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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
EARLY BALLOONING.
Some Odd Ideas That Prevailed In the
Eighteenth Century.

Some Odd Ideas That Prevailed In the
Eighteenth Century.
As far back as 1914 the American
public were led to believe that the
Atlantic had been crossed in q bal
loon. On May % In that year the
New York Sun published n detailed
account Of an aerial voyage from Liv-
erpool to Charleston. which purported
to have been accomplished by 1.-THE
steering balloon Victoria In period Of
seventy-fve hours from land to land"
Five columns were devoted to the de-
scription of the journey and to sci
entific account of the balloon, Of
which a woodcut was given, and an
air of verisimilitude was added by q
list Of eight passengers, one Of the
names mentioned being that Of Harrl-
son Ainsworth. who was then at the
height Of his fame.
At the end Of the eighteenth century
balloons were all the rage. Then, as
now, enthusiasts predicted time near
at hand when war would either be an
awful matter of the humiliation Of
armies and forts by bombs from above
or would cease altogether through the
abolition Of frontiers and the fusion
of nations Prophecy went even fur
Their.
Canals and roads were to vanish and
the space occupied by them to be re
stored to agriculture. And ships Qf
any still existedl when caught in q
storm would be grappled by the mast
from balloons above and safely con-
veyed into port or even carried over
mountain ranges.-Chicago News
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
ior Busy Readers


AS the snow is settled the taxieab
is now able to be out again ready for
business.
F. NJ. Paddock & Brother will sell
this week for spot cash tall cans Of
Van Camps milk for Csc; also or
anges at 1e each. sStS
The village trustees and board of
civil authority will meet in the town
rooms this evening at o'clock to re-
wise the village check list.
George F. and Fred P. Hatch and
Miss Jennie NJ. Hatch, former resi-
dents. now residing in Boston, are
spending a few days in town.
James Boyce of Ontario, Canada, is
visiting his brother, Richard Boyce.
The two brothers had not seen each
other in 80 years prior to this week.
There will be a food sale at the
Baptist chapel Saturday afternoon
from 2 to o'clock. Rolls, wheat
bread, entire wheat bread, brown
bread, baked beans, pies, cake, Peter
Pans, and Swedish timbals. l00t2
Mrs. S. B. Hall of Bennington Cen
ter, accompanied by Miss Helen Too
hey of Troy, a trained nurse, left on
Thursday afternoon for st. Augustine
Fla, where she will remain for some
time. Her many friends hope for heI
speedy recovery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
A STARTLING STATEMENT
New York Medical Authorities Claim
Dyspepsia to be Pre-Disposing
Cause Of Consumption.

/ SddoC W NOHoe''fN'Nli
The post norton statistics of the
big New York hospitals show that
some cases of consumption are due,
at least indirectly to unchecked
dyspepsia, especially when the vic
tim was predisposed to tuberculosis.
Dyspepsia wears out the body
and brain. The weakened, irritable
stomach being unable to digest
food, the body does not receive the
required nourishment, and the vic
tim becomes thin, weak and bag
I gard. AS a result, the body be-
comes a fertile field in which the
germs of disease may lodge and
flourish.
Therefore the person who permits
dyspepsia to progress unhindered is
guilty of contributing toward the de-
velopment of one of the most insldi-
Gus and fatal diseases known to man
kind
Dyspepsia may be completely eradi-
Gated if properly treated. We sell
a remedy that we positively guaran-
tee will completely relieve indiges-
ton or dyspepsia, or the medicine
used during the trial will cost the
user nothing.
This remedy has been named Rex
all Dyspepsia Tablets. Certainly no
offer could be more fair, and our OF.
fer should be proof positive that Rex
all Dyspepsia Tablets are a depend
able remedy.
Inasmuch as the medicine will cost
you nothing If it does not benefit
you, we urge you who are suffering
with indigestion or dyspepsia to try
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. A 25-
cent box contains enough medicine
for fifteen days treatment. For
chronic cases we have two larger
sizes, so cents and S1.00 Remember
you can obtain Rexall Remedies In
Bennington only at our store,-The
Rexall Store. VIM. l.. Gokay, Main
street
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
Dolly Party Game.

A doll hunt" is delightful way to
entertain the little folks at this sea
son. Arrange in the center Of the par
Tor a cabinet with bright colored
strings. Attach to each string card
bearing the name of the doll to be
found. After much intricate winding
each child is to find doll. In anoth-
err room hang a clothesline, where
each little girl is to find dainty frock
to fit her new found treasure. Let
the little ones dress their dolls and
afterward serve simple refreshments.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

1t is plain to anybody who is in pur-
suit of riches that they have more than
the ordinary means Of locomotion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25

Do your washing without fire next
time. Save the bother, the discomfort
and the cost of fuel.
Wash your clothes with Fels-Naptha
in cool or lukewarm water, in summer
or winter.
It's much easier-no hard rubbing is
needed.
1t saves the clothes because there'ssno
boiling to weaken them and no hard
rubbing to wear them out
1t takes less than half the time of the
old way.
And this Fels-Naptha way of wash
ing in cool or lukewarm water makes
your clothes cleaner, sweeter, and fresher
than if you boiled and hard-rubbed EN-
till Doomsday.
Don't take a su b stitute for
Fels-Naptha because it will not do the
work.
Look for the red ant green wrapper
and follow'the directio printed on the
back. q
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
The opnidist.


"A New Jersey woman suggests tn
ERIN "oppidism." from the Latin wort
Ippidum. meaning town. TO express de
Iotion TO ones home plaee.l
Ho. I'm a Jolly oppidisti
All ye who hear my lay.
l do beseech ye. lean and list
To hear what shall say.
love the town I'm living in
All other towns above:
II Is the place / make my tin"
And that's the place to love.
I'm such an oppidlst. in fact,
My town ] never roast,
And when by others It Is whacked
then begin 10 boast;
l brag about our public square;
/ boost the schOolhouse. too;
say our girls are very fair.
And that is simply true.
I'm oppidistic every time
get a chance 10 be.
/ oppidize in prose and rhyme.
And do the same with glee.
An optimistic oppidist
Am from top to toe.
Ny oppidism they can't resist
Wherever l may go.
Aud mines the sort OF oppidism
That helps the town along,
Opposing every sort Of schism
That looks awFY or wrong.
And-stiek a pin here, man or maid
Herein a secret lies:
You've got to patrontze home trade
II you would oppdize
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
WHY WOMEN SUFFER
WITH PILES AND HOW TO FINE
A LASTING CURE

Constipation is a most frequent
cause of piles. That is why women
suffer more often from piles than
men. Indoor work and lack OF exer-
else brings on the attacks.
, w. l.. Gokay, Bennington, VT, sells
Hem Roid an internal, tablet remedy
for piles on the understanding that
you can have the money back If dis
satisfied. 81 for a large bottle. DR.
Leonhardt Co, Station b. Buffalo, N
Y, mail booklet on request.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
Trying to Catch Up.

"Let me. give you sure cure for
cold"
"Save yourself the trouble, old man."
But this will do the work"
81 don't doubt 1t, but l am thirteen
behind now on the sure cures offered
me by my friends, and If it doesn't
kill me catching up win send for
you"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25

Mr.. Henry-"Going fishing on washday, Rastus?
thought Melissa needed you to gather wood and
make q fire to boil the clothes"
RastuS-"Yes, sah Marse Henry. But Anty Drudge
here, she done sho'd MISSY how to wash de clos
without no fab an MISSY she say hits as easy
as roin' off log"
Anty Drudge-"That's right Mr. Henry Rastus had
better be working than fishing, but Melissa doesn't
need him. Fels-Naptha makes the biggest washing
easy for person in less time than the old way"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25

III is plain 10 anybody who is In pur-
suit of riches that they have more than
the ordinary means of locomotion.
Pluck is really better than luck, for
1t often picks the latter up and carries
1t right along.
A popular person is one who can
manufacture applause on short notice
and distribute it with a generous hand
and a smiling face
The best way to keep peace is to be
able to lick every possible antagonist.
A Joint" account is the liquor bill
thirsty man runs up on prohibition
state.
A good joke is one which never
shows the wear and tear to which it
Is invariably subjected.
Experience is said to be a good
teacher. hut that can't be said to be its
primary object.
All things come round to him who
tips the waiter
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
Piano Pupils Wanted.

Miss Helen Hurley of the Troy Music School,
and a pupil of Prof Cernelos, is prepared TO
instruct few pupils on the piano. Miss Hur
ley will go to the homes of the pupils or receive
them at corner of Gage and Bradford streets.
Telephone 253-L.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-25
PASSING Il Around.

"Who do you think will be the next
PRESIDENT"
"How should l known
make a guess"
"Let's see--who is there In Ohio that
hasn't hean7v
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS.
FOR STATE POSITIONS

A civil service examination will
be held June 27 for the position of
school librarian at Montelair State
Normal School, Upper Montelair
The salary is 500 per year. Candi-
dates must be at least tWenty-one
years of age and must have had at
least two years practical library ex-
perience, or its equivalent, and must
possess a thorough knowledge of
reference work.
A civil service examination will be
held June 23 for the positions of
stenographer, first grade, state insti-
tutions. salary, $40 per month and
maintenance; stenographer, second
grade, state institutions, salary, $45
per month and maintenance. There
will be vacancies for both positions
in state institutions in the near flu
ture.
For further information and ap-
plieation blanks, address Gardner
Colby" chief examiner, Civil Service
Commission, State House, Trenton,
N. ].
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
n judicial Favor,

A verdaDt local reporter whose pro
pensities incline to daring rather than
to judgment and whose ardency In the
quest of news is one of his marked
characteristics approached a judge of
the United States district court and So
licited little advance information on
case in progress in the judges court.
"You see, judge" said the youngster
to the astonished 1urist, 1--WE go to
press In few moments, and we all
know your inclination to do news
paper man favor"
The venerable man eyed the youth
sternly and said slowly and emphat-
ieally:
yes, young man, III do you IA
Vor. this. time,. and you will see that
you don't ask me again."
'@Thats fine, your honor. Thanks,
very much. Just'a few lines will do"
II viii do you this favor. shall not
send you to jail this time, but If you
ever approach me again with such a
question your friends will not see you
for some time"
The discounted reporter retired ru-
minating on the mysteries of the law
and the dIgnities pertaining to the ju-
dietary, Philadelphia Ledger.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
SHIPPING NEWS

John Dalton, a leading man with
Ethel Barrymore, has just had q
thirty-two-foot, twelve horsepower
cruising yacht completed at the Man
haitian Shipbuilding Works at the
foot of Madison avenue. Dalton is a
member of the Hudson River Yacht
Club and a few days ago removed
his craft to the waters surrounding
his club house, preparatory to q
summers cruise.
At the same works ]. II. Weller
of Railway, and K. A. Conklin, oi
similar crafts constructed. Weller
boat will be finished and launched in
about ten days, while Conklin has
agreed to wait until the middle OF
July for the use of his yacht.
Benjamin Bailey launched his
houseboat at the foot of Madison
avenue Monday night.
Captain Samuel Hornsby has in
stalled seven horsepower engine in
his schooner yawl. The craft will be
used in plotting and towing the cap
tain's schooners.
The four-masted schooner ]. D.
Colwell is being overhauled and
painted at the Perth Amboy Dry
Docks.
George Lampe. of Brooklyn, has
purchased from the Manhattan Ship
building Works fifty-fiyefoot cruis-
ing yacht. 1t will be used around
Long Island sound during the sum-
mer.
At the Perth Amboy Dry Docks
the Lehigh Valley steel barge Buffalo
recently underwent an overhauling,
the barge Boyd is having water
gauge scales installed and the Mar
shall o. Wells is undergoing a gener-
al overhauling, together with the Ira
w. Hover. The Lehigh Valley barge
Beckton is being painted and over
hauled.
All of the docks at the Raritan
Dry Docks are bare at present.
Steamship Maracas has entered
port and will discharge at the Barber
Asphalt Works.
Steamer Harold has cleared for
Newport News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
rha orinin of oxvnan.


That eminent scientist Lord Kelvin
maintained that all the oxygen in the
atmosphere probably originated from
the action Of sunlight upon plants.
When our earth was a globe of hot
liquid it contained no vegetable fuel
and probably no free oxygen. But as
1T cooled Off plants appeared on its
surface, and these began to evolve
oxygen through the medium of the
sunbeams. Upon the oxygen thus de-
rived we depend for the maintenance
of life by breathing. When we burn
coal or other vegetable fuel we use up
oxygen, and It is to plants again that
we owe the restoration of the oxygen
thus lost to the air. If they failed to
keep up sufficient supply the atmos-
phere would gradually part with its
oxygen, and the inhabitants of the
earth would disappear in consequence
of asphyxiation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
CLOSE SEASON
IN VAUDEVILLE
AT THE BIJOU

The present vaudeville season at the
Bijou theatre closes Saturday night and
viii reopen early in August with better
shows than during the past season. Dur
ing the summer months this popular
play house viii be thoroughly renovated
and newly decorated and at the opening
in August will in all appearance look
like a new theatre
The present season has been a very
satisfactory one to the management
and they wish to thank all the patrons
for their patronage this past season.
Many of the highest salaried acts in
the profession will be secured during
the summer months by the Bijou Cir
cult Company and for the fall opening.
Commencing on Monday, June 9th,
the best of motion pictures will be
shown, also illustrated songs
The admission will only be FIVE cents
to all parts of the house matinees and
in the evening Pictures will be chang
ed every day and consist of four reels,
each performance, and the songs will
be changed every Monday and Thurs
day and be of the best and latest. Ex-
ira fans and four new patent ventila-
tors are being put up which will make
this theatre one, if not the coolest and
best ventilated amusement places in the
clty-all the year round.
The opening in the fall will see the
theatre under the same resident mana
ger the same orchestra and all the rest
Of the attaches that have been with
this house the past season.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01

IN PRIZES
FOR FLYING

New York, June 1.-Aviators from
all parts of the world may be induced
to assemble here this summer to CONS
pete for large prizes for voyages from
New York to Chicago, st. Louis and
perhaps other cities. The subject is
being considered this morning at q
meeting of men prominent in aviation
circles.
A prize of $4,000 has been offered for
a flight from New York to st. Louis,
another prize of $4,000 has been Of
fered for flight to Chicago. and still
another prize of $4,000 may be ar
ranged for.
1t was at the suggestion of CharIes
X. Hamilton that a movement was
launched yesterday to raise $4,000
prize for an aeroplane event In addition
to the $55,00o prizes already offered,
Clifford B. Harmon, Captain Thomas
S. Baldwin and others interested met
this morning to discuss plans and draw
up conditions for such a prize. HamiI.
ton has offered to guarantee 50 200 to-
ward the amount.
Hamilton proposes that the prize be
| offered for long cross country flight
and that the two cities between which
1t Is held be asked to subscribe TO the
fund. He thought there would be no
difficulty in raising half the amount
in each city. Chicago is extremely
anxious to subscribe.
An actual test of the utility of the
aeroplane in warfare VIII be made for
the first time in history at the mill
tary tournament to be held by United
States troops and the militia of sew
eral states at Chickamauga park, near
Chattanooga, Tenn, from June % to
"a The government has engaged
Charles X Hamilton, the aviator, to
conduct the most extensive practical
experiments in aerial reconnaissance
and bombardment ever attempted In
addition to Hamilton's machine. which
is duplicate Of the machine in which
Curtiss flew from Albany to New
York, there will be present at the ma
neuvers the Wright biplane owned by
the government and the dirlgible bal
loon sold to the war department by
Captain Thomas S. Baldwin.
In executing the work laid out for
him he will carry aloft from 200 to
300 pounds of highly explosive nitro
glycerin bombs. Racing at a speed
varying from forty to fifty-five
miles an hour, he will release this
deadly cargo while at a height of a
quarter of a mile above the earth, rain
ing 1t down upon targets in the two
mile square area below in seventy-f1ve
installments. The targets underneath
will consist of dummy fortifcations,
batteries, arsenals, bridges, trains and
troops
| Aviator Curtiss while at Mayor Gay
nor's office yesterday met Fire Chief
Croker and Fire Commissioners Waldo.
In the conversation Mr., Croker asked
Mr.. Curtiss If 1t might not be possible
to use aeroplanes for the fighting of
fires. He made the suggestion to Mr..
Curtiss that they might be used for
pouring chemicals on burning build
ings.
Mr.. Curtiss promised that he would
take the chief on his next air excur-
sion.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
The ExeIusix.ns.s Of Caste.

An English officer who some years
ago was wounded I'm battle in India
and left lying all night among the ma
tive dead and wounded tells this story
Next morning we spied man and an
old woman, who came to US with a
basket and a pot of water, and to
every wounded man she gave a piece
of joaree bread from the basket and a
drink from her water pot To us she
gave the same, and thanked heaven
and her. But the Soobahdar was a
high caste Rajput, and, as this wom-
an was Chumar, or of the lowest
caste, he would receive neither water
nor bread from her. tried to per-
suade him to take it that he might
live. but he. said that in our state, with
but few hours more to linger, what
was a little more or less suffering to
us-why should he give up his fato
for such an object7 No; he preferred
to die unpolluted."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
KEYPORT AND
HAzLET MAY
BE ONE PLACE

Keyport, June 1:-Keyport has a
plan on foot to give opportunities for
It's further development as a summer
resort, a year round residential SUI
burb of New York and Newark and
a manufacturing city. 1t is believed
that the city's progress along these
lines would be accelerated by the an
nexation of Hazlet, village one
half mile from the corporate lin
it's of Keyport.
Hazlet is on the direct line of the
New York & Long Branch railroad.
and its annexation to Keyport would
give the latter greatly improved rail-
road facilities, not only for the BEN
eft of commuters and summer visit
ors, but of shippers.
The plan has the support of the
Keyport publicity bureau, which is
composed of business men who have
the Interests of this city and its vi
cinity at heart.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01

A singular uniformity has been OBJ
served in the twist Of tree trunks. In
900 trees out Of every 1000 whose
trunks show torsion the direction of
the twist is from right to left. This
aecords with the direction Of the revo-
luton Of cyclonic storms in the north
ern hemisphere and also with that of
whirlpools. which the French savant
Jean Brunhes says almost invariably
turn from right to left. The question
arises whether in the southern hemi-
sphere the torsion Of tree trunks has
an opposite direction, like the cyclonic
motions of the atmosphere in that half
Of the globe Harper's Weekly.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
PORT READING MAN is
GUILTY OF ASSAULT
speoial to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, June 1:-Raf-
faele Simeone, of Port Reading,
when brought before Judge Lyon
here this morning, charged with as
sault and battery, changed his plea
OF not guilty, to guilty, and was re-
manded for sentence.
Simeone assaulted Luigi Ciardi-
clio, also of Port Reading, while
they were returning from a dance on
March 20. DR.. Ira Spencer, Of
Woodbridge, testified to having
treated Ciardiello after the assault.
The jury tomorrow Will try John
Zulla, of Port Reading, charged with
illegal selling Of liquor, and Frank
Farkas. Louis 10th and John Roska,
all charged with assault and battery.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
~
UNCONSCIOUS HUMoR.
The Way It Sometimes Crops Out In
Examination Papers.

The Way It Sometimes Crops Out In
Examination Papers.
"About the driest thing In the world
is the reading of a lot of examination
papers," said a young University of
Pennsylvania English instructor re-
Gently, ''but occasionally the monotony
of an evening of such work is relieved
by a bit of humor. Frequently stu
dents try to be funny, thinking, per-
haps, that they will in this way get on
the right side of the man who marks
the papers, but such attempts are usu-
ally fat failures. 1t is the unconscious
bits of humor that are the gems.
"A short time ago l gave as a sub
jeet for an essay to one of my fresh
man classes My Impressions Of Penn
sylvania.' One youth wrote his name
at the top Of his paper and then sat
through the entire hour, gazing at the
ceiling, apparently unable to get a
start. Then at the end he handed in
the blank piece of paper AS piece
Of satire 1t would have been excellent,
but am sure he had no such inten-
ton. The blank paper merely repre-
sented his inability to get his impress
sions in writing and not the lack of
impressions.
"A short time ago a history profes-
sor asked the question, What caused
the French rebellion of 1902 One of
the replies was merely, Too much
Bourbon If this answer had come
from an ordinary student he would
have given the writer credit for a
witty answer, but 1t was written by
serious minded youth from the coun-
try, who, he was sure, was incapable
of such an effort and probably did not
even know there was whisky by that
name Truly the unconscious are the
gems" Philadelphia Record.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
P. 0. S, OF A. HAD BIG
MEETING IN BRUNSWICK
speotol to the rvBNrNe NEWS.

New Brunswick, June 1;-Uver 800
members were in line here last night
in parade prior to the district meet
ing of the Patriotic Order of Sons Of
America Washington Camp, of South
Amboy and camps from Plainfeld and
Dunellen were present. Several state
officers were present and spoke. Mayor
Morrison, of this city, delivered the ad-
dress Of the evening.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-01
EXPLORER is
OFF FOR THE
SOUTH POLE
Secial bv United Press Wire.

sHecial bD United Press Wire.
London, June 1.-THE steamship
Terra Nova, Captain Robert Scott
commanding, sailed today from the
West India dock bound for the south
pole. An elaborate ceremonial was
to have marked the explorers de-
parture, but it was abandoned on
account Of King Edwards death. The
Terra Nova will sail first to New
Zealand, then a start will be made
for Antarctic waters in November.