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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-05-14
Whose Platform?

It may be rather late in the day, but
it is nevertheless worth while to re-
print for wider circulation the plat
form on which James s. Havens, the
Democratic candidate for congress In
the 32nd New York district, defeated
his Republican opponent. Here 1t is.
For independence of all political
bosses, Democratic or Republican.
For government in the interest OF
the people, and not the trusts.
For removal of the tax on lumber
In the interest of cheaper houses,
lower rents, and the preservation OF
our forests
For removal OF the tax on iron ore
for the benefit OF all industries using
iron or steel
For such a revision of the duties
on wool and wooden goods as will
bring all wool goods within the reach
of ALL
For reciprocity with Canada as ad-
vocated by progressive leaders in all
parties and by President Mckinley in
his last speech before his death.
For an honest effort TO reform the
tariff schedules In the interest of the
consumer as advocated by the lamen-
ted James Breck Perkins and all pro
gressive men in both parties.
Against the sale Of legislation or
its exchange for personal or political
contributions from those benefited
thereby.
For action upon all proposed leg
islation independent Of any improper
or selfish influence of friend, client,
political supporter, or organization.
Il am pledged not TO represent as
a lawyer while a member OF Congress
or receive compensation from any in
diyidual or corporation that may have
an interest in legislation.
For a parcels post, because be-
lieve the people need Il and should
have IT,
For a workmen's compensation act
similar to the English act, In order
that every workman injured at his
work or his family. II he be killed.
may get a reasonable compensation
without the expense or delay OF litiga-
ton. Intelligent employers who have
examined this plan agree that II is
best for all.
For postal savings banks to en-
courage savings among those who do
not now use the present savings
banks.
For an amendment to the federal
constitution permitting a just income
tax. under which the burden OF taxa
ton will be distributed In proportion
to what the taxpayer receives from
the government and in proportion t
his ability TO pay"
Read that platform again and ash
Yourself what party you would belong
TO II you subscribed TO Il. or most o
Il. Is II any wonder that party line
are getting confused In these days an,
that good men everywhere. candidate
for Office or constituents upon whom
they depend for votes. are incllninl
to put principles above party and 4
vote for the man rather than for tn
organization? Who can draw IN
hard and fast line that separates
Democrat from Republican today
st. Adams Messenger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-05-14
Y DROWN ON MISSISSIPPI
Steamer Hit a Rock-And Might
Have Been Saved

have Been odNeu
st. Louis, May 1S.-Chivalry that
allowed women passengers to pre-
cede the men in leaving the river
steamer Saltillo last night when the
boat ran on rock at Glen Park Mo,
cost the lives of five women and a
baby and saved the gallant men, ac-
cording to statement made last
night by Capt. Crane Of the Saltillo.
In all ~ persons lost their lives six
men, five women and a baby.
OF the six men drowned five were
shipmen who lost their lives in aid
ing passengers to escape.
Capt Crane said that the loss OF
life was due to the mistake of order
ing the passengers to hurry from the
sinking boat when 1t was near land
1T was bad mistake he said
Had we made the passengers wait
a minute before trying to cross the
gang plank, none would have been
drowned. We let the women go first
which was worse.
"At the time the order was given
however no human power could tell
that the boat was not going to roll
over in the river and drown every
soul on board. It is easy to look
back and see what might have been
done"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-05-14
so DECEPTIVE
Many Bennington People Fall to
Realize the Seriousness


Backache Is so deceptive.
II comes and goes-keeps you
guessing.
Learn the cause-then cure Il.
Nine times out OF ten Il comes
from the kidneys.
That's why Doan's Kidney Pills
cure Il.
Cure every kidney M from back.
ache to diabetes.
Here's Bennington case to prove
II.
Matthew Maginnls. Bennington, Vt.
says: For some time was bothered
by a lame back and pains across my
loins which were so severe nc times
as to completely disable me. The
attacks came on suddenly. lasted for
awhile and then disappeared for a
week or so. was quite certain that
my trouble arose from dlsordcrcd
kidneys and hearing OF Doan's Kidney
Pills. | procured a supply. They help
cd me from the FIRST and | continued
their use until the trouble had entire
~ disappeared. | am only too glad
to recommend Doan's Kidney Pills.
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. FosterMilburn 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, 1910-05-14
HISTORIC DATES DROPPED
Chicago Public School Children Spar
ed Compound Interest Problems

Chicago, May 1S.-The old familiar
dates of history and the old problems
in compound interest and compound
fractions in arithmetic are to disap-
pear from the curriculum of the Chi
cago public schools.
They have been blacklisted by the
committees appointed by Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young. superintendent Of
Schools to revise the courses of study
and trim out the non-essentials. The
report of the committee was received
by Principals and teachers through
out Chicago yesterday.
What your schools need is more
thorough education and more prac-
teal training said Mrs. Young.
Things that have happened in past
years unless of vital Importance do
not remain in childrens minds
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
NOT HATING my

SHE was of those women who. if they get
something for nothing, do, and when she heard that
DR.. NJ Dee the eminent physician, was present at
the at home, she nearly went off her head with
anxiety to get little gratutous information.
She waylaid him in the act of reaching for
piece of cake, introduced herself referred to her
children, casually mentioned the fact that one of
them not at all well, poor dear, and concluded:
''By the way. doctor, what do you do when you
have cough?'
For a moment he looked her straight in the eyes.
Then he answered
"Why, madam, he replied 81 cough!'
And then he took the cake.-IHuAtIdtcd Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27

A TEACHER in one of our elementary schools had
noticed a striking platonic friendship that exist
ed between Tommy and little Mary, two of her
pupils.
Tommy a bright enough youngster, but he
WASH t disposed to prosecute his studies with much
energy, and his teacher that unless he stirred
himself before the end of the year he wouldn t be
promoted.
"You must study harder" she told him, "or
else you won t pass How would you like to stay
back in this class another year and have little
Mary 90 ahead of you?'
"Aw,' said Tommy, 4 guess there II be other
little Marys. ''-Judy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
TOO BAD

MAUDlE-You' re very strong, aren t you Jack7
JACK (siX feet three in his socks, with a faint
smile)-Fairly strong, | believe, Maud.
MAUDlE-And yet II bet you six pairs of
gloves that you can break bottle inside an
empty sack
JACK-Which is to be in the sack-the bottle
me?
MAUDIE-Oh, not you, of course
JACK (havng placed bottle in a sack struck
it on the ground and shivered it in a thousand
pieces Your bottle looks rather foolish now
what?
MAUDIE-No, dear, you look foolish
JACK-IIow?
MAUDE-I said you coudn t break a bottle in
an empty sack, You put the bottle in the sack
and so it WASH empty. I would like white
ing gloves, pease-siX and quarter,-Rogdl
Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
PHILOSOPHICAL

FRIEND met cheerful Irish citizen who had
plainly suffered some hard knocks
"Well, Pat, how are you getting along nowF'
he inquired.
"Oh Oh m hard up yet; but Oi have fine job
in Honnolulee, and fare paid Oi sail to morry.'
Sure, man, you II never be able to work there.
The temperature is hundred in the shade -
Pat had endured too much cheerfuy to be dis
couraged.
"Well, he replied, hopefully, CON not be
worrukin in tn shade all tn tonne. ''-Tu Bits
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
on THE NEW YORK SUBWAY

V-N IIT1 WI 7 ONH NI DIT II
II HAVE often wondered remarked Green
leigh he dropped penny in the slot, 4" where
the profit these machnes-''
He grasped the handle.
"Where the profit these machnes--''
He gave it shake.
Il have often wondered, | say, where the
proft--'
Another shake
"Where the profit comes in Where the
Why, the thing out of order! 1t won t work! -
All grinned interested porter. Nov
do you begin to see where the profit comes in =
AASWerS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
FROM FRIEND UIFE

''DIDN'T some idiot propose to you before our
marriage?"
Certainly!
"Then you ought to have married him. -
THAT S Just what | did! ''-Puach.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
BRIGHT THOUGHT

TUE MANAGER--I We got idea for melo-
drama that ought to make hit.
THE WRITER-What is it7
THE MANAGER-The idea is to introduce cy-
clone into the first act that will kill all the actors
-Sketchy Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
THE BETTER WORD

WEARY WIII1AM-What did ye tell dat lady
when she asked ye if ye equal to de task of
sawin wood?
TATTERED TONI toll her dat equal wuzn It de
word. | was superior to it.-Chicdgo NeWS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
POOR SISTER

YOUNG MAN-Do you think your sister would
be sorry to marry and leave you?
THE TEkRoR-Oh, yes. She said she would have
been married long ago if it hadn t been for me-
Judge.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
A Half Hour with the Humorists
is SIZE INTERPRETED

THE young lady entertaining gentleman
caller in the drawing room Her little brother was
also present.
Sis. he inquired, looking up from his book,
''what is the rule of three?''
''Three is a crowd, DEAR, " reioned his sister.
"Now run away and play ''-Penny Pictorial.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
Number of Bills Pass.

The Sanders bill, carrying $4,000 per
year to be used by boards of supervisors
offering premiums on agricultural prod
ucts raised, passed the senate
The house bill exempting public cor
porations from statutory requiring of
names of beneficiary to be placed on
margin of record, when mortgages or
deeds of trust are filed, passed by vote
of 20 to 8. The purpose of the measure
is to make it more convenient to nego-
tiate railroad securities in Eastern mar
kets.
The penitentiary emergency appropri-
alton bill, carrying twenty-five thousand
dollars, was approved by the Governor;
also the joint resolution memorializing
congress to enact a law authorizing own
ers of land damaged by overfiows of the
Mississippi river to recover damages.
The lower house passed a general ap-
preparation bill carrying $4,000. All
salaries of officials remain the same as
heretofore.
A bill appropriating $4,000 per an
mum for farmers institutes was also
passed.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
IMPORTANT news
NOTES OF A week
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN TENTED ;
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man
Latest Personal infor-
nation.
PERSONAL.

Benjamin Ryan Tillman, senator
from south Carolina, is critically Ill.
His condition is extremely grave. DIR.
Z. F. Pickford, the attending physi-
clan, said he had q slight chance of
recovery.
Simeon w. Stevens, appointed post
master at Gardner, Mass, by Presi-
dent Franklin Pierce in 1854, and who
had received successive appointments
since then, is dead. He was 81 years
old.
Col. Roosevelt and his party arrived
at Gondokoro, Sudan, safe. The car
avan marched in, headed by Chief
Kariba and his native bugle band.
All the members of the party are well.
Col. Roosevelt and his companions
have now passed through the most
trying stage OF their perilous journey.
Henry s. Haskins, board member Of
the firm of Lathrop. Haskins & Co.,
which failed recently, is declared in
eligible for reinstatement on the New
York stock exchange by the gov
ernOrs.
Wilbur Wright, the aviator, has
completed the purchase of a tract of
land near Montgomery, Ala. to be
used for experiments with aeroplanes.
An autograph letter written by
Benedict Arnold in the revolutionary
war brought $121 at a sale of the late
Rev. Joseph Wizards effects in Bos-
ton, Mass.
DR.. F.. A. Cook is now reported to
have landed at Santiago, Chile. with
his wife
State Senator Timothy Sullivan (Big
Tim) of New York underwent an op-
Grafton last week and came so near
death that only the most powerful
drugs kept him alive. His condition is
still serious.
The condition of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood, who was operated pom at the
Johns Hopkins hospital, in Baltimore.
Is critical, and 1t is said the operation
was not entirely successful.
Henry w. Lynch was nominated for
postmaster of Peoria. ILL.,, by President
Taft.
Peter Francis Curran. unsuccessful
labor candidate for the Jarrow division
of Durham at the last election, died at
London.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
Finances In Good Shape.

The Board of Mississippi Levee Com
missioners has appropriated $3.50 to the
support of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep
Waterway Association, and $3.50 was
also appropriated to the National Rivers
and Harbors Association.
The books of the board have been TX
amined by public auditors and the result
shows that from July 1 to December 81,
the cotton tax collections from each
county in the district was as follows:
Washington county, e7,356 bales; Boil
var, 1858 bales; Issaquena, 1897
bales; Warren, 2,O27 bales; Sharkey, g.
357 bales; making a total of $685.
bales paying a tax of s53,635. The
levee ad valorem tax was as follows:
Bolivar, $6,957.94; Washington, $780,
$1,000; ~Issaquena, $1,1os.2s; Sharkey,
s1,436.so; Warren, s25s.1o, a total of
$2O,64e.10. The income of the board
from railroad tax was s5s,564. Figur-
ing that July 1, 1909, the board had
cash on hand amounting to s175,936.12,
the total amount of cash handled dur
ing the six months referred to was $780,
811.5O.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
DREADFUL
CHANGE
Mrs. Jones Was in a Serious Con-
dition Before She Helped Her
self With Cardui, the
Woman's Tonic.

Dexter, Text certainly was in a
serious condition when 1 wrote you for
advice" writes Mrs. Calvin Jones, Of
Dexter, Tex.
II suffered a great deal with those
dizzy, fainting spells, but after taking
several bottles of Cardui, relief finally
came.
Cardui prepared my system for the
dreadful change and when it came It
was not half as bad as those dizzy
spells 1 had before. I now help every
day with the housework and am get
ting along fine.
"Cardui is certainly fine for female
complaints. My neighbors praise it
and SO do Others"
Take Cardui when you feel i'll in
any way, weak, tired, miserable, or
under the weather.
No matter what the immediate
cause, it will help to brace you up, give
you new force and vim, help you to
throw off the trouble that troubles you.
Cardui will not interfere with any
OlAe1 H1cu1S1IAS you udy De tdhlHS. II
Is a gentle, harmless, non-mineral, nom
poisonous, Misunderstanding tonic, hat
every woman ought to take when she
is looking for health. strength, beauty
and vitality.
n. B.-Write to: Ladies' Advisory
Dept, Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat
tanOOEa, Tenn, for Special Instructions,
and pm book, "Home Treatment for
Women" sent I'm plain wrapper, on re-
quest.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25

AT q dinner at Claridge's. tho
smartest hotel In London said, with
no little pride = ChicaEoan. Il = be
side young Rhinelander Stewart.
Anita Stewards brother. you know.
Anita Stewart married Don Miguel Of
Braganza.
Il joked Rhinelander q bit on the
kilt that he wore at his sisters Scot
fish wedding. He took my joking In
good part. He said the kilt was q hne,
conventional dress, and till recently he
had thought 1t suitable everywhere
and for all purposes.
Recently. though, he suggested that
the house servants in Tulloch castle
should wear as livery the Stewart kilt;
but the major domo objected.
Now said Mr.. Stewart, what is
your objection?'
".Aweel, SIR the major domo an
swered, "a man clean upstairs
windows in a kilt, moo, can he ?"-Ex-
change.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
Why He Was Lonesome.

Tommy, whose varying points Of
view r illustrated by the Farm Jour-
nal, had not yet learned the Golden
Rule. Neither have a good many of
his elders.
Il should like, Tommy" said his IA
Their, that you might find some boy
to play with you. Now what's the
little Dobbs boy?"
Pooh! Why, they're a whole year
younger than / am" said Tommy, con-
temptuously. Il couldn't play with
them!"
We'll, there's Jack Spear and Willie
Harlow. Won't they do?"
Yes, but they're a year older than
I am" said Tommy, wistfully, 80 the
mean things won't play with me-"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
THE STORY OF THE PEANUT
SHELLS,

AS everyone knows, C. w. Post OF
Battle Creek, Michigan, is not only a
maker of breakfast foods, but he is a
strong individual who believes that the
trades-unions are a menace to the lib
erty of the country.
Believing this, and being a natural
born" scrapper for the right, as he
sees it, Post, for several years past,
has been engaged in a c~easeless war
fare against "The Labor Trust" as he
likes to call it.
Not being able to secure free and
untrammeled expression of his opin-
ions on this subject through the regular
reading pages of the newspapers he
has bought advertising space for this
purpose, just as he is accustomed to
for the telling Of his Postum "story,"
and he has thus spent hundreds Of
thousands OF dollars in denouncing
trades-unionism.
AS a result Of Posts activities the
people nov know a whole lot about
these organizations: how they are
honeycombed with graft, how they OBJ
struct the development of legitimate
business, curtail labor's output, hold
up manufacturers, graft upon their own
membership, and rob the public. Natu-
rally Post is hated by the trades
unionists, and intensely.
He employs nc union labor, so they
can not call out his men, and he defies
their efforts at ~boycotting his products.
The latest means of getting" Post is
the widespread publication of the story
that a car which was recently wrecked
in transmission was found to be loaded
with empty peanut shells, which were
being shipped from the south to Posts
establishment at Battle Creek.
This canard probably originated with
President John Fitzgerald of the Chi
said, stated it publicly, as truth.
Post comes back and gives Fitz-
gerald the lie direct. He denounces
Fitzgerald's statement as a deliberate
.alsehood, an undetermined and coward
~ attempt to injure his business, hav-
ing not the slightest basis in fact. As
such an effort it must be regarded. It
Is significant that this statement about
the peanut shells" is being given wide
newspaper publicity. In the patent
inside of an eastern country paper I
find it, and the inference naturally is
that 1abor-unionites are insidiously
spreading this lie.
An institution Tor a NAM which
will resort to moral intimidation and
to physical force, that will destroy ma
chinery and burn buildings, that will
MAIN and kill if necessary to effect it's
ends, naturally would not hesitate to
spread falsehood for the same pur-
poses.
We admire Post While we have no
enmity toward labor unions, so long as
they are conducted in an honest, live
1nd-letlive' kind Of a way, we have had
enough Of the tarred end Of the stick
TO sympathize thoroughly with what he
Is trying to do. He deserves support.
A man like Post a not be killed, even
with lies. They are q boomerang, every
time Again, we knoso, for hasn't this
weapon, every weapon that could be
thought Of, been used (and not simply
BY labor unions) to put US out Of bust
ness, too?
! am going to drink t1D0 cups Of
Postum every morning from this time
81, and put myself On = diet Of Grape
Nuts. Bully for Post!-EditorjoJ n
TAe Ameyicsa JoarraI n c7in5caJ Ned
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Six men were killed and ten others
who are missing. are believed to have
met instant death as a result of an
explosion which occurred in the Tro-
jan Powder works at Roberts Land
ing nea San Lorenzo, in Alameda
county, Calf. Two score more were
wounded, several of them, is believed,
fatally.
Senator Conger's counsel, James w.
Osborn, strenuously resisted the eff
forts of counsel for Senator Aids and
other senators in the investigation of
the bribery scandal at Albany, N. Y,
to get from Conger what he knew
o the distribution of the 81 900 al
legged to have been paid to Assembly
man Burnett to defeat highway legis-
lation which the bridge trust opposed.
Louis R. CLAWS, when cross-exam-
ined by counsel for Secretary Balm
ger at the resumption of the Pinchot
inquiry, admitted that no evidence of
fraud in the Alaskan coal cases had
been presented to the department at
the time Mr.. Ballinger went out of
Office as land commissioner, in March,
1905.
SPANS new premier, Canalejas, is
opposed by friends of former Presi-
dent Moret, who are demanding the
return of Capt. Gen. Weyler, former
minister of war, to form a new cab
met
Eleven bodies of miners were recov-
cred from the ST. Paul coal mines at
Cherry III. To the amazement of vet
eran mine inspectors, the bodies en-
tombed since November 10, 1909, when
brought to the surface, were found to
be almost perfectly mummifed.
L~ouisianians have subscribed $50
600 to the Consumers Household Sup
ply Company, which has been given a
charter at New Orleans for the pur-
pose of buying a farm and supplying
stockholders with vegetable, dairy and
other products, in the hope of solving
the problem of the high cost of liv-
ing.
New York grand jury at the close of
its m~onth-long inquiry into the milk
trust. The names of the indicted deal
ers, or the number of them, cannot he
announced until the indictments have
been drawn. lest the ends of fnstice
be thwarted.
Nearly a million p-aramn-coated
eggs have come to New York from
Europe and are selling at lower nricea
than American cold-storage eggs.
Robbers dynamited the a n tha
Citizens bank OF Chatsworth and es.
capped with $4,000 in currency and 8 :.
900 in silver.
Milton ]. HOFFMAN. q student At
Hope college. Holland, Mich. was
awarded the Rhodes scholarship for
Michigan.
A special courier sent by France -
Fec, Morocco. bears an ultimatum 3.
garding the signing OF the recent Mo.
roccan loan.
Unable to longer hear her dis.p.
pointment because her relativea a.
fused to allow her to 70 nnm ~
stage. Miss Agnes Leslie Elkins nie<~
Of Senator Stephen q. Elkfn1. =
West Virginia. shot herself q |.
wizard hotel. KAnsaa~ CITY Ma arhs
uoun4 = MT necessarily fsSSE
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-25
Does He Love Anybody?

Won Moltke had some few human
failings. He loved his wife devotedly,
but conquered his alma mater, Den
mark, ever after she had educated him
for the military service out of her poor,
stingy pocket. But Kitchener is a ma
chine man only. He loves neither man
nor m His spear has never
known a brother, as it's sharp point
has hewn asunder the bodies and
souls of the sons of women.-Boston
Post.