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The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
BLACK BEETLE RUINS ASTER
Much Havoc If Allowed to Run Unhampered.
CRy L. MARTINpALEl

Be on the lookout for the black beetle, which does such deadly work among the asters. Don't let a day go by without an inspection of your plants, for, If he comes, and his pres ence is not discovered at once, he will accomplish his fell purpose before you are aware. I have had plants ruined in day by the ravages of this most destructive creature. As soon as one is discovered prepare an infusion of soap and kerosene after the following formula: Soap, one-half pound. and a teacupful of kerosene. Shave the soap finely and pour hot water over 1t. Set it on the stove to become liquid. When melted bring it to boil and add kerosene. Stir well un- til an emulsion results To one part of this emulsion add ten parts water Spray the plants all over with the mixture. If this is used as soon as the first beetle puts in an appearance it will generally prevent others from coming. If they do come it will soon rout them, if you are persistent in its use and it is applied liberally.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
College Growing serIou..

The report comes from one of our great universities that animal spirits are on the decline among the under. graduates. There is a greater tone of seriousness on the campus these days, they say, and in certain localities unmistakeable tendencies toward an in- terest in books. Eccentricity and riot. ous excesses have given place to gray ity and desire to get on in the world.
 While we should all be sorry to see some of the picturesque student GUS toms disappear. we can easily spare the old-time putting COWS in the chapel, painting numerals on university prop erty, harassing instructors and man. handling fellow students. It takes a strong will-power to laugh at some of the typical college pranks of the elder day-Success Magazine.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Heads of Navy Are Annoyed By Women

minated in the court-martial of two officers, illustrates the prominent part women play in navy circles.
 Almost everybody knows of the mutual i'll feeling existing between the navy women and the department Every once in a while something hap pens to widen this breach. Only a few days ago Ensign Charles M Aus tin, son of Representative Richard W. Austin of Tennessee, was deprived of an especially desirable berth by the navy department merely because he got married. He had been detached from the dispatch boat Dolphin at the Washington navy yard and ordered to Japan for duty as student at tache at the American embassy at Tokyo for the purpose of studying the Japanese language. On the way to his new post of duty he stopped at his former home in Tennessee and was married to a girl he had known for many years.
 This was too much for the unro- mantle departmental authorities, who suddenly decided that a married en- sign would not make as good a stu dent of the Japanese language as a bachelor. Accordingly his orders were revoked and instead of spending his honeymoon in Tokyo he will have less interesting service at the naval training station on the Pacific coast. He will, however, have his wife.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Chinese Take to Smoking Cigarettes

growing enterprises, Consul General James T. Dubois at Singapore, cited as follows an instance to show how the investing public is sometimes ta- ken in in the exploitation of the rub Der industry there:
 An estate was sold to promoters for $150,000. The syndicate got an old planter who knew the estate to put a fiotation value on it. He named $250,000. The promoters were not sat isfied. Another expert examined and reported. His price was $350,OOO.
 British and American gold was pour ing into the country and the get-ricb- quick spirit was born. Another expert was called in. He was told of the for mer valuations and that they were un- satisfactory. He valued the estate at $5O0,0O0.
 Just at this time, rubber took a big jump in the London and New York markets and another expert was asked to report and he placed the Notation price at $750,000 and the syndicate in order to have it in round numbers made it an even $SO0,000 and floated it at this price.
 People fought for the stock, the share issue was oversubscribed and many of them immediately sold at good advance. All this was done with in few months without the slightest improvement on the property except the natural growth of the few hundred acres of Para plants which had re- gently been planted.
 Trained white supervisors on the rubber estates are in demand, the con- sul general reports, and there is scarcity of labor and consequent high wages.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
RUNNING THE DAIRY RIGHT
People Willing to Pay Big Price for Milk If They Are Sure That
 It Is Clean.
CRv R. M. srERL1NGl

H. J.J
 We take pains to let our customers know how we run things in our dairy and charge two cents more than we used to get for our milk. Our cus- toners pay 1t without grumbling, for they know our dairy is immaculate and our milk pure and clean, and believe we could get an extra two cents if we had the courage to ask for it. I know farmer in New Jersey who has built up a dairy herd of 200 COWS and by producing certified milk gets 20 cents a quart and cannot sup ply the demand. Of course he has a big market in New York, you say. That is true. but he manages to sell every gallon of his milk in towns sur rounding his dairy. IT miles from New York city. This goes to show that there are always enough people. even outside the big cities, to buy milk which they know to be absolutely clean, and at prices a great deal high CT than they have been paying for ordinary stuff dipped out of a rusty can by slovenly miIkmen.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Handling Lambina Ewes.

At lambing time a eve desires quie, and isolation, and she should therefore be put in a pen by herself for a few days.
 She is apt to do better if she is kept by herself.
 Sometimes, in the case of twins, tn, eve will abandon one and let ii starve unless it is fed by hand. If
 snned by herself she is more apt to accept both offsprings. When by her. self she is under better control and more easily handled.
 The eve should be watched, and upon the first indication of inactivity and listlessness. denoting the approach of the lambing period, she should be taken from the rest of the flock and kept by herself as much as possible The appearance of the udder and other conditions also betray the condition of the eve.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
FLOWER GARDEN NOTES.

Watch the roses. Hand picking will keep the rose bug in abeyance; whale oil soap finishes the rose slug. and kerosene emulsion is death to the aphis
 During the hot weather when rain does not fall, keep stirring the dust mulch, and you will be agreeably sur prised at the result
 Sow seeds of perennials just as soon as they mature. Be sure to water them well, and keep down the weeds
 If the aster blight makes its ap- pearance, pinch the diseased leaves of. and dust the plants with equal parts of fresh slacked lime and flour of sulphur. Place these ingredients in a coarse bag, which shake over the diseased plants.
 Don't get into the habit of sprink- ling the surface of the ground. but when your plants need water apply it generously, or not at all. Water after sunset if possible.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Girls Good Looks Are Bar to Work

Ter.
 'Yes," she said, half-angry and half amused, q have been overwhelmed with offers of marriage as well as of employment. But these offers do not appeal to me. Most men forget that I have my own sweetheart, and if I were inclined to consider a second time it seems that mine should be the privilege of inviting his attentions without having them thrust upon me-
 At first I did not take such things seriously, but since then have known other girls who have shared the same fate, merely because they are more beautiful than their colleagues.
 "I have worked in offices where there were IT girls, and by the end of the third week I was embarrassed by repeated offers of company, pleas ures and the like by various men in the office. This gave rise to some bitter passes between some of the other girls and myself.
 T hope to be married by the autumn of next year, but until then I wish to do something"
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
The Efficient Sow.

A SOW does not reach her highest et- fciency until the second or third year. If after that time her perform ance is inferior she should not be kept longer. Yet a good SOW will do well for a much longer time. We would not have SOW bred before she is eight months old, giving her a good chance to develop. Sows which have two filters per year wear out sooner than those which have a single litter per year. Sows that are confined when nursing filters seem to lose their vigor more than when they are al- lowed to roam. Also sows which have their filters in winter, especially the early part, must be given extra care or they will be greatly weakened be- fore their pigs are large enough to wean. For two filters per year we find that March and September are the time most advantageous to the SOW, other things being equal.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
POULTRY NOTES.

Keep no breeding stock that is weak.
 Use the eggs while fresh for hatch ing.
 Supply grit and fresh water. Pro vide shade.
 Do not overfeed or overfatten the parent stock.
 Feed the ducklings not only grair. but meat or milk (protein food in some form) and plenty of green food
 Both mites and body lice accumu- late very quickly in hot weather. and cause no end of trouble.
 Farm folks are seeing from theil more up-to-the-minute neighbors that good housing and feeding pay big -eturns on the work and investment.
 As rule more may be obtained for a two-pound chick in the summer than for one twice as heavy in the fall. and much feed, work and risk saved
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Ocean vs. Bartender.

Do you remember where they stung us ten cents for beer on the pavilion at Brighton, where we sat at table and looked at the ocean?'' he asked. Well, when you all went away T walked around to the bar and got one for five. A shame to charge you five cents more just to sit down and look at the ocean. isn't it?"
 "Oh, I don't know" she said. 'T'd rather pay the extra five than have to stand by the bar and look at the bar tender if he was anything like some I have New York Press.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
CANARY BIRD HANGS ITSELF
Tires of Life When Singing Mate Dies and Proceeds to Commit
 Suicide.

Seaford, Del-Grievtng over the death of another bird, which had been its singing mate for over two years, canary owned by Mrs. Mar tin Hammond, who lives near here. committed suicide by hanging itself in the top of it's cage.
 The little bird had made several at tempts to end its life, but was always discovered in time. Its method was to fly to the top of the cage and push its head between the metal bars and then drop its feet.
 Thinking the little songster had grown tired of confinement, the cage ioor was opened, but the bird refused to come out and afterward would not eat.
 Its last attempt to end all was not discovered until too late to save it's life. The canary was beautiful songster.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Bolt Hits Buried casket.

Zanesville. O.-In an electricaI storm a lightning bolt struck flower vase over the grave of Grover Moore, In the Roseville cemetery. Shattering the vase, the bolt plowed through the earth and found resting place six feet below the surface, shattering the coffin and box in which it was con- fined. Both the box and coffin were easily seen through the hole which the bolt had bored through the ground The damage was repaired next day Moore was killed in street car acci- dent in Akron a year ago
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
POULTRY LIKE GREEN FEEDS
Regarded as Absolutely Necessary Where Fowls Are Confined
 In Summer.
Ry MILLER PURvIs.)

CBy MILLER PURVIS)
 regard green feeds as absolutely necessary to the welfare of poultry old and young, both summer and win ter. Where fowls are kept confined ii hust be supplied to them and where they have full liberty it may be fed to them with profit during the months when vegetation is somewhat burned by the heat
 A letter from a friend exactly coin sides with the experience. He writes that last summer he had a batch of rape which he cut and fed to his hogs. He says his hens ate this rape as greedily as they would if they had not been shut up where they could not be out to find grass for themselves. have noticed this more than once.
 Throw out a lot of fresh lettuce leaves where the hens can get it and they will eat it up clean. Cabbage stumps thrown out to the hens will be picked clean, even where the hens run at large.
 Those who must keep their hens confined will find that a small plat of rape will furnish a large quantity of green feed during the summer.
 It will be large enough to begin cutting in five or six weeks and as soon as 1t is cut of will throw up new shoots, thus renewing itself constant ly, so the same ground my be cut over time after time.
 Lettuce or dandelions make a very good green feed for laying hens or growing chicks. There seems to be some medicinal property about both these vegetables which promotes good health in the fowls.
 Both are easily grown and furnish good supply of feed if the tops are cut of instead of pulling the plants out by the roots when gathering the feed.
 Turnips and beet tops, mustard. pea vines and all other tender green stuff will be relished, and save much feed of more costly kind.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30

DOOR To has suffered many priva l tions at the hands of the national government in the process of civilizing him. but the hardest blow yet must be no more fire water" sold on the ceded lands of Minnesota. Lo will take his seat on the water wagon at once.
 The order includes several counties and if carried out to the letter would even prevent the sale of liquor in St. Paul and Minneapolis. which stand on ceded lands.
 Under state laws the counties en- braced in the order-Becker, Cass, Clay. Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman, Beltrami. Itasca. Polk. Clear Water. Red Lake. Crow Wing. Wadene and Ottertail-have enjoyed the license system of the state and To, who dear ly loves his fire water, has been able
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
HALF VICTORY IN P1TTsBuRa.

ola and New Processes in stOgy-
 making Show WOman's Place.
 Today in the stogy factories of Pitts burg there are 2,211 women and only 46S men. And in three particularly large "trust' factories, in which the last word in cheap, quick production has been spoken, there are 1925 wom en and exactly ten men. Everybody's says.
 On the one hand there ig the male hand-stogy maker. He just takes to- bacco leaves and, with his own hands without the help of machines or even of tools, (except knife and clip), con- structs, all by himself a complete smoke On the other hand the most nearly perfected type of the team-and- machine process, which is taking place, and which makes of his single, com plete operation a triple one.
 The girl who begins the process is not stogymaker at all. She is only a bunch breaker" With the help of her machine she gives the inside filler leaves of the stogy their first outside covering, the binder" The second out side covering, the wrapper" is still to be put on.
 Then the half-dressed stogies, in- stead of being shaped" deftly and delicately by the fingers of a crafts man, are crushed and squeezed into form by "molds" and presses"
 The finishing touches are put on by a most ingenious machine called a sue ton table. It is full of little holes through which currents of air, sucked downward, straighten out the tobacco leaf and hold it taut and fiat while a die descending cuts it into exactly the right size. The suction table (Mr. Ruskin would have called 1t a vam- pire) sucks the last few drops of blood from the art and craft of stogymaking. The girl at the suction table takes the piece of tobacco designed for her by the machine and trolls" 1t around the half- finished stogy, giving 1t it's wrapper" and thus completing it.
 Two girls and three machines have now done what one man did before They haven't done it so well. But they udlG QOuG IL 1dSlCI duQ CLcdDGI. AuQ there you have a little social revolu- tion happening before your eyes. Wom- CD have driven men into a corner in the stogy trade in Pittsburg and they have done it through their natural af- fnity with the most modern, the most mechanical and automatic, the most simplifed and cheapened factory pro cesses.
 Of the 463 men in the stogy factories of Pittsburg l6S are still complete hand stogymakers. Of the 2,211 women in the stogy factories of PittsbuFg only twelve have become hand stogymakers and they make Italian stogies, which are held together along the side with paste and have no finish at either end. The victory in Pittsburg, therefore, has been only partial victory. Woman has got into industry, but not by excelling or equaling mans technique.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Sad Red Men Must Ride on the Wagon

to procure it without restriction. By the new order he will have to go dry
 The provisions of the treaties by which the lands were ceded prohibit the introduction of Intoxicating liquors in the whole northern part of the state, except by consent of congress or the president, but up to the present time the provisions have not been enforced owing to opposition from the white population, which vastly outnumbers the reds.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30

NY ASHINGTON. - America S w taught the people of the Chinese empire to smoke cigarettes. In re- port to this government on foreign trade by Consul General Charles Den by of Vienna, in which he described the class of foreign markets which may be created by American enter prise, and then supplied the consul general says:
 One of the most conspicuous ex- amples of such a market is the de- mand for cigarettes in China Ten years ago the cigarette was an article used in China by a small number of people, chiefly foreigners. The field attracted the attention of group of American manufacturers who ex- amined into it and decided to intro duce the cigarette to the Chinese peo- pie by American methods. The result is that now the cigarette is popular throughout the empire"
 The international opium conference to be held at The Hague next fall will have a very general representation of the powers, according to the latest in formation reaching the state depart ment.
 T- I-s-
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Must Have Exercise.

Pigs whose mothers have plenty c. range are not going to die from the thumps, but they are going to be strong and vigorous growers. It is natural for the pigs to follow their mother and 1t is best. She will not go too fast nor too far for their little short legs. The pigs will acquire keen appetites and build the foundation whereon to lay pork at profit. Feed ing heavily and running off flesh use lessly are not advisable with any ami nal, but some exercise is essential to health in a growing animal and an ab- sence of health means an absence of profit.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Feeds for Younc Piq.

Bran. milk and pasturage are some of the bulky feeds well adapted to the real young pig. They help to distend the digestive system, which enables the pig to use cheaper and coarser feeds to better advantage than the pig raised on concentrates.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
No Profit in cheap Stock.

So long as people are taught to fol low the beaten paths of by-gone ages and to breed from cheap stock, they will continue as of old to sell their product for little or nothing in the open market
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Re Go. Another Ioh.

We make it rule here,' said the warden to the new prisoner. ito as- sign prisoners 10 the trades with which they are most familiar and will make no exception in your case. What is your occupation?"
 I'm an ae-cpiane chauffeur" re. piled ;he new toa:cer. us he grinned a gruesome grin.
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30
Keep Cows for Profit.

Keep COWS for profit. not because you always have kept them and hesi- tate to make chg
The Holbrook news., 1910-09-30

In reporting to this government on opportunities in Malaysia for rubber
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19

EOR SALE miles ana half from Rem
I nington, l3 of mile from cent ride on
the HOOsick Falls trolley. acres of extra good
and tillahls land, Hay 10 winter horse and COW;
mile from church, trifle over Ia mile 10
school ? story IL room house. Is \ "a with ell.
Is XaO house is painted white, roof Is shingled.
Houss is well paper Ell and plastered. Celia
under whole house Barn 20 X "a. roof shinged.
has horse stall and COW tie hog house lSX
~, $50 strawberry plants. 80 currant bushes
apple trees. plenty of raspberries. also some
plum trees Well water near barn, never dry
Price $500 If sold before April 10th. If not.
will be withdrawn from the market. Nash &
Hutohins sTtf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19

ADMINISTRATORS SALE-rhe under
n signed administrator viii sell at public
auction on Wednesday, Feb. % 1910, at II
o'clock a. m. all the real estate of the late
Charles BOwles, situate in WOOdtOrd, W., and
consisting Of the home place of said Bowles,
containing about 10 acres of land upon which
il a dwelling house. barns and outbuildings.
Also three Of the pest wood lots in the town of
woOdfOrd, namely: Lot No, Il in the second
division of lots, containing about 40 acres;
Lot on Corbett Hill. so called containing about
I'D acres; Lot on Beef Hill. so called, contain
ing about l45 acres. Terms made known on
day of sale Lewis g.. Evans, Administrator.
John Robinson, Auctioneer. 30
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19
North BENNINGTON

Miss Ruth Eldred of Cambridge
spent Thursday and Friday at her
home here.
The Christian EndeavOr meeting
will be held at 6:l5 O'Clock on
Sunday evening in the Congregation
al church. The topic is "lntemper-
ance and other Sins of the Body"
The service will be led by Rev. Jas.
p. Harper All are cordially invited
to be present
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of he Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers

Frank ODen is visiting his brother
in North Pownal
John Riley Of Park street is in
North Adams today on business.
Miss Ruth Eddy of Troy is the
guest OF the Misses Van SantvOord
Rev. J. P. Cameron of Dalton, Mass
has been a guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
+. Endress
Mrs William Buss of Union street
is recovering from an attack OF grip
and pleurisy
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19
This ChangeahIe Weather is
Responsible for Colds and Pneumonia.

The hing worth KNOWN about pneumonia is that il
is cold that has attacked the lining OF the lungs.
Another fact worth knowing is that pneumonia attacks
only those whose systems lack sighting power TO drive
of the germ-a good many persons Who look strong
and robust lack this fighting power.
If al the first sign of the cold you take Father John S
Medicine, YOU not only cure the cold but noursh and
strengthen the whole system.
Then the little hea th microbes which exist 10 your
body gain vitality and force overcome the visiting
disease germ, whether OF pneumonia, grip other all
merit
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19

LOR SALE-Two farms and one piece Of
Il woodland. Fine small farm, 10 acres. and
good buildings, at Salisbury Depot Farm
III acres. good lot wood, COOL buildings, l
mile from SALISBURY Depot. Lot l75 acres,
100 in timber and IS in pasture, miles from
Salisbury. For particulars address c. =.
Oatman, ShaftsOur! VT. SSt2i'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-19
All Physicians

Must prescribe some Of the In
gradients that are contained In
hoods Sarsaparilla for all trou-
bles Of the blood, stomach, Kid
neys and liver.
They include sarsaparilla, stillingia,
yellow dock, gentian, wild cherry bark,
mandrake, dandehon, juniper berries,
pipsissewa, etc.
The combination and proportions are
our own formula and give power 10 cure
beyond the reach of any other prescrip-
ton or substitute. That's why it is
wise to get Hoods and only Hoods