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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-23

heavy and dull. twitching eyelids,
itching OF the nose, itching Of the
rectum, short dry cough, grinding Of
the teeth. little red points sticking
out on tongue. starting during sleep,
slow fever.
Or. True's Elixir. the so years time
tried Family Laxative and Worm Elk
peller. will expel the worms and re-
store the vim and vigor to your
child. Good for adults also. Dis
covered by my father over so years
ago. 35c. soc and sl.O0 al all deal
ers. Advice tree Special treat
ment for tapeworms. Send for book.
kUburn. 0si>s &1> fJnI.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-23

Signs OF worms are: In
digestion, variable APP
petite, craving FOR sweets
nausea, vomiting. swol-
len upper lip. sour stom-
ach, offensive breath.
hard and full belly. eyes
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-23

To guard that cough or
cold. Don't wait until 1t is too late
before taking something. The best
thing We know of Is our cough syrup
or Phospho-Qufnine tablets. They
check a common cold before Il leads
TO something more serious and often
times save good sized doctors bill.
ID. A Ward. druggist. Main s;
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-23
To Mothers

You should give your children
Father johns Medicine whcn they
have cough or are run down, te-
cause Il is a pure and wholesome
food medicine which Will give them
new strength to fight off tbs dis
ease. Father John'e Medicine is
a safe medicine Ser children because
il euntaine no alcohol nor dangerous
drugs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-23
To tire Ladies' of Bennington and
Vicinity

! am ready to make Ladies' and
Gentlemens Garments for Spring and
Summer. Also alterations. cleaning
and pressing at reasonable prices.
NATHAN LEVIN
80 North ST. Tel, 2ei-W
NoWs THE TIME
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-23
Worms Sap Chi'dteH'S Health

Mothers often wonder why their
children are not rugged and hardy.
In y vast numbe- OF cases the trouble
is-Worms.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-23
THE EVENING BANNER

Entered at the Postoffice, Benning-
ton, Vt, Dec. II, 1903, as
second class mail matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23

ceptible tilt of her nose when she comes into contact with more humble members of her class. Her wages, however, are no higher.
 The British barmaid reaches the top of her career" at "A, enters upon decline and is too old for the busi- ness at 30. Unless she has been fortu- nate enough to marry or to inherit property, her prospects for the future are, to say the least, discouraging. The problem for social workers is to find something for her to do when she can no longer tend bar. At this dis tance, one doesn't see why a competent barmaid who is industrious, honest and sober," cannot get some other kind of job if she really wants one. Per haps, after the somewhat brisk career of bar tending, more prosaic duties do not appeal to her. At any rate, up filters" have another problem to con- sider in the person of the British bar maid and the more problems "uplift- ers' have to wrestle with the better pleased they are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
An Important Husbandry

In the development of Alaska Uncle Sam is taking special interest in the preservation and the increase of the reindeer of that territory. Repeated reports to the effect that the reindeer herds are deteriorating and the ani- mals diminishing in number caused the government to make a special in- vestigation of the condition of the ani- mals and the announcement is now made that the herds of last year in creased 23 per cent with the warranted anticipation that the increase this year will be upon greater ratio.
 At the last moment the government stepped in to preserve the buffalo, but the reindeer are of far more value both commercially and as domestic asset than ever were the bison of the plains. Experts are united in the opinion that from a mere medium of livelihood the reindeer will become the means of prosperity and the source of wealth.
 The original stock of these animals was brought from Siberia and the pro- geny have greatly improved in quail ity as Alaska is found to be much more favorable habitat for the deer than was their old domain. The eli mate is not so vigorous and the pas turage is more nutritious while the extended ranges for the herds, which average more than 700 animals each, render as negligible deterioration by interbreeding.
 The government now owns nearly 4000 reindeer, the missions more than 5000, the Laps nearly 5000 and the Eskimos and Indians about 31 ,OOO. The industry last year realized about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
The Cost of the Conflict

It is always best to take time by the forelock and while it is ardently hoped that the present difficulty with Mexico will be settled without a pro- longed struggle the question of the financial side of the matter has to be considered in the event of war.
 Our brief brush with Spain cost us s425. 5.000, 900, but the Dingley tariff was then in operation and it was an excellent revenue producer. Congress took from the revenues derived from this tariff and the internal revenue service the sum of $50,000,000, and provided for the remainder of the war expenses by doubling the tax on beer and tobacco and imposing tax on legacies, stamps and cheques.
 Up to now the receipts under the present tariff law have not quite met expectations It was thought that the tariff would produce s267 100000, the internal revenue s322 100000, sale of public lands s5,00ooOO and miscella- neous receipts $52,00O,O 900, making a total of s646,OOO,OOO. The expenses of the government were put at STA, 790,- GOO, not including the postal service, and this left a deficit of nearly $69,- 900. 900, which it was estimated would be covered by the income tax, placed at s7O,O00,O00
 It is a foregone conclusion that the congressional appropriations will ex- ceed the estimates and the income tax has fallen short of expectationsjso that a deficit is inevitable, even with out war. Experts declare that stamp tax, similar to the one enacted to help out in the Spanish war, would yield s75,000,000; that double tax on to- bacco and beer would bring in $65,- 100000, and doubling the income tax would yield $1O0OOO,O ,O0O Such taxa tion would total in revenues a little more than half of the cost of the Spanish war
 The present generation has paid for the building of the Panama canal as it's expenses were met from the or dinary revenues of the government, and it would be asking too much of the present generation to place upon it's shoulders the burden of bearing likewise the cost of the threatened war. Posterity should be required to take care of that and Congress should. and probably will meet the occasion, should it arise, by legislation for an adequate bond issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
British Barmaids

To the average American who has never travelled abroad the barmaid is. so to speak, an unknown quantity. He has read of her, no doubt, in pleas ing romances of England, Scotland and Ireland, in which. she is usually de- scribed as "rosy checked lass" per haps with a glint of mischief in her eye and a trim figure.
 However, some statistics compiled by the Woman's Industrial News show that the British barmaid does not lead an ideal existence by any means and, worse still, when her "career" is ended at about. 30 years of age she has mo- where to go but the streets. There is no place for her in the economic scheme of things. There are now 22,- 900 women employed in Great Britain as barmaids. About one-half of them are between Is and 25 years of age. The barmaid is no longer common in Ireland or Scotland, although she is still deemed indispensable in England. The barmaid is working girl of the average type, industrious, honest and sober" After a girl has learned the business her wages range from $3 to $3.50 a week and her keep. The ho- tel barmaid is the 'aristocrat" among barmaids, and there is doubtless per-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
: The lnlted States Armx

The regular army is in a higher state of efficiency today, perhaps, than at any time in it's history" said an old citizen who has long, been in touch with military affairs.
 The unpreparedness of this country in so far as its military forces were concerned when the Spanish American war started was very generally re- marked. We learned lesson from that experience which has been to our decided benefit. Much has been done for sanitary betterment, and if we nave an army of occupation in Mex leo for any length of time the death rate from disease will be small Dur ing the past 10 years the enlisted men of the army have been selected with great care, and it is safe to say that in point of personnel our regulars are unequalled either in character or in- telligence by those in European na- tions.
 Major General Leonard Wood who has been chief of staff four years, goes back to division command, being sue ceeded as chief by Brigadier General W. w. Wotherspoon, who had been
  General Woods assistant. There was good deal of criticism of President Roosevelt for advancing General Wood as rapidly as he did, and jumping him over the heads of old West Pointers. but he has proved to be very able man. He won his spurs as fight ing man in Cuba. Up to the time of the Spanish American war he had been in the medical corps. He entered the army from Massachusetts with the commission of assistant surgeon m 1886. Although he has served as chief of staff, he is still nearly 10 years un- der the retirement age.
 General Wotherspoon was born in Washington, D. C., and was appointed second lieutenant of infantry from civil life in 1873. It seems somewhat remarkable that notwithstanding the large number of officers of the army who have graduated from West Point, the retiring chief and the new chief of staff were both without early mli- tarV trainingn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF WAR

Hamilton Fyfe in the London Times.
 In Vera Cruz as well as in the capi- tai the press gang had been busy, seiz- ing men off the streets to be soldiers, so that the army might be brought up to something like it's nominal strength. It is because he is obliged to resort to such method of recruiting that Gen eral Huerta has failed to make his po- sition good. He showed his unfitnes, to govern by not realizing that he could do nothing without a real army. It would have paid him to let the revo- lutionists alone for six months while he trained a certain number of troops with the help of American or European instructors and sergeants Then he could have wiped out the rebel forces in one or two engagements, and the rest would have melted away Let me give an example of what happens now.
 On a Sunday at the beginning of November-to be accurate. the second of the month"; was watching General Velasco's brigade entrain at Saltillo for Torreon. I asked the general if he meant to start that day No, not that day. Very shortly. Perhaps tomorrow. It made no difference that the troops were in their cars ana vans They are to live in trains. Their wives are taken along. too. to act as army service corps. They would never
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
Talks About White su,nbur

Albert D. Cushing, assistant man. ager of the White hotel at White Sul- phur Springs. W. Va, is in Birmingham He said yesterday that he noticed marked improvement in the city since his first visit about a year ago.
 Birmingham makes a fine impress sion on stranger" said Mir. Cushing Tt is going ahead at rapid rate, and it unquestionably has a great future.
 White Sulphur Springs is one of the oldest and most famous resort places in the United States. It had q wide reputation in ante- bellum days, when the rich planters and business men and statesmen from all sections of the south came there with their famil- ies for the summer. It has changed hands several times, but it was always fashionable resort; and for several years past the flower of northern, western and southern society has been fully represented there, In former years the White was kept open only during the summer season, but now it is. open all the year round. We had large crowd last year, and there are hundreds of guests there now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
the Cincinnati Enquirer.

run thc NiucihIidtl hHqulfef.
 When a woman Is in doubt whether to do some housekeeping or attend bar gain sale, she never makes up her m1nd which to do until after she has boarded a street car.
 Some people hate to take advice even when they pay for it.
 The old-fashioned man who used to stay home at night and read books now has a son who stays down town at night and reads programmes and menu cards.
 Importantly Is always knocking at your door, but Opportunity is mighty bashfui
 The reason why a man gets so sleepy In church is because he can be so wide awake at a fatted calf display in the atre.
 It takes woman who hasn't any to know ell about raising children.
 Fast friends will always make man slow up.
 A man can always see a thing from a different point of view after his wife makes up her mind
 The Reformers say d lot of mean things about booze. But the worst thing we can say about 1t is that it makes men imagine they can sing.
 The man who wears a celluloid collar may be a good citizen, but he always smells as though he had spent the nixht in . bag of moth balls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
NOT sO JOyfAL THEN

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
 After all, the train was only 40 min utes behind time, so the stationmaster was perfectly justified in feeling pleased with himself, the railway and the world in general.
 A solitary waiting passenger was nor bidly weighing himself on an automa tic machine, and when he stepped off it the jovial official proceeded to talk to him.
 Wonderful thing. the railway system, sir,' he chirped 'I do really believe that even the general public is at last begin ming to realize the marvellous improve ments that have taken place on this line in recent years.'
 That's true" answered the morbid e
 1 know of no line that has so many things constantly in the public eyes as this one.
 The stationmaster was delighted. 'I am more than glad to hear you say that. sir he chuckled. rubbing his hands together. And would you mind naming them?'
 The waiting passenger looked pensveIy down the platform
 'Cinders! said he.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23

Spo-Pe, known as the Indian Man of Mystery an inmate of the criminal di- vision Of the Government Hospital for the Insane at Washington, broke a silence of more than 32 years, which had been self-imposed. Spo-Pe was arrested for the murder of trader at Fort Wayne. near Detroit in 1882 He was adjudged insane and sent to the Government hos pital in the same year. Ever since then he has refused to speak, his silence being as convincing proof of an unsound mind. Mrs. Malcomb Clark, herself a member of a Blackfoot tribe, was a recent wis., itor at the hospital where Spo-Pe is con fined Being told that there was an Indian prisoner there, she asked to see him and tried to make him talk. The silent Spo-Pe made no reply until she began to croon to him in baby talk, called by the Indians "the language of little people" Then the stern warriors heart was melted and he spoke for the first time since his imprisonment. Spo-Pe is no longer believed insane, and the fact that his crime was committed to avenge the death of his mother may result in his release.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23

The sacking of Kuangchow in south- eastern Honan. China, is described in a graphic manner by the Shanghai corre- spondent of the London Times. Kuan- chow had population of about 100, GOO, and consisted of two walled cities on either side of a river When White Wolfs' brigands were reported to be drawing near the terrified people manned the walls, but the crafty chief sent his followers into the town disguised and the attack began simultaneously within and without the city. Nearly all the defend- CTS on the walls were killed The rob- bers were let into Kuanchow by their confederates and ran through the streets, shooting as they advanced. In one day more than 1000 inhabitants were butch cred including the magistrate, who was soaked with kerosene and burned. The wealthy families were wiped out of exist ence and their houses burned. In an ad- joining market town the people dared to fire two rusty old canno at the invad- CTS. The whole population men, women and children, were killed with the ex- ception of two boys, who escaped and told the story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
ToMoRRow-TRIAL OF MAMMALIAN

and early summer are delightful. The movement for more daylight is a proof that the blessings of long days are appre- ciated.
 Cleveland's crusade for change of time was animated by similar motives. The method of reform was however, much simpler. It is doubtful if Cleveland or any other American city would con sent to a semi-annual change of time. The change must be made definite and un- broken
 It is not clear that the reversion to later hours during the winter is desir- able The 6O-minute difference would work no hardship to anyone. There is not enough daylight in an English win ter to make the saving of it matter of much moment. but backward shift from the established time of summer would be a mere annoyance without any compensating benefit. The daylight en- thusiasts might stand a better chance of success were they to demand an ar bitrary and final change rather than an adjustable arrangement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23

S70,000 and the value of the animals is placed at over three-quarters of a million dollars.
 Just as soon as Uncle Sam has suc- ceeded in his object of aeclimating the reindeer he will divest himself of all ownership in the animals which will be turned over to the natives. The distribution will be made by the United States school teachers and will be begun just as soon as the natives show the proper qualification for in- dividual ownership.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
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A MONEY SAVING PRIMER

From the Chicago News.
 Occasionally bank managed by men of enterprise puts out booklet of very great interest to people who don't know the technique of banking. l wish that more of them would do it!
 One of these booklets explaining the simplest facts about making money and then making money earn more money has this catechism:
 How do people make money? Through their labor and the products of labor. ing less than they earn.
 What is the secret of money making ? The real secret is the saving of money. for saving money is the first step toward making money.
 What is essential to saving money? Making a start, no matter how small. Every penny saved helps to save an- other.
 ''Is it the duty of every one to save money? Yes. By doing this one need never be dependent upon others for food or clothing and in time of sickness saved money will be great comfort.
 ''Why should children save money? Be- cause it teaches them the value of money; it's care and uses.
 why should parents save? In addition to always having ready money for emer- gencies by this means the children may be educated or later started in busi- ness.
 What is the lesson for all? To save for the benefit the habit brings to save for the children; for business propriety; for old age; for individual comfort, and for the happiness of dependent ones''
 At bottom nothing is more simple than making money saving it and making the savings increase. As the average man and woman hears them discussed, how ever. these topics are buried in a be- wldering tangle of strange words and terms So I welcome every primer talk on money and saving come across.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
Appreciation of Music Festival

There is nothing that is more educa- tional in it's nature" said H. c. Maynard, vice president of the Sherwood Music school, than bringing the large orches- tras to a community so that the students of music may have the opportunity of hearing them.
 I am glad to see that those in charge or the coming music festival are enlist ing the attention of the students of the various schools as well as the teachers. It Is a move in the right direction, and one that is calculated to do a great deal or good The large orchestras present the best music in the most finished manner. and the student derives no end of benefit from hearing them. The Sherwood Music school is heartily in sympathy with the May festival movement, and will CO., operate in every way with the manage ment to make it a success. l hope that not single pupil of the school will miss the chance to hear the St. Louis orches- tra under Mr Zach. It is one of the finest of the large orchestras and the conductor is one of the most finished in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
"GATH IS DEAD"
NA III lG DEfN D From the Dayton Journal.


 Gath" is dead. Do you remember "Gath?" For many years the New York papers and the Enquirer particularly, published his observations on men and things. He was real newspaper man. His sentences scintillated. His style was perfect His word pictures were marvels of luminosity. His learning was great. His energies were as those of a dyna mo- His charm was irresistible.
 But Gath" is dead. The veteran nas answered to the call of the great editor His work here is done. Time was when his peh was powerful to command, to in- fiuence, to move the hearts of multituaes He would dig from the wisdom of the past to illustrate the present He was so versatile that he challenged the admira- tion and the wonder of those who knew him best. His mind was a storehouse or ready information; his observation keen analytical; his judgment sound
 But Cath is dead.
 George Alfred Townsend C'Gath') was widely known as journalist and author for years, but the new day and the inevitable weight of years crowded him from the stage. He died the other day at the age of 7s. too young for such a man to leave the stage; but perhaps he could not bear the accumulated burdens of the years.
 Who now remembers his Katy of Cat octin?" It was a fine book He wrote others-books and essays and current comment. How much of it will live? Not much He gave the best of himself to the papers he served, to the discussion Of the burning. passing, ephemeral questions of the day and the hour
 Always there is something pathetic iI, the passing of such characters. Kate Field left us nothing really permanent and worth while, and yet she was the brightest Wpman of her day.
 The old actor totters to the -footlighss ss for his final bow: he moves toward the wings of the stage with reluctant feet and slow; he is oppressed by memories and by the torture of desires impossible of full fillmeht; he turns for d moment, with the ghost of a smile; and then the curtain falls.
 Cath" is dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
IN APRIL

By Clanton Scollard. April OCT the land, and the loosened
 waters Lifting. laughing. under the buoyant
 sunrise. Mirthful still when softly the violet twi-
 light Shadows the hill crestsl April OCT the land, and the robin's music Welling. flutelike, out of the maple bough
 tops, While the bluebird. gay with its wings
 of azure, Quavers in answer. April OCT the land. and the gold of cow
 slips Cleaning. glowing bright in the greenine
 marshes And the fragile pink of the shy spring
 beauty Dimping the wood slopes! April OCT the land, and the heart awak-
 ened. Stirred again with all of the olden rap-
 ture. Thrali of joy, and worshipping at the
 shrine of Beauty immortal!