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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
CIRCUS BUSINESS CHANGES
Col. Robinson Says TroIeys and Nov
les Have Cut Receipts

New York, July 24.-Col John F
Robinson. the veteran circus proprie
tor, who retired from active bushes.
two years ago, has arrived at the
Martinique on his way to Atlantic
City. Col. Robinson. who has just
rounded out his SEVENTEEN year. said
yesterday that he practically had
quit work five years ago, and since
then he had been absolutely miser-
able.
WHY" he repeated. Nothing to
do; nothing in the world but to have
good time. tell you it's a miser-
able existence, and | shouldn't be sur
prised If next year | broke over the
traces and went back to work.
How long have been in the show
business? All my life. and before. |
was in the ring when ! was only eigh
teen months old. But my mother
rode a high school horse only four
o. five hours before was born.
Have there been changes in the
circus business? Yes" with sigh.
THE circus business was at its best
before the trolley cars took to leav-
ing the big towns and going out
along the country roads. That was
tho time when in every medium siz-
ed town in the country folks looked
upon circus day as the one big occa-
sion of the year. Nowadays almost
any farmer boy can do a days work,
hop a trolley car. ride thirty or forty
miles into town. see a good moving
picture show, and be back in bed at
home by midnight. The result is that
the day of the little circus is gone.
and only the very best and biggest
survive.
This has been a disastrous circus
year. Not n show has made money.
Everything connected with a circus
has got too expensive. Billboards.
salaries. feed, and transportation are
almost 80 per cent higher than ten
years ago.
The day has passed when any cir
Gus can make a lot OF money. | do
not recall what was the best circus
year had. but the best the Barnum
q Bailey circus had was the first
year after they got Jumbo. Mr.. Bal
lev told me himself that they had
cleared n million and a half dollars
that year should cut that in half.
for. though who say it am a show
man myself. when circus and the1uri
cal men talk figures it is necessary to.
divide at least by two.
"A rival Of mine used to tell me OF
clearing $4,000 on a performance. and
il used TO make me blue until / learn
ed that he used TO double his figures
when speaking OF his receipts. So !
wired my manager TO quadruple his
when he made reports. One day
got a wire that receipts had been $50
coo. and this nobody would believe.
As a matter OF fact. they had been
only S5.00e.
Those figures always came back
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
MAINE WOMAN STOMACH VICTIM
FINDS REMEDY AND QUICK RELIEF

dy is known all over the country.
Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Rene
dy clears the digestive tract of mu-
cold accretions and poisonus matter.
1t brings swift relief to sufferers from
ailments of the stomach, liver and
bowels. Many declare it has saved
them from dangerous operations and
many are sure it has saved their
lives.
Because of the remarkable success
OF this remedy there are many imita-
tors, so be cautious. Be sure it's
MAYR'S. Go to w. l.. Gokay's drug
store and ask about the wonderful re-
suits it has been accomplishing in
cases they know about-or send to
Geo. II. Mayr, Mfg. Chemist, 154156
Whiting ST., Chicago, ILL.,, for free
book On stomach ailments and many
grateful letters from people who
have been restored. Any druggist
can tell you its wonderful effects.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
Mrs. Scott Of Ashdale Says Mayr
Medicine Brought Results
Right Away

Mrs. L. w. Scott OF Ashdale, Me-,
was for long time victim of stom-
ach and digestive disorders. She tri-
ed many medicines and was constant
ly looking for something to give her
even relief.
Then she found Mayr's Wonderful
Stomach Remedy 1t brought swift
results. She sent an order and
wrote:
81 have taken a few doses of your
remedy and it has done me more
good than all other remedies | have
tried. 1t is a truly wonderful rene
dy."
The first dose of Mayr's Wonder
full Stomach Remedy is proof TO any
stomach sufferer-no long treatment
Thousands have used 1t. This RENE
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

to plague us in some way. They were
good to feed the public on, but the
towns would be sure to jump the
price of the license the following
year. If on a fairly good day we did
from $4,000 to $4,000 some of my
agents would get to boasting that we
had done $4,000 TO $4,000. When
we went back the next yea. they
would charge us $500 of $500 for the
license that the year before had cost
us only S25 to $50.
What becomes Of the fteaks in cir
cuses?' Col. Robinson was asked
Now, that is question ! have
never really gone into Most of them
are thrifty folk. and believe they
put away a comfortable sum TO re-
tire on. Still, you must remember
that being unnatural they are apt TO
be short-lived"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

Experiments which have been made
in the converting OF green alfalfa hay
into silage seem TO indicate that 1t has
lust as good feeding value rs 10 put up
as hay. Best results seem to be had
IL the alfalfa * allowed TO wilt slight
ly before putting in the silo II should
be tramped thoroughly and carefully
and does not need wetting down n
put up soon after being -cut and Is not
overripe. However. making silage Of
alfalfa should only be followed where
weather conditions are uncertain at
harvest time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
NOTICE!

To the Tax Payers of the Village Of
bennington;
A Rate Bill has been placed in my
hands for collection as follows:
80 cents on the dollar for the vii
lage Tax, 20 cents on the dollar for
the Highway Tax on the Grand List
of 1914.
| hereby demand payment of said
taxes, and notify you that | will at
tend at the Bennington County Saw
ings Bank from 3 o'clock a. m. until
o'clock p. m.
There will be n discount OF per
cent on Village tax If paid within 80
days.
c. II. Dewey, Treasurer.
Bennington, VT, July 10, 1914.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
NOTICE /!

To the Tax Payers of the Benning-
ton Graded School District:
A Rate Bill has been placed in my
hands for collection as follows:
80 cents ON the dollar on the
Grand List OF 1914.
| hereby demand payment of said
taxes, and notify you that | will at
tend at the Bennington County Saw
ings Bank from 3 o'clock a. m. until
o'clock p. m.
There will be a discount of per
cent on above tax IL paid within 80
days.
c. II. Dewey. Treasurer.
Bennington, VT. July Is, 1914.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
Auction at Commission Sale Stable
Saturday, July Is, at ppm.

Saturday. July Is, at p. M, there will be sold at
ton at the Commission Stables horses first class and
onds workers and drivers, 10 wagons bugees,
ages and market wagons several OF harness. robes
blankets and second hand wagons, moving machines of
blacksmths tools and consignment of other articles
numerous to mention.
Any person having articles to dispose OF at this sale is
requested to bring them later than Saturday forenoon
The sale will begin o'clock sharp the Farmers
Sheds in the of the Adams mill property. Entrance
from West Main street.
Terms made known on day OF sale.
TEL 147M. JOHN HUNTINGTON, Auctioneer
F. ]. POTTER Propr.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
BOY AND DYNAMITE CAP
Explosion Took of Three Fingers
and Burned Face

Montgomery, July 2S.-Cedric En-
bury of Richford Center, aged 10
years, who is visiting relatives at
Blacks Mills, received painful injur-
touched a match to a dynamite cap
which he held in his left hand. The
explosion tore the hand badly, so that
three fingers had to be amputateO.
His face also was burned and his
clothing was torn.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24
NOTICE

To the Tax Payers Of the Town OF
Bennington:
A Rate Bill of the Town Taxes Of
1914 has been placed in my hands
for collection as follows: 80 cents
on the dollar for the Town Tax, 20
cents on the dollar for the Town
Highway Tax, so cents on the dollar
for the Town District School Tax.
| hereby demand payment of said
taxes, and notify you that | will at
tend at the Bennington County Saw
ings Bank from o'clock a. m. until
o'clock p. m.
There will be a discount of per
cent on Town tax if paid within 90
days.
c. II. Dewey, Treasurer.
Bennington, VT, July 10. 1914.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

It's a perfectly legitimate PROPOSE
ton 10 give horse condition pow
ders. feed it oilmeal and use the curry.
comb and brush vigorously. but men
who hive becoming sense of honesty
will not conceal the gray hairs over q
horses eyes with lampblack or prln.
ter's ink to deceive Il buyer as to the
animals age. Those who are buying
horses OF some dealers would do well
to be on the lookout for this type OF
fraud.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

Colts pigs and chicks should be kept
growing as rapidly as possible from
the start. An interval in which they
get out of condition they rarely fully
recover from.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

The wheat crop of the present year.
including both winter and spring. ~
estimated by the government crop ex-
perts at about o00O00.0OO bushels. II
these figures are realized in the har-
vest which is already on. Il will be
the record production In the history of
the wheat growing industry OF the
United States Barring unfavOrable
conditions from now on for other sta
pie crops, an era of prosperity and
good times would seem TO be ahead.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

The white grub pest is one that is
likely to be bad where one uses con
siderable quantities of rotted manure.
It's pretty good idea TO have the
hens around when such manure is
scattered.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

Bird lovers should have houses con
veniently arranged for the martins be-
fore their arrival in the early summer
This suggestion the writer takes to
himself. as Il half dozen of the pretty
fellows alighted near his home the
other afternoon. but by the time Il
house was put up for them they had
gone to some more hospitabIe locality.
Regret is felt that they have not come
back.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

In n large measure the usefulness Of
COW or SOW in their respective fields
is fixed by the standard Of perform
ance in the interval following the birth
Of their first offspring. For this reason
1t is very necessary that the condi-
tons surrounding the young dams
should be as favorable rs possible.
let a COW have milk fever and suffer
injury in her udder. or let sow have
so called bad luck" more likely poor
carel with her first litter Of pigs. and
the worth OF each Is greatly reduced
thereby.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

To kill clump of nettles it is neces-
sary to destroy not only the tops. but
the root stalk systems below the sur
face OF the ground. Unless these are
removed the plants will sprout us Wig
Orously as ever.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

Moldy litter in chicken houses and
coops and moldy feed are responsible
for a good many deaths among chicks
from disease called aspergillosis.
Its victims are sometimes called
"lungers." Often the symptoms are
the same as in white dlarrhea. The
birds affected stand around I'm n
drowsy manner The wings hang down.
the breath is rapid. and white diarrhea
Is present. Soft yellow growths which
appear In the lungs and sometimes in
the intestines are responsible for death.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

If the salt pork brine shows signs OF
mustiness 1t should be boiled up. the
jar or bowl scalded thoroughly and the
meat returned to 1t. Mustiness is less
likely to develop If the contalner Is
kept in a cool place.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

That blood tells was demonstrated
in very practical fashion the other day
when Americas, Shorthorn bull out
of Missouri bred COW from the Ra-
venswood herd in Cooper county of
that state, was sold for S33,9GS. being
bought by n ranchman in the Argcn-
tine Republic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

Aluminium is not poison. and If the
hens eat their metal leg bands no harm
will result.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

One of the latest stunts with an au-
tomoblle is using it TO haul a mower
for the cutting of roadside weeds One
man operates the motor power and
another handles the mower. With
mower in good condition 1t was found
that about one-third better time was
made than with horses.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

Sold and guaranteed by II. w. Cole
w. L. Gokay, Harwood Ddrg Store,
B. A. Quinlan, ID. A. Ward.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-24

This matter must not be reprinted with
out special permission.l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
THE MCLELLAND. THORN BILL
Every Man Should Be Free to Appeal
for Help Against Sickness.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: II was gratifying 10 read Cassius
NJ Coolridse's letter in your columns OF
April Is. on the subject Of the McClelland-
Thorn Dill which IS before the Governor.
In spite Of arguments abroad pointing out
the danger 70 humanity should such bill
pass. I agree with Mr.. Coolridge In that
every individual should he free 10 appeal
for help Gn the event of Illness OF mind
or body either TO God or man as his or
her mind dictates.
Statistics show I'm the last hundred
wears that the efforts OF materia medica
have not lcssened human ailments. Lives
are surely not being heightened and many
new diseases have been unearthed which
in the past gave 10 trouble.
II is a significant fact that. when the
bin was presented TO the Governor At
Albany. over two thousand people tncn
and women Of all professions and lay
mem appeared In behalf Of the bill
while the opposition was composed entire
ly Of physicians and their associates, loud
in their cXpostulation. r. l. THAYER
New York April IS. 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
1t VIII Never Come If You'll Let the
Republicans Rule Again!

To the Editor ot.The Tribune.
Sir: In reply to our friend the enemy
WHO signs himself Radical" allow me
10 ask what in thunder those socialists
OF France. who were fighting political
oliearchv. have 70 do with 1914 economic
civilization? At any rate. those who Gre
ated the revolution I'm France SIMPLY
Jumped from the frying pan into the IRE.
with tho cry of equality" fraternity
and "brotherhood.' they proceeded to cut
off the heads Of every one who disagreed
with them. il was much like tho TWO
rival socialist parties IN this nation, VINO
veil "faker" every time they see eacn
other. Marx, the creator OF the "Revolu-
ton" thought that Il would arrive before
1900 and ne knew that it would come long
before 1900 only a few socialists now de-
fend the MARKHAM theory OF the concen-
tration OF industry and the increasing
misery OF the working class.
Whether there are $4,000 unemployed I'm
New York or not 40 one knows. but
every one does know that there is an
army OF unemployed IN that city who
wouldn't work more than one day IN
week even II they received 81 an hour.
n people don't want 10 get killed In
strikes they should behave themselves.
That there are many unemployed no one
questions. We have changed our economic
laws by a sweeping reduction In the
tariff, with the result that millions OF
dollars worth Of foreign made goods have
come into the country This has caused
the stoppage Of much machinery; It has
reduced the earnings Of the railroads. and
they in turn have reduced their working
force In the year 1912 the working class
saved and invested in the savings banks
OF this country the sum OF $685. 10000. in
vested $40 10000 in life insurance, invest
ed some $50OOoooO in state and national
banks and nearly as much more in the
building and loan associations And inn
migrant labor got living and sent $1,000.
coo day TO Europe. During the la'
dozen years nearly 100000 immigrant
have como 10 our shores seeking emplo-
ment. and most of them have found it,r
did until a Democratic administrator
lcgislated in the interest Of foreign "a
tons
But the socialists don't want 10 ure
the problem or unempiCymcnI On "o'
Socialists are I'm favor OF unrestcted
immigration-thcy even favor Cinese
immigration. probably on tho grour that
If We can make people poverty flckeh
and reduce them TO universal 'tarNd-
ton condition. then We will be rtdy FOR
the revolution. and any good SOCIALIST
prefers revolution to good food clothing
and shelter
But this condition ~ unemployment IS
only temporary. u 1916 tho ,cpuhIicu
party Will return TO power. TEN We Will
again omen tho mills. start en- wheels ot
industry and make prospcriC for all tho
people who want A. But 90 Calamity
howlers will continue 10 how
=. q. p GORDON
Havcrhn. Mass. April rs l'A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
Freedom VS.. Efficiency.

As are all OF us pretty well aware by this
time, Mr. II g. Wells thinks that there Is some
thing radically wrong with England of to-day. The
English mind cuts at life with a dullcd edge in his
view. The problems. social aud political grow
steadily more complex aud difficult Yet instead Of
meeting them with Quckcned Imagination and
keener mind the ascendancy Of mediocrty grows
surer and more complete. In place of new wis
dom the sole cry is efficiency"
One hears nowadays a vast amount OF chatter
ABOUT eInclency-that magic woodland social or
Sanlzdton and there is no doubt a huge expenditure
OF energy upon these things and widespread de
Slit 10 rush about and make SNOWY and startling
changes. But 1t does not follow that this involves
progress II the enterprise itself is duly conceived
and most OF II does me TO be duly conceived
In the absence or penetrating criticism impudcnt
INDUSTRIOUS person may set up as an expert or
game ana ureCt the confused good intentions AZ
large and middle disastrously with the problem in
hand The expert ouack and tho bureaucratic in
trigucr increase and multiply In a dull minded. un
critical strenuous period as disease germs multiply
in darkness and heat.
There have been signs here and there Of similar
machine made efficiency in this country. But we are
by the word are apparently AIR. Weiss country
men. With all It's faults our American life does
admit Of very free play Of human ability; and so
long that freedom exists there is scant danger
that q dull precisely organized efficiency can pre-
vail over thoroughly human organization with
what wc are pleased TO term "the punch
our thoroughly dcmocratizod nation may be a ma
ton Of ncdiocriics Hut they are very lively
collection Of mediocrtieS make bold 10 believe.
with far too much individual force and initiative
ever to sink hack into hopccssly inefficient clH
cheney
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
The Foolish Near.Side Stop.

Tho Advisory Street Traffic Commission, now on
gagged in investigating the alleged advantages OF 'c
nearside stopping of surface cars at street CROSSINGS
renorts heavy vote in its favor in Brooklyn. his
vote. taken by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
registered about ISL 900 in favor Of the new scheme
and some II 600 against it. Officials Of other cities
where it is in use tell the commission it IS a good
plan.
II would be more important 10 hear what the
travelling public in these cities really thinks OF Inc
plan. II might-it probably does-save the street
car comma MES some time to make all near-sde stops
instead OF some ncar-side stops and farside stops
on all streets But each near-Side stop means
making passengers board the cars at point In the
block where there IS crossing. In winter IT means
climbing through snow and slush in spring 1t means
more or less mud in all seasons it involves worse
footing than the crossing provides, however dirty or
clean the ctys streets may be- There never has
been city where the experiment was made without
long and loud protests over this obvious and prac
ticaliy incurable evil. In cities the protest
has not been vigorous enough 10 force the abandon
ment OF the scheme, as done here several years
ago, but the dissatisfaction has always persisted
This plan may please the transit companies. II vii
never please the public until some method Of board
ing the cars without inconvenience and some danger
is evolved TO go with il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
WAR WITH MEXICO
The Difficulties of Conquest and the
Trials That Follow.

TO the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The amazing leyitY Of those who
are talking about intervention in Mexico
has just been evidenced by the wild wan
ton words reported from Senator Borah
as 70 its meaning that the flag VIII never
come down. This is the beginning Of the
march OF the United states to the Pan
anna Canal" And this despite the solemn
assertion OF our President this very year
that our government would never take a
foot Of land by conquest.
Norman Angel, whose cosmopolitan ne
n akes us forget that he is a naturalized
American citizen has just brought home
10 us. with all the keen insight OF a mas
ter mind in economics and international
politv. what war with Mexico would
mean. Great Britain jauntily set out with
o. 900 men 20 conquer n nation OF 10000
people IN the Transvaal In October she
expected that her soldiers would eat
Christmas dinner in Pretoria. She spent
billion and a quarter dollars. employed
900 900 mon and took two and a half years
to defeat a general who IS now not only
At tho head Of the Transvaal. but OF all
South Africa. Her victorious guns have
left her helpless where she once was mis-
uoss.
Great Britain conquered Ireland three
hundred years ago and ever since the
latter has been a thorn In her flesh. For
the last generation the Irish members az
Westminster have held the balance OF
power. and Home Rule has delayed the
settlement Of every other reform. Ger
many would GermaniZe Prusslan Poland,
but her long efforts have been as futile as
have been her efforts TO Germanze Lor-
raine. which is "a French as ever. Italy,
in Tripoli. is paying hundredfold for
sl that she will ever gain. Her war is
not yet over: only this last week she
killed 10 Arabs. Shs is learning that she
las gained but a desert which can give
no outlet for emgrauts. France I'm Al
goria, has lost far more than she has
gained. An these nations have been de-
luded by the mirage Of the map
Should We invade Mexico IT would be
not TO conquer primitive people like the
Saxons. whom the Normans overcame.
but 100000 people I'm Mexico alone, with
railroads. newspapers. teegraphs and
with an American capital invested OF over
a billion dollars.
To do a worse thing 10 a bad situation
o. tho Impulse OF the fool Let us ATTEMPT
10 punish Hucrta by killing innocent
McNicans. who in turn viii Hill innocent
Americans, and AZ once American prop
orty I'm McXico is imperlled. guerilla
warfare could No easily sustained for
years Tho AchincSe ~ the East dcncd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-21
The Treatment for the Car Rowdies.

Magistrate Krotel took the right course with the
first two strcetcar rowdes whom he encountered
This season One got five days in the WorkhouSc.
the other ten DAYS for disorderly conduct
II is TO be expected that streecarS and subway and
elevated trains will be infested from now until frost
with these incpient thugs as they have been other
summers The youth who thinks II funny 10 throw
Il baseball bat around car filed with people Of
both sexes and all ages belongs to a class 10 whom
the only arguments that will appeal are that same
ba sebal bat across the skull or term behind the
bars For the protection of the law-abiding travel
lers the police and the courts should cooperate in
making him listen TO reason.