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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
DOING THEIR DUTY
Scores of Bennington Readers Are
Learning the Duty of the Kidneys

To filter the blood is the kidneys
duty
When they fail to do this the kid
neys are sick.
Backache and many kidney ills fol-
low;
Urinary trouble, diabetes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure them all.
Bennington people endorse our
claim.
R. J. Taylor South street road,
Bennington, VT, says: ut was three
years ago that | gave my original
public statement, recommending
Doan's Kidney Pills. | suffered for
several years from backache and
pains across my kidneys. | had head
aches and dizzy spells and was an
noyed a great deal by too frequent
passages of the kidney secretions. At
times the secretions were also unnat-
ural. was finally advised to try
Doan's Kidney Pills and / procured a
supply. Shortly after commencing
their use, the pain in my back disap-
peared and the difficulty with the kid
ney secretions was corrected"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
take no other.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
JUDGE ON MoTHER-IN-LAW
Says She Should not Butt in II
Daughters Husband Objects

A mother-in-law should keep away
from her daughters home if the lat
ter's husband does not want her
around, according to Judge Cant of
the district court at Duluth, Mimi,
unless her daughters health and life
are in danger.
A wife is wrong in standing with
her mother against her husband, he
says and the mother should remem-
Der she hasn't the control over her
daughter that she had before the
daughters marriage.
Judge Cant delivered himself of
these opinions when the petition of
Mrs Daisy DAourt for temporary ali
mony from Wallace D'Aourt whom
she is suing for divorce came up for
hearing.
If these young people are left
alone, believe they would get along
all right" said Judge Cant. Inter
ference is very likely responsible for
this trouble. The wife is wrong in
standing by her mother against her
husband; the mother hasn't the con-
troll over her daughter she had before
the daughter was married.
She hasn't any right to try to run
her son-in-law and his home and if he
doesn't want her around she should
stay away, unless she believes that
her daughters health and life are in
danger. OF course the man should
show some consideration for his wifes
mother and should allow her to take
a kindly interest in her daughters
welfare, but she should not interfere"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
IF IT DISAPPEARS ITS ECZEMA.
How to Tell Whether a Skin Affection
is an Inherited Blood Disease
or Not

Sometimes it is hard to determine
whether skin affection is a sign of
blood disorder or simply form of
eczema. Even physicians are often
puzzled in their diagnosis. The best
way for any one afflicted is to go to
w. l.. Gokay's, Bennington, or any
good druggist who handles pure drugs
and obtain so cents worth of poslam.
Apply this, and If the itching stops
at once and the trouble is cured in a
few days it may be set down as hav-
ing been eczema, as this is the way
poslam acts in the worst cases of &c
zema and in curing acne, herpes,
blotches, letter, piles. salt rheum,
rash, BARRIERS and other forms of itch,
scaly scalp and all surface skin af-
fections.
Any one who will write to the Emer-
gency Laboratories, No 80 West 25th
Street, New York, can secure, by mail
free of charge, supply sufficient to
cure a small eczema surface or clear
a complexion over night and remove
pimples in twenty-four hours
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
PAYS BACK TAXES
White River Valley Railroad Sends
in a Check.

Burlington, Dec. 2s.-State Tax
Commissioner J. E. Cushman-has just
received check for $6S8.37 in pay
ment for taxes on the White River
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
ENuMERAToRs TEST EASY
Census Director Durand Sets Febru-
airy as the Date for Holding Exam

Washington, d. c., Dec. 2S.-Any
person of good judgment, who has
received an ordinary common school
education. can readily and easily pass
the test to be given applicants for
census enumerators' places on Satur-
day, February 5, the date finally set
by U. S. Census Director Durand ac-
cording to an announcement from the
census bureau today. This will be a
comforting assurance to the several
hundred thousand who are believed
to be contemplating application for
the places.
1t was emphatically stated at the
bureau that the test will be an emin-
emily reasonable and practical one,
similar to that applied to applicants
at the twelfth census. 1t will consist
of filing out sample schedule OF
population from description, in a
narrative form, of typical families;
and, in the case of enumerators
whose work will be in the rural dis
tricts, they will be called upon to fill
out an additional sample schedule of
agriculture, from information furnish
ed by the census bureau.
All persons, whether women or
men, who may desire to become cen
sus enumerators must be citizens of
the United States; residents of the
supervisors district for which they
wish to be appointed; must be not
less than Is nor more than 20 years
of age; must be physically able to do
the work; must be trustworthy, hon
est and of good habits; must have at
least an ordinary education and must
be able to write plainly and with rea-
sonable rapidity.
Those who can comply with these
requirements are invited to put in
their applications, the there will be at
least $4,000 enumerators' places to be
| filled by the middle of March in pre-
paration for the enumeration begin
ming April 15
Application forms with full instruc-
lions for filling-in, and completed in
formation concerning the test and
the method of appointment, can be
secured by writing Lynn NJ Hays,
supervisor of census for the district
of Vermont, Burlington. All appli-
cations, properly filled-in must be
| filed with the supervisors not later
than January % as any received af-
ter that date cannot be considered.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28

have been placed on an uncertain and
shifting basis as to the payment of
dividends, the direct result has been
to cause the peoples money on de-
post in the savings institutions to
seek new places for investment, and
1t is now going to Oklahoma and out
on the borders, where the rate of
interest is higher and the security
less safe. This in order that suffi-
cient amount may be earned to pay
the per cent dividend and thereby
meet the competition of the trust
companies and the banks which have
a surplus considerably in excess of
the required per cent.
All of which tends to weaken the
high STANDARD of security, which has
surrounded the investment of the
peoples money by the old line OF
savings Institutions Wilmington
Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
Library items of State Interest

At a library meeting in Proctors-
vile, DR.. Thomas, president of Mid
dlebury college said that the time
was coming when the Free Public IL
brary would be considered as neces-
sary a part of any community as the
postoffice, the school house, grocery
store, or even the millinery shop.
Private libraries he defined as out of
reach of the man of average means.
But every man, according to DR.. Tho
mas, should be able to find in his
town library a book which will help
him to undertake in scientific way
the new enterprise he may be con-
templating. In the manufacturing
towns there should be books for me
chanics and artisans, in the rural
town there should be books for far
mers Dr. Thomas said that when
he was boy his father gave him 10
swarms of bees and the best book
then published on the care of bees.
| By studying this book so that he
knew it from cover to cover and by
diligently following its advise, he
obtained honey enough to pay most
of his expenses through college. One
winter he shipped a ton of honey to
Chicago.
Our town libraries should furnish
every boy an opportunity for a like
Accomplishment in his chosen work.
The public library in Springfield,
Vermont has just published a list of
Christmas reading for its friends and
patrons. The list contains fifty-eight
Titles classified as Christmas obser-
vance" "Yuletide Stories" Christ
mas in Many Lands" Christmas En-
tertainment for Children" and Xmas
Stories" (juvenile) This is a prac-
teal and happy way for the library to
wish its readers a Merry Christ
mos
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
A Dangerous Experiment

The last legislature passed an act
relating to dividends by Savings
banks, which threatens to have a far
reaching effect.
The act provides that savings
bank or savings institution shall, at
the time of the making of each semi
annual dividend, reserve from the
net profits accumulated during the
six months preceding, not less than
rs of ! per cent of the average
amount of deposits during such per-
iod, as a surplus fund, until such fund
amounts to 10 per cent of the depos-
it's and that savings banks shall not
pay more than IL per cent semi-an-
nually upon its deposits until the &C
cumulated surplus amounts to per
cent of the. deposits after which the
rate may be not to exceed per cent
semi-annually.
The bill was strongly opposed by
one of the Senators from Windham
County. 1t was urged in opposition
that such law would compel bank
desiring to pay a dividend of per
cent annually, to earn its tax to the
state Of ITO of one per cent and
the IA per cent carried to the surplus
fund, or a total amount of 1920 per
cent, aside from it's percentage of
fixed expenses, or, in other words,
any savings bank or savings institu-
tion in order to pay its per cent
dividend must earn 5 per cent or
more
1t is apparent to any observer that
there is conflict now on in this state
between the old and safe repositories
of the peoples earnings, the savings
banks. and the newer institutions, the
trust companies, to which are opened
UNDER the law, other avenues for
earnings. Competition has become
keen. No new savings banks are be.
ing started.
Aside from the fact that the banks
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
SKIN ROUGH AS BARK
Baby Boy Had Intense Itching Humor
Scratched Till Blood Ran.
FOUND A CURE IN CUTICURA

"Our son, two years old, was afflicted
with a rash. After he suffered with the
trouble several weeks took him to the
doctor but it got worse. The rash ran
together and made large blisters. The
little fellow didn't want to do anything
but scratch and we had to wrap his hands
up to keep him from tearing the flesh
OPEN till the blood would run. The
itching was intense. The skin on his
bark Of a tree. He suffered intensely for
about three months. But l found
remedy in Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment. The result was almost magi-
cal That was more than two years ago
and there has not been the slightest
symptom Of it since he was cured. j. w.
Lauck, Yukon, Okla, Aug. % and Sept.
II, 1905"
Potter Drug Chem. Corp Sole Props. Boston.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
c. v. SUED FOR $4,000
Brattleboro Man Claims That Amount
For Relatives of Late j. F. Smith

Brattleboro, Dec. 2S-Suit has
been entered by John T. Moynihan of
Brattleboro, administrator of the es-
tate of the late John F. Smith of
Brattleboro, against the Central Yer
mont railroad for 100000
Service of the papers was accept
ed by c. w. Writers attorney for the
railroad. The suit is brought to re-
cover damages for the death of John
F. Smith, employed as conductor by
the railroad at Townshend on Febru-
airy % last. Smith was in charge OF
a freight train, and while moving cars
by the process known as stalking
along a short siding near the Town
shend depot in some manner he was
caught between the engine and car,
death being almost instantaneous.
The bill against the railroad construc-
ton and other allegations on the part
of the railroad and its employees are
also made.
The plaintiff says that he was APP
pointed administrator of the estate
of Smith on May % and declares
that the suit is being sought for the
benefit of those next of kin to John f.
Smith, a brother, Charles F. Smith,
and sister, Mrs. May Blanche Reed.
both of Brattleboro.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28

Our chef says Gold Medal Flour only
VEROMICA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28

Valley railroad up to the time the
road was sold and reorganized under
the name of the White River railroad
covering the period from 1901 to 1902
on the gross earnings and the annual
tax from 1901 to 1904. A hearing on
this question was held in New York
City last fall, at which Attorney-Gen-
eral Sargent appeared for the state.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
FRANK E. HOWE. Editor and Pub
DIRTY DAIRY PRODUCTS

The discovery by the Massachu-
sets health authorities that half the
milk from Vermont marketed in Bos-
ton is either impure or below stand
ard should surprise nobody. Any
one who has taken an interest in
matters of this kind has known it
for years, yet when an effort toward
Improvement is made what wall
goes up about interfering with pri-
vate rights.
Only last spring when a new law
went into effect designed to enable
cities and villages to compel pure
milk supply one would have thought
that great injustice was being done,
| II one judged by the grumbling in
some quarters. In Bennington the
law was lived up to strictly and as a
result we are getting pure, high grade
milk in this town, but the Banner is
informed that in many towns little
effort has been made to enforce the
law and milk that ought to be con-
demned is being sold every day. 1t
has cost the Bennington dealers con-
siderable money to fix up their stables.
to let in the light, air and sunshine
and to insure cleanliness of handling.
but it has been a permanent invest
ment for them and we doubt If one
of them would go back to the old I'M
clean method if he could.
Similarly good conditions in pro-
dusing dairy products would be un-
doubtedly profitable to all Vermont
farmers but many of them will not
introduce the conditions unless com.
PEELED to by some competent authori-
ty. This refusal of a market for I'M
clean milk outside the state may be a
step that will eventually produce
good results.
Only the other day State Cattle
Commissioner Davis wiped out a
herd of 80 valuable cows up in Chit
tenden county, where the disease was
undoubtedly due, at least to a large
extent, to stable conditions. The
stable was close. dirty and absolute
ly dark No light or pure air could
penetrate and disease spreads rapid
ly under such conditions.
How many of us would want to eat
bread mixed in barn cellar or even
where the -four barrel was kept in a
place where it could catch the dust
from a stable or shed? Yet that is
what many people are doing in the
matter of butter and milk-not SO
much in Bennington, where better
conditions have been introduced, bnt
in many parts of the state.
Inspection of all diaries and en-
forcement of rules compelling clean
illness and promoting purity under
state authority, would be radical
step and might easily be overdone
and carried to unreasonable ex-
tremes but if done by sensible men
on a fair basis wouldn't it raise the
standard of quality and price for Yer
mont dairy products shipped out of
the state to a degree that would
make the investment a good one for
the state and for the farmers who are
most interested?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28

The state of Vermont ought to
have some emergency arrangement
to meet unforeseen exigencies like the
fire in the state hospital last week.
Had the fire been much more serious
it might have been necessary to call
a special session of the legislature
which would be silly performance
from a business point of view as 1t
would in itself have been as expen-
.sive as a fire of considerable proper
lions. We do not know how these
things are provided for in other
states, but doubt not that some of the
states have found some reasonable
business like method of meeting
emergencies of this character.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-28
The LAW ALLOWS A WIDOW

one-third after delay and cost of adj
ministration Life insurance gives
her all without delay or expense.
Goth year. National Life Insurance
Company, Montpelier, VT (MutualD
Earle S. Kinsley, Agent, Rutland, VT.
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06
|NNOKO NEWS NOT EXCITING
Iditarod the River on Which Strike Was Made-A
 Steamboat to Ascend It With Supplies.

various shapes and sounds from frequent repetition. The Iditarod enters the In noko on the left limit above the first village, not exceeding fifty miles from the mouth. By trail from Diskakit it is only fifty miles to the river, but it could not be learned how much further it is to the scene of the strike. Winter travel to the new diggings will undoubtedly be by way of Diskakit. Report was that pay had been located 300 feet wide and 3 feet deep that went as good as cents to the pan; but people on the Glow all agreed that authentic information was absolutely lacking A good many had gone in from the Innoko.
 At the time the Glow left Diskakit Captain Albright was fitting up a little steamer with the intention of taking it up the Iditarod loaded with supplies It will contain the machinery formerly used in the All Nations.
 On the upper Innoko, above steam boat navigation, freight is principally carried in scows lowed by horses that keep to the riverbed.
 The Glow had to turn back 1O5 miles from Ophir. She unloaded at a new and unnamed landing. She expects to start in from Fairbanks again about July F.
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06
NOTED CHURCHMAN
 VISITING MISSIONS

Rt Rev. P. T. Rowe, Episcopal bishop, who is visiting various interior missions, arrived at Panama early last Thursday morning. From Fort Yukon he was accompanied by Missionary Doc tor Burke, and at Circle they were met by Archdeacon Stuck and conveyed the balance of the way in the missionary launch Pelican.
 At the Mission of Our Savior on Fri day the bishop confirmed fourteen na- tives, including three Kobuks, the first KObuks ever confirmed.
 Besides the Yukon river missions, Bishop Rowe's itinerary includes Point Hope on the Arctic coast. He left Tanana in the Pelican last Saturday, accompanied by Archdeacon Stuck, who will return from Anvik
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06

The steamer Martha Glow came in on her second return trip from the Innoko last Friday morning. She had several passengers, none of whom are leaving the country for good. Max Nelson, G. J. Greenbergen and Captain Decker stopped off at Kaltag. George Butler, Thomas McMahn and Mir. Vallie went through to Fairbanks. Jack Package and Bert Johnson got off at Panama. Dave Edwards also stopped here to take passage for the outside.
 The last-named has traded along the Yukon for several seasons. He took goods to the Innoko on the Clovis first trip. He will go in again by way of St. Michael.
 George Butler bought property and will return.
 There was no news of extraordinary import reported from the Glow. It was said that everybody in the country ap- peared to have dust and no complaint was heard.
 The river on which the new strike was made last winter and reported this spring is the Iditarod. Purser Finger of the Glow declared this to be correct, notwithstanding the name had taken
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06

Late arrivals from Grant creek report that the men on i above are now in shape to handle the tailings to better advantage and are taking out little money.
 Deputy Marshal Irons, who arrived from Fairbanks last Monday night on his way to Circle, summoning grand and trial jurors and performing other duters pertaining to the session of the district court en route, failed to connect with an up-river steamer and did not get away until the departure of the Campbell Saturday evening. The delay may cause some of the jurors to fail to reach Fairbanks at the time set-Julv l2 for grand jurors and the 26th for trial jurors.
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06
Increased Gold Supply and It's Ef-
 feet on Industry.

The advocates of the theory that radi- cally increased gold supplies must lead to high prices for commodities and for the common stocks of concerns owning commodities,- to frequent panics and abrupt recoveries,-are pointing to the present industrial and financial sit uation as carrying out, to the letter, the program they have conceived. In truth, the figures of gold production and accu- mutation just presented by the bureau of statistics in Washington are startling enough. In the past twenty-five years the world has mined nearly $6, ,OOO, ,OOO, ,OOO worth of gold; in the entire period from the discovery of America to 1883 the gold production of the world was only $7 ,0OO, 100000 Furthermore, the last ten years have brought $3, 400, ,OOO, 900 oi the precious metal ,-nearly halfas much as was mined in the 392 years from the landing of Columbus to 1883. The stock of gold money in the United States has increased in only ten years from $925,- OOO,OOO to $l ,6l3, ,OOO, ,OOO, or 75 per cent, and about the same rate of increase as is shown ill the worlds total production for the last decade. We have 60 per cent. more gold than Germany, our nearest competitor; 70 per cent. more than France or Russia, and three times as much as the United Kingdom.-Re- view of Revsews.
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06

Victor Eckengreen was brought down from his trading post and jailed by Dep uty Marshal George Vautier and Special Deputy James Gallaher June 29. He is charged with furnishing liquor to h. dians some time in the winter of l9O7- 'OS, and Archdeacon Stuck, the Episco- pal missionary, is the complainant.
 The time of the alleged offense being before the new law was passed, the case IS under the jurisdiction of the United States commissioner. In order to give the accused opportunity to con- fer with attorneys at Fairbanks, Judge Gallaher set the trial for July and fixed the bond at $l 900, which has not.
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06
VICTOR ACCUSED or SELLING LIQUOR

been made. Lawyers being occupied by district court business at Fairbanks, it is probable that MT. Eckengreen will not be able to secure the attendance of an attorney.
 Sammy Roberts, head man of Six mile village, and five other natives are here as witnesses.
 Victor's is near the mouth of Beaver river on the south and the Hosiana on the north side of the Yukon. It is a point touched by prospectors leaving the big river in either direction and is a stopping place for boatmen in long stretch practically unpeopled. Ecken- green has maintained woodward there for many years.
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06
Natives From KuSkokWim.

Twenty beaver skins and a few miscella. neous furs were brought to Panama from the head of the kuskokwim last Wednesday by Indians John, William and John. Some of their women folk are with them doing their spring shopping. They came down the Panama and will remain in town two or three days longer.
Yukon Valley news., 1909-07-06
POISONOUS INSECT
 MADE 4 BAD WOUND

c. A. Brown, the farmer at the Char ley Smith homestead, was last week stung by black bug of unknown spe- cies and the wound developed such dan gerous symptoms that he consulted the post doctor.
 The wound was in the hand. The pain was sharp from the first, and with in twenty -four hours the hand was badly swollen and turning black around the injured part. It is now getting we'll.
 Instances are very rare of persons be- ing bitten by poisonous insects in this country.
 The name of the Dutch princess born April 30 was in one of the heavy through mails received by Postmaster Tiffany last week. It is Juliana Louisa Emma Maria Wilhemina.