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Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
OLDFlELD BECOMES
BALKY ON RAGING

Ell PASO. Tex. Dec. 1O.-Barney
Oldheld arrived here yesterday and
fatty refused to fill racing date at
the fair grounds on Sunday. He will
race Kerscher. the German winner Of
the Vanderbilt race. Monday. but the
two days meeting had to be cut be
cause of his refusal to race on sun
daV
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
Handsome Finish

The Lee Motor Car company has a
Cadillac 80" finished i'm light gray and
cream trimming which has attracted
considerable attention. Blue is the
standard color, and this is the only
different color received this season.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
Church BUYS Site

SOUTH PASADENA, Dee. 1.-THE
st. James Episcopal church has pur-
chased site fronting 6S feet on FIRE.
mont avenue, adjoiniHs the church
building. a handsome rectorV will be
erected ON the aiie.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
rorpedo Franklin in Show

r. c. Hamlins Torpedo Franklin will
be exhibited at the New York and Chi
cago shows before being shipped to the
coast. 1t will reach here during Feb
ruarY.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
They Want Diamonds

The Diamond Ruber company report
$. A Gibbs & Co. of Tacoma, William
George d. Cameron of the Santa Cruz
Portland Cement company as recent
purchasers of the new Diamond grip
tires.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
Franklin to Gas Maanate

A model ID Franklin was delivered
last week to John II. Gardner. presi-
dent of the San Bernardino Gas COM
pany
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

One day Burmese messenger
brought me note. While he was
waiting for the reply 1 observed an
object something like a boys pop
gun suspended around his waist. On
asking what it was he showed me that
1t was an implement for producing
fire. 1t was rude example of a sci
entif1c instrument employed by lec-
turers at home to illustrate the pro-
duction of heat by suddenly compress
ed air. A piston fitted into the tube.
The former was followed at the lower
end and smeared with wax to receive a
piece Of cotton or tinder, which when
pressed into it adhered. The tube was
closed at one end. Placing the piston
at the top Of the tube, with a smart
blow he struck 1t down and imme-
diately withdrew it with the tinder on
fire, the sudden compression Of the air
having ignited 1t. I was so much
struck with the scientific ingenuity Of
this rude implement that I procured
1t from the Burman and sent it to the
Asiatic society of Bengal, with a short
description Of its Observation-Disclosures
Of My Life" by Surgeon General Sir
John Fayer.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19
Think Youth.

If you want to keep young, think
youth. Don't admit to yourself for
one moment that you are growing old.
Don't get into the habit Of saying that
you can't do this or that 'because
am not so young as I used to be-"
Keep your mind open. Be receptive
to new ideas, welcoming every fresh
experience as eagerly and enthusias-
were boy or a girl.
Call up again the radiant dreams of
youth-the glowing, golden visions
that dazzled your imagination in the
days when you were first setting out
on life's pilgrimage Tell yourself con-
stantly that the ideals, the fond hopes
and aspirations Of those early days
will still be realized. Never give way
to pessimism. Always see the silver
and gold in every cloud.
Take life earnestly. but not too Sc
riously. When difficulties arise face
them TRANQUILITY and courageously,
with streag confidence that you can
overcome them. Remember that con-
fidence Is oGe Of the great earmarks
the Distinguishing characteristics, of
youth and that the man who loses
confidence in himself speedily leaves
his youth fur behind him and not only
hastens but actually creates an un-
happy, premature old age.
II. ADDINGTON BRUCE. r
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19
Honor to Henry Hudson.

Doubtless the river bearing Hudson's
had great career in the development
of this continent even if the renowned
English navigator had not dropped
anchor off it's mouth the 18th of Sep
tember, 1609 Robert Fulton would
have found it ready for his expert
ments with steam navigation in 1907,
and all that we value and admire
about this picturesque and useful wa
terway would have been just about
the same. Yet the credit Of opening
it up fell upon Hudson, and it is prop
er in this era of historic celebration
and pageantry to recall before the
world some striking incidents of the
past fortunes of the American Rhine.
The planners of a Fulton centen-
NAL for 1907 united with the commit
tee which had in charge the Hudson
tercentennial, and marine pageantry
worthy of the great river and of its
heroes became possible. Incidentally
tribute will be paid to the Florentine
navigator, John verrazzano, who cast
anchor inside of Sandy Hook in 1927
and left records which would doubt
less have led eventually to the dis
covery of the river emptying into the
bay by later explorers of the Atlantic
coast. Henry Hudson braved the ter
rors Of unknown seas and savage wilds
to purpose. Two years after he ven
tured up the Hudson river he found a
grave and a monument in the great
bay Of the northwest which bears his
name. Embodying the daring spirit
of his time, he became veritable
pathfinder and created opportunities
for men like Fulton and races like
those which have developed North
America.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19
A Job For Arbitrators.

The dispute between China and ia
pan about the Antung- -Mukden railroad
seems to be one for arbitration. There
is the germ of feud in it and per-
haps Of war. Japan built narrow
gauge military railroad to transport
army supplies from the lower Yaiu
northward in the campaign Of 1901.
There was no railroad In the region.
and there is but this one now. 1t is
provided in the treaty Of 1905 between
Japan and Russia that Japan should
have the right to improve the road
and operate it for a term of years.
then turn it over to China at cost.
Japan has begun to improve the
road and make it efficient for the pres
ent commerce of interior Manchuria
This seems reasonable. China objects
on the ground that Japan's act will
make large bill for China to pay
when the road is turned over at the
end of the term of years named in the
treaty The road seems to be needed,
and Japan alone can maintain it. ia
pan has some rights in the matter
which have been stated in writing.
China also has rights which have been
stated in writing. A liberal interpre-
tation of the railroad clause in the
treaty would be likely to safeguard
the present and future interests Of
both nations.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19
Power to the Mermaid's Kick.


Since women are invading mans
sphere at all points, there are sense and
logic in the appeal of Annette Keller
man to American girls to learn to
swim. Women swimmers can not only
save themselves when the fool rocks
the boat and leave men free to save
others, but can help those Of their own
sex. Men swimmers generally save
themselves when there is an upset
Sometimes they help women. But
every woman swimmer in the party
may add one to the rescue force, max
ing the number needing help one less.
Instinct, If nothing else, will direct her
attention to the exposed children.
There are other reasons than train
ing for rescue work why it is well for
all to learn to swim. It is healthy
and mentally pleasurable exercise.
The mere knowing how to swim gives
confidence to the voyager and adds to
the comfort of the water trip. In
these days every river and lake has
boat riding attractions. There are
more risks and more accidents than
formerly. Since swimming is so easy
and so beneficial in many ways, the
army of swimmers should multiply
and include tens of thousands Of the
class which suffers most when there is
a catastrophe on the water. ~
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Versailles is about twelve miles from
Paris, but all the intervening country
is built up, and it seems almost as If a
distant part of the city.
Here was one Of the great royal pal
aces much frequented by the kings and
especially by Louis XIV. and all those
who came after him. Its gardens and
forests are beautiful, and the old pal
ace is now kept as an art gallery and
museum and filed with pictures and
statues, much Of the old furniture for
merly used by the royal occupants re-
naming as when they used it. Some
of the most dramatic events Of the
revolution occurred here. The entire
property belongs to and is cared for
by the government of France and is
open to the public without fees.
Twenty-Five miles north Of Paris is
Chantilly, the ancestral home Of the
Prince de Conde, the great Conde,
which In olden times We'd with the
royal palaces in the grandeur of its
entertainments and the distinguished
character Of its guests.
The last owner Of the property, the
Due d'Aumale, willed this fine estate
to France, so that its palace, with its
magnificent art treasures, and the great
forest are now for the enjoyment Of
al.-Paris Letter to Denver Post
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19
DR.. HOLMES, Centennial.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was
born a hundred years ago, sometimes
called himself "the last of the Brah-
MANS" He was fond Of referring to
the illustrious group consisting Of
Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Haw-
thorne and others as "the Brahman
caste of New England" a phrase he
himself invented. Holmes lived to see
all Of these poets and prophets laid to
rest, q striking fulfillment Of his own
lines:
And If should live to be
The last leaf upon the tree.
It Is one more proof of the univer-
salty of genius that, despite his mar
row environment the author of 1.-THE
Autocrat" and 'oThe Chambered Nau-
titus" was broad in his outlooks and
in his appeal The human heart is
not bounded by geographical lines,
and he who finds 1t reaches all times
and climes. The New England Of
generation ago was circumscribed
world, yet the voices that spoke from
1t as a pulpit spoke not the language
Of New England, but Of humanity.
Athens was but little more than a
large village compared to the cities of
our day and was shut in by water and
mountains, but the voices speaking out
Of Athens have been heard for $500
years. On the surface Ralph Waldo
Emerson was Yankee; In his soul he
was a modern Zoroaster and Hindoo
sage.
DR.. Holmes was CLEAN of literary
sunshine. His humor was Of the diff
fusive and kindly sort that had no
sting. His conversations are delight
full for their naturalness. They spar
kle, bubble and run on regardless, full
Of quaint conceits and of wholesome
philosophy all the more effective in
that its seriousness is concealed. His
poems, though generally humorous,
now and then strike a deeper note that
rings with some Of the eternal music.
In this he Is like Tom Hood, who,
though renowned as a wit, could yet
write '"The Haunted House, and the
"Bridge of Sighs."
Oliver Wendell Holmes. like all Of
the New England group, was white IN
bis private life and was loved for his
blameless character, his warmth Of
heart and his optimism quite as much
as for his genius.
]. A. EDGERTON.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Prince Metternich was driving il
Vienna one day during the congress OF
1915 when the horses bolted, the car.
riage was overturned and Metternich
was thrown into the roadway. Finding
he had no bones broken, he picked him
self up and walked quietly away. The
same evening he met the king of Ma.
pies, who had seen the accident.
"How horribly frightened you must
have been," said the king.
mot at ALL" answered Metternich
''It is no merit of mine, but l am con.
stitutionally inaccessible to fear"
ut is as thought" replied the king
"You are supernatural being"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19
The Forest Wealth of the South

The Forest Wealth of the South.
About AZ per cent of the total forest
area Of the country is located in four
teen southern states, which, however
contain only q per cent of the ma
tional area, says recent bulletin of
the forestry service. This forest area
Is divided among states as follows:
Alabama, 100000 acres; Arkansas,
24,2oo,OO0; Florida, 2ooOO,OOO; Georgia,
22,30O,OOO; Kentucky, 100000; Lou
isiana, 1e,5o0,OOO; Maryland, 100000;
Mississippi, 17,50O,00O; North Carolina,
19,6OOOOO; South Carolina, 100000;
Tennessee, 100000; Texas, 100000
900; Virginia, 100000, and West
Virginia, 100000.
The importance Of forest conserva-
ton to southern commercial interests
has Of late been clearly set before the
people of the region. Forest preserva-
tion, with its accompanying protec-
ton Of watersheds, power streams and
woodworking industries, is perhaps
the most pressing conservation work
of the present day in the south. Pres
ervation Of the watersheds will insure
irrigation and water power and at the
same time protect the extensive and
ever growing industries which depend
upon local timbered areas for raw ma.
terial.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Stings aud bites of insects are ex-
treme!y dangerous at all times and
especially when the system is not In a
condition to resist the poison injected.
In many insects the nature of the
poison has not been ascertained, while
in most of them it is of an acid, irri-
tant nature. in others it may contain a
powerful cardiac sedative and depres-
SAINT, and in still others organisms In
pure or mixed cultures may be intro
duced with the sting or bite Apart
from the natural poison used by in
sects it should not be forgotten that
flies and other insects that live on
carrion may easily carry contagion
and inoculate the persons whom they
bite or sting.
In the case of ordinary bites and
stings the chemical antidote is an
alkaline solution, such as strong So
luton of bicarbonate of soda or pot
ash, which counteracts the acid of the
sting. Suction at the wound in all
these varieties of stings and bites will
draw out some of the poison and until
some antitoxin treatment can be found
which will prove an antidote to the
bacterial poison introduced little can
be done beyond stimulating and sup
porting treatment with attention to
symptoms.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

The United States government finally
won its fight to participate in the Chi
nese loan. If this tendency keeps up
the great nations will be going about
with battleship forcing other nations
to take their money.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Jacksonville has learned the gospel
of optimism and boosting to some pur-
pose and has organized 'damaknock-
er'' club Considering the good pur-
pose of the name, there is positively
no profanity in 1t.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

The spectacle Of DR.. Jameson, who
raided the Boer capital years ago, and
General Botha, who once would have
thought it a religious duty to hang
Jameson for treason, sitting together
in the kings privy council, must glad
den the apostles Of peace, notwith-
standing that the present peace in
South Africa was gained by fighting.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Many and Geep are the lamentations
this centennial year of Poe, Tennyson
and Holmes that there are no poets
now making fame to last a century.
But it is said to take more than the
lamentations of critics to make a
poet, so what's the use?
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

With the exception of the Grand
canyon there is probably no more ia.
nous locality in the we1a than Death
valley, known as the "te1Ie below the
sea-" and, although there are a num-
ber of Mount Blancos in the Great
American desert, the Mount Blanco Of
Death valley is the greatest Of its
name.
It. rises like an enormous white
breast against the terra Gotta ridge Of
Funeral range, close to Furnace Greek
canyon, a great rent that cleaves the
east rampant of Death valley. Around
1t is rolling waste of bald yellow hills.
none of which is a mere knoll, and it
towers a good 1000 feet above them.
The lowland Of Death valley. sinking
for several miles westward, is prob
ably $500 feet lower.
No one ledge or series of lodges any
where in the world contains the i'm
mense amount of borate quartz shown
in the surface Of this 'vountain Of
colemanite. 1t is body of ore meas
uring 1000 feet in width and 5000 feet
in length, pitching into the mountain
range at thirty-three degree angle.
1t Is borax quarry whose limitations
cannot be even roughly conjectured.
but it must exceed by thousands Of
tons any known borate deposit-De.
troit News.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

An English lord has offered $4,000
to any of his countrymen who with
home built aeroplane will fly to the
continent. The trouble is that Eng
lishmen have become so panicky over
an aerial invasion that all of them are
too afraid of aepoplanes to take any
chancessw
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

The recent Spanish uprising recalls
the fact that about forty years age
Spain had short lived republic. The
tendency Of that country to go back.
ward will yet win it the name of the
crawfish in the international millpond
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Hudson himself called it "Great
river" Geographically, to the Amer
lean settlers, it was for long time
"North river" the Delaware being
known as South river" To this day
people on both banks Of the lower
Hudson call it "North river without
knowing why.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

An assistant bank cashier recently
ran away with about 100000 of the
banks money and left note saying
that he had gone forever and had TAX
en- enough money to pay his ex-
penses." That bank will probably
have prejudice in future against -ad-
yancing expense money.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19
Pitney Eighteen Years Judge of Equity
Court,

In recent article referring to ex-
Vice Chancellor Henry @. Pitney we
inadvertently stated that Pitney was
Judge Of orr equity court for eight
years. This was a mistake. Ex-V1ce
Chancellor Henry G. Pitney served as
Judge of the equity court for eighteen
years, not eight years.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Real poets cannot aspire to the own
ership of aeroplanes, but all the same
they take high flights when singing
the praises of aerial navisators.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

The little Half Moon which is te
loom large as a feature in the Hudson
river tercentenary wouldn't seem very
much out of place on some Of our fish
ponds.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

If the 1000 chauffeurs in New York
who have resolved to regulate" auto
driving tackle the job with vim we
will probably hear of two or three
lynching bees very soon.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

While the English hopelessly beat
the air from terror Of invasion the
French hopefully beat 1t In record
breaking flights. y
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Nothing strange If Taft is so absent
minded on the Beverly links as to
think that the best golf score is made
by revision downward.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

In view of the possible car shortage
when the crops begin to move, those
who have general freight to ship will
be wise to do their shipping early.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Lincoln was man Of many sorrows,
but he escaped the grief Of knowing
the kind of a one cent piece his head
would some time adorn.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

A few hours barefoot parade every
day will save enough wear and tear to
wipe out the tariff duty on stockings
and, if DR.. Kneip's theory is correct,
also Danish medicine and doctors.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

A woman in congress would liven
things up, so what's the constitution
between the bored to death public and
a willing suffragette?
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Business is picking up! Never mind
the why and wherefore, but get some
and push it along.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

The loafing is really fine now, Mr..
Hobo, but as there are jobs for every
body your old excuse won't go.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Harry Thaw wants to devote his fu-
ture to literature. He is missing his
calling. He should become a medical
expert.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Adapting the motto "In time of
peace prepare for war" to the rail-
roads, "When freight cars are idle
build more against famine"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Chile robbed Bolivia Of her only sea-
coast and is now said to urge the Bo-
nvians to recoup by taking slice Of
coast from Peru, a sort Of bold rob-
ber's policy all around.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

President Diaz proposes to take a
European trip to see how Mexico can
get on without him sitting on the lid.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Taft won't debate long on the Wright
man for secretary of the "airy navy"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Those new aeroplane records the
Europeans are making sre only so
many marks for Americans to beat
later on. r. y
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

If Jane Adams runs for president
there'n be many a case of leze majes-
ty perpetrated on the spelling of her
last name.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

One man alone cornered the wheat
crop when it was a shadowy thing,
but it required 250,OO0 stalwarts to
harvest the substance.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Is licking Spaniards always the easy
Job the Moors find it or did we knock
che fighting stuff out of them in 1898?
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Revision downward on the tempera-
ture seems too hard a pace for the
weather man to keep up.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Some statesmen who settled the tar
iff at Washington went home to find
it living local ISSUE
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Every Sunday is "bloody Sunday" in
the joy riding belt.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

These skyscraping times Of price
should also provoke a deal Of serious
thinking.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Even dry moon has been known to
get full
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-08-19

Beverly's need of glory finally came
in 2SO pound lump.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-20

Edward Mattison who lives in the
East part of SALISBURY. has aad
curiosity in his garden this year in
the shape of a potato vine with little
potatoes growing on it like piums on
a tree instead of underground where
they are supposed to belong. The
largest of the potatoes was as big as
butternut and from that they gradu-
ated down tc the size OF cherries.
They grew ten or twelve inches from
the ground.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-20
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs. Mary Keefe has purchased the
Walworth house at foot of Main St,
and will move into it soon.
The b. Y. p. U. of the Baptist
church will hold a supper in the
church parlors on Tuesday evening
September 81, 1909 Supper will be
10 cents
Miss Stella Shaw of Montague,
Mass. WAC has been visiting Miss
Grace Dennie on Bank street extern
sion, has returned home.
Mrs. Ed Whipple and daughter
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-20

been spending the summer months at
the nome of w r. Worthington. re-
turned to their home in Cleveland. o..
Saturday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-20
STOCK QUOTATIONS

Noon Quotations from ]. r Wliliston
& Co., 20 Bennington Security Co
The following noon quotations were
re ;eived today by the bennington Sc
curity company from J. R. Williston
& Co, of New York by special wire:
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-01
Moose nucked the Hunters.

Premier Hazen, who returned home
Yesterday after canoeing trip on the
Tobioue river with Surveyor General
Grimmer and members of their fami-
lies, tells an exciting moose story
One night Mr.. Grimmer, Miss Grim
mer, Miss Hazen and two guides were
in a canoe with lantern padding
around to catch sight of moose. In the
shallow water they passed big bull,
The light was SO placed that he could
not see the canoe Some one changed
the position of the lantern, and it
flashed in the animals eye. Brighten
ed, it sprang for shore, with the re-
suit that it's fore feet landed in the
canoe and the moose brushed against
the surveyor general. Another bound
and the moose was over them and the
canoe sank with all hands in the wa
ter 1t was shallow, SO there was moth
ing worse than a ducking.