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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14
Census of Maple Trees.

While the production of maple
sugar does not constitute one OF Yer
mont's largest industries it is never
theless an important one and capable
of development far beyond its pres
ent volume For that reason any leg
islation calculated to assist in its
growth will be a benefit to the State
no less than to those engaged in this
particular line of activity. II is be-
lieved the bill favoarbly acted upon
by the House of Representatives yes
terday, which provides among other
things for a census of maple trees
will stimulate interest in the indus
try and largely increase the product.
1t developed during the debate that
probably fifty per cent OF the maple
trees in Vermont are not now tapped
and because of this their owners are
losing substantial sums every year
through failure to properly develop
their property. Maple products now
reach a total value of about $1,000
600 annually and if this sum can be
doubled as it is declared by those ex-
perienced in the industry it can be
handsome addition will be made to
the total of Vermonts business.
The census is proposed for no
other purpose than to aid in the ex-
pansion of the maple sugar industry,
which heretofore has not received
the attention its Importance war
ranted. Thousands of trees previous
ly neglected are likely as a result OF
the census to be found in condition
for tapping and so be added to those
that are now furnishing Vermont's
distinctive and much sought product.
Experience has shown that there
is no danger of over production of
maple syrup and sugar. The demand
is practically unfailing and the pric-
es obtained profitable. There is no
risk to the producer inasmuch as
there is always a ready market and
calls frequently exhaust the avail
able supply Nor is it to be forgot
ten that with the broader work
made possible by a larger appropria-
ton for the State publicity bureau,
demand is likely TO be still further
stimulated so that Vermonts maple !
tree products will find a profitable +,
market in many sections where here !
tofore they have been little known
Montpelier Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14

ency to try to cultivate too much
land with too little labor because
labor is scarce and expensive. The
growth of forest on some of the
pasture land and better cultivation
of smaller area would tend to help
this AS the present plan is not
protected is profitable and test
seem risky to try different one.
People are not careful enough
about saving the liquid and solid
stable manures. Acid phosphate or
finely ground phosphate rock
strewn in the cutters if properly
protected is profitable and test
yields of crops should be made 10
prove it. He cautions against the
buying of fertilizers simply because
one likes the agent and says the
state agricultural station should
be used to learn the re- value of
commercial fertilizers
Much time is lost on hill farms
by cultivating short stretches OF
land requiring a lot of time to
turn at the end of short rows. 1t
might be necessary to remove some
fences and put in some bitches to
secure the maximum length of rows
on the farm but it will pay as it
has been repeatedly demonstrated
that it is more profitable to cult !
vate one large field than to care for
the same amount of land in small
patches. Cooperative buying of con- |
centrated feeds for the dairy and I
commercial fertilizers and the for /
nation of COW testing associations /
are also urged.
These recommendations seem
reasonable, practical and valuable to
the farmers whose conditions have
been investigated The apparent
value of them increases our desire
for two undertakings on the part
Of Caledonia county farmers, first
he organization of COW testing as
sociations, so the farmer may def
litely know which of his cows are
probable; and the securing OF a.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14
Suggestions to Farmers.

Some of the citizens of Newbury
secured the services of a soil expert
from the department of agriculture
to examine the soil and general ag-
ricultural conditions there last sum-
mer and the last edition OF the Gro
ton Times contained his report. So
much of the report seems applicable
to conditions in this section that
we summarize some OF them. He
first calls attention to the variety of
soils found and the fact that most
of them can be very profitably cul-
tivated. Corn and grass should
continue to be the main crops and
where lands are not overlooked
more clover grown. More frequent
blowing and rotation Of crops is
advised. With the combination OF
valley land for cultivation and hill
land for pastures there Is an ex-
cellent opportunity for stock, cream
and hog production. The lands need
better drainage as this would make
the land workable earlier in the
spring, more easily cultivated and
allows a deeper root growth and
greater resistance TO drOuth.
Here are some recommendations
that can be applied anywhere. Some
pasture land affords so little feed
that II would be more profitable to
allow IL to grow up to forest thin
ming the trees so only the most de
sirable kinds shall develop. On
many hin farms there is tend
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14
THE CALIFORNIA EHIBIT
Collection of Products to
Arrive in Bennington Xmas Week

SOilNNNlOI VI FIOQuClS &c
Arrive in Bennington Xmas Week
OF the North Bay Counties exhibit
from California, which is to arrive in
Bennington county next week and
which is to be in the Rutland rail
road yard here from December 25 to
December q, recent issue of Cob
bleskill, N. Y, paper says:
The California exhibit cars arriy-
ed in Cobbleskill Wednesday morn
ing and were well patronized during
the two days sojourn The exhibit
is an exceedingly interesting one and
the parties having the exhibit in
charge were uniformly courteous and
thoroughly conversant with all its de
tails.
Fruit was there in almost endless
variety, consisting of peaches, grapes
pears, grape fruit, raisins, Pondoro-
sa lemons, olives, etc, arranged in
jars. Wine made from different var
ieties of grapes, grains, wheat stalks
eight inches long and averaging 80 to
80 bushels to the acre.
"0ne of the most interesting things
in the collection was the spineless
cactus. The cactus was shown in its
original state covered with spines
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14
BENNINGTON, VT, DEC. "A, 1912
Capital Punishment.

The bill of Mr. Hapgood to abolish
capital punishment will it is hoped,
he speedily killed. While capital
punishment seems to be In violation
of one of the ten Commandments, yet
It is. we believe, the greatest deter
ent of crime that can possibly be de-
yised. If every criminal knew for
surety that the taking of life meant
certain death TO him. if detected, he
would hesitate longer and weigh the
matter more carefully than is done at
present.
The effort to commute the death
sentence of the murderer Bosworth
is. the News believes to offer pre-
MUM to crime within the state.
This man was not convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence, so that there
can be no question of whether he shot
the girl or not, he did shoot her
down in cold blood and for no great
er provocation than that she did not
return his love. He has already
lived nearly two years since ms
crime. so long a time that the moral
effect of his execution will not be so
great, as it would have been, had he
been executed within reasonable
time after the consumation of his
horrible deed.
To abolish hanging and substitute
electrocution seems to be step for
ward, but to abolish the death penal
ty is to the mind of the News Editor
a grave mistake. The State of Yer
mont should make the penalty, for
the taking of life, so sure and so
quick that every one who became a
murderer, would know his fate, and |
pay for his crime speedily. |
pelier News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14

government expert to study the
practical changes and improvements
that can be made to make the farm
ers life more pleasant and profitable.
st Johnsbury Caledonian
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14
THE TRUTH
No. 3

Interstate Commission Washington after
of the accident Wepor, has recommended follows
Railroads ought to unitedly experiment With
the automatic train stop until device of prac-
ticabiLity for general use shall be available. "
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14

Mrs Thomas Koran of Rutland
visited her cousin, Mrs. Mary Som
ers Tuesday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard spent
Thursday in Troy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-14

Mrs. May Lathrop and Ernes,
rop attended the funeral of Mrs.
Dyer in Manchester Monday.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

Down in Nowata, Ok, a plucky
little woman is carrying on fight
for her husbands good name and
liberty, under the most dishe artening
circumstances. She is Mrs. Jefferies
Of the Nowata Daily Advertiser.
and her husband is languishing in
Jail under a charge of murder. Mr..
Jefferies, who is a young curley-
headed Irishman, took hold of the
Daily Advertiser about a year ago.
and with all his Irishman's love for a
fight, proceeded to dabble in politics.
which is decidedly bad policy in
those regions, especially if one be
possessed of high ideals and a keen
sense of honor. Now Jefferies oc-
cupies small cell in the Jail. charg
ed with the murder of woman.
The evidence against him is purely
cilcumstantial and no motive for the
crime has yet been discovered.
His friends believe him innocent.
and his wife stoutly declares he
never could have committed such a
crime. 1t seems significant that his
accusers should be of those whom
he most strongly opposed through
the columns of his paper.
Immediately after her husbands
arrest Mrs. Jefferies appeared at the
Office and took charge of the work
where her husband left off. The
Office force, admiring her pluck,
pleged themselves to stand by her
and the. Daily Advertiser is sailing
along as though nothing had hap
pened. Outside of her multitudious
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

duties as editress, solicitor and col :
lector, Mrs. Jefferies personally pre-
pares her husbands meals and takes
them to him, and she also finds time
to carry him refreshing drinks from
neighboring soda fountain, several
times day.
Surely, love like this should have
Its reward, and no doubt will, for
there is still justice in the land.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25
Fifteen Inch Hail Stones

The Saltwater Gazette s reference
to that fifteen inch hail stone, story
from North Dakota caused Old
Hutch to remember several hail
storms that he witnessed in those re-
gions some years ago. Hail stones
as big as beer kegs" said he, were
very common in the Dakoties when
me and Buffalo Bill was a-huntin'
Sioux Injuns out thar. Lorr' said
he, Il recollect onct they was SO big
that when the storm was over the
hui country looked like the state of
California W hen the 49ers GOT
through with her. Yes sir. lust
punctured like a sieve.'' There is
obviously no need of looking up
that LIE Sueur man, nor any of the
local fishermen, for that matter.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

A. N. APACHE who for some time
was special writer of the staff of the
Saltwater Prison Mirror, and who
through his writings is quite well
known to many Times readers, is
back on the job again after va
cation. Apache is one of the bright
est men in the prison today and
many of his friends had hoped that
the absence of his remarkable writ
ings was due to the fact that he had
gained his liberty.-Thief River
Falls Times.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

BUTTE MINER:-Citizen garb soon
will be worn by many of the con-
yicts at tue state penitentiary at San
Quentin California, and it will be
obligatory under the new regula-
tons that are to go into force with
in a short time. This action was
determined upon at meeting of the
board of prison directors at San
Quentin last week.
The plan is to segregate the prison
srs into three classes, first, second
and third grades. The first grade
prisoners will be clothed in civilian
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

garments and will work, play and
feed apart. The members of the
second grade will be clad in cadet
gray uniforms. The third grade
only will be clothed in stripes.
There also will be three different
systems of merits and credits. There
will be three yards and seperate
wings will house the convicts of the
various grades.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

Knock off working at 6 o'clock and
no milking no chores /"
The boys began to waver and it
looked as they were going to fall to
Fthe free smokin and cold pop" but
just then farmer number, 2 chimed
in with, Boys the best looking girls
live in Pawnee- county, and the
boys stepped hack. But farmer
number l was fully determined to
enroll the bunch and back he comes
with They're the right sort of girls,
too, and want good husbands. l
don't know but good looking fellows
like you will make hit with those
girls.
I've got two motor cars and the
neighbors have more. If you come
with me it's free use of those cars
every night as long as harvest lasts,
and quit work at 6 o'clock, so you
can spruce up"
Say, boss what's the fare to
Larnedr"
That's all right; come along,'
replied the Pawnee County man;
and. he bought the tickets for the
bunch.'
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

THAT is what the average fellow
says about anything new that is put
up to him. He is certain that it is
impossible, impracticable, t h at it
won't work, and that it can't be
DONE" 1t is new to him and he can
not understand that anything can be
done unless it has been done before.
He simply accepts what is as the sum
OF what is forever to be and
when you approach him with a new
idea you and it are certain to meet
with cold reception.
Opposed to these moss covered
fellows who say it can't be done"
there are few live and alert men
and women who assert that it can
be done aud tn en- proceed to do
it in the face of sneering and gain
saying world. They have to paw
dearly for their pioneering in the
scorn and contempt of the unthink-
ing majority who object to being lift
ed out of the ruts and having new
idea disturb the cobwebs in afro
piled brains, but the price is worth
paying, for in the persecution they
meet with and the fire through
which they pass the dross is con-
sumed and they emerge in all the
strength and glory of manhood aid
womanhood and their names remain
to bear testimony that they lived
and served and that because of their
having lived and served. humanity
has risen from caves and jungles to
the shining heights of civilization"
.Fv
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

Two farmers from Pawnee county
RAMS, in the lookout for harvest
hands, met a bunch of husky looking
fellows on the street of Hutchinson,
the other day, and each sought by
seductive offers to employ them.
Said ONE farmer; Boys. five meals
a day, free smokin' and, cold pop.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

ALL signs fortell that the big
CRATER has had his day. The people
are after him likely split. A prison
full of these big fellows would man
tain itself on visitors fees alone,
besides handing over a good fat pro-
fit to the state.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

The new corrupt practice law
dose'nt effect The Mirror in the least.
This is one of the few instances
where we have the best of our con-
temporaries on the outside.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

THE result of the Olympic games
at Stockholm, is but added proof of
Americas superiority over decadent
Europe,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25
Jbe LorkrDaD' Prayer.
w. G. Van D.
oONN-NO

o, grant strength to work this day,
That my loved ones may need;
For thou knowest Lord that the daily wage
Just filleth the daily need.
l would not ask for bread, for SELF
But to gain the strength it holds
That might labor and support the lives
Thou hast placed within my fold
o. make my children chdless, Lord
Lest they too should know the fear
And the torture of watching them slowly fade
For the lack of food and air,
And grant that may die, o Lord,
When my strength begins to fall
For the workmans only refuge then
Is the poorhouse the jail
But grant Lord, that the day may
When the who shall reap,
When the workngman shall know want,
But the fruit of his labor keep.
When that day comes he'll forget his fear
And the housewife will point with glee
To the faces that smile she tells the tale
OF that Child Of Gaee.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25

rooms 1or IS. per week until you
come home. That will be due this
week, and where I am going to get
ltfrom | do not know. / could new
er go through what / have any more.
Now, dear, l will draw to a close
/ 80 believe me to remain. vour
broken hearted wife, AK-
Good night and God bless Won.
This letter was handed to Mr..
Wheatley by the governor Of the
prison, and as a result one of the
lady workers of the Mission assisted
the poor woman up till the time of
her husbands Liberation. In con-
fclusion, Mr.. Oracle described the
Holiday and Conyalescent Homes at
Maldon, and the Orphanage, where
over sixty children, rescued from
restitution, and, in not a few in.
stance, from grave moral danger.
are maintained and educated.
What the Judges Say.
Speaking from the chair. Mr. +
A. Bevan, with apt reference to the
Missions efforts, quoted Mr.. Tbos.
Holmes, as showing thatin many in
stances those who become criminals
90 40 through being led into evil
courses in their early days. Mr.. Bey-
an after touching upon some of the
chief departments of the Missions
operations, spoke of Mr.. Wheatley's
remarkable tact and ability, and said
that his qualities and success are
warmly recognized by our Judges
and magistrates. The Mission car
rles on Christ-like work, and calls
tor earnest support.
In addition to Mr.. Wheatlev
there were two friends present who
were present at the first meeting of
the Mission, thirty-five years ago:
one OF these was Mr.. Bevan. and the
other Pastor William Cuff, who de-
clared that those connected with the
work can truly say: Hitherto hath
the Lord helped u.s. Mr.. Frederic
w. Smith, who followed, said. that
we may change the clothing. the
house, the circumsl ances, but all
avalls little unless, primarily, the
man undergoes spiritual and in
ward change. Mr.. Smith went on
to note, as important parts of the
Missions endeavors. that, year by
year, about 500 friendless juvenile
are admitted into the in
stitution for boys, and about 500
homeless women are received at the
women's home.
Recalling his experience as pub
lie official, Sir Robert Anderson
said that there was no gency in
these days to which he turned with
greater pleasure than the St. Giles
Mission. Some people are
sentimental but impractical; others
are hard-headed but lacking in kind
ness. Mr.. Wheatley, however, is
but intensely practical.
Moreover, as he himself declares, he
s unsatisfed until he knows for a
act that the subject of his assistance
becomes new creature in Christi
As an example of what can be done
or the prisoner, Sir Robert in
tanced the famous case of Jerry
sentenced, even as lad, to
fteen years Imprisonment, but who,
to God, became the foun-
er of the Jerry McAuley Mission.
lere is an admirable example of the
over of the Gospel, and it is this
anne Gospel upon which Mr.. Wheat
~ relies.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25
A Pathetic Letter,

A touching letter was read. show.
ing the pitiful condition of the wife
and family of a prisoner while he
was serving his term of imprison-
ment:--
My Dear Husband Just these
few lines in answer to your kind
letter. am sorry to say l am still
feeling very poorly. l have been
fairly shook up this week. l shall
be very pleased to see you home SO
as to see the children. Now, dear,
/ must tell you l was put into the
street with the five children, and it
has cut me to the heart. We were
Lut out last Wednesday at two
o'clock, and we were all in the street
until nine o'clock at night before !
could get shelter. and all the things
were in the street till Friday night
at eight o'clock. / could not get
anyone to pick them up, as l have
not penny to help myself with. Il
am too i'll to work, but still, as a
mother and wife, l will cling to my
dear children. My beds were all
sopping wet, and everything else
They laid in puddles of water. tits
a wonder l am alive, but I keep up
as well as l can for the sake of the
little ones. | don't know what it is
to go to bed and rest since Tuesday.
IT something don't soon alter shall
never have the strength to pull
through my trouble, which is very
near. ] cannot get the fire to dry
my bed. 1t is one mass of water. / |
have managed to get the bed for the
children ready. 1t poured with rain
for two days. / have got two
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-07-25
Hope for the Prisoner.
st. Giles Christian Mission. London
England.
From The (LOndOn) Christian.

From The (LOndon) Christian.
SO greatly has the St. Giles Chris
tian Mission extended it's borders
that It's operations now cover mani
fold efforts On behalf of friendless
juvenile offenders, discharged pris-
oners, the wives and children of
prisoners, and also of the sick poor
OF one OF the most needy districts of
the Metropolis.
At the annual meeting, held on
June 10th, at the Mansion House.
+. e., emphasis was laid by Mr..
James Oracle on the fact that the
Mission aims at nothing less than
conversion. Numerous facts and
statistics we're also adduced, demon
strating the extent of the philan-
throplc activities. During the past
thirty five years, some $4,000 free
breakfasts have been provided for
discharged prisoners whom. also.
the Word of God was read and ex-
pounded. Further, over 1853 900 ex-
prisoners have been assisted with
tools, clothing, and employment; by
this means many homes have been
saved from absolute ruin, and thous-
ands OF families from the paralysis of
despair.
While, however, the prison-gate
work is prosecuted with undated
vlgor. it is the work among the
young which is receiving closest at
tentioH. Often Judge says to Mr..
Wheatley: There is a lad here
who seems never to have had a |
proper chance in life; will you help
him"' Mr.. Wheatley's answer has
invariably been Yes" Thus, very |
considerable numbers who first re-
ceived help as erring lads, are now
nardworking, God-fearing men. The
has been the means of saving
hem, and, even from a financial
point of view, the nation may we'll
realize that it has thus been saved
arge sum of money. Under the
Pro baton Act, Mr.. Wheatley has,
since June, 1908, received and as
sisted, l 1862 probationers- men, wo-
men, and children, of whom only a
very small percentage proved unsat-
sfactory.
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The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-10-17
Find lib Is Fractured.

Chicago, Oct. 1.-THE fourth rib
on Col. Roosevelt's right side was
fractured by the bullet which struck
him at Milwaukee Monday night. This
became known after members of his
family had visited him. 1t was also
learned that the X-ray photographs
taken In Milwaukee failed to reveal
the exact location of the bullet.
A more minute examination of the
plates will be made. The fractured
rib, it was explained, had caused the
patients pains in breathing previous
ly noted by The surgeons.