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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-22
Daugherty Announces Candidacy.

Washington, Dec, 22. - The sena,
torial campaign within the Republi
can ranks In Ohio TO elect a success
sor TO Senator Charles Dick, already
much involved. was still further com
plicated by the announcement of the
candidacy OF Harry NJ Daugherty of
Columbus, who has been In Washing.
ton for several days. in close confer.
ence with Senator Theodore Burton.
Mr., Daugherty Joined forces with Mr..
Burton when the latter was mem
Der OF congress on fight against
Senators Foraker and Dick at the
Dayton convention In 1906. Senator
Burton Is believed to be friendly to
the Daugherty boom.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-22
BUCKEYE BRIEFS
Items Of interest to People In All
Parts Of Ohio.

Dayton, o., Dec. 22.-The dead body
of an unknown, supposed to be C.
Hayes, was found hanging from a
limb Of tree, near this city. 1t was
frozen stiff and evidently had been
hanging "a hours.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-22
TWO MESSAGES
!. ARE IN SIGHT
ITyT
Will Be Presented After
Holiday Recess.
TAFT CHANGES OPINIONS

No Longer Believes That Trusts
Should Be Sorted Into Classes Ae.
cordirs to Degree Of Badness-Also
Thinks Labor Organizations Should
Not Be Exempt From Operations
! Of Antitrust Law-stlll Stands For
/ Conservation OF Resources.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
NORTH BENNINGTON

Miss Prutia Weir leaves today to
spent Sunday at her home in Rutland
Miss Agnes l.. Green is visiting
Miss Mary OHanlon in Springfield,
IT,
Mrs. Hawley c. White is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Arthur II. Cush-
nan at Bayside. L. l.
Mr. and Mrs. William Shanahan
have started housekeeping in Benning
on where Mr. Shanahan has work.
Monday, February 8, the Fish and
Zane club dance. Fine music and a
good time as usual. Don't forget the
night.
Walter Mattison returned yesterday
from New York where he has been in
he interest of the II. T. Cushman Mfg
company.
Services in the Congregational
church as usual Sunday Morning ser
vice at 1O;45 Sunday school hour at
u m. c. L. at 6;15 D. m, and evening
service at Z p. m.
The first of the new series of sub
scription dances was held last night
in Bank hall Although stormy
aight there was good attendance and
all had a jolly good time.
AT The Baptist church services on
Sunday as usual. Morning service at
II a. m, and Sunday school immedi-
ately following Young Peoples meet
ing at 6 p. m, evening service at I
p m.
Don't forget the first annual fair
Of the military band in Bank hall Feb.
10, II, and To- Good entertainment
every night Wednesday night a con
cert by the Bennington city band So
los by Claiming Fletcher, baritone,
duet, soprano and alto, selected. So
los by John Frazier. tenor; Thursday
night, concert by North Bennington
military band; Rise of the Butcher
Boy" quartette. Illuminated club
swinging by II. c. Munroe, physical
directors duet. Catherine and Char.
lie Friday night an all night dance.
Musical entertainment, drawing Of pri
yes; supper from to s and ii to I.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
AN ANCIENT RACE DYING OUT.
Vsddahs Of cylon Regarded as Rep
rssenting the stone Age.

The Oldest inhabitants Of Ceylon are
passing away. These are the famous
Veddahs.
Fifty years ago Il was estimated
that 5000 Of them were still living in
the forests. but Dr. Max Moszkowski.
who has recently visited them, says
there are only so or so Of them still
alive and that few more years will
see the end Of their race.
The Veddahs have interested an
thropOlogists because they have been
regarded as-the best living types Of
the man of the stone age.
The attitude of the Cingalese toward
them is remarkable. They hold the
poor creatures in great honor and rank
them as belonging to the highest caste
in the island. The reason is that they
are reputed to have descended from
the ancient demons or spirits that
were the original possessors Of the
island
These nomad, hunting people, never
leaving their forests, living under
trees and in caves, without knowl-
edge of pottery or any other art ex-
cept that Of making bows and arrows,
are perishing because of their way of
living and of their inability to stand
up when stronger folk are pressing
closer around them. They are exact
ly what they were centuries ago when
PEOPLE of India came and conquered
their green island.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
HE HAD TIE FAMILY FAILING.
Humorous Apology Made by Pompous
Old Colored Butler

A relative of Thomas Nelson Page
who resides in the south. has in his
employ an old family butler who goes
by the name Of "Ebe," short for Eben.
ezer. Ebe is very pompous "cul
uhed gemmun," intensely proud of de
family and cumulative of his master.
de cuhnel.' in every possible in
stance
A few days ago there was a big
Inner up at de house" and in the
colonels absence Ebe took advantage
Of the occasion to get gloriously in
toXicated ard was unable to attend
to his duties for a day or two. A
daughter of the household undertook
70 reprove the old man, who expressed
great repentance, promised reform,
and, finally, when he saw how seri-
ously his oIense was taken, ended
with:
Now, Miss Lucy, doan' yo' be too
hahd on his Oakley. Al knows ali
oughtn't tub drink dat whiskey when
all dem folks was heah, but den yo'
knows, Miss Lucy, Abs jus lax de
cuhnel; and, Miss Lucy. yo' knows
yo'sef none OBJ us Pages evan could
stan no liQuah,"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
A vERMoNTER's JOB
Is to Revolutionize Penmanship in
Chicago Schools.

Is to Revolutionize Penmanship In
Chicago Schools.
Joseph w. BOWS, superintendent Of
public schools in last Providence, R,
T., who has just received an appoint
ment in Chicago to revolutionize the
penmanship system in that city, is a
Vermonter, born in st. Johnsbury, in
1873. He was graduated from the
Worcester high school and took his
degree from Brown university in 1890.
Prior to entering the Worcester high
he gained his elementary education in
various parts of New England, as his
family moved about considerable
when he was in his teens.
At Wallingford, Conn, he was the
supervising principal OF schools for
six years and two years ago he went
to East Providence to take charge Of
the % school buildings in that town.
Today he is certain that there is no
town in New England that is ahead Of
East Providence on the style of pen
manship that ought to be found in all
of the states on the map of Uncle
Sam.
Mr.. BOWS amonb other accomplish
ments took a post graduate course at
Yale and he is slated for an NJ. A.
there next June. He also has travel
ed in Italy, France and Germany and
studied the style of penmanship in
those and other countries, as well as
throughout the eastern states of this
country.
He expended his income in the
search for more knowledge on the
great question of how best to secure
perfectly easy slant penmanship
hand with legibility and rapidity. 1t
is all largely muscle training, Supt
BOWS declares.
In Chicago there are $50 principals
and MIR. Bows is TO start in on them
to teach the West how to hold the pen
and to write to the best advantage
He says that the teachers must first
be taught and then the pupils,
He has Just obtained from Brown
university in the teachers extension
work a special course in the writing
of English planned after his idea of
the needs of grade teachers. The uni
versity has taken great-interest in
this course and has made it exception
ally valuable because it seems to pres
ent the university value in such form
that the grade schools can directly use
it.
The subject of penmanship was one
of the first matters taken up after Mr.
Bows went to East Providence. II
was changed and adapted to accord
with his ideas of giving a child in FIVE
years rapid legible hand suitable for
composition work in the various
school subjects.
Supt. BOWS declares that there is a
sort of go as you please condition of
instruction in public school penman-
ship all over the country at present,
and that Chicago is the first big city
to take on a uniform kind and style
of writing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
TRICKS OF THE MEDICINE MEN.
Secrets Are Revealed to Them In
Dreams.

A young Indian, who Is ambitious TO
become a doctor. and finally a prophet.
learns from his father or other men,
Der Of his tribe. the name and medi-
cinal properties of some herb says a
writer in The Denver Field and Farm.
He can also. by presenting a sufficient
number Of ponies to a medicine man,
prevail upon the doctor to impart the
secret of the herbs to him. Frequent
ly Indians allege that the secret is
revealed to them IN a dream. or by
bird or an animal. After procuring
it, the novice is prepared to begin the
practice of medicine. Success in their
opinion is only possible with the aid
Of the Great Spirit, and in order to in
woke the help of the supernatural they
resort to various sacrifices.
For instance, there is the practice
Of ascending a butte or other eleva-
ton and lying with the face to the
ground for several days without food
or until they are completely exhaust
ed During this period they profess
to have been taught some song or
the Great Spirit conversed with them
through a bird wild animal or
reptile. They frequently allege that
wolves come to them and howl and
that they understand what the ami
mails say. While treating a patient
they place tobacco in little pouches
which they tie with sinew These are
painted brilliant colors and fastened
to willow sticks about the size of the
shaft of an arrow, but somewhat
longer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06

The great bugbear Of the sickroom
Is monotony This is the problem that
every nurse must meet and study
ways and means TO prevent. She may
do this in several ways. She may
alter the appearance Of the room oc.
casionally by pushing the bed or sofa
10 a different part of the room in or.
der to give the patient a fresh out.
look; the cut flowers may be replaced
by growing plant; old magazines and
books may be removed and new ones
take their place; the pictures may be
changed. especially those that hang at
the foot of the bed, or perhaps a
blank wall may be found TO be restful
to the tired eyes Circle Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
SHARP CRITICISM
OF Some Of The Methods Of Municipal
Business In Burlington.

Burlington, Feb. g. Some rather
sharp criticisms are made by the firm
of Alfred Rose & Co., of New York
which recently audited the accounts of
the city of Burlington. The auditors
report that there has been no improve
ment in the bookkeeping of the street
department and that they are unable
to give a detailed statement as the
distribution of the expenditures is
not reliable.
Relating to the school department
the auditors report:
The cash disbursements were
checked and all vouchers found in
good order and properly approved.
The suggestion made in our report
of last year regarding the taking of
an inventory of books and supplies
has not been carried out, and We are,
therefore, unable to verify the sales.
Statements showing the collection
of tuition fees by the various schools
were produced, but we found no
schedule of scholars and amounts
that should have been collected to
verify the amounts outstanding.
AS was the case last year we found
that some disbursements had been
made for which there were no war
rants.
On verifying the bank account we
were unable to trace some of the re-
ceipts into the department books and
on calling the attention of the superin
tendent to the matter he informed us
that some of the receipts were in re-
spect of sales made by him personally
to the students of books which he had
purchased direct from publishers. We
are somewhat at a loss to understand
why it should be necessary for the
superintendent to purchase these
books on his personal account, al
though he gives as the reason that he
can obtain credit from publishers
whereas the city cannot. We do not
wish to convey the impression that
there is anything questionable in
these transations. but to say the
least, they are irregular However,
the superintendent informs us that
this mode of purchasing is made with
the consent of the school commits
sioners.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
A Strenuous oocunatIon.

AS we look over the busy tugs Of
New York harbor we little realize
the dangers and responsibilities of the
busy life Of these "draught horses" Of
the deep. Day and night, in all kinds
OF weather, they are hustllng here and
there about their various troublesome
tasks When a big liner, or any other
craft is in distress by fire. or strand
ing, or other accident, the ubiquitous
tug is the first upon the scene to save
life or property. Some of the harbor
craft have eventful histories worth
page in a Sunday newspaper The
venerable steam lighter General Slgel
Tor instance, has been sunk Ave times
New York Press.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
"Mlnd Your stops."

Massachusetts, has law, known as
the "semi-colon law" under which a
misplaced semlcolon regulates the
liquor traffic in the city Of Boston.
But this is not a circumstance to an
omitted comma as instanced IN the
following act of the last legislature
OF Massachusetts; Whoever operates
m automobile or a motorcycle on any
public way or private way laid out
under the authority or law recklessly
or while under the influence Of
liquor, or so as TO endanger
the lives or safety Of =. the
public etc. 1t is now asserted that
the reckless motorist can go as he
pleases on highways which have not
been laid out under the influence Of
liquor"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
Not Included.

After the dry goods salesman had
completed his business with Cyrus
Craig, Centeryille's storekeeper, he
asked what was going on in the town.
Had any entertainments this winter"
he inquired
NO said Mr. Craig, mot one. Sa.
lone Howe's pupils have given two
concerts. piano and organ, and the
principal Of the cademy has lectured
twice, once on Our National Forests
and once on Stones As Know Them;
but as far as entertainments are con
cerned, Centerville hasn't got round to
EN- yet Youths Companion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
The Devil anc .he peeu sea-

"The Devil arc me Deep Sea-"
Habits English Proverbs" gives
the proyerb as "Betwixt the devil and
the Dead sea" and quotes 1t from
Clarkc's "Paroemiologia," 1853. and
adds this note Of explanation: "On the
horns Of dilemma IN Cornwall they
say deep sea, which may be right.
Reddall's Fact, Fancy aud Fable"
gives the following explanation of the
proverb: This expression is used by
Col Monroe in his Expedition with
Mackay's Regiment. printed in Lon.
Ion in 1881 The regiment was with
tie army Of Gustavus Adolphus and
vas engaged in a battle with the Aus.
TRANS The Swedish gunners did rot
elevate their guns sufficiently. and
their shot fell among This Scottish
regiment, so that we We're between
Ike devil and the deep sea"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
LoAFER, BUT HAD REAL TACT.
Delicate Situation That Was Handled
In Mastery Manner.

Talking about tact" said woman
who is just verging on middle age,
Il never saw anyone get out OF a
difficult situation more deity than
did man met at a blacksmith shop
in a New England village was driy.
ing through last summer was alone
in the lanes with my friend, the
horse, when | noticed that he limped
a bit, so when we reached the next
village ! stopped at the door of the
blacksmith shop A man was hold
ing up the doorpost and to him
said:
viii you please tell the black.
smith TO come out? want to see
him
After the manner of the village
loafer, he did not stir. but smiled
sweetly at me, and lifting up his
voice cried:
BILL come out There's a lady
wants to see you.
From the depths of the blacksmith
shop voice roared:
Is she young, John, or old
In the words of an old poem, |
looked at John and John looked at
me- Then, still without moving. he
called:
You'll be satisfied, Bill, when you
get out"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
Conditions as We Make Them.

In a way We are all children. but
destiny is good mother when we are
obedient to the laws of honesty and
goodness. We must work for what we
get We can avoid Illness by taking
care of ourselves. We can avoid heart
aches by growing strong and selfsuf.
ficlent. We can draw friends TO us by
being a good friend If destiny hits
us over the ears or trips us up on the
journey, 1t is a little rebuke that is
coming to ms and which win make us
keep our eyes and ears open and
watch the way better.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
The chlIIN Homes Of EnnIand

II is largely our own fault II Eng
land has earned the reputation of an
impossible country to winter in. AS a
nation we are, verify believe, the
greatest living amateurs in the science
of keeping our houses warm. An
Englishman's home is his castle: 1t is
also. ninety-nine times out of hun.
dred, his refrigerator The truth is
that England in winter time Is one of
the chilliest spots on earth. After some
years in America it took me- | recall,
30 months on my return to London to
get warm again.-London Chronicle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
Meet Trouble with Defiance.

AS little dogs bark at shadows, so
do some women become alarmed at
the first sign Of trouble To the strong
hearted and the strong minded there
are few situations that cannot be con.
trolled. Why not be superior to these
small matters that annoy you so? You
do not live at all unless you live in
peace and happiness. Change what
can be Justly changed and let the rest
go hang. Perhaps you are like the
northern woman who went into the
beautiful southland and grieved all
the day and all the night, too, because
the nightingales sang so loud. Poor
lady
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
Have You Plles2

Or. Leonhardts Hem-Rod is an in
ternal remedy that entirely removes
The cause of Piles, aud cures to stay
cured any case, no matter how long
standing
If you have Piles and Or. Leonhardts
Hem.Rod will not cure you, you get
your money back.
A thousand dollar guarantee goes
with every bottle of Hem-Roid sold.
II you want a perfect and perma-
nent cure. ask for DR. Loonhardts
Hem.Roid, the guaranteed remedy
Sold by VIM. l.. Golgay. Sl00 or Dr.
Leonhardt, Co., station b, Buffalo, N.
Y
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS
James MeRae Of Dover Brings $4,000
Suit


Brattleboro. Feb. 6.-Mrs. Mary R.
McRae of Dover. who failed to secure
a divorce at the last term of the Wind
ham county court, is the central figure
I'm a suit brought by James McRae.
her husband. against Jefferson r.
Snow of Dover for alleged alienation
Of affection. Mr.. McRae sues for
$4,000 damages, and Shows property
has been attached ]. H. Kiddef is
surety for Shows appearance at the
April term of the county court at
Newfane.
McRae alleges that Snow frequent
~ visited Mrs. McRae and that he in
gratiated himself into her affections,
thus depriving McRae of the compan-
ionship and assistance in caring for
two minor children
At the last September term, Mrs.
McRae undertook TO obtain a divorce
on the ground of intolerable severity
and neglect and refusal to support
claiming that her husbands attitude
toward her was such that she was
forced to leave him, but the court
denied the petition.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
When Eneiand Shook.

In the course Of its long history
England has known few serious
earthquake shocks. In the days Of
William Rufus one was felt through.
out the country, and in 1874 an Eng.
lish earthquake destroyed Glastonbury
among It's other damage, while part Of
st. Pauls cathedral fell in as the re.
suit Of an earthquake In the sixteenth
century Perhaps the most recent
serious shock was that which inflicted
much damage in the eastern counties
in 1884; a Mansion house fund was
opened for the sufferers
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
Why Does It Cure

Not because Il Is SarsaPariils,
but because Il ls a medicine Of
peculiar merit, composed Of more
than twenty different remedial
agents effecting phenomenal
cures OF troubles OF the blood,
stomach, liver and bowels.
Thus Hoods Sarsaparila 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, 1909-02-06
RydaIe's catarrh Remedy

was invented by physician and chem
list OF Atlanta, Ca, and was used in
private practice for many years with
most marvellous success. The Rydale
Remedy Co, have secured control OF
this great remedy and are now plac-
ing II on sale. Every bottle is guar
anteed by us.-Shurtlef Pharmacy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
INJURED TO POVERTY AND TOLL.
Natives of Shantuug Province Live
Lives of Wretehedness.

OF Shantung province China, a cor.
respondent writes "A little more
than a generation ago one OF the
greatest famines in the memory Of
man spread devastation in the great
Over-popuated sections of the west Of
this province and now famine faces
he stoical toilers of the land once
again. The Shantungese illustrate
well the law of the survival Of the
fittest, for such dire poverty only per-
mits the strong ones To live, with the
result that we find sturdy men of great
endurance all over this province. Liv.
ing on the land, which barely produces
sufIiciency for Standings teeming
millions, the people have become
hardy, for they are hardened to all
kinds of privations Their brains are
deadened by ceaseless toll and this
may account for ths reputed backward
ness of this province in progress along
commercial and Industrial lines. A
less long suffering people would have
a revolution every year 1t Is an
axiom with westerners that discon-
tent is an absolute condition of prog
tess aud we who live among the
Chinese know there can hardly be a
race in the world so contented as they
are, considering their lot, This is one
If the factors which makes the regen-
Grafton OF China such an enormous
problem
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
The Pace That Tells.

How fast was he golng?' asked
Magistrate Krotel.
80 fast that the bulldog on the seat
beside him looked like dachshund,"
replied the copper
And the accused was held for ses-
slons. Graphic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
LIABILITIES

Dividend January list, 1862 was at the rate OF
4 per cent per annum.
Dividends are declared twice q year, viz; as
of the first days of January and July. according
TO law.
All divide ds not Withdrawn will be dded to
he PRINCIPAL and draw interest as new deposits,
whether bank book is presented or not
Deposits made on OF before the fifth day uf
any month draw interest from the first day OF
that month.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
How II Mloht Work Out.

81 often wish | had more leisure for
substantial reading" said the slightly
lnslncere person.
mo doubt" answered Miss Cayenne
In that case you would have more
time 10 nlav golf"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
In Book Form,

HE is going to put his play into
book form"
What does that mean?"
means he'll write 100000 words,
divide EN- into chapters and print EN-
between covers"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06

TRUSTEES: l.. E. Gibson. Presi-
dent; ]. R. Judst n, Vice Presit ent;
E. D. Yelling, John Robinson, A.
B. Gardner, E. h. Putnam, Ed
ward L. Sibley
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-06
PILES CURED IN 6 TO IA DAYS

PAzO OINTMENT is guaranteed to
cure any case OF Itching, Blind, Bleed.
ing or Protruding Piles In 6 TO IL
days or money refunded. Soc.