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The eight mOnths-old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. George P. Coryell died early
Thursday morning of cholera infantum.
The little one had been i'll for seevral
days and from the first but little hope
was held out for its recovery. Mr..
Coryell was in New York, but was leav-
my ior i.o..S a.E;.s ..:,r, g
passed away. A telegram was sent
him to Chicago and it is believed he
will reach home for the funeral tomor-
row afternoon.
Pat Rogers of Grand Valley was one
of the many Garfield county ranchmen
called to serve as juror this week.
Pat says the fruit men Of his section
are worse scared than hurt for while
the peaches were frosted just as they
were ready to. pick, a condition which
has not prevailed for twenty years.
there are plenty Of fine apples in the
country asA ~ sbsada.es II other
other essps a.l - says - al his
-a3;sAess. iatesA = have Tha.ksgiv-
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PoWNAL CENTER

Clyde A. Peckham spent Tuesday
In North Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs A. Niles have return
cd from several weeks visit with
relatives in Dalton.
Mrs. A. Kately Of Blacklnton was
the guest Of her daughter, Mrs Mer-
rift Myers Tuesday.
Mrs Sophia Starbuck and Mrs John
Sweet were guests Of Mrs. Francella
Campbell Thursday. Mrs. Camp
bell is slowly oonvalesolng.
The Ladies Aid society OF Pownal
Center will give a supper at the town
hail Friday evening. January s. All
ore most cordially invited to attend.
George Exford OF Mason Hill ap.
peared at the Office OF Mrs. Mary f.
Lampman, town clerk, with a very
large wild cat which he caught Wed.
ne"day on the Green mountain. Mr..
- ord has caught several this win.
ter end the people OF that vicinity
nr' nlcased with his good luck.
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-..gB BEAAlHGTl

Amos Johnson of Maple Hill was
in town Thursday on business.
Miss Lura Durham of Bennington
Falls called on friends in town Thurs
day.
Clark Loomis of SALISBURY was in
the village Thursday afternoon on
business.
Mrs. Truman Amidon of Shafts
bury called on friends in town on
Thursday.
Mrs. John Davis OF Bennington
Falls was in the village on business
Thursday.
John Davock has taken charge OF
the Pink T lunch rooms in place OF
Stewart Mayhem.
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Annual Cemetery Meeting

The annual meeting of the North
Bennington Cemetery association
will be held at the First National
bank of North Bennington on Mon
day, the Sth day Of January at 1870 p.
m, to transact the following business
list To hear and dispose OF the
reports Of the officers for the past
year.
End. To hear the report of the
chairman Of the Ladies Improvement
Society.
3rd. To see what sum, II any.
shall be paid the chairman of the
Ladies Improvement society for SER
vices of the past year.
4th. To see II the meeting will
take any action In regard to building
a receiving vault.
9Th. To elect a Board OF FIVE 90
trustees for the ensuing year
9Th. To transact any other proper
and necessary business.
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BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy ReaderS-


Dancing class at n. f. o. P. hall
tonight from S to 10.
Mrs. Margaret J. Sibley is visiting
her sister in Saratoga.
c. W. Thatcher is spending few
days in Mystic, Conn
Hon. S. NJ Bowles of Woodford is
spending the day here.
Miss Ella Murray has returned
from a visit in Rutland.
Bennington council. Knights of Co
lumbus. will hold regular meeting
this evening.
The Ladies' Aid society of Pownal
Center win give a supper at the town
hall this evening.
Mrs. Frank Eldred of North Pow
nal is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Austin.
Miss Florence Walbridge has re-
turned from a visit with Miss Grace
Flagler of Rutland.
Joseph Nash returned yesterday to
Burlington to resume his studies at
ST. Michael's college.
Miss Elizabeth Morrlssey of Troy
spent a part of Thursday with her
mother, Mrs. 4. j. Morrissey.
Mrs. Charles Adams entertained
two tables at bridge at her home on
South street Thursday evening.
Louis Puffer has returned to the
r. p l., Troy, after having passed
the holiday recess at his home here.
Word has been received of the re-
cent death of Mrs. John p. Harwood
of Los Angeles, Cal. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harwood and their son Robert left
Bennington to reside in California in
1894.
The Christmas tree social held on
Thursday evening by Catamount
Commandery, U. o. G. c., was an en-
joyable occasion. There were %
present and gifts were exchanged.
Dancing was enjoyed later.
The December issue of the Vermont
i4llt NOHldluS IL DIltl arr
Gle on the Bennington Historical
Pageant written by Miss Margaret
L. Lawson, daughter of Principal
George B. Lawson or Vermont Acad-
envy and formerly pastor of the First
Baptist church here.
A letter received from George De
Laurier who has been an inmate OF
the Pittsford sanitarium, states that
he has broken the record of the in
stitution for increased weight. Last
week he gained 61s pounds which
gives him an increase of q pounds
during the month and a half that he
has been at Pittsford. No such in
crease as 61s pounds in a single week
has as yet been recorded at the san
itarium.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the postofiice for the week end
ing January LIST, 1912: Bennington
Standard, Mr.. John Clark (2) care Of
George Pheneauf, Mr.. Jack Don
Court (2), Mr. T. Hodson, Mr. Frank
Hollenbeck, Mr. E. b. Marsh, Mr.
William Roache, Mr.. Samuel Slayln.
Mr.. b. e. Webster, Mr.. II. Willard,
Miss s. +. Allen, Miss Madona Dan
forth Mrs. Henry Hale, Mrs. Macl
O'Neil, Mrs. Lizzie Rockwell, Miss
Gina Warne.
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FiUe Special
Linen Values

Roller Towels-sewed up, ready for use
heavy brown craSh-2A yds.. 22c ca.
Kitchen Towels one yd long, hemmed,
heavy brown crash.......... 49,. lOc ca.
Bath Towels-large size, bleached, hem
med 2Sc alue.....................at lSc
Linene Squares 80 inches, hemsttched,
embroidered corners SOC value..at 29c
Linene Scarls---l7 by 81 ins.-to mat.h
squares ........"..............."'' %Sc
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Women S and Chill
dren's Warm Sleep
ing Garments

Soft pretty outing hannels; pinks, blues;
stripes, while and plain colorS.
Women'S soc Gowns at................39c
Women SOC Gowns at..............75c
Women'S $l00 Gowns at 1850
Girls SOC Gowns, 4 to II years, at $50
ChiIdfen'S 75c Pajamas, 6 to 10 yrs. soc
Children's SOC Paamas, to 10 yrs. 29c
ChiIdrenS 25c Knit PajamaS. Ice
Boys and Girls SIPS Pajamas, 8to
II years 800
DR.. Dents Sleeping Carments-95c sorts
.oo5c 75c sorts to SOC, SOC sorts to sec.
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outr 10 Merkle, who was running to the
club house.
1t was all he could do to make himself
heard above the bowling of the mob, but
when the meaning of his decision became
known, that the New York team had lost
the game and the championship, pande-
nonium was let loose. Men struck at the
umpire. Players came to blows in at
tempting TO rescue him or leave him to
The mercy of the mob.
But O'Day forced his way toward the
exit, lodging a blow now and then and
gushing his assailants aside. Before he
left the field the management thought it
to provide a police escort, and
the umpire who had seen his duty and
scted, when the man who should have rem
dered the decision was silent, had to leave
the ball park protected by policemen be-
cause he had been fair.
Almost all fans regard baseball players
end umpires as enemies in the natural
course of things, Just as cal and dogs are
enemies by nature. And it looks as
though the fans had the situation sized
up about right. So long as a game is in
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putes in minor leagues, they arrange +
give him a chance late In the season in I
big league.
Players are tried out IN the early spring
but umpires are put through their pace.
late in the season. They are given {
chance to show what they can do with two
teams near the bottom of the ladder and
in games which cannot materially affect
the standing of the clubs
New umpires are subjected to the worst
kind of Raging. The players take ad.
vantage of their inexperience to protest
every decision where there is the slightest
room for doubt, and the fans gorge them
selves with abuse in their endeavors to
rattle the new man. There is no personal
animosity toward him. 1t is perhaps
just the same spirit that makes the sopho-
more in college haze the freshman.
Many a little tragedy is enacted in a
ball park when a new umpire dons his
mask and chest protector The world
looms big and bright to the man who takes
his place behind the catcher for the first
time in a big league game. Air castles
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the same hotels as the players, and wher
the game is over they depart from the
field unostentatiously by a rear gate, un
less, as occasionally happens, a police
escort is required for their safety.
The one big requirement for all umpires
is plenty of sand. Most of them have it
The throwing of pop bottles, rubbish and
any old missile that comes to hand is moi
mythical. 1t was more so in the old days,
that is to say, two or three years ago, but
it happens even in these enlightened
times.
"Bill' Evans is perhaps the umpire who
is more nearly than any other liked by the
fans and players. This is partly because
he has repeatedly faced a hostile mob
without fiinching. In fact, he ignores it
and shows his disdain, and the mob ends
by liking him for it.
When the Chicago teams used to play
III w ute QUA 2lcIu lutlc WAS u
coterie of ardent fans who were in the Gus
tom of occupying certain seats in the
bleachers every day. The seats were not
reserved by the management for these
hardies, Sho paid the admission fee of
twenty-five cents as did all who witnessed
the games, but if some well meaning fan
appropriated to himself seat in the cho-
sen section and refused to vacate on de-
mand he was unceremoniously pitched
down the steps and left to his own devices
to find a new seat
This band of rowdies was particularly
hard on umpires, and they did not always
confne their efforts at persuasion to the
use of epithets. One day bill" Evans
rendered decision that they did not like.
He was standing outside the foul line near
third base and was a fair target for the
pop bottle coterie.
The fact that a mans back is toward
them does not figure with the detestable
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d With and Some of the Tricks

progress 1t seems the natural thing for thu
players to dispute every decision which ID
In any way close, but after the game most
Of the men who play will concede that the
umpire was, right in the great majority
o. decisions.
/ have talked to men after a game in
which they had protested pretty nearly
half the umpire's decisions, and with a
sheepish look they have said
Huh! guess he was right after all. "
1t is the heat Of the play that makes the
men protest. An umpire has got to be
just as square as human nature can be.
They have to guard themselves against
prejudicial decisions. They are built just
like other men, and after some player has
beapei carloads of abuse upon them 1t is
small wonder if some time the umpire may
actually see a close play little to the
detriment of that player
Some umpires go to such an extreme in
their effort to be fair that they render de-
cisions against their own Judgment be-
cause they are afraid they will discrimin.
ate against a man for personal reasons.
Such a state of mind is likely to break
down an umpire's nerve and render him
useless. Once he loses faith in his own
Judgment and decisions he is lost. Others
will soon learn his state of mind. and the
fans will easily rattle him. Then he is
lost.
How Umpires Are Recruited. d.
That is why an umpire must hold alb
solutely al0of from the men whose play he
is going to Judge. Friendships are quite
as dangerous as enmities. II the fans
learn that an umpire is friendly to a
player they will see favoritism in every
decision which benefits him. If they learn
that he has a personal quarrel with a
player tQey Will Etdu uisSllhIhoiioh ihso
every decision against that player, and be-
sides this either friendship or enmity is
bound to have its effect on the umpire
himself one way or another.
Once lack of faith in umpires becomes
general baseball will go the way of horse
racing. The integrity of the game, its
cleanness, depends upon the umpires.
Empires are recruited for the big leagues
Just as players are. Scouts who watch the
work of players in minor leagues and
the country also keep their
eyes on umpires. When they see man
who is rendering close decisions in man
ner that makes him stand out as an excep-
quick, clear headed judge, and
standing by his decisions through the
mimic warfare which often attends dis
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learned that Temple Houston had fire
one of the shots and Jack Love tn
other. / knew that they had assassinate
him, but decided to let the law take it
course. They were acquitted by one of tn
worst travesties on justice in the histor.
of Oklahoma.
Becomes q Bold Bandit.
Il wired another brother at Denver
Col, and we determined to avenge tn,
killing of Ed. We took up our abod,
at the Spike s. ranch, on Duck Greek
twenty-five miles southeast of Tulsa
with an old friend, John Hairless. W,
made many efforts to find the murderers
but, being so well known, we were foilet
in our attempts.
"One evening rode up to my fathers
house in Tecumseh, where he had just
been elected County Judge. He looked
inquiringly into my face and said, My
boy, what in the name of God are you
doingT I did not know what he meant
and was surprised when he told me !
had been charged with robbing train. ]
assured him that was innocent and he
asked me to face my accusers.
81 refused. I told him It would be i'm
possible for me to prove that I was at
the ranch the night of the robbery, for
every man there, excepting my brother
and myself, was q fugitive and could not
60 into court. Some very bitter words
were spoken, after which left, riding
away into the night.
Next morning rode up to store in
the Seminole country to get something to
eat. Several armed men were standing
around. I didn't know whether they
were horse thieves or deputy marshals.
There wasn't much difference in those
days and they paid no attention to me.
I finished my crackers and cheese and
rode of.
when l was two or three hundred
yards away the merchant and the other
men came out and opened fire on me. Ny
horse was killed and l vss badly wounded.
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ICCOUGH is a sudden spasmodic in
III drawing of air to the lungs, CAUSING
an abrupt shock to the diaphragm ant
chest, ending with a click due to sudder
closure of the CLOTHS.
Hiccoughing may occur in the course
of the development of many ailments, in
diseases of the digestive organs, in connec-
ton with assesses of the pharyn1 and
contractions of the oesophasus. A COM
non symptom of diseases of the genito-
urinary organs, it may occur in cases OF
nephritis, vesical calculi and Inflammation
of the bladder. Hiccough may also super
vene in diseases of the respiratory organs,
in cases Of poisoning and in nervous all
ments. 1t is stated that in some cases of
nervous hiccough the attack may last for
days, weeks, or even months and years.
Allied to the rare forms of nervous
hiccough there is also the emotional
hiccough, which arises in connection with
4 moral shock, severe fright and sudden
emotion, the hiccough due to irritation
and hysterical hiccough. The latter is
a particularly noisy form, with a rough,
coarse sound. 1t is sometimes a sort of
yelping or barking noise, persisting for
some minutes or even hours.
The epidemics of hiecough which have
been observed are probably
due to hysterical contas ion and to the
nervous predisposition of the majority
of the individuals who are affected by it.
1t is to functional arrangement of the
nervous system owing to a slackeningl
Of the circulation that the hiccough of
the death struggle, remarkable more par
ticularly in period of abundant hem
orrhage, is to be ascribed.
In general it may. be said that there
IS no therapeutic treatment for hiccough.
Certainly there is no lack of means for
combating the ailment, but as the latter
s ordinarily dependent upon very varied
affections the medical treatment of hic-
,ough usually forms part of the treat
nent adopted for such affections. Ac-
,ordingly, the first place must be given
o causative treatment by modifying
he morbid condition of the digestive,
respiratory and genito-urinary or other
'rgans upon which the hiccoush depends.
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What Doctors Say Concerning HiccOughing

: II is on account of its action on the d.
gestive tube that washing out the stom-
ach is sometimes resorted TO.
The symptomatic treatment has most
frequently been based upon empiricism,
Including the use of more or less diluent
tisans or infusionS of medicinal sub
stances, cupping and even blood letting.
When an attempt is made TO bring some
thing like order into this therapeutic
anarchy it is seen that the results OBJ
ltained are due either TO mechanical means
and to medicamental action or 10 the
calling into play of another physiological
phenomenon, namely, inhibition.
Mechanical treatment is very popular.
1t consists in holding the breath as long
as possible or in modifying the rhythm
of the breathing by sneezing, or again
in inducing vomiting.
But hiccough being essentially a ner.
vous phenomenon, it was only natural TO
suppose that it might be cured by bring
ing inhlbitive actions into play. Inhibi-
ton, so thoroughly studied formerly BY
pr. Brown-Sequard, is an act by virtue
OF which symptom disappears from one
part OF the organism thanks to a nervous
influence exerted by the irritation trans
mitted from any point whatever to the
part whence the symptom disappears.
7 Soothing, sedatiye and antispasmodic
medication relies upon similar popular
remedies, such as the ingestion of very
cold water, the administering of ice or
OF pharmaceutical preparations. Among
the last have been recommended subcu-
taneous injections of morphine, the in
gestion OF choral or chloroform, OF, better
SUI, OF cocaine. Injections of piIocarpins
have also been advised.
Therapeutic inhibition of hiccoush has
been effected by the application of blisters,
by cutaneous irritation, produced BY
means of irritant liquids applied to the
skin, and by compression of the phrenic
and pneumogastric nerves.
It is also inhibition that EXPLAINS ths
apparently singular cures of hiccoush by
fright, emotion, a moral shock, or more
simply by fixing the attention on some OBJ.
ject. Such cures, which are NOWADAYS
considered as triumphs of suggestion, be-
long to the domain of inhibition applied
to therapeutics. In any case. il these
practices are not always eficacious, thew
at least have the advantage of not con-
iemning the patient to swallow drugs in
4 vain attempt to discover the specific
remedy for hiccough
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4 II remember that hold-up," said Gil
bert. Il was a struggling young lawye
at the time and All made me fork NJ
1887, every cent had. Since that TINT
.AP and have been together in some Of
the hardest fought legal battles in Okla
homa. He is one of the ablest crimins
lawyers of the State, and know he will
keep his pledges if elected"
After we robbed the Rock Island
hundreds of armed men were securing
the country for u.s." continued Jennings
I'VE eluded them until the morning OF
December l, 1897. Four of us were at
the Spike s. ranch, hoping to get little
rest. 1t was about nine o'clock when
Mrs. Hairless came running in the house
and cried, You are surrounded and will
all be killed
II stepped to the kitchen windows and
was greeted by a crashing volley fred
by the hidden officers. The window was
shattered and the flying glass cut my
face in many places. I was wounded at
the first volley, but we fired through the
windows at every puff of smoke we saw.
The house was literally riddled with bull
lets, and we. ran to the orchard, where We
turned and silenced the officers.
1--WE made our escape by capturing two
Indians and their team, keeping them two
days and nights. Three of US were
wounded and suffered a great deal. We
had no food for two days and were finally
betrayed and turned over to Deputy Mar
shall BUD Ledbetter and his men, who
had attacked Us at the ranch.
Il was finally convicted and sentenced
to prison for life for robbing the mail,
which I did not do. I was taken to the
Ohio penitentiary, and after serving three
years and four months was pardoned
BY President Mckinley, through the eff
forts of Senator Mark Hanna. I came
back to Oklahopa, resolved to regain my
former good name, II honest efforts would
avail. 1t was not until 1907, however,
that President Roosevelt restored me to
full citizenship.
mo one will ever understand how hard
the effort has been. = have been insulted
by public officers whose lives were blacker
than mine, but who had not been caught.
care nothing for the Office of County At
torney, except to re-establish myself by
IN honest enforcement of the law and to
hereby be help to the suffering public"
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IN NEW precedent in politics has beer
n established in Oklahoma City, Okla
homa. The democratic voters OF
Oklahoma county have nominated FOL
County Attorney Al. ]. Jennings, a sue
cessful lawyer, who for time was an
outlaw and train robber, and who had ths
courage to tell of his past life, promising
at the same time to clean out those in Of.
fee who were not serving the people Sc
much as they were using the public trust
for their private gain.
Jennings is a small man physically,
with flaming head Of auburn hair, and
his spectacular campaign attracted thou
sands. The entire machinery Of those
who considered themselves powers in poll
tics was arrayed against him. He de-
nounced them one and all, charged that
graft in immense proportions obtained in
the county government and promised that
be would make a change. The voters be-
lieved him.
In spite of the fact that all the other
candidates in the race but one withdrew,
Jennings obtained the nomination by a
decisive majority. Not because he had
been bandit, but because the people had
confidence in him despite that fact For
the last ten years all admit that he has
led an exemplary life. He has taken
part in thirty murder trials during that
time, obtaining acquittals in every case
save one.
The story of Jennings outlaw career
and the circumstances leading up to 1t,
as told by himself, is romance.
81 came to Oklahoma City when the
country opened up in 1885," said Jen-I
nings, ''but older and better lawyers got
all the practice, SO moved over to the
then new town of Ell Reno. had good
success and in 1892 was elected County
Attorney of Canadian county. This was