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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08
Defects in Tires Of Wheels.

Attention has been invited by tech.
nical writer's TO the fact that the
wheels of vehicles intended for driv.
ing roads have not kept pace in de.
velopment with the other parts in car
riage mechanism. Experiments with
heavy vehicles indicate that wheels
should be made both higher and broad.
er. In England 1t has been recon.
mended that with a maximum axle
load OF eight tons the width Of the
tire should be about ten and one-hall
inches.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
" Estate OF HERBERTS. DUNHAMg
The undersigned. having been appointed b.
the Hon. Probate Court for the Di strict OF Ben
nInpton COMM SSIONERS, to receive, EXAM
me and adjust all claims and demands OF al
nel sons against the estate OF Herbert s. Dun
ham. late OF SALISBURY 10 said district,
deceased, ard all claims exhibited in ofs IT
thereto hereby give notice that we VIII meet for
the purposes aforesaid. At the late home place
of said deceased. In The Town OF SALISBURY in
said Disrict. on the 2h day OF July, 1910, from
O'Clock n. IN. until o'clock p. M, on said day,
ind that TX months from the 25th day OF Janu-
uary D 1910. Is the time limited by said Court
inr said creditors 10 present their claims 10 us
for examination AMI allowance
Dated at SALISBURY. Vt, this Goth day Of
January. A. D. 1910.
FRANK n. CHASE
JOHN G. HUNTINGTON,
Commissioners
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08
FRANK E. HOWE. Editor and Pub'r
CITY FARMERS

Says the Barre Times: "Consid-
cradle has been said and written
about the desirability of the sale of
farms to summer visitors" and the
question is apparently not settled to
the satisfaction OF all, for now comes
Judge O. A. Towne of Franklin, n. H.
with the statement that he thinks the
acquiring of farm land for city people
does not work well for the state. He
declares:
81 am not very much in favor of
these sales They may be good
enough for the man who has a farm
which he wants to sell, but summer
farmers will not add very much to
the productive wealth of a place.
would much rather see a farm bought
for farming purposes by man who
understands modern methods of
farming than to see one sold for
summer residential purposes
Must have a different kind Of city
farm owners over in New Hampshire
han here in Bennington Cons der
for an instant the actual farming op-
erations of such men as j. c. Col
gate, Seymour Van Santyoord and f.
b. Jennings. Not only do they cult
vate their extensive farm holdings
with the highest possible skill and
benefit to themselves but they are Of
tremendous benefit to the town
through their introduction of moder,,
methods, their experiments in new
lines, and their bringing in Thorough
bred stock.
They welcome the native farmers
to see and study what they are doing,
are free in telling the results of their
experiments, and their influence is
always along the line of improve.
ment. For single instance Mana
ger c. c. Jones of the Colgate proper
ty has developed a method of grow
ing alfalfa here in spite of our severe
winters that ought to prove of In
estimable value to all the farmers OF
Vermont
| Our Vermont farmers have been Ia
little slow in adopting new ideas. but
they are getting over that and now
watch their progressive neighbors
and the state experiment station in
search of new ideas, and are quick tC
profit by them. Not the least of tn,
influences that have brought about
the change, has been the city mer
who have taken up farming as {
diversion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08
itching Eczema Washed Away

Is It worth % cents to you to stop
that awful, agonizing itch? Surely
you will spend 20 cents on your drug.
gist's recommendation to cool and
heal and soothe that terrible itching
eruption?
BY arrangement with the ID. ID. d.
Laboratories of Chicago We are able
to make special offer of 25-cent
bottle Of their oil of wintergreen
compound, known as d. ID. d. Pres
cription. Call or write or telephone
to w. l.. Gokay, Az Main street, Ben
nington.
We absolutely know what the itch is
ssaannuinl HANcE by d. ID. d. Pres.
the cures all seem in
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08
A Safeguard to Children.

Our two children of six and eight
years have been since infancy sub
ject to colds and Group. About three
years ago / started to use Foley's
Honey and Tar. and II has never
failed to prevent and cure these
troubles. II is the only medicine
can get the children to take with
out row." The above from w. G
Ornsteln, Green Bay, Wis, duplicates
the experience Of thousands of other
users Of Foleys Honey and Tar. II
.ri,ras coughs. colds and crnnn. and
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08
you DON'T NEED INSURANCE.

The next time you go away, don't
bother to leave your wife and family
any money Stay u month then go
home and think It over 6lst year.
National Life Insurance Company,
Montpelier, VT (MutuaD. Earle S.
Kinsley Agent, Rutland, Vt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08

The old-fashioned woman who could
take down her hair and sit on 1t has
been succeeded by the woman who
can take off her hair and sit on 1t. or
use 1t as a mattress. as the exigen.
cies of the case seem to require. At
Gibson (Kan) Globe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08

The only way to amuse some people
is to slip and fall on an icy pavement,
or on a banana peel.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08

When a doctor assists at an oper.
alton he is as particular to have it
mentioned as woman who assists at
a reception
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08

Women always were gentler than
men. They say: ooh, heavens"
while men say just the reverse.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08
A. D. S. Peroxide Prepare ems

The A. D. S. is an associate 10000 Amer
can Retail Druggists, formed 70 the purpose OF
manufacturing and perfectng ., useful and
efficient Household Remedies and To ct Prepare
tons of known and tested worth.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-08
SUNFL0WER PHILOSOPHY.

Every man has "A lot of rules he
wants other people to obey.
Many a woman who is gentle with
other people is rough with her hus-
band
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
llluninatinn Shells.

Experiments have recently been
made at Toulon with shells intended
to illuminate the sea at a distance
from the land, thus disclosing the
presence and movements Of an enemy
at night. The shells are made to ex'
plode at a great height, and to give
light for a sufficient time 10 permit an
examination of the surface OF the
sea for several miles from the shore.
The officers in charge of the expert
ments regard the Illuminating shells
as more effective than search-lights IN
disclosing the position of hostile ships
Another form of shell has been
proposed, which shall. in bursting
over the sea. spread cloud of thick
smoke about the batteries on shore,
thus preventing their seeing the ap'
preaching ships, and rendering the
Illuminating shells useless.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Electric Mountain Air.

DR.. Saaka finds that the air six
thousand feet high in mountains is
five times as radioactive as sea level
air, and points out that under this
state of electrical tension electricity
would have a decided attraction to
and affinity for the human body, and
might be the very reverse. Any one
sleeping in a dry wooden house in
the Rockies will get an instant thrill
OF exhilaration when he first sets foot
on the ground in the morning. Static
mountain electricity In Colorado some
times scares a man silly. The hair
will stand straight on end, and a
man feels the fiery tongues licking
and tapping the whole body as he
makes a brilliant and sparkling run
from the tall timber to lower level.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
LONDON SCHOOLS.
In Some Ways the American System,
Though Bigger, Is Inferior.

London schools have 583,255 school
sittings, New York 6S9,9 ,959, not all oc-
cupied in either case. London has
5,03S men teachers and 12,431 women
to 2,74O men and 1851 women in
New York.
AS these latter figures apparently
include some duplication in evening
schools Londons teaching force is pro-
portionately much stronger, especial
ly In men.
The smaller number OF pupils In
London means partly that more OF the
children Of the moderately well to
do there attend private schools, partly
that the children of the London poor
leave school for work at an earlier
average age.
Though the New York system Is
bigger it is behind London in some
respects, according to the American
Educational Review. That city has
four open air schools for mentally and
physically defective children, who are
apparently already well looked after,
as they should be in every city.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
MICROBES JUST A FEW.
A Small Matter of 1926 Billions In Ono
Corner Of the Human Body.

The alimentary canal is the most
perfect culture tube known TO bacteria
logical science. No part of the body
is so densely populated with micro-or-
ganisms. 1t is estimated that in the
alimentary canal of the average adult
about 26,OO0,000,000 microbes come
into existence every day.
They crowd this region so densely
that scientists originally believed that
they were indispensable TO human
life. According to a writer in Nc
Clure's, Pasteur, who first discovered
them, maintained this view, but re-
cent investigations have rather dis
proved it.
/ There are many animals that exist
In perfect health, without any intesti-
nal bacteria at all. Polar bears, seals,
penquins, elder ducks, arctic rein.
deer-these and other creatures in the
arctic zone have few traces of these
organisms.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
History Of Cotton.

Prior to the middle Of the eigh'
teenth century cotton, so far as mod
ern time is concerned, was practical
ly unknown. 1t was grown only in
the flower garden. When eight bags
OF the staple arrived in Liverpool in
1884 the custom house officers seized
It on the ground that so much could
not have been raised in America. In
1887 our first cotton mill was set in
motion at Beverly, Mass. In 1898
Whitney invented the cotton gin,
which rendered cotton raising profita-
Bile. and il soon became the leading
crop of the South. The Southern
United States produce most OF the
cotton of the world, and will in all
probility continue for all time to hold
a monopoly Of the staple.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Health in Cities,

Municipal responsibility for the
health of the people is a we'll estao-
lshed proposition. But the cities hold
TO the theory and, despite all that Is
actually done, disregard the fact in
many ways. There may be some
clash Of departments, case OF over
tapping or disputed jurisdiction, and
insanitary conditions are allowed that
are more detrimental TO public health
than all the efforts that are made TO
obviate disease are productive OF
beneficial results. Often the case Is
one OF pure neglect, ignorance or in
difference. Only recently have the
school authorities in American cities
undertaken to lessen disease at It's
source among the children OF the
schools. Yet not half has been done
that might be done; indeed, not a
fraction Baltimore American.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
r.eop.,e Great Stadium.

Tacoma's High School, which plays
an important part in Pacific Coast
athletics. is the only high school in
America having an Olympic stadium,
II not the only one in the whole
world.
1t is a ponderous mass OF steel and
concrete. just completed at cost OF
more than 100000, in a gulch at one
side of the high school building. The
gulch happened to be just the right
shape for the stadium, so but little
excavation was required. The struc'
ture is shaped like horseshoe, with
the open end overlooking Commence
ment Bay. 1t will seat $4,000 people,
has a centre sufficiently large Tor
baseball football, track and neld
events. and will also be used for OUT
door musical concerts and entertain
mentS
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Bio Game and Disease.

II has been suggested that the big
game Of Africa should be systematical-
" exterminated in order TO abolish
the "fy fever" by destroying the prin.
cipal means of nourishment Of the
tsetse. In regard TO this suggestion,
Sir David Bruce says that while 1t is
true that the tsetse disappears when
the big game is killed off, there are
other African diseases similar to the
fly disease which are not spread by
the tsetse. Although "ciyilization
and big game cannot exist together"
he thinks that the proposed wholesale
destruction all over Africa would be
quite uniustiiable. AS the new coun-
try is divided off into farms, the big
game must 90, but the process should
be a gradual one. applied only as the
exigencies demand. For at least a
thousand years TO come there ought to
be room In Africa for big game re-
serves.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
VALUABLE SEAWEED.
Put to Many Uses by the Coast DWELL
ers Of Japan.

"a large income is derived by the
inhabitants of the coasts OF japan
from gathering and selling ordinary
seaweed," said Jeremiah King of At
lantic City.
More than 100000 yen Is derived
by the harvesters of the deep each
year. This does not include the large
amount OF the product consumed by
the natives.
Certain kinds of seaweed are used
for food and its by-products represent
thousands of dollars annually. AS
choice a dessert as | ever have eaten
was made from weeds gathered on the
southern coast of Japan. This mixed
with sugar and sprinkled with rum
makes dessert rarely equaled on this
side of the Atlantic.
There are families on the coast
OF Japan whose ancestors for hun
dreds OF years have lived entirely
from the proceeds of the seaweed
gathered from March to November
and sold for food. The natives anchor
branches of trees at the mouths OF
the rivers which flow into the ocean,
The incoming tide deposits seaweed
on the branches. The natives gather
II. dry it and after mincing II with
huge knives sell it in large quanti-
ties"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Enssils as Sinn-Posts.

The recent discovery in the south
ern part of Madagascar OF reptllian
fossils, which geologists affirm belong
to the Permian epoch, leads to the ex-
pectation that coal will be found
there. In India Australia and southern
Africa the strata containing the re-
mains of these animals are character
lied by the presence of coal-beds. The
likelihood that the same condition OF
affairs will be found in Madagascar Is
regarded as being much strengthened
by the association of one OF the los.
sils recently discovered with a lear
OF glossopteris, one of the plants most
distinctive OF the Permian coal forma-
tions in the southern hemisphere.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
vienna's Crown of Green.

The city of Vienna has recently un.
dertaken. at an estimated expense OF
s10,O00.OO0, to surround itself with a
belt of forests. The existing forests
near the city are TO be preserved. and
others, together with broad green
meads. are TO be established In such
a way as completely to encircle the
city. Land is being reserved for the
new plantations, which are to be con-
nected with the celebrated Prater,
which already forms a green border
for the Austrian capital on the east.
This idea Is enthusiastically urged
for the beautifying OF the suburbs OF
other cities, which are now. in many
cases. not only unattractiye, but often
hideous.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
q Beautiful Alloy.

DR.. Roberts-Austen of England has
succeeded in making out of gold and
aluminium a compound metal or al-
10y which is said to be the most
brilliant known. It's general hue is a
splendid purple but as 1t is turned IN
the light 1t reflects bright tints OF
ruby color.
A little more than three-quarters-
more accurately rs per cent.-of the
alloy is gold, the remainder being
aluminium.
Certain OF the expectations with
respect TO the possibility Of substi-
tuting aluminium for steel and iron
are not likely to be realized, but that
metal is proving of great use in COM
bination with others, and the discov-
cry by Or. Roberts-Austen, is expect
ed to lead to the production OF very
beautiful effects in jewelry.-Harper 3
Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Natural Wells in Yucatan.

Since Yucatan, where the Mayas built
their strange cities, is a coral lime
stone formation, 1t would, says writ
er in Records of the Past. have been
q barren desert but for its subterra-
mean rivers, and the cenotes, or water
caverns, which give access to them.
The Mayas noted the courses OF the
underground streams and built their
towns round the cenOtes. Many ce-
notes are now found surrounded by
ruins, and give indications Of the
methods employed by the Mayas to
reach their cool waters. In Uxmal
cenote about 40 feet deep is Inhabited
by a peculiar species of fish. At Bo-
lanchen there is a cenote having five
openings in the rocks at the bottom
Of the cavern. Ladders made by ty-
ing tree trunks together lead down a
total distance of 1,400 feet, but the
perpendicular depth from the sur
face to the water is not over 500 feet.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
SMALL COLLEGES THAT COUNT.
AGE and Number of Students They
Serve Make Them Important.

OF the eight institutions to which
the general education board granted
appropriations amounting in the az.
gregate to $53S,000 not one takes rank
among the leading colleges OF
the country. Yet by their age and in
the number of students all of them
prove their Importance to the sections
they serve.
The youngest of the eight, Cornell
college, at Mt. Vernon, Ia, was or
ganized In 1853 and has COS students,
more students than Amherst. De-
Pauw university at Greencastle, Ind,
dates from 1897 and has over one
thousand students. Marietta college,
at Marietta, Ohio, was founded in
1895 and has 422 students. Central
university. at Danville, KY was or
ganized in 1919. and Allegheny col
lege. at Meadville, Pa, in 1915. The
former has 400 students, the latter
$50.
When 1t comes to Middlebury col
lege. in Vermont, with 252 students,
the smallest of the eight endowed by
the general education board, 1t can
lay claim to 10 years of continuous
usefulness as a seat of learning. But
in point of age the honors belong 70
Transylvania university, at Lexington,
KY. which has $50 students. 1t was
founded in 1898, six years after the
first legislature of Kentucky met at
Lexington and only four years after
the organization of Bowdoin college
In Maine. and nine years after that
of Georgetown university, at Washing
ton.
In all, the general education board
has contributed over S5,00O,OOO toward
the endowment Of seventy colleges
within the last four years. In strength
ening the smaller colleges it Is per-
forming a most useful work.--New
York World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
a South Arabian Food Plant.

Jowari, a tall slender plant re-
sembllng corn and headed with a
grain something like millet, Is the
Abdalrs chief crop. He feeds the stalk
to his camels and eats the grain HIM
self. Three crops a year are pro-
duced. Jowari requires little cultiva-
ton except wedding, which the Ao-
dali does by hand. and when ripe ne
cuts Il off close to the ground with
his hunting knife. New shoots sprlng
ND from the roots to become the next
crop. For a camel load of about 125
pounds he receives at Alden an aver
age of two rupees, or s64.SS. A fair
yearly yield is twenty camel loads an
acre.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
a Remarkable Sprinq.

One OF the most remarkable springs
in the world, says ]. y. Eddy. in the
Engineering and Mining Journal, has
recently been discovered in New Mexi-
co. 1t is literally a spring saturated
with sodium sulphate. Distilled wa
ter weighs s 1.3 pounds per gallon;
the water of this spring weighs 10 %
pounds. The temperature OF the
spring Is a little over 10 degrees
Fahrenheit. AS the saturated liquid
overhows and cools, ii forms a crystal.
line mass like ice. which, in the course
of ages, has spread into a snow-white
bed of solid sodium salts, miles in ex-
tent. and as level as lake. The warm
brine, Mr.. Eddy reports, is Inhabited
by minute shrimp-like organism, and
q species OF plant is found growing
in the dry expanse of sodium sui
phate.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
The HabItable Earth.

The entire habitable area OF the
earth is given at 46.OOO.OOO square
miles, Of which the extreme fertile
limit may be put at 370OO,OO0 square
miles. With the generally accepted
sustaining capacity of 200 persons to
the square mile, this area could, by
systematic tillage be made TO yield
subsistence to 7.4O0, 100000 human be-
ings. II has been calculated tha: with
in 21O years the worlds population
will be swelled to 7,440,O00.000 souls.
What will happen 300 years hence
when the population of the earth will
be $4,000 100000, remains to be seen.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Man as an Enuine.

Among the Investigations undertak.
en- by the Carnegie Institution is one
intended TO determine the physical
properties and efficiencies OF the hui
man body. The experiments are SINH
lar In their nature to those made by
mechanical engineers on steam-engines
and power-plants. An apparatus has
been devised, under the direction OF
Professor Benedict Of the Wesleyan
University, whereby man, considered
as an engine or power-plant may be
studied as carefully as any other me-
chanical plant. Investigators are also
studying the effects and the chemical
and physiological properties of vari-
Gus foods. The president Of the In
stitution, Professor Woodward. re-
marks that the Investigations possess
peculiar interest. inasmuch as the
instruments of investigation are at
the same time the objects Of research.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Snare the Invalid Nerve irritation.

Silk petticoats, starched wearables
and creaking shoes should be avoided
by the attendant in an invahd
room. Whispering is intensely irri'
tating TO a sick person, who naturally
concludes that his symptoms are SO
bad that they have to be discussed
in an undertOne. Conversation De-
tween the nurse and visitors should
no IN q low tone of voice. bat quite
distinct: IL there is anything to De
said that the invalid must not near
Il would better be said n the nan,
entirely out of his sight, earshot ana
Imagination. A small tatie in the
hall outside the sick roc 4, VIII Dc
appreciated by the nurse and by VINO
ever has to deliver and call for the
,nvalid's food tray.-Detroit News-lri'
bune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1910-11-04
Literal Obedience.

Little Harold was getting final In
structlons before starting for a party.
Now" cautioned his mother, at
supper II they ask you the second
time to have something, you must
decline"
Harold agreed and trotted off.
At one stage OF the feast the hos
tess noticed how eagerly the little fell
low was applying himself TO the task
OF disposing OF a generous dish OF
marmalade. When he had finished, she
inquired: won't you have some
more dear?'
The child looked up at her quickly.
T can't accept the second time" he
said earnestly after a slight pause,
"but IL you'll ask me a third time.
think It will be all right"
He was asked.