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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-01-08
WooDFoRD

Myron Vose has returned from a
visit with relatives in Jacksonville.
Mrs. Flora Bugbee has been pass
ing few days with her sister, Mrs.
Emma Burgess of Bennington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-01-08
Stable Blankets

so Baker Plaid Stable Blankets,
with two surcingles attached-reduc'
ed to $3.50 each. a splendid bar
gain. Frears. Troy. n. Y.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-03
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

The second attempt in two weeks
was made at Silver City to burn the
New Mexico Normal school.
The seventeenth annual meeting of
the American Mining Congress will be
held in Phoenix, Ariz., Dec Z to II.
K. w. Sears, founder of Sears, Roe
buck and Company, died at Waukesha,
Wis., leaving an estate estimated at
s25,OOO,OOO.
Nine of twelve Kentucky counties
In which local option elections were
held voted dry" according to unoffi-
cial returns
Willie Beecher and Johnny Dundee,
lightweights, both of New York, fought
twenty rounds to draw at the Ver-
non arena at Los Angeles.
Report was made to the police of
Chicago that the safe in the office of
the American theater was burglarized
during the night and s2,SOO stolen.
Chief Justice George H. Stewart of
the Supreme Court of Idaho, died of
paralysis at a sanatorium in Portland,
following a long illness. He was fifty
six years old.
Attempts to smother the burning
gas well in the Little Buffalo basin,
forty miles from Worland, Wyo., were
made several times during the past
week, but without success
Capt. Robert McCulloch, president
and general manager of the United
Railways of ST Louis and former gen
eral manager Of the Chicago City Rail
way, died in st. Louis after brief i'll
ness. r
Civil service employees of the postof-
flee inspectors office at Chicago were
somewhat perplexed at receiving cir
cular letters from Washington direct
ing them to report on their party af-
filiations
Oscar Brown killed his wife and
shot himself fatally after quarrel in
a hotel which the woman conducted
at Lincoln, Neb. Jealousy is said to
have been the cause of the tragedy.
The couple leaves six small children
Roy Easchman, bricklayer, of Wa
terloo, Iowa, and Napoleon Fielder of
Dupre, S. D., were killed and six pas
sengers were injured, three seriously,
when the Chicago, Great Western pas
senger train No. crashed through a
bridge near Waterloo, la. Easchmans
head was severed.
In the first semi-annual report of
operations of the Midwest Refining
Company, mailed to the stockholders
from Denver, the president, o. H.
ings of the company for the six
months ending Aug. 81 were $685..
90S.29, in spite of the fact that the
prices for oil have been at an extreme
ly low level during that period.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-03
WASHING TON.

Recess of Congress over elections
was in the air in The House and looked
like probability.
Enactment of the war revenue bill
and completion of antitrust legisla-
ton will be undertaken by Congress
this week.
Citizens of Vera Cruz were praised
by the State Department in an Off
cial statement commenting their "ex-
emplary conduct" during the Ameri-
can occupation.
Charge Won Castleberg of the Ger
man embassy requested the State De
partment to give him papers guaran-
teeing him safe conduct across the At
lantic ocean to Germany.
President Wilson has received and
accepted the resignation of DR.. Louis
Livingstone Seaman as a first lieu
tenant of the medical reserve corps
of the army on the inactive list.
A joint resolution to express the ap-
probation of Congress and to confer
gold medals on the A. B. C. mediators,
Ambassadors DaGama, Naon and
Suarez, for their services in the Mexi-
can mediation was introduced by
Chairman Flood of the House foreign
affairs committee.
Twenty-one members of the Perez
family of Portugal, who were unable.
to furnish bonds of $4,000 to guaran-
tee that they would not become pub
lie charges, have abandoned their at
tempt to settle in the United States
and the Department of Labor decided
to admit them at New York to pro-
ceed to Mexico.
Sensational use of air craft in the
great European war added interest to
steps ordered by the War Department
to at once carry out the provisions OF
the act of last July to increase eff
cheney of the aviation service of the
army.
Three more of Secretary Bryan's
peace commission treaties are on the
way to consummation One with
Greece will be signed soon; the Rus
sian ambassador will confer with Mr..
Bryan over the details of another, and
still another between the United
states and Sweden is heing prepared.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-03
SPORT.
standing of westernIcn Gin

Lincoln Beachey, in an aeroplane.
looped the loop four times over the
dome of the capitol, while President
Wilson watched the performance from
White House window.
Kid Williams knocked out Kid Her
man of Pekin, ILL.,, in the fourth round
of a six-round battle at the Olympia
Athletic Club at Philadelphia. For
three rounds the little fellow from the
West took beating that was almost
unbelievable.
Tyler, one OF the stars of the
Braves pitching staff, has purchased
a 400acre dairy farm outside of Bos-
ton. He intends to spend his winters
on it and retire from the diamond aft
er few years to give his entire at
tention to its management.
Jack Dillon, Indianapolis middle
weight, gave Frank Mantell of Paw
tucket, r. l., severe beating in a
trelve-round no-decision bout at
Columbus, Ohio, but Mantell's block
ing, particularly after the seventh
round, prevented the aggressive Dillon
from landing a knockout blow.
The Boston National league team
cinched the pennant for 1914 by de-
feating the Chicago Cubs while the
lowly Pirates were winning from the
former Champion New York Giants.
If the Braves should lose all their re-
naming games and the Giants win all
their eight contests the Hub City
crowd would nose out ahead by a half
game.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-03
GEN ERAL.

Rear Admiral Nathaniel r. Usher
took command of the New York navy
yard, relieving Capt. Albert Gleaves,
who assumes command of the battle-
ship Utah.
Mrs. Joseph Stone, wife of a farm
er, and her four children were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed
their home near Tolono, ten miles
south of Champaign, Ill. An exploding
kerosene lamp caused the fire.
President Wilson's administration
was indorsed ''in the highest and most
unqualified terms" and he was pledged
the ''unwavering trust and devotion" of
New Hampshire Democrats at the
state platform convention at Concord.
Gen. Benjamin Hill, commander of
the Carranzista troops in Sonora, de-
clared at Naco. Ariz., that detach-
ment of Governor Maytorena's troops
mutined and factional fight followed
in which most of the mutineers were
killed
Mrs. Florence Carman, under indict-
ment for the murder of Mrs. Louise
Bailey in Freeport, was denied the
right to see the minutes of the grand
jury whose hearings led to the charge
against her. The trial will begin Oct.
IL at Mineola, N. Y.
Six national banks in Houston have
subscribed 100000 to the New York
Clearing House Associations 100000
900 to restore normal foreign ex-
change relations.
The Rev. w. T. Sumner, dean of the
Cathedral OF st. Peter and Paul at
Chicago, accepted the call to become
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of
Oregon. He will succeed the late
Bishop Spaulding.
Three collisions of subway and sur
face cars sent eighteen persons, more
than half of them women, to hospitals
in New York.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-03
FOREIGN.

Sir Charles Johnston was elected
lord mayor of London for the term of
one year, beginning Nov. /, 1914. He
succeeds Sir Thomas " Bowater.
The proposal to inoculate the Brit
ish soldiers with anti-typhoid serum,
as is done in the United States, brings
strong protest from the Medical
Times.
The war office has issued orders
that until further notice troops meet
ing the king and queen shall not draw
up at salute, but march on, merely
giving the ordinary marching salute
The American steamer Foxton Hall
was burned off Watlings island Sept
20. The members of her crew, with
the exception of two men who are
missing, arrived at Nassau, Bahama
Islands.
A Reuter- dispatch from The Hague
says that Dutch committee has been
formed under the presidency of DR..
F'ruin, keeper of the state archives, for
the purpose of restoring the library
at Louvain, which was destroyed by
the Germans.
The British and German govern
ments have begun exchanging lists of
prisoners of war. This is being done
through Walter H. Page, the Ameri-
can ambassador in London, and is
preparatory to arranging an actual ex-
change of prisoners.
A dispatch to the Central News
from Rome says that a message re-
ceiyed there from Durazzo, Albania,
announces that the Albanian Senate
has elected Prince Durham Eddin, son
of the former sultan, Abdul Hamid,
prince of Albania, in succession to
Prince William of Wied.
The final results of the general
election for members of the Swedish
parliament show that the Socialists
have fifty-seven seats, the Conserva-
tives eighty-six, and the Liberals fif-
ty-seven. The Liberals lost fourteen
seats to the Socialists. The Conserva-
tives neither lost nor gained, yet at
the conclusion of the war it is ex-
pected that a Socialist government
will be formed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15
FAMINE AND SUFFERING
IN THE NORTH OF JAPAN
Sixty-Six Thousand Persons in Need
of Help-Loss in Crops,
$1o,Ooo,ooo.
TOXIC. February i

TOXIC, February 10, 1914
The famine district Of Hokkaide in the
north Of Japan, covers more than mil
lion acres, which are devoted to rice cul-
ture and general farming: the loss has
amounted to about ,r1OOO0DO0 and $4,000
persons are in need of help, according TO
an official report. 1t continues:
For the past three years the farmers
have had poor crops and the failure on
account of the frosts this year leaves
them in pitiable condition.
Men are subsisting on straw. the bark
of trees. acorns and buckwheat chaff
powdered and made into cruel. Mothers
living on such food have been unable to
feed their babies, and have made milk
substitute out of the hulls of rice, which
they beat into a powder and mix with
boiling water. The young men have left
home in search of work. while the aged
and the children are left behind to freeze
or starve unless outside relief is brought
to them
A sad story of the famine district is
told by the Rev. Chigan Takahashi,
missionary. A tenant in Yubari district
whose wife was dying from starvation
and illness, stole a bale of potatoes from
his landlord.
The wife was grateful for the kindness
of her husband but said: Il do not wish
! TO live any longer if 1t must be on stolen
| food" and urged him to return the
goods.
The husband, conscience stricken, was
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Prehistoric Idea About Divorce.

From the New York; Iribunc.
Senator Ransdell's idea of a constitu-
tional amendment to forbid absolute d.
vorce with right to remarry in this coun-
try is worse than archaic: it is positively
prehistoric. The one bit OF sense in his
entire proposal is that there should be
uniform laws regarding marriage and dr.
vorce But when such uniform laws are
enacted. II is safe to predict that they
will not be on the basis of the statutes
of South Carolina, where there is no
divorce, or even of this state where di-
vorce may be obtained only on evidence
of inidelity.
1t is true. as this defender of the home
and the virtue of the American nation de-
clares, that the percentage of divorces to
marriages in this country is mounting.
| His deductions from that fact are ludi-
crous Divorce is not destroying the
| home" There never was a divorce which
| wasn't the issue of destroyed home, not
the cause. Divorce is not destroyer OF
| the virtue of men and women. Loose
morals and illegitimacy flourish where d.
! vorce. is not The divorce evil'' is q
thing to be deplored but the remedy 10
not what Senator Ransdell urges.
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eagerly.
You know I never talk for publication.
said the great man. hesstatingly
Il know" replied the Observer.
You can't use my name
"An right; let's have the theory.
1T is simply this: i don't believe that
there ever were any snakes in ireland.
] think that St Patrick was the oppor-
tunist of his day.
MY reasons for saying there never
we're any snakes theEe IS the character
Of the Irish land Snakes. you know,
breed best in hot countries. not in cold,
moist atmosphere.
Now. st. Patrick knew this. As long
as there were no snakes. why not pre-
| tend that snakes were there and take he
credit for getting rid OF them?"
This" said the Observer. sis begin
ming to sound like Alice in Wonderland.
Not at ALL growIed the geologist.
Would you mind explaining some
more?'
| "Gladly. You see il has been belief
of mine that the snaE who becomes an
International success, "a world power. is
4 not the man who does things, SO much
as the man who does; them at precisely
me .1 f, cam imagine the Irish complaining
about the high cost iof living. l can
hear them yelling theis. heads off-pardon
that divergence into your own loose style
i of speech-about the. aand rents. l can
imagine a feeling Of discomfort.
/ A.
| i II
Along comes St Patrick
| ".Ah. he says. they imagine they
have troubles. I'll fix up big issue and
take their minds OFF, their worries for
while.
! Immediately the people take up the
cry In Ulster county snake is found
and is killed with much enthusiasm. In
| the County Cork q snake is reported to
| have been seen. The Irish Anti-Snake
League is formed land subscription is
| taken up.
"All this is due % ST. Patrick who has
| judiciousiy spread the snake story.
Then comes the grand climax. st.
/ Patrick takes the initiative. He person
ally leads the campaign against the
snakes They are found here and there.
and for every snake killed ten are re-
: ported killed The Irish Anti-Snake
League raises a fund so big that it goes
into real estate purchases with the sur
plus. Finally the announcement comes
that the snakes are no more. The snakes
have been exterminated. And st. Pat
rick becomes national here-aye,
world hero.
IF you will pardon me said the OBJ
server f regard thai as the wooziest
snake theory l ever heard
:, The great man wagged his Capitol-like
dome solemnly.
| THE great trouble with YOU" he said.
+, lis that you don't think. Did you ever
| in order to keep peace within his own
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blowing like a whale, with an anthropoiu
skull or the wishbone Of a pterodactyl or
some other little ornament that Will MAKE
the home look comfortable and add to the
sum of human knowledge.
This man is mostly forehead. lie LOOKS
more like the dome of the Capitol thdn
anybody the Observer has ever met. AND
when he begins to think you can hear
a gentle creaking sound from that brain
of his.
Yes. young man. he doomed when the
Observer wandered in. hat in hand. Inc
geolcgist has a voice arranged along the
lines of a bass drum. Every time ne talks
the people downstairs come rushing up
to find out who has pushed the office sale
over on the floor. 0
Yes, young man, repeated TINS per
sonage. impatiently.
Il have come to find out the real story
of St Patrick and the snakes replied
the Observer.
: why come to me?' demanded the great
man. Snakes are of comparatively re
cent date-that is modern snakes are. Ii
you are interested in my recent discovery
of the fourth rib of the icthy osaurus--
The Observer waited him out and got
his base on balls. After the great man
! had fooled around on the subject of icthy-
| osauri he commenced shooting them over
| the plate again.
| II have always had a pet theory con-
| corning this st. Patrick's story" said
the great man. complacenty, but | douo1
( if it would interest you.
Yes it would. said the Observer
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CARRYING back the potatoes when he met
the Landowner He confessed his theft
and asked forgiveness.
The Iandowneo was impressed by the
sad story and not only forgave the Of
Tense, but made a gift of the potatoes
to the farmer. The happy man returned
home and found his wife hanging dead.
The husband then hanged himself.
The Japanese have organized ma
tional relief association. Contributions
have been generous, and have been
swelled by receipts from charity per-
formances arranged by both Japanese
and foreigners. The sympathy and con-
tributions from the United States have
made a profound impression on the Jap
anese people. The government will also
alleviate the situation by setting aside
money for engineering works in the af-
fected district thus affordng employment
for the sufferers and placing money in
circulation.
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Notwithstanding armed with lances
have just been introduced in the
- Mexican army by President Huerta
Parading through Mexico City. few
days ago. they presented striking spec
tacle along the Paseo de la Reforma, the
Alameda, San Francisco street. Bucareii
and other main thoroughfares. II was
generally remarked that these lancers.
all picked men. would be very efficient
means of keeping order in the capitai.
The lancer corps was formed by Gen
Carlos Eincon Gallardo. inspector gen
eral of the famous rurales. and chief OF
the guarda-bosaues. the rural guard OF
Chapultepec Park and castle: also a reia-
lively new corps. formed in the last days
Of Porfirio Diaz. The lancers are still
under the orders of the minister of the
interior, for police service. but it is said
that President Huerta intends to turn
them over to the war department for
service in the regular army.
Great care was taken in selecting the
uniforms and equipment Of the new corps.
and number of European uniforms and
lances were tried out. 1t was hnaiiy de-
cided that the British model, as used IN
India and other British tropical posses
sions, was the most serviceable. chleily
for climatic reasons. Uniforms, lances of
bamboo. helmets and the rest of the
equipment were all ordered from England,
and the whole appearance OF the lancers
is decidedly British colonial. The BRUSH
colony in Mexico City was naturally
pleased with the selection, which is re-
garded as a distinct compliment to Eng
land.
The drilling OF the new corps. which
represents the pick of the Chapultepec
guards, arouses the liveliest interest
among the people. and is witnessed, near
the grounds oil the castle. by admiring
| crowds in which the .'peiado,' as the
peon is called, is naturally conspicuous.
People wonder whether President Huerta
wants to send them TO the front in the
north especially as he has of late limited
/ that he means to take the field himself
| once more but it is generally thought
| that they are to be kept in the federal
| district, for special service.
The contrast between these lancers of
the British type and the old rurales. with
! their national "charro" costumes is very
striking If the rurales recall the pic
1uresaue garb of the old-time Mexican
| gentleman, the hidalgo of !Andaiusan
| "reminiscences with embroidered jacket.
| slit or tight trousers. sugar-ioaf hat and
sash. these newcomers of the Mexican
army suggest the business-fke way of
! the Anglo-Saxon. Not that the rura es
do not know their business extremely
! well. but their picturesque attire. at first
sight, does not convey the fearful odds
| they take and the terror they strike into
| the heart of the enemy. The CLINT of
| those lances, on the other hand. and the
grim expression which the British helmet
| strap across the face gives the horseman.
leave no doubt as to the nature of his
| duty.
| The lancers are very well mounted and
are of course. expert horsemen. While
| the handling of the lance is quite new
| thing to them, they are rapidly becoming
familiar with the new weapon. 1t recalls
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st. Patrick tucked his toga around him
self and lighted a good cigar.
lis simple, he seZ to get all wurrk
done if We know how to. go about 1t.
Dim going to arrange fer the extermina-
ton of various things and git the contract
jobs while the wurrk is warm.
And We're the snakes extermnated?
demanded the Observer
The contractor assumed an injured air.
He seemed to feel that his profession
had been attacked
Sure not" he replied. coldly DO We
think that any good contractor would
Spite all his future jobs by endin the
source of his income? There's snakes
left"
Ever see any" asked the Observer
The contractor shook his head.
But / believe in EN-, all the same,
he replied, cannily.
Now. with St. Patrick listed as a myth.
contractor and a prohibitionist, the
Observer felt reasonably sure that he
had done a good job. There didn't seem
to be much else left in the way of spec
ulation. But, as always happens when
you think your work is over. there was
another source of information which he
had inadvertently overlooked.
In one of Washington's highest office
buildings there is an Irish geologist. A
geologist, you know, is man who scouts
around for rocks that are hidden two OF
three thousand feet beneath the earth s
surface. and who comes up periodically
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reaching for his hat and getting close to
the door. TN bet your theory will run
a poor last when a final poll is taken.
And then he left the great man still
noddng his great dome sagaciously and
brooding over the strange ways of bron-
tasauruses and other creatures of long
dead ages
The only way out of it seemed to be to
consult the snakes themselves. If any
body was going to be authoritative. II
ought to be the snakes.
So out to the Zoo the Observer went.
And in far corner of the main animal
house he discovered, coiled up in peace
full sleep. the oldest RATHER in the es-
tablishment. Nobody knows how old
that RATHER is. The RATHER doesn't know
himself. He is a rheumatic, sad-eyed
snake, who seems to have grown weary
of everything. But he is philosopher.
Il have come" said the Observer. re-
spectfully, Ito ascertain the truth of the
old story about st. Patrick driving the
snakes out of Ireland:"
The snake lifted one lidless black eye
and tear trickled down his cheek.
why do you want to rub it in?" he
asked.
Pardon me- said the Observer,
touched by the reptiles display of feel
ing, Il didn't know it was such tender
subject
The snake sighed
II suppose l might as well tell you.
he replied. THAT is a gross libel or
course we left when ST. Patrick came,
but''-and the snake uncoiled a couple
of wards of himself and stretched up
ward proudly-'.we didn't have to leave.
We left because we wanted to leave
Then the authorized version is that
you didn't like Ireland
I'VE didn't like the Irish,'' replied the
RATHER. Somehow a snake and an
Irishman never get along. They seem to
have no use for us. l remember my
father telling me that you never could
do anything to placate an Irishman.
when ST. Patrick came along and an
nounced that we would have to get out
we took the only dignified course that a
snake could have taken. We left. We
jumped into the sea mostly and swan to
the nearest land we could find-that is.
those of us who could swim
The snake paused and shook tear
from his eye.
..It was a sad day for snakes. he con-
Guided But it is always a source of
comfort to me to know that We could
have stayed if we had wanted to-.
Are there any Of you left in Ireland?
asked the Observer.
search me-" replied the RATHER. But
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the Snakes of

way And il there's any one that APP
peals particularly to you you can paste II
in your hat and stick by it.
This is merely a list of the theories on
St Patrick's snake-killing reform. Tou
pay your money and. take Your choice.
ROBBIE HILL.
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! will say that if there are any snakes
left | imagine they are either stuffed in
museum or are in some reptile insane
asylum
And there you are
You can take your choice OF the YER
sions. Each one of them is true in its