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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
WEST RUPERT

Charles Sherman went to Troy on
business Thursday
Mrs. Maria Beebe has been visiting
friends in town recently.
Ralph Clark and family went to Bur
lington by auto Tuesday
Mrs L. Vail, who has been visiting
her son E. d. Vail and other friends
left for West Rutland Thursday.
Gustaye Wood and wife were the
guests at NJ. d. Flowers Monday.
Mrs. Clara Nelson, who has been
very sick for the past two weeks is
reported bette
d. DR.. Orton OF Salem was called in
consultation with DR.. Mckenzie of
Granville on the case of Norman
Morehouse Monday evening his case
is not favorable one.
Fred Fisher, who works for Duane
Flower while oiling machinery last
Saturday sawed his wrist very badly.
1t was dressed by Or. Orton and is
doing we'll.
The hunting season is on and many
are the reports of those who came
very near making one a victim to his
quick aim and suppose the deer are
exulting in the fact that miss is as
good as mile
Although last Saturday evening
was a rainy one over 70 dollars was
taken in by the ladies OF the Deciple
church. Splendid recitation were en-
joyed by all present.
Just as we are about to start for
tho Office we hear of deer being
wounded in the hip by Dan Wood in
Kent Hollow Now if your correspon-
dent does not get piece of venison
this year YOU need not expect quick
reports of the big shots made.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
DORSET

Mr. and Mrs. Theophile Comba are
spending several days out Of town.
Miss Nella Anthony is guest Of
Miss Gray of Church street
The marriage of Mrs. Ida Towsley
to Merritt Wilkins occurred last
week. kTWyr
Mrs. George II. Gilbert and daught-
err, Dorothy. are spending a month at
Cambridge, Mass.
Berniss Kinno and a party of sew
eral men from Manchester visited
the cave on Mt. Aeolus Thursday
The 4th annual agricultural exhibit
Of the Grange occurred Friday and
Saturday at the hall.
The Boy Scouts met Friday even
ing at the church vestry and held
their first meeting under the direction
of Rufus S. Gilbert.
Harley Thompson and son Gordon
of Pawlet were in town Friday. They
have the agency for 1915 REQ cars.
Miss Anthony and Mrs F. +. Gil
bert were guests OF Mrs. Clifton
Kent at Friday eve tea.
Mrs. Rescue Wilson of Hebron
spent a portion of the week with he.
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Peltier.
MIR. and Mrs. F. G.. Stone of the
West hill road motored to Pawlet
Thursday to call on relatives.
Deer hunters are watchfully wait
ing the opening season. Many fine
buck have been seen in this vicinity
A. A. Roberts exhibited the first
wild cat and claimed his 81 bounty
on Saturday at the town treasurer's
Office.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
BABIES IN ASHANTI.
They Go Through Trying Ordeal In
Getting a Name.

They Go Through Trying Ordeal In
Getting Name.
When children are born in Ashanti
they are at once rubbed all over with
Il mixture OF oil and red ocher. this
being repeated every two days. Their
mouths are washed with fiery con
coction In which red pepper is the
main ingredient and crier goes
through the town proclaiming the new
arrival and claiming for IL maine aud
a place among the living.
Some one else is distant part Of the
village acknowledges the fact and
promises. on the part of the people,
that the newborn babe shall be re-
ceived into the community. The towns
people then assemble In the streets,
and the baby is brought out and ex-
posed 10 view.
Next basin of water is provided.
and the head man. or chief of the
town. sprinkles water upon it. leaving
it name and invoking blessing
upon il. such as. for instance. that it
may have health. grow up TO manhood
or womanhood. have Numerous prog
eny and possess riches.
Most of those present follow the ex'
ample OF the head man. and the poor
child is thoroughly drenched before
the ceremony is ended. Every one
who participates in the ceremony
pledges himself To be Il friend 70 the
child. London Standard.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
PERU

Snow whitened the ground for the
first time this fall on Sunday night.
A. T. Wyman is seriously i'll at the
home of his niece, Mrs. Alvin Jones.
Mrs. +. G. Wyman spent last week
in Chester with Dr. and Mrs. C. w.
Ray.
Frank Lord of New York spent Sun
day with his son Malcolm at their
place here.
Most of the voters were out on
Tuesday election day and NJ J. Hap
good was reelected representative.
w. j. Farnum returned to his home
in Newport, r. Il, on Wednesday of
last week having spent few days
with his son, ]. Z. Farnum.
NJ. J. Hapgood has men working on
the cement foundation for his house
which he plans TO rebuild on the same
site of the one burned.
Schools closed on Friday TO a two
weeks vacation. On Saturday after
noon the children were entertained
by Mrs. Wood at the parsonage with
stereoptlcan pictures.
The subject of the sermon at the
Congregational church has been an
nounced by the pastor as THE Ark
The subject of the c. L. meeting at
100 Sunday evening will be Magnify
the C. E. pledge" and the leader will
be Harlan Blodgett. The subject OF
the mid-week prayer meeting on
Thursday evening will be The Great
American Evil.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
WEALTH AND WELCOME.
A Story That illustrates Very Com
mon Way of the World.

mon way OF the Worid.
A young merchant went abroad and
after many years, having made large
fortune. returned 10 his native land.
When he reached home he found that
his relatives had gone to feast at a
country house Il few miles away. He
was so eager TO see them that We did
got take the trouble TO change fits
clothes and was wearing the things
he had used on board the ship coming
home.
When he entered the large hall
where the guests were all assembled
his cousins showed very little pleasure
at the sight of him 1t was plain 10
them that ne had come back a poor
man. A young negro who had accom-.
panied him from abroad was quite up
set by their coolness TO his master and
said, They must all be very bad men
10 receive you so cruelty
wait minute" whispered the mer-
chant. land you will see change in
their looks"
He quietly put a fine diamond ring
on his finger, and, 10. every face began
to smile, and they pressed at once
around him and called him Cousin
William"
Has simple gold ring the power TO
charm people like this?" asked the
black servant in perplexity.
1T is not that" replied his master.
sbut the ring is worth good sum.
and they guess from it that am rich.
and riches are dearer TO them than
anything"
What deluded men" exclaimed the
negro. ",rhey think more or yellow
metal and piece of glass than all my
masters virtues and loving kindness.
Baltimore News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
Our Sunar.

The FIRST beet sugar factory In the
United States was erected in Philadel.
phia In 1890 1t did not prove a sue
cess and was dismantled. The first
successful beet sugar factory was
built in 1870 ut Alvarado. Cal This
factory was in operation until 1918.
when it closed cOHn. 1t is estimated
that SlO0OO00O0 is now Invested in
the sugar beet industry OF this conn
try. The sugar supply OF the Amer
lean people is drawn from three main
sources These are: Domestic beet SUI
ar produced IN seventeen states frum
Ohio in the east to California in the
west; domestic cane sugar produced in
Louisiana. Hawaii. Porto Rico and the
Philippines; imported cane sugar pro
duced in Cuba. -Argonaut.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
THE COLOR OF GOLD.
It's Shade of yellow Depends Upon the
Metal Used In Alloy.

us 0Uduc OF tclOW DcPcUuo OPOH Aic
Metal Used In Alloy.
Gold that is used in jewelry and
coins is always alleged with copper or
sometimes, MS in the former. with sill
yer. addition of copper makes the
color the popular golden yellow" or
angc or reddish gold. Silver turns gold
pale yellow. We seldom see pure gold.
but il has that indcscribable yellow
that so often fascinateS
The pure metal is so malleable that
il can be beaten between strips of vel.
lum into sheets O-hundred and.fifty
ihousandths OF an inch in thickness. In
this form it is transparent and trans
mits green light.
When very finely divided gold is sUs.
pended in liquid by precipitation
from Il solution it transmits green ligh,
similar TO that of the leaf gold. Yet ~
ordinary well dffused light II seems
purple, FOR this is the color II reflects
In other words IL u light Is placed be
hind jar containing liquid with goiu
in fine suspension il looks green. where
rs if the light is placed in front or ~
the side the color is purple. The vapor
from boiling molten gold Is also purple
What, then. is the real color of Soldy
The color OF substance depends on
its ability TO reflect only light OF that
color, which In turn is due to the ar.
rangement of the molecules. 1t seems,
then. even tue simple mechanical
changes which we mentioned before as
altering the physical properties are ac.
companied by radical chanses among
the molecules as far as their mutual IL
lationships are concerned New York
World
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
SUNS AND THE UNIVERSE.
And the Theory Of One Great Central
Blazing Orb.

And the Theory Of One Great Central
Blazing Orb.
That very high, imposing. mathe-
maticaIly proved science-celestial me
chanics-demonstrates that there is no
necessity for colossal. dominating
central sun. The idea of a central sun
controlling the entire sidereal universe
was advanced by whata called meta
physicians. totally opposite in nature
from mathematicians. Fer one guesses;
the other either proves or admits that
be cannot
II the universe is finite Ii has a pre-
else center. Photos of the entire
celestial vault reveal at least 100000
600 giant suns, our sun being one Of
the smaller. And these or some of
them are known to be two quadrillion
miles apart Mechanics know that
the entire congefies of suns has cen.
ter Of gravity. And 1t knows that this
center of gravitation. even II empty
end void. dominates all motions of all
the millions OF suns around 1t.
But all suns move as bees in
swarm, and no such immense body has
been sensed in space. Kapteyn's dis.
covery of drifting of suns in opposite
directions may indeed be the beginning
Of a discovery of rotation around
center, but the rotation would as well
he maintained If the center is an abso-
lutte vacuum.
IL the universe is infinite it has no
center. and the above line of argument
backed by rigid mathematics cannot
apply.-Edgar Lucien Larkin in New
York American.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11

See here complained the man rs
he walked up to the proprietor OF the
clothing store. II have only had this
suit two weeks. and it looks rusty al
ready"
We'll" said the proprietor. did the
salesman guarantee the suitT'
He did" replied the man. He said
it would wear like iron"
We'll" replied the man. ut did.
didn't itT'-Clncinnati Enquirer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
The Farmer Mus, Be Trained

Today the advanced tiIler Of the soil
must come mp 10 his calling as fully
equipped for service as the lawyer. the
editor. the doctor. the captain of indus,
try. for The curious fact has developel
that the calling in which the unlettered
and unframed man was once supposed
to have as good a chance as tue edn
Gated one Is now the calling in which
wide and varied knowledge Is as I'm
perative as is almost any other known
among men.-W =. Harwood.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
All Answered.

"well. Jean, are YOU content about
your examination
Yes. grandpa; ! answered all the
questions
And how did you answer themT
81 answered that ! didn't know
Paris Rirc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
A Hot One.

He-Girls are queer creatures; they
marry the first fool who asks them. az
a rule | suppose you'd do the same.
wouldn't YOU: She-SuppOse you ask
the and lind out Boston Transcript
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11

To slice BEGAN properly always place
It rind down and do not attempt 10
cut through the rind. When you have
the desired number OF slices slip the
knife under them aud cut them tree
from the rind. keeping as close 10 it rs
uoSsihie
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
Tommv,s share.

We'll. Tommy. what part OF tbs
chicken will you haveY'
why. paw. you know I always taxa
The back wber there's company. ST
Louis Republic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11

Have you ever felt the relief of
wearing perfect fitting glasses? If
not our new Fits U Eye glasses will
be a revelation of comfort to YOU.
Proper fitted glasses at proper prices.
Or. solomon's Optical Parlor, SOC
Main ST., Bennington. Vt, Hours to
S daily.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11

Golfer playing his second round IL
the dayi-into this bcastly bunker
Nsain. cadlie, Catdic-No. sir. TIL.
= the ore ron missed this morning
london Punch.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
caus, Of III. Death.

Alkaii Ike-And 50 slippery sam
died with bis boots on. ehs Broncho
Bili-No: he died with my boots on.
That's how he came to die Exchange.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11
BOY HUNTER KILLED
Received Charge From Shotgun In
Heart

The accidental discharge Of a shot.
gun late yesterday killed Wellington
Braytou, Is years old. near his home
at Assembly Point Lake George.
Brayton and a companion had been
hunting muskrsts from a boat. On
their return home Brayton laid the
gun on the wharf u went off and
the charge struck tho boy in the
heart.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-11-11

In bad fortune bold out; in good bold
IN. German Prpverb.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-28
A Matter of Choice.

Criminologists will doubtless discuss
for long time the remarkable case OF
Lawrence Robinson, and possibly may
present an array OF bewildering facts to
account for his self-destruction. An
other class, as gifted with brains as are
criminologists, will reach the practical
conclusion that Robinson merely pre-
Tered suicide to electrocution. 1t was
a matter of choice.
When man such as Robinson finds
there is no escape from death at the
hands OF the law he does not hesitate to
suicide. Escape from the clut-
ches OF the law, evidently, was impos-
sible, to Robinson's mind, and suicides
death to him was less dishonorable and
easier than an execution.
Every one will agree that Robinson's
death saves the county considerable
trouble and expense. The only legal
point unsettled in this case was that
raised by counsel for the defendant
that Robinson was justified in
arrest in the way he did, This
point, sent to the highest court, might
have prolonged Robinson's life many
months. What merit, if any, the point
has may never be settled in this state
as it is a rarity in murder
trials Boston Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-28
Scenes Are Changed.

No man is to be hanged for inconsist-
ency, but there il very laughable side
to Col. Roosevelt's present war upon
William Barnes and the Progressive
praise of ex-Stste Senator Human as
having been stanch Hughes man in the
days when Justice Hughes was putting
through his reforms at Albany. In 1908
and early in 1909, when Hughes doomed
up as the one obstacle to the colonePs
plan of handling over the Republican
nomination to Mr.. Taft, this same
BOSS" Barnes was engaged in opposing
Hughes, and one of his abettors was no
less person than Theodore Roosevelt.
then president of the United States. In
fact, there is probably more than one
newspaper man who retains in his mind
the now almost ludicrous spectacle Of
William Barnes in the White House Of
fees, hanging on the colonel's shoulder,
he whispered into the colonele delighted
ear secrets that could have had only to
do with the campaign against Hughes.
That was the campaign into which
Barnes went with such heart and soul
that, on the special train carrying his
followers back from Chicago after Taft's
nomination, their animositv was voiced
in a song, led by Barnes, the refrain of
which was "Good-by, Charlie" AT that
time the colonel would probably have
joined in had be been present. But now
the favorite tune at Oyster Bay is
"Good-by. Bill Springfield Republican
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-28
F. H. Rogers & Co.

lowing paragraph: "The world is never
ready for war. Not often has it been
more i'll prepared than now, when all
the energies of the human race are re-
quired to meet the great problems Of
modern industrial and social life, Here
in America we can view the ominous
preparations with comparative compos-
ure, secure in our remoteness from the
scenes OF disturbance and our freedom
from political entanglements OF any
sort. Yet our hope that war will be
ayerted springs not alone from humani-
tartan considerations. From the meal
cuIable losses that would be inflicted by
a general European conflict we could not
hope to escape. Aside from the disturb
ance of the money markets, already
grave, we should have to face an arrest
Of world trade which soon or late would
seriously affect every one of us. For a
time our farmers and manufacturers
might profit by their ability to supply
without interference universal demands
which war does not stop, however much
it may check the agencies of production.
Ultimately. however, we should have to-
pay our share. War not only destroys
all treaties. In its broader results II
destroys all boundary lines, bridges
oceans as well as rivers, makes the whole
world kin in misfortune"
Therefore, distasteful as the task
might be, the United States should place
itself in readiness to do what IL can to-
ward averting the calamity, to use its
good Offices ON the side of mediation and
eventual peace.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-28

Another Illustration of the wanton dis
regard of ordinary demands of humanity
was given by an automobile party whose
machine struck boy bicyclist on the
west side of the state between Rupert
and West Pawlet on Sunday, knocking
the boy from his machine, rendering him
unconscious and breaking one collar hone
and crushing one shoulder and, in spite
of that, driving along without inve,si-
eating the extent of the victims hurts
But prior to such display Of cowarlice
came the exhibition Of road hoggishncss
which denied to the bicyclst enough OF
the road 10 pass the automobile, causi lr
the youth to be struck and thrown con
siderable distance, so that he lay by the
roadside for some time until he had re-
covered consciousness. The double ex-
hibition of lack of those qualities which
go to make a gentleman and a creature
fit to live in human society was given by
four male occupants of the automobile
together with colored chauffeur. II is
reported on fairly reliable authority that
the machine bore the registry number of
another state We hesitate to think
that Vermont autoists would go through
such a performance.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-28
vairs Views.

Theodore y. Vail is New England bus
mess man who is endowed with a lot of
old-fashioned New England glImption
and a generous allowance Of New Eng
land business sense. When he talks be
generally says something. and be does
not indulge in platitudes and point
with pride" and merely call attention to
the great achievements Of the Tel. and
Tel" Sometimes in order to fasten a
fact in the popular mind il is necessary
20 overstate il a trife, and IL may be
that Mr.. Vail has overststed q mighty
important point in the interview he gave
the Independent on the future Of big
business. But in its dealings with big
business the interstate commerce con-
mission Is dealing intimately with the
pockets If all Americans. and for that
reason these words Of Mr.. Walls ham
msr home a fact that q good many have
never thought Of.
= cannot make too emphatic nv b.
lief In TIE necessity 81 The highest ros-
sibie standards for the public service
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-28
The Back Bay 'Bogie."

In most current discussions of the
Availability of candidates for various of
fees, nothing is heard more often than
an allusion to residence in ward | / as an
affirmative disqualification. The man
who is registered in the Back bay has
something "to live down." If he wants
to serve the city or state. The con-
tiguous suburb of Brookline suffers I'M
der something of the same odium.
In yentnring word OF protest
against this prevalent attitude, we do so
with no desire to promote the ambitions
of any ward eleyener who may now be
seeking preferment. But there is com.
mon sense in all things, and we should
speak for it here. Who has searched the
list of directors of our leading banks, or
the trustees of our great charities, or
the sponsors OF our museum of fine arts,
or the supporters of the opera, to see
whether they have too much Back Bay"
in their makeup, Obviously, no one
cares. Nor would any business concern
reject seemingly available man because
he happened TO live in ward H. 1t would
recognize the tendency OF people to
gravitate there, by the operation of
somewhat natural causes. Every body
knows scores of men who started in poll
itics elsewhere, only to find habitation
eventually in the inhibited district. But
are they any the worse therefor?
A tendency has besides been long in
evidence for public men to grayitate
from the interior of the state and from
its two capes, toward the metropolitan
district, Most Of the occupants OF minor
places on the state ticket, or of commits.
sions under the commonwealth, appoint
ed from Fall River, and Fitchburg, and
Greenfield, remain here when their terms
of Office end. And yet efforts are stead
lily made to emphasize distinction
when it comes to Office filling between
this compact area hereabouts and the
rest of the state.
The mans the thing, not his place OF
residence. To recognize this becomes
broad minded citizens, such as those OF
should surely be. IL is
llso important, if the public is to con.
,rol the business of the country 10 so |
arge degree, as now seems probable. |
hat leadership should not be reposed in |
men for reasoning greatly different from
hose which prevail in the practical |
world of affairs Boston Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-28
THE UNITED STATES AS AN
OUTSIDER.

The Austrian and Seryian embroglio
is something in which, fortunately, the
United States cannot take a hand unless
perhaps as a peacemaker, and even such
role may seem 10 some to be remote in
view of the fact that there are other ma
tions more closely related to the situa-
tion both by distance and by community
Of interests. Besides. the government at
Washington did not prove itself very
adept in that role as between the fed
erals and eonstitutionalists in Mexico.
albeit the role was more difficult in that
case because Of the fact that the pur-
poses Of the United States were suspect
Cd Of bias. In the present embroglio
there could not be a like suspicion in
ssmuch a. the United States l. to all in
tents and purposes q disinterested on.
locker in that which might threaten TO
shake Europe TO its foundations.
But while the people Of the United
States may feel a sense Of serene assur-
anos in the crisis. there nevertheless Is a
certain moral responsibility devolvinr
upon the United States and there il a
likelihood that the United States would
rot Be entirely free from the bad effects
q . great European var, Is j. pointed
out b. the New York Globe IN the fol-