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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-03
COMMISSIONERS, NOTICE.

u Estate Of EMMA J. MICHAELs.
The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District
OF BENNINGTON, COMMISSIONERS, to receive,
examine and adjust the claims and demands Of
all persons against the estate of Emma j. Mich
aes late of Bennington In said District deceased,
and all claims exhibited in offset thereto here
by give notice that we will meet for the pur-
pose aforesaid. at the Office Of Batchelder &
Bates in the Village Of Remington, in said Dis
trict on the % day of April 1910, aud 9th day OF
August 1910, from o'clock y. m, until o'clock
y. IN. ON e0ch of said days and that six months
from the lth day of February, A. ID. 1910, Is
the time limited by said Court Tor said creditors
to present their claims 10 va for examination
aud allowance.
Dated at Bennnton, Vt, this 18th day Of
February, A. ID. 1910.
JARED HOWARD.
HENRY STAFFORD,
Com missioners
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

oughly. by invaders of an utterly diff
ferent type. Both conquests were of
great Importance; but it was the
northern conquest which in its ulti-
mate effects was of by far the great
est Importance.
With the advent OF the Dark Ages
the movemet Of course ceased and it
did not begin anew for many cen
turtles; while a thousand years pass
ed before it was once more in full
swing. so far as European civiliza-
ton, so far as the world civilization
of today, is concerned. During all
those centuries the ivilized world,
in our acceptation of the term, was
occupied. as its chief task, in slowly
climbing back to the position from
which 1t had fallen after the age of
the Antonines.
OF course a general statement like
this must be accepted with qualifca-
tions. There is no hard and fast line
between one age or period and an
other, and in no age is either progress
or retrogresion universal in all
| things. There were many points IN
which the Middle Aages, because of
the simple fact that they were Chris
ton, surpassed the brilliant pagan
civilization Of the past; and there are
some points in which the civilization
that succeeded them has sunk below
the level of the ages which saw such
mighty masterpieces of poetry, Of
architecture especially cathedral
rchitecture--and of serene spiritual
and forceful lay leadership. But they
were centuries of violence, rapine and
cruel injustice; and truth was 50 lit
tie needed that the noble and daring
spirits who sought it especially in its
scientific form, did so in deadly peril
of the fagot and the halter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02
VERMONT wA1ctMAN STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY JUNE a. TOO

we think of each happy tenant as one
who ION honey dew hath fed, and
drunk the milk of Paradise Views
of mountain and lake are 10 be seen
from these summer homes that per-
suade you to believe there is no seen
parison in this collection, out the
camera has transformed them so that
cry in the world like New Hamp-
shire's; and If there could be any
doubt on this point there Is the test
mony of Ambassadors of the great
Powers who have sojourned among the
White Hills, contained III letters to
the editor. The roll of distinguished
visitors, owners and tenants is fully
as impressive as the pictured estates,
If not more so. We do not mention
these things in criticism but in praise
and admiration of the genius that has
discovered gold mines in hills where
only boulders were found before and
who has transformed dilapidated farm
houses into pleasure dome5 like that
of Xanadu, where Alph the sacred
river ran" We cheeffully grant that
in it's panoramas and delights New
Hampshire gives full medsur, to those
who can afford to solve the abandoned
farm problem:
I Mark how the stately trGcs above
us bend
And how the sunshine glimmers
through the leaves:
A dream of beauty every one per-
ceives
Who walks this way with sweet
heart or with friend"
The lines are from the works Of
Moses Gage Shirley, the Rustic Bard
OF Shirley Hill, whose modest home
appears as foil to the great houses
in Farms for Summer Homes"
There is, indeed, chapter devoted
to tlllage for profit to save the face of
the abandoned farm, which in the first
analysis should be by the sweat of
the brow; but the illustrations of golf
links, lawn tennis, canoeing, mountain
climbing and snowshoeing will not
down in this part of the book. There
is also a display of fat potatoes and
blue ribbon apples, and a flock of
aristocratc sheep; but in the main
this is extensive and not intensive
Ifarming-only milk can be raised on
the rock pastures. What we make
of this fine and very creditable pub
LEGATION of the Board of Agriculture
is that the abandoned farm is passing
and giving place to homes of city
folk who spend $1O,O00,000 year in
New Hampshire.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

while all his fellows died. In the spir-
itual domain he contributed a reli-
gion which has been the most potent
of all factors in its effect on the sub
sequent history of mankind; but none
of his other contributions compare
with the legacies left us by the Greek
and the Roman.
The Graeco-Roman world saw a
civilization far more brilliant, far
more varied and intense, than any
that had gone before it, and one that
affected far larger share of the
worlds surface. For the first time
there began to be something which
at least foreshadowed world move
ment' in the sense that it affected
considerable portion of the worlds
surface and that it represented what
was incomparably the most import
ant of all that was happening in
world history at the time In breadth
and depth the field Of intellectual in
terest had greatly broadened at the
same time that the physical area af-
fected by the civilization had similar
| ly extended.
Instead of a civilization affecting
Only one river valley or one nook of
the Mediterranean, there was a civil
ization which directly or indirectly
influenced mankind from the desert
of Sahara to the Baltic, from the At
lantic ocean to the westernmost
mountain chains that spring from the
Himalayas. Throughout most of this
region there began to work certain in
fluences which, though with widely
varying intensity, did nevertheless
tend to affect large portion of man.
kind. In many of the forms of science,
in almost all the forms of art, there
was great activity. In addition to
great soldiers there were great adj
ministrators and statesmen whose
concern was with the fundamental
questions of social and civil life.
Nothing like the width and variety
of intellectual achievement and I'M
derstanding had ever before been
known; and for the first time we
come across great intellectual lead
ers, great philosophers and writer's,
whose works are part of all that is
highest in modern thought, whose
writings are as alive today as when
they were first issued; and there were
others of even more daring and orig
inal temper, philosopher like DEM
ocritus, a poet like Lucretius, whose
minds leaped ahead through the
centuries and saw. what none of
their contemporaries saw, but who
were so hampered by their surround
| ings that it was physically impos-
sible for them to leave to the later
world much concrete addition to
knowledge. The civilization was one
of comparatively rapid change, view
ed by the standard of Babylon and
Memphis. There was incessant move
ment, and. moreover, the whole sys-
TEN went down with a crash to SEEM
ing destruction after period short
compared with that covered by the
reigns of score of Egyptian dynas-
ties, or with the time that elapsed be-
tween a Babylonian defeat by Elan
and war Is centuries later which
fully avenged it.
This civilization flourished with
brilliant splendor. Then it fell. In its
northern seats it was overwhelmed
by wave of barbarism from among
those half-savage peoples from whom
you and |, my hearers, trace our des-
cent In the South and East il was
destroyed later. but far more thor
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

tramping out a considerable space,
while about them the snow mounts
higher and higher until they cannot
get out IL they would. From the main
opening or yard" as it is called,
tramped-out paths lead to the near
by trees and shrubbery, which supply
them with food. In this way they
manage to pass the winter in COM
parative peace and safety.
One could go on enumerating bird
and animal homes by the score, and
they would all be of interest. The
present space, however, will not per-
NIT of going further. The writer has
therefore, simply described some of
the more curious of the homes. as
well as those presenting the widest
contrast.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02
Pointed Paragraphs.

Even the honest pretzel is crooked.
1t is only the expected that fails
to happen.
Everybody is selffish-with the ex-
ception of yourself.
How people do like to ask questions
you cannot answer
A compliment that isn't exaggerat-
ed seldom makes a hit.
The uncertainties of the strenuous
life make it interesting.
After burying the Ratchet some men
go out and dig up an axe.
And many a politician makes his
mark only by throwing mud.
1t keeps the wife of a self-made
man busy making alterations
Occasionally liar tells the truth
because hethinks it isn't.
How woman does hate to be told
that she is well preserved"
If you would please your friends,
keep your troubles under cover.
Never Judge people by their aims;
it's what they hit that counts.
The man with a noble aim in life
isn't always shooting off his mouth.
It's a waste of time trying to talk
to woman with her first baby.
A gossip believes everything she
hears. and takes the rest for granted.
How many do you know-including
yourself-who really understands
you?
However, the biggest price ever
paid for a pew in church would not
buy standing room in heaven.-Chi-
cagO News
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02
BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION.
Mesopotamia. the Nile Valley, Greece
and Rome.

(From Theodore Roosevelt's Recent
Address at the University of Berlin.)
The first civilizations which left be-
hind them clear records rose in that
hoary historic past which geologically
Is part of the immediate present
and which Is but spans length from
the present, even when compared only
with the length of time that man has
lived on this planet. These first civ
iliZations were those which rose in
Mesopotamia and the Nile valley some
six or eight thousand years ago, AS
far as we can see, they were we'll
nigh Independent centers of cultural
development, and our knowledge Is
not such at present as to enable us to
connect either with the early cultural
movements in southwestern Europe on
the one hand. or in India on the other,
or with that Chinese civilization which
has been so profoundly affected by
Indian influences.
Compared with the civilizations
with which we are best acquainted,
the striking features in the Mesopo-
manian and Nilotic civilizations were
the length of time they endured and
their comparative changelessness. The
kings, priests and peoples who dwelt
by the Nile or Euphrates are found
thinking much the same thoughts, do
ing much the same deeds, leaving at
least very similar records, while time
passes in tens of centuries. OF course
there was change; of course there
was action and reaction in influence
between them and their neighbors;
and the movement of change, of de-
development, material, mental, spirit
ual, was much faster than anything
that had occurred during the aeons
of mere savagery.
But in contradistinction to modern
times the movement was very slow
indeed, and, moreover. in each case
it was strongly localized while the
field of endeavor was narrow. There
were certain conquests by man over
Nature; there were certain conquests
in the domain of pure intellect; there
were certain extensions which spread
the area of civilized mankind. But it
would be hard to speak of it as a
world movement" at all; for by far
the greater part of the habitable
globe was not only unknown, but it's
existence unguessed at, so far as
peoples with any civilization whatso-
ever were concerned.
With the downfall of these ancient
civilizations there sprang into prom
inence those peoples with whom our
own cultural history may be said to
begin. Those ideas and influences in
our lives which we can consciously
track back at all are in the great ma
jority of instances to be traced to the
Jew, the Greek, or the Roman; and
the ordinary man. when he speaks of
the nations of antiquity. has in mind
specifically these three peoples-al-
though, judged even by the history of
which we have record, theirs is a
very modern antiquity indeed.
The case of the Jew was quite eX-
ceptional. His was small nation, of
little more consequence than the
sister nations of Moab and Damascus,
until all three, and the other petty
States of the country, fell under the
yoke of the alien. Then he survived,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.

Many nights rest is spoiled by fire.
quent fits of coughing--sometim by a
mere tickling in the throat that is so
annoying as to prevent sleep. Kemp's
Balsam will cure coughs II any medi-
cine will and will relieve the irrita-
ton in the throat. For all throat and
lung troubles take Kemps Balsam.
Druggists sell 1t at 25c and soc a bot
file
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02
ger and me

Why do people persist in calling it
Memorial Day? 1t isn't. 1t is Decora-
ton Day, formally and officially It's
original purpose was the decoration
of the graves of fallen soldiers. Year
by year the idea has developed until
it has become really memorial day,
and the memorial services are of
greater consequence in the days pro-
gramme than the scattering of flow
ers on the grave. That ceremony Is
not publicly performed as it used to
be. The parade no longer marches
to the cemetery and halts while the
soldiers graves are covered with
tokens of remembrance. But the day
still remains Decoration Day. The
real Memorial day is May 10, and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

was instituted as such in the South,
where it is still observed. 1t is a le-
gal holiday under that name in sew
eral of the Southern states.
A salvage corps Is at work on the
North Branch and the amount of
Hotsam and jetsam they are taking
pile of several hundred pounds Of
old iron they had recovered and a
lot of rags, bottles and rubbers Two
youngsters, who might by Rogue
Rderhood and CATER Hexam, in a
home made craft, with boards for
oars and an iron rod with a hooked
end, constitute the corps and its
equipment.
They are making a success in this
line, but an experiment in natural
history they tried failed to work. They
captured big frog and tying a cord
to one hind leg tried to make him
haul the boat, but the task was too
much for the frog, so he was dis
patched and his legs taken home for
dinner.
Although Montpelier was not char
tered until after the Revolutionary
War was ended, there are IL Revolu-
tionary soldiers buried in the ceme-
teries of the town and six more just
across the river in Berlin. The 1912
War came on before Montpelier had
taken on any considerable growth
yet there are 46 soldiers of that wal
buried in Montpelier cemeteries
There were not many able bodied
men in those days who failed to see
something of military service.
Ssa4&.ET& - ----,usxM -
They say trout are biting welt but
I hear Of no big catches. | saw q
youngster going home with dozer
young dobsons Saturday. He said he
was going to let them grow up fol
bass bait.
EARNEST THRILLER
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

Though there are more than a hun
bred associate members of the Brooks
Grand Army post, only eight of them
marched with the post to st. Angus
tines church on Sunday to listen to
the splendid and stirring address of
Father Walsh. These associates are
willing to contribute of their means
to aid the work of the post, but are
chary of their presence That is al
ways the difficule thins to enlist
their personal effort. Men are will
ling enough to give money to any
cause that interests them, but are
disinclined to give the personal at
tention that counts.
"Who giveth himself his gift feeds
three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor and
me-"
ger and me-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

When one goes outside of New
England and New York the idea is
carried to logical conclusion. The
State university is a State institution
in fact as well as in name. The best
instruction the State can afford is
open to every child, rich or poor, from
the kindergarten to the college. The
university is as free as any other
school go Sm-~E-vr'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

Who made the change, and for what
reason? Does the mountain look any
more like the hump than the rump of
a camel? Or was it originally called
the hump and did Thompson err when
he called it rump? Or again, did
Thompson himself make the change
which he had suggested in the early
edition OF his work?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

Not only do the towns maintain their
primary and secondary schools, but the
State aids them in doing that and
also aids in the support of the col
leges. Norwich University. Middle
bury College and the University of
Vermont all receive aid from the
State, not for the poor alone but for
all.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

Cur great trouble with the ordinary
use of English is that we try to make
one word perform too mary duties
Dickens called attention to that when
he satirized the American use of the
word fix The vocabulary of most
people is very limited or they are too
lazy mentally to make use of it. Eng
lish affords a rich choice of words of
delicate shades of meaning and there
is no need of twisting a word out of
it's power and original sense where
some other can be used to express
ones meaning
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

The county grammar schools, which
the old Vermonters thought ought to
be established and for the mainten-
ance of which they set aside lands in
every township they granted, have be-
come the high schools of today. They
are supported by tax on all the peo-
pie and are for the use of the people.
If those who can afford to choose to
send their children to other institu-
ltions that is their privilege, but it
does not warrant an assumption on
their part that the public schools are
only for the poor
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

A gentleman never parts his coat
tails when he sits down, is dictum
that was in vogue fifty years ago or
So Has the dictum been repealed or
does the idea which prompted it apply
only to one sex? l notice that women
wearing long outer garments are very
careful on sitting down to arrange
them so that the tails shall not be
crumpled.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

the Institutions for the
poor, for those who can afford moth
ing better.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

This appears to settle the question
between those two words, but neither
OF them is just what is required and
the English language ought to fur
nish a better one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

Being a New Highlander, with more
than one generation of New England
ers before me, totally and entirely
dissent from the proposition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

The ignorant men who framed the
constitution of Vermont declared:
"a competent number of schools
ought to be maintained in each town,
for the convenient instruction of
youth mot poor YOUTH and one, or
more grammar schools to be incor-
ported, and properly supported, in
each county in the State"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-02

One of the 8 aakers at the meeting
Thursday mig discussing the mat
ter of site &C a new High School
put forth the proposition that the
High School WAS for those whose par
ents could not fford to send them to
an academy or college, which, carried
to its logical conclusion, means that
the public schools are an adjunct to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
Saved a Soldiers Life.

Facing death from shot and
shell in the civil war was more
agreeable to J. A. Stone, of Kemp,
Tex, than facing it from doctors
said was consumption. 81 con-
tracted stubborn cold" he writes,
that developed cough, that
stuck to me in spite of all RENE
dies for years. My weight ran
down to 100 pounds. Then I be-
gan to use DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry, which completely cured me.
now weigh 178 pounds" For
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
SALARY BOOST
ORDINANCE
KILLED

The wholesale salary boost pro-
posed in the new ordinance franz
ed by the committee of the whole
In the council was put to steep
for good last night.
The same political clique that
has been ready to vote any kind
of salary grab through for the
politicians in the city employ VINO
had a pull and were in the ring,
are the fellows who opposed the
ordinance last night because it
raised some of their personal AMI
political enemies.
Brand, Eberly, Turnbull and
Wilkeson have been in the from,
of every political grab game m
the council for the last two years
but they led the opposition to the
ordinance last night because il
raised City Electrician Lauzon
and his men in the light depart
ment. Hartzell, Miller, Rankin
and Jameson voted with them to
head off the ordinance. Only
Chapman, Hawley, Giblett. Stew
aart, Russell, Hopkins and Kre-
ger voted for the ordinance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
Why Salves Fail
To Cure Eczema

Since the old-fashioned theory
OF curing eczema through the
blood has been given up by scien-
lists, many different salves have
been tried for skin diseases. But
II has been found that these salves
only clog the pores and can not
penetrate to the inner skin below
the epidermis where the eczema
germs are lodged.
Thistle quality of penetrating
probably explains the tremen
dous success of the only standard
liquid eczema cure, oil of winter
green, thymol, glycerine, etc., az
compounded in d. d. Prescription.
After ten years of cure after
cure, we ourselves do not hesitate
10 recommend d. ID. d. Prescrip-
ltfon at s1.00 a bottle. But for
the benefit of those who have new
er tried the prescription, we ar
ranged with the ID. d. d. Labora-
tories of Chicago for a special
large trial bottle at rs cents on a
special offer now. This first rs
cent bottle ought to convince every
sufferer; perhaps 1t will affect a
Icomplete cure Gas 1t has In some
cases. /; at any rate. II will surely
take away the itch at once. French
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-17
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