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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02


trace the influence of the Philippine
party. 1t has mingled republicans and
democrats together and In a way that
no one can understand except those who
are members of the party.
Tonight l feel overcome by the good
will and generosity and the welcome you
have given Mrs. Taft and myself. l have
a sense of being underserving (cries OF
'no'). Well, that's the way 1 feel any
how.
Taking Up Burden.
II am about to take up burden that
I am not going to shrink from, but 1t
is one that doubtless will grow heavy at
times and lighter at times. But whatever
the burden, / want the good men and
women--the good fellows, both male and
female-of the party to know that l am
confident that whoever else may be a
severe critic, I shall have the sympathy
of those who sailed out from San Fran
cisco on the steamer with me in 1905.
II hope we may continue to have these
reunions. We did have one at the White
House when we were there to see that
two of our number were properly mar
ried and l hope that the White House
may be frequent place of meeting In the
future. I do not expect to be It's mis-
tress and have not consulted It's mis-
tress, but 1 want you to come there
where the landlord is so generous ana
where the tenant of which will be glad
during the next term to welcome you
all and each at any time This party
might bear the same relation to the COM
ing administration as the Rough Riders
do to the outging administration. should
be delighted to take them into the same
degree of confidence as I have the class
OF Yale II. I hope my haart is big
enough and hope that the patronage of
the office is sufficiently wide to include
them both"
Mr. Taft said good night amid hearty
round of applause. The speech making
continued until late. as nearly every mem
ber Of the congressional branches gave
his test Of delightful memories Of the
1curnsvinss Of the DerU.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
AGED HORSEMAN
BEATS ROOSEVELT

Piqua, O., March 1.-Dr. G. c. Throck-
morton, 65 years old, today beat the mill
tary ride of President Roosevelt of 9S
miles, military gait, riding three horses in
relay from Sidney through Piqua to Troy
20 miles and return times, 120 miles in
all, in 13 hours and 45 minues. Although
the day ended rainy and muddy the doc
tor was greeted by large crowds along
the route. On his return to Sidney on
the last trip he was welcomed by brass
band.
The result was telegraphed to President
Roosevelt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
Father Mathews Work

IN thousands of cities and towns
were held Sunday in commemoration
of the 120th anniversary of the birth
of the worlds foremost temperance
advocate Theobald Mathew Father
Mathew, as he was affectionately call
ed, was born near the town of Cashel,
Ireland. October 10, 1890, entered the
college at Maynooth in 1907 and was
ordained in the Franciscan order in
1914 On April 10, 1893, he signed a
total abstinence pledge and began his
great career as "A reformer At the
time of the commencement of Father
Mathews labors the vice OF intern
perance was everywhere prevalent
in Great Britain and Ireland
For nearly a dozen years through
out all parts of these countries, this
jealous priest exhorted the people to
abandon the vice of drunkenness and
in 1S49 he visited the United States
urged thither by the same laudable
purpose. Some idea of his immense
influence over the masses is gained
from the fact that during the first five
months of his work he administered
the pledge in the city of Cork alone
to more than 10000 converts.
The expense OF his many preaching
tours involved him In heavy liabil-
tiles and on one occasion he was i'm
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
A Familiar Type.

THE statement of Mrs. Cecilia
Blickensderfer regarding Mary Rog-
ers and the late Ex-Governor Bell,
which has been the subject OF com
ment by some Vermont newspapers
the past few days. should have been
ignored MONTPELIER Argus.
Why? It furnished a capital oppor-
tunity to emphasize a public example
OF the extremes to which bigotry of
opinion will sometimes carry people
whose intentions are particularly
high minded. This woman is engaged
in propaganda that is inspired In
the most earnest and sincere desire TO
advance the moral and social stand
ard OF the times. But she has become
so intolerant of the ideas of men and
women that cannot see some phases
of the movement just as she does
that she goes to the length OF just
such cruel aspersions of their acts
and motives a. her striclutes upon
the late Ex-Governor Bell. And. what
is more she assumed in chis las
manifestation of her folly that monu-
mental egotism ihat so often becomes
characteristic of such people and be-
lieved that the Almighty had stricken
Bell with fatal Illness because be
wasn't on III same side Of the ques-
ton as Mrs Blickenslerfer.
So much for his delu1ed woman
whose unhappy case The Messenger
seized upon IS 4 text because She and
her uncharitable and narrow minded
views of mcp and things are repro
duced in people that can be- named in
every town in Vermont These people
themselves do not know how intOler-
ant they are, wnat bigots hey arc.
sra probably nobody on earth could
persuade th,n ol the truth. They
are well meaning people, too. AMI in.
tend to be useful to their fellow men.
But they can only think in straight
| lines and have no idea OF the vast
fields of det2taahle ground that lie OF.
either side > thor larf)H vision and
are occupied by equally high-mindod
people.
Blickensderfers Vermont has
thousands of them. So has every
state in the Union Only for the
most part they do not succeed in get
ting into print-St. Adams Messen-
ger
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Dull London.

The poet GRAY would have agreed
with James Douglas In thinking you
cannot be gay in London 81 have
been at London this month, that tire
some, dull place, where all people I'M
der 80 find so much amusement" he
wrote to friend. And Fielding makes
Joseph Andrews say in letter to
Pamela. London is bad place, and
there is so little good fellowship that
the next door rc!ghbors don't know
one another" AS Boswell amiably re-
marked: IL have often amused myself
with thinking how different place
London is to different people!"
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FIR INK E HOWE, cditor and Pabiisht
THE POLAR CONTROVERSY

Pearys statement leaves the Peary-
Cook controversy about where it was
before. Partisans of each believe
their favorite. Cooks more decent at
titude has made him the most friends
| The unthinking multitude is for Cook
by large majority, but among scien-
lists, travellers and people of that
class there seems to be a growing
tendency to doubt Cook. He has him
self to blame for this through his
backwardness in coming forward with
his data while in the meantime he is
rushing around the country lecturing
at high rates, just as though he fear
ed the bubble might burst.
There is no reason for doubling
that the members of the Peary party
believe the statement that they have
signed. 1t is not conceivable that all
of them including men of such high
character as Prof Mcmillan, and Capt
Borup, to say nothing of Commander
Peary and Capt. Bartlett, would join
together in a deliberate falsehood,
faced by the knowledge that If ii is
false it is sure to be exposed within
a few months by these same witness
es which they quote. l can be taken
as assured that these men believe
the statement they have signed. They
are not all fools and nobody but sim
pletons would deliberately sign a
fraudulent statement with the GER
tain knowledge that the fraud would
be pulled down about their ears to
their everlasting disgrace
There remains the possibility that,
at the request of DR.. Cook the Esqui-
meaux fooled Peary and all his party
But this theory is hardly tenable
With the experience that Peary, Bart
lett and Hensen have had in the Arc
tic and in dealing with Esquimeaux
it can be set down as practically GER
tain that they could not all have been
misled in so important matter.
Dr. Cook himself has prevented the
possible theory that he might have Ia
ken natives to the pole without their
knowing it, for he has said that he
told them and told them not to tell.
More than that, the Esquimeaux
travel so widely in search of game that
they could not be fooled on matters
of direction and local topography.
Nomadic aborigines of all countries
have pretty good ideas as 10 direction
and distances and the Esquimeaux are
no exception.
It is more and more evident that
Dr. Cook went far enough to make
him think it as practically impossible
to reach the pole and decided to make
fame and money for himself by claim
ing to have gone there, with no idea
that his claim would be disputed so
soon. His continual fight for delay
and his hustle to make hay while the
sun shines does not look well for him.
Even the rankest partisan of DR..
Cook must admit that the burden OF
proof rests on him.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

prisoned for debt. At length the
queen, approaching the great work
he was doing for her subjects, grant
ed him pension, which in a meas
ure insured him from financial dis
tress. Father Mathew died at
Queenstown, Ireland, December s,
1856.
Such in brief is the story of no
BILE man and his great career. Father
Mathew gave his life to a worthy
cause, to the betterment and uplifting
of his fellow men. The seeds of tenn
perance scattered broadcast by him
have everywhere yielded abundant
fruit. For upward of a score of years
Father Mathew besought all manner
of men, irrespective of race or relig-
ion, to reform their lives and millions
of unfortunates upon the path to per-
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

dition, attracted by his eloquent plead
ing, listened, paused in their down
ward course and were saved. Many
wretched drunkard's home has been
made happy by his inspired exhorta-
tions, many wife and mother has
blessed and will yet live to bless the
memory of this sanity man.
The results attained by his labors
and sacrifices are destined to endure.
Today in every country of the world
there are societies bearing his name
pledged to continue for all time the
saving work begun by him. In the
city of Dublin a grateful people have
erected magnificent statue to the
memory of Father Mathew, but his
noblest monument is the record of his
useful and unselfish life.--lSorth AID
ans Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

"Parlor Socialists" are being denied
the right to speak in Bennington by
some Bennington People-Barre
Times.
The foregoing statement is wholly
untrue in every point and particular
A great deal of harm is done by this
kind of reckless newspaper comment
made on hearsay or information
guessed at. The Times is young and
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

There has been more or less of
sentiment throughout Vermont that
the commitment of state patients to
insane asylums was accomplished
much too easily and without due pro-
cess to determine the subjects sanity.
Peaple have been 'railroaded' into
the asylum with too great dispatch
and under a system which might be
abused. Therefore, the opinion of
the Vermont supreme court holding
that one Lydia Allen of Orleans
county was Illegally held in the state
asylum because of the manner of her
commitment will put a stop to the
present system, or, rather, improve
upon it by requiring formal hearing
to be held, in which the alleged in
sane person will be represented by a
guardian.-Barre Times.
There is another phase of this asy-
lum commitment business that we
should like to see investigated and
that is as to the number OF town pau
pers that ought to be supported by
the various towns that are worked off
on the state to support by calling
them insane though many of them are
merely weak minded. Then, too, how
many persons are supported at state
expense who have property Of their
own or whose families are abundant
ly able to pay their way in whole or
in part? A start has been made in
this matter but 1t ought to go farther
and receive close. attention through
the auditors Office or by some other
equally competent authority.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

NAN YOU BEAT 1872 Farm of IS acres,
~ 60 acres tilable land, % acres pasture and
wood lot; good 11-room house; one barn JON25,
one barn 60x25; extra house on place that would
make good tenement; new hen house 15x2O,
built last year. corn house and hog house
With this goes acres of oats acres corn, 2
acres potatoes - tons hay, 2 acres buckwheat,
mich cows, horse rake, moving machine
Water supply good AT house and pasture. All
for $500 cash. All located miles from So.
71tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
THE ONLY UNCERTAINTY

about our kind of insurance is wheth-
err you have it when needed. Insure
today and be sure Goth year. Ma
tionas Life Insurance Company,
Montpelier, VT. (MutuaD. Earl S.
Kinsley, Agent, Rutland. VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
Why Does It Cure

Not because It Is SarsaparilIa,
but because Il Is a medicine OF
peculiar merit, composed Of more
than twenty different remedial
agents effe citing phenomenal
cures Of troubles of the blood,
stomach, liver and bowels.
Thus Hoods Sarsaparilla cures scroll
ula, eczema, anemia, catarrh, nervous
ness, that tired feeling, dyspepsia, loss
of appetite, and builds up the system.
Get IL today in the usual liquid form or In
ehocolated tablet form called Sarsatabs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

EOR SALE-The Durham Burt property on
Il Grandview street. A ten room house
with bath room and pantry in addition. Large
lot, S0xl65, good garden, a very desirable place.
This place is offered subject TO delivery Novem-
Der 18th Unless sold prior to November LIST
the place will be offered for rent. Apply to
Charles N. Powers, Savings Bank Building,
Bennington Vt 77tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

impulsive and we will forgive 1t this
time if it will apologize and not let it
happen again.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

DOR SaLE-Special bargain for thirty days
Y on electric road two and One-half miles
from Bennington, two acres of good level land
a good twostOry seven-room house, painted
barn l4x20 in good repair, nice hen house; 20
apple trees, good spring on place. Five minutes
walk from the electric road. Good stream of
water flows through the land Price 500;
Nash & Hutchins. Sltt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

r OST-Sum of about S35 in bills, between
~ County St. COoper's machine shop and
Cooper's upper mill $40 reward if returned
O Banner OH ce. S7t2
OST-An Epsilon Kappa fraternity pin
~ with name G. w. Adams engraved on
back Finder please return to Banner Office
g9t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

I OST- Watch fob. made from Mexican coirs
IL somewhere between Bennington and
Woodford City. Finder will please return to
the Banner office. S76
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

/ OST-Between Hathaway's store and North
- bennington Cemetery on Monday, Oct.
18th small silver cOmpasses belonging to Tuck
er Lodge. Finder please leave at p o. c. ID.
Phillips, Sec. s9t3
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
LOST OR STOLEN

L OST-A pocketbook, between postolli &c
H and Beech ST., containing S}5 in money, a
gold ring and two receipts with name II. G.
Camp. Suitable reward If returned to Banner
office. S6tGt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

Va ANTEO-To get horse for beepmg the
w coming winter. Light horse for driving
purposes preferred. Antoine Fischer, Bur
CESS road. sjt6-
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

ITO -Furnished.room, for gentleman,
i with steam heat and electric lights. Cen
trally located. Apply Banner office. soto
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

TFAMS wANTED-We will hire IA number
Il of good rugged teams for logging opera
ton close TO Sunderland. VT. Good roads;
steady work, and prompt cash assured. Apply
person or by letter to The Bruon Cooperage
Co., Manchester, VT 69tA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

NNO RENT-Once on West Main Street just
l. vacated by DIR. W. B. Stewart. Inquire on
premises. 79t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

Nv ANTED-Youngm men 70 learn automobile
w business 10y mail and prepare for posi-
tions rs chafleurs and repair men. We make
you expert i'm ten weeks; assist you to secure
position. Pay big; work pleasant; demand
for men great reasonable; write for partcu'
lars and sample lesson. Empire Automobile
Institute. Rochester. n. Y. T3ti2
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

ITO RENT rooms for gentlemen.
Steam heat. electric lights aud bath. In
quire 52i Main St., opp. Library hall 74tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

WANTED or rooms for light house
w keeping. Call at Banner office. sSt6+
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE

FOR sALE-Pound Sweet Apples for sale,
II 500 q bushel; also fresh eggs and chick
ems. Postal will insure delivery .. p. Matti-
son, So Salisbury. VT X. ID. Box ". 6St6f
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

EOR SALE-Good coon dog; half hound,
u half bull; 9 months old. Fred Myers, NO.
Bennington S5t6"
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TO RENT

ITO RENT c. e. x E. Dewey have house
4 to rent. STA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

ITO RENT-One modern tenement on Con
l. vent avenue Inquire of John p. Multi
gan. 69tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

ITO RENT-Desirable tenem nts, Offices
i stores mill property with water power
individual storage lockers. VIM. f. Hawks, POS
North st.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

TOR sALE-A set Of dinner and tea dishes.
L Apply 3S9 Pleasant st. sot6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
Lewis j. Carpenter

has pianos to rent and for sale a.
reasonable prices. Inquire at Hud
sons Ice Cream Parlors, where ort
ders for tuning will be taken.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

no RENT-Pleasant tenement, second floor,
i on East Main street; central location Al
so desirable tenement second floor, on Pleasant
st. Mrs W ID. Walker. FOG Pleasant st. soft
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14

NNANTED-Three or four boarders Apply
w Mrs jeanette Montgomery in Columbian
House building on River street sst2+
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-14
WAN TED

WANTED Chambermaids mattresses
w girls for general work. also three girls
to take positions out of town in a Sanatorium
good wages. Apply to Nash Hutchins SSt6
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-04
KILLS HIMSELF
AFTER FATALLY
WOUND|NG GIRL
Former Jerseymsr Fires Bullet
Into Brain at Brook
lyn Hotel.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-After shooting
and fatally wounding Bessie Schroeder
in a Brooklyn hotel, Harry C. Pope, a
saloon-keeper, blew his own brains out,
Pope came to New York recently-from
Bedford, n. j., where his parents o
reside.
. The man, who was well known in
Brooklyn, appeared at the Mel
rose Hotel, outside the Wfllinck en-
trance to Prospect Park, late yesterday
with the Schroeder girl. He registered
as H. G. Pope and WIFE" and the
couple We're assigned to a room on the
second floor.
A shot in the room startled the hote
staff at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Their
The woman ram out, gained the
head of the stairway and tum
bled headlong to the ground
floor. As she was falling, another sho'
was heard and those who entered the
room found Pope dead, with a bullef
wound through his heart and a pisto
in his right hand.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-04
MORE METHODIST
PULPIT CHANGES
THAN IN YEARS
Reported That Unusual Number
viii Be Made-New Super
inteldent for Middlesex.

OCEAN GROVE, Feb. 4.-Reports OF
changes in appointments of Methodist
ministers that may be expected to re-
suit from the New Jersey conference,
which will be held in the First Church,
Camden, March 10, next, are o being
heard about this headquarters of Meth
heard here, and they indicate that there
will be more sweeping changes among
the pastors of well-known charges than
for several years.
One of the chief changes will be
that of the superintendent of the New
Brunswick district, DR.. j.. b. Haines,
whose term expires. He is said to be
seeking an Ocean Grove appointment.
There are predictions about that the
Rev. John Handley, of Vineland, and
the Rev. James William Marshall, of
the First Church, Millville, are both
Likely candidates for the position of
district Superintendent to succeed DR..
Haines.
The Rev. DR.. Marshall has been
called to the First Church of New
Brunswick and will probably be ap-
pointed to that charge if he is not
placed over the New Brunswick dis
trict. The Rev. C. S. Lawrence will, it
is said, return to Trinity Church,
Millville, for another year. The Rev.
John II. Magee wishes to leave Second
Church. The Rev, Willis Reeves, of
Fourth Church, who has preached for
nearly fifty years. will resign and ask
for supernnnerary relations.
1NhA Eaxr = l. Il;.I-r,an - rT,fAtt,y
Church, Bridgeton, has accepted a call
to the First Church.. Salem, and the
Rev. Edward Hewitt, Of Bridgeton, also
wishes to be changed. The Rev. Sam
uel Sargent will return to Clayton. The
Rev. Fl. M. Blake, of Elmer, wishes a
change. n the Rev. ID. c. Cobb, oil
Salem, will probably be called to Elmer.
The Rev. G.. S. Nesroll will return to
Glassboro, and the Rev. George S.
Johnson, of Newport, will go to Grace
Church, Red Bank, it is said. Reports
are That the lsevs. S. G. Pitt. j. l..
Surtees and M. l.. Snyder will return to
Central, First and st. Paul's churches,
respectively, Atlantic City.
In Camden there will be several
changes. The Rev. Holmes f. Gravatt,
Of the Conference Church, has been
cal ed 10 Wilmington ut q salary of
$500. and Will accept if he gets the
sarction-of the church.
Long Branchers are well satisfied
with their present pastors. and there
will be no changes there. The Rev.
j. f. Shaw viii leave New Brunswick.
in an probability, and the Rev. G. l..
Dobbihs, of Lambertville. will change.
The Rev. j. Ward Gamble. of Penns-
grove. expects to move. and the Rev.
G. NJ Gitfin will return to Asbury Park.
The Rev. John Gorley, of Medford.
wishes to leave that place and the Rev.
G. II. Elder will probably return to
Trinity Church, Trenton, for his tenth
year thnre.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-04
HONOR

A hundred years cannot repair Q
moments loss Of honor.-Italian,