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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03
.~ASHINGTON. Jan. 2.
have OBJ
served that there's
the same old talk

horde OF oficeseekers who
will be swooping upon Washington when Mr..
Taft takes up the reins of government, said
an old-time capitol Official. tits hard to
down impressions of this sort.
"As a matter of fact the ofhceseeker as
a type is as extinct in Washington as the
dodo. Not only is Washington not swooped
upon with ofhceseekers even at the outset
OF a new administration any more. but the
present generation of Washingtonians
hardly know what the old-time type Of office
seeker in Washington looked like.
"oficeseekers used to swarm here by the
thousands and go dead broke while waiting
for the once that never came and camp out
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03
home towns to acknowledge that
their big imaginary claims upon
the party hadn't been recognized.

jogging about the country. you'll hear.
too, stun about the hordes OF crazy or
crooked folks who have claims before the
congress. There's nothing whatever of that
sort any more.
"a quarter OF a century ago there were
a good many of these plausible people with
more or less chimerical claims before the
congress. Some of them were quite noted
characters. usually Of rather a pitiable type.
but many OF them, including most OF the
women OF the lot, were grafters and cheerful
worke OF the most pronounced description.
These people used TO prey for years
at a stretch upon trustful hotel and board
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
Estate of Alans IN Wilccx.
STATE OF VERMONT,

STATE OF VERMONT, The Honor
- District of Bennington, IS. able Probate
Court for the District of Bennington.
To all persons Interest ed in the e tate of Alan
son Wilcox, late of Ben In ton a said District,
deceased, GREETING:
At u Probate Court. holden ut Bennington
within and for said District on the 9th day OF
September, 1909 an instrument purportlng to be
the last VIII and Testament of Aanson Wilcox,
late of Bennington in said district, deceased. was
presented to the Court aforesaid, for Probate,
And il ia ordered 10y said Court that the 2lst
day of October. 1909, at the Probate Office In
said Bennington, be assigned for proving said
instrument; and that notice thereof be given
to all persons concerned, by publishing this
order three weeks successfully In the Benning
ton Evening Banner, IA newspaper circulating
in that vicinity, In said District previous to the
time appointed.
THEREFORE,. you are hereby notified 20 APP
pear before said Court, at the time and place
aforesaid and contest the probate Of said will,
ii you have cause
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND at bennington In
said District, this eth day of September, 1903
GRACE Is. HOLT Register
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

James II. Whitney spent Monday in
Albany on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hanley are
spending the week with relatives in
Troy
Ryan and O'Connor announces their
opening of fall and winter hats Thurs.
day, Oct. Z.
Showing of pattern hats at A. No
lan's Millinery Parlors Thursday, Oct
I. Cordial invitation is extended to
all site
Jacob Levin is in New York for a
few days. Later he will visit Boston,
being absent from town about 10
days.
S. r. Kramer, trainmaster, and F.
A. Proctor, travelling freight agent Of
the Rutland railroad, were In town
Monday,
Mrs. A. o. Cummins of Montpelier
who has been visiting her daughter
Mrs Frank Il. Howe for two weeks
went today to Boston.
Mrs Clarence Holden who recently
underwent an operation at ST Peters
hospital in Albany, is recovering and
expects to be home in few days
William Mcdonald, golf profession
al for the Mt Anthony Country club
went today to Troy to enter the Sam
aritan hospital where he will be oper-
ated on tomorrow for appendicitis.
Mrs. w. A. Austin. Misses jeanette
Perkins, Beulah Bates, Gladys Bot.
tum Olive Pope and Mildred Farnum
are in Middlebury attending the state
convention of the Christian Endeavor
societies.
Mason Bros. of Pawlet will be at
the farm of Robert Gardner in the
south part of the town Friday even
ing, October g. They will have with
them over a hundred head of cattle
, for sale.
The advance sale Of reserved seat
tickets for "A Gentleman From Miss
issippi" will start at the box office
, tonight at Z o'clock. This play will
be the greatest comedy sketch seen
here this season.
A(bi IOi6Cb AnC iuitii supper q w
be given at the home of Mrs. William
Graves Friday, October 8, from to
1880. Tickets are soc and that
amount includes transportation to and
from the house. Conveyances will be
found at the Baptist church corner
The Bennington Sanitary Laundry
is now prepared to do family washing
of all kinds. Call us up on the tele.
phone and get our prices or what is
better step in and see how the work
is done and talk it over. Remember
we guarantee satisfaction in every re-
spect. j. II. Powers. site
The condition of Mrs. Clement II
Cone who is seriously i'll at the Sam
aritan hospital, Troy, remains about
the same. 1t is a remarkable testi
monial to the esteem in which Mrs
Cone is held to note the number of in
quiries that come to the Banner ofIic,
for news as to her condition Thes,
inquiries come not only from Ben
nington but from all the surrounding
towns. from rich and poor, black an,
white, and all earnestly solicitous 70
her welfare.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
The Mission

OF those corpuscIes In your blood
that have been called Little
Soldiers" Is to fight for you
against the disease germs that
constantly endanger your health.
These corpus are made
healthy and strong by the use OF
Hoods SarsapaTiila.
This medicine is a combination OF
more than 20 different remedial agents
in proportions and by process known
only to ourselves and it has for thirty
years been constantly proving its worth.
No substitute, none "iust-as-good."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
PETITION FOR DIVORCE.
STATE OF VERMONT.
Ethel 5. Loveland Bennington County,
VS.. December Term,
Moves A IoVplaud | 1919


Moves A. Loyeland. 1903.
WHEREAS, ON the LIST day Of October, A. d.
1873, Ethel 5. Loveland of Bennington. in the
County of Bennington aforesaid, duly filed in
the office of the Clerk of the County Court
within and for the County Of Bennington
petition for divorce against Noyes A. Love
land who now resides IN parts unknown to the
petitioner without this State.
Alleging us the causes for said divorce that
the petitiUnee hath at divers times treated the
petitioner with intoerable severity that being
of sufficient pecuniarY and physical ability to
provide suitable maintenance for petitioner,
without cause, grossly. wantonly and cruelty
refused and neglected so to do; and that on or
about the LIST day of September, 1906, the said
NOyes 4. LOVeland wilfully deserted the said
petitioner and has continued such desertion
from thence hitherto, for more than three
consecutive years.
And praying that for the causes above set
forth Bill of Divorce may be granted unto
the said petitioner; that the care, control, edu-
cation and maintenance of the minor child
mentioned in petition may be decreed to peti-
toner during she minority of the child.
NOW THEREFORE,, the said Noyes A. Love
land is hereby and by the publication or this
order in the Bennington Evening Banner, in
compliance. with the laws OF this State, NOT1-
FLED AND REQUIRED To appear before the
Honorable the County Court al the next stated
term thereof to be held at bennington within
and for the County of Bennington aforesaid,
on the first Tuesday in December, A. ID. 1909,
on the first day of said term. then and there in
said Court 10 make answer TO said petition for
divorce and to stan to and abide such order.
Judgment All decree thereon as 20 said Court
shall seem meet, the premises considered.
Dated at Bennington in the County of Ben
nington, tn LIST day of October A. d. 1893.
JACOB J. SHAKSHOBER, e
Clerk.
c. A. MAURER. bennington, Vt,
attorney for Petitioner.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
QUEEN COMES, MIssELkINs GOES
The Rumor is That She Met the Duke
Of Abruzzl at Bad Gastein.

Paris, Oct. Airs. Stephen b.
Elkins, with her two sons and daugh-
ter, Katherine, have sailed from Cher
bourg on the White Star line steamer
Adriatic for New York. They LETT
quietly and their names do not APP
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

EOR SALF-The Durham Burt property on
Gandvew street. A ten room house
with bath room and pantry in addition. Large
lot, SOxI65, good garden, Il 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, 1909-10-05

DOR stLE-Specal bargain for thirty DAYS
e On electric road two and one-half miles
from Remington two acres Of good level land,
a good two-story seven-room house, painted
barn l4x2a in good repair, nice hen house: %
walk from the electric road Good stream OF
water flows through the land. Price 500
Nash 4 Hutchins. sltt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
WANTED

MTATED-At once reliable representatives
w in this vicinity to look after renewals
and new subscriptions, part or whole time flor
the fastest growing magazine in America. Lab
erhl salary and commissions. Live men and
women make SIS to $50 per month Appoint
ments now being made. Write Immediately
to Director of Circulation, Hamptons Maga-
zine, Go West 18th ST., New York city. 1StG
AN'EED-Three or four carpenters to
w begin work ut once Apply Waiter L
Durham. Tel. 1918. s6tG
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

MA -TED-Young men To learn automobile
tons rs chaffeurs and repair men. We make
you expert in ten weeks; assist you to secure
position. Pay big; work pleasant; demand
for men great reasonable; write for particu+
lars and sample lesson. Empire Automobile
Institute. Rochester n. Y. 13tl2
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

TOR SALE-At great sacrifice if taken
II in the next ten days, the Thos. Mangan
property head of Washington st. Property con
sists of nearly new 10 room house 22X32, ell TX
1s finished in natural wood; piazza ON side and
water supply: barn 3OX35 with stalls; size of
lot l30x1S5-this viii give purchaser two extra
building lots. Good neighborhood. five min
utes from post Office. Price on application.
Nash s. Hutchins este.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

(NAN YOU BEAT THIS p Farm of s. acres
~ 60 acres tillable land, 25 acres pasture and
wood lot: good ll-room house; one barn 3OX25
one barn 6Ox25; extra house on place that would
make good tenement; new hen house l5x2O
builb last year; corn house and hog house
With this goes acres of oats, 4 acres corn, 2
acres potatoes, ~ tons hay, acres buclfwheat
mich cows horse rake, | moving machine
Water supply good at house and pasture. All
for $500 cash. All located miles from SO.
Shaftbury X. X. station. Nash u Hutchins.
7ltf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE

4 YVMNI
~ Estate Of TIMOTHY COLLINS.
The undersigned having been appointed by
the Hon. Proba Court for the District Of Ben
ingtDn, MISSIONERS. - eceive, exam
Inc ana adjust the claims an II, mandS of all
persons against the estate vi Timothy Collins
late 81 SALISBURY insad District deceaS. d,
and all claims exhibited In OfS, tnercto hereby
give notice that we VIII meet for the
purpose aforesaid AT the residence OF Clayton
Reed i'm the town Of SALISBURY In said Dis
trict, on the Goth lay OF Novcml o. next,
from o'clock p. NJ, until 4 o'clock
p NJ. on said day, and that six months from
the Goth day qf September, a, ID. 1909,
Is the time lirglted bv said Court for
said creditors TO present thel- slams TO US 70
elimination and allowance.
Dated at SALISBURY VI, this Goth day of
September, A. d.. 1893.
j. u. NILES.
CLAYTON REED,
Commissioners.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
! Q nnar nm the nassenper list.

pear on the passenger list.
In spite of denials the statement IS
reiterated that Miss Elkins and her
mother recently went to Bad Gasteln'
where they saw the Duke of the
AbruZzi.
Dowager Queen Margarita of Italy
has arrived here, travelling incognito.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

E,OR SALE-Screw-cutting lathe IA" swing.
L s. bed; Skinner independent chuck, IT.
diam, jaws, new; | r. 3 jawed chuck emery
wheel stand with g. wheels, one coarse. one
fine; ~ h. p. Fairbanks gasoline engine in
fine shape. with shafting, pulleys and betting.
G. Eugene stevens, 32 Elm Street. 73t6*
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05
LOST

T.. JND-A Scotch collie. Color dark brown
with black back. light underneath. own
or can have same by calling ON Frank Fleming
gS Il. Main ST.. Bennington, Vt. and paying
for this advertisement n
| OST-Wil the ytu1g man who found
' i pair of rmlpss glasses in the driveway ut
j. n. Whites, No. Ill Valentine St, return
them to Arch Camp, 2l5 Grove st. sltl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

TABITHA:
are excellent oAhAHTHA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

rVFAMS WANTED-We will hire a number
Il of good rugged teams for logging .opera-
tiOns close To Sunderland, VI. Good roads :
steady work. and prompt cash assured. Apply
n person or by letter 10 The Bruon CoOpernge
CO., Manchester. VI 09t2l
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

TITAST- D-Agents. travelling tho canvas
w sing and local, male and female salary
and commission. Rex, Box NJ. Banner Office.
75tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

UNOR sALE--New mileh COW, 8 years old.
Il f. Wheeler Rice. Phone 1879. 73t6f
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

AZ ANTED-Agentsm men. women. boys or
w girls TO eel Perry and Cook NOrth Pole
Souvenirs to dealers. Big profits. Send lOc
for dozen samples. sun Print, Prov, IL. |.
77t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-05

TO REN Pleasant tenement. second floor,
L on East Main street. cent raj location. Al
80 desirable tenement second floor. ON Pleasant
st. Mrs. w. II. Walker, 206 Pleasant 81. soft
o Tenement ON So. Branch st
Possession given Immediately. Enquire
of Mrs Is. q. Slade. e0t3
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-01
No Timber Famine

X. s. Kellogg lin a publication just is
sued 10y the government Forest Service
on The Timber Supply of the United
States, lays stress on the rate at which
trees are cut down by man and destroyed
by storms and insects.
The total annual drain Oh the forestry
resources Of the country he estimates
at twenty billion cubic feet. which GER
tainly is Il large figure. But facts like
this become more impressive 10y COM
larison Mr. Kellogg asserts that the
annual growth nf American forests does
not exceed twelve cubic feet per acre,
q total of seven billion cubic feet. 50 that
the rate Of use and waste is three times
as great "a the rate Of increase. lie adds
that we take two hundred and fifty cubic
feet of wood per capita annually from
cur forests. while Germany uses only
thrty-Seven cubic feet, and France but
twenty-five On the other hand. Ger
many. which has learned her lesson.
makes her state forests produce an aver
age of forty-eight cubic feet of wood
per acre.
This is one side Of the forestry prob
lem tut there is another. In regions OF
virgin forest such as We're numerous IA
Wisconsin i'm former times and such as
now exist on the Pacific slope. getting
rid Of some Of the trees makes the coun-
try better adapted 20 serve as hablta-
ton fog man. The wasting of the ear.a
hy he clttin- down of forests exists
largely I'D the una nation Gt alarmlS. :.
Where cultivation Of the soil follows the
cutting of trees the earth is not wasted.
mar is any injurious effect ON climate pro-
,iuced y field Of corn holds the moist
ure after rainstorm aS effectively as
would the same area devoted 10 trees.
The United States Is already going
into forestry. and some Of the states as
well as numerous corporations and indl-
viduais are giving consideration to the
subject 1t il we'll that the problems Of
the future regarding the timber supply
should he faced in ample season. Ii is
well that the law and public opin-
ion and custom should guard against
reckless waste. but il is not well To be
too seriously alarmed. The invention an
nounced from Chicago the other day for
the cheap diStilariun IF alcohol from
sawdust viii, if it works. operate 10 save
| the forests rs well as the coal mines by
providing a fuel in many ways superior
/ IN NyoDI az coal
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-01
BIG CAVES IN LAVA BEDS.
Interesting Discoveries II z Land Of Tx
tlnct Volcanoes.

The Modes lava beds la California
near the Klamath county Iine long d
place ii historic a. wei as scenic inter-
est AaEe grown more prominent lately
frssEE reason Of new discoveries. eSafe.ial-
F as 70 the cares, of which there are s.
great many in this region. all among
Lava beds Of the raggf-1est description
a one traTerees TuIu lake. the south
arn margin If which rests 0n the Iara
field. about forty extinct Fo4cal8p> esln
he counted ia the region of tt4e lake.
Aamy Of fhese are weathere1 ard aa-
ejeat. covered with shrubs and trees, and
others are absolutely bare and THE rea-
dish lava asout their lrate-S has q nloa-
ern look
Following the lana flows frpm these
cinder cones are vast creYlces and
erinkled ridges If lava and caves Of
great extent and of various forms A
man who lives in this region and who
has spent thirty years as q coW boy.
claims 70 have discovered a cave many
miles in extent which lie calls tie Nam
moth cave Of California. and steps are
being taken 10 make a thorough explora-
ton Of its vast subterranean reeeSses.
party Of three persons from klam-
aIh Fails has iust returned from four
days outing ia the lava beds and re-
ports a most interesting outing ia that
land IF dead volcanoes
Several new caves We're discovered by
the party one Of which j. some 200
feet in length. 80 feet in width aud with
/ 81 level ceiling - feet above tile floor.
] The most important discovery made by
/ the party, however. was of two-StoTg
cave. which is indeed one IF the world ;
n1aryels 4 hole was found some 10 feet
/ in width ia the bottom of large cave.
/ A lantern was lowered Oh rope until
| il was evident that there was another
/ floor with a surrounding cavity some -
or 30 feet below
A small pine tree was cut. Invested OF
1 its limbs and brought into the cave.
/ This wae lowered until il touched rht
lower floor and by it the party descended
/ to a great corridor 30 or 40 feet wide
extending apparently parallel with the
corridor above ia both directions from
/ the point IF descent The corridor il
not less than 800 feet In extent and j.
INSTRUCTED at the ends by loose material
/ fallen from above No thermometer was
at hand TO determine the temperature
/ but it is cold enough to contrast greatly
! with the degree above ground. and icicles
/ :; or q feet i'm length descend from the
| ceiling in many places.-Klamath Falle
! Cor. Of the Portland 0regonian
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-01
TEEoRs WHILE YoU Wat
Iadu.try that Has Thriven 81,

Industry That Has Thriven SIM
Jean De ResEke Cave LII starr
The corner stone Of opera is INA "a.
or. and tenors are scarcer than foga
leaf elovers Comic operas are r-v
written with baritone heroes for -1s-
reason, the Brooklyn Eagle SAYS mas
the great operas we're written zrz-
the disappearance Of the tenor had Do+
been dreamed Of. and tenors ngsr ~
had to sing in them; else no opera
Hence a tenor voice Is q sursr ana
often a larger source OF income man
q gold mine. Opera managers 70 m
and down the world listening 10 cah-
men, truck drivers. old clio ven6--z
and the singers of popular songs IA
the cheap resorts, in the hope Of hea--
ing voice that can be deye.oped into
an operate tenor For heretofore -en-
ors. like the poets, have been born and
not made The managers best chance
was 70 find such voice before MS RI
walls and pay for its education
But Jean De Reszke changed Al
that He sang for years as a not -
pecially conspicuous baritone il FL
rope He was p good enough ar-ss-
but nobody thought OF calling hin
great Then Paris teacher. adding
two or three notes 10 the top Of MS
voice, in few months transformed
De Reszke from . singer at s., 500
month to one drawing 2,500 night.
Since his transformation the uug!-
cal world has dreamed Of raising bar
itones into tenors as the slchen!s-s
dreamed OF transmitting lead 70 1old
And now a New York teacher has done
the trick. Rudolf Berger, who has
long been one OF the baritones O. he
Berlin opera, was the subject Of the
experiment On Tuesday night ne e
appeared in Berlin, after a years
study here, as a tenor and sang 10
hengrin, with what the cable reports
to be great success. The audience Is
said 10 have gone wild over the sue
cess of the singer and his teacher. and
no wonder. If that could be done
F, with other baritones the problem Of
an opera for every city would Re
solved Probably 1t cannot. more than
once or twice in q generation, bur that
viii not prevent a lot d ambitious
/ teachers from trying ii. Presently We
shall see advertisements, 'Tenors
made in the of season, as We now see
! the signs of the emergency tailors 1t
is q great idea-if IL viii work
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-01
MUsKALoNGE, MAsQUELoNGE.
Fishermen Poor in 0rthography as Wei
as Mathematics.

From the time Of Izaak Walton, pa
iron saint Of ali true fishermen, the tax
ers Of fish with rod and line have been
VIGOROUSLY poor in photography. The ge-
NAL lZaak himself, as witness the spell
ing of his Hebraic pro-nomen. was weak
even in the spelling of his own name 1t
has almost come to be a proverb that the
better the fisherman the poorer the spell
/ er. Why this should be is difficult to ex-
plain, for surely fishes, in the compost
ton ol which scientists have discovered
large quantities Of phosphorus, a specific
brain strengthened, should irnpart the
properties Of this element TO those who
eat them, and, surely, fishermen are
great fish eaters. There is evidence of
this each recurring summer. for the fish
ermen who catch the most fish, or give
out that they do, bring fewest of them
home.
But it is the spelling Of the fisherman
| that is most seriously in question. When
| the Canadian yoyageurS first made ac-
quaintance with the great American pike
of the north because of its long mask or
/ face they named it the masquelonge.
which is good French for long mask, a
name entirely appropriate To this fish
| The naming of the fish, not the spelling
thereof did not stop at that. Fishermen
Of all degrees fiocked to the waters
| where this fish abounded and began TO
/ call ii hard names. Some of them even
| sought to spell the name of the fish and
| the diversity in nomenclature soon RI
vailed and then exceeded the different
/ spellings Of the word Shakespeare and
| the word scimeter, which had long held
| first place in photographic Kaleidoscope.
paled in its Intellectual fires These fish
| ermen began to spell it maskalionge.
maskinouge, muskallonge, muskellonge
and muskelunjah, and Mr.. Webster in
/ his dictionary has even gone so far as TO
give the word as muskellunge, with the
explanation. which but adds insult to
Injury. that the word is of Indian origin.
t The word is so evidently Of French orr
| gin that discussion is unnecessary.
/ These, however, are but few of the
speIlings. The fisherman who is now
/ writing from the lakes of the north to
/ his friends here at home is furnishing a
variety of new spellings. indianapolis
! Ms