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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
LIKE OLD FRIENDS
The Longer You Know Them the
Better You Like Them

Doan's Kidney Pills never fail you.
Bennington people know this.
Read this Bennington case.
Read how Doans stood the test.
For many years.
It's local testimony and can be In
vestigated:
ID. +. Cronin, 200 Depot Street,
Bennington, VT, says: II am glad TO
re-endorse Doan's Kidney Pills as l
now hold as high an opinion OF them
as ever. l suffered a great deal from
kidney complaint Il being brought on
by excessive riding. l had severe
pains In the small OF my back, accom-
panied by headaches and dizzy spells
and | was so restless at night that
arose IN the morning feeling more
tired than when went to bed. When
ever caught cold Il was sure TO set
tie on my kidneys and aggrayate my
suffering. l finally procured Doan's
Kidney Pills and In q short time az.
ter beginning their use felt better,
by the time had taken the contents
OF one box I was cured and there has
been no recurrence OF the trouble
since"
For sale by all dealers. Price &c
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-ant
take no other.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16

the children who attend, visit to
the school soon dissipates il.
Miss Mills for a long time found
it hard work to secure assistants.
Applicant after applicant listened to
the outline of the enthusiasts work
but on learning that about seventy
five per cent of the school day must
be spent in the open" they decided
not to take the job"
Those who have taken hold of the
work, however, are just as satisfied
that it is a vast Improvement over
the old method as is the inventor OF
the system and enter upon their du-
ties with enjoyment 1t is doubtful
which are more exuberant advocates
of outdoor education, tho hearty,
happy children or their interested
teachers.
The pupils OF Miss Mills school
are as different from the students at
| indoor schools as can be imagined.
Basking in the winter sunshine,
breathing the bracing ozone, alter
nately studying and playing in the
exhilarating winter atmosphere UNI
der proper supervision has, in this
case been followed with unallcy-
ed success.
The Youngsters minds are quicker
to grasp the little problems given
them to unravel and made active by
the galloping blood circulation, their
brains become receptive to a high
degree. There is an utter absence
of the dull-eyed expression so often
found on the faces of the average
public school children, and when
Miss Mills pupil sets forth on his
homeward journey it is with quite
the rolicl1ng freshness that he left
home in the morning. Such school
as that conducted by Miss Mills is
bound to create attention. Visitors
who find their way to Mount Airy
from all points declare after theil
tour of inspection that she has "hi
the right track" She has solved {
tough problem in giving children al
education and at the same time pres
CRYING and lettering their health.
The progress of the little ones Il
far more rapid than that of children
in our indoor schools. The young
sters like the system so well tina
their quickened minds greedily alb
sorb all that Is taught them.
1t Is boast Of the founder of tn
school that her children are at leas
year in advance OF pupils OF tn
same age in other educational inst
tutions.
The superintendent Of yariou
/, school systems are investigating tn
! new idea, and while the innovation
is too radical to become general,
, is believed that the educators VIII
!, have seen the cold air children
!, work will adopt modified plan {
Miss Mills idea
II good results follow the modific;
!, ton, II is probable that in the nea
u future many Of our public schot
children will have experiences sim
u lar to the Mills enthusiastically
> Eagle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-16
10 TRAMPs KILLED IN WRECK

Northern Pacific Train Derailed West
Of Spokane, Wash.
Spokane, Wash. April 16.-Ten
persons were killed and several in
jured today In the wreck of a North
ern Pacific freight train west OF Spo-
kane. Several Of the injured and all
OF the dead were tramps, about 20 of
whom boarded the train at Pasco.
The train was derailed by the
breaking OF wheel at Hangman
creek.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
SHOCKING TRAFFIC IN HUMAN BEINGS IS EXPOSED IN AMERICA

their own, which could be acquired
cheap, and where they and their
families could live as in a paradise.
Actually the men were held in
peonage. They came back to New
York through charity, bruised and
beaten, fever stricken.
|, Three newly landed aliens in
New York told an affable stranger
of their nationality that they were
bound for Chicago. He said he
would get them employment there,
and offered to buy their railroad
tickets and see them to the train.
He took $50 apiece for the tickets
and then escorted them down to
the subway station, bought them
five cent tickets, and told them
they were en- route for Chicago-as
an express bore them away.
A Greek, Mellio by name, was
walking around the Battery in New
York when he met q parasite who
spoke his native language. He well
coined his countryman, expressed
solicitude for his we'll being,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

while the tail points up. or away
from the sun.
AS its motion is governed by the
position of its center, and as the
center Of gravity tends to seek it's
lowest point, when it reaches its
major axes" Perihelia, it will
have acquired such an enormous
momentum that-presto, change-it
now darts off at an angle of reflec-
ton, equal to the angle of Incl
dence. The sun, having failed to
consume it by the action of this
dual force, has lost control of its
motion to the extent of having
lifted or thrown it one half the
length Of its orbit, before the sun
again comes into force to change
its course.
At Perihelia, the comet will de-
velop a commodious tail, the effect
Of which is to prevent it from fly
ing off into either parabolic or
hyperbolic orbit, never to return.
At this point will be evolved every
phase of force known to us, from
light to explosions, or the dissocia-
ton of chemical compounds, as
we'll as the mechanical movement
Of the comet itself.
Light Is in its very essence an
electrical phenomenon. whether 1t
be the light Of the sun, of candle,
or of a glow-worm."-Henri Hertz.
Now the important mission Of
science is to discover or demon
strate whether the correlation and
conservation of energy is a mere
theory, or will it be proved, even
by this hairy body, the comet. If
SO, what we may see and expert
ence during the coming month Of
may is increased energy of the
sun; thence radiated to the earth,
in the form of light, heat and mag
netism, with beautiful auroras. Ir,
when the blow is struck. or the re-
action sets in, a dark spot of large
dimensions appears on the face of
the sun at or near the time Of the
solar eclipse of the eighth instant,
this will be a solar quake, and in
conjunction with the moon may
transmute this energy to earth in
many forms, perhaps eliminating
in either quakes, tidal waves or
volcanic action, or interference Of
wire or wireless telegraphy.
Oh, astronomer, will you sit up
and take notice that the eunbeams
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

CHICAGO, April 23.-The fair
young things who will loll upon the
soft sands Of Chicago's beaches
and dabble in the water will be
we'll dressed this season.
A big uniformed policeman
qualifications: man of family. so
years old, regular church attend
ant, loves his wife and hates other
bits of feminity and who has utter
disregard for outside beauty Is to
be paternal censor at each beach
and with scrutinizing eye will pass
on all apparel worm by lady bath
ers or beach loungers.
Chief Steward has issued an IRON
clad edict which caused much con-
sternation among the fair sex. The
near-costumes that bedeck the
water devotees and the Anette KEEL
lerman variety of form displayers
were placed on the toboggan and
skidded into oblivion.
"Bloomers and tight suits don't
60 this year," sternly declared the
chief of police.
what OBJECTIONS nave you 10 the
sheath and directoire-this Is,
those kind that are split on the
side?" was asked of the chief.
"Well, l want the men TO do a
little swimming this year, not just
stand around and gape," was the
chiefs explanation.
Likewise, those "bathers," men
the water" but loll on the sands
at the bathing beaches, will have
to be circumspect in their wearing
apparel.
For men the one piece, tight fit
ting suit, with narrow shoulder
straps for sleeves, is under the
ban. Only two piece suits will
pass the censor's approval at the
door of the dressing rooms. Alb
breviated tight fitting trunks like
wise are to be prohibited.
For those men who lounge on the
beach the bathing suit with short
trunks, on the pattern Of those
worn by track athletes, and the
upper part cut away to show too
much of the shoulders, chest and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

learned that Mellio was bound for
the isthmus OF Panama, with $18 in
his possession. He aided him in
finding a steamship ticket office in
order to purchase his ticket, and
took $18 in exchange for time
table and blue autographed en-
velope.
These are a few of the incidents
which Mrs. Quackenbos cited to
the committee, in appealing for a
government bureau to supervise
the work of distributing immigrants
when they reach America. At pres
ent labor agents" are licensed by
various seaboard cities to assist"
immigrants in obtaining employ
ment. They are supposed to aid
them in getting jobs for which they
are best suited. Unfortunately,
however, Mrs. Quackenbos says, a
goodly percentage of these agents
conceal beneath q benevolent man.
ner and a solictous. external ap-
pearance a thievish heart and a
grating" propensity,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
SIGN SAYS NO
KISSING WILL
BE ALLOWED

PARIS, April 23.-An extraordi-
nary bulletin has been placarded
by the inspectors of the state rail-
way in stations throughout France.
It reads: Defense de s'embraser"
(kissing is forbiddenD.
Persons entering the stations
have probably wondered at the rea-
son which inspired this notice.
Some have suggested that the Of
icials do not wish to assume
responsibility for disease caused by
oscillation. The real reason, how
ever, is that, Just as the trains are
about to move out, passengers and
their friends begin their farewells,
thus retarding the departure of the
trains and causing much incon-
venience to the public as we'll as to
the officials. Besides, there is al
so danger to life, because of acct
dents that happen in hurried fare
wells.
Inquisitive minds have also in.
Quired why the bulletin is not to be
seen in the stations of railways Of
private companies. And to this the
French inspectors have replied
that the people who kiss travel
only by certain lines, and In this
instance 1t Is the state lines.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
BY JOSEPH 3. JOHNSON.

" HE return or HalleyS comet
suggests, what has science
. achieved since its last advent
in our midst? That is, that a
definite quantity of mechanical
work can always produce definite
quantity of heat. And, conversely
this heat can perform the original
quantity of work. This means that
cosmic force-that elusive some
thing, the final goal which the
chemist, the astronomer and the
philosopher have been seeking, the
cause of all phenomena-is a unit,
that no body contains any more
force than the sum total of all it's
the matter of which bodies are
composed are Invisible. yet indie
structible, hence the atom.
This atom is endowed with a
dualistic property. called affinity
and elasticity, by which all forms
of force, either molar or molecular,
can be transmitted into every other
form known to us. We call this
property, as now in practical oper-
alton, electricity. These facts have
been established; that motion" is
force; that it is mutual and re-
ciprocal. AS between two bodies,
one cannot give motion to the other
without, at the same time, parting
with some of its own motion, IN
some form.
Matter. in evolving from the
atomic state. appears as mechani-
cal energy. ranging in form from
light and heat, as a minimum, to
that of mechanical motion of the
bodies moving through space. as
the maximum of this force.
This energy. evolved, now
Governs the solar system with the
sun as the center or focus. With
III the planets our world and a
great many comets attached is a
machine. all in motion, all sus-
tanned because motion is reciprocal,
that Is, consists of pull and a
push, from molecular to molar, and
vice versa.
We pause to note the coming OF
our visitor, the comet, whose pres
ence has, on several occasions,
made the nations culver with fear.
Although astronomers tell us Its
substance is rare or gaseous, its un-
known qualities of matter and mo-
ton excites the curiosity and won
der of all not moved with fear. We
are informed the comet Is now APP
preaching the sun, from its outer
bounds of orbit, where it has been
moving for 70 years. or one revolu-
ton round the sun.
1t Is now evolving tail and as
the attraction of the sun, affinity"
is accelerating its speed from day
to day, the suns heat-a repulsive
force. "elasticity"--is at work de-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
SPOKANE STUDENT SEES DANGER
IN APPROACH Of THE COMET
Will Cause Solar Quakes and May Result in Earthquakes
Tidal Waves, Volcanic Action and Tying Up
of Telegraph Lines.

veloping more tail. As this dual
process continues to increase, the
center of gravity of the comet is
shifted to one side and away from
the sun at the base of the tail. AS
cup" with it is now a line directly
away from the sun, and as down"
is a line directly toward the sun,
the coma, or head, points down,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

showing immigrants merchandise
Quackenbos q a
contained Of the following items Any number nation
atty skilled unskled laborers furnished Newly landed for
egners always hand New arrivals week Kindly call at
office and shortly landed foreigners mot
spoiled by city le)t this paenthetcal that
Quackenbos particularly "Ths
kind that explained
the committee.
mot the labor agents who the shock
steamship
culpabity.
every away peasants
America.
steamship agent abroad
him his native
family often his old home
ticket from which the
missionhe the who helps induce abnormal immga
the
preyng the immigrant
unconsconabe way, frequently
and defrauds him."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
washington Bureau, United Press)

VTYASHINGTON, April 23.-An
wv amazing story of traffic in
W human souls, paralleled only
in the dark days of the slave trade,
has just been revealed to congress.
A woman told the house commit
tee on immigration of the sordid
cunning of human vampires in New
York and elsewhere and their traps
to catch the unwary immigrant;
how they fleece him, perhaps sell
him into peonage, and finally turn
him adrift bereft of friends or funds
in land of which he knows moth
ing beyond the golden descriptions
and glowing pictures painted by
the scoundrels who lured him away
from home.
The woman is Mrs. Mary Grace
QuackenbOs. She Is a philanthrO-
pist, an attorney at law, at one time
special assistant to the attorney
general in connection with peonage
cases, and sociological authority
Of years OF practical. first hand
study. One Of her best known phil
anthropies Is the Peoples Law
Firm, an institution which she
founded at New York, where dis
tressed aliens unable to pay for
legal services may obtain such free
of charge.
1t is with the system of distrib-
uting immigrants after they arrive
In America that Mrs. Quackenbos
finds particular fault. Uncle Sam
has been negligent Of his new
wards. she says. He doesn't take
sufficient care Of them after they
leave the immigrant stations. And.
also. states and municipalities don't
cooperate withsthe federal govern
ment.
LURE PEASANTS AWAY.
Investigations undertaken by
Mrs. Quackenbos show that steam
ship companies. by means of agents
scattered throughout Italy, lure i'm
migrants to American shores for
the sake of the transportation
charge, and then abandon them to
the scant mercy of human wolves
in the big cities. An Italian tailor
for instance, Is induced by the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
NO BOOMERS OR TIGHT SUITS 1853
GO ON BEACHES THIS SUMMER

back. will mean an order TO leave
the beach. Women who wear cos
tunes that they do not care to Get
wet will have to have them Of mod
est design, or they, too. will be for.
hidden the sands.
To enforce the regulations. it
was announced, uniformed officers
will be stationed at the exits from
all the bathouses to pass ON the
suits and dresses as the wearers
go forth to Join the bathers.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
HOT FOX CHASE.

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ind, April
23.-A 7-month-old pup owned by
E. E. Sisco and an 8-year-old dog,
owned by w. H. McCord, started
a fox at $3.50 p. m. and at 8 p. m.
seven fresh dogs were put in the
chase against them. At $3.50 p. m.
the next day all but the Sisco and
MoCord dogs, the original starters,
had quit the chase. They ran the
fox to his hole on Bear creek. 10
miles east Of here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

Infamous Exploitation of Immigrants Brought to Light
by Evidence Before Congressional Committee Peas
ants Lured From Foreign Homes and Sold Into Sav-
cry by Steamship and Labor Agents in Turpentine
Camps Human Wolves Prey on Them From the
Time They Land-Grace Quackenbos Tells of In
human Treatment and graft Almost Unbelievable.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

cause the planets to rotate and re-
volve around their "foci," whose
mechanical motion or potential
energy, in return, is transmitted
into the sunbeams by this ultimate
prOperty of matter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

The author Of the following
article Is at present a Spokane
expressman, and may be seen
at his stand during the day at
Post and Riverside. He re-
sides at E201O Harrison avenue.
Mr.. johnson has always been
a student Of science and at one
time wrote a book, Incorporate
ing some Of the ideas given
here. He has many original
theories, but, as In this article,
he always gives the line of
reasoning by which no reaches
his concIusions.-The Editor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24

steamship agent in his native city,
or by a representative of some
labor agent in New York, to emil
crate to America. He is assured
that there is demand for tailors,
in-say Chicago. He gets to New
York, and is sent on by the labor
agent He discovers finally that he
must work in a Georgia turpentine
camp as labOrer. He may toll as
slave.
1t is the people Of their own ma
tionality. mainly, who cheat the
new alien. They are the labor
agents. 1T is a matter of so much
head with Them" says Mrs.
Quackenbos. land because of the
fee which they hope to get they are
tempted to deceive their ignorant
and less enterprising countrymen.
They cheat and defraud those who
are already here, and they prey
upon the new arrivals as soon as
they land"
An agent in New York picked
up" seven Roumanians just after
they had passed through Ellis
island. They said they wanted to
go to Colorado, where they had
friends. The agency charged them
81 head as fee for obtaining
them employment in that state, and
turned the seven over to an italian
agent They paid the Italian the
amount of the fare to Colorado. The
agent sent them to Troy, N. Y, and
pocketed the difference in the rail-
road fare.
Another agent rounded up Is
Turks. They wanted employment;
the agent suggested Canada. They
agreed. and turned over to him
$13.72 each. The agent sent them
over to Flushing, N. Y.,-the fare
cost him 10 cents each-and peck
eted the remainder.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-24
JEWS HELD IN PEONAGE.

A German Jew agent in New
York sent a number of Russian He
brews to a "sawmilT in Florida
When they reached Florida the
work proved to be in n turpentine
camp. The agent had promised
them indoor work, and painted a
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-12-07
Mrs. Margaret Heemer Com
mits Suicide While Men
tally Deranged.
She WAS A HIGHLY ESTEEMED LADY
Mrs, Heemer had Lived in
Reynoldsville for a Good
Many Years and News Of
Her Act was a Shock to the
Community.

The community was shocked Thursday
morning Of last week to learn that Mrs,
Margaret Heemer, wife of Conrad Heemer.
one of the best known residents Of the east
end of town had committed suicide BY hang
ing that morning
Mrs. Heemer, who was about so years
old had suffered at various times from
deep melancholia and while inthese periods
OF depression had been carefully watched,
as she would at times state her wish to
die. At one time it was thought wise to
place her in an institution for the care OF
the feeble minded, but she quickly re-
gained her normal mental balance, and her
relatives brought her home In recent
weeks she had given no sign Of return Of
the melancholy and was not watched as
closely as before.
Thursday morning, when Mr.. Heemer
left home, Mrs. Heemer was still in bed,
but talked with her husband and he no
ticed nothing unusual in her actions. He
was gone from the house for about half an
hour, and upon his return was horrined to
find the lifeless body Of Mrs Heemer hang
ing from gas pipe in room adjoining her
bedroom. Apparently she had left her
bed Immediately after her husbands de-
parture, had gone into the adjoining room,
made moose by means Of tying the arms
Of night dress together, and while stand
ing on chair had slipped one end Of this
moose over gas pipe projecting and placed
the other end around her neck She had
then stepped from the chair and death en-
sued from strangulation.
Immediately after making the gruesome
find, the county coroner, Dr. j. G. Sayers,
was notified, and he made an investigation.
The evidence Of self destruction was so
plain that an inquest was deemed unneces-
ary.
Mrs. Heemer was born in Indiana
county in 1859. She was united in
marriage to Conrad Heemer in Perry
township, this county, thirty three years
ago and to the couple a large family was
born. The husband and following sons
and daughters survive: William Heemer,
of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Pearl Trudgen, Of
Reynoldsville, Charles Heemer, Of
Eleanora, Walter, of Chicago Junction,
Ohio, Miss Lilly Heemer. at home,
Thomas Heemcr, of Manila Philippine
Islands, Miss Kate Heemer, Of Reynolds
vile, Guy Heemer, of Reynoldsville,
Irene Heemer, Aldine Heemer, both at
home.
Mrs. Heemer had resided in or near
Reynoldsville for over twenty -four years
and had gained the esteem of all, who
knew her as a lovable, warm hearted
! woman. The news of her rash act was a
shock to scores of friends no less severe
than to the members of her immediate
] family.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-12-07
Late Local News
On Every Page
DRAMATIC incident At
MISS SMITHS FUNERAL
Burial Delayed a Day by Tele-
gram from a Sister Living
in Indiana.

One more dramatic touch was added to
the last chapter in the life OF Miss Anna
Smith, details Of whose sad death were
given in last weeks issue, by the arrival
OF telegram rs the casket containing her
body was being placed in the hearse to be
taken to the place of burial. The telegram
was received from sister, Mrs William
Graham, living at Ellwood, Indiana, and
stated that she was on her way to Reyn-
oldsville to see once more the sister she
had been separated from several years.
The casket had been placed in the funeral
car, and the relatives were getting in the
cabs to move to the cemetery, but immedia-
tely on receipt Of the telegram, the plans
were changed, the casket was returned to
the home Of the parents and burial was
posponed until the following day.
Thursday Mrs. Graham arrived, viewed
the corpse of her sister, and at 2:3O that
day the casket was again placed in the fu-
neral car and followed by the sorrowing re-
latives to the Reynoldsville cemetery.