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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
ACROSS NICARAGUA
New Railroad to Be Built in Central
America

A third route of transportation
across the isthmus is about to be open
ed up. The Tehuantepec railroad is
already a formidable competitor of
the Panama railroad and Nicaragua
is coming forward with new line,
which, it is claimed, will give a SER
vice of about thirty-six hours between
Monkey Point on the Atlantic coast
of the republic and Corinto on the Pa
cific, via Lake Nicaragua. The new
route will follow the route which was
proposed for the Nicaragua canal
The entire length of the road will be
lis miles. Part of the construction
work has already been completed,
contracts have been let and active
work will shortly be resumed. The
entire enterprise will be conducted
under the supervision of three foreign
engineers representing the syndicate
which furnished the money. The ter
minus on Lake Nicaragua will be at
San Miguelito. The Nicaraguan gov
eminent recently made a foreign loan
of e2.250,0O0 of which e430,00O must
be used exclusively for the construc-
ton of the railroad. 1t is generally
belived that the road will open up an
Immensely rich agricultural and min
eral region.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
WHERE BAsooNs ARE A PLAGUE
Menace to Property and Even Life in
NIGERIA

Balloons are plague in Nigeria, So
says +. w. Emmett in the October
Wide World Magazine.
In many parts of the Protectorate
md especially among the hill regions
Of the northern provinces, balloons are
one of the greatest plaques to the far
ner. and a source of menace to prop
erty and even to life. A Protectorate
officer while engaged in business in
mountain village, was informed by
he local queen that her people could
not continue their farming owing to
The raids of balloons. During the alb
scence of the men few weeks previ-
)usly these beasts had actually come
into the heart of the village and des-
iroyed the crops. The natives are in
constant dread of them and continu-
llly fear for the safety of their chill
dren.
Sir William Wallace has related to
ne that he has seen droves of fifty to
| hundred of these animals all in sin
gle file, and that lately he himself
shot two enormous brutes who were
yrinning at him from the cliffs. They
utter perve-shattering and horrid
bark. They possess a regular system
of defence, and always have signalers
out to watch for the approach of a
possible enemy. These scouts are al
ways the biggest monkeys, and they
signal by barks to their comrades,
when strangers are approaching.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
RRUTALlzEs OUR NATURES
Conan Doyle DepIores Killing Ami
mails for Amusement

In Some Recollections of Sport, in
the October Strand Magazine, Conan
Doyle aligns himself on the side of
those who are opposed to the shoot
ing of game, where the taking of life
is done solely for pleasure.
ITO shoot for the pot must be right
says he, since man must feed, and
to kill creatures which live upon
others (the hunting of foxes, for ex-
ample) must also be right, since to
Stay one is to save money; but the
rearing of birds in order to kill them,
and the shooting of such sensitive and
inoffensive animals as hares and deer,
cannot, think, be justified.
"Of course one is met always by
the perfectly valid argument that the
creatures would not live at all if it
were not for the purpose of sport, and
that 1t is presumably better from their
point of view that they, should even
tuaily meet violent death than that
they should never have existed. No
doubt this is true. But there is an
other side of the question as to the
effect of the sport upon ourselves
whether 1t does not blunt our own
better feelings, harden our sympath-
les, brutalize our natures. A coward
can do it as well as a brave man; a
weakling can do it as well as a strong
man. There is no ultimate good from
it. Have we moral right, then. to
kill creatures for amusement? know
many of the best and most kind
hearted men who do it, but still feel
that in a more advanced age it will
no longer be possible"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
The immigration Problem.

A falling off in immigration during
the last fiscal year, amounting to 81
OS4 as compared with the previous
year, was to have been expected but
a more accurate view Of the actual
conditions as to the incoming foreign
ers is shown by the statement that
the net Increase in population due to
immigration last year was 573,551 as
against 2O9,S67 in the previous IL
months. The difference is accounted
for by the smaller number of aliens
who left the country during the year
Just ended The actual number of al
lens including the non-immigrants,
who entered was j924,695 and Italy fur
nished the largest number of any one
nationality to swell the tide of immi-
grationA These figures, while not APP
preaching the record of the years inn
mediately preceding the financial de
preston, show that the increasing de-
mand-for labor has made itself felt
in the countries of the Old World,
which are seeking outlets for their
surplus -Brattleboro Phoenix.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
POISON BUG DELAYS IMPORTS
Customs Laborers Made III by Bite
of Little Pests

New York, Sept. 30.-The local pure
food Office Of the agricultural depart
ment and the board of health have
been asked to investigate the coming
to this port of small gray-winged
bug that threatens to stop the impor
tation of a certain kind of bean from
Italy. This insect has caused sc
much illness among the laborers and
weighers who handle the beans that
the matter has been officially brought
to the attention Of Surveyor Clark
son. He has called for an investiga
ton and meanwhile has held up a
large importation of the beans until d
decision shall be reached.
For some time the authorities have
received complaint that small insect
brought from Italy with a dried bean
much like our butter bean and called
by the men who handle them as
horse" or ely" beans, was causing
the discontinue of the men who be-
came so i'll that they had to remain
at home under the care of physicians
At first the cause of the malady was
a mystery, but the men soon became
convinced that, the bugs were the
cause of it, Sixty-three bags of the
beans which arrived on the Europe
are known to have brought the pests,
and the consignment now held up con-
sists of 1875 bags, which arrived re-
Gently on the Virginia
The insect is of gray color, about
the size of half pea, with wings
that fold closely on its back When
first disclosed in the bean the bug
is apparently lifeless Ii soon revives
however, and begins to crawl or take
short flights. 1t crawls up the trous-
ersSbf the men who handle the beans
and bites them, the effect being a feel
ing of nausea. In addition to this a
rash appears on the affected parts.
The officers of the pure food bureau
have taken specimens of the bug, and
are now making tests to prove that
it is the bug which causes the strange
Illness.
The men who have the handling of
the importations upon the piers and
the weighers are almost in revolt and
some have petitioned the collector
and the surveyor requesting that
their doctors bills be paid, setting up
the claim that they are entitled to re
Enumeration as having been infected
while in the performance of their
duty They also want pay for lost
time, and the matter has been refer
red to the treasury department for de-
cision.
The importers to whom the ship
Fments are consigned have protested
against the action of the department
in holding up their goods.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
CLUE TO CLIFF JEWELLERS
Hewett's Studies Among Pueblos
Seem to Furnish Il

BY piecing out and studying disin.
TERED relics and fragmentary tradit
ions of the Pueblo Indians, Prof. Ed
gar l.. Hewett president of the School
of American Archaeology, who has
spent the last two years excavating
near Santa Fe, n NJ, believes he nas
obtained clues through which scienti-
ilc investigators will ultimately clear
the mystery of the deserted cliff dwell
ings.
Inscriptions on stone which Prof
Hewett has found indicate, he says,
that the ancestors of the present Pue-
bios flourished about thousand years
ago. Tnen the desert began drying
up, and to avoid famine the \ dense
population of the extensive cliff caves
deserted their homes, leaving such
few traces that their life history be-
came mystery for modern science.
Wandering afar, Prof. Hewett be-
ieves they mixed with lower order
Of savages nearer the coast and lost
their identity in an inferior hybrid
race.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
LEFT TO DIE BY AssAlLANT
Woman Lies Five Days Undiscovered
and Dies After Being Found

Santa Fe, N. NJ, Sept. 29-Gertrude
Montgomery, who came here from
Shreveport, La, where she taught in
college for five years is dead in this
city as result of being attacked and
shot last Tuesday on the outskirts OF
the town.
Miss Montgomery was not found un.
til five days after the shooting when
awakening from her stupor, she tried
to crawl TO a water hole to qdench
her thirst, and was seen by little
girl, who gave the alarm.
Three convicts at work on the high
way in that vicinity have been arrest.
ed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Annual Meeting to Be Held at Mont
peIier October 6

Montpelier, Sept. 3O.-The annua
/ ton will convene in Montp 3lier on
Tuesday afternoon, October 5. Rou-
tine business will occupy the atten-
ton of the association at the first SEES
sion That evening j. K --BatcheldeI
of Arlington, the retiring president,
will deliver an address, this to be fol
lowed by memorial sketches of de-
ceased members. The annual ban
quet will be held Tuesday evening at
the Pavilion hotel. At Wednesdays
session Of the association officers will
be elected, including a treasurer in
place of Hiram Carleton of Montpel-
Ter, deceased. Since the death of
Judge Carleton last April, John H.
Mimms of st. Adams, secretary of the
association, has been acting treasur-
err
An adjourned meeting of the asso-
citation will be held Friday morning
for the admission of students who
next week pass the bar examinations.
Judge f. e. Alfred of Newport sec
rotary of the association of probate
judges, has also sent out notices for
the annual meeting of that associa-
ton at Montpelier Wednesday after
noon, October 6, in the probate office
in this city. Officers will be elected
and probate matters that should be
brought to the attention of the next
legislature will be discussed.
NJ. e. Smile, county clerk, sent out
yesterday to the 20 applicants for ex-
animation for admission to the bar the
necessary PAPERS. These examina-
lions will be held next week at the
county court house commencing Tues
day morning, the opening day of the
October term of supreme court and
continuing through Wednesday and
Thursday. The successful applicants
will be admitted in the supreme court
room Friday morning. The class is
unusually large this year The board
of examiners is made up of J. G.. Sar-
gent of Ludlow, r. W. Hulburd and
o. C. Mower of Burlington, e. II. Dea-
witt of Montpelier, C. c. Fits of Brat
tleboro and w. A. Dutton of Hard
wick. These examiners are appoint
ed for term of three years by the SUI
preme court. The term of r. G. Sar-
gent and r. w. Hulburd expire this
year.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
. Estimated.

Estimated.
perhaps the most striking feature
of the above comparison is the in
crease of the manufactured granite.
In less than ten years the product had
all but doubled, while there are near
ly twice as many granite workers now
as there were in 1900 in this city, with
out counting the thousands engaged
at the quarries. This development has
been so steady that the community
scarcely realizes what changes are
taking place from year to year, Hence
the need to impress upon them from
time to. time the fact that Barre is
constantly expanding. The above fig
ures will serve also to give good ac-
count of the city to those who may be
looking for new locations. Spread
them"
Barre has a right to be proud of the
showing made, for 1t is a good one.
Certainly Montpelier has no reason to
feel jealous ofsits progressive neigh
Dor, but rather rejoices in its growth.
The two cities have common interests.
Both are heavily interested in the
development of the granite industry.
Both are wide awake progressive-com
munities and the probability is that
the next census will show that Barre
and Montpelier have grown more rap
idly during the past decade than any
other section of the State.
The two cities have so much in COM
mon that the closest bonds of friend
ship should, and do, unite them. We
are next door neighbors and we are
steadily growing nearer to each other
as each city reaches out farther to find
more room for an increasing popula-
ton. With easy communication be-
tween the two cities there is much
that we may enjoy comparatively
Working together we may accomplish
more for our mutual welfare than by
working separately. We are not RI
walls, but good neighbors, living on the
same street, interested in the same
things. working in cordial good fellow
ship, rejoicing in each others pros
perity. and determined, working to-
gether. to make this region the bus
lest and the best in ermont'-Mont-
peller- Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
CURING A COLD IN ADVANCE
Don't Worry About Disease But
Work for Health

We get sick because we are too lazy
to keep well. according to DR.. Woods
Hutchinson in Woman's Home Com
panion for October. We are always
looking for short cuts to health. OF
reputed cures for coughs and colds he
says:
Their name is literally legion for
hardly a drug can be mentioned, hard
iy a substance, discovered, which is
capable of either being swallowed or
inhaled, that has not been recommen-
ded as a cough remedy. Eight tenths
of all colds are mild infections which
| run their course until the body has
time to produce an antitoxin or anti
body to stop their further progress.
AS this process in reasonably healthy
individuals is usually carried out in
| from four to six days, anything which
happens to be given in that time
stands a fair chance of getting re-
putation as cure.
THE only sure cure for colds and
coughs is to avoid the infections and
the foul air of ill-yentilated rooms and
buildings in which they breed; to
keep the body toned up to fighting
| pitch, by cold baths and an abundance
of fresh air, especially in the bed
room; and if the infection does get a
foothold to assist nature in her fight
against it by rest in the open air and
promoting elimination through the
skin, bowels and kidneys.
In fine, don't tinker with symp-
toms; look for the cause and remove
| it. Don't try to lock the stable door
after the horse is stolen, but train
your horse to bite strangers. Attack
is the best defense. Keep your body
at good fighting weight and you can
defy disease. Sunlight, food, fresh
air and exercise are the only curealls
known. Don't worry about disease
land what to take when you're sick but
work for health"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
secRETE CORRESPONDENCE
Three Thousand Chicago Women Had
to Reveal Their Names

Chicago, Sept 29.-Three thousand
women, part of the army of persons
in Chicago who obtain their mail 1T
the general delivery window in the
Chicago postofiice, have been com
PEELED to reveal to the postal author
tiles, many under protest, their true
names and addresses. They were re
quired to sign cards of Identified
ton" and these were placed in card
indexes for reference at each recur-
ring application for mail.
The requirement enforced for the
first time, tears away part of the veil
of secrecy under which many clan
destine correspondence has been car
ried on through the medium of the
general delivery window and in that
respect, IL no other, according to
Postoffice Inspector Stewart, its orig
inator, will produce reform for which
urgent demands recently have gone up
from ministers, reform leagues and
others working for the city's purifica-
ton.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
TOOK HURRICANE INSURANCE
New Orleans Lumber King Specialized
on the Weather

New Orleans, Sept 30.-Frank b.
Williams, millionaire lumber man
and king of the last New Orleans car
nival, speculated on the weather bur
eau's prediction that the West Indian
hurricane would strike central Louis
lana and is more than $4,000 ahead
thereby.
Mr.. Williams who has extensive
lumber plants at Patterson, La, spent
"A social hour with the general agent
of one of the tornado companies on
Sunday night, September 10. Write
me 100000" said Williams. The
general agent gave the policy. Twelve
hours later the hurricane partially de-
molshed the Williams mills, infiicting
between $4,000 and $4,000 loss. Adj
justors have paid the claim.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
HUNTING IN MASSACHUSETTS
Grouse and Woodcock Season OnI,
One Month

The open season for hunting par
fridge, quail. and woodcock in Massa-
chusetts opens this year October 1G.
a month later than last year, and con
iinues for one month. The rabbit sea
son opens October Is also and con
tinues until February /.
Under the new game laws passed
by The last Legislature, grey squirrels
are not to be shot, bsing protected for
one year. 1t is also forbidden to
shoot on state reservations and for
this reason no coon hunting on Grey
lock mountain will be permitted. All
hunters must secure licenses from tEe
clerk of the city or town where they
reside the cost of the license being
81.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
TRUCE IN BOUNDARY DISPUTE
Strip Between Mexico and United
States Neutral for Present.

Washington, Sept 3O.-When the
long-heralded meetings between Pres
idents Taft and Diaz of Mexico at Ell
Paso, Texas, and Jaurez. Mexico, take
place next month the intervening ter
titory between these two cities which
is in dispute will be for this occasion
regarded as neutral territory, and the
flags of neither nation will be display
ed therein.
This understanding has been reach
ed on the part of the two nations con-
cerned as the result of considerable
correspondence. The region known
as the lei Chamizal" contains about
$50 acres. Ownership of it is in ques-
ton because of the shifting of the
channel of the Rio Grande river, the
dividing line between the two coun
tries.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
The Growth of Barre.

The growth OF our neighboring city
of Barre is described by the Barre
Times as follows:
The Barre Board of Trade has ac-
cepted a style of advertising station
cry, some features of which are worth
remembering and telling to the peo-
pie who are not acquainted with this
municipality Some of the figures
showing the growth of the city in nine
years are here appended:
1900. 1909
City debt ........ s193,25O $S7,5OO
ASS valuation 50, 645, 1913 5,217, S76.60
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
II HoRUs EARLIER TO COAST
Great Northern Puts on New Train
Between st. Paul and Seattle

ST. Paul Mimi, Sept. 29.-The
Great Northern Railroad has put into
operation a daily mail and express
train which will cut eleven hours on
the present running time between st,
Paul and Seattle, and make 1t posi-
Bile to deliver mail from the East "a
hours earlier in Puget Sound cities
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-01
BANANAS CONDEMNED
Twenty-One Thousand Bunches
Thrown Into the Sea

Thrown Into the Sea
New York, Sept. 29.-Twenty-one
thousand lunches of bananas, the en-
tire cargo of the steamship Saramac-
ca, which arrived yesterday from
Dutch Guiana, were shoveled over
board by order of the New York
health department. The breaking
down of the ships refrigerator plant
impaired the quality of the cargo.
The fruit was brought here under
a rush order of the United Fruit COM
pany, which wanted the bananas to
assist in relieving the unusual demand
of the Hudson-Fulton crowds.
The Lamar register., 1909-08-04

Greeley.-B. d. Sanborn has sold
SOO,000.O0O cubic feet of storage space
in his Boyd lake reservoir to the COM
mittee ofSland owners representing the
proposed new Boyd lake irrigation dis
trict The contract was signed by o.
II. Egge, DIR. McFadden and c. l.
Wells. of Loveland. The owners have
agreed to organize an irrigation dis
trict. embracing 5000 acres OF land
due west OF Greeley.
The land will be bonded for $40 an
acre, or a total Of $4,000. Mr.. San
born is to receive $4,000. and re-
serves all other rights In the reser-
voir, which he intends enlarging. The
water will be lifted from the lake by
hydraulic pumps upon the land to be
irrigated. The power used will be
either electricity or gas. The reser-
voir is full to capacity. II is unusual
for new district to have the water
ready before the district is organized.
Mr.. Sanborn has built the lake alone.
and 1t now has a capacity of 100000 :
900 cubic feet.
The Lamar register., 1909-08-04
House Adopt. Conferences Report.

Washington.-The House Saturday
night adopted the conference report
on the tariff bill. 1876 to 1913. The Re
publicans shrieked in their delight
over the final outcome, and Chairman
Payne was the central figure of an ad-
miring and congratulatory crowd of
colleagues.
Twenty Republicans voted against
the report and two Democrats for 1t.
The twenty Republicans who voted
no were: Carey, Wisconsin: Davis.
Minnesota; Gronna. North Dakota;
Haugen. Iowa: Hubbard. Iowa: Len
root. Wisconsin,: Lindberg, Mime
sofa: Mann. Illinois; Miller. Minneso-
ia: Murdoch. Kansas; Nelson. Wis
consin; Nye. Minnesota; Poindexter.
Washington; Southwick. New York;
STEVENSON. Minnesota: Stevens. Min
nesota: Volzstead. Minnesota. and
Woods, Iowa.
The two Democrats who voted aye
were Broussard and Estopinal of LOU
isiana.
The Lamar register., 1909-08-04
new BUILDINGS
FOR UNIVERSITY
AUDITORIUM, LAW AND sciEN-
TIFic BUILDINGS. woMAN's
BUILDING AND GYMNASIUM
TO COST MALT MILLION.
GENEROUS DONATIONS OF THE
LATE A. J. MAckY AND SEN
AIoR ouooENHEiM.

Boulder.-Present indications are
that within the next twelve months
upward of half million dollars worth
OF buildings will have been completed
or be under construction on the Uni
versity campus,a result brought about
by the donations OF the late A. J.
Nacky, Senator Guggenheim and lib
eral appropriations by the last General
Assembly.
Ranking first in Importance will be
the Macky auditorium. for which 1t
now seems probable that upward OF
100000 will soon be available. A
new power. light and heating plant is
under construction, the estimated cost
of which is $4,000. The Guggenheim
law building is receiving the finishing
touches. The science and museum
building. the centrall part Of which Is
to built this year. will cost when COM
plcted In the neighborhood Of $780,
600. 1t will be of the Collegiate or
Tudor style! three stories In height, Of
stone and practically fireproof.
Thirty-four thousand dollars was ap-
propriated for additions to the Hale
scientific building. which will conf
prise, two wings to the present main
building. Further improvements are
proposed. among which is a medical
building, plans for which have been
drawn, to cost about 100000. a
woman's central building and dor
mitory. a main building. gymnasium
and the completion of the library
building. together with an extensive
plan of improvements to the grounds
are being considered. Indications are
that the attendance this year will ex'
coed 1900. A 10 to 20 per. cent in
crease has marked the attendance
each term for the last five years or
more