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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

/ The Norwich boys of this place re-
port that Norwich won the football
game with T. V. NJ. with score II to
0. This gives them state champi-
onShip
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

selves. as well as FOR all the purposes Of
the toilet. bath, and nursery. Cuticura
and Cuticura Resolvent t5Oe.O or in the
form Of chocolate coated Pills Csc. per
vial Of 6O). are sold throughout the
world. Guaranteed absolutely pure.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Heaslip left
today in an automobile for Hartford,
Conn, where they will spend the
winter months.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

Saturday night. Foresters' hall,
dance Of the Maccabees. Old fashion
ed square dances during the evening.
One barrel best flour given away wih
three other articles.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

John LaFlamme and Lester Robin
son have this week won two of the
ducks which abe being rallied or at
the Cummings barber shop.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

Mrs. Charts Dedrick of Bennington
Falls has returned from Wilmington.
Del, where she has been visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Mary J. Rice.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

The Burr and Burton football team
has cancelled the game which was TO
have been played with the local high
school team here this afternoon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02
TO RENT

no RENTING store at ll6 North Street
-eXt 70 Burns cigar store, IL. ID. Fill
more, Pleasant 81. l0t6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

Miss Ethel Dolph who has been
spending a few days with Mrs. e. 81
monds has returned to her home in
Meadville, Pa. She will be remem-
bered as the daughter of l.. A. Dolph,
I e.....,..,t,. rf NOptl, Bonn in otOp
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

Mrs. George Warren OF Troy who
has been spending some time with
her mother-in-law, Mrs. John H. War.
rem, went home today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

DR. and Mrs. L. II. Ross left for
New York this afternoon where DR..
Ross is to attend the Goth annual
meeting of the New York and New
England association of Railway Sar.
geons.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-02

The Methodist Sunday school held
tleir Rally day exercises Sunday az
ternoon with a good attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
New Yorker Indifferent to Censu


Il was in one of the smaller cities OF
New York state when its census popula-
ton was announced and as it showed
something like % per cent increase over
1900 there was considerable enthusiasm
among the citizens" said Charles n. Far
ris of New York city.
1T is perfectly natural for the people
of ambitious and growing cities to make
big claims in the matter of population
and to manifest some elation when the
census bureau, in announcing the govern
ment figures, makes a better showing
even than the local statisticians had
called for.
But | come from a town whose popu-
lation is so great that little or no interest,
further than curiosity, attaches to the
official announcement from Washington.
New York, some times spoken of as
Greater New York, had a population of
3437, 900 in 1900 and it is claimed in the
mayors office that it now has 4,750,0o0.
If it should turn out to be that the CEN
sus bureau gives us 100000 more or 200 900
less there would be only a passing re-
mark. Just so long as New York keeps
far in the lead of any other city in Amer
lea we will not bother about particulars. .
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
Georgla'S Action on the Fee System

The people of Atlanta voted in the re-
cent primary overwhelmingly in favor of
the salary as opposed to the fee system
for county officials. THE important fact
is" says the Atlanta Journal, that the
people have declared for the salary sys-
tenn and that the fee system is unwise
and in many respects undesirable 1t is
not necessary now to recount its possible
abuses. Indeed it is not always actually
like system and ought to go. Government
is more and more coming to be regarded
as matter of business. Public officials
should be adequately paid for the serv-
ice they render They should not be left
to the uncertainties of big or little fees.
The work they do is worth so much, and
they should be compensated accordingly.
''Fulton county has set an example that
finds a response in nne-tenths of the
counties of the state. 1t is now the log
islatures duty to make the peoples will
effective"
The Alabama legislature meets next
winter and the Georgia legislature does
not meet until next summer. Alabama
has an opportunity to get rid Of the
vicerous system before her sister state
does, but will the Alabama legislature be
able to act regardless of the rings that
have long controlled the question:?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
Senator CumminS' Nationwide Primary Plan

Senator Cummins is a progressive lead
er in Iowa. He is always progressive.
He wants sane reform at all times and
under all circumstances, and he now an
nounces that he is about to begin a cam
paign in behalf of a national direct pri-
mary law for the nomination of presi-
Dental and vice presidential candidates.
He is not sufficiently progressive to de-
mand the substitution of national count
of ballots for the convention system, but
he proposes to base the delegate repre-
sentation upon the party vote rather than
upon the population. Thereby hangs a
tale.
His scheme is largely directed against
the postmaster party states in the south.
He sees that the postmasters may send
in 1912 enough delegates of the adminis-
tration sort to overcome the delegates
from the real republican states especially
of the middle west, and he proposes to
fight against any such injustice. He does
not think the progressives of the heavily
republican states should be outvoted in
the convention of 1912 by the postmasters'
party in the south.
No doubt the Iowa senator is sound
in logic and in representative prlnci-
pie, but what is sound in logic and in
principle does not always win when the
politicians and officeholders are lined SOL
idly up against it, The Cummins propo-
sition will not be adopted at once. Tt
will, however, commend itself to the
people in the long run, and the next
generation of American voters will per-
haps appreciate and enjoy a plan that
gives a voter as much power and infu-
ence in the selection of a presidential
candidate as any other voter. The boss
would then have but one vote and the
man in the ranks could readily offset
that vote. The plan is ideal, but some
what distant in point of time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
Cotton Prices and the New Cotton Year

The new cotton year is close at hand
It will be Sin our midst on Thursday
next and August cotton is selling at
nearly II cents. But the August cotton
that sells at that price is not real cotton
1t is cotton grown by Spectators only.
Spot cotton is the cotton grown by farm
ers, and it is worth about IA cents, pos
sibly Is cents.
This is good price at the beginning OF
q new cotton year, and many bale of
the new crop will perhaps put in the
farmers pocket about $50. This means
great prosperity in the south. The bears
will endeavor no doubt to minimize the
profits of the producer, but the producer
who is able to hold his cotton against
the manipulations of the bears and the
spinners>w will be able to secure the true
value Of his bales. The farmer who can
not hold his bales is indeed g the mercy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
TAILOR-MADE PHYsIQUEs

ioii eile view OK mall.
Well-tailored men this fall will be
narrow of shoulder and broad of chest
says Chicago dispatch, and the pres
ent type of wide shouldered but aner,ic
clothing store athlete" will have van
ished from the realm of the elite. This
Is shown by the exhibits at the ASH
lon show opened at the Coliseum. All
Of which is reassuring, save the fact
that well-tailored men are to broad
Of chest" If SO, some of them, narrow
chested by nature, will still be "cloth-
ing store athletes" and will shrink"
in the surf like a poor flannel shirt.
But 1t Is we'll that men are to be less
sh ouldery, for a pair of Chippendale
legs, supporting Old English should
ers, is something God never intended
to walk the face of the earth. 1t would
be we'll If broad shoulders would go
out for women also. at any. rate
while coupled with marrow hips. The
contour thus effected is not natural and
men like it little.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
Grade Crossings In Birmingham

Alderman Walter Moore is right when
he says a viaduct should be built on First
avenue first of all-that all other viaducts
should await the building of the one on
First avenue He is further right in
tient in the important matter of grade
crossings and in dealing with the rail-
roads.
believe the railroads can afford to re-
feet the proposition of the city IF they
do" he goes on to say, I'VE should &c
after them and make them furnish via
ducts and abolish grade crossings
There certainly need not be compulsion
or resort to arbitrary methods in mat
ter that frees both the railroads and the
streets from the dangers of grade cross
ings. Such crossings are expensive to
the railroads and they are dangerous
to life and limb besides. They should be
abolished, and they will be. A little
patience is needed until the railroads ano
the city can get together. Let no one in
the meanwhile doubt the outcome. The
grade crossings on First avenue are to
be abolished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
DUMAS WON THE WAGER
Famous French Novelist Wrote Volume
in Sixty-six Hours

From the London Chronicle.
For rapidity of composition the prize
among riovelists must be awarded to
Alexander Dumas, who died with more
than 1000 books to his credit, in all of
which he had some share. According to
Mr. Arthur F. Davidson. one of his
biographers, he often declared that when
once he had mapped out in his mind the
scheme of a novel or play the work was
practically accomplished. since the mere
writing of 1t presented no difficulty and
could be performed as fast as the pen
could travel. Someone disputed this;
the result was wager. -
Dumas had In his head the plan of
the "Chevalier de la Maison Rouge" of
which he had not yet written word
and he made bet of 100 louis that he
would write the first volume of the novel
In 70 hours. The volume was to be
formed by rs large foolscap pages. each
line 80 letters. In Sc hours Dumas had
done the work in his rair flowing hand,
disfgured by no erasions-and the bet
was won with six hours to spare.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
FIRE WALKERS IN TAHITI

From Sophia Bledsoe HerI1ck's "A Sum-
mer Festival in Tahiti in September
Century.
An interesting feature of the celebra-
ton of the French national holiday in
Tahiti was the fre-walking performance
given by several of the natives of Raia-
tea, an island 40 miles away. These
people were darker than the olive-hued
Tahitians, and their general appearance
suggested that they were not of pure
Polynesian blood.
square pit, 16 by II feet, had pre-
viously been dug, and for two days a
fire had been burning in it. The bottom
of the pit was covered with logs and
stones were piled over these, more fuel
was added, and the whole lighted. The
first f1re-walker carried in his hand what
looked like a wand of green. Approach
ing the pit he began muttering prayer
or incantation; then, unwinding from
about the wand withe. 1t fell apart as
a bunch of ii or dracaena leaves. With
these he struck the edge of the pit,
walked barefooted slowly across the
stones, holding the ii branch upright be-
fore him. After repeating the muttering
and the blow with the leaces each time,
he walked back and forth a number of
times. He was later Joined by another
man, and then by woman, who went
through the same performance.
Some of the skeptical young Ameri-
cans sprang into the pit, but they had
to confess that the stones felt very hot
through the soles of their shoes; and
leaves, later thrown in, took fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
PICTURE POST CARDS
New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
The picture post card manufacturer is
your real modern explorer. You may
fatter yourself that you have made a
discovery when you happen, in the course
of foot tour, upon a neighborhood so
remote that neither you nor any of your
acquaintance has ever heard of its ex-
istence, many miles distant from railway
and main Travelled roads; but you will
find the picture post card awaiting you
at the four corners general store. Its
manufacturer has been there before you.
He has explored the place and caught
with his camera all it's secrets of rustic
charm and quiet, all its quaint delights
of creeper-covered clapboard architecture.
Nothing escapes the man with the COM
mercal camera. He anticipates demand
with an abundant supply. He outstrips
the ubiquitous Messrs Cook, he supple
ments Herr Baedeker, he puts to shame
the Typographical knowledge of the Oldest
inhabitant, the sharpened perception of
the most romantic couple in search Of pic
turesque solitude.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29

who made a contribution to the open
air music fund. They have been at
tended by thousands and more decorous
crowds were never seen. The concerts
will be continued until about the mid
die of September, 1 believe, and IL tn
weather remains fair there will be no
diminution in the attendance. The pro-
grammes have been very generally ap-
proved so far as / can learn, ana the
band has been highly complimented.
Il feel sure that a much larger iund
can be raised next season than we had
this summer. The ladies of the MUSIC
Study club raised the money for the
park concerts, and they deserve the
thanks of the public. But for their
untiring efforts we would not have had
the open-air music They received, l
understand about $4,000 from subscrip-
lions and the City Council supplement
ed that amount by appropriating $500.
Next year the city will doubtless be
in better financial condition, and will
be able to appropriate $500 or $4,000.
And the citizens will make up fund
of $4,000 or $4,000. With $4,000 the Music
Study club could arrange for daily con-
certs instead of tri-weekly, as now
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
President Taft's Piecemeal Plan

In hedging against the unpopularity
that goes with support of the AL
drich tariff President Taft has devised
revision plan that WILL he no doubt
hopes, be "a good-enough Morgan" I'M
til after the November election. The
plan takes him away at any rate from
the standpat camp, and it may land
him among the insurgents.
He favors revision of the. Aldrich
sum of public robberies, but he wants
revision at the rate of one schedule per
session-one at a time, and this must
mean one at each session of Congress.
The Presidents letter on this subject
has not been published, but he does
not hesitate TO say that he no longer
stands with the Sunny jim shermans
of the land He wants revision, one
schedule at a time. He is evidently
getting ready to face the hard battle
of 1912, and he is cutting loose from
the reactionary group, showing in this
respect his political sense. for he has
some, even of it be slow and slug
gish.
The Presidents scheme is. however,
better at first sight than it will prove
to be when tested before Congress. AS
soon as he assails one fat schedule
possibly the wool robbery-every other
lot of benefciaries will come to the
rescue of the threatened schedule, and
the battle Will become a general one
between consumers and tariff robbers;
between privilege and fair taxation;
between plutocracy and democracy. A
general fight would follow, and this
MIR. Taft cannot evade. He will have
to face the entire standpat crowd un-
der his piecemeal plan, for one and all
will come to the help of any schedule
that is assaulted even scientifically.
The work of the s250,Oo0 tariff board
may prove to be good. Mr.. Taft evil
IDENTIFY hopes it will be, for he expects,
no doubt, to base his piecemeal scheme
on its reports. But the tariff trusts
and combinations care nothing for such
reports They Will stand by each other
against the consumers whom they pro-
pose to exploit up to the last dollar
and the last moment of time.
When the piecemeal plan comes up
the standpatters will lack the power to
suppress a general tariff discussion,
and that discussion will be pretty sure
to make plain the fact that all tariff
combinations should be abolished at
once and together.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
NOT CAUGHT UP
From the Brooklyn Life.

from the brooklyn Lire.
A man who was travelling the Ozark
mountains on horseback stopped before
typical Arkansas farmhouse to inquire
the Way. Whats the news?" asked the
mountaineer, as he leaned his lank frame
against the fence and pulled his long
beard thoughtfully.
On finding that what had become a
part of history was news to him, the
| traveller asked why he did not take some
weekly or monthly periodical, that he
might keep in touch with the world at
large.
WALL" said the old native, when my
pa died, nine years ago, he left me a
stack of newspapers that high'-indicat-
ing a height of about three feet-"and I
amt done readn' of 'em yet"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
NOT IN THE PAPERS

From the Nashville Banner.
Sir Ernest Shackelton at the lunch
con in his honor, given by the Pilgrims
in New York, said of a piece of geo.
GRAPHICAL ignorance.
1T was incredible. 1t reminded me
of a little waiting maid:
LAS she brought me my tea and toast
and bloater one morning, I said to
her:
What a rainy morning, Mary! It's
almost like the flood
1.-The flood, sir?' said the little maid
She looked at me with puzzled smile.
YES said l, The fiood-Noan, you
kn5w-the ark-Mount Ararat.'
She shook her head and murmured
apologetically:
"T amt had no time to read the
papers lately, sir"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
ARUSE OF HOSPITALITY

From the Detroit Free Press.
Charles NJ. Schwab, at his dinners in
his splendid white mansion on Riverside
drive, tells number of stories about
thrift
Excellent as thrift is" Schwab will
sometimes say, ut may yet be carried too
far.
Jones, for example, on a hot after
noon, entered a Pittsburg saloon to get
q glass of cold lager. Perceiving Smith
at the bar he said generously:
Hello, Smith! Will you have beer?'
1.-The thrifty Smith, as he pushed away
his empty glass, answered;
:" No, thanks, Jones; don't care for
another beer; but you can pay for this
one I've just finished If you like. "
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
TINE incident about to be related oc-
Cured at Mt. Vernon. where the
L party had gone for an outing. The
oldest girl, well along in her teens and
of undoubted good family, was telling her
mother CT an unusual happening. Now,
wouldn't that rattle yourAslats?" was her
innocent query at the close of the story.
II don't know what she MEANS, said the
astounded parent, but 1t must be some
thing terriblev' And the father of his
country slept on, unconscious of the
change that had taken place in men and
women and manners since his day.
A history OF the rise and decline of de-
portmeRt, both in its real and its artifi-
cial phases, forms a part of the chron-
icles Of nation fully as interesting as the
records of its wars and politics. In this
country at least good manners reached
their elimination in the times of George
Washington, whose stateliness and dig
nifty made him easily the first gentleman
of his day. In fact, these so far over
Swallowed his other qualities that only
recently have we been made acquainted
with his human side. We know now
that he had weaknesses even as ordinary
mortals, and have been told that his bill
for apple toddy was no small lone. Some
historiers have even limited that he took
too much at times; but this We are not
willing to admit. And If he did actually
succumb on some rare occasion, we are
sure he got loaded" like a gentleman
and was nut to he'd like a gentleman and
that the fuller he got the more stately
and dignified he became.
But whatever may have been the frail-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
THE PHILANTHROPY

From Tit-Bits.
They were seated on a bench in the
park, when he heard footsteps. and, look
ing up, remarked:
Have a good look at this chap. He's
a great philanthropist"
Immediately interested, she asked for
further particulars.
HE spends his life he said, 'in as
sisting his fallen brothers and sisters
He raises them when they are down.
They stretch their hands appealingly to
him, and bruised and crushed humanity
cling to him, sure of help
"Oh, what good man! Whoever IL
he?" she asked, breathlessly.
"Oh. he is the instructor at the skat-
ing rink" was the answer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-29
Fine Fruits in the Market

There is much very choice fruit coming
to market now" said dealer, "but most
of it comes from California.
THE California pears are unusually
fine and they are one of the very best
things for certain organic irregularity.
The peaches are beautiful to look at and
very fine favored. Grapes from the Pa
cific coast are on the market and already
apples from the west are to be had These
apples baked with sage and allowed to
get cold and eaten with pure cream
makes one of the finest dishes for the
waning hot days of summer that can be
served
There are some Indifferent melons
coming in from the farms but most of the
long, dark green melons now on sale
come from Indianapolis and other mid
die west markets..