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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
Great Strides Made During
Past Year
INVADING LARGE Cite.
Progress Of Temperance Movement
As Reported to General Assembly
Of Presbyterian Church.

Kansas City, Mo-. May 29.-Eight
million, six hundred thousand people
abolished the saloon last year, includ-
ing four entire states. The seven
prohibition states have a population
of over ten millions, while twenty
seven millions live In other prohibit
tion territory, making about 45 per
cent OF the total population OF the
United States free from the blighting
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
PARKER AND THE PLATFORM
VIII Be Chairman Of Committee q
Denver

New York, May pa man high up
in the council of Tammany said this
morning that Judge Alton b. Parker
will not only be the New York mem
Der of the committee on resolutions
at the Denver convention but that he
would be the chairman and write the
platform.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
No Paper Tomorrow.

Tomorrow being legal holiday
there will be no issue of the Evening
Banner. Mondays paper will CON
tain the news of the two days. The
Banner business Office will be open
tomorrow from II to IL only.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
HIRAM MATTisoN DEAD
Had Been to Cemetery In Evening to
Decorate Daughters Grave.

Hiram Mattison. aged about Sc
years. died at the home OF Edward
Hastings In South SALISBURY early
this morning. Mr.. Madison went to
the cemetery last evening and decor.
ated the grave of his daughter, the
late Mrs. Hastings. He came home
and was taken III and a physician was
summoned but he died shortly after
from heart failure. Deceased was
highly respected by all who knew him
and II will be great shock to his
friends to learn OF his death .as he
was In good health only yesterday.
One brother, living In East Shafts.
bury, survives him.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
Gard Of Thanks.

We, the undersigned, wish to thank
our friends who were so kind to us
In our recent great sorrow.
Mrs. WIS. Phillips and family.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
YESTERDAYS BASEBALL
Results Of Games Played In Two Big
Leagues
American League

American League
At Washington--Wa Washington s,
Cleveland 2.
AT Philadelphia-Detroit 10, Phila-
delphia 2.
At Boston-Chicago 2, Boston /.
AT New York-St. Louis 4, New
York 3.
National League
At st. Louis-Chicago 8. st. Louis 2.
At Pittsburg-Boston 3, Pittsburg
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
CONGRESS TO ADJOURN
viii Conclude Work Today II Curren
cy Bill Passes.

Washington, May 29.--1t Is gener-
ally understood among the senators
and representatives that In case the
currency bill goes through the SEN
ate that Congress will adjourn today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-29
WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for This Section for the
Next ~ Hours.
For Eastern New York and WesterD
Vermont showers tonight and Satur
day.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
THE BANANA PLANT.

The banana plant is not properly a
tree at all. 1t has no woody fibre.
1t is large green heshy plant, with
biz leaves six or eight feet long and
sometimes two feet broad. 1t grows
to height of ten to fourteen feet or
of plafit and the soil and climate.
Each tree produces one bunch of fruit
only, which is really the terminal bud
of the plant, just like an ear of wheat
or barley. 1t has no branches, and
when the fruit is ready, which is
twelve or fifteen months from the date
of planting, the tree is cut down and
done with.
But while it is growing up and ma
turing its fruit it is at the same time
sending up from its roots other young
plants or suckers-perhaps eight or
nine of them. Each of these will
produce its own bunch in turn, some
of them in couple of months after
the parent plant and there will thus
be regular succession of fruit. Many
of these suckers have to be dug up
and planted elsewhere, or they would
be too thick on the ground.
And there is this popularity about
the banana You can plant it at any
season, and the fruit ripens all the
year round. When once banana
field has been planted out, all that is
necessary to be done is to keep clear
of weeds and keep thinning out the
multiplying suckers.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
For "THE UNION"
ON LOVERS LEAP.

Range after range of mountains towering high.
And far away they wrap their heads IN mist,
And DER them tender stoops the quiet sky
That saw their birth ere mankind did exist
And flowing on, past high peaked border State,
The fair Potomac's waters curve and run,
Where Cumberland and Ridgely sit and wait
Through gloom and starlit night and radiant
sun.
Here on the Lovers Leap we stand this day
And look far down the valley to Wills creek.
And DER the Narrows and up to fields away
Where glorious crimson clouds the blue skies
streak.
Up near the summit stands with quiet look,
Amid the trees home for sunering ones;
And DER the terraced side is many sheltered
Where slow the mountain road upclimbs or
runs.
Now as we stand upon this cliff SO gray
And see the farofr mountain tops loom high.
We feel the impulse strong to leap and soar
away
Like soaring eagles circling up the sky.
sweet-faced and flushed, bright in its garments
The pretty laurel looks up to the sky.
Or purely white the blossoms fair are seen;
We pluck the mountain blooms while pass
ing by.
Now from the Leap we make the straight descent
Down to the Narrows, where the great rocks
show
That ages past their mighty mass was rent
By warning storms, which hurled them fierce
below.
Vale to the mountains and their cliffs 30 high.
That stand like Titans, brave for aye and aye;
Vale to the Leap, which looms up gainBt the
Vale happy scenes, till some fair future day.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
WILLING TO SHOVEL.

To be willing to begin at the bottom
is the open secret of being able to
come out at the top.
A few years ago young man came
to this country to take position in
a new enterprise in the Southwest.
He was well bred, well educated and
he had the tastes of his birth and ed
ucation. He reached the scene of his
proposed labors and found to his dis
may that the enterprise was already
bankrupt and that he was penniless,
homeless and friendless in strange
land. He worked his way back to
New York and in mid-winter found
himself without money or friends in
the great, busy metropolis. He did
did not stop to measure the difficulties
in his path; he simply set out to find
work. He would have preferred the
pen but he was willing to take the
shovel.
Passing down Fourth avenue, on
a snowy morning, he found crowd
of men shoveling snow from the side
walks about a well-known locality.
He applied for position in their ranks,
got it and went to work with hearty
good will, as if shoveling were his vo-
cation.
Not long after one of the owners of
the property, multi-millionaire,
passed along the street, saw the young
face, was struck by its intelligence
andwondered what had brought him
to such pass. A day or two later
his business took him to the same To-
cality again and brought him face to
face with the same man, still shovel
ing snow. He stopped, spoke to him,
received prompt and courteous an
swer, talked few minutes for the
sake of getting few facts about his
history and then asked the young man
to call at his office.
That night the shovel era ended
and the next day, at the appointed
time, the young man was closeted
with the millionaire. In one of the
latter's many enterprises there was a
vacant place and the young man who
was willing to shovel got it. 1t was
a small place at small salary, but he
more than filled 1t.
He filled it so well, indeed, that in
few months he was promoted, and
at the end of three years he was at
the head of the enterprise at large
salary. He is there to-day, with the
certainty that if he lives he will event
ually fill position second in impor-
tance to none in the field in which he
is working. The story is ell told in
three words: willing TO shovel.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
CURIOUS OF THE FUTURE.

"Have you fixed up my will just
the way told you 7" asked the sick
man, who was the possessor of many
needy relatives and some well-to-do
but grasping ones.
':I have" asserted the lawyer.
"Just as strong and tight as you
can make it, eh 7" asked his client.
The lawyer nodded.
"All right" said the sick man.
"Now want to ask you one thing
not professionally-who do you think
stands the best chance of getting the
property when I'm gone ?"- Ionth' S
C0mbGnion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
SON, Md, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1908.

As they went creaking down the
driveway little later David had on
a pretty coat and hat and the woolly
lamb in his arms. The lady walked
beside Eliza to the gate. Then she
said good-by.
Bring David to see me some
times"
"Yes'm," answered Eliza. "Good-
BY"
Eliza flew toward home with now
and then careful backward eye on
David and the cart. Near her own
house Mary came running toward
her.
"Oh, Eliza, where've you been so
long? Mothers most crazy. She's
afraid something happened to you or
David" ,"
"There hasn't, )" Eliza nodded hap
PLY. 'She might have known I
wouldn't let anything happen to Da-
vid. Gong, ,egationalist and Chris
Ham W0yld. - -.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
THE WOMAN OF TACT.


two or three women. She had made
her good-byes all cheerful and bright,
aud, after they had disappeared, one
woman turned to another and said In
a tone that was scofing: "She is
thorough woman of tact" Now in
this case the woman who had said
none but pleasant words, who, by a
bright story, had prevented the dis
cussion of petty scandal, was wo-
man who was as brave hearted as
any that ever lived, and who bore
not only her own but the burdens of
a good many other people, yet she
saw no reason why she should inhict
her troubles on her friends, or why
she should not be in its best sense
woman of tact.
A woman of tact is one who feels
that the story to hurt your feelings is
essentially bad form, and inconsider-
ate of the feelings of others.
A woman of tact is one who is
courteous to old people, who laughs
with the young, and who makes her.
self agreeable to all women in all con-
ditions of life.
A woman of tact is one who makes
her good morning pleasant greeting,
her visit a bright spot in the day, and
her goodbye a hope that she may
come again.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
BRING EN- HERE.

The green bug, little pest no lar
ger than a house fly, during 1907
caused a loss of 20, 900, 900 bushels
wheat to the farmers of Kansas.
However, the little green bug will
have opposition in 1908. S. J. Hun
ter, of the Kansas State University,
has found a parasite that will sting
the green bug to death, and he is
making his plans to turn this parasite
loose in the fields of Kansas during
the early Spring. The Kansas leg
islature refused to appropriate the
SIS, 900 asked to aid in the campaign
to save the corps, so Prof. Hunter is
raising funds as he did in Ioo7-by
subscriptions from the farmers and
millers. He expects to turn loose a
billion parasites in the next three
months. They will sting to death
twenty times as many green bugs,
according to scientific records kept at
the State University.
Last year, when it was learned the
green bug was working in the Kansas
fields, Prof. Hunter began expert
ments to kill or check this wheat and
corn killing insect. 1t required sew
eral months of scientific deductions
then it was found that small wasp
like parasite, much smaller than the
green bug, would do the numbering.
One parasite was equal to accomplish
ing the murder of twenty green bugs.
However, the green bug breeds about
fifty times faster than the parasite.
The green bugs produced from one
egg during one year would multiply
into sufficient numbers, if flying in
single line near each other, to cover
the astounding distance of 1850, 900
miles. This seems impossible, but
Prof. Hunter and others, who have
made careful studies of the green bug,
say it is the most prolific breeding in
sect in history.
During the later part of the growing
season of 1907, although Prof. Hun
ter got to work shipping these para
sites very late, million bushels of
wheat were saved in one southern
Kansas community, where the green
bug fell victim to the sting oftheir
hated enemy, the parasite. The par
asite can not fly as fast as che green
bug, but once when the green bug
has fastened itself into the stalk of
of wheat (and 20, 900 of them rest
upon one stalk of wheat or corn, it
never moves until the stalk is sapped
and wilted. The parasites move
quickly and thrive upon their MUIR
derous work.
The work of the scientist in the
Kansas wheat fields during 1908 will
likely be of national interest, as the
green bug is gradually spreading into
Oaklahoma, Texas and other States
where millions of dollars worth of
damage to growing crops may result.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
BETTER THAN wHITEwAsH.

A serviceable paint for farm build
ings can be made by thickeniDg sour
milk or buttermiIk with Portland ce-
ment and metallic Venitian red, or
bright red paint powder to the ordi-
nary paint consistency. Ipainted the
outside of my barn Trough lumber)
with this mixture and also painted a
few boards with ordinary oil paint as
a check, and six years after the milk
paint had preserved the wood better
than the oil paint. 1t has kept its
color and shows no sign of age. This
paint will not rub off like whitewash.
The grease in the milk seems to have
the fixing quality, as I tried using
water with the cement and paint and
found it rubbed off readily. For this
reason it is judged that sour milk is
better than butter milk as it contains
more grease. This sort Of paint costs
but little and can be mixed up in
stantly. 1t is very valuable for doing
little odd painting jobs around the
farm which might not otherwise get
done. 1t is necessary to keep agita-
ting the paint as the cement settles
quickly.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

YOU'RE rather a young man to
be left in charge of drug store, :"
said the f1ssy old gentleman. "Have
you any diplomat"
"Why-er-no, SIR" replied the
drug clerk, ''but we have prepara-
ton of our own that's just as good. !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

"LooK at the way baby's working
his mouth p exclaimed Mrs. New
man." "Now, he proposes to put
his foot in it." Him r. replied her
husband, grumply, Hereditary"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

A CLERGYMAN, having performed
the marriage ceremony for a couple,
undertook to write out the usual GER
tifcate; but, being in doubt as to the
day of the month, he asked, "This is
the ninth, is it not ?"
"Why, parson," said the blushing
bride, "you do all my marrying, and
you ought to remember that this is
only the third"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

A WOMAN suffrage lecturer, accord
ing to the Boston Globe, recently
brought down the house with the fol-
lowing argument 81 have no vote,
bat my groom has. l have a great
respect for that man in the stable,
but 1 am sure if 1 were to go to him
and say, John, will you exercise the
franchise I" he would reply, "Please,
mum, which horse be that 7"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

IT IS a mistake to presume that
good health can be maintained with
out giving nature some aid.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

ERROR Is great deal worse than
ignorance; 1t is better to know moth
ing than to know what isn't true.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
HOW LEGENDS GROW.

Osborn H. Oldroyd, the man who
runs the Museum of Lincoln Relics in
Washington, and has for forty years
devoted his energies to collecting
every scrap of information and mate
rial bearing on the life of the Great
Emancipator, brings out an interest
ing point in recent interview regard
ing the growth of an anecdote told OF
a great man. II lived in Springfield,
ILL.,, so long that when / read some
of the later biographies of Lincoln, "
Mr.. Oldroyd says, II recognize the
stories that 1 heard making. Every
man, woman or child that ever had
the merest glimpse at Lincoln has
magnified that relationship. Out OF
it some of them have made very inter-
esting stories indeed, and have told
them so often that they have really
come to believe them. used to scour
the whole neighborhood searching for
relics and information. In order to
get at the people in an informal way
l took my gun along and did a little
hunting as an excuse for being out
Then l would drop into some farm.
house to stay all night, and it needed
but little effort among the old-times
to start conversation about Lincoln. "
The investigations of Mr.. w. W.
Ellsworth, of the Century Magazine,
as to the origin of many Of the George
Washington legends, like the story
of the hatchet, point to the same moral
The stories that are in the making in
the generation Immediately after the
death of a great historic parsonage
eventually contribute largely to the
accepted sourcesof public information
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

M1KE-Why do thin false eyes be
made of glass, now?
Pat-Sure, and how else could they
say throo 'em, ye thickhead !
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

THE small son of the minister had
been banished from the table for
naughtiness and was compelled to sit
at a little side table. When the time
arrived for him to say grace, he ram
sacked his memory for Scriptural
quotations, and made use of the fol-
lowing, which he recited loud enough
for his father and mother to hear
80 Lord, thank Thee that Thou
hast prepared table for me in the
presence of mine enemies"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09
9AisreIIamenus.


DUBLlC LOCAL LAW.
To Regulate the Sale and Granting of
License for the Sale of Spirituous
and Fermented Liquors
in Baltimore
County.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-09-11
HOW THEY DO OUT IN cALlFor.
MIA

A copy of the San BernardinO Sun
is before us from which we make the
following extracts:
Street bonds carried in this city
in June by a vote of four to one,
and the city voted $4,000 for street
improvements.
Yesterday, by a vote of ten to one,
the voters approved a school bond is
sue for $4,000.
"All of which points the way to the
inevitable hesult September II, when
the county is to vote on a highway
bond issue for 1925, 900"
California sets the pace. Those
communities that are wise will follow
her example. God helps those who
help themselves. Our duty is to help
beautify the earth as we pass through
it. Every city should be made city
beautiful. Let's make Ocala the pref
test city in Florida.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-09-11
THE MOTHER-IN-LAW

o, yes, brother paragrapher, the
mother-in-law is a fruitful source of
jokelets at her expense. In the bright
lexicon of humor she is listed along
with the stovepipe, the little brother
under the sofa, the goat and the hoop
skirt, and other things. But there
are times when she is no joke. We
didn't laugh at the mOther-in-law the
night she held the baby-tbat first
baby, mind you-and with kind and
loving hands held its precious little
soul on this earthward side Of the
river. And when the baby's mother
lay gasping on the brink of eternity,
when it seemed almost useless to
even hope that she would emerge
from the Valley of the Shadow, We
didn't laugh at the kind-faced mother
in-law who worked so faithfully and
so we'll to dispel that awful shadow.
And she who is our mOther-in-law is
also the grandmother of the little
ones who run to meet us in the even
ing, and every time you crack a joke
at her expense you are perhaps, I'M
consciously hurting the feelings of
the little ones who think that grand
mother is the best woman on the
earth, next to mamma.
Of course we'd be awfully sorry to
have such fruitful source of jokelets
removed from our reach, but if we
thought for a minute that our moth
er-in-law jokes hurt the good woman's
feelings we'd never write another one
It's all right enough for you young
blades who have no mOther-in-law,
but the time may come when you
may need her far more as help than
you need her as a subject for a joke
let-AnOnymous.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-09-11
STRATEGY THAT FAILED

A lumberman living in Minneapolis
was reputed to be the wealthiest man
living west of the Mississippi river.
He had been poor in his youth. how
ever, and had never overcome the
economic habits that he had formed
in his days Of poverty and in the
building of the foundation of his CO.
lossal fortune.
His two sons, however, were differ
emily trained, and when they returned
from Yale they were seized with
desire, born no doubt of filial love, 10
fix the old man up. They knew that
it was vain to attempt to induce him
to buy clothes other than the shah
by and threadbare garments he had
worn for years, and they resOrted to
strategy.
They went to a tailor and told him
to make a SIS coat for their father,
but to tell him that the price was
SIS. The loving sons promised to
pay the difference from the amounts
they drew from their fathers bank
account.
The old man finally consented. after
much urging, to buy a SIS coat. and
the coat was made. The old man
paid over the SIS, and before he had
gone more than two blocks he was
met by an acquaintance, who was as
founded to see the multi-millionaire
in the uncustomary garment. He
commented on the quality OF the coat,
and, his forefathers having been En-
glishmen, he asked how much it cost
Fifteen dollars"
Fifteen dollars! I'll give you TWEEN
ty!"
cts yours. milwaukee Free
Press.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-09-11
WOMAN IN sTARKE KILLS RAT
TLESNAKE

One day of last week Mrs. c. |. Pert.
who lives in one of the Ellis cottages
in the southeastern part of town.
heard a peculiar whirring noise in
her yard. Rattlesnakes being ul-
heard of in Starke a thought that one
of these dangerous reptiles had enter
ed her premises did not at first occur
to her, but after listening a while and
locating the noise she saw a move
ment among some weeds. Mrs Ter.
who, as this instance shows. is a brave
lady, looked about for some weapon
and found a rake. and armed with IL
she cautiously went to where the
weeds showed a movement.
She found there, coiled up end
ready for business, a rattlesnake.
The reptile redoubled its warning
note, stretched its neck and avposeI
its fangs to view. Mrs. Pert went 10
a spot where the weeds cOud not in
terfere with a free swing of The rake
and struck the snake, the iron socket
of the rake beaking its neck. With
the neck broken it was easy to end its
life with few more blows.
The snake was probably journey ing
and was the first one of its kind. as
far as we know, ever killed in Starke.
1t measured five and a half feet IL
length and spOrted eight rattles and
a button. Mrs. Pet is to be COngrat-
ulated upon having rid the GeignbOr.
hood of such a dangerous visitor
Starke Telegraph.