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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19

men Of to-day have Just such symp-
toms as you describe. What does 1t
mean?
Look at me. am eighty-two years
old. Sound as a nut. Tough as hick-
DRY. Do not know what 1t is to be
tired. While l cannot do as much
physical work as I used to when a
young man, 1 can do a great deal.
Probably twice as much as the average
young man Of to-day.
What has kept me so strong and
well? I will tell you. I do not use
tobacco. 1 do not use alcoholic slim
ulants. do not use tea or coffee
habitually. go to bed early. get up
early. 1 am always doing something;
something that occupies my body and
mind. 1 love to work. I take a
cold water towel bath every morning.
winter and summer. 1t is these things
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19

Calomel was discovered by Crollius
in the seventeenth century, and the
first directions Tor its preparation were
given by Begun In 1908. Its name is
derived from two Greek words, sig
nifying IA beautiful black" because
in its preparation black powder is the
first step in the manufacture. being
produced by rubbing mercury together
with corrosive sublimate.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19
NEW YORK 5,ss2,ooo NOW
McAnsny Gives Latest Figures
the Credit Mems Dinner.

The population of New York City
today is 5,SS2,OOO persons, according
to the latest figures compiled by the
New York City Health Department.
This statement was made at the
eighteenth annual dinner of the New
York Credit Mems Association, held
at the Hotel Aston by President Geo.
McAneny of the Borough Of Manhat-
tan, who was one of the speakers.
Mr.. McAneny said he asked the De-
partment of Health for it's latest
figures a few days ago,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19
His DIAGNOSIS.

A London curate the other day re-
ceived an astonishing answer TO an in
suiry after parishioner's health.
'Well. sir" said the parishioner,
sometimes / feels anyhow, sometimes
| feels nohow. and there be times when
l feels as stiff as himmidge."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19
MAIDS DEMAND PARLoR
Insist, Also, on Wednesday and SUM-
day Afternoons "off."

Chicago, April 1.-Two afternoons
a week off and the right to entertain
company in the parlor without inter
ference from the family are among
the demands to be made by domestic
servants who have just organized a
union to be known as the Household
Workers Association. The new I'M
ion obtained a charter yesterday
from the American Federation of
Labor
AS soon as the organization is
strong enough to control the situation
better working conditions will be de
manded, together with regular hours
of work. Wednesday and Sunday af-
ternoons win be free time demanded.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19
a Minor Operation.

Mr. Toogood-I went under an oper-
alton yesterday Mr. Markwell-You
surprise me- Was il very serious
Mr. Toogood-I had a growth removed
from my head. Mr.. Markwell-My
goodness, And here you are about and
looking well. Mr. Toogood-Oh. don't
fret. old sport. only had my hair cut
London Telegraph.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19

corner Of my left eye. It discharged
continuously for a year and eight
months, and nothing seemed to heal it.
I consulted eminent physicians, who
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19

many products, and when labor adds
its voice to the general protest, there
will be no mistaking the latest man
date of the American people in favor
OF the protection or our markets for
the benefit of the products OF Ameri-
can labor and American capital.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19

s ee h er e,
young man, /
heard you COM
planning I h e
other day ofbeing
nervous, sleep
less, brain fag-
ged. and the like,
A young man,
hardly in the
zenith of your
life, complain
ing of such
things!
And this is
very com m on,
I o o. You are
n o { 10 the only
one. Probably
three out of four
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19

Do you need a great blood purifier and strength
buider2 After reading the above you know what to take
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19
ORRINE
CURES DRINK HABIT

So uniformly successful has OR
RINE been in restoring the victims
of the Drink Habit" into sober and
useful citizens, and so strong is our
confidence in its curative powers.
that we want to emphasize the fact
that ORRINE is sold under this posi-
tive guarantee. If, after a trial, you
get no benefit, your money will be re-
funded. ORRlNE costs only $i.0O
per box. Ask for Free Booklet. B.
A. Quinlan, North street, Bennington
VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19

said the eruption would never heal
without surgical operation. was
Much Run Down With Impure Blood
and dreaded to think of an operation.
Il remembered that four years be-
fore | had taken Hoods Sarsaparilla
with benefit, and l decided to take it
again for my very poor health The
medicine Frightened me up, but my
family physician advised me to discon-
tinue it, saying that it would not
agree with other troubles with which
! was afflicted, so ! stopped taking it
for some months, when as the doctor
had failed to help me further, l decided
to take Hoods Sarsaparilla again.
after / had used four bottles of
Hoods Sarsaparilla the abscess had a
more healthy appearance and the dis
seven bottles the sore had entirely dis
appeared, leaving only a slight scar.
When / told the doctor Hoods Sarsa-
parilla had cured me he was dumb
founded. and said Hoods SarsapariIls
certainly has done wonders for you.' !
think my blood was cured of humor /
had better appetite and was in better
health in every way. My husband can
not say too much in praise OF Hoods
Sarsaparilla." Mrs. Chas. Bearse.
blood purifier and strength
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19
More direct Evidence"

The bloodpurifyng Strengthening properties of
Hoods Sarsaparla brought into strong light by the
following letter. which describes the of Mrs. Bearse
OF Portsmouth, N H. This is another of the thousands in
series of Direct Evidence"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
DEVELOP U.S.LAND
Millions of Acres in Mississippi
at Waste.
Prevent Floods and Reclaim
Them, Is Suggestion.
RUSH MONEY To ORIENT
When Fertile Fields Can Be
Made Profitable Here.
TwO-Fifths of Area of Country
Is at. Stake.

ST. Louis, April Intervention of
floods was presented as a profitable
business proposition by Frank b.
knight of Chicago, in an address be-
I today 1.-The floods we have faced and
| in this long series of calamities that
| have passed, have sbeen due to the
reckless disregard Of known laws of
nature by the business men of this
| country he said. To-day the same
men are slowly awakening to the fact
that even yet, by artificial means, we
may control water, by dams, flood res
ervoirs and flood channels, levees drain
age, reforeStation and thereby regain
the wealth we have lost, and add to
the new wealth we have not yet real
lied by power development real inland
navigation, protection of life and ex-
listing industry and adding an inland
empire of the most productive land
the world has even known.
What would it have meant from a
strictly business point of dollars lost,
production stopped, commerce and traf-
fic crippled if the foods had not oc-
CURED in Ohio and Indiana? What has
1t cost the manufacturing and nercan-
tile establishments of Dayton alone,
and what would these institutions have
given, could they, by thus giving, have
prevented the disaster?
'In 1912 the Mississippi valley suf
fered the worst flood probably, in its
history; the recOrQeQ damage to pro-
perty was about $250.00O, 600 and 200, 900
of our own people were homeless, fed,
sheltered and saved by the federal,
state and local authorities; at least 100,-
600 were fed at public or private ex-
pense for many months. Some of the
breaks in the levees are not yet re-
paired. x
why do our business associations
spend SO much money! and send their
representatives to the orient to develop
Chinese trade. the < elements of
which they do not understand, when
we have an undeveloped empire along
the Mississippi river2 The Mississippi
valley, containing so million of the rs
million acres of land that are now
covered with swamps, would in a re-
claimed condition, add a. great net
actual land wealth tosthe country and
would produce, measured conservative
ly in one staple, twice theSvalue of the
Unprecedented corn crop. Of 1912.
Your attention is challenged to the
fact that the drainage area Of the Mis-
sissippi river and its tributaries con-
tains 1,242,650 square. miles, or about
two-ffths the total area OF the United
States, in which most productive, por-s
ton of the country you are faced every
year with the losses caused by floods,
the interference with transportation.
and commerce and the consequently
reduced purchasing power of the peo-s
ple." #s'.r5-
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PIQUA FLOOD EDITION.
The Call Was Issued Under Intense
Difficulties.

Ralph Peterson, manager of the Hay
den Jewelry store, has received several
flood editions of the Piqua, O., Daily
Call. The four-sheet paper speaks ell
oquently of the horrors the refugees
endured. In the first edition the list
of rescued, instead of lost, is given
this was evidently considered more ex-
pedient. Mr.. Peterson has six flood
editions in his possession, not one of
which is printed on a legitimate news
paper sheet. The sixth flood edition"
is a brilliant yellow poster, the second
edition printed on wrapping paper of
the crudest sort.
Calamity strikes Piqua," state the
headlines, "our city bowed in grief;
thousands are homeless; city under
martial law.
The four sheets report a veritable
reign of terror at the time of the flood.
One man, crazed with fear, cut his
throat with knife before leaping into
the water. A floating house, bearing
an entire family, collapsed just as
help was at hand. A Piqua lawyer
saved 100 lives. A Piqua divine de-
clared the rescued were saved 'out of
the Jaws of death, out of the mouth
of HE'LL, One of the interesting ar
ticles described the enthusiasm with
which rescue work was done. While
the men searched the seething river for
living and dead, the women made gar
ments and bedclotheS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
The RED WIDOW.
Raymond Hitchcociz's Starring Vehicle
at Grand April Is.

The charm of THE Red Widow"
Raymond Hitchcock's starring vehicle
which will appear at the Grand Fri
day evening, April Is. is said to be
found in the spontaneity of its wit,
the crisp humor of its book, and the
sway of its tender melodies. Then too
the story which is unfolded furnishes a
more satisfactory medium for the droll
and amusing mannerisms of the ia
nous comedian than he has-had sup
piled him during his theatrical career.
1.-THE Red widow" is claimed to be a
most alluring entertainment, which is
chuck full of thrilling scenes, where
bombs in the hands of Nihilists play
a very important part The plot re-
quires the services of a large company.
The part of the Red Widow will be
played by pretty Flora Zabelle. There
are three scenes. The first takes place
in London and the second and third
in ST. Petersburg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
THRESHERMEN MEETING.
Norton Entertaining Northwestern As
ISOLATION and Manufacturers.

Norton, April I.-This is the second day
of the third annual meeting of the North
west Brotherhood of Threshernen. and
the large manufacturing companies are
generally represented.
The companies represented are: The
International Harvester company. J. L.
Case company, Avery Manufacturing
company. Fairbanks Morse company
Ruth Feeder company, Garden City
Feeder company, and Baker Manufactur-
ing company. Among the others presel 1t
for the convention, are: Tim Payne OF
Oskaloosa, Kan, secretary of the state
association; T. B. Hubbard, John Nixon
and D. A. Meeks of the International
Harvester company, and c. ]. Martin OF
the Baker manufacturing company.
The field work In demonstrations of
the various oil-pull and gas engines. with
plows and road graders, has been very
satisfactory.
Public meetings of the farmers of
northwest Kansas and southwest Ne
braska, with the representatives of the
manufacturing and wholesale firms, have
been we'll attended.
A cold, chilly rain has retarded this
afternoons program, but will be accept
able to the farmers, and make their
wheat show up for the good crop coming
this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The weather man has issued a frost
warning for tonight. By Saturday, how
ever, the weather is expected to moderate
The Silver Leaf quartette, consisting OF
four young colored men, has made rea.
hit" at the sessions of the meeting or
the Kansas State Bankers association.
Several out of town speakers are On
the program of the annual reception and
banquet of the Kansas Gideons which will
be held at the Y. w. C. A. Saturday even
ing.
In the lobby of the state house imme-
diately outside of representative hall bank
the sessions of the Kansas State Bankers
association.
An all day meeting of the Pomona
Grange will be held next Thursday at the
Oak Grange hall. This will be the an
nual meeting. Officers for the ensuing
year will be chosen.
Mrs. Carrie Davis who has lived in To-
peka for the past ten years, leaves on
Saturday for North Platte, Neb., where
she will be married to Otis Decker of
that place. Mr. Decker is employed by
the Union Pacific railway.
Mrs. William Macferran, assisted by the
wives of the officers and ex-officers Of
the association, entertained the wives of
the members of the Kansas State Bank
ers' association at l o'clock today at the
Macferran home in Potwin. The occasion
was a luncheon-musicale.
Harold Pinkston, the son of Policeman
K K. Pinkston, who suffered fractured
skull In a street car accident recently, is
ing. but still is critically sick. He is SAID
to be breathing through his ears as well
as his nose and mouth, due to the frac-
ture. He is at Christ hospital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
Belts ESTATE, $4,000
Property Is Willed to Widow-$35,O 600
in Real Estate.

An estate estimated of the value of
$50, 900 was left by the late ]. B. Belts,
according to petition for the probate
of his will filed in the probate court.
The property is left for the use of the
widow Mrs. Lulu M. Belts, during her
lifetime, and then will pass to the
three children, F'reda M. Belts, Re-
becca Goodrich and Warren Belts.
OF the total value of the estate it
is estimated that $4,000 is in real
estate while $4,000 is in personal
property. Mrs. Belts qualified and has
been appointed executrix of the will.
To his son, Warren Belts, Mr.. Belts
willed his Scottish Rite Masonic ring,
and to F. P. Metzger he left his gold
watch. All other property was left
for the use of his widow.
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DEPEND ON HONESTY.
Liverpool Merchants Give Freedom to
Customers.

East Liverpool, O., April 11.-"Help
yourself" has been the greeting with
which proprietors of the stores of this
city of $4,000 persons have met their
customers since the clerks strike early
in the week for higher wages and bet
ter working conditions, and the Gus
toners have helped themselves: No
new clerks have been employed and
storekeepers have depended on the
honesty of buyers who have selected
what they wanted and paid the pro-
prietor, often the only one OF the
working force left in the establish
ment.
Scenes in drygoods stores where
when customers measured their own
fabrics and selected their dresses often
brough about some amusing comp1-
cations Merchants declare that
though their customers have not been
watched they have suffered very little
loss through dishonest returns.
An effort is being made to settle the
strike by arbitration.
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CONGRESS OF D. A. R.
Women of All Ages. Gather at Capita
for Twenty-Second Convention.

Washington. April n.-women of all
ages and descriptions, but all displaying
fluttering badges, crowded in and around
Continental Hall today and the prelim;-
naries for the twenty-second continental
congress of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution were launched. The COIL
gress will convene Monday, when Presi-
dent Wilson viii welcome the delegates tc
the nctional capital. Several hundred
delegates and alternates, it is expected
will register their arrival today and to-
morrow at headquarters.
Two important committee meetings were
on the program for today. They were
the committee on the Continental hall and
the committee on press arrangements
Both had many details to arrange before
the main body of delegates arrived. A
number of committees will meet and be-
tive and the actual opening of the
congress more than a. score of social af-
fairs have been arranged.
The principal affair will be reception
to the delegates by the regents of the
Smithsonian Institution. The women's or
ganization is connected! semioficially with
the institution for under the law it makes
it's last reports to the regents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
ESTATE TO EMPLOYEES
Will of Manufacturer Gives Business
to Two Faithful Women.

New York, April 11.-By the will
of Patrick F. MCGOWAN, former presi-
dent of the board of aldermen, who
died last week, the entire assets of his
business of manufacturing women's
apparel ill go to two faithful women
employees, the Misses Kate and Anna
Maume, sisters.
Their reward will amount to ap-
proximately $4,000, while the re-
mainder of the $4,000 estate is left
in trust for a son, Frank MCGOWAN, a
member of the United States marine
corps, until he is 35 years old, and
then only upon condition that he
leaves the naval service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
IT'S TROUBLE NOW.
Women Are Trying to Choose 40 Most
Beautiful Suffragists.

New York, April ia beauty COM
mittee is now securing the United
States for the 40 most beautiful Amer
lean suffragists who will be chosen
to represent the states in the suf-
frage pageant to be held in this city
May 2. The committee also is seeking
a like number of specimens of perfect
manhood to support the women in one
of the figures of the pageant.
AFTER this pageant the expression,
she looks like a suffragette' will be
turned from term of ridicule to one
of flattery," said Mrs. Raymond
Brown. There are many beautiful
women among the suffragists and we
are going to prove it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
WELCOMING ADVISERS.
Demonstration Agents of Agricultural
College Reception.

N-ahattan. Kan, April 1.-THE
farmers of Kansas are welcoming the
county advisers. The demonstration
agents. who really are advisers with
another title, are sending in the most
encouragin reports to Edward c.
johnson, superintendent of farmers in
stitutes at the Kansas Agricultural COL
lege. In Montgomery county where
E. ]. Macy has charge of demonstra-
ton work, so many farmers in one
township wished to join the farmers
club last week and to Cooperate with
the county agent. that a meeting of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
MONTHLY PAYDAY
Pennsylvania Legislature Passes Bill
Without Opposition.

Harrisburg, April 1.-THE senate bill
providing for two paydays a month
for workers in this state, was passed
by the house last night without oppo-
sition and goes to the governor for his
action.
The proposed law would require one
payment between the LIST and 18th OF
each month and another between the
18th and last day of the month unless
otherwise stipulated in a contract The
penalty for violation is a fine of not
over $780, The act is to become eff
fective on July /. 1a12
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11

the farmers was called and those who
were to receive the regular visits of
the agent were selected by vote. The
vice president of the farmers club
says that by this procedure hard feel
ings were prevented.
In another county which is thorough
ly organized and awaiting the appoint
ment of the county agent, 125 farmers
already have paid the SIS fee for join
ing the club, and so are on the wait
ing list eager to join as soon as they
can be cared for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
PERFECT APIANo-PERFEcT a PLAYER
Kimball Player Pianos
SOLD BY THE MAKERS s2z KANSAS AVENUE

cause the boys look so much alike that
the complainant could not tell them
apart. They are twins, aged Is years.
When one of them became involved in an
alteration on the street last night, the
other brother Joined him and so per-
picked the complainant that he could not
tell which man had struck HIM. The police
also were unable to solve the question
and to be on the safe side they arrested
both The pair had previously had a
great deal of fun out of the complications
TIE resemblance causes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
Dodee Csty Pastor Quits.

Dodge City. KAN, April 11.-Rev. G.
G. Stearns, of the Christian church,
has offered his resignation to the
church board to take effect May L.
He has no other field in sight. He
came here from Colorado about a year
ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
TWINS ARE PULLING,
Both Locked in Jail for One Offense-
Officers Can't Tell.

Union Hill, n. J., April u.-Roy Root
and Ray Root are locked in the police sta
ton here today, each charged with as
sault and battery of which the au-
thortties know that but one Is guilty. be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
An Exhibit

OF shabby surfaces made new with
Acme Quality Paints and Finishes at
Acme Quality Paint Store next Satur-
day 62S Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
AT The Notion Section

Bias Lawn Tape-AIl widths,
six yard bolts Saturday ..... So
Collar Supporters a dozen
different styles; A, 5 and 6 on a
card regular SC cards, choice Sat
urday .=s.s.s.- ~. ......-.. z for 30
Finishing Braids-Regular 15c
bolts of six yds. Saturday, ca. 1Of
E Silk Hair Nets-Size 28x36, tied
at. ends or with rubber cord;; all
shades Regular &c nets, Satur-
day s. s.. $500. IL for 25e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11

If you are interested in painting,
visit Kitchell & Marburg Friday or
Saturday to meet Sherwin Williams
Co.'s representative.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11
Pledge Money for Southwest Fair.

Hutchinson, Kan, Ap1.i 11.-Business
men of Hutchinson pledged $4,000 in
two hours Thursday for the main
tenance OF the state fair here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-11

Ladies' Kid Gloves 69c
There will be two lots on sale at
this price in the morning. One lot
consists of about 25 pairs of q
clasp Overseam Kid Gloves in
black, white and tan. The other
lot of about 6 dozen pairs are regu-
lar $1.25 Tampa kid, in red and
green. The lots embrace all sizes
from ,534 to 711a, and all are gloves
suitable for spring wear. Your
choice of any tomorrow, pair $50
We can't fit them at this price.