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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06
FOUND BY BLIND sEEREss
Makes Out a Chart and Body OF
Sweeney is Discovered

Burlington, May 6.-The body of
Barrett Sweeney, the young man who
was drowned in the Winooski river
near Bolton April 27 was recovered
yesterday. Townspeople attribute
the location of the body to the second
sight OF the blind medium, Mrs. Won
Curler who drew a chart of the river
and pointed out the exact spot where
the body lay. This was in an eddy,
300 feet from the shore and a half
mile from where the young man was
drowned.
Young Barrett in company with an
older brother James, was engaged In
laying a wire cable across the river
when the cable slipped under the boat
in which they were working, over
turning 1t and precipitating the two
men into the water.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06

So far as anything more than local
teams is concerned baseball is dead
in Rutland and there remains nothing
but the interment which will probably
have taken place, without ceremony,
shortly. Loud talk about league for
nation with various other towns and
boom season has dwindled into sill
ence. The end came this morning
when the boom petered out. altering
its last words through its enthusiast
and would-be hacker, Harry A Lev
ms, when he stated that it was "all
off people" Mr.. Levins said, will
not take hold of It, There are too
many other things for business mon
to enter into The fair and the mer-
chants carnival must go through in
good shape. They will not push base
ball too. and its practically dead -
Rutland News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06

Powers, the former North Adams
pitcher lost q 70 inning game for
Holyoke yesterday against Bridgeport.
An error followed by two base hit
gave Bridgeport the game by 6-5
score Each team made II hits
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06
Liberation Notice

This Is 20 notify all persons that we have
1his day given our SON An twine Sharkey his
time for the remainder of his minority and we
shall claim none of his wages and pay no bills
of his contracting after this date, Mr. and Mrs,
Frank Sharkey, Arlington Vt. April End,
1911.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06

Paddy" Ryan, the former Benning-
ton center fielder, is showing the
fans in the Nutmeg state league that
he is some ball player. In yesterdays
game between New Britain and North
ampton he put out a three Dagger In
the fourth inning and when the out
fielder made high heave on the
throw-in he kept right on to the plate.
He also made one sacrifice hit but
had no chances in the field. Hoar,
the former Northern league pitcher,
who has played in Bennington was
in the box for New Britain and held
Northampton to two hits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06
SALISBURY

New Millinery Parlor in South
SALISBURY Main street next to Haw-
kins store. Hats, feathers, flowers.
straw braids and ribbons for sale.
Hats made and trimmed. 6St6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06

Hickey, the former Bennington cen
ter fielder now with Hartford, failed
to make a hit yesterday in the game
with Waterbury yesterday He had
two putouts in the field.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06

Larry" Gardner the former Yer
mont university player now with the
Boston Americans, made four hits out
Of six times at bat, had two putouts
and five assists, scored two runs and
stole three bases in yesterdays game
with New York. One Of Gardner's
hits was home run.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06
SOUTH SALISBURY

Millinery Parlor, Main street Brad
ish House next to Hawkins store.
Hats, flowers, ribbons, straw braids
for sale. Hats made and trimmed.
este
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06
BASEBALL 1UNTs

Vermont played a ten inning game
tied at to with Tufts college at
Medford yesterday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06
|. ]. CARPENTER

Will be in town about May 18th.
at Hudson's store,
Pianos for sale. ID rent and tuned.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06

Manager Higgins of the Bennington
baseball team is hopeful that Jay
Burns of Pittsfeld will have recovered
from his injury by the time that the
season opens on the 10th. He has all
along had confidence that Burns
would make a strong addition to the
team and will reserve position on
the nine for the Pittsfeld boy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-06
WEATHER FORECAST
Probabilities for this Section f0r the
Next 81 Hours

For eastern New YORK and western
Vermont fair tonight and Sunday,
Not much change in temperature.
Light frost in central portion tonight.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
NOVEL FEsrIvIrY.
Church Women Entertain Supper
Crowd With STAFF OF Life.

COufEn women EnNoFtdfn supper
Crowd With STAFF Of Life.
A novel idea for church entertain
ment is supper in which all the
courses are Of bread in some form or
have the staff of life as an important
factor i'm their composition.
For a recent function of the kind in
vitations were issued i'm the following
form:
"The Ladies' Aid society of ST
Johns church cordially request your
presence at n staff of life supper on
(such date at p. m. price as
cents)."
Perhaps a better idea cannot be Civ
en- of how TO conduct such a merry.
making than to describe the supper
for which these cards were issued:
The table was effectively and at the
same time most economically decorat-
ed. The centerpiece was huge sand
witch loaf followed out TO form n boat
and filed with paper flowers. Smaller
loaves also scooped out and lined with
paraffin paper held the olives and
sailed nuts
The first course was a delicious
cream toast served in place of soup.
This was followed by bread fritters
with o substantial course of veal loaf
and green peas in little boxes of hol-
lowed out bread Drowned in the oven.
Instead of salad they had excellent
club sandwiches and for dessert French
pancakes rolled in powdered sugar.
Coffee and cake came last of all.
The place cards found at each cover
bore on one side the names of the
guests as usual, and on the reverse
each had question relating to bread
in history, legend, etc. Between
courses these queries were read aloud
and the answers searched for. 1t
helped to pass the time merrily.
Here are few of the questions as
examples of the series:
What real person when told that the
poor were dying for want of bread is
reported to have said, "Why don't they
eat cake?' Marie Antoinette.
Who first called bread the "staff of
life" Jonathan Swift.
What marvellous bread saved many
lives? The mamma that fell in the
desert.
After supper the frolic assumed the
general character of a sOciable, with
several merry contests in which bread
played part. For instance, table
was rolled upon the scene upon which
several kinds of loaves were heaped up
and players were called on to give
each its proper name, as New England
loaf, etc. All those who succeeded in
writing out complete lists drew for
prize in the form of a pretty bread
plate.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
A Dinner Mishap.

Dreadful was the embarrassment OF
debutante who was pushed so Wig
orously under the table at her first
dinner that she spilled claret from
every glass at the table.
The hostess took 1t well, though she
could doubtless have murdered the
girls dinner partner, but she heaved
sigh for her best tablecloth, for claret
makes bad stain.
The man redeemed his fault by quiet
ly rubbing the spot in front of his
place with salt until 1t almost entirely
disappeared His partners attention
attracted, she, too. started salt rub.
Soon all the guests at the table were
laughingly doing the same until by
the end of the dinner scarcely a trace
could be found Of the spilled wine.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
Chii0rOn Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
9 a STO RIA
Lordly Disraeli.

Disraeli once told Il lady that two
possessions which were Indispensable
to other people he had always done
without. Il made" she said. every
kind of conjecture. but without sue
cess, and on my asking him to el.
tighten me he solemnly answered that
they We're watch and I'm umbrella
But how do you manage | asked. III
there happens To be no clock in the
room and you want to know the time.
i ring for Il servant was the magnilo-
quent reply. We'll. continued. and
what about the umbrella? What do
you do. for instance, if you are in the
park and are caught in sudden show
erY Il take refuge he replied. with
smile of excessive gallantry. under
the umbrella of the first pretty woman
meet"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
Cleaning Stains of Marble.

To remove stains from white marble
mix together one teaspoonful each Of
soapsuds and OK gall. adding half u
gill Of turpentine and as much finely
powdered pipe clay or fuller's earth as
will form a stiff paste. Apply with n
brush.
The mixture should be allowed to re-
main on the marble for two or three
days.
Black marble may be cleaned by a
paste made from equal parts OF pearl
ash and soft soap.
A flannel cloth is best for applying
After a few minutes sponge or with
warm. then with cold, water. When
dry, polish with rag dipped in kero
sene.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
DECAY OF TIN.
Remarkable Alteration Which Takes
Place In the Metal.

Place In the Metal.
Anything made of tin, it seems, is
doomed to brief existence. This
metal is subject to remarkable kind
of alteration, a species of disease to
which it is liable. When exposed to
the air tin undergoes no chemical
change, as do iron and copper, which.
of course, chemically combine with the
oxygen or with water. The tin, how
ever. still remains metallic tin. but
gradually becomes gray and dull and
falls to fine powder.
The disease is catching" 1t infects
or induces the same change in other
masses of tin in the immediate neigh
borhood. We are told that in a Rus
sian imperial magazine, in place of tin
uniform buttons, little heaps of powder
were found. A consignment of Banka
tin sent from Rotterdam to Moscow
in 1877 arrived at the latter place in
the form of powder. This alteration is
due to a change in the internal crys-
talline structure of the metal and is
analogous to the slow transformation
of monoclinic sulphur to rhombic sui
phur. AS a result, objects of tin Of
archaeological interest are rare. Those
that have been found have been in the
form of earthenware vessels. knobs.
etc, which have been found in the
Swiss lake dwellings coated with tin
foil. Cassiterite or tinstone is the sin
gle ore from which the tin has been
obtained in any quantity.-Knowledg
and Scientific News, London.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
A PLACID MERCHANT.
He Had Some Regard For the Social
Side of Trade.


The summer visitor in small sea
port town was amazed and amused at
the assortment of merchandise display
ed in the little store at the head Of the
wharf. The showcase was devoted to
an assortment of candy at one end and
a lot of cigars and tobacco at the 9th
er end and no barrier between. Next
to the showcase stood a motor engine
valued at several hundred dollars.
Thinking TO please the proprietor,
the visitor remarked that even the
large department stores in Boston
could not boast of such a collection.
"Well," he said. II amt aping them
stores. ! can tell you. aim to keep
what my folks want. When a man
wants an engine for his bot he wants
ii, and If the fish are running he can't
wait TO send way to Portland or Bos-
ton for II. He wants 1t when he does.
then and there"
After a little pause he continued:
II don't like the way they do business
In them big stores, anyway. Why.
when you go into store up to Bos.
ton the first thing you know some
body asks you what You want.
"Now, l never do anything like that.
II man comes into my place pass
the time o. day and ask him 10 set.
and after he's set and talked a while
II he wants anything he'll tell me.
II never poster a man to buy. May
be he amt come to buy; maybe he's
come to talk."-Youth's Companion.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
A SUBSTANTIAL
ROAD OF DIRT
Illinois Commission Builds One
Without Use Of Stone.
CONSTRUCTION METHOD EASY

The Severe Wear Caused by Automo-
biles Has Made Il Necessary to Find
Something Stronger Than the Mac.
adam Road-Experiments With Mix
ture Of Dirt and Oil Show Results.
Macadam roads have been the worlds
standard for many years, but under
conditions of modern traffic they have
so quickly worn away that in the
country which boosted the enduring
military roads Of Napoleon a con-
gress Of the road engineers of the
world was called TO discuss means of
preventing them from going up in
smoke or dust! The iron tire Of the
horse drawn vehicle rolled and COM
matte tire of the motorcar sucks up
the dust and draws il into the air to
blow away. 1t was formerly compac-
ton by traffic; now it is suction.
This fact has been strikingly DEM
onstrated by the work of the state
highway commission of Illinois. One
of the best miles of macadam road
ever constructed, and surface bound
with gravel of peculiar cementing
quality, has been ripped up and blown
away down to the large, sharp pointed
rocks that constitute the basic course
Other experiments with oil and tar
have proved the binding and protect
ing properties Of those substances.
Value of Oil.
The value Of oil of heavy asphalt
base-the residuum after refining out
the volatile oils-as a binder for rock
roads led to experiments with it in the
construction of dirt roads without the
use of stone. The idea was to COM
pact and bind the dirt so that it would
lie waterproof and as wearproof as
nOSsible-in other words. to bind the
particles of dirt together so that trac-
ton would produce little dust. One
Of the most striking experiments with
oiled black mud was made at Bement,
in Piatt county, and herewith we re-
turn to our illustrations. The Bement
section ranks among the richest in
central Illinois. 1t is rich because it
is fairly bottorless. 1t was low lying
and swampy in the olden days before
the coming of the steam dredge and
the tile and its roads were as impass-
ible as that type of land affords.
1t is disable all the year round for
maximum loads, it is practically dust
less, it requires no dragging or scrap
ing, and it has a resiiency that saves
horse ana vehicle and adds much to
the comfort of the occupants of wagon
or carriage. After more than a years
test, the experiment must be pronounc-
ed great success, and the best men
about Bement, who have made a study
of roads for many years, regard it as
the solution of the problem of build
ing mudless roads in the black prairie
soils.
The method of construction was sim
pie. The road was plowed six inches
deep and the dirt scraped TO each side
In the bed thus made a layer of oil
was sprinkled, the oil in this expert
ment being what is usually called so
TO 50 per cent asphalt oil. After the
oil was applied two inches of dirt were
Scrapcd back into the roadway and oil
and soil were thoroughly disked to-
gether.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by 0Vcr-WoTk.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re-
sponsible for much sickness and suffering,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04

should have the best.
Sold by druggists in
ffty-cent and one-dol-
lar sizes. You may
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also a
pamnhlet telling Won
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
The Perfect Living Room.

After all the modern house deco
rators have said their last word on
the subject it would be hard to find
anything half so satisfactory as the
simple rules given by William Morris
for the making of perfect room. The
woman who is planning to rearrange
her house this fall with a view to add
ing to its comfort and attractiveness
would do well to read over what Will
liam Morris wrote about the furnish
ing of the living room.
Perhaps it will not try your pa
thence too much" he writes, "if / lay
before you my idea of the fittings nee
essary to the sitting room of healthy
person-first a bookcase with a great
many books in it. next a table that
will keep steady when you write or
work at it, then several chairs that
you can move and bench that you
can sit or lie upon; next cupboard
with drawers; next, unless either the
bookcase or the cupboard be very
beautiful with painting or carving.
you will want pictures or engravings,
such as you can afford, only not stop
gaps, but real works of art upon the
wall. or else the wall itself must he
ornamented with some beautiful or
restful pattern. We shall also want
vase or two to put flowers in, which
latter you must have sometimes, espe-
cially if you live in town. Then there
will be the fireplace, of course, which
ia our climate is bound to be the CHER
object in the ROOM"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
Use of Tamper.


Then followed a tamper. an nipple
ment like Il large field roller. each sec
ton of which bears closely set prongs
about ten inches long somewhat like
the spikes attached TO the wheels of
steam roller TO tear up the road only
longer and rounded on the end. This
tamper does the work its name indi-
cates-it completes the mixture and
the oil and dirt and lamps it down
After its use more oil and dirt were
added until three layers had been ap-
piled, and then the steam roller com
pleted the work
About two and half gallons of oil
were used to the square yard. This
oil sells, according to quality, at from
1 10 cents per gallon. Taking 3
cents as an average and building a
road sixteen feet wide, which is wider
than Is necessary for the oil, we have
a cost for oil of about $1,175 per mile
The labor cost Is TO be added to that
1t is certainly the cheapest mudless
road that has yet been devised. as the
rock roads run quickly into large mon
ey when the material must be carried
in by rail.
Repairs are readily made in this
form Of road construction The top
is plowed up, more oil added. tamped
and rolled, and the surface is as good
as new. Ii Is not a road that does not
need repair. No such road is built.
Even the city's granite blocks wear
out under the creaking wheels of its
heavy traffic. The fundamental fault
Of American country road builders is
their idea that road will stay built
II won't. Ii Is not I'm the nature of
things. The best Of roads need repair.
and wise is that commissioner who has
learned that in road maintenance
stitch In time saves nine. Unfortu-
nately not many Of them have learned
that fact.
Evidently the black mud regions. far
from gravel and limestone, need not
sit helplessly marooned In mud. A
way out has apparently been found
over a solid. substantial bridge, built
II OIL aud dirt.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04

therefore, II kidney
trouble is permitted TO
continue, serious re-
suits are most likely
TO follow. Your other
organs may need at
tention, but your kid
neys most, because
they do most and
should have attention
first. Therefore, when
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04

how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to DIR. Kilmer g. Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y. Don't make any mis-
take, but remember the name, Swamp
Root, and don't let a dealer sell you
something in place of mp-Root--if
you do you win be disappointed.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
Pleasant Prospect.

"Yo' isn't stopped at de Palace hotel
befo', is yo', boss?" inquired the col
ored man who was plotting a just
arrived traveller from the railway sta
ton 10 the hosiery.
mo. But what makes you sure Of
itT
"Uhkase yo' gwine dar now. sab"
Puck.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04

your kidneys are weak or out of order,
you can understand how quickly your en-
tire body is affected and how every organ
seems to fail to do its duty.
If you are sick or "feel badly" begin
taking the great kidney remedy, DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. A trial will con-
vince you of its great merit.
The mild and immediate effect of
Swamp-Root, the great kidney and
bladder remedy, is soon realized. 1t
stands the highest because its remarkable
health restoring properties have been
proven in thousands of the most distress
ing cases. If you need a medicine you
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-01-04
Notice
NOTICE

Please do not ask Us to publishycard
of thanks, resolutions'or obituaries free
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-01
RACE PREJUDICE
~ ii. IN !. The |: {. FAR EAST
Continued rom
CONTINUED from page six

of Japanese securities, which
never could be accounted for by either
the London financiers or our own.
What l feel is that the danger of
Asiatic ethnic solidarity is immense
ly accentuatedby the attitude of GER
tain of the British themselves. 1t
goes without saying that the younger
son of a British nobleman, who does
not succeed to his fathers estate and
does not go into trade, but who finds
the only outlet for his activities in
the army or navy, the church, or in
the Indian civil service, becomes far
more of a snob, and therefore far
more of a danger when dealing with
natives in Asia than he would be per-
mitted to be at home in England. And
the harm that one such person can
do it may take an army to undo.
/ have spoken thus freely respect
ing the conditions in India because 1
feel at liberty to do so, since my
mother was born under the British
flag, and l have a very large number
of relatives in the British army, navy,
and church. But l should be wholly
lacking in fairness if l did not ask
your attention to similar cases of race
prejudice in which we are involved
and which are equally dangerous in
other parts of Asia.
Let me tell you a story as it was
told me by a Harvard graduate, who
is now a minister of the Japanese
Crown. when Perry came here,
said he, "and Townsend Harris OF
blessed memory followed him and
made the first treaty with Japan, it
was stipulated that we (the Japanese)
should give them ground for their le-
cation and their consulates, COM
pounds, We did so. Yokohama was
then an unimportant place, a native
fishing village. 1t was the natural
port of Toxic, but as we had no for
eign trade that meant anything We
| gave them ground in Yokohama fol-
their consulate. Merchants anC
traders followed, and we gave then
ground also for their shops. The Brit
ish and the Russians and other Eu
ropean nations came in and we gave
them like concessions. In Yokohama
as you know, houses and stores are
not numbered as you number them il