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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
Them WcmnW
WHO is VIM. ropHAm pLuMERa

He is Dead at LasalIe, H., and is Said
to Have Lived in Bennington
The following telegram has been
received here:
Chicago, ILL.,, Dec IA.
Chief of Police, Bennington, Vt
Kindly notify relatives of William
Topham Plumer that he was acct
dentally killed and that his body is
at Wash & Keeley's morgue in Las
ellie, H. If you find them ask what
disposition ] shall make of the body
and wire me Immediately the result
Of you Neutrality-suspicious. f..
Burke IL, Bush Temple OF Music"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
FREEZE TO DEATH
IN STREETS OF
NEW YORK
Two Victims of Blizzard Found
by Police
ANOTHER CANNOT LIVE
Icy Gale Sweeping the City and Mer-
curry Within Nine Degrees OF
Zero

New York, Dec 1.-two men are
dead from freezing and a third Is ey-
ing from exposure as the result OF the
icy gale that has been sweeping the
city The victims were found In the
streets by the police. The mercury
registered degrees above zero this
morning.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
FEW PLums FOR PARTIES
Civil Service Reform Association
Wants sill Greater Concessions

Baltimore, Dec. i6.-The opening
sessions OF the thirtieth annual meet
INK OF the National Service Reform
Association yesterday were notable
for the lengths to which those OF the
association desire the Government to
10 in the adoption OF their views.
II the ideas OF the association are
put into practice. virtually only the
President and the Vice President and
tho Cabinet in the executive depart
ments win be exempt from the appli'
cation OF the civil service rules
There will also be. II the Association
can bring Il about a through revis
ion OF the Government salary llat
and promotions will be strictly on. the
bnsIs OF merit and length OF service
after thoropgh examination.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
SENATORS FOR DIRECT VOTE
Judiciary Committee Now In Favor
Of Popular Election OF Senators

Washington, Dec. 16.-Another
striking indication OF the change OF
heart that has come over the stand.
pat senators Is the fact that the Ju-
dietary Committee has practically de
clded to report favorably a resolution
submitting 10 the States an amend.
ment to the Constitution providing
for the popular election OF Senators.
The Judiciary Committee has been
taking stock OF the sentiment In the
Senate and decided that the majority
leaders must SHIFT their positions,
Pressure OF oniet sort had also
been applied. and they realized that
Il was useless 90 fight longer against
the movement Bosldes this, they are
anxious 10 deprive the Democrats oil
any credit for such resolution.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
NEW JUSTICES CONFIRMED

Van Devanter and Lamar NosrIna-
lions Pass Senate Without Opposition
Washington, Dec. 16.-To the sur
prise of many senator's the Judiciary
committee yesterday morning agreed
on favorable report for the nomi
nations OF Judge Van Deyanter and
Justice Lamar for the Supreme court
and In the afternoon the senate con
frmed them without opposition.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
$4,000 SIGN MORSE PETITION
Mrs. Morse Also Sends a Remarkable
Letter Asking Husbands Release

Washington. Dec. 16-charles w.
Morsos petition for pardon, signed
by approximately $4,000 persons, has
been formally presented to the De
partment OF Justice. One section OF
the plea OF the convicted New York
banker came In a large express pack
Arc and was signed with the names
Of thousands Of persons OF promh
nance
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
s-YEAR.oLD DOG BITE FATAL
Humane Society Agent Develops ny
drophobla After Long Wait.

Nashua, N. H., Dec. 1.-THE bite
of a dog three years ago caused the
death here yesterday Of Charles I.
Richards. 4S years old, local agent
for the New Hampshire Woman's HUI
name Society.
Richards was taken Ill Monday
with pneumonia and yesterday symp-
toms of hydrophobia developed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
JUNIOR RAeToRlcALs
Program of Exercises at High School
This Afternoon

The program for the Junior rhetor-
icals this afternoon is as follows
Music b. II. S. Orchestra
Essay Addie Sumner
The Land OF Romance"
Recitation Amy Harbour
The Bald-headed Man
Essay Myrtle Gardner
THE Rising Cost of Living"
Defamation Samuel Patterson
Nations and Humanity
Song High School
Selected
Essay Beulah Evans
"A Romance of l777"
Essay Ella Cummings
The OUTLAW in Literature
Defamation Charles Hitchcock
Opportunity for Work"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16

LARGEST variety OF caienders ever
shown. Special attention called TO
life SERIES. which are attracting gen.
erai attention : cents to " ~
Rvana'.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16
WEATHER FORECAST
Probabilities for This Section for the
Next 20 Hours.

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and continued cold to-
night. Saturday fair with rising tenn
perature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-16

Xmas cards. booklets apt letters al
Evans'.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

tifcate mentions the African battallohS
The African battaIiOns. garrisoned at
the edge of the Sahara Desert, are made
up of all the boys who had the misfortune
Of being arrested before they reached the
age of twenty-Cne. Trivial as their offences
may have been. whether they were due or
not to the iudiscreet exuberance of youth
or to some absurd ENHANCEMENT, they are
sent TO the desert outposts, kept on convict
fare sleeping mostly in trenches which
they dig, watched over by sentries that
shoot to Kill. commanded by the most
brutal officers, who 20 about armed to the
teeth and who make short work of the re-
beIii0us.
Under the broiling sun that lays them
down fast with tever and cholera, they
build roads. crent over the next day by the
sand They are the front" whenever
Arabs or AIoroccans threaten to shake off
the French yoke. When they fall by the
waysi6e they are tied to horses tail;
rhen they protest =purs cause the horse
rear.
And when the creepy water Of sand wells.
mI1ets from the seutrjes OF from the
nomads and the h0ofs OF vicious horses
i've spared them. ,hey return to their
native city with hatred in their hearts. with
the Ioathsome memories iett by assOcia ton
with the deprayed and the morally diseased
They return To their native city To find
doors and hearts locked to them: their
military book. which they must produce,
procIaims their jailhfrds. Who wants. to
employ an cx-convict? During their two
years in the African inferno they have
atoned for their errors of the eighteenth
or nineteentl year; for the second time
they have settled their account with So
ciety. And now society refuses them
chance to show that they have (or some
Of them have} shed the old hide, TO prove
that rev heart IS beating in their breasts.
Hard is the plight Of m ex-couvict in
this country; TO one could tell better than
that great, loving soul OF Samuel June
BarroWs the hcartrending stories of dis
outraged men who paid their debt in full
and then ran against q wall, The wall of
prejudice
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28
The FfrSf Fits O6er, 90
Be WfpeS r6e Second
IndfspenSobIe If ObeY
Are Not dSked.

ness women are unfeminine. seIf-asserriys.
and all that
Certainly not And the bachelor must
have been most unfortunate in his ac-
quaintance if he thinks So As a matter OF
fact. the business girls are almost in the
majority now. and their numbers are going
to increase. wilIy-nilly-
'Statisticians are telling us I said. that
the woman OF the future must so man one
better, and have two careers Instead OF
being merely the home builder, she mUsS
have trade. profession or occupation out
side the home until she marries, and that
her marriage is being deferred later and
later
Il believe sufficiently in women. Miss
Ellis replied. Ito think that most of them
are peffectIy equal TO two careers And
this modern tendency really means great
feminine emancipation The trouble with
housework has always been its drudgery.
We were such an Internally moral nation
that we women had 10 give all our time
TO digging and scrubbinS and cooking and
mending, and make il all just as hard and
unpleasant as possible because doing things
easily was looked upon as sinful and a.
direct inspiration Of the devil The result
was that many women didn't love their
work; they didn't try 10 md better meth
DDS OF doing il; for generations they Just
trudsed along IN the same narrow. time
wasting rut-
Then came along this great economic
movement which swept woman out OF the
home into Offices. factories and various
trades and professions. with the result that
they have been forced 10 see organ cation.
system. labor-Saving devices N operation
They have been made 10 use their intel1-
gencs and 10 see that the saving OF time
is the saving OF money. Now. suppose =
cir! has been competent stenographsr. an
efficient salesw oman. or the secretary o.
a big financ.er. do you mean TO tell me taaC
with such training that girl couldn't make
homea I say she can make a better
home just because she has had business
training
Then YOU don't think the bachelor OF to-
day has right 20 blame his state OF SIN
gle blessedness on the unftness OF the
modern girl for marriagee"
Indeed. | don't But the late marriage
is good thing. and makes for the right
kind of homes. in my opinion
And What shall 1 tell the bachelor as
your word 20 him."
90 Go West young man, or. az least mid
die West. and he'll ind plenty OF home
building girls who un his specifications
IN tell him." l promised. and said good
by GEORGIA EARL.E
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

Yes. but in your talk of the domestic Writ
ues you seem TO lose sight Of the fact THAT
your wife won't have 10 wash the dishes
and cook the dinner.
NO. not now. Eut no man knows what
dey he may he DOWN and out. and then he
wants a helpfrats and not an expensive toy
Resides. any woman who has TO direct ser
wants should have intelligent knowledge
OF housekeeping IN all its branches Now
adays, while a girl is able to manage half
a dozen admirers, she couldn't manage one
servant to save her neck
We'll, than, why not marry a girl with a
business training? She knows the value of
money and while she may not understand
housekeeping still she has intelligence.
recognizes the value Of system and organi-
zation and could easily
Thank youi Ne business women for me: /:
/ never saw yet that wasn't unfeni-
nine and self-assertive. No matter what
business she goes into. she can't preserve
her Ncmsnliness her dignity, it seems
to-
I'll swear / hadn't said a word or moved
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

aof ali he'd lei himself in tor-the channS,
oh, In not going TO use YOUR name;
YOU are merely 10 be a hypothetical bach
elor.
oh"
Y only came 40 sec you f~r local color,
I could probably write Just as good in
teryiew out Of my own head"
Thank you. Just what was il you want
ed TO know"
II want 20 know
quite sure there's nothing personal
about this?''
Quite haven't the slightest personal
interest IN Your views on the subject
.-Oh. haven't you"" he inquired, politely
No. / haven't" I said. equally politely
Ny interest is purely academic. 1t is sole
" for the good OF huIns nifty that I AMI seek
ing to find OFT why SO many young men
Of the present day do not marry. You are
20 be their spokesman"
We'll in the first place he said after
pause. marriage is an expensive luxury
And. in the second. I'm perfectly contented
asian. ] have nay own quarters and a man
servant TO look after things. I dine usually
at the club with a bunch of congenial chaps
or I'm invited out The evenings are pretty
we'll taken UP with engagements OF one sort
or snothe-. and it is the exceptional evening
that I have the luxury of staying home 10
enjoy my pipe ard a book or course
know lots of nice girls who are jolly and
charming but
"WelI?'' as he hesita ed. Isn't there any
one or them you think of especially tender
IL IN your hours OF loneliness?
But N not lonely. I'm thunderins nusy
al day ana in the evening, as teld you
If is the exception 10 find myself with no
engagement II I do get q hanherins for
family hfe all I have TO do IL 10 go home
The mater il always glad to see me and
nets me anG Spoils me to my hearts CON
teut. Snc's certainly the buIliest woman in
the world: -
Yes" said, but doesn't your cid honhe
make you want home OF your own now
II / could find a girl who'd grow 10 be
Ike nv mother. yes. But while know all
sorts Of girls none OF them has the training
"a give man real home I know ath-
fe+fc girls who are good fun at golf or
,znnjs ard that sort OF thing, but they
6on't suggest the honle-making ability
,ba,, are too amazonisn, too boyish, TOO
fo,,a. a man couldn't imagine himself Sc
rio,leIv King love 10 one OF them Then
there are the girls WHO dress a~fuliy we'll
buf ha=en't another idea in their heads.
They look well. and man likes 10 be seen
an, with them: they are ornamental but
tb-ir conversation is a succession OF gisgies
and inane snsll talk Think of being tied
FAR Itfe TO one of them. Then there Is the
Intellectual girl. who spends much or her
time Undressing you with how much ane
lnov,st Lord. she scares me 10 desth-
fust think Of having superior wife. ineh
,haye-s the dreamy sentimental kind tnat
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

put their tenants wise TO the impending
search of the premises.
Apaches themselves never try TO conceal
their social status. Their very clothes are
2 sort of warning 10 the public. They even
affect a peculiar walk the body bent from
the loins, shoulders hUnched and hands
plunging deep into the trolser pockets.
But who would dare to Tnolest them? The
Apache is young, bold, and has nothing to
lose, except his freedom: and that freedom
means constant warfare against man,
against the police; it means the monotony
OF playing cards and drinking bad wine
and as to the future. not a sIeam of hope
The Apache is a marked man; he joins
gang al three or four and twenty. and by
thirty or thirty-fve, he has gone. The
naws of a Jail hold him for the balance of
his earthly existence. He knows that He
expects It, Therefore. while his freedom
lasts. there is no desperate chance he will
not take TO get at the gold that alone could
save him
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

an eyeiash. but he suddenly stopped and
looked at me.
Il didn't mean you he admonished. Sc
vsrely.
II made no comment" I returned, icily.
Comment is quite unnecessary one has
only 70 look at your face And. reproach-
fully, T always thought you the eXcep-
tional woman 20 whom a man might ex-
press An opinion without its being immedi-
ately applied personally
Il suppose I'm also the exceptional busi-
ness woman who is not masculine, self
assertive unwomahy and andisnifedF /
inquired sarcastcally.
He laid the paper cutter down on the
desk hard Il knew I'd get into d mess
IL I started on this topic. he said Grossly
You aren't in any mess. Please go on.
It's very interesting. Won't You describe
the kind of wife you do want
He locked at me and I was almost posi-
tive that / detected n twinkle in his eyes.
Well" he began. deliberately. she must
oe-blond and have blue eyes and a sense
of humor-and DC able to cook and sew.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

Lack OF means OF communication. how
ever. makes land and rents very cheap:
many houses have been aba ndoned by their
owners; brush and weed were allowed for
several years to invade several acres of
formal gardens which topped the hill. and
until 1905 many suspicious characters were
left in absolute possession OF what was
known as the jungle. There are still
three windnilis UP there. whose wings
ceased long ago 10 churn the clouds. Dark
passa ges. old-fasllioned houses with end
less corridors. secret doors, subterranean
vaults. curious cellars, make this the best
place on earth TO hide and to elude pur-
suers in case of serious danger.
The landlords and janitors of the rook-
cries where Apaches hang out know very
well who they are and by what means
they make q living: but what do they care
as long as the monthly rent is paid? :?
Should detectives be seen lowering around
the house, they would be the first ones to
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

fer as to ideals. Our incomes may vary,
but our ideals never.
We'll, I hope you may get yours
Please don't say it in such q vicious
tone"
I laughed
That's better. But, now I'm on the sub
ject, there are two things further that I
want to say. one Is that when l do marry
l want a home, not suite III apartment
hotel and the usual dining out stunt. The
second thing IS that [ think lots OF fellows
don't marry because they don't want to
give up their liberty"
Sure YOU have The right word e.
Absolutely Lots Of chaps know have
lost even their men friends through the
exactious of wife. and as for enjoying
any good feIlo orship Of the most innocent
nature with otner women, that is quite out
of the question So, frankly. | personally
haven't met the girl for whom I'm willins
to give rp my liberty
You certainly have been very tnstruc-
tive, and I'm very much obliged" I said
as l came away. But / was really Indi.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28
Hosf OF Them fire E>x-Convicfs. Who
HuSf keOeol Thar Focf 6vben
|eekf16 Employment

day and remats that extra bonus to him
that did the job
Peacefully then. the gang gets pack Of
greasy cards and plays well into the night
with their three-ruf1ed caps. the three
oeckers. their scarfs of bright hue tied
loose around necks left bare by the collar
less haDnef shirt: with their short coats
ntuhg Snugiy at the shoulders and the
waist: with their velvet trousers that widen
out at the ankle like sailors Jeans or
Mexican calzones. they make a fascinst-
ing and at the same time repuIsive pict.
ure.
Young they are, all or them Their little
niustaches are trimmed short None Of
them wears beard, but they all grow
curious side chops. to which turning mo-
ton Of their whetted palm gives the twist
of q Hungarian bandmaster's mustacbe
About two or three in the morning their
women come from the streets their toll
done Bare-headed most Of them: some
with artificial flowers in their hair, some
WITH eXtravagant bonnets or wrapped in
hight colo7ed shawIs they walk in, one by
ohe' i've by two, gulp last coffee or
aoSIhthe with their men and walk out with
oiem toward their novels. Or sometimes
one woman will glide in and whisper
me gang 1hroN caT0s on the
table and follow her. An hour after they
sre back with the booty and treat the
great girl" to champagne at times
There are several Apache settlements in
far1s. but the largest one is around
the Butte Montmartre, the historical hall
OF the martyrs which civilizstiou's on
slaught has not Yet succeeded in robbing
OF its picturesqueness. Trees. country
hedges confront the visitor now and then;
starWays that closely resemble ladders lit
Tie winding lanes, a vegetable garden. a
goat or two. rabbit the animal that
symooilzes suburbanism in France, and yet
We are in the very heart of Paris
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

nant, so I went up town 10 Hamilton Place
TO see Edith Ellis. the playwright, author
OF Mary James Pa" TO learn if she could
adequately demolish the objections TO mat
rimony of my bachelor friend. When We
were comfortably seated in her library. I
poured forth my recent accumulation OF
wisdom.
Dear me" laughed Miss Ellis. when ]
had finished What a TRADE, But 1 think
We'll have to take the gentlemars OBJ
jeCtions categoricaIIy. First, he SAYS that
his club and his bachelor quarters suffice
Now. if he really means that-whch
doubt in view of what he says later-but II
ne means it then there is something radi-
cally wrong with him. 1 never saw a real
man or real woman yet who didn't want
a home Your bachelor friend shows that
he realizes a lack in his way of living, for
he speaks OF his mother and the parental
home as being very well worth while in
deed
His people have a>charmius hcesle." 1 in
terrapted.
Perhaps the very fact of having this
home to go TO has kept him from feeling
the want of a home of his own What does
he say next?"
THAT he knows all sorts of girls and
none of them has had any training in
home building
Now how does he know that? A man
sees the girls he knows on dress parade,
looking their sweetest and doing their best
10 be entertaining. How does he know
what they can do? One doesn't entertain
callers by making pie in the drawing ROOM.
Perhaps he is baseIy slandering-uninten-
tionally-two-thirds of the girls he knows.
But 10 return TO the girl question-liv-
ing is expensive here anyway, and with this
idea of the necessity OF bluff and display
the New York girl is too likely TO get car
ried away by the superfcialities OF life and
not make the best either Or her owa re-
sources or those of the man she narriss.'
Did you notice" I asked. that the
Young man didn't like what he called the
Intellectual giri?''
Yes" she said, laughing. Our young
men are very likely 10 be terrorized by the
intellectual girl. Our women are more
showily clever than our men. think.
They haven't any greater breadth or un-
derstanding, but they are more glib on the
question of books. and they talk smartly.
with the result that many young man
is rnlsled into the belief that the girl knows
more than he does"
MY bachelor also claims that every girl
should understand housekeeping. Do you
agree with him there?"
Yes and in time | think that course
in domestic science win be part OF every
girls training: but / also think that any
intelligent girl to-day. without that train
ng. who desires TO make a home for the
man she loves, is perfectly capable of doing
il.
Miss Ellis, do you believe that all busi-
New-York tribune., 1910-08-28
MuSf K nohv HotO 10 Keep
House Well and Also
HcSs, 10 Earn an
Income.

LooEIu- rackR ard. il seems as II The
srs of forty years ago had rather an
cas- -iu-r OF ir II spite Of the fact that
szting a,lsbsrld vas the main business
q their lives. II they could cook and sew
md reaseclesn. in the accepted manner Of
iaer mothers. and had a side line Of parlor
sgcorlHiI -I7--enfS. 5hats was all that was
leeurAd af taern. To he able To play The
Aai5en- P-a-ar'' passably.- TO recite with
ae proper ejocutionary ferVor Cur ew
snail NOT Ring Tonight and to sing
Then Yo~H Remember Ne IN . sweetiy
sentimental manner armed them for any
ls-eor they we're called upon 10 face.
BIZ nowadays that list seems Hea9' e
The girl Hlo nIavs The Maiden's PRAYER
% = equis q lent. has formidable TiFaI III
% ptsnola. and her ballad singing = una
f9rsbiv c0ntrasted with that OF the stars
81 he operst TIC and variety stages, 10 say
h9thing Of tire stunts Of the photograph
isseE ise with tfe high cost Of living star
4g rs - in the face. the average glri OF
l.-6Gr lzS 10 be ea-ning something and
rs -lttle tine so waste ola tie old-fasnloned
l.aouBlshmea5s.
p occurred 10 ne 10 wonder just " nat
80 pfese-- demands or her were, ana III
q uE-al energetic fashion ] undertook 20
-ao Cgt Accuracy demanded that geI
~sm e. afsc hand 80 I Immediately IN
ls-l9gk q interview bachelor enose
4e aaes-a young man VINO Is consio-
~a Fer. charming: he is also good look-
-s' lzs q comfortable income. is mem
- ot MS fathers hrEn and in every way
s-soie"-zad also extremely elusive
~s's-ore PC on ny best frocA afsd most
-7or-.ng lat anc called upon him at his
1e After the usual greetings OF the Gay
Seer exchanged ! got 20 the point al
cane to sse you on a matter OF oasi-
! stated ialpressiveiy. i want 10
~ .- ny yol don't marry
"-. ! don't rnar-v-whom? lie ques-
~ @nHtcusl}. startled oIt o. ms Usual
aad snarrmg for time.
~ don't sou MARI Some3ody-snst
q is 2 ,'g.Hs5zale ne asked. picking UP
Paper cutter.
9e a.Ls-,a.s < an 5-stersie's
]''a iies ems ne gesped
tr 4@hR 10 know your objection, / "eh'
+ sialy. 10 the modern woman; where
80 uink She fails - . wife. and "flal
objections YOU have 10 her %hleh
a.. voc who are perfectly aoie 10 sup
ID ~ife. single
eat Scott. No naas IN has senses would
'eo On such q subject. Just thinA