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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11
The Gutter.

II amt the failures he may meet
That keeps a man from winnin-
It's the encouragement complete
That blocks a new beginning.
You want to quit your habits bad,
And when the shadows httin'
Make life seem worthesslike an sad
You want to quit your quittin'l
You want TO quit a-lyin' down
An saying hope is over.
Because the fields are bare an brown
Where once We lived in clover.
When jolted from the water cart
It's painful 10 be hittin'
The earth but make another start,
Cheer up, an quit your quittin'!
Although the game seems rather sim.
Don't be a doleful doubter.
There's always one more innin'
You're not "A down an outer
But fortunes pretty sure 10 flee
From folks content with sittin'
Around and sayin life's n. g.
You've got TO quit your quittinl
Washington star.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11

Is II true, 0 Christ In heaven,
That the highest suffer most?
That the strongest wander furthest,
And more helplessly ere lost?
That the mark Of rank In nature
Is capacity for pain?
And the anguish Of the singer
Makes the sweetness OF the straini
is II true, o Christ in heaven
That whichever way we go,
Walls Of darkness must surround us,
Things we would but can not know;
That the infinite must bound us
Like a temple veil unrent.
Whilst the finite ever wearies.
So that none's therein contentf
Is It true. o Christ In heaven,
That the fulness vet TO come
Is so glorious and so perfect
That to know would strike us dumb
That II ever for a moment
We could pierce beyond the sky
with these poor dim eyes Of mortals
We should just see God and die?
Helen Hunt Jackson.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11
Annual Meeting.

To the Stockholders of the Ben
nington Park Lawn Cemetery.
Notice is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the Bennington
Park Lawn Cemetery will be held at
the office of o. NJ. Barber in the vii
lage of Bennington, in the county of
Bennington and state Of Vermont on
the 18th day of January, 1910 at
1880 o'clock D. m. for the purpose OF
transacting the following business:
/ The election of officers
3 To see what, if any dividend
shall be declared upon the stock OF
said corporation
3. To hear and consider the re
ports of the officers of said corpora
ton
4. To transact any other bushes:
found proper when met.
Dated at Bennington this 3lst day
of December 1900.
H. p. Woodman Clerk.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11

"Oh, no, said the impecunious au-
thor Il don't mind my poor, bare gar
ret Homer. you know, wrote his mas
terpieces up under the roof Where's
your authority for that?" He Ger.
tainly wrote them in the Attic"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11
Bear sHIpwREcksO SAILORS
Steamers Saved Many Men From
Lest Vessels

New York, Jan. 9.-The steamer
Altai, from Central American and
West Indian parts, brought in To-
night the master and crew Of the
f0undered threemasted schooner
Nettie Champion, which became Wa
term0gged December 27. four days
out from Norfolk, bound for New
York
The steamer Bermudian, which at
midnight was 270 miles south east Of
Sandy Hook. reports by wireless that
she is bringing TO port 80 shipwreck-
ed sailors, the crews of three lost
ships, the Norwegian bark Crown.
numbering IL; the schooner George
L. Drake and the Italian bark Filipo
Denegey.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11
Rev. |. W. Williams restIfIes

Rev. I. w Williams, Huntington, w
Va, writes us as follows. This is to
certify that | used Foleys Kidney
Remedy for nervous exhaustion and
kidney trouble and am free to say
that Foley's Kidney Remedy will do
all that you claim for it."-Qulnlan's
Pharmacy
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11
Fool Bee. Wise Moth

The busy bee. as We may see.
Improves each shining hour
And yet compared with any moth
IL lacks for mental power
From dawnng light till dewy night,
1t tolls with restless wing
That man may steal It's store. and then
Eat every blessed hing.
The moth will let a fellow sweat
To pay the tailor's bill,
Then all the lazy summer months
On clothes viii eat It's I'LL
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11
Natures Gift to the Eel.

nature OlTt 10 tne Eel
The eel has "A singular formation by
which It is enabled to retain life
longer than any other fish. This is a
bladder at the back of its upper fins,
which it fills with water and is there
by enabled to moislen It's gills for a
considerable time when out OF water.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11
Notice

Whereas my wife, Florence Crit
fiths Squires has left my bed and
board without just cause or proyoca-
ton, hereby forbid any person har-
boring or trusting ner on my account
as / shall pay no bills of her contract
ing after this date.
George Squires.
Bennington, VT, Dec. 2S, 1909
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A WAY II Has.

de truth, said Brother Williams,
rs lax a rubber band. De mo- you
stretch de mo- 1t comes back ter de
place whar it started FUN. Atlanta
Constitution.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-11

will cause you no embarrassment if
it has been laundered here. In fact.
you'll be rather proud of displaying
such immaculate linen. If you have
never felt such pride, it's your own
fault. k
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17
LEG A MASS OF HUMOR

about seven years ago a small
abrasion appeared on my right leg
just above my ankle. 1t irritated me
SO that | began to scratch it and it
began to spread until my leg from my
ankle to the knee was one solid scale
like a scab. The irritation was always
worse at night and would not allow
me to sleep, or my wife either, and it
was completely undermining our
health. l lost fifty pounds in weight
and was almost out Of my mind with
pain and chagrin as no matter where
the irritation came, at work, on the
street or in the presence of company,
would have to scratch it until | had
the blood running down into my shoe.
| / simply cannot describe my suffer
ing during those seven years. The
pain, modification, loss of sleep, both
to myself and wife is simply indescrib-
able on paper and one has to eXpe-
rience it to know what it is.
Il tried all kinds of doctors and rem
edies but / might as well have thrown
my money down a sewer. They would
dry up for little while and fill me
with hope only to break out again just
as bad if not worse. l had given up
hope of ever being cured when l was
induced by my wife to give the Cuti-
cura Remedies a trial. After taking
the Cuticura Remedies for a little
while / began to see change, and
after taking a dozen bottles of Cuti-
cura Resolvent, in conjunction with
the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint-
ment, the trouble had entirely disap-
peared and my leg was as fine as the
day l was born. Now after lapse OF
six months with no signs of a recur-
renee I feel perfectly safe in extend
ing to you my heartfelt thanks for the
good the Cuticura Remedies have done
for me. l shall always recommend
them to my friends. w. H. White,
312 E. Cabot ST., Philadelphia, Pa, Feb.
4 and Apr. 10, 1909"
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the President" On these occasions the pres
dent and Mrs. Washington were conducted to
sofa placed under a canopy. The president did
not stay there much, but moved about among the
other guests with the dignifed courtesy which
always marked him in society.
On his birthday in 1897 he and Mrs. Washing
ton were in Philadelphia. The ships in the har
Dor were dressed with flags and the houses were
decorated. Every half hour the church bells rang.
Government officials and foreign diplomats
called to congratulate him. The ball at night was
in the amphitheater, specially foored and deco
rated There were about 500 guests and accord
ing to an eye witness every countenance be
spoke pleasure and appreciation; even Democrats
forgot for a moment their enmity
The next year. 1893 Washington attended the
celebration given by his friends and neighbcrs
at Alexandria and some accounts declare that it
was the last time he did So He at Mount
Vernon in 1899 his birthday, it being the occa-
sion of one of the greatest festivities in the his
tory of the mansion the marriage Of Nelly Gus
it's The ceremony performed at early
candleght in the banquet and attend
ed by the gentefolk from all the country around.
In spite of the wedding however Washington
seems to have slipped away for look in on the
doings at Alexandria,; for there is an account OF
that celebration in an old copy OF the Alexandria
Gazette in which his presence is mentioned. The
great event of that particular day a sort Of
sham attack on the town by three companies of
local infantry They embarked the
armed schooners Neptune Trial and Mercury and
succeeded in making two landings, but after "a
heavy and continuous street fighting" were finally
compelled to surrender
The general had arrived after the affair
began and when the evoutons closed he
presented his highest respects to all the parties
engaged in them" Apparently being due for the
wedding eight miles distant, he did remain
for any of the dinners which followed and at
which extreme number of toasts drunk
that trembes at the thought of how the
youthful soldiers acquitted themselves at the ball
in the evening.
That the last of his birthdays which
Washington himself lived to celebrate, but his
home town faithfully continued the custom.
G. W. P. GUSTS, the grandson of Mrs. Washing
ton, spoke at the public dinner in 1849 and said
it the sixtieth celebration of February %
which he had attended IN Alexandria, The
count of that dinner, by the way, says that 1.-The
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17

sumptuous provision was enjoyed with much
hilarity, tempered however with moderation"
Besides the birthnight balls there another
feature of the early celebrations in Alexandria
which was peculiar to that town Washington
had founded an orphan asylum there and when
on his birthday there would be a meeting, with
an orator, in one of the churches the orphans
were conspicuOusiy present and came in for
special piece of Grafton. The account of the
meeting in 1910 says that after the Grafton a col
lection was taken up for the benefit of the asy
lum
The Alexandria celebrations often ad
dressed by G. w. P GUSTS. In 1911 Richard B.
Lee was the orator Some idea of newspaper
methods of that day may be had from the fact
that although the celebration that time was men
toned in the Gazette of February 3d. it not
until February % that a real account appeared.
During the civil war the celebration of the
birthday ceased Alexandria ardently south
ern in it's sympathies and was, moreover too
much in the track of war to take notice of even
it's own pet anniversary 1t was not until 1870
that it began feeble revival of the old festival
That time there merely presentation OF
stand of colors to the cadets OF st. Johns acad.
envy by the young ladies of Mount Vernon Insti.
tute.
In 1872 the cadets paraded and there was a
birthnight ball once more In 1876 real celebra-
ton was arranged, to which thousands of strang-
ers" and upon which occasion the houses
that were mourning at Lees death'-Robert E.
Lee-"al displayed the American flag" Many
houses displayed pictures of Lee and Washington
side by side But there no birthnight ball,
and on the platform of the speakers stand there
was a vacant chair placed to honor the memory
of G.. w. P GUSTS. "the old man eloquent"
Since 1875 the celebrations have been rather
irregular in the town which originated them. But
of late years a society has been formed which
arranges and carries out elaborate programme
every alternate year. Whereas the orphans used
to be center of birthday attention, the interest
is divided now between the fremen ard the sol.
diers.
Last year there detachments of federal
troops and of United States sailors in addition to
the District militia. Washington has a perma-
nent claim to pose as Alexandrias "favorite son"
and these biennial affairs are the biggest things
of their sort in the country. February % is the
AIexandrians glorious Fourth.
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COULDN'T DO IT.
The Wonderful Y. NJ. c. A.

In the past ten years no other reli-
gi0us organization has received so
much money as the Y. NJ. c. A. Mil
lions have been raised for new build
ings all over the land, and with no ap-
parent strain. It's businesslike admin
iStration of it's vast resources, its en-
ergy in pushing it's wOrk-in the cities
and through the railroad, army and
navy branches-and its fine policy in
following the armies in all recent
wars, have created for it a worldwide
enthusiasm. At the last banquet OF
the international committee, Senator
Root affirmed that they had made
their way by working with men more
than by talking to them, saying:
Come with us" not Go do that
BY their appeal to all classes of Chris
tians, as well as to nOn-Christians
they have kept out of dOctrinal theOl
osy, and by their activity in good works
they have escaped cant in religion
All interested in saving our boys anC
young men rejoice in their worldwide
SuCceSs.-Leslie's Weekly.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17
CLEAR-HEADED
Head Bookkeeper Must be Reliable,

The chief bOOkkeeper in a large bust
ness house in one of our great West
ern cities speaks of the harm coffee
did for him:
My wife and | drank our first cup
Of Postum little over two years ago,
and VIC have used it ever since, to the
entire exclusion of tea and coffee. 1t
happened in this way:
About three and half years ago
I had an attack of pneumonia, which
left memento in the shape of dyspep-
STA, or rather, to speak more correctly,
neuralgia o. the stomach. My cup of
cheer had always been coffee or tea,
but l became convinced, after time,
that they aggravated my stomach trou.
Bile. | happened to mention the mat
ter to my grocer one day and he sug
gested that | give Postum a trial.
Next day it came, but the cook made
the mistake of not boiling it sufficient
ly, and we did not like it much. This
WAS, however, soon remedied, and now
we like it so much that we will never
change back. Postum, being a food
beverage instead of a drug, has been
the means of curing my stomach trou-
BILE, I verify believe, for 1 am well
man today and have used no other
remedy.
My work as chief bookkeeper in our
Co.'S branch house here is of a very
combining nature. During my coffee.
drinking days I was subject to nerv-
BUSINESS and the blues in addition to
my sick spells. These have left me
since I began using Postum and I can
2onscientiously recommend it to those
whose work confines them to long
hours of severe mental exertion'
There's a Reason
Look in pkgs. for the little book
THE Road to Wellville."
Ever read the above letter. new
appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
interest
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Picture Taken with Fish-Eye Lens.

In sight, from the feet to the sky over
head and all around the horizon, cover
ing an angle of $50 degrees. 1t will
photograph objects above water or
while submerged in lake or pond. The
professor has been at work on his
camera for three years, but it was I'M
known to the public until he showed a
series of photographs at the interna-
tiOnal show at Dresden, where they at
ttscted marked attention.
The ordinary camera reproduces
only what is Immediately in front of a
small circle represented by its lens.
If Prof. Woods device be placed on a
floor the projecting fish-eye will photo
graph all four sides Of the room and
the ceiling at the same flash. If held
c'ose to man, say a half foot from
his waist, it will photograph all on
either side of him and all above his
| head and below his feet. Should it be
suspended from a balloon, it would
take a panorama of city out to the
| horizon.
The photographs that won a prize al
the international exhibit are unique
One shows string of Johns Hopkins
students that Prof. Wood lined up on
a curbstone. The result has concave
effect, but the camera caught every
man in the line. Another shows sew
eral students in a circle The camera
caught every one of them and included
the sky and the cobblestones in the
street. They appear, it is explained
just as they would to fish looking ur
from a pond at group Of men around
| circular railing
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17
The FIGHT Against Tuberculosis.

Interest in the anti-tUberculosis cam
paign now being waged throughout the
United States is evidenced by the fact
that in the year 1909 1853 new anti-tu-
berculosis associations were formed,
1873 tuberculosis sanatOria and hospit
ais We're established, and 81 tubercu-
lOsis dispensaries were opened. Com
pared with previous years, this is the
best record thus far made in the fight
against consumption in this country.
During the year 1909, 43 more asso,
cations for the prevention of tubercu-
losis were formed than during the pre-
yious y months, and 50 more hospitals
and sanatoria were established. Or
January 1, 1910, there were in the Uni.
ted States 394 anti-tuberculosis assOci-
ations. $50 hospitals and tuberculosis
aanatoria and 265 special tuberculosis
diSpenSaries.
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The Effect Remained.

The bookkeeper had spent a few
weeks at his old home, and remarked
upon the many things which still re
manned the same as he had left then
when a boy.
Il recall the day | left home" he
said reminiscently. Il was saying
farewell to mother and in my confu
sion l broke big icicle from the gut
ter of the house and threw it into the
creek. And when I returned las
week"
You found the icicle still there,
interrupted the alert stenographer.
; NO" smiled the bookkeeper, kind
;ly, "but l found the water still cold.
Cleveland Leader.
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during his lifetime.
The honor of having originated the public OBJ
servance of February % is one of which the town
of Alexandria, Va, is jealousy proud. Alexandria
was Washington's county town. He attended
church there; he voted and paid taxes there;
his physician lived there; he bought of it's trades
men, contributed to its charities, was head OF its
Masonic lodge, organized it's fire brigade.
Washington and Alexandria either contradict
the theory that prophet is not appreciated at
home or they are an exception to prove the rule
Right after the close of the revolution Alexandria
began to celebrate the birthday of her hero.
Perhaps the old town had acquired the habit,
for the brthnight balls in honor of King George
had been the climax of social functions under the
old regime At any rate never was allegiance
more ardently transferred and the new birthnlght
balls became even more elaborate than the old.
Alexandria having set the fashion, other
places took up the custom. In 1884 the French
officers who had served under Washington cele-
brated February % in Paris; that is to say, it
was not then February %. but, according to the
reckoning OF that day. February II.
While he was president the birthday was al
ways celebrated at the city which was the CAPT
tai for the time being At night there were gala
performances at the theaters and a ball which
the president and his wife attended.
It is recorded that one of these balls in Phila-
delphia was envened by the fact that many of
the young ladies wore twined among their curls
bandeaux embroidered with the words, Long live
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17
REMARKABLE CAMERA LENS
Professor Photographs Every
thing in Sight.

Baltimore, Md.-Prof. Robert VIII
liams Wood of the chair of experiment
tai physics of Johns Hopkins univer-
sity, has received word from the Off
cials of the International Photographic
exposition at Dresden, Germany, that
there has been awarded to him a prize
for his striking exhibit of photographs
made with his fish-eye camera, and
the fish.
Prof. Woods camera does not have
the usual fiat lens, but protective
bull's-eye that photographs everything
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17

jury the hook, but she only got deeper
in the mire. Now will the average
dairyman, when interviewed by the
milk inspector, point his finger at the
defenseless bossy and say, II am in
nocent, she does it herself" Isn't
this pretty mess the average COW
finds herself in? Where is her chance
for justice? How can she prove an
alibi?
There is but one thing for her to do,
and that is to stop drinking water.
ut can she do it. without injury to
her health and best interests? II not
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17
WOMAN RUNS FOR SENATE
Candidacy or Miss Vida Goldstein Puts
New Life into the Australian
Campaign.

Melbourne-Miss Vida Goldstein,
president of the Women's Political as
ISOLATION of Melbourne, is candidate
for the senate at the federal elections.
Miss Goldstein is a talented young
woman and the acknowledged leader
of the woman suffragists of Victoria.
Her candidacy has put new life into
the campaign The women of the fed
Grated states of Australia were given
the vote in national elections in 1902,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-02-17

tba isolation of Washingtons birthplace. In con
junction with the erection of the governmental
monument at Wakefield a substantial pier was
built extending some distance out into the Foto.
mac. but this pier is now in shoal water ana
none of the larger steamers plying on inc roto
Mo- can reach if. In consequence the only avail
ab1a means of reaching Wakefield is to take pas
sage on one of the steamers bound for Colonial
Beach. the leading summer resort OF the lower
Potomac. and upon arrival at the beach to either
charter launch for the trip to Wakefield or else
reach the same goal by considerable drive over
roads that are none too good Even this time
consuming method of making a pilgrimage to
Wakefield is impracticable in winter.
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ProuidentlaI Interest Gone.

The philanthropist had persuaded
the noted tenor to sing at the enter
tainment of his mission Sunday
school.
The Italian relieved himself of q
classic which grated on the unframed
ears of the impatient children. But
the white-haired philanthropist was
moved. With tears in his eyes and
sobs in his thoat he insisted that the
;tenor's song had surely been heard in
Heaven.
j IF it has," interrupted Disguised
youth, "it's all off with this school
apd we might as well disband."
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appreciation for its associations. A
ceedng generation, however, demolished the
chimney and the remnants of the walls in order
to secure the bricks.
A marble slab, bearing inscription giving
the date of Washingtons birth and other infor
nation, which had been set into the great arch
Of the fireplace above mentioned was removed to
the old family buryng ground, but in placing it
beneath two ancient fig-trees, planted by the
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and Victoria was the last of the states
to yield the state suffrage, which it die
in 1908.
Miss Goldstein stands as strict
non-party candidate. She advocates G
federal marriage and divorce law, alb
tsolutely equal for men and women
Aequal opportunities for women in the
public service, and she favors elective
ministries. She is an ardent National
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