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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Nerve Of the Town and Village ToIt
Briefly for eusy Headers

Temple Chapter No. 8 r. A. NJ. will
hold the regular meeting this evenins
! March end at s o'clock, The p. NJ
and M. Il. NJ degrees will be con
| ferred. afNt 4sa E... ;,eo...,..
Southern Vermont Pomona Grange
have meeting at Pownal Methodist
church on Wednesday, Those desir!
ing to be inpattendance at the busin,
ess meeting should leave here on the
9.45 car. 'Hs ft ,.aHs s..e lsi Z
!, collins NJ. Graves OF the reyIsers.
Office who came home during the iai.
ter part Of the week. will return to
Montpelier tomorrow morning. rue
Rev. T. r. Carly. pastor of st. Franc
is de Sales church. who has been on
the east coast of Florida for several
weeks, has returned much improved
in health.
The cases OF William Pike and
Charles Mallory who were arrested
Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Perry b..
Gardner charged with entering camps
in the town of Woodford, were
brought before the municipal court
in the afternoon. Because of the alb
sence of witnesses the cases were con
tinued to this afternoon. Frederick
Godfrey furnished bail In the sum OF
s1Oc. q
MIR. and Mrs. Homer G. Chapman
and George r. Bates leave today for
four weeks trip to the San Francis
co exposition. They will make the
trip by journey to the Pacific coast oy
the Union Pacific and win make a
brief stop at Salt Lake City, Another
stop will be at Sacramento where MIR.
Bates at one time. resided for several
years. The return trip win be made
over the Southern Pacific by way OF
New Orleans. They win make stop
at Washington where Mr.. Chapman
has relatives. as "a
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
OUR CALENDAR IMPERFECT.
Under the Present System = Day Il
Lost Every 1880 Years.

Under the Present System Day 70
Lost Every $500 Years.
Many people are dissatisfied with the
calendar They propose to take It back
and change it. They would have to 60
back to an act Of the British pnrlia-
lnent in l751-that is, English speak
ing folk woodland then still farther
into the recesses Of time 1t was that
statuta which later led American
schoolboys, into doubt as to whether
George Washington. was born on Feb
% or Feb. IL. Eleven days were lost
between Julius Caesar and George
Washington, but that hardly seems APP
palIlng- enough after all 70 Justify SO
many preochments on the subject Of
lost time does II? The way things are
arranged now it will pc $500 years or
more before we lose another day. <
The scientist however, is never sahs-
fed with anything less than accuracy.
and he wants . perfect calendar. He
has taken his ideas OF reform into the
legislatures Of seywal nations, but
nothing has happened yet Reform Is
cure 20 get into trouble, anyway, when
1t gets into politics. But truth. crushed
to earth. shall rise again. and maybe
the dream, OF the scientist wfll come
true. The first day Of every month
will fall on the first day Of the week,
and SO forth. The printed calendar
which comes from the Insurance com
pany or the grocery store will be just
as good one year as another, and the
months will be all alike. Probably
more durable form will be invented, so
that it will last lifetime be moved
from house TO house with the rest OF
the furniture and be handed down to
future generations as an heirloom.
Time. with such q calendar. wouldn't
seem so Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
Doc. Your Spine shiysna

"A shivering spine. said a psycholo-
gist. 'is the one infalli6le proof of an
artistic temperament Does a shiver
run mp and down your spine when you
listen TO beautiful music or read a
lovely poem or look at a superb paint
ing? If not the gates OF art are closed
to you forever. All greht artists and
all good critics experience this SILVER
ing sensation of the backbone before. a
worthy work Of art d, Some Of these
men use. the SILVER as %, measure. !, The
work that does met evoke i they pro,
nounce a failure. Ny own spinesshjgers
best TO musie.2s The violin solo that
precedes sthe last act OF Massenets
That's sets up In me a tremolo move,
ment that wrinkles the back Of j my
coat. "-Exchange, y rNsrs anas i,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22

The 30 called wisdom teeth are the
two Iasr miolars TO grow and they have
no real connection with the possession
Of wisdom. They take their m me from
the time OF their arrival, from twenty
to twenty-five years. mt which age the
average person Is supposed to have
reached years or discretion. Cutting
ones wisdom teeth means simply arr
giving 1t tbs point Of completeness in
physical equipment and has no direct
+eiasson to mental equipment The pos,
session Of these teeth is no guarantees
or wisdom, They grow at about the
same age in people whether they arr
wise or not. Itsl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
FIGHTING CANADA THisrLEs.

Farmers who have the Canada this
tie problem ON their hands should send
to the agricultural department. Wash.
ingtcn, for Farmers Bulletin No. 543,
which takes up in detail the best meth.
DDS of Graduating the pest. Among
some Of the tools recommended in this
bulletin are a nine inch sweep shovel
which, cuts or the stems OF the weeds
just below the surface of the ground.
For stray thistles appearing after the
last machine cultivation it is recon-
mended TO cut just below the surface
with hand hoe at intervals OF week
or two during the remainder of the
growing season. II plants like Canada
thistle and quack grass can be kept
from developing leaves above ground
for period of Eve or six moIths the
plant will die in the same way that
an animal will lie IL, il stops breathing,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
A MARVEL IN METAL.
Story Of a Steel Flea Made IN Ger
many and Sent to Russia.

many ana oo0t 70 Nusot&s
The Russian peasants, of course. are
neither scientists nor technologists;
but even they think that they can do q
few things-and especially work met
fals-as skillfully as anybody. A cen
| fury or two ago, according TO a folk
/ tale current in Russia. the gossudar
THE csar) called together dozen or
more peasants who had reputation
for skill in the working Of metals and
exhibited to them steel Hea Of nntu.
raj size which. had been made fn Ger.
many and had been sent to him. part.
iy as gift and partly to show the deli.
cacy Of the German smiths work. The
|gossudar handed 1t TO the peasants on
q plate and said: '~'H |
'"Look at that! You think that you
can work metals, but don't believe
there's one OF you can duplicate that
steel Hes."
The pea SAINTS said, Perhaps not. ba-
tushka dittle father, but IL you viii
let us take the Hea home we will see
what we can do.
The car consented. and they retired
A day or two later they reappeared.
and with low bows presented to their
monarch on a plate the same German
flea. but without the expected dupli-
cate.
"Ah.' said the ear. You couldn't
make another knew you couldn't"
WIN your majesty deign TO look at
the flea through a magnifying glass;"
replied the peasants
A glass was brought. and upon close
inspection it was found that the Rus
sian metal workers had shod the Ger
man flea with steel shoes.-Outlook.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
Napoleon as an, Editor .. /.

~ The Almananh de Gotha was already
OF sufficient Importance over a century
ago TO prompt a dispatch from sNapo-
leon.f On Oct. 20. 1907 he wrote 10
Champaign, his foreign minister. com
planning that "the latest edition Of the
Almanach de Gotha is full of errors.
no account having been taken OF the
changes wrought by me in Germany.
Tell the minister from Gotha to call
on you and inform him that this must
be set right in the forthcoming edition.
Insist on seeing the section devoted 10
Germany before the edition Is pub.
lishah y
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
WOMAN WEAK
AND NERVOUS
Finds Health in Lydia E.
J. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Cfeston, Iowa. = 81 suffered with fsS
male. troubles from the time I CAME into

womanhood until /
had taken Lydia E,
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Com pound. I
would have pains il
I 0 verwo rke d.or
lifted thing
heavy, and / would
be 50 weak and ner-
vous and in 80 much
misery that / would
be Frustrated. A
friend told me what
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
LItsIs Wonder Worker.

Coles Little Wonder Workers. the
liver pin that contains the new
cathartic phenolphthalein and the old
cathartic Aloin combined to make the
most effective little liver pill you
ever had. Prompt safe and sure re.
lief in any case of disordered stoni-
sch, constipation, billiousness, and
liver troubles Forty little sugar
coated pellets for CSC Sold only by
Harold w, Cole,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
The Drysdale Store

"A Riot Of Beautiful lnexpensiue New Spring
Dress Fabrics Reckoning CHEEKY welcome to look
-are the newest ssksr the worthyawool and worsed
materials and no end Of bright pretty effecrs IN linen
and cotton washable goods ,oosl 5.,n 81 4 -s
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
Astounding
Spring Ne.Dness
Neckwear, NsilingA Rib.
bons, Embroideries, Laces
and Trimmings we

II the April sh6soen should arrive ahead Of their time
schedule you will naturally think Of Rain Coat Um-
brells We're first aid to all cauehtin.the-rain-folk
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22

The Safety Elevator takes you carefully and sure
ly to our upper floors The Garment dept the Baggage
the Curtain and Upholstery fabrics the Wall Papers and
the Floor Coverings amos, accessible as If
ranged on our sidewalk Get aboard-its right now
GOING UP?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
AN ORCHARD CAUTION.

/. With Z the spring a good deal drier
+. than normal, it. viii be afgood plan t,t
keep close tab, gu moisture conditions
In the orchard soil before deciding on II
cessation OF cultivation and sowing Il
cover crop 10 absorb moisture and 10
pillow under next -spriny Should May
and June be as dry Ms April has been
or as dry and hot as June was last sea
son IL Willie saferto continue 4cpltivas
ton In the'orchard beyond July 10 un-
less there is abundant moisture in the
SOIL at that time. Inrthc case of one
fine orchard that came under the-wrlt,
erls notice last year what promised 20
he "a seven carload crop was clit to
barely three as result Of an unusual
shortage Of moisture during midsum1
mer and cessation OF cultivation after
The middle Of July.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-22
Harmonious,

harmonious.
what is the matter with the hack
driverr
.sHe has 4 hacking cough
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-06-09
C|Ie.an.;;i.n.!|gs
GATHERED FROM THE
HOME FIELD.

Dave Miller, Of Angus, was a bust
ness visitor in the city Monday.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-06-09

Mrs. E. Dady left Saturday for a.
visit with her son at Fargo, N. D.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16
SPORTING
AGOSSIPA
Brown and MandOt Fight

Several of our people attended
the Brown Mandot fight in Super
ior Friday evening and all were re-
paid for their trouble and expense
of attending. Several preliminary
rounds between lesser lights were
pulled off but all interested center
ed in the main bout of the evening.
Mandot is one of the best light
weight fighters in the country but
at that he had only shade the best
of the Chisholm lad. Up to the
end of the sixth round the honors
were even and in the fifth many
were of the opinion that the gong
just saved the career of Mandot.
After the sixth, Mandot came to
the front steadily and at the end of
the tenth he was awarded the
match. Brown claimed his eyes
have been bothering him for some
time and with the strain of the
battle, it was plain to be seen that
his vision was not of the best. |
Mandot and Leach Cross are being
matched for go at Superior some
time next month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16

The Exploits of Elaine" the
serial story started by the Miner
last week in connection with the
pictures of like name at the Elco is
missing from the paper this week.
Owing to some mixup in the film
house the films did not arrive for
the first series last Saturday and
the first installment will be given
this week at the Elco. In order
not to get too far advanced with
the story in the Miner and in order
to follow the pictures more closely
the story is omitted. Next week
the second episode will be given.
The Master Key" is drawing
full houses at the Elco on its every
appearance and patrons are loud in
their praises of the play.
No pictures will be shown at the
Opera House Sunday evening
owing to the hall being used for
meeting of some society.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16

but not to make any of their own,
it is astonishing how towns ap-
pearance can be transformed.
Allowing public streets to re-
main in a disorderly condition must
hurt the reputation of town. In
these days of automobiles a town
receives visitors constantly from
far and near. Residents of other
cities come in a critical spirit.
They are quick to see evidences of
public disorder and they bear away
the news that this or that town is
dirty.
Spring is the time for cleaning
up. Let us all resolve to keep the
streets neat this season."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16

THE author of the following is
unknown but he is about right;
If you build line of railway over
hills and barren lands, give lucra-
tive employment to about million
hands; if you cause score of cities
by your right of way to rise, where
there formerly was nothing but
some rattlesnakes and flies; if when
bringing kale to others you acquire
a little kale, then you've robbed
the people, and you ought to be in
Jail. If by planning and by toiling
you have won some wealth and
fame, it will make no odds how
squarely you have played your
little game; your success is proof
sufficient that you are a public foe,
you're souless malefactor, to the
dump you ought to go; its crime
for you to prosper where so many
others fail; you have surely robbed
the people and you ought to be in
Jail. Be a chronic politician; deal
in superheated air; roast the banks
and money barons- there is always
safety there; but to sound the note
of business is crime so mean and
base that the fellow guilty of it |
ought to go and hide his face,
change the builders song triumph
ant for politicians wall, or we'll
think you've robbed the people,
and we'll pack you off to Jail.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16

THE cost of the war will total
by July 81 next S45. 900, 900, 900,
according to the Royal Statistical
Society of London, of which Eng
lands share will be at least S4,-
600, 100000. That London con-
Germ, Lloyds, who will gamble on
almost any proposition, is betting
even money the war will close by
July l and two to one it will end
before Sept! 80. There is no doubt
truth in the statement that no
nation can long withstand such a
drain on resources. The taxpay-
ers, upon whom the burden event
ually falls, declare that the war has
already continued too long. The
impression is general that it cannot
continue much longer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16
Fox Terrier Model of Bravery.

The effective valor of the fox ter.
rier against odds is again proven by
the achievement of the Bloomingdale
IN. j. dog which chased a gray fox
Into hole in Federal hill and killed it
after desperate encounter. All for
lorn hopes look alike to the gay little
white dog with the large brain and
the fighting jaw. He has the elan of
the French soldier, the cheerful pug.
nacity of the German and the forti-
tude of the Russian. Unfortunately
for him sometimes, he does not know
when he is beaten, and he is as eager
to renew conflict as to resent an in
suit. If of the true breed, fear is as
foreign to his temperament as calcu-
lation of the risks of an adventure
He never turns his back upon the
bristling enemy and he never DULLES
the weak. Brave to fault Is de-
scription that fits the fox terrier better
than any of the human kind.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16

world, Freddy Welsh. arrived from
New York City, at St. Paul Thurs
day morning. In conversation
with Mr.. Collins he says that he is
fully aware of the fact that this
Red Corbett Watson is a real fight
er and one of the best in the light
weight division, but he finished bv
saving: L am in good shape and
will slip in the ring at Hudson at
135, my best weight; when 1 am at
135 am at my best and when /
am at my best, they all look alike
to me and take it from me 1 will be
right on next Tuesday at Hudson.
IT you doubt it any, Immediately
after the fight, just ask that red
top Watson what he thinks of me
and if he does not acknowledge
that l am lightweight champion of
the world, will buy you a new
hat"
Watson is working out daily at
Woods Gymnasium in St. Paul.
He is boxing daily with Billy
WhelaD, Jack Burke, Young Ahern
and all the other local boxers that
have nerve enough to. get in the
ring with him. Watson SAYS: Il
fully realize that this is the fight
of my life and I also know that the
only win that will count will be a
real knockout, and I will fight for
Knockout every minute of the
ten rounds. l will take everv
chance to land that Knockout
punch, as know that if 1 can not
beat Welsh, my chances as a
champion are gone forever, as II
am now at my best. Heconcluded
by saying, however, if 1 don't
knock out Welsh he will know that
he was in fight and 1 bet he will
always remember both Hudson and
Fred Fulton, the we'll known
heavyweight from Rochester, Mimi.
will go for rounds with Ned
Carpenter, the Burlington heavy
weight. Fulton has boxed five
different times at Hudson all five
bouts being knockouts. He
knocked out three of his opponents
and was knocked out twice him
self and this bout will be no excep-
ton.
There will be two more round
orel1minar1es-the best that can be
The first bout will
start at $50 sharp. Doors of the
arena will open at P. M.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16
WORLDLY WISDOM

Health is wealth-except for the
DOCTOR
Perhaps mollycoddle is a male
manicure artist.
When man has failed at every
thing else he poses as a critic.
1t is easy to forgive your enemies
after getting square with them.
When woman looks at her
watch she guesses what time It is.
The success of the self-made man
is due to self-made opportunities.
know thyself!" and you will
probably not feel proud of the ac-
quaintance.
A girl might do worse than con-
slider the oculist in her search for
the eye-deal man. Ouch!
Occasionally you meet a man
who is so courteous that he is ac-
tually polite to his own wife.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16
EPIGRAMS

| It Is great folly to wish to be wise
all alone.
| Magnanimity despises everything to
gain everything.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice
renders to virtue.
Gravity is a physical cloak invented
10 hide mental defects.
IL Is not so dangerous to do harm to
most men as it is to do them too much
good.
When vices leave us we f1atter orr.
serves by thinking it is we who leave
them.
Inc good we have received of a man
requires us to be tender of the evil he
does us.
true eloquence consists in saying all
tnat is needed and in saying only what
Is needed.
Perfect valor Is to do without a wit.
ness all that we would do before the
whole world.
What is called liberality is most of.
ten only the vanity of giving which we
prefer to the thing we give.
fortunate people seldom correct
themselves; they always think they
are right when fortune favors their
bad conduct.
1t is more often from pride than
from deficiency of light that we so
obstlnately oppose the most received
opinions. We find the first places TAX.
en- on the good side and will have
nothing to do with the last.
Women often think they love even
when they do not. The occupation OF
an intrigue, the excitement of mind
which gallantry causes, the natural in
clination to the pleasure of being loved
and the pain Of refusing, persuade
them that they are Influenced by love
when they are influenced only by CO
quetry.-La Rochefoucauld.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16

ACCORDING to a count made in
the library of congress recently oul
federal and state legislatures passed
62,O14 statutes during the five
years from 1909 to 1913 inclusive.
Even greater than this multiplicity
of laws was the vast mass of deci-
sions of court of last resort, federal
and state, which during the same
five years reached the enormous
total of IS, 379 and now fill $50
volumes. And yet ignorance of
the LAWN a thousand volumes
does not excuse. In Our day of
statute making by the rapid-fre
process, Thomas Jefferson would
have found greater reason than
ever for declaring that the country
is governed best that is governed
least, and for opposing a multi
plicity of laws. Not the least dis
couraging feature o. it all is that
our statesmen of the ultra-pro-
gressive" variety have countless
new laws still up their sleeves, not
few of them revolutionary inva-
sions of the citizens rights. If
our laws are legion now, what is to
be expected when, il times to
come, women are sent to legisla-
tive bodies by their balloting
sisters and enthusiastically apply
themselves to the fascinating bust
ness of piling up the statutes.
Their efforts to make man over
and thrust into him thousand
virtues by means of the police
mans club, seem to be ominously
foreshadoW ed by Mrs. Pankhurst's |
confession that women want the
ballot in order to make men
chaste." 1t may be confidently
expected that women, more than
men, will become addicted to the
habit of making new laws aimed at
every evil or convenience in sight,
thus adding enormously to the
great mass of statutes which
without previous discussion and
criticism of the proper kind-have
been enacted in haste, only to be
repealed or forgotten as dead
letters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-04-16
will take care of themselves.

will take care of themselves.
| Youth must have it's fling, but NJ
fellow likes to be thrown over.
| Many man expects even his OWL
conscience to jolly him along.
It's no fun for a woman to tell {
secret to anyone she thinks will keer
it.
dogs bark may be worse thar
his bite, but we prefer his bark, al
that.
Seeing is believing, but even the
blind man may be convinced he is
right
Many fellow is left-handed who
still feels that he does everything
right.
MUFFLED KNOCKS
1t is easy to raise Cain. But yoy
won't get much for the crop.
A life insurance company is about
the only thing man wouldn't like to
beat legitimately.
A whole lot of premeditated ornery.
ness is blamed on the philosophy once
advanced by Old Man Plato.
A man never seems to connect the
two, but the fellow who has a lot of
bad habits is the fellow who has a lot
of bad luck.
The reason some men are unmar-
ried is because they are waiting for a
chance to grab a wealthy woman who
Is deaf and dumb.
A woman may fall down on man.
aging business. But she is there
with bells on when it comes to man.
aging business man.
We haven't any sympathy with the
girl who remains single. She has
only herself to blame There's one
born every minute, girls.
A girls idea of disaster is to have
nice young man call at the house
when her hair is drying on the clothes
line in the back yard
The old-fashioned girl who prepared
for matrinony by helping her mother
with the cooking for five years now
has daugher who buys a can opener
and stands pat
There are whole lot of men in
The world just like the fighter who |
kicks about the referees decision as
soon as he wakes up out of the slum-
Der caused by the knockout.
The world is a big, deserted place
when you are trying to borrow some
money. But it is small crowded |
spot when you are trying to dodge
he fellows from whom you borrowed |
he coin.-Cincinnati Enquirer.