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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs. Seymour Henry is spending a
few days with friends in Arlington.
Miss Della Spencer of Cohoes, N.
Y, is visiting her brother, Henry r.
Spencer OF Cold Brook Farm.
A social dance was held at Battle
field Park last evening and large
number OF young people from here
|attended.
Miss Helen Keefe, who has been
spending several weeks with friends
here, has returned to her home in
Roxbury, Mass
Miss Elizabeth Agan of Canajoharie
N. Y. who has been visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Henry Darling of Main St.,
left today for Hoosick Falls where she
will visit relatives.
Miss Ella Powers OF Pleasant St,
very pleasantly entertained in honor
OF her guest, Miss Helen Keefe at
| five o'clock tea on Thursday. 800"
was played and very pleasant time
passed by all.
Miss Dorothy Houghton of Hough-
ton Ave, gave farewell party in
honor OF Miss Helen Keefe Thursday
evening. 300" was played and
music by Miss Henrietta Walbridge
and Mrs. George f. Houghton was
enjoyed by all. Dainty refreshments
were served. The guests were Miss
Esther Burgess and Miss Cole and
friend OF New York, Miss Henrietta
| Walbridge and Miss Martha Wright
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
ornamsntsd With Scars.

The natives of some OF the islands
Of the Pacific are always glad to see
the doctor on his periodical visits. At
Kaiser Wllhelm's harbor the German
government has stationed DR.. Heise-
gang as medical officer. He is busy
man. Natives by the dozen come to
him, not TO be treated for illness. but
TO get the benefit of his professional
opinion on how to scar themselves ar
tistlcally. The natives are very fond
of scars, and nearly all Of them are
covered with specimens which have
resulted from self inflicted wounds
which were kept open by frequent
scratching or by the introduction OF
foreign substances like sand, bamboo,
shells and so forth. The excrescence
which results from the average vacci.
nation is scratched Off at the proper
time. and the resulting large scar is
very dor to the native. A young
Islander whose face and body are a
mass OF cuts, bruises and scars is con-
sidered the catch OF the season by the
dusky bellies.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
1h.u cnuldnt Hahn Il.

During the American invasion OF
Porto Rico, in the course OF the war
with Spain, General Tasker II. Bliss
with his troops. was stationed near a
village held by an overwhelming force
OF Spaniards Orders were to keep
his "eye peeled" and. II he heard any
thing suspicious, to fall back about
eight miles. Instead Of this his men
turned in one day and captured the
village, chasing the Spaniards out
The next day the commander Of the
American forces came along to find
Bliss sitting in front Of the home Of
the chief man Of the village. The com
mander asked him why he had attack
ed the Spanish force, when he knew
that he was outnumbered. Couldn't
help It," said General Bliss. you see,
my men have been hungry for some
days, and the wind blew toward them
from the village, and some squaw was
frying onions over there. And so'-
Argonaut
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
UNCLE sILAs sULKED.
What Aunt Melissa Had to Say When
She Heard the News.

Sho Heard tne news.
Aunt Melissa SpigoH was such an
exceedingly energetic talker that the
youngsters Of the family used to sup
pose that her tongue must be copper
toed. because It never wore out. Uncle
Silas, on the other hand, was as eco
nomical Of words as a marketman is
Of early strawberries.
The too free exercising Of this IN
ruly member OF Aunt Melissa's on one
occasion gave Uncle Silas serious Of
Tense. which he manifested by Sc
we're silence lasting for several days.
At the end of that period one OF the
older daughters approached her mother
upon the subject with the remark,
MA, seems like you ought TO make up
with pa by now"
MAKE up with pa" exclaimed Aunt
Melissa in great establishment. MAKE
up what"
"Why," returned the daughter
don't you know poor pas feeling bad
yet? He's still hufiing"
"HufIlng--for the lands sake! How
longs he been a-huffing"
Ever since you came down on him
so hard about wasting sugar by not
stirring his coffee; that's three days
ago"
"why. you don't tell me, jamie
Maudr Aunt Melissa looked amazed
"Your pore pa. Been a-huffing fol
three days, and / never mistrusted q
thing of itw-Youth's Companion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Driven TO II.

Guy, the youngest son OF Farmer
Tlmmins. had spent two years In col
lege, during which time he had accu
INFLATED more Indebtedness than edu-
cation His father paid his bills and
left him to shift for himself The boy
had good stock in him, however, and
managed by turning over new leaf,
practicing strict economy and doing
odd Jobs OF work as opportunities pre-
scented themselves to pay for his tut
ton. and stayed on.
Flows your boy doing at collegeT
asked the elder Timmins' next neigh
Dor one day.
He's getting along all right now"
81 hear he's working his way
through"
Yes" grimly. but with CLEAN OF
pride. answered Farmer Timmins
He found he couldn't work me any
more" Youths Companion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
OUTLOOK FOR VETO BILL
Expected to Pass Lords by Majority
of Not More Than Ten or Twenty

London, Aug. 4-The progress of
the veto bill toward the crisis next
week is now coming into clearer
light Viscount Morley today pub
lished a list of seyenty-six Liberal
Peers who had written him promising
to support the government in the pas
sage of the measure.
At a meeting held today OF Union
list Peers who favor supporting the
government, presided over by Wis
count St Aldwyn, formerly Sir Mich
ael Hicks-Beach, it was decided not
to take organized action In the vote
on the bill but TO leave each Peer TO
act on his own discretion. This may
add ten or more votes to the govern
ment side, making the total SO to 80
in favor OF the measure. The only
list of names the followers OF the
Earl of Halsbury have as yet permit
ted to be published gives sixty-eight.
Thus the bill, according TO present
probabilities, will be adopted by a
narrow majority of between ten and
twenty.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village T0Id Briefly
7or Busy Readers

Daniel Mccormick has returned
from Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gould0a Of
Troy. f0rmer residents, are in iowa
Mrs. /. NJ. Bassett and son Duane
have returned from visit in Boston
Gardner Han of Plt:sfield was with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A w. Half
over Sunday.
Miss Anna Manning OF Trcy is vis.
iting her aunt, Mrs. Mary lie )nard ce
Adams street
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith spent Sun
lday with Mrs. Smiths mother, Mrs.
John Temple of Averill Park
Clarence Daley of New York is
spending his vacation with his par
ents, DR.. and Mrs. Il. B. Daley
Decorations to rent during Pageant
week for residences and stores. Or
ders left at Kennedy's shoe store.
Tel. S7-5. 42t4
William Barber aud Miss Fannie
Barber returned Saturday from Port
land. Me, where they have been Wis
iting their sister, Mrs. II. Il. Dill.
James Brennan of Bennington,
Frank Lawlor of New Haven, Conn,
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Grennan and
Miss O'ConnOr OF Bennington are
passing two weeks at Bidawee Cot
tage in Ferndale DR.. H. b. Grennan
and two sisters and Mr. and Mrs
Walsh of New York were guests at
the cottage Sunday.
A large and appreciative audience
turned out last evening at the Guide
board chapel to hear DR.. Seymour,
former pastor to many of them, friend
to all He took for his subject For
giyeness' and showed first that Christ
forgave completely his enemies; sec
ond, that we receive by adoption this
same spirit, making 1t possible for
mortal man to forgive his enemies.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Such a Ihouahtful Woman.

When the man and woman started
down the subway stairs the man felt
In his pockets for tickets.
"By Georger he said. isn't that
shame? I've got to stop In all this
mob and buy tickets"
"Oh, no, you haven't" said the wo-
man. II have them. When l came
downtown remembered what you
said about those people who buy only
one ticket at a time making such a
nuisance Of themselves, so. as l had
10 cents to spare, bought three tick
cts. have two left We can 90
right on through"
SO the man and the woman drifted
along with the pushing crowd to the
point where the ticket chopper held
them up and demanded tribute. Then
the woman looked In her purse for the
tickets. Suddenly her face assumed a
painful Darkness.
al haven't got them,' she falter-
ed. IL was in such hurry when
came through that must have drop
ped all three tickets into the uptown
box."-New York Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
SAVINGS BANKS SHOW GAIN
Resources Of t4t Such Institutions In
state is st,75f,859.OO1

Albany, n. Y, Aug. 5.-An average
OF s53S for each of 2,S62,S45 deposit
tors in the 141 savings banks In New
York state is shown by the annual
statement OF the condition of these
banks ON July l, last, which was
made public by Superintendent of
Banks Van Tuyl today. The states
savings banks and aggregate resour-
ces on July last, of 1,751,S59, OO1.17.
The amount due depositors was ST.
594,224,55s, a gain OF S67,2SS,976.
There was deposited during the year
ended June 80 last 419,S2S.55O, a
greater amount by $14,147, 2SS than
during the previous year, and $lS,O73'
us in excess OF the aggregate with
drawals the past year. The interest
paid deposltors was S55.645,262 or
$1,S16,637 more than last year. The
surplus on investment value of stocks
and bonds totaled $156,7S2,552, an in
crease of SS,173,042, surplus on mar
ket value of stocks and bonds, STA.
222 500, an Increase of $l2,9l2,0O4 and
surplus on par value of stocks and
bonds $126, 453.S71, an increase of 50,
2O6,045.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Pineapple Juice.

As an aid Of digestion, really ma
terial aid, the pineapple stands alone
among the fruit. Its vegetable pepsin
neutralizeo or perhaps rather digests.
albuminous substances In the stomach
Fresh pineapple or, better still, the
fresh juice Of one placed In direct con
tact with eggs or gelatine or milk viii
prove this fact conclusively by pro-
ducing a bitter tasting dish. In cases
OF catarrhal ailments Of the throat
and in its downward connection the
alimentary canal or tract pineapple
cannot be overestimated. and It acts
with equal force in malarial affections.
New York World.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
IRON OF THE ANCIENTS.
Pillar In India Has Stood Rustless For
Centuries.

Pillar In India Has Stood Rustess For
Centuries.
On the plains Of Delhi, in India,
there stands a massive iron pillar.
nearly sixty feet in length and weigh.
ing about nineteen tons. This ancient
column Is literally a monument to the
"antiquated'' processes and metalur
gists that produced it, for 1t has re-
sisted the attack of the elements dur,
ing period of about $500 years, in
which fully q million times its bulk
of iron or steel has crumbled into use
less dust No one would suggest that
civilized man return to the primitive
and laborious methods by which the
iron Of this column was made so long
ago, and besides, there are not men
enough living today to supply our
present demands even If all Of them
should engage In this type of manu-
facture; but, granting that the world
would pay for a limited amount Of
iron as passive" as this old Kutub
pillar, 1t is very doubtful whether
modern ironworkers know how to
make IT,
Probably this specimen Of unusual
iron is the result Of accident rather
than design. as far us its resisting
qualities are concerned, and 1t stands
today the survival of the fittest, not
so much because 1t was intended to
be, as because it proved to be the
most lasting, for 1t is not likely that a
process known to give iron of this
kind would ever have been used so
seldom, since the Importance Of Il rust
resisting iron and steel was as much
appreciated in those days as now. No
doubt all the older processes made
iron and steel which rusted less-yes,
and some of 1t very much less-than
what is usually produced today, but
| there is a great difference between this
mere excellence and resistance to
corrosion during thirty centuries such
rs this column shows. Bradley
Stoughton In Engineering Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
MANCHESTER DEPOT

Band concert at Manchester vii
lage Tuesday evening.
Miss Della Dupuis is visiting her
sister, Mrs. NJ l.. Manley.
Miss Marion Healey is visiting her
grandmother in Wallingford.
Miss Eva Streeter OF East Dorset
spent Sunday at +. l.. Taylor's.
Mrs. John Griffith and children of
East Dorset visited at j. NJ Bourn's
this last week
Mrs. T. j. Healy and two children
are spending week at Cedar Beach
Lake Champlaln.
Moses Dupuis Jr., who has been
spending his vacation here has re.
turned to his home.
A, j. Hicks has bought Ernest
Walkers house and will take possess.
ion about September l.
Fred C. Rowe is visiting his uncle,
Ezra w Benedict at Camp Petow-
bocok on Lake Champlain.
Alden Lincoln came very near be-
ing seriously hurt in collision with
an auto Saturday afternoon.
The proceeds from the lawn party
given for the benefit OF Levi Elliott
and family netted over sixty dollars.
Mrs ]. n. Fee who has been visit.
ing her father. James Fleming, has
returned to her home in Worcester,
Mass.
Mrs Dennie Regan and children
who have been visiting Mrs. NJ A.
Taylor have returned to their home
in Gardner, Mass.
Mrs. S. NJ. Hawkins and Charles
Spencer were called to SALISBURY
last Thursday by the death OF their
mother, Mrs. Caroline Spencer
The selectmen have completed the
iron bridge near the NorcrossWesi
Marble company's mill and are now
putting in one near Il. NJ. Eldred's.
The tenth annual reunion of the
descendants of Thomas Benedict of
Nottingham. England, born in 1917
will be held at Grove Park, Elmira
N. Y. Wednesday, August 2Srd. Al
Benedicts and their families are In
vited to attend.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Relieved.

"Where did you get these examples
Of faulty constructed sentences" ask
ed Dr. Campbell, the great rhetoriclan.
of q student.
"Out Of one Of your books, doctor"
"What? Where? Out Of one Of my
books"
"Yes. sir; out of your Rhetoric"
"Out of my 'Rhetoricv" roared the
doctor. "Impossiblel Never did |
make use of such language. You are
mistaken. badly mistaken. But-but-
where In my Rhetoric did you find
such composition he demanded an
grily.
"In the part, Sentences to be Cor
rected"
"o-h.h-h-h-h! A-h-h-h-hl Yes. yes
said the relieved doctor. 80
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
HE LOVES THEM ALL
klsslnger Kid In Jersey Wants to
Smack All the Girls

Trenton, N. j., Aug 4-Charles Tul-
ly, fifteen, said to be "the kissingest
kid" in this section of Jersey, enter
ed department store here yesterday
with the purpose of kissing every wo-
man employed In the place.
Charlie is such a dexterous kisser
and so quick to smack his lips on
cheeks or mouths that he had add
ed a round dozen kisses to his rec
ord before a policeman arrived Some
of the girls had sought safety in
flight and elderly shoppers ran be-
hind counters and crouched under
them.
The youth is known to the police
as THE kissing Bug" He has been
arrested before He will be in jail
for ten days this time in the hope
that he can overcome his desire &c
kiss every person wearing skirts.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Communication.

Atlas was bearing the world on his
shoulders.
ut Is easier to have everything my
wife wants me TO get on one spot" he
explained.
Thus we see II was n labor saving
device.-New York Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Landed.

Friend-I suppose 1t was hard TO lose
your daughter?
Father Well. II did seem as II Il
would be at one time, but she landed
this fellow just as we were beginning
to give up hope. - Christian lntelli.
gencer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Llhanius.

Libanius, Greek sophlst, In the fourth
century taught rhetoric at CONSTANT
nople. where his school drew such vast
numbers Of students that his rivals
caused him to be expelled from the
city as a sorcerer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Chinese Names.

The names placed over Chinese shops
and laundries are assumed. Every
Chinaman in business has n shop
name" aud private name" and by
the latter he is known only to his fam
Iiv and intimate ncduaintances.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Mv,terv Of The Maine Cleared

One of Marie Corelll's novels was
found not far from the magazine in
the wreck Of the Maine. And yet peo-
pie will continue to talk about the
mystery OF the explosion. 80 Boston
Transcript.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07

Use Of rockets In war was proposed
MS long ago as 1893, but no progress
was made toward this end until the
early part of the nineteenth century.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
oldsst vnluntanr cnrna.

The Oldest volunteer corps in the
world is the Honorable Artillery com
pany Of London. which dates from
1887. during the reign Of Henry VIII.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
Company.

The shepherdess OF ancient times accord
ing TO the book,
Kent awful company because she went
out with "a crook.
Dallas News
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-07
In Advance.

II does no good to swat the fool
Who rocks the boat after It's done.
rather think we ought to break
His neck before the trips begun.
Birmingham Age Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-02
ARMY KEEPS UP BALLooN1NG.
Two officers VIII Make Extensive Fan
Flights at Omaha.

Washington, Oct. without relin-
gushing the course in aeroplane work,
which has been only temporarily sus-
pended. at College Park, in order to al
low the army aviation pupils to attend
the Nassau meet, General Allen, the
chief signal officer. has arranged for
the resumption of practice in military
ballooning-
Two pioneers in balloon work have
been ordered to Fort Omaha, Neb.. to
conduct the annual fall trials with
captive balloons, and it is also expected
that they will make some rather extern
sive free flights
The approaching demonstration is in
tended not only to keep the two officers
Major Samuel Reber, signal corps,
stationed at Governors Island, and
Captain Charles De F. Chandler, signal
corps, one of the College Park pupils
familiar with balloon work, but also to
make sure that the fabric and mechan-
ism of the army balloons, which have
been in storage at Fort Omaha and
Kansas City, No, have not de-
Perforated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-02
HIS FRIENDS IN PICTURES
B. F. Van Horne Saw More Photos
Than Friends on the Slant
Drapery and
Rug Dept.
in g Annex 2


Any one who has closely observed
the picture in the rooms of the State
Historical society of the members Of
the first Kansas legislature, all of them
men with high foreheads, level eye
brOws, long high noses and a heavy
growth of whiskers from ear to ear
with bare upper lip, would have no
trouble in picking out B. F. Van Horne,
the Topeka pioneer who died Saturday
in Minneapolis He looked at the time
of his death, barring the whiteness OF
his beard, as though he had stepped
from the ranks of the group in this pic
ture.
Taking an active interest in politics
Mr.. Van Horne attended more cOnven-
Hons than any other Kansan except
Three. These three were Col. Anthony
of Leavenworth, Jim Laken and Gov
ernor George w. Click.
Mr. Van Horne visited in Topeka in
September, 1908, spending several weeks
with friends here. He saw more of
them in the photograph files of the
State Historical society than on the
streets.
There was no big flood of the Kaw
river from 1857 to 1903" said Mr.. Van
Horne then. THE Indians told US about
a big flood of the river that occurred
in 1874 that must have been, according
10 their descriptions, as high stage II
the river as your flood of 1903, but we
never believed their stories of the wa
ter covering the site of North Topeka
The first bridge we built over the Kaw
was soon washed away, then we built
pontoon bridge that stood for some
time.
copeland Gordon and his three
brothers were here when I came in 81,
and Col. Burgess and NJ. NJ. Hale and
his brother, Alfred and Clay Bowen
and Secretary Martin of the Historical
society I have met all of them on this
-isSt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-02
FTsHERMEN's LUCK BAD.
Heavy Loss of Life and Catch Marks
Close of Year.

ST. Pierre. MID, Oct 2-This has
been a season Of illfortune with the
fishermen of Miquelon and those who
come from France to make st. Pierre
the headquarters for the Grand Banks
fisheries. F'ifteer. vessels. the total
value of which ran into hundreds IT
thousands of dollars have been lost
with full or partial cargoes and IS fish
ermen drowned.
With the vessels which escaped ac-
cident. the season has still been far
from successful, despite the fact that
fish brings a price nearly One-third
higher than last year. The catch this
year has averaged 40 per cent less than
that of last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-02
WOMAN SLAYER IN JAIL.
Gladys johnson Must Serve Two Years
in Penitentiary

Salina, Kan. Oct. 2-Gladys John
son, who was convicted in the district
court on charge of being a white
slave trader and later appealed to the
supreme court, where the sentence of
two years in the penitentiary was af-
frmed, was arrested and lodged in JAIL
where she is now. to be brought before
Judge Grover when the mandate of
the upper court will be read and the
woman ordered sent to the peniten-
tiary.
Gladys johnson has the distinction
of being the first woman in Saline
county convicted on white slave
charge. The particular charge on
which she was convicted was that of
having enticed a 17-year-old girl, Ber-
tina Carey, away from home and kept
her for immoral purposes The John
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-02
TO LEAVE PRESIDENTS HOUSE,
Lowell Will Break an Old Harvard
Custom When He Moves.

Cambridge, Mass. Oct. 2.-Presi-
dent Lowell will break an old Har-
ward custom when he changes his
residence from the old brick 'presi-
his new home about to be built on
Quincy street, adjoining. For more
than fifty years this little house has
sheltered the presidents of Harvard
university, President Eliot having
made his home under its roof for the
forty years that he was head of the
great college, and Presidents FELTON,
and Hill preceding him. The house
was erected in 1851 from a fund left
by Peter c. Brooks, and cost SIC, 600.
It is uncertain as yet to what use
the building will be put but it is pos
sible that it may be used as a library
store room.