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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
vlnnrnn, Min. Mani.

A rock maple tree standing and still
growing In a fourishing state on the
farm OF A. l. Hardy In West New
Vineyard measures "a feet In circum.
ference at the base. Il has a short
trunk but heavy spreading branches
and was growing on this farm 100
years ago when the late Samuel New.
ems. greatgrandfather Of Mr. Hardy.
who was the first settler on the farm,
came here In 1906. and was then about
four inches In diameter. Il stands not
far from the dwelling house aud has
been tapped nearly every year for
rs years Scarcely a dead limb is to
be seen about it-Kennebec Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
WIDOWS MORE THAN HOLD OWN.
Have No Trouble In Maintaining Ad-
vantage in Matrlmony.

Sam Weller's immortal advice to his
son still seems to hold good Widows
are still hard to beat in the matri-
monial stakes. During the last year
the spinsters have practically had It
all their own way between the ages
OF 20 and 40, but after 40 It has been
the widow who has scored all along
the line, says the Philadelphia Record.
They would seem TO acquire, after
their fourth decade has been reached,
a way Of dealing with man that proves
irresistible. The spinster apparently
gives up 10 readily, takes too modest
a view Of her seductive charms;
whereas the widow, having a better
knowledge Of the frailty Of the other
sex, goes IN and wins a second time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
Bee Marmalads.

The analysis OF remarkable Jap
anese CONNECTION is reported In a re-
cent bulletin of the College OF Agri-
culture in Tokyo. This is no less than
bee marmalade,' said TO be made
OF young wild bees and seasoned with
soy. The results Of the analysis show
that the reputed composition OF the
sweetmeat is quite correct The mar
malade is said to be exported in air
tight tin cans. A French commentator
remarks sarcastically that II will
doubtless be welcomed at tables
where they serve grilled locusts. as In
Africa, or the Chinese dainty made Of
silkworm cocoons.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

Partisan Sage is today the favorite
hair dressing and tonic of disorimi
Mating Americans not because OF sen
satioual methods of advertising but
because 10 Us the only hair restorcr
chat will de- just what % is advortis-
cd Go do
o. Kills tho dan1un germ and cures
daudrun in two weeks. 1t 10 doesn't
VIM T. Gokay, the agent boz Bouniug.
ton. will give you your money back.
~ had been troubled with dandun
for five years but since using Paris.
lam Sage have not been bothered
with Co. ! only used one half bottle
when noticed the dandrun disap.
poaring / consider it the best hair
tonic ever used. Mrs. c. b. Nor.
ton. i50 Main street, Buffalo, n. "
Aug no. 1908.
If YOU haven't tried Partisan Sage
gpI q bottle today It SIS q delightful
drussmg. The price Us only 80 cents
70 nro bottle nc VIM T. Cokays or
df.c M charges prepaid ly The
urs GiruuN N.. Co..
Buffalo. N Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
The cosmopollte.

Breadth OF view for his.
Intolerance - narrowness AL that
drove him absolutely wild. Little. pet
~. local prejudices-Oh, Lord! He
used 10 boil positively with rage at all
that sort Of thing. And the man who
made him really boil over was Snig.
giles.
Singles was a New Yorker. and TO
Singles Manhattan Island was Alpha
and Omega Hence the rage Of the
aforementioned advocate OF the
breadth OF view
Why Sniggles'" he roared. pound
ing the table with his fist Singles Is
the kind OF man who would label a
map Of the universe New York and
Vicinity"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

When the earth comes between the
sun and the moon il always casts
round shadow. a place chosen for
an experiment to prove the roundness
of the earth was near Bedford. Eng.
land. where there is a straight six.
mile stretch of water At both ends
and IN the middle OF this stretch OF
water posts were erected, each of the
same definite height above the water
level Upon looking with n telescope
along The tops of these three posts Il
was clearly seen that the center one
oyertopped the other by about six
feet thus marking the curvature OF
the earths surface This experiment
has been repeated. and with every
latest appliance brought to bear TO
effect absolute accuracy The state
ment as 10 how a ship az sea shows
the tops OF her masts first and then
gradually parts below that, but above
the water. Is a familiar one. and salts.
fes most minds
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
FOOLS CAP Philosophy.

The lonesomest man In the world Is
the third party in hammock.
When a man starts down hill. every
one gets busy greasing the slide.
It's tough luck for a chauffeur TO
he knocked down by milk wagon.
a man rocked a boat, and everyone
said It was noS impressive funeral
There are seven ways to skin a rab.
bit, but the rabbit has no preference.
Many a divorce suit has started
with the bread that mother used to
make.
lsnt IL remarkable how little the
man who lives on Easy street stays at
home?
Percy Noodles says his credit Is
good anywhere In town except In
places whore he isn't known and ls
known.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
Not Ambitious.

After a scorch.ng days work Ben
Smith lighted his corncob pipe and
set down ON the little wharf TO rest
Near him lay an alligator the visible
result of Ms labors a tourist from
the north approached and lotuly re-
marked. "Ah. see you have an ALI.
gator"
No answer
"lt Is amphiblous. is Il not7r
The tone noitlcd the old man.
"Amnhlblous HI" he growled.
He'd bite yer arm on before We could
say Jack Robmsonl '-Everybody's
Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

Aud what a wonder
ful sale Partisan Sage
has made for itself in
America In a little
over "a year And what
a multitude OF people
have been cured Of
falling hair. daudrun
and itching scaln by
its use.
And how the Amer
lean women praise Pa
risiau Sage for It's pc
culiar ability TO turn
harsh. faded. lusterless
hair into fresh. beau
tiful silky and lustrous
hair iu q few days.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

Mount your lor., ON thr 'r side
why What difference do's IL
makeg'
It's the rule"
But why should DO be the rule"
Because in the past horscmcn wore
swords They wore them on the left
hip. Hence. had they mounted on the
right side. the sword would have got
IN the way. So they mounted on the
left and we stlll mount on the left.
Horses are accustomed to lt. and n
you try 10 get up from the right you
are liable 20 be kicked"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
Knew His wife.

Il spent some Of my salary today.
I think even a married man has a
right to do So"
There's a great deal to be said on
that subject"
well. / guess my wife will be equal
10 saying e all."-Louis,ille Courier.
Journal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
THE GIRL WITH THE
AUBURN HAIR

Is on the outside package OF every
bottle OF Partisan Sage. Should you
forget the name simply ask for the
package with the girl with The Au-
burn hair upOn Il.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

Howard SAYS be has four mothers"
"ilUV does be- make 90 out'
own god step Jud nBw "-
Harpcrs Weekly
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13
NEGOTIATIONS OF A splNsTER.

Have you noticed that statistics
show shat all suicides were married?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

Funny how 80 many men believe
that II Is better for girls to know moth
Ing. when all the time they know more
than enough.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

Strange that a fellow so often kisses
girl before he has really determined
10.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

Many a man gets more or less upset
when n woman commences to act as II
he we're flirting with her.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

It's a queer thing for a man who
has fiirted all his life to know that he
must not do so any more-where his
wife will see him.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-13

The lonesomest man In the world Is
the third party in a hammock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15

for concerning football playing. protest unto you
it may rather be called frendlie kind of fight than
play recreation bloody and numbering prac-
tise than felowly sporte pastme. For dooth not
everyone ye in waight for his adversare, seeking to
overthrow him and pickle him on his nose though it
be on hard stones in ditch dale in valley or hill
or what place it be he careth not he have
him downe? And he that serve the most of this
fashion, he is counted the only fellow and who but he
$50 that by this means sometimes their necks are
broken sometimes their backs, sometimes their
legs, sometimes their arrnes. sometimes one part
thrust out of joint, sometimes another, sometimes
eyes start out, and sometimes hurte in one place.
sometimes in another. But whatsoever scapeth
away the best goeth free but is either fore
wounded craised, or bruised so he dyeth of it or
else scapeth very hardle and no mervaile for they
have the sleghts to meet one betwixt two, to dash
him against the hart with their elbowes to butt him
under the short ribs with the griped fists and with
their knees to catch him the hip and pick him
his neck with hundred such numbering devices.
And hereof groweth envy rancour, and malice and
sometimes brawling murther homicide and great
efuslon OF blood experience daily teaCheth. Is
this numbering play exercise for the Sabaoth
day."
Surely not, nor for any other day; but Stubs
was bilious Puritan, and solemn, who could
not bear to see people happy, and held it sin to
smile These gruesome vaporings of his jaundiced
imagination must therefore be taken grdno sails;
and still it must be admitted that football was
more bone breaking sport in those days of merry
England than it is to-day.
Even Carew, who fairer and more genial
critic is in doubt to its merits Il cannot we'll
resolve" he wrote in 1909, whether should the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
. T B A L L,

TlHE future chronicler-sav two thousand years
hence-who will turn the leaves of our news
papers to get sort of living picture view of
our times and see how we lived and what did,
what interests were, etc. will very likely come
to the conclusion that for several months in the
year. from October to December, we didn't seem to
care for anything much but football.
Great Heavensl" we can hear him exclaim ''our
forebears in the twentieth century must have been
football mad. If their newspapers mirrored the
times at all accurately there be doubt of it;
for here are whole pages devoted to nothing but
football and notes. haf-page illustrations and
caricatures and the heroes of the were we'll
nigh Homeric and blazoned bigger than statesmen
in headline and photogravure. Of the minor players
there are photographs here and there showing them
in their peculiar garbs and queer attitudes From
one end of the country to the other this football
fever must have ragged with extreme violence, and
universities, colleges academies, and even high
schools, seem to have been nothing more, during
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15


day two three, parishes would challenge
two or three other parishes. The goals were houses
villages two three miles apart, and the side that
reached the goal with the ball, whether by brute
force strategy, won the game. Outstanding vii
layers would inform the struggling players where
the ball was being played by crying, Ware east!"
Ware west!" etc. The players or "hurlers,'
they called, over "hilles, dales, hedges,
ditches yea, and thorow bushes briars mires,
FLASHES. and rivers whatsoever, YOU shall some
times see twenty thirty lie tuggng together in the
water scrambling and scratching for the ball.
Sometimes a whole town used field and the
party with the ball would sneak around corners and
alleys in order to lose their opponents and gain the
goal. One writer says he was not a little amused
to upon entering Leddington, all the inhabitants
securing the glass of their front windows by placing
hurdles before them. and some by mailing lathS. At
Twickenham, Bushy and Hampton Wick they were
all engaged in the way. Having to stop few
hours at Kingston, =! had an opportunity OF seeing
the whole custom. At about twelve O'Clock the ball
served persons of responsibility following the
ball The game lasts about four hours, when the
parties retire to the public houses
Football has had turbulent and warlike a his
tory is the game itself AS far back 1914 it
expressly forbidden by Edward H.. and in 1880
other act passed by Richard H., outlawing the
sport This statute reenacted at various inter
walls by succeeding monarchs and twice during the
reign of Elizabeth proclamation made that no
foteballe play be used suffered within the city of
London and the liberties thereof, upon pain of I'M
prisonment
In country, Legislatures have been i'm
pored to suppress the game: professors and preSl-
dents of universities have thrown all the weight of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
Strenuous Game of the Middle Ages

PUT if our future chronicer will have patience and
pursue his study, he will find very many references
to in the English history of the fourteenth century
and peppery ones at that. Here is a specimen from
Philip Stubs, good old Puritan of the Puritans:
ANY exercise which withdraweth us from godli-
nesse either upon the Sabaoth any other day. is
wicked and to be forbidden. Now who is SO grossly
bnde that seeth not that these aforesaid exercises
not only withdraw from godnesse and virtue,
but also trale and allure wickednesse and sin?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15

more commend this game for its
manhood and exercise. or con-
denim it for the boisterousness and
harm which it begetteth; for as
on the one side it makes their
bodies strong, hard, and nirnble,
and puts courage into their
hearts to meet an enemy in the
face, so on the other part it is ac-
companied by many dangers, some
of which do ever fall to the play
ers' share. For the proof whereof
when the hurting is ended. YOU
shall see them retiring as from
pitched battle, with bloody pates,
bones broken and out of Joint,
and such bruises as serve to
shorten their days: vet all is good
play, and never attorney or coro-
ner troubled for the matter"
Assuredly. football has never
been a ladies game; but so long
as never attorney or coroner
troubles for the matter" we may
join in the chorus with Sir Walter
Scott, and sing:
Then strip. lads. and to it, though
sharp be the weather!
And if by mischance YOU should
happen to fall.
There are worse things in life than a
tumble on heather,
And life is itself but game of
football
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
How 1t Was Played Then

IT is interesting to read descrip-
1 tons of the game as it was played
in the olden times. In CareW's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
Played in the Time of Homer

PEING historian, he will not believe that this
- sport sprang up Minerva like in times but will
endeavor to trace it back to its origin And then he
will find that football if not the Oldest is among the
it in his Odyssey:
Der the green mead the sporting virgins play,
Their shining wells unbound. along the skies.
Tost and retost, the ball incessant flies
The Greek maidens and youths kicked and tossed
the ball, harpaston they called it, until it
caught and carried off by the Romans who called it
and then took it with them on their invading trip to
England. After this there is long silence about foot
ball. Why, to know.-perhaps be-
cause the Angles and Saxons found it more agreea-
BILE their uncultured tastes to kick the decaptated
heads of Romans instead and of course no Roman
historian could call that football
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15

ion art, science, government, and education; that
they were solving many important political and
problems But very little of this appears
in the columns of their newspapers during these
months; and when remember what vast
courses gathered at these games and that some
times they had to sit or stand in binding snow
for two hours and then learn that their most
famous actors and artists orators and pulpiters,
statesmen and educators, could never draw
than scant five thousand, we cannot escape the
conclusion that they were football mad, and that
if these other interests present they occupied
the rear seats in their mental synagogues"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15

these months at least,
than football fields. Here
are accounts of games
among the leading uni
versities which attracted
thirty, forty, fifty, and
sometimes as many as
seventy-fve, thousand
people. Special trains
were required to convey
them from distant points.
Were these the rabble.
By no means; the rabble
couldn't afford the exorbi-
tant prices of admission.
They were the best people
in the land; even the
Presidents and members
of their Cabinets attended
and joined in the wild
enthusiasm of the crowds.
1t is difficult to believe
that they had no other
interests; for the works
of their learned scholars
show that they made
great advances in relig-
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-03-06
The New Kentucky Senator.

After ballotting nearly two months,
the Kentucky legislature last Friday,
although composed of a Democratic
majority, elected Ex-Governor Brad
ley, the Republican caucus nominee,
to the United States Senate, to sue
ceed Senator James B. McCreary.
Former Governor J. ". G. Beckham,
who became governor by virtue of
the assassination of Governor Goebel
several years ago, was elected Sena-
tor by the Democratic primaries last
year, and was voted for by all but
four of his party throughout the CON
test. The four disgruntled Demo-
coats-twO senators and two repre-
sentatives- voted scattering ballots
all the while for other members of
their party, but finally went into
combination with the Republicans,
and gave their candidate the election.
There was great dissatisfaction ex-
pressed at the time of the primary
election with methods employed by
Beckham and his so-called ina
chine" but with the exception of the
four recalcitrants the Legislators were
loyal to their party instructions. 1t
is a great misfortune to lose a
member of the senate at this time,
especially from a Southern State, and
the four Democrats who made it pos
sible in this case should have made
sacrifice of personal pique or predju-
dice for the benefit of the party of the
nation. 1t is also the first instance
in which the primary election system
has proved a failure, and to an ex-
tent may impair the best and most
satisfactory method yet devised for
selecting our officers, high and low,
by direct vote of the people.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-03-06
SIMPLE WASH CURES ECZEMA
Itching, Burning Skin Disease
Routed Without Use of Inju-
riouS Drugs.

Great inventors often have been
praised for surrendering the secrets
of their discoveries. Practically the
same thing happened in the medical
world in the case of DIR. Decatur d.
Dennis, the emminent skin special
ist of Chicago.
DR.. Dennis, in his own office
practice, discovered that pure vege-
table oil of wintergreen, properly
mixed with other simple remedies
was practically sure specific for
Eczema, psoriasis, BARRIERS itch,
salt rheum, and other itching skin
diseases. But the oil of wintergreen
alone was found ineffective. 1t re-
quired other mild ingredients such
as glycerine thymol compounded
with wintergreen to produce the
real eczema cure.
This compounded d. d. d. Pre-
scription positively takes away the
itch at once-the instant it is ap-
piled to the skin. This vegetable
liquid does away with deleterious
drugs so long used in an attempt to
doctor the blood, whereas modern
science has determined that eczema
is first and all the time skin dis
ease. Sold by all druggists.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-03-06
Drawing a Political Color Line.

The Republican congressional con-
vention of the Shelby county, Ten
nessee, district on Monday, was a
tumultuous affair, and presented a
forecast of the death struggle the
negroes are now making for political
existence in all the States. A negro
who bad heretofore been prominent
and influential N Republican politics
of Memphis and Shelby county had
selected one of his own race for one
of the delegates to the Chicago con
vention, and made a rousing speech
demanding his appointment. He de-
nounced President Roosevelt and
threatened dire things to the white
Republicans unless his race was fully
recognized. In the meantime the
committee on resolutions was prepar-
ing its work. 1t reported resolutions
indorsing the Roosevelt administra-
ton and instructed the delegation
for Taft for president. This brought
the aforesaid negro orator and leader
to his feet again, with renewed de-
maids for the appointment of his
friend as a delegate, declaring that
''the salvation of the Republican par
ty in all the States was in the negro
vote, and that without the negro vote
Roosevelt would not be president and
Taft cannot be" In response chair
man Barbour read the riot act to his
colored colleagues, defying their
threats, asserting that they did the
party no good and they were well
come to leave any time that suited
them. The convention proceeded to
appoint all white delegates, and the
negroes set up a little convention of
their own, and also appointed dele
gates.
The negroes have all the time been
warned that the friendship of the Re-
publican party was only to catch their
votes and as soon as their ballots be-
came unavailable or impontent, they
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-03-06
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