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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
PUBLIC HEARINGS
FOR TARIFF BILL
LOST IN SENATE
Penrose- LaFollette Amendment
Defeated Al to SO
MEASURE IS REFERRED
Two Democratic Louisiana Senators
Voted with Republican Minority
for Open Hearings.

Washington, May 16.-nemocratic
leaders in the Senate were indorsed
late yesterday in their determination
to refer the Underwood tariff bill to
the finance committee for considera-
ton without public hearings. The
Penrose-La Toilette amendment di-
recting that public hearings be held
was defeated by vote of Al to 80,
and the motion of Senator Simmons
to refer the bill was then passed
without roll call Two democrats,
Senators Randell and Thornton of
Louisiana, voted for the republican
amendment. Senator PoiEdexter OF
Washington, progressive, voted with
the majority. Senator Jones of
Washington, republican. who prev
iously had determined to vote
against public hearings. announced
lust before the roll-call that he had
changed his mind because the fin
ance subcommittee were giving pri-
vate hearings to some interests
which he thought should be public.
The closing day of debate on the
issue of hearings was enlivened With
discussion to the democratic plat
form, and it's bearing on free sugar
by Senator Jenes of Kentucky, who
vigorously defended the stand taken
by President Wilson for free sugar,
declared the party had stood for free
sugar and campaigned on it and de-
fed the Louisiana senators to find a
man President Wilson had ever told
he was opposed to free sugar. Sen
ators Smoot, La Toilette and Clark
wound up the debate on behalf of the
public hearing amendment. Sena-
tor Smoot predicting that the demo
cratic party would be put out of
power for another quarter of CEN
fury as a result of its tariff bill.
Senator Clark declared that the
Underwood bill was just as much a
law today as it would be after the
Senate had voted upon it, and Sena-
tor La Toilette urged the democrats
to court the open-door policy THE
edict has gone FORTH" said Senator
Clark. 1.-The real vote on this tariff
bill will be taken here in the House,
where it was taken in secret caucus.
| know there are democrats, who do
not believe the bill is just and right
eous altogether who are willing to
bow the head to the demands of of
fee and ease the lash of party ex-
pediency."
Senator Walsh of Montana was
one of the few democrats to enter
the debate. Mr.. Walsh said he was
in RECEIPT of scores of kilograms urg-
ing him to vote for hearings. Most
of them came from sugar interests
he said, but he believed not single
fact could be elucidated in hearings
that was not already known and he
would vote against them. Senator
Newlands of Nevada spoke briefly on
the sugar schedule, protesting
against sacrificing the sugar produc-
Hon of this country to Cuba.
The finance committee will meet
next week to hear reports from the
subcommittee engaged in considera-
ton of various schedules of the bill
and Chairman Simmons hopes to re-
port the bill to the Senate by June l.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
REVEALED
WHEREABOUTS Of
ETHEL BRIGGS
Bennington Girl Had Been
Missing for II Years
FATALLY BURNED IN BOSTON,
Was Adopted Daughter of Caleb
Briggs and Former Pupil in
Public School.

Ethel Briggs, the adopted daughter
of Caleb Briggs of this village, died
in the Boston city hospital Thurs
day morning from burns received
when a gasoline stove in fat which
she occupied in that city exploded
Tuesday morning.
The victim of the accident was
well known in Bennington where she
attended the public school during
her childhood and young girlhood.
She was an unusually bright pupil
and her success in her studies is
still remembered by scholars who
attended the school at the same
time.
About II years ago, and when only
10 years Of age, the girl suddenly dis
appeared from her home here and.
as was afterward learned, went to
Boston. About a year later she was
taken to hospital when i'll and was
here found by her adopted father.
When she left the institution she
again disappeared and although her
foster parent has at different times
expended considerable money in eff
forts to locate the young woman no
trace OF her was found until Thurs
day when he was informed over the
telephone that she was dead.
IL was only by the merest chance
that the news of her death reached
Mr.. Briggs. Just before she died
the young woman managed to suffi-
GENTLY collect her senses to inform
the attendants at her bedside that
her fathers name was Briggs and
mat he lived near Bradford's mill
in Bennington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17

Echo verses were sometimes used
effectively for epigrams and squibs.
Thus a critic once wrote:
I'd fain praise your poem. But. tell me.
how Is Il
When cry out "Exquisiter' echo cries
"Quiz it7''
And when In 1881 Paganini was
drawing crowds to the opera house at
extravagant prices the Times printed
the following lines:
What are they who pay three guineas
To hear a tune OF Paganinfs?
Echo-Pack o. nlnniesi
London Graphic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
EDITOR SHOOTS A MAJOR
Encounter Follows Friction Over Ad-
ministering Illinois Community

Chicago, ILL.,, May 16.-Fay r. Slate
editor of The Tribune of Mount Au-
burn, H., community with about l.
600 inhabitants, shot DR.. B. F. Wind
sor Mayor of the city, this morning
with a .25-caliber automatic revolver
while, according to eye witnesses, he
was endeavoring to choke the editor.
Mr.. Slade was arrested, but was re-
leased tonight on furnishing bond
for $3.50. He is charged with assault
with intent to commit murder.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
COUNTY Y. p. S. C. e.
Annual Convention at Arlington Was
Unusually Successful.

The morning session of the con-
vention did not begin until nearly
1890 because the train from the
south bringing the county president
and Bennington delegates arrived
nearly three-quarters of an hour late.
The Devotional service was in
charge of Miss Winch, alay pastor
Of East Arlington.
The preliminary business session
followed. The minutes OF the con-
vention held in Bennington the year
previous we're read by Miss II. lone
Smith, county secretary. Reports
from the various societies were then
given. Then the president Mr.. II.
/ @. Banks OF Bennington appointed
the committees. the committee on
resolutions, and the committee on
Awarding of the Banner"
Prayer meeting, Lookout, Mis-.
sionary and Social Committee Con-
|ferences were then held. The Ben
nfngton Congregational and Baptist
societies we're well represented in
each of these conferences; the Con-
|gregational society aving sent five
delegates and the Baptist society
twelve delegates. Various plans
were discussed in these conferences.
4 In the prayermeeting conference,
Ways OF improving our meetings
we're discussed and In the missionary
conference we discussed minnion-
study, how carried on. methods of
Improvement and ways to arouse our
interest.
The talks Of the morning were on
christian Endeavor" In Agricultur-
. al Terms" Miss Elsie Millington
-from North Bennington Baptist so
siety spoke on planting the Seed,
} missionary subject Mrs. J. w.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
Fire ApparatuG

jamie SOutar loved to poke the FIRE
and Invariably ended by putting II out.
greatly to his wife's disgust. While at
supper one evening the Ere alarm rang.
and jamie. Selling bis cap. was has
tening out when his wife ran to the
door and called after him. "Hadna you
better YAK the poker vie you. Jamier'
-short Stories.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
COMET PALE. HAS NO TAIL
Wan Little .Wanderer Named for
Schaumasse Disappointing

Cambridge, May 16.-The Schau-
masse comet, the latest visitor from
the inter-steller regions. is rather dis
appointing to the ordinary star-gazer,
according to a report of observations
received in the Harvard Observatory
today. Prof. Barnard of the Yerkes
Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wis,
has been unable to find any sem
blance Of the usual fiery appendage,
commonly known as tall The COM
cts Illuminating powers have reach
ed only the tenth magnitude.
Astronomers hope the comet'slbril-
liancy will increase in the next few
weeks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
lIntineIy Jestino.

motoring is all well enough" said
Jorrocks as Brinley's car sank into the
mud up above the hubs, but there is
such a thing as running It into the
ground"
Don't waste your wit out here In the
cold, Jorrocks," retorted Brinley. Go
hire a haul. We need lt."-Harper's
Waaklv
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
KILLS GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
Voters Qualification Held Unconsti-
tutional by Maryland Court

Frederick, Md, May 16.EThe Fred
erick Coutny Circuit Court today de
clared unconstitutional the grand
father clause" qualification for voters
The court held that voters possess
ing the usual qualifications may not
be debarred from voting because
their ancestors did not vote prior to
Jan. l. 1863, a qualification in the
law for Frederick elections since
1904.
negro to whom registration had
been refused was the complainant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
|. o. O. F. MAY IDENTIFY HIM
"Man of Mystery Found to Be
Member of Organization.

Rocester, Mimi, May 15.-As the
result of the discovery that u. c..
r." "the man of mystery" in the
State Hospital for the Insane here.
is a member of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows. members of that
organization are planning a nation
wide campaign in an attempt to
identify him.
BY signs 81. C. R." has indicated
that he joined the order in Balti-
more many years ago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
Lost e. the World.

Harry. dear, you don't think there's
anybody on the train that suspects we
have just been married and are on our
wedding trip. do your
Anybody that suspects IL. Beryli
No, love. Everybody on the train
knows It. and you needn't try any
longer to keep me from holding your
darling hand and putting my arm
around your'-Chicago Tribune
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
Before and After.

Before marriage I used to sit mp
until midnight wishing be would go
home"
"YesT'
"Yes. and since we are married sit
up until midnight wishing that he
would come home.--Houston Post
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
Standing of the Clubs

Games today: New York at Chic
ago, Boston at ST. Louis, Washing.
ton at Detroit, Philadelphia at
CLEVELAND
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
standlna of the clubs

Games today: Cincinnati at Bos-
ton, St Louis at Brooklyn, Pitts
burg at New York. Chicago at Phil
adelphia.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
THE WEATHER

For eastern New York and western
Vermont showers late tonight or
Sunday. Slightly warmer in interior
Sunday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
National LEAGUE

Brooklyn 6, st. Louis 5.
New York z, Pittsburg 4.
Philadelphia 10, Chicago 4.
Cincinnati Boston, rain.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-17
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL
American Leaaue

NHIeTICdH League
Chicago z, New York 0.
Boston 3, st. Louis 2.
Detroit 5, Washington 2.
Philadelphia s. Cleveland s.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
NEED CARE IN ARRAN CEMENT
Proper Display of Trees and Shrubs
Must Be Made, to Secure the
Best Results.

Mrs. Van Rensselaer,, one of our
most artistic writer's on the subject
Of landscape gardening, says:
IF now we ask when and where we
need the fine art of landscape garden
ing, must not the answer be: When
ever and wherever we touch the sur
face of the ground and the plants it
bears with the wish to produce an or
ganized result that shall please the
eye? The name we usually apply to
it must not mislead us into thinking
that this art is needed only for the
creation of broad landscape effects.
1t is needed wherever we do more
than grow plants for the money we
may save or gain by them. 1t does
not matter whether we have in mind
a great park or a small city square, a
large estate or a modest dooryard,
we must go about our work in an ar
tistic spirit If we want a good result.
Two trees and six shrubs, a scrap of
lawn and a dozen Towering plants
nay form either a beautiful little pic
ture or a disarray of forms and col
1rs."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
EXPOSE OF MODERN SCIENCE
Many Aroused by Discovery That Al
cohoI Is Life Destroyer-Attf
tude of Scientists.

The discovery of science that alco-
hol is life destroyer, is arousing many
who heretofore have been uninterest-
ed in the temperance problem. Mr..
Francis G. Benedict of the Carnegie
Institute, after an extended tour in
Europe visiting nearly all of the i'm
portant physiological laboratories,
writes that he was continually i'm
pressed with the temperance attitude
Of notable scientists; and Mr.. Bene-
dict further says:
when these men, whose whole life
Is engaged in the problem of preserv-
Ing life, preventive medicine, and pa
nent scientific research, find that they
are infinitely better off without alco-
hol than with it, their evidence must
be carefully weighed, for what is good
FOR a psychiatrist in the University
Of Munich, a psychologist in the Uni
versity Of Helsingfors, a chemist in
The University of Lyons, and chem
list in the Imperial Military Academy
Of St Petersburg, is certainly good for
ALL"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
DRINKING MEN NOT WANTED
Official Prefers Man Who Would Steal
to Frequenter of Saloons
Cause of Accidents.

We would sooner have man In the
roads employ take money than that
he should indulge in intoXicants. The
damage that would result from steal
ing would be trifiing compared with
the trouble which might result from
a conductor, or an engineer, or even
a brakeman, partaking too freely of
intoxicants.-An Official of the New
York Central Railroad.
The American Railroad associa-
tons standard code has rule which
reads as follows: 1.-THE use of intoxi-
cants by employees while on duty Is
prohibited Their use or the fire.
frequenting of places where they are
sold is sufficient cause for dismissal.
Roughly, I believe that eighty per
cent of the accidents to trains, equip
ment and employees in the train and
yard service of the railroads Of this
country are directly or indirectly
traceable to the violations of this
rule-Mr Mitchell, Chief Agent of the
Railroad Terminals Association Of st.
Louis.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
ATTITUDE OF THE w. C. T. U.
President Lillian Stevens Makes
Statement Before Portland Con-
Venton as to Status.

A statement of the nonpartisan at.
titude of the Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance union was made before the
Portland convention by Lillian M. N.
Stevens, national president, which is
as follows:
The Womans Christian Temper.
ance union is neither a sectarian nor
a partisan organization Each mem.
Der is free to choose her own church
and her own party While the Won.
ans Christian Temperance union
women, in some of the northern
states, have been using their indu
ence for the election of Republican
candidates who stood for statewide
prohibition on prohibition platform,
the w G. F. U. Of some of the south
ern states, have by the same token,
worked for the election Of Democratic
candidates. A careful study Of the ma
tional platforms reveals that only one
party recognizes the evils of the
liquor traffic, and declares that it
should be destroyed. While some
white ribboners still have hope that
the old national parties, and the new
national party, will redeem them
selves from the onus of favoring the
mighty vested interests of the liquor
traffic, having a combined capital OF
a thousand million dollars, others re-
gard the national prohibition party as
the party which is to lead the people
out of the wilderness of strong drink.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
FORMS OF CURRENCY
MANY DIFFERENT BASES OF RI.
NANCE IN HISTORY.
Old Civilization Knew No Such Thing
as Money, and Legal Tender Was
Simply What Could Be
Agreed Upon.

Do you ever stop to think, when
| you have a dollar in your hand, just
! when it first came into existence, and
what people used hundreds of years
| ago, before such a coin had ever been
| heard Of?
In the old civilizations of Italy,
Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor there
was no such thing as money. Instead,
the most valued possession of each
country served as a basis for finance,
and troublesome times they did have,
when one race of people traded with
another and did not agree at all on
each others standards of value.
In ancient Sparta, for instance, huge,
gorgeous chariots served as dollars. If
a man wanted to buy a house and lot
he had to drive a certain number of
chariots to his desired place Of abode,
and then give them in exchange for
the land he wished Sometimes whole
days were spent in deciding, and out
siders had to be called in to assist
in determining the value of the goods
to be battered
In Africa they were little more
sensible in choosing for money arti-
cles of smaller size. The natives were
extremely fond of iewelry and fancy
decorations of all kinds, and so for coin
they used delicate shells Of various
sizes. To be sure they were a bit
unsubstantial, and if a man broke his
shell the loss was his There was no
government back of him to redeem
the currency. But the arrangement
seemed to satisfy on the whole, for it
was in vogue for many centuries.
In old Japan daggers were made
into money. They did not seem to
find it hard determining the value,
and the metal was practical and sub
stantial and lasted indefinitely.
The most terrible form of money
the world has ever known was that
in vogue in the days of the early
Roman empire, when women were
used quite frequently for money. If
man owned a beautiful slave and
preferred land, the bargain was
speedily made. And if the land or
object desired were very valuable
he might have to yield several of his
women slaves
Turbulent times there have been in
the course of the long centuries on
the subject of money, and many quar-
rels have arisen and many battles
have been fought. And really we
don't half appreciate the value of our
simple dollar or the thousands of
years it took to bring it to it's present
simple form.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
offenses Against Public Taste.

II is astonishing that men of wealth
and culture should fail to recognize
the rights of the public in property
which is owned in fee by individuals
or corporations. Putting up bill boards,
unsightly walls or fences, the cutting
of a slightly tree or hedge or the fail
ure to cut an unsightly one are Of
lenses against the public which the
owner of otherwise private grounds
mas no moral right to commit. We
should remember that the earth was
made for man-that we should keep
and leave it more beautiful than we
found it. This is true of our home
acre as we'll as the more elaborate
mark systems of our largest cities.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
DRINK HABIT FALLING AWAY
People of Los Angeles Awakening to
Fact That Liquor Is Harmful
Mo Sign Of Increase.

The secretary of the Los Angeles
Liquor Industries, and one of the old
est wholesale liquor dealers in Los
ment that people do not drink as they
used to do. He says: The population
Of Los Angeles four or five years ago
was in the neighborhood of 100000.
It has been more than doubled today.
Were conditions now as they used to
be there should be a marked increase
In the liquor traffic. There has not
been a sign of increase. The only
logical conclusion for this is that peo-
pie are awakening to the fact that too
much liquor is harmful
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
thrown away as scraps or waste
through ignorance of how it can be
utilized.
Pineapple House Plant.

Those who love the beautiful in ma.
ture as well as something curious can
easily have both in their homes with
but little trouble or expense.
When preparing pineapple for the
table, cut off the top and place it in
a jar of water for a few days. Curl
ously enough, it will put forth roots
and grow for weeks, making very
handsome plant. 1t can be placed in
a window or on stand in the living
room, and when grown with other
varieties of house plants, produces
pleasing effect.
After it has become we'll rooted, it
can be transferred to light rich soil
in an ordinary flower pot, and it will
continue to thrive for long time,
often through an entire winter
The top of a pineapple planted in
the garden in early summer will often
take root and grow nicely during the
entire summer. 1t is certainly to at
tract attention, as it is very pretty.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
Real HoWIer.

A good story is being told of gen.
tleman not unknown in South African
musical circles. He is rather proud
of his vocal abilities. Recently he at
tempted in public to render THE
OWL"
A friend afterwards remarked that
the music was not suitable to his COM
pass, and that he should get it in the
key of G.
Our friend Immediately marched Off
to music shop and announced:
81 want The OWL in c."
Every sorry" replied the shopman;
1--WE have not got The Howling Sea-
but we can do you Rocked Ia the
Cradle Of the Deep"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-04-16
Alcohol Weakens.

Sir Frederick Treves, surgeon of
King Edward of England, speaking of
alcohol as a work-producer, says: 81
was with the relief column that moved
on to Ladysmith in the South African
war, and of course it was an exceed
ingly trying time. In that enormous
column of thirty thousand men, the
first who dropped out were not the
tall men or the short men, or the big
men. or the little men, they were the
drinkers, and they dropped out as
clearly as if they had been labeled
with a big letter In their back"