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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-10
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Herbert Small has resigned his pos
ition with the Bennington Electric
company.
Miss Catherine Sears has taken a
position in Willoughby's store during
the holidays
A large amount of dust was sifted
about today with the wind, causing
much inconvience to pedestrians.
There is to be a donation, chicken
pie supper and sale of small articles
at the M. E. church at SALISBURY,
VT, Friday evening, Dec. 18th.
Miss Mary Nelligan of Greenfield
Mass, district cashier of the New
England Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
was at the local exchange Thursday
Mrs. William Cullinan of Depot St,
is recovering from the effects of ser.
ious burns received while at work
about her home earlier in the week
g. E. Bottum has purchased the
White Kitchen Restaurant of Peter
Lafayette on West Main street. Rob
ert Bentley will manage the restaur-
ant for Mr.. Bottum.
On Saturday for cash: Two pounds
round steak 25 cents, shoulder steak
10 cents, stew beef to 8 cents home
pork and home sausage. Hendee's
market, 104 River street
On Saturday for cash: Two
pounds round steak 20 cents, should
er steak 10 cents, stew beef 5 to 8
cents, home pork and home sausage.
Hendees market, 1O4 River street.
The directors of the Y. NJ. C. A. are
having much difficulty in securing a
to Secretary A. S. Davis.
H. G. Banks of Waterford, who prac-
tically agreed TO take the position,
has written that he will be unable to
come here. Prospects are that it will
be several days before the position is
filed.
A movement has been started
among the local milk dealers to raise
the price of milk from 6 to cents a
quart. Farmers give as a reason for
the increased price that the cost of
feed and labor is so great that in
order to have any profit a higher
schedule of prices will have to be
The increased price will
go into effect tomorrow morning.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
CRADLES OF ROYAL INFANTS
Babies Of European Monarchs Have
Had the Privilege Of Sleeping In
Very Expensive Beds.

Royal infants have the privilege Of
sleeping in very expensive and luxu-
rious cradles. The cot in which the
queen of Hollands baby sleeps IN the
one in which her own infant days
were passed. The queen of Italy has
used for her children a magnificent
silver cradle, presented to her by the
prince Of Montenegro. It is solid Sill
yer, and weighs over 40 pounds. On
the top may be seen the arms Of Italy
and Montenegro, and at the bottom
a laughing cupid. The cost Of the
cradle was more than $500. The
cradle in which the Empress Eugene
nursed the prince imperial was de-
signed and carved by Froment Men,
rice. The body is in rosewood, inlaid
with enamels, surrounded with old
silver ornaments and chiseled bronze
garlands. At the head is q statue In
silver Of Old Paris. holding the impe-
rial crown.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
COCK FIGHTING GAME AMUSING
Two Boys Only Can Participate at a
Time.. But Will Keep Rest Of
Company In Laughter.

This is most amusing game, and
although only two boys can play at it
at one time, they will keep the rest
of the company in roars of laughter.
The two who are to represent the
cocks" having been chosen, they are
both seated upon the floor.
Each boy has his wrists tied to.
gether with handkerchief, and his
legs secured just above the ankles
with another handkerchief; his arms
are then passed over his knees and a
broomstick is pushed over one arm.
under both knees, and out again on
the other side over the other arm.
The cocks" are now considered ready
for fighting, and are carried into the
center of the room and placed oppo
site each other with their toes just
touching. The fun now commences.
Each cock tries with the aid OF
his toes to turn his opponent over on
his back or side.
The one who can succeed in doing
this first wins the game.
It often happens that both cocks
turn over at the same time, when the
fight commences again.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
BABY OSTRICHES ARE NOVEL
Mother Bird Sits on the Eggs During
the Day and the Father
at Night.

There are many little ostriches
Matched near Phoenix. Arizona, a cor
respondent in that town writes, to St.
Nicholas. The old birds sit on eight
to ten eggs, which are very large.
weighing from three to four pounds
each. It takes about six weeks for
the eggs to hatch.
Sometimes when it rains the eggs
are taken from the nest and put in
large incubators, as the ostrich will
not sit on a wet nest. The ostriches
are very different from chickens. The
mother bird being gray, cannot be
seen IL the day time. and the father
being black, cannot be seen very well
at nigh<, SO the mother sits on the
nest during the day and the father at
night, which helps to hide the nest.
The little ostriches are about the
size of a bantam hen when Matched
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
A BANKERS NERVE
Broken by Coffee and Restored by
Postum.

A banker needs perfect control of
the nerves, and a clear, quick, accu-
rate brain. A prominent banker of
self in condition:
up to II years Of age I was not
allowed to drink coffee, but as soon as
I got out in the world began to use
It and grew very fond of it. For some
years noticed no bad effects from its
use, but in time it began to affect me
unfavorably. My hands trembled, the
muscles of my face twitched, my men
tai processes seemed slow and in other
ways my system got out of order.
These conditions grew so bad at last
that had TO give up coffee altogether.
my attention having been drawn to
Postum, began its use on leaving OF
the coffee, and it gives me pleasure to
testify to it's value. find it a delicious
beverage; like it just as well as did
coffee, and during the years that I
have used Postum I have been free
from the distressing symptoms that &C.
companied the use Of coffee. The nerv.
BUSINESS has entirely disappeared, and
am as steady Of hand as a boy of
Is, though I am more than 90 years
old. owe all this to Postum"
There's Reason" Read the little
book, 1.-THE Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. Grocers sell.
Ever read the above letter1 A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine true ond full u human
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29


The heads of two large institutions
of learning Woodrow Wilson, presi-
dent of Princeton university, and H.
P. Judson, president of the University
of Chicagehave lately. made public
some views on colleges and newspa-
pers that deserve notice, the latter
especially expressing high opinion
of newspapers, the work of which, he
says, is as useful as that of the COL
leges. This is quite true and quite
as important as it is true, for the
newspapers reach and instruct in
many ways vast numbers of persons
of both se1es, to whom the college, or
even the high school education, has
been denied. The two articles fit to-
gether in a sense, although President
Wilson makes his statement in order
to deplere the present tendency of the
life and discipline Of the college to
become process Of information, in
stead of what they are meant to be-
a process of preparation. Now the
work of the newspaper is distinctly
one Of information, and that work is
performed day in and day out, with
out holidays or neutrality-suspicious.
Chronicle-Telegrap
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Dorothy and the Stork.

When little Dorothy Walworth was
introduced to her baby brother in the
First Methodist Episcopal Parsonage
in Yonkers, N. Y, she manifested in
tense interest, but was not astonished.
II knew he was coming" she ex-
claimed: Il knew it,
Pressed for an explanation, the five
year-old said: II was down to the
Bronx ZOO the other day and saw
the stork in his cage. recognized
him by the black stripes on his wings
that papa said were there. Well, when
the stork was standing alone on one
leg, went close to him and whispered
in his ear that l wanted him to bring
me baby brother or sister. He didHt
say anything, but knew he would dc
it, because he bent his head toward
me and winked an eye"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Rain s'ackned Bit He Look Around He
Miles
Circles.

I reached the house, and he let out a
few more laps of speed. And still he
did not reach the house. Then he
was certainly frightened.
A very simple thing had happened
The lightning had hit the chimney
and had knocked off brick, and the
| brick had fallen on the crank handle
and had given it a turn, which cranked
| up the engine, and the lightning had
at the same instant buried itself in
the storage battery, filling it with
electricity, so that it began to spark
! regularly and explode the gasoline in
the cylinders, and the house had
! moved away from where it had been
The house had an excellent engine,
and it was geared high. It was
geared to run about so miles an hour
on the first speed.
AS soon as Pilgath realized this he
doubled his speed, for he was afraid
| the house might meet with an acct
dent. He felt perfectly secure as to
the wheels, for it is harder to pune
ture millstones than rubber tires, but
he had an inkling that frame house
travelling at so miles an hour should
have some one at the steering Wheel
AS soon as the rain slackened a bit
he took look around, and he saw the
house, about IL miles out of the prai-
rie, revolving in circles, and he start
ed for it with his tongue hanging out,
but just before he reached it the house
| took new tack and started south
by west at so miles an hour, and in
two minutes it was out of sight over
Reynolds hill. Pilgath said he never
was so proud of anything in his life
as the way that autohouse took that
hill on first speed. When he got to
the top of the hill he could only see
a cloud of dust in the southwest,
about So miles away. He said that
cloud of dust assured him that the
storm had been merely local.
Pilgath wants to announce that if
| anyone finds house running around
loose, with a wife under the bed in
the first bedroom at the top of the
stairs, to the left as you go up, that
wife is his. He says any doubt on
the subject may be removed by max
ing sound like thunder. Hammer.
ing on tin waiter will do. If, at the
sound, the wife backs so far under the
bed that she can only be reached with
a broom, there need be no doubt that
her name is Arbutus Ann Gubb The
finder will please feed her until called
for.
(CopYright 1909. by w. G. Chapmanl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
The Soft Answer.

At dinner in Bar Harbor a Boston
woman praised the wit of the late Ed
ward Everett Hale.
walking on the outskirts of Boston
one day." she said, "he and inadvert.
emily entered a field that had q No
"Soon a farmer appeared.
Trespassers in this field are prose-
cuted,' he said in a grim tone.
"Dr. Hale smiled blandly.
but we are not trespassers, my
good man. he said.
"'What are you then?' asked the
amazed farmer
"'We're Unitarians.' said DR.. Hale. u
Washington Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
There were PLENTY MORE
How Miss Smith Was Cruel to a Little
"BIackboy" Plant Very Common
in Australia.

There is common plant in
Australia known as the "blackboy,"
and here is story about it.
Two young American army officers
were visiting in small Australian
town and both happened to meet the
same young lady. They were talk.
ing about her one evening and one
said to the other:
Il think Miss Smith is very sweet
girl"
"Oh, do you," replied his brother.
1T seems to me that she is terribly
cruel. Why, what do you suppose she
told me? She said she was riding yes
terday morning, and that she was so
much interested watching a parade
that she rode right over little black
boy and killed it! And when I asked
her II she didn't feel dreadfully about
it, she laughed and said: oh, no, she
didn't think it made any difference.
there were plenty more.'"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
His Remarkable Foresight.

There was going to be an eclipse OF
the sun, and professor said to an old
darkey in the neighborhood:
You watch out tomorrow, Uncle
Sam, and about IL o'clock your chick
ems will all go to roost"
Of course Sam doubted, but when
the eclipse came, sure enough the
chickens went to bed. Then this con-
versation ensued:
"Massa, how long you done know
bout this here mfracle?"
About a year, Uncle Sam"
Lord! dat am startlin'. Why.
Aassa, dose chickens wasn't Matched
aen."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Joke Medicine,

He Is a very practical, serious
minded man Of business. The other
day he met friend, and related to
him an alleged joke, and at it's con.
clusion laughed long and heartily.
The friend looked awkward for q
moment, and then said:
You'll have to excuse me, old man,
but l don't see the point"
why, to tell you the truth, don't
just see the point myself. But I've
made 1t rule to laugh at all jokes;
think It's good for the health"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
f |lR|Y|(l|aa|Rg!c =
%@D = -
GRATITUDE OF A SMALL BOY
Left Pet Mouse with Hospital Matron
and Returns Later with Penny
for It's Care.

q. r. Sims tells pretty story of a
boy and a mouse. The boy took q
seat on the out-patients' bench at a
hospital, and when interviewed by
the matron, asked if he might leave
his pet brown mouse to be taken care
Of. The matron shook her head.
Il don't think we can take charge
of anything that is in perfect health -
she said, smiling.
"Oh, do, dol" pleaded the boy. II
love my little mouse, and he loves me,
and I want it taken care of! Mother
has gone away, and there will be no
one to look after il"
"Where has your mother gomez"
asked the matron.
"She's been taken to this hospital"
"And where are you going?"
The boy hesitated for a moment,
then he said sadly:
ITO the workhouse, ma'am, and I'm
afraid they won't let me have my
mouse there"
The mouse was taken in as a non.
paying guest, and two months later
the boy arrived to claim his pet.
Mothers out OF the hospital he
said, "and she's taken me out of the
workhouse"
A fortnight later he appeared again
at the hospital, and asked to see the
matron.
"A gentleman gave me a penny this
morning. ma'am," he said to her
"Please, may 1 put it in your money
box, because you were 50 kind to my
dear little mOuse?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Extensive Silence.

Little fOur-year-old Alice was lying
on the floor whining and crying stead
lily one afternoon, until, her fathers
patience exhausted, he called out to
her: "Oh, stop, Alice, and I'll give
you penny"
Alice stopped only long enough to
answer: Il can't stop for less than a
nickel! Boohoo! Boohoo!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
POOR BOY.
Good to Her Husband.

Good to Her Husband.
George, DEAR" said Mrs. Dovekins,
who had come downstairs in time to
pour the coffee, I'm going to walk to
the car with you this morning. Aren't
you glad?"
VERY glad, indeed, lovey. It's so
nice of you to think of me and to
get up early for the purpose of making
it unnecessary to walk those dismal
three blocks alone How much do you
want?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Baby ostrichee,

and are very delicate. II they get
wet they die. When first hatched they
are not fed very much for a week.
Later they get all the alfalfa grass
and broken bones they want.
They grow very fast, and when six
months old they are six feet high,
and their pretty feathers are then cut
from their wings. They are full grown
when one year old. but do not lay
eggs until three or four years old.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Interesting to Travellers,

rs there stone quarry being
worked in the vicinity?" inquired the
traveller, as he stood waiting to board
his train at the country station. Il
thought l heard loud reports, like the
explosion of dynamite in the blasting
of rocks.
NO." rejoined the porter, with a
chuckle; those noises come from that
little structure off the ticket Office,
over there. It's the luggage room"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Is Poor Consolation

Eyes, it must be terrible thing to
60 through life without your limb But
you must remember it will be restored
to you in the next world"
Il know it will, mum, but dat don't
encourage me, for it was cut off when
I was a baby, an it won't come with
in couple of foot of de ground wen
It's restored"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Prison for Obstreperous Tramps

Prison Tor Obstreperous 1ramps.
Tramps who spend the weekend at
Salisbury (England) workhouse are
deprived of their clothes on Sundays
and are compelled to remain all day
in the cells in shirt provided by the
guardians. One tramp named Thomas
demanded his clothes, and because he
could not get them assaulted the por-
ter and smashed the windows. The
Salisbury magistrates sent him to
prison for Fl days
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Another Deception.

of the clever illusion of the whirl-
ing wheels: If rapid rotating mo.
ton is given to the diagram, each cir
Gle will seem to revolve, and the cog
wheel in the center will appear to
move slowly round in the opposite d.
rectiOn.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Of Cours,

OF Course.
How do you make your wife mind
so well?"
Il tell her she can do anything she
likes, so she don't see any fun in II"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

months use of them. "-MrS. 5. A.
WILLIAMS, R. F. D. No. IA, Box 80.
Gardiner, Me. o..
No woman should submit to surgi.
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia p. Pinkhams
" from roots and herbs, a fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and reneWer of
the female organism. Women resid-
ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue Of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
It cures female ills, and creates radi-
ant, buoyant female health. If you
are ill, for your own sake as well as
those you love, give it trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice IL Free
and always helpful.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
WHIRLlNG WHEEL ILLUSION
Two Interesting illustrations Showing
How Easy 1t Is to Deceive
the Eye.

No. 1. If the illustration is cut out
and moved by hand in small circle
on the level, with such motion as is
given in rinsing out a bowl, the circles
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
In the Beginning.

In the Beginning.
yours is certainly an unusual
case," said the lawyer, "and it will be
necessary to consult number of
books"
"SO? queried the client.
YES" answered the legal light,
and we will begin with your pocket
book"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
For the Good Of Humanity.

V0' S"e Nooo " ''SASys
Il had a doctor in my car who had
cceen called from a party to attend q
dying man." was the defense of q mo.
torist summoned the other day for ex-
oecding the speed limit. The case Wa
J Withdrawn.-Home Chat. .....,... ?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Easy.

George Washington never told a
ta."
Jaw, that was easy; there wasn't
no ball games them days."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Sure.

Send your troubles to the devil
Don't you look askance at mot
Tell me truly, on the level,
Isn't that where they ought to bs7
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

It is daily life that tests us-the
manner of men we are.-Max Muller.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

THE SOURCE OF TROUBLE
must be reached before it can be cured. Aliens
Lung Balsam goes to the root of your cough, ana
cures 1t. Harmless and sure. At all druRR1sts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
A Ready EXCLAMATION.

A Ready Explanation.
What is the reason you were so
late in discovering the north pole?"
WELL" answered the explorer, you
see they have such long nights in the
arctic regions that oversight"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

ana q severe 1em3l0
weakness. r b 9
doctor said I would
have to go to the
hospital for an
operation, but I
could not bear to
think of it. / de.
cided to try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
andSanatiVe Wash
and was entirely
cured after three
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pink am's
Vegetable Compound

Gardiner, Maine.-"I have been q
great sufferer from organic troubles
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Old Bill didn't like load Of two,
So If two rode he always threw
One off in a creek that ran close by;
Another he'd toss in an old pig sty.
It wasn't the weight of his human load
That old Bill minded: but that two rode
Seemed like imposition to him. you
know:
So that was the reason he always threw
One off in the creek that ran close by.
And the other one into the old pig sly.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-07
WHAT THE KIDNEYS Do
Their Unceasing Work Keeps US
Strong and Healthy.

All the blood in the body passes
through the kidneys once every three
minutes. The kidneys filter the blood.
They work night and day. When
healthy they remove about 500 grains
of impure matter daily, when I'M
healthy some part of this impure mat
ter is left in the blood. This brings
on many diseases and symptoms-pain
in the back, headache, nervousness,
hot, dry skin, rheumatism, govt, gravel,
disorders of the eyesight and hearing,
dizziness, irregular heart, debility,
drowsiness, dropsy, deposits in the
urine, etc. But if you keep the filters
right YOU will have no trouble with
your kidneys.
James c. L. Armstrong. Nuuanu
Valley, Honolulu, Hawaii, says: al
was a sufferer from kidney trouble for
three years and Doan s Baekache Kid
nev Pills completely cured me. I have
had no return of the complaint during
the past year. I can not recommend
this remedy too highly
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are
sold by all druggists and storekeepers
at so cents per box (six boxes S2.50)
or will be mated on receipt of price bv
the HOLSTER Drug Co., Honolulu, whole.
sale agents for the Hawaiian Islands.
Remember the name, Doan's, aud
take no substitute
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-07

I'd. ;. Rowland, the convicted bank
casmer OF HeRldsburg Cal. has been
Imprisoned in San Quentin.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-07
HARRIMAN'S STOCK
EXCHANGE SEAT SOLD

NEW YORK, November 1.-THE
stock exchange seat of E. II. Hartman
which has been sold for about $50. 900.
was purchased by him forty wears ago
for $4,000, and, according TO his asso-
crates, was the basis of the vast for
tune which he left.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-09-20
YOUR
w-~-
MapcyrsrgH
BACKACHE
WILL YIELD
To Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Rockland, Maiue.-"I was troubled
FOR u long time with pains in my back
aud side, and was miserable in every