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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-31

With the bullets flying and the pig
sQuealing the controversy ragged until
and officer came up, ascertained the
cause Of the trouble and ordered that
the pig be divided between the two
batteries. SO, in extreme bliss, they
Toasted on pork that night.
New Weapon OF Death.
It has been reported and denied
and reported again that the French
are using a novel engine Of war. a gun
which fires turpinite. This substance.
1t ia said, causes instantaneous par
alysis OF every living thing within its
reach. Death is painless
German soldiers have been found
dead in their trenches, standing up
right, kneeling, ready to Are, RELOAD
ing, or in whatever posture they hap
pened to ne when the turpinite killed
them.
The substance and the gun are
shrouded in mystery; but II liz stated
that the enemy ia not killed by nox-
ious fumes. as is the case with lyddite
and other similar explosives.
Unusual to say the least was the
plan by which the Germans main
tanned a spy depot right in the midst
of the enemy for some time before
detection. when they seized a lunatic
asylum in Lorrain, substituted their
own disguised doctors and attendants
and, with French forces all around
them managed to direct the fire of the
German gunners by clever wig-wag
ging with Red Cross flags. When dis
covered. fifteen OF them were executed
Trousers Stumped Her.
For town to have a town crier these
days smacks indeed Of the past: but for
that crier to be n woman Seems dou-
bile cause for surprise. Yet the little
English village OF Chertsey recognizes
woman as It's town -crier. Her hus-
band and son both enlisted and went
post had been in the family for several
generations. the wife felt II her duty
TO do the crying for the town.
But that is not all. A short while
before the outbreak of the war, her
husband had been provided with a
gorgeous Georgian uniform for official
occasions for which the townspeope
had paid $3.50. Was it right that such
a uniform should be packed away and
left to glitter unseen? No, Did the
valiant wife wear it? Ave, she did
that is, she wore the three cornered
hat, the gold braided coat. the plated
shoes and the yellow stockings. But
she found a dark skirt preferable, for
the remainder Of the costume. to the
neither garment which had been pro-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-31

~T}S WAYS, It seems the ways OF
k.G man and the things he does
are amazing; and could man,
- u KIND see composite picture of
h.uasif and his acts, ne might indeed
Ike IA, old woman in her new red
I"t.icoa. crossing the bridge and be-
holding her reflection In the stream
cXclaiH, Gan this be II"
Each year adds its contribution Of
the queer The odd. the astounding, TO
tue chronicle Of man and his amaz-
NIX actions. And not even so mo-
nen,ous a year as 1914-marking as
, does, tho outbreak Of the greatest
war in history--is free from the
TRANCE, the unique, the peculiar.
Indeed, quite to the contrary. it
seems unusually prolific in the matter
~ queer events which could not have
happened hut for the European war.
Even Nv of thcm tend to show what
strange, strange things can occur even
when man is At war with his brother.
A Yankee Bluff.
Take the case of Marius Boron,
formerly chief Inspector of the Paris
police detective force. but in Septem-
Der a Lieutenant-Colon on the staff
Of the general then commanding the
northern section of the Paris fortif1ca-
ions. Single-handcd and alone Boron
captured ninety German prisoners
including eight officers ard six sur
-cons) and a complete field hospital,
|held kitchen and fifteen horses. All
Of which is certainly unique and even
|Smacks OF the impossible.
Yet Ny. Boron did that very thing.
And he did it on sheer Yankee bluff
|of which helpful quality no French
|man is supposed to possess so much
|1S an inkling. lie happened to be
passing through the town Of Senalis
| in his automobile on a tour Of inspec-
ion when ne cry was raised. THE
Germans are coming, The Germans
|lro comng,'
And down the street came car
|riage with a Prussian hussar on the
|hOX. Within. were two officers. Did
| . Boron turn and fee in his high
powered car. Not he, on the con-
| rary. VI. Boron throw out his chest,
assumed his most dictatorial manner
md boldly signalcd the coachman 10
.StCp.
Then he stepped up to the door,
1lung it open and firmly but politely
Informed the two officers that they
we're under arrest. He sternly de-
handed their business in Sonalis.
They replied, in hating French,
ha, they We're in search of place
= which 20 PVT some wounded Ger
nan aud French soldiers. whom they
ad left behind NJ Monte-Pilloy. & lit
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-31
Anew the Things Strange Amazing Which During
Past The GeatWa Has Been Repete With Events Quite Out
of the Ordinary Sdeighs On Human Nature AS Portrayed
In the Daily Press Incidents Which Tend To Show
That This Is Indeed Strange Strange World
Three Bullets In Ono Minute.

cr,rcifx.
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1t was deserted, save for an old
cure, benign of countenance and de-
vout in manner. He was overJoyed
to see his countrymen again and told
a pitiable story Of how the enemy
had taken him az a hostage but finally
released him and he had returned to
what was left of his once happy little
parish. The French were impressed
by his story.
That evening, tho officers invited
him to dine with them. Just before
the dinner was served the venerable
cure rose from his seat to SAY grace"
and tho assembled officers bowed their
heads. Reverently tho old man muir
INJURED a few words in Latin.
One Of tho officers, lieutenant,
looked up in amazement and regarded
the cure searchingly. Then, grace"
over and the diners seated, he wills
pered a word or two to the com
handing officer. The officer hesitated
moment, then called for the guard.
The lieutenant stepped up to the cure
and asked him few technical ques-
tons. He" said the Lieutenant.
pointing an accusing finger. has never
been priest" The sham cure was
seized and searched and papers were
found upon him which proved him
German spy. The lieutenant was him
self a priest who had gone 10 the front
10 fight for France.
Typical Stories.
Here are two stories which, per-
haps, may be classed as typical of
the spirit Of the contending forces.
At war service, held a while ago in
London. the organst az closing vol
untary startled the staid rector and
the congregation by playing IT'S A
Long Way to Tipperary."
From Chicago came the story OF an
old German, who was sitting on the
bed reading German paper when a
fellow-lcdger, an Englishm man, strolled
into the room for chat. The Kaiser
Is mutt" declared the visitor. He
ought to be in jail" Instantly the
German drew revolver from under
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!" image hNe nilioS 10 the east of
ena.s. without so much as an in
Iarts hesitation ;he doughty Boron
rdered the two officers to climb into
car ana lead nm 10 Monte-Pllloy.
Sheer Nerve Did II.
There thew found thirtv-six Cermans
/ the commissariat eight of,oers cir
|ruv surgeons. forty German soldiers
|nd few Frenchmen. All NJ tben
Eerelv slightly wounded. As cool az
. uroverbiaI cucumber. Roiron com
handed them to follow him to a rail-
bad station a half-mile distant where.
h. told them. a military train was
|aiting to convey them 10 Senalis in
(hich town he stated-without so
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Very thing. lie came from nowhere
onto Broadway az Forty-third street
JUS about dusk and headed straight
up the Great White Way" A few
leaps. and all broadway was ut his
heele-w aich may 20 to show how
provincial. broadway is after all
| Though he was being chased, ne in
turn was chasing others the women.
They fled before. not after him.
Suddenly, at FortY-tifth street, ap-
peared a woman carrying a huge
muf. She gave one look, one scream
one frantic clutch at her skirts, one
record breaking iump-and fairly few
Also she dropped her muff. Where
upon MIR. Rat decided that the muff
was precisely what he wanted so
he diVed into 1t and. like the ostrich,
fancied himself hidden. But a man
not even gunmen--fell upon the
muff: several policemen made valiant
use OF their nightsticks and even a
"whitewines" brought his broom into
play. That, of course, finished Mr..
Rat. Also, it Just about finished the
muff. And Broadway again settled
down into It's customary calm.
A young Lochinvar out OF the West
Omaha, Neb., 10 be eXaCt--while in
| Chicago on a trip saw an eighteen
year-old damsel playing an attractive
! part at a local theatre. He found
out who she was, obtained an intro
! duction, proposed, was accepted and
married--all within tWenty-four hours
after he had first seen her.
Turning to the other side of the
shield, a New York man was lead by
a dream to file suit against his wife
! for an annulment Of his marriage to
| her seven years before. lie stated on
the witness stand that he had dreame d
, OF meeting his wife in Paris who in
/ troduCd another man to him as her
husband. When he questioned his
wife about his dream. her replies ma de
! him suspicious; 80 he went to Paris,
looked up the records and found that
| his wife had married another man
there a dozen years ago; and the first
| husband was still living.
\ Narrow Escape.
With death stalking wide along the
battle lines, narrow escapes from it
must be so numerous as scarcely to
] excite even comment among the sol
diers. But the story Of o young Eng
lish corporal, of the Kings Royal
Rifles, is indeed extraordinary. 4 day
or two before, while billeted in en-
empty house, he found a small cru
cifX. a strange impulse compelled
him to put it in his hayorsack. Then.
ne promptly forgot all about it.
few days later, while on the
firing line, he was hit or She knee
by an almost spent bullet. When
taken to the hospital it was dis
covered that another spent bullet had
passed clear through his haversack
but had been detected from his body
by the cructiX. The force of the bullet
had broken off one of'the arms OF tbe
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An English sergeant, while on the
helmet lying by the roadside. He had
promised to send one to his little boy.
While in the very act of stopping for
it, a German shell exploded within a
foot OF him and blew him to pieces.
Another soldier, an Englishman
also, crossed bridge with his com
"adcs, helped destroy tho bridge to
block pursuers and then discovered
that he had left his warm, thick coat
on the other side of the river. He
plunged into the stream, swan across,
secured his coat and had nearly re-
gained the bank in safety when ne
was hit by a bullet and sank never to
rise 20 the surface again.
From time immem oral-or at least
since woman first wore a hattie hat
pin has been her acknowledged weap-
on OF defense. But, last August, the
women workers in the Belgian ma
tional arms factory at Herstal, on the
outskirts Of Liege, abandoned their
hatpins and substituted buckets and
tubs of scaldins water to repel the
German invader.
They Aimed Straight.
AL their menfolks. of course, were
with the Belgian army, but the wom-
en- determined that the German SOL
diers should not capture the factory
Now. the Germans, it seemed, wanted
that very factory. So the battle be
gan. The women fought them of,
with revolvers and other arms until
their ammunition gave out. Then they
barricaded the door, went TO the up
stairs windows and poured boiling wa
ter upon the soldiers in the stree
below. 1t was reported that about
1000 German soldiers can testify tc
the fact that A tub Of scalding water
is an even more effective weapon thar
hatpin. for that number of Teuton.
was taken.
Letter Was Delivered.
Whom the English ship pathfinder
was blown up a letter from a stoke
to his wife was hurled overheard. Twl
weeks later the crew of a trawlel
found the letter afioat, rescued 1t anC
mailed II. The wife received the let,
ter and her husband, the stoker, wa,
one OF those saved from the sinking
vessel
But the queer events Of 1914" are
not 10 be found only in the war-zone
At the recent election in Cincinnati
Ohio. a naturalized citizen created
quite stir at the polls when he ap.
peared carrying a door TO "A larg,
china closet and exhibited it to tn,
officials in charge. on it was past ed
his naturalization paper. Being unable
to remove the paper without defacins
it, he had brought it along, door and
all, Just to prove his citizenship.
\ wedding ring in part, was the
cause of strange accident to Al
elderly woman Of Trenton, y. j. White
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He Let Fall The Order, Redeemed BY
Led Them Astray.

Led Them Astray.
Man is not alone, II seems, in his
desire to secure hitherto unknown
means of locomotion. The mighty hen
or at least, those of a certain farm
on Oneida Lake in New York State
are similarly minded. The owner had
been missing choice pullets nearly
every day for quite a while and laid
various plots to entrap the thief. But
to no avail. Padlocks and burglar
alarms proved futile; nor were there
any signs of predatory animals. so,
one day, he hid in the bushes near his
poultry yard and tried "watchful
waiting" Ard. to his amazement, it
produced results.
Presently appeared four large geese
from the farm of a neighbor Just
across the small river that emptied
into the lake. And behind them
trooped a half-dozen or so of the
peppers hens. Solemnly the geese
Topped down into the water, splashed
about a bit and then fioated quietly on
the stream quite close to the bank.
Then, one by one. the hens futtered
a few feet up and down the bank and.
with a squawk or two, flew or hopped
onto the backs of the geese. One hen
to each goose, they were ferried across
the stream. the geese making several
round trips until all the feathery pas
sensers had been lured from their
home to new one across the river.
Too Revcrent.
Returning to the great holocaust in
Europe, witness the unusual incident
of a German spy who overplayed his
part and, so, was discovered. In the
early part Of November a battalion
of French infantry retook a village
which had been occupied by the Ger
mans for some time. With the ex-
ception of the church and the pres
bytery. the entire village was In ruins.
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Another English soldier certainly
had a lucky escape. Within one min
ute he was hit by three bullets, and
yet escaped without serious injury.
One of them flattened itself against
FIVE rounds Of ammunition in his belt:
the second struck the magazine OF his
rifle and glanced off into the earth
and the third passed through his cap
without disturbing so much as hair
of his head.
When the English warship "Cressy'
was sunk by German submarines, one
Of her officers had both legs broken.
both feet crushed and was badly in
jured about the head. Moreover, he
went down with his ship and WAS
sucked under the water by the sink
ing vessel. But he came to the sur
face again and was picked up by
rescuers from another ship. Hours
later, as he reRained consciousness.
his first words were, Are we down
hearted? No,'-the famous greeting
that has been so popular among Eng
lsh soldiers on the line of battle.
German Art.
SO far, throughout tho war, the
question OF art has been a prominent
one: with the Allies claiming that the
Germans were utterly unappreciative
Of t else they would never have de-
stroycd athedrals and art galleries.
Pc that as it may. the fact remains
that during the early days Of the
bloody campaign on the Aisne, Ger
man officers and soldiers showed a de-
Cided appreciation of the COW az de-
piCted with brush. chalk or pencil
on the walls of buildings, bridges and
other available places. Everywhere.
sketches of her majesty, tho COW, were
to he seen. They We're crude but
omnlprescnt.
Al first. the French thought they
were drawings of school children. but
presently their suspicion We're aroused,
So they conducted a thorough investi-
cation. They compared criticisms,
dates, notes etc, and presently dis
covered close relation between these
crude drawings and the events which
We're transporting. Indeed, they soon
concluded that they had found syS-
tenn Of communication between SOL
ders of the German army, for there
WAS great variety of sizes in the
sketches and in the positions of the
heads, etc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-12-03
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Nicholas Noveck went this morning
to New York on business.
Mrs. Edward J. O'Hara of Division
street, VINO has been ill is convalesc-
ms.
The private dancing assembly will
meet tonight at eight o'clock in For
esters hall. ADV.
Miss Florence March, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. C. B. March,
has returned to her school at South
Manchester, Conn.
Cottage prayer meetings will be
held Friday morning from 10 for one
half hour at l.. l.. Stevens, South St.
Mrs. Almira Kennons. Branch EXten
sion and Ira p. Wood, North Branch
At the regular mid-year eXamina
tons at Worcester, Mass, academy
John Gleason. son of Mr.. and Mrs
Dexter A. Gleason of Woodford, was
among the 10 highest in large class
of students. The boy. who is IA
years old. is in his second year at
the academy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-12-03
How IT'S Done.

When Abraham Lincoln sat book Ia
hand day after day under the tree,
moving round It as the shadow cross
ed. absorbed In mastering his tasks
when James Garfield rang the bell at
Hiram institute on the very stroke Of
the hour and swept the schoolroom as
faithfully as he mastered his Greek
lesson: when Ulysses Grant, sent with
his team 10 meet some men who came
to load his cart with logs and. finding
NO men. loaded the cart with his own
boys strength. they showed in the
conscientious performance of duty the
qualities which were to raise them to
become kings of men.-Canon Farrar's
Speeches
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-12-03
TURN OF THE WORM.
Her Claim to Fame Put All Her Rivals
Out of the Running.

The superintendent of a charitable
institution for the aged poor in a GER
tain district says that there is no
topic more pleasing 10 some old wom-
en- than the discussion of their bet
ter days" when they were the fortu-
nate pOssessorS OF everything heart
could wish for" MS they are apt to ex-
press IT,
One old lady in the institution men
toned never tired of describing the
tinery she had when she was a bride.
Another boasted of having once own
ed gold band chiny tea set and six
solid silver teaspoons, while third
dwelt AT length on the elegance OF Il
lowered silk gown and satin parasol
with fringe fifteen inches long.
One poor old lady stood this sort OF
talk ms long as she could. Then she
calmly interrupted with
We'll | never had no chiny tea
things. nor no silk gowns, nor en-
broidered petticoatS, nor openwork
stockings. nor gold earrings, nor moth
in O. that sort. but have had four
husbands. an Id like TO know wheth-
Ell any OF you can beat that. FIX
change
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-12-03
MUSIC LANGUAGE.
Single Notes Arc It's Letters, Groups
Of Notes Its Words.

AS you know, the single notes are
the letters of the music language.
Groups of notes are the words of the
music language. In spoken language
the letters are always sounded one
after the other. In the music language
they are sometimes sounded one after
the other and sometimes simultane-
ously.
This fact explains two important di-
visions OF namely. melody and
harmony In general way. melody
consists Of single tones heard one after
the other; combinations of tones heard
simultaneously are called harmony. A
word of the music language may con-
sist OF several tones in succession. like
word Of the spoken language, which
consists of several letters in success
sion.
On the other hand, "A word OF the mu-
sic language may consist of several
tones heard simultaneously, which is
impossible In language. Some of the
most important words of the music
language are those which are used in
both these ways. and il is one Of the
great charms OF music that its words
can be heard In these two ways.-Dr.
Rudolf Won I.iebich In Woman's World.
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Victor Huco's Modesty.

II is related that upon one occasion
Victor Hugo. the great French writer
received a letter bearing an address Of
single line. ITO our Supreme Poet"
Hugo took the letter to l.amartne.
Here. my dear friend he said, us
n letter which certainly is intended for
you"
After long and extremely courteous
discussion. which resolved itself into
combat of ilattery. It occurred 10
them 10 break the seal which they did.
and read. My dear Alfred" The let
ter was for Alfred de Musset and came
from Alexander Dumas I.amartine
smiled. but Hugo. who did not relish
the turn Of affairs. made no comment
some time later Clovis Hughes asked
the author Of "Hernani." "Sir. who. IN
your opinion. is the premier poet Of
our timef' and received the following
reply:
The second is NJ. IAmartine, and
the third is NJ. de Musset."
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Josephine's Many Names.

Josephine. empress Of the French
was Yeyette TO her intimate friends
Her name in reality was Marie Josephe
Rose. Napoleon after the marriage ex
acted that she should be known rs Jo'
sephine He had mania for rebaptiz
ing the women Of his encourage. He
made his sister Marianne an Elise, OF
Annonciade a Caroline, OF Paulette .
Pauline.
Among her numerous friends Joseph
inc remained Yeyette. Barras never
called her otherwise
In 1914. on the departure for Elba
the Debats designated Josephine under
the paraphrase the mother of Prince
Eugene"
At Ruell her tomb bears this simple
inscription: "A Josephine. Eugene e'
Hortense. 1925" The restoration did
not permit her recognition as empress
--Cri de Paris.
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VIVA, penny, Of Nails Mean.

The terms tenpenny, etc. as applied
TO pails came from the number in n
pound. pronounced pun. Nails of such
a size that it took loo0 OF them to
weigh four. six, eight or ten pounds
were popularity known as four pun
nails. six pun nails. eight pun nails
and ten pun nails. respectively. and i'm
the course OF time four pun nails. six
pun nails. etc. were gradually cor
'upted to the meaningless fourpenny
nails. siNpenny nails, ctc.-lndianapo-
lis News
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-12-03
JUMPING ANIMALS.
Several Species Of Fish Are Famed For
Their Leaping Powers.


Jumping as means of locomotion
is shared by variety of animals or
widely different classes Kangaroos
and jerboas among the mammals,
thrushes and robins among the birds,
MS well as such familiar forms as
frogs, cookies, crickets and tleas-all
illustrate this proneness To leap, most
~ as a means of getting quickly over
the ground, and even lions and tigers
which never spring in ordinary cir
cumstances, readily adopt this method
of attacking their victims.
A considerable number Of fishes are
remarkable for their leaping powers,
and several of these performers are on
that account specially favored by an
glers. since by jumping clear of the wa
ter in some cases many times in sue
cession they tax the fisherman's skill
more severely than fishes less active
and therefore give added Zest TO their
capture.
Members OF the salmon family are
universally famous for their high
Jumps The sea trout are untring ac-
robats, and fish of II pound weight
will more than once jump several
times its own length out OF the water
when hooked before coming TO the
net At their best salmon can jump
at least ten feet above the surface, n
feat achieved by Shaping the water
with the powerful tail and fiexlng the
body until the head and tail all but
meet Philadelphia Ledger