puts It in
her basket under the apples. Then
when the gentlemen come and look
for 1t they can't find 1t and they think
It must have gone down stream
Ciss sells the balls to her young
man that lives In the village He
gives her twopence apiece for them
and he sells them himself to the max.
ers for sixpence-Grand Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Face.

We'll" said the customer, as he
paid the barber and moved toward
the door, 81 feel like congratulating
myself on getting safely out Of a
mighty bad scrape."
By placing himself promptly on the
outside of the barber shop he avoided
getting himself into a mighty bad
scrap.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Trying All Rouno.

"Matrimopy may seem very nice"
said the mild man, but it certainly
makes trying times for some people"
For most everybody" corrected the
keen observer Those who are not
trying to get In are trying to get
out"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
A Line on Him.

"Ah, pretty LADY," exclaimed the
fortune teller, You have come to
find your future husband?"
mot muchl" replied the pretty lady.
"rve come to learn where my present
husband is when he's absent"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
On the RiaIto.

"Yes," remarked Hamlet Fatt, II
may say l have inherited the mantle
of Kemble."
THAT settles the clothes question"
responded Yorick Hamm. Nov, with
good free lunch route. youll be
fixed"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Method.

81 love my love in the springtime,'
warbled the poet.
"So?"
Eyes, it's cheaper then. Oysters are
out of season, flowers grow wild, and
the theaters are running popular
priced stock. kansas City Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14

Tests made this morning in the Of
flee OF City Health Officer C. E. Bra
den showed conclusively, according to
DR.. Braden and DR.. e. E. Shaw, that
milk which was taken from the de-
livery wagons Of the Conkllng dairy,
operating at the old slaughter house
at the end OF Isaacs avenue, contained
formaln, says the walla walla States
man.
The milk was taken from the wag-
on by Sanitary Inspector Gates, under
instructions from the health officer,
was sealed in the presence of the de-
livery man, and the seal was not
broken until the bottle was brought to
Dr. Braden's office.
The tests were made in the pres
ence OF a Statesman representative
and showed plainly the distinct vio-
let color which, chemists say is posi-
tive proof OF adulteration.
DR.. Braden explained that the rea-
son he would not yesterday give out
the name OF the dairyman who had
been selling adulterated milk was be-
cause he wanted to make a positive
test, in the presence of another reput-
able physician, from milk which had
been taken from the delivery wagons
of the suspected dairy, The tests
made this morning, in the opinions of
both DR.. Braden and DR.. Shaw, alb
solutely conclusive and upon them the
city health officer will base the prose-
cution Of the dairyman.
County Attorney Otto b. Rupp is
today investigating the death of the
child referred to in yesterdays States
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
HOOdOed Engine.

Passenger engine No. 199 is again
bound for the hospital, says the La
Grande Observer. The hoodoo which
has hovered over that locomotive re-
fuses to leave, and any time an engine
is broken local tralnmen at once sur
mise 1t is the unlucky 1879 1t was 1919
that killed Fireman McFatrdge in
the disastrous wreck near Cayuse a
little more than a year ago, and it
was 1919 that suffered various injur-
les after it had been practically re-
built after the smashup it received
in the big wreck Monday night near
Durkee, it went wrong again to such
an extent that it must go to Albina
for repairs. There is always one en-
gine in every division point that bears
the brunt of hodooism, and it is GER
tainly 1879 i'm this place.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
Government Wins.

A letter from the commissioner Of
the land office this morning to Reg
lister Coleman states that lands in the
Yakima reservation totaling 1873
acres, have been decided by the secre-
tary Of the interior to belong to the
government instead of to the state,
and therefore the ground may be
thrown open some time in the future,
says the Yakima Republic.
Just when that will be is a very prob
lematical matter, for the reason prin-
cipally that the lands are not con-
sldered valuable, but at any rate the
question of the ownership of the
ground, which has been in allegiance
for some time, has now been settled,
and II the department sees fit to go
ahead and open up the country there
will be no further hindrance to do
ing so.
This land was recently held by the
state and was enormously excluded
from the old survey. By an act Of
congress, which passed on December
21, 1904, the land was declared to be
a part of the reservation, but it ap-
pears that the state didn't want to
let go of the ground unless It had
to. The matter was therefore sub
mitted to the secretary of the inter-
Tor, who decided in favor of the gov
ernment. whereupon the commission
er Cancelled the selections of the state
as TO the territory referred to.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14

serve one year more, owing to the re-
cent death of Fernando Guachalia,
the president-elect. 1t was decided
by congress that the vice-president,
elect, who will take office tomorrow.
cannot become president because
Senior Guachalla died before assum-
ing the presidency. An election will
be held within the year to choose a
successor to President Monies. Senior
Guachalla was elected on May 4 last
and died suddenly on July "a.
Rumors to the effect that a po-
litical crisis is imminent, owing to the
death of Guachalla, are without any
foundation of fact. The Monies gov
ernment is highly popular with the
majority of the people and any at
tempt to ferment a revolution would
certainly end disastrously for the
plotters. Congress is now in session
and there is fair promise of many re-
form laws demanded by the people
being passed.
The new railroad line between La
Paz and the southern part of the re-
public, completed the first Of this
month. is now in operation and marks
n distinctive advance in Bolivian pros,
perity.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14


Cecil Fleetwood, the S-year-old son
OF Engineer and Mrs. A. T. Fleet
wod, now Of Pleasant Valley. but for
merly of La Grande, met with a SER
ious accident last Saturday evening
which has already cost him much pain
and his parents considerable anxiety,
says the Baker City Democrat. He
was badly cut and torn in a wire
fence.
While riding about his Pleasant
Valley home on an unusually gentle
horse, something scared the animal,
causing It to bolt and run with the
little fellow on It's back No one saw
the accident and the boy tells the
story himself. While running at a
break-neck speed the animal colllded
with wire fence. Taking his rider
with him. he was instantly thrown
into the fence. The boy extricated
himself from the heap badly torn and
cut about one leg The horse was
quite seriously hurt.
Mrs Fleetwood took her son to
Baker City and placed him in expert
care, and the only serious outcome
that is liable to happen is blood poi
sonlng. The little fellow suffers con-
pain.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
Excellent Health Advice.

Mrs. M. M. Davidson, OF No. S79
Clifford Ave, San Jose, Cal, says:
"The worth of Electric Bitters as a
general family remedy. for headache,
billiousness and torpor of the liver
and bowels Is so pronounced that
am prompted to say a word indts ia
vor, for the benefit Of those seeking
relief from such Affections. There is
more health for the digestive organs
in a bottle OF Electric Bitters than in
any other remedy know Of" Sold
under guarantee at Tallman & Co. IS
drug store. so C.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
WANT HIGH TARIFF.
Mexican Manufacturers Would Shut
Out American Goods,

City Of Mexico, Aug IA high
tariff wall which will shut the manu-
factures of the United States and
Europe out of Mexico will be demand
ed by the delegates to an industrial
congress, to be held here this fall the
call for which has just been issued.
Nearly all OF the large manufacturing
interests of the republic will have
representation at the congress and
will seek to agree upon protective
tariff schedule, which will be pre-
sented to the treasury department
with demand for its adoption.
Under the proposed schedule a pro-
hibitlve tariff will be placed upon all
goods now extensively manufactured
in Mexico, while reductions will be
asked upon raw materials used in
manufacture.
Industrial men OF Mexico claim
that during the past five years in
dustries have grown to such an enor-
nous extent, including lines not
thought OF previously, that the pro-
tective ideas in the tariff schedule do
not longer fit the conditions which
they were meant to benefit 1t Is
claimed that in some cases the ends
Of the protective feature in the ma
tlonal import tariff are defeated by
placing greater burden upon the
importer of raw materials than upon
manufactured articles, because the
laws were made when there was no
immediate prospects for such manu-
factures while the industries produc-
ing the raw material for export need
ed protection.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
AMONG THE EXCHANGES
OF THE
INL AND E IA PIRE

man and is known to be contemplate
ing the advisabillty Of filing charges
against Conkling for manslaughter.
Whether or not the prosecution for
the graver charge will be made de-
pends upon whether or not sufficient
evidence can, in the opinion of the
county attorney, be secured to con-
Wet, but 1t is definitely settled that
Conkling will be prosecuted on the
charge of selling adulterated milk,
which is penitentiary offense.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
WANTED.
wANTED-cLAssIF1ED ADS, SUCH

WANTED-CLASSIFIED ADS, SUCH
as help wanted; rooms or houses
for rent; secondhand goods for sale;
in fact, any want you want to get
filled, the East Oregonian wants your
want ad. Rates: Three lines one
time, 20 cents; two times, 80 cents;
six times. 20 cents. Five lines. one
time, 80 cents; two times. IS cents;
six times, $1.15. Count six words to
the line. Send your classified ads to
the office or mail to the East Oregon
ian, enclosing silver or stamps to
cover the amount.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-14
Indians Celebrate.

Mountain View, OKLA, Aug. IA
A three-day celebration of the open
mig of the Kiowa, Caddo and Conan
che country to white settlement was
comenced here yesterday. Many
redskins are here to take part in the
festivities.