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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
Light Your Light

a neat electric sign is about
the brightest way to advertise your
place of business that you can find,
and when you consider the modest
cost in comparison with other cities
for electricity it's a big advantage,
Let us hear from you. We will very
gladly get up a special design for
your approval. The Twin State Gas
& Electric Co.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
ladies' please Road.

With q desire to have you see the
many exquisite models in richly
trimmed millinery and the new orea-
lions in tailored hats, velvets. plush
beavers and velours in black and
becoming colo-s. We invite you all
to attend our fall opening beginning
on Thursday Oct. 2nd 20 Oct. 5th.
We take a personal pleasure in your
call whether you purchase or not.
A. Nolan, Opera House Block.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
Coming to Town

When in Bennington stop at the
Cottage Hotel right in the center OF
the town. with all the modern con
veniences. nicely furnished rooms.
clean as wax and good old fashion
home cooking, the kind we all like,
and the rates are two dollars a day.
Special rates by the week Best in
the state for the money. Garage in
connection. J. II. Leahy is proprie-
tor and he will make you feel at
home.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
Heard Of Them /?

OF course You know about Dag
gets candies. They melt in your
mouth. 60 cents to one dollar a
pound. There is Lowneys. world.
wide reputation 80 cents to one dol
lar and Bells Forkdipped Choco-
lates at the same price and there is
something wrong with you If in this
you cant be pleased.
They are always here and always
fresh and always make appropriate
gifts. &. l.. Hudson. One:a House
Block.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
Are the Goods

VIII you just buy pair and you
will be convinced that Stetson's shoes
for men are the best lasters. most
well made and perfect
fitting shoe you ever had on your
feet. They are six and six fifty, but
worth every cent of the price. We
have all the famous lasts, all leath.
ers. all weights, all sizes. Estate of
A. X. Richie.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
aides Attention.

The ladies of Bennington and vi,
entity are cordially invited to attend
our annual autumn millinary open
ing Thursday, Friday and Saturday
OF this week. Great care has been
taken TO make this occasion cxccp.
ionally attractive. The newest
creations in rich and exclusive dress
and tailored millinary. Remember
three days. Oct. End. Ord. and It'll.
Mrs. Charles Sausyillo, i39 Main ST.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02

water and matter WouIu
come out of. They itched
at night so that ] would
wake UP scratching them
and could not stop until I
would bring the blood. This
of course mado them a great
deal worse. There wero
pimples on them and when
1 scratched there would
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
rash ON HANDS
.ITCHED AND BURNED
SkinCracked. WouIdWake Scratch
ing Them. Deep Cuts. Could Not
Sleep. Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura0intmentCu wOWeeks.

Fifth ST., Leominster. Mass. My
hands began TO itch. then the skin got thick
and in some places cracked. and other parts
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-02
HARRY NOON

will co shoe repairing while
you wait. Oak tanned leather
used. All work is guaranteed.
3l6 Main ST., Next Cottage Hotel
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

Dor and a very useful one, for it is re-
markedly swift and graceful on the
wing, and is expert and persistent in
catching rose beetles, May beetles,
cucumber beetles, mosquitoes, house
flies and flies that trouble horses
and cattle. One observer records
that 80 parent martins made 1926 Wis.
it's 10 their young in one la., each
visit meaning, probably, anywhere
from one to half a dozen insects.
The nighthawk (also called bull
bat"j j. probably n of che most
useful of birds. 1t feeds exclusively
on insects, and ranks next to the
golden-winged woodpecker (fiicker) as
a feathered destroyer of ants, which
it takes when they are in the winged
stage. Potato beetles, cucumber bee
ties, leaf hoppers, bugs Of various kinds
and enormous quantities of gnats and
mosquitoes are found in their stom-
achs. They are entirely harmless, for
they never feed on fruit, grain, grass
or vegetables. Yet they are being
hunted for sport and are being exter-
minated.
The loggerhead Tor s%outhern) shrike
is a champion pest destroyer, a large
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

placing polygamy-a simple repudia-
ton by the husband Of his wife, pro-
vided he is well enough off to pay the
nekyah or marriage settlement, which
he is legally bound to hand over to
her.
The woman of the poorest classes
can go out alone. Custom does not
oblige her to wear her veil down.
Should her husband, in a fit Of anger,
wish to divorce her, he must first Of
all produce the Nekyah, the dowry,
In ready money, not an easy matter
for a poor man.
The real danger to domestic happi'
ness in the great mass of Turkish
homes is the growing tendency of d.
vorce, and a divorce wholly favorable
to the man as against the
The payment of the modest nekyah
arranged at the time of his marriage
is a simple affair. and it is seldom
enough to keep the divorced wife for
the rest of her days. She is forced to
take refuge with her parents or to
find shelter with some of her friends
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
SKIN ERUPTION ON CHEEK

Kingsley, Mich.-"Last May my
thirteen-months-old baby had a sore
ONE on her cheek. 1t started in four
or five small pimp1es and in two or
three hours time spread to the size Of
a silver dollar. 1t spread to her eye.
Then water would run from the PIN
pies and wherever that touched it caus-
ed more sores until nearly all one
cheek and up her nostrils were one
solid sore. She was very fretful. She
certainly was a terrible looking child,
and nothing seemed to be of any use.
Then l got some Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. She tried to rub
off everything we put on so hat we
would sit and hold her hands for two
hours at a time, trying to give the
medicine a chance to help her, but
after I washed it with Cuticura Soap
and then put on the Cuticura ONT
ment they seemed to soothe her and
she did not try to rub them Of. It
was only a few days before her face
was all healed up, and there has been
no return of the trouble since. We
thought that baby's face would surely
be SCARED, but it is not" (Signed)
Mrs. w. j. Cleland, Jan. 5, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. l., Boston,
Adv.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
ITALIAN VILLA life
No Sense of Effort There, But
Everywhere Are Flowers.
Tuscan Homes, Where Medieval Cu~'
toms Gradually Are Giving Way
to Modernity-Eest Is to Be
Found at Florence.

Florence.-Life in an Italian villa
sounds an idyllic experience to those
In teeming cities, and these old
world gardens, nearly always built
ON charming sites. do possess an at
traction distinctive from that OF Or
binary country houses. The uxurt-
ance of the flowers, with their bril-
liant coloring and easy growth, says
a writer in the Christian Science Mon
itor, helps the restful atmosphere
which is SO characteristic; but the
graceful and pleasant &C
,ceptance of work and burdens by the
servants have also considerable part
lof the charm The OF effort ls
as lacking as the sense OF rush, and
yet there is perpetual gentle activity
manifest everywhere. Every villa
of Importance, for example, has a
farm attached to it, where maize and
the vines and mulberries and fig trees
flourish; no ruthless noises of ma
,chinery disturb the peace Of these In
hedged patches, wreathed from tree
to tree; the plaintive folksongs Of the
peasants rising and falling like a
}Gregorian chant, alone are heard with
the incessant murmur Of h grill or
icicadas, and when the stream runs
near, the brek-kek-kek of frogs.
Most Tuscan villas are built on
hills and nowhere are they lovelier
than round Florence. Their are few
more fascinating experiences than Wis
iting these villas. Behind f~orbiddlng
walls, over whose tops masses of
Ranksia roses clomber such unex-
'pected vistas wait; and ever when the
villa stands out the center of a com
handing group of Expresses, one may
be certain of surprises as one wan
ders up and down it's terraces.
The patch of lex that makes so
sharp a blot upon the hillside turns
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
NO LONGER SELECTS THE HAT
Hubby's First and Last, Experience at
a Millinery Store, Was. Alto
gether Too Costly.

Congressman Ralph w. Moss of In
diana did not care much for a hat his
wife wore. He finally spoke about 1t.
Mrs. Moss admitted hat it was plain,
and, instead of taking exceptions to
her husbands remark, invited him to
accompany her the next time she
bought a hat.
Il can certainly pick out a better
one than that" said Mr.. Moss.
So they went to the store together,
Mrs. Moss said not a word as tne
comely milliner displayed one beau
tiful bonnet after another. 1t was the
first time Mr.. Moss had ever been in
a millinery store, but he appeared to
be at ease, and finally selected II of
the most joyful creations in the en-
tire stock. Mrs. Moss looked well in
it. She was pleased.
I'll take that" said the Hoosier
congressman. How much is it,"
Forty dollars" said the pretty girl
without ven a blink.
Mr.. Moss saw blue stars, but luck
lily had just come from the bank
and was able to produce that much
In cash. Now he lets Mrs. Moss buy
her own hats and he does not com
plain about their being plain.-Judge.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
Day on Which Women Rule.

Candlemas day is not celebrated in
Holland much more than in England,
but its place is taken by a festival un.
known in this country. Slipper day in
the Netherlands is the one day in the
year. in which the Dutch woman
claims superiority over her husband
On that day she rules him to her
hearts content. and he generally
obeys good humoredly enough. That
is, unless she is one of those ladies'
not unknown In Holland or in any
other country who aspire to complete
rule over their unhappy partners
throughout the year-Philadephia In.
quirer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
SEE TRACES OF GIANT RACE
Skeletons Of Big Men and Stone Ham
mers and Bone Avis Uncovered
by Investigators in California.

Stanford University, California
Recent excavations indicate hat the
peninsula south of San Francisco
once was inhabited by a race of giant
stature. Prof. Harold Heath of the
geologic department of Stanford uni
versity has ~unearthed, about two
miles south of here, several skeletons
Of men who were more than six feet
in height.
A prehistoric village, covering near
.ly two acres, has been the scene of.
Professor Heath's Investigations.
Stone hammers, bone avis and orna-
ments found by his party indicate that
their owners had attained consider
able advancement in craftsmanship and
civilization.
Numerous buried villages have been
discovered on the peninsula. several
within the city limits of San Francisco.
Professor Heath says the inhabitants
apparently were neither warlike nor
energetic.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
Those Peruna Testimonials
How Are They Obtained?

refer such questions to a body of men
who are already convinced of the
worthlessness of proprietary medi-
cines. To give such a body of men
the unlimited authority to decide
whether our claims for Peruna are
valid or not is a manifest violation of
my constitutional rights.
My claims are based both on cred
table theoretical grounds and upon
i%rrefutable statistics. But | am quite
willing to have our claims as to the
composition Of Peruna properly and
thoroughly investigated, and if found
to be false a proper penalty shout
be fixed. Or If / I'M making any
statements concerning disease. as to
the nature. symptoms or danger OF
any disease, If l am making any such
statements as to unnecessarily fright
en- the people by false assumptions, I
am willing to submit to any unbiased
tribunal or investigation.
Mrs. Alice Boyle, 500 Clinton St..
Circleville, Ohio, writes: Il want to
INFORM you what Peruna has done
for me. / have been afflicted with ca
tarrh for several years. I have tried
different medicines and non seemed
to do me any good until I Used Pc
runa. / have taken six bottles and
can praise it very highly for the good
1t has done me. / ais find it of great
benefit to my children"
| Peruna Is for sale at all drug stores,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

percentage of it's food being harm
full rodents and destructive insects,
the latter including g~rasshoppers'
crickets and moths, which it frequent
ly impales upon thorns or sharp twigs.
1t sometimes catches young birds
Though this Is more characteristic OF
the northern shrike, or butcher blrd,)
but It's diet Is chiefly insects and small
rodents. 1t is, therefore. very valu-
able to the farmer.
The go~lden-winged ~woodpecker
(also called flicker ~"h1ghhole, etc.
Is an Industrious r protector, II
the most efficient Of all feathered nj
eaters. 1t is also feeds freely upon bee
ties. grasshoppers, crickets, caterpil-
lars, and other harmful insects, as we'll
as on weed seds. Yet 1t Is rapidly
growing rare because 1t Is mucn
hunted for food. 1t should be pro
tected everywhere and at all times.
In view Of the decrease already &C
complished in The general volume or
bird life in America, in view OF the
enormous losses annually inflicted up
on the people Of this country by the
ravages of insects, and in view OF the
destruction of wild life which is now
%furiously proceeding throughout Amer
lea, the Mclean bill, which is now be-
fore congress-, to provide for the fed
eral protection Of all migratory birds,
becomes the most important wild life
measure that ever came before that
body. In view of the annual economic
loss that will continue as long as a
federal migratory bird bill fails to
pass, it is impossible for anyone to put
forth one good reaso2-unless it be on
purely technical ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that
measure. The Weeks bill, before the
lower house of congress, is precisely
like the Mclean bill, and 1t matters
not which one passes first.
Unless the people of this country
wish to shut their eyes to their own
interests, and pay out millions OF dol
lars annually in the form Of increased
cost of living due to the losses caused
by insect pests which would be
destroyed by the birds, they should
demand that a federal migratory bird
bill be at once enacted into a law. 1t
is Senate Bill No. 6497, and On the
senate calendar it is No. 606. We can
not afford to wait until 1914 or 1915,
and ongre has full power to act
this winter.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

out to be a hollow grove to which
one descends by a tiny twisting path
guarded by lichened statues. Here a
tea table is set on velvet turf, and
through an unexpected gap extends a
glorious panorama of fertile hills and
the many lowered city. Water is
!trickling near, and the comfortable
cane chairs invite one to listen to
the slumbrous murmur, while an old
servant who might nave stepped out
of a Paolo Veronese brings in a tea
service of renaissance gold plate, and
transports one to the century when
Cellini fashioned such things for his
patrons.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

for MS cheerful song n mis- hand
some appearance. glad everywhere to
be the companion and the friend Of
man when he is well treated, and high
ly valuable as a destroyer Of harmful
grubs, worms and insects. Yet this
bird is murdered literally by the thou
sands for pot-pies by negroes and
poor whites in the southern states
above mentioned, and is more or less
hunted in other states. Mr.. e. A.
Mcllhenny, who lives on Avery Island,
La, avs that during the ten days or
two weeks of the robin season" Tin
January when the berries are ripe) at
least 10000 of these useful and beau
t1ful birds are slaughtered daily for
the pot. Every negro man and boy
who can raise a gun is after them,"
says Mr.. McIlhenny.
Although this bird causes some loss
to small fruit growers, it certainly
does vastly more good than harm. 1t
Is constantly at work on lawns and
fields hunting for destructive insects.
which it is exceedingly difficult 20
keep in control. 1t devours many
caterpillars, including hairy species,
which infest the orchard. woodland
and shade trees. Forty per cent. Of
its food is insects, and 43 e cent.
wild fruit. 1t would pay the farmer
well to go some expense in order
to keep the robins away from his
fruit trees and berry bushes rather
thar shoot these birds which are SO
useful to him in many ways. To muir
der them for pot-pies is, of course,
nothing short Of barbarous.
The purple martin is also fond Of
he society of man, and when not
molested by the villainous English
sparrows-and still more villainous
men by whom it is shot for food,
chiefly in the south-it is glad to
breed in birdhouses lear human habi-
tations. 1t males a charming neigh
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

by various forms of treatment they
have found complete relief by the
use of Peruna. These testimonials
have come to me unrequested, unso-
licited, unrewarded in any way, d.
rectly Or indirectly. They have sim
ply been cleaned from my private cor
~respondence with patients that have
been more or less under my treatment
or taking my remedies.
No remedy, official or unofficial, has
a greater accredited basis for the
claims we make for 1t than Peruna as
a remedy for catarrh.
I have never been opposed at any
time to the regulations offered by the
Pure Food and Drugs Act. l am not
now opposed to it's provisions, but l
am opposed to the proposed amend
ments to give to a partisan board of
physicians the unqualified authority to
decide as to all therapeutic claims
which may be made for a proprietary
medicine. 1t Is manifestly unjust to
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

with the result hat the damage they
do is mounting up, year by year.
1t Is perfectly apparent that here
Is a situation which demands immedi
ate action, and that this action should
bring about the vigilant protection for
all time, and in all parts of the coun-
try, Of all insectivorous birds. Many
Of the most useful of these birds are
already on the tobogganslide to
ward determination, as the result OF
stupid state legislation, or the lax en-
forcement of such laws as have been
enacted. To be explicit:
There are seven states in which the
robin is being legally killed by the
tens of thousands annually as game!
These states are Louisiana, Mississip
pi. Florida, South Carolina, North Car,
DINA, Tennessee and Maryland.
The black bird is legalized game"
inc suffers the same fate in four
states-Louisiana, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Pennsylvania-and the
District of Columbia besides.
Doves are slaughtered by the whole
sale in 26 states, much to the loss OF
the farmers, for his bird is a great
eater of weed seeds.
Cranes, which are also very useful
birds, are much hunted for food and
for sport" in Colorado, Nebraska,
North Dakota and Oklahoma.
OF the sixty-odd species of shore
birds q. e., snipe, curlews, plover
sandpipers and the like), at least &C
feed on noxious insects; yet all OF
these birds are rapidly disappearing
According to Mr.. w. l.. McAtee Of the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
ONLY the Sultan Adheres to the Old
Style Oriental institution-Mod-
ern Turk Resorts to Divorce.

The domestic arrangements or the
sultan are entirely different from
those Of his subjects. Most Turks
have one wife; the sultan has no
RECOGNIZED sultana. Turks Of high
| rank marry into their own class; the
sultan forms unions with women OF
slave origin. The ordinary man may
not look upon an unveiled woman
cent she be his relation or servant;
the sultan has the right to talk with
any woman in the land face to face.
Turks of position model their house
holds more or less on the European
plan; the sultan's household is orien-
al.
That does not mean that in the i'm
nerial palace you would find women
slipping sherbet OF smoking ~narghilehs
or clad in baggy trousers. On the
contrary, you would find them smok-
ing nothing more oriental than a
cigarette, sitting or a European chair
and, yes. wearing c~orscts. But the
code of morals is entirely different,
saws the New York Sun.
The imperial harem is founded on
the cid court system of the byzantine
emperors and has an etiquette and
law of its own, The first fact one
must grasp is that the wives or
favorites of the sultan have no i'm
portance at all, They are nobodies
The daughter of a Circassian peasant
NAV be honored by the sultan's favor
and even bear him a child. but ver
be distinguished by no other title
than the commonplace "Kadin Effen
d. Only the mother OF he eldest
son receives the royal designation OF
! sultan" her whole title being "Kha,
! reki sultan"
Her dignity only results from her
being the mother of a possible he'll
to the throne; that is, in the event
that the sultan has no brothers, for
the brothers have the right of prece
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10
HAREMS OUT OF DATE IN TURKEY

dence as the elder male descendants,
And the royal ~favorite of the moment
will have transitory Importance on
account of the influence which she
may exercise over the sultan.
Royal princesses are considered in
ferior to the mother of the sultan, who
Is the real queen of the little world
of the harem, has absolute authority,
a large staff Of officials and the SUI
preme title of "Valide sultan" Thus
1t happens hat a woman of slave
birth may, if she be the mother Of an
heir to the throne, eventually become
the highest of the land.
Every royal princess has her daira,
or separate apartments, slaves, ser
wants and so on, the management OF
the household being given over to her
kalfas, or ladies in waiting-that is tc
say, Turkish women of good birth
who have remained unmarried
Royal princesses rarely Jake a hus
band of their own rank. They are
generally married by the sultan tC
the sons Of men of wealth and posi-.
ton. such as pashas, officers of state,
lttSu NlNh I LIN NbV tinSb @
policy which is founded on a very
practical reason. namely. that the ar
/ rangement makes the existence of a
hereditary ~aristocracy impossible.
One of the p~aradoxes in Turkey is
that The poorer a Turkish woman is
the greater her freedom. The rich
woman canont move a step unaccom
| panied. h sees Constantinople only
from the windows of her closed
brousham or through a veil thicl
enough to act as a mask. She may
dress as exquisitetiy as a mannequfr
in a Paris dressmaker's showroom
but she must not display so much as
an inch of embroidery in public.
When her husband wants to take 6
second wife, or grows tired of he1
and wishes to divorce her, he has
both the opportunity and the means
If he is a rich 1t is not chic
among Turks of any education to take
a second wife; but divorce is re
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-10

somewhat familiar with. He was
also certain that she had been On
frmed within the week at another
place. The bishop whispered to her
to remain after service, and said.
my dear madam, what do you mean
by coming for confirmation? / am
sure / confirmed you on Monday at
such a place. Did not?" She said.
.sYcu certainly did. I have been fol-
loVinr you up the river and have
been confirmed every day this week
| lie. -tcaished, said, why did you do
that" Wsercupon she replied, BE