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Here Problem For the Fair BusnessSchoo Graduate-When

Americantrooper near Mercedes Tues
day night, captured a flag yesterday
bearing in Spanish the words, Army
of liberation for MeXicans in Texas -
They took a horse, some literature
urging Mexicans to revolt, and some
kilograms, one dated Monterey.
Army and federal investigators de-
clared the organizers of the trouble
were working under the plan of San
Diego, which calls for the death OF
every American male over 16 in com
munities along the Rio Grande and
co, Arizona and California. 1t has
been reported to Maj-Gen Frederick
Funston that more than 5000 Mexi-
cans already are pledged to the or
ganization.
Federal officres last winter beliey-
ed they nipped one attempt to put
this revolution into effect when they
arrested a Mexican on charges of
sedition discovering in his possession
details of the plan which were pub
lished at the time.
Authorities in Brownsville last
night We're watching the river about
10 miles below Brownyille at point
where it was reported several hun
dred armed Mexicans had gathered
on the Mexican side of the Rio Grand
waiting to cross the river under COW
er of darkness. A Mexican rancher
in Hidalgo county, about so miles up
the river from Brownsville, appealed
for aid yesterday forenoon, asserting
that so armed Mexlcans were hiding
on his ranch He said they had
they had threatened to kill him if he
told of their presence.
There were many reports in
Brownsville that officials on the Mex
lean side of the river, which is under
Carranza control, are responsible for
some of the trouble ON the American
side, either because of the laxness of
discipline or by direct coniyance.
However, there is no evidence that
any of the higher Mexican authorities
are involved in these plots, which
seem rather the doings of indiyid-
uals Officials in Brownsville, how.
ever, reported that 1900 former Car
rama soldiers have crossed the river
along a zone 120 miles wide from a
point below Brownsville to Rio
Grande City, up the river. At least 80
different parties are said to have eros
sed. Most of the river bank winds
through brush and woods far from
any roads, SO that a small army of
troops would have difficulty guarding
it, egr Wm @W ~
Many Mexicans along the Anicri-
can side of the border appear to be en-
tirely innocent of causing trouble and
hundreds of Mexican families are
seeking protection of American
guards in the towns.
Thus far the outbreaks have been
in the newer communities populated
largely with persons unfamiliar with
Mexican ways. Even in Brownsville
yesterday, however the tension be
came unusual, but ii was largely re-
lieyed by the announcement that four
companies of United States infantry
will arrive in Laredo this morning.
Among the leaders OF the Mexican
gangs are known to be two men un-
der indictment in this country and
one an escaped convict from the Am
erican side.
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GERMANS ATTACK
WITH BIG GUNS
OAKOvNO FROM
Now Hold Piple, Only Six Miles
From City
MILITARY SUPPLIES REMOVED
Berlin sayse kaser's Army Has >unc
tion on Warsaw--Petrograd
Railroad.

: Lohtion, Aug 124-On ssthe eastern
front Koyno is now the danger point
in the Russian line. Ine armies of
Grand Duke Nicholas apparently have
arrested the German offensive
against Riga and Dyinsk, but are be-
ing hard pressed on the koyno front,
which the Germans are attacking
with guns Of all lealiljre, including
the famous siSteen-inch3 cannon,
which no fortress hitherto has been
able to Withstand.
The German official report annoInc
es the occupation of the forest at Ben
jaminov, east of the fortress OF Novo
Georgieysk, and the Warsaw-Pero-
grad railroad has been reached at the
junction southeast of Osrov.
Reuters correspondent at Pctro-
grad points out that the village of
Piple on which the Germans have re-
tanned their hold Notwithstanding the
fierce counter-attacks OF the Rus
SLAMS, Is only six miles west of Kov-
no. II lies on the lett bank of the
Niemen
Preparations are under way for the
possible evacuation of the fortress. All
military supplies and government
properties have been removed and fac
tories are being dismantled.
A Zeppelin has appeared for the
first time over the fortress of Dyinsk,
on the Diyina. 10 miles southeast of
Riga The airship circIcd the ram
parts
The Reuter- correspondent adds
that il is evident from the latest
official communications that the in
vaders are well established in very
strong force on a forty-mile bow
shaped front from Lomza to Ostrow.
and he predicts that an effort will be
made to reach the important rail
road junction at Dvinsk, southwest of
Riga. The civilians are already eyac-
uating the place. General Ruzsky
has gone on visit of inspection
there with the commandant of the
military district.
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POLICE TO ARREST
CARELESS AUTO
DRIVERS
Regulations Put In Force By the
Village Trustees
SPEED LIMIT SET AT TEN MILES
Persons Operating Cars Must Con-
form to Certain Rules for
Puhlic's Protection.


The congested condition of traffic.
on the streets OF this village, due to
The increasing number of automobiles
and the narrow escape from serious
accidents in many instances. has
made It necessary for the trustees Of
OF the village to put in force certain
police and traffic regulations for the
protection of the people using the
streets.
Careless and negligent driving is
very common, and hereafter all police
officers will be required to apprehend
all persons so driving within the viii
lage limits.
Police officers will be stationed at
the most congested points in the vii
lage from time to time and are under
orders to strictly enforce the law of
the state and the following police and
traffic regulations:
See. !. Drivers of automobiles and
hand side of the road, excepting
when passing another, when they
shall turn to the left and shall not
pull over to the right until clear of
the vehicle passed.
Sec 2.--Driyers of automobiles or
other vehicles shall approach the
street crossings slowly, and all mo-
tor vehicles shall give timely signals
with bell, horn or other device requr-
cd by the law to be used for that pur-
pose.
Sec 3. Drivers of automobiles
and other vehicles on approaching Il
street eur loading or unloading pas
sengers shall stop and not pass such
car while passengers are getting off
OF on.
Sec 4. Drivers of all vehicles
turning to the right into another
street shall turn the corner as near
the curb as practicable. All vehicles
turning to the left into another sreet
shall pass to the right of and beyond
the center of the intersecting street
before turning.
Sec. 8. The driver of an automo-
bile or other vehicle about to
turn corner in the street
of that part of the village
where traffic is greatest, shall plainly
indicate the direction in which he pur
poses to turn by holding out the left
or right hand, and when wishing to
stop and there being another vehicle
| following, shall hold up his hand to
signify and warn such person follow
Ing of his intention to stop.
See. 6. Vehicles moving forward
on the right side OF street wishing
to stop on the left side shall turn
around before stopping so that when
motion is resumed said vehicle shall
| proceed along the right side of the
street.
Sec. Z. No vehicle shall be backed
in the streets without warning hav-
ing been given and the exercise of
great care while backing, for the safe
ty OF other persons or vehicles in the
rear.
Sec. 8. No vehicle shall stop in
the street except at the curb or in
case Of accident and no vehicle shall
stand within ten feet of any inter
secting street corner or crossing.
Sec. 8. Drivers of automobiles
shall not permit the engines of their
machines to remain running while
the car is standing nthe street for
more than one minute at time, nor
shall they stop such vehicle except al
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

Galveston, July 12-Virtually every
American citizen in the three south
ernmost counties of Texas-Camer-
on, Hidalgo and Starr--was resting
under arms last night in fear that
the overwhelming Mexican population
of the section might break out in II
racial fight The Mexican disturbnce
spread rapidly westward yesterday
until rumors of trouble developed at
Laredo, 200 miles along the border
from Brownsville, Tex. The disturb
ance is reported there to have been
part of an attempt to turn part of
Texas back to Mexican control, wild
scheme backed by ignorant classes of
Mexicans, escaped conyicts, fugitiyes
from justice on the American side
and irresponsible Mexicans from the
other side. The disturbance has
been famed by some of the bitter dis
putes of border political conditions,
which in some instances kept the Am
erican residents ofthat section from
realizing how strong the undercurrent
of Mexican feeling was growing.
Rangers in Hidalgo county pursu-
ing some Of the gang which Killed an
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12
Everything in the Line of Cemetery
YInrk

WORK shop in rear OF residence 23 South ST
Corner OF Grand View st. Lettering done / J
cemeteries, by first class letterrr. have a
number ot Monuments and tablets for sale at
SEASONS ble prices which ] can letterand set at
once. f. E. ) SrAbR0OK, Manufactu ess Agent
bennington. VT, Tel 05
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TEXANS PREPARE
FOR AN INVASION
[Df. y State rIM,I!In0
fkUIH m.m.ar, '..ar,
Citizens Of the Border Counties
Sleep On Their Arms
TROOPS GO TO BROWNSVILLE
Gen. Funston Wires that Conditions
at that Trouble Center are
Serious.

Washington, Aug. 12.-Gen Freder-
ick Funston wired the war depart
ment today that detachment Of the
Ninth Infantry had been dispatched
to Brownsville, conditions there be-
ing such as to warrant the presence
of armed troops.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont showers tonight and probab-
ly Friday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12
SPEED LIMIT

Section 1921 of the Public Statutes
of Vermont provides as follows:
"No automobile Or motor vehicle
shall be run on public way or priv
ate way laid out under authority of
Statute, in careless or negligent
manner. If person runs an automo-
bile or motor vehicle at a rate of
speed exceeding ten miles an hour
within city, incorporated village or
the thickly settled part of town, or
at rate of speed exceeding ten miles
an hour across any bridge of more
than fifty feet span, it shall be prima
facie evidence that the automobile or
motor vehicle was run cafelessly or
negligently."
BY order of the Village Trustees,
S. A. Burt,
Chairman of Police Committee
Patrick Brazil
Chief of Police.
Attest; w. p. Hogan,
Village Clerk.
Bennington. VT. August 9TH. 1915.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FOR SALE-Tbe large brick dwelling on
Pleasant St in the Village of Bennington,
formerly occupied by the late Anna q Park.
This house has spacious grounds and contains
fourteen large rooms, besides pantry, bath
room. large wood shed and four room cellar.
II is equi opcd with all modern improvements.
This place, which is one of the most desirable
In Bennington, will be sold at very reascn-
able price Apply to n. II. Webster, X. e.
Healy or Edward j. Hail. Bennington. 4Stf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

the curb. No driver of an automobile
operating within the village shall
open the muiiler cutout or permit
an unreasonable amount of smoke to
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FOR SALE A small place OF about IL acres,
consists of z bai MS. hog house, graDary,
room house, nice spring water. good gravel
bank AZ res o !. n &c sand. Price $250O Just out
OF village of North Bennington on trolley line.
Inquire Chicken Coop Inn, North Benniuqton.
H5t ~
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FOR SALE-O One four cylinder five passe 1Rer
35 horse power Interstate touring car.
This car is in excellent condition and viii be
sold at a very low figure. K. w. Williams,
The Bennington garage. 4Cf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12
NOTICE

.OST Five dollar reward Tor return of nea
~ OK with no Tail Strayed from White
Grow Inn. Last seen Friday on the East TOAD.
Return TO White Grow Inn 4St6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

I OST- wedRe day afternoon some where b
~ tween LIBRARY Hall and Drysdnle's store n
small roll of bills ,ntainin0 aDont six dollars
Finder please uotlfy, Tei. lSt-f 522
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

NY/ANTED-Pupil nurses a the Taunton
w state Hospital Training School for Nur
ses For particulars, address nr. Arthur
Goss, Supt., taunton state Hospital Taunton
fntf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FOR SALE-One Ford Roadster this car
would make a good tight truck and will be
sold at II very low figure. Bennington Garsrge
+. 39u
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FOR SALE | Brown & Simpson upright
Grand Piano in good condition for $50. on
easy terms must be sold at once. Call at sOS
Main st. between one and F. NJ 1915,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

I OR sALE-Tho Worthngtou home stead
In North Bennington, VT, consisting of 2
story house, porch across entire front aud part
of each side, hot AR furnace, Kewanee water
system. bath room and acetylne gas plant
Large, roomy barn, suitable for garage. cement
walks. nice lawn, gravel driveway {; also gar.
den. Lot has frontage of over 10) feet AD
ideal place for anyone desiiing Il home with all
modern improvements. will he sold relsona-
tle. Inquire Of X. A. Jones, First National
Bank, or of Mrs W. X. Worthington. on
premises. North Bennington. Vt 5Gtf
FOR SALE -3ruiers roasting chickens and
fowl, dressed to order and delivered Also
fresh eggs. Mountain View Poultry Farm.
r~'- l7i-W. 92tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

UJANTED Competent girl for general
w house work for family of three. No
washing Good wages. Mrs NJ c. Hulipv No.
bennington b2t6+
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WANTEs

XNANTED 10 hire a farm with larrc house
w and barn. Address X. Box 26S, Man.
hester Depot, VT. 22tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

WANTED aene'al housework. Appl, at
w Banner Office 52t6f
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

TO RENT-One small tenement. Il. S. uarris
Division st. 35tt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

ITO RENT-Now room tenement on School
Il st. Hard ood flo )rs, hardwood finish
up.stairs and down. gas, electric lights and b .,h.
Phone 372l2 or ll6-5. s6t2.+
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LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
70 ashr

1NO RENT Seven room house on North
Branch street, in gooi repair. Inquire A.
X. Rickert, 3l0 Gage Sc. 49tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

EOR SALE-Onc pair horses. one Z one s,
( sound unafrad. weight 100 lbs Orc farm
wagon ia good repair. One pair lumber
seghs, one beam, nea " new. One road sera.
per and other farm implements. William
Snow, Branch st. Ext. 5lt6t
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

EOR SALE Couple of harness, one carriag
and buggy. w. ID. WatsIn Depot st
52t6,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FOR SALE -Mah0gany antiques. 1876 years
old fine Napoleon bed ca tah'c sofa in
beautiful grained fern pat tern also lajies hey
Gle hardly used. Address salesman 3 Notih
Holden Street Moth Adams Mass. 52tbF
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FOR SALE Bay horse, Is years. never been
i hprnessed. Also 100 Rhode Island Reds u d
Barred Rock pullets. 3 months old Baskus,
North bennington. P.one l7l-W. jltf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12
LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE

JOR SALE -Busines, in Troy. Only one kind
i'm city. viii teach business take good work
ing partner or sell on asy term a. nave other
work out of town. w. NJ. Hall, 23-4tb ST roy
NY 52tl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-12

FJ'O KENT-Tenemcnt on North st. and fur
Il nished apartment on Pleasant st. lnqiuIe
DR.. D. a. lllingworlh. liz Pleasant st. 9vt
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nishes all America with the most compres
hensive and accurate information on
European war relief conditions obtain.
able, can continue operations on the eX-
penditure of such sum. No government,
no corporation. no individual in the world
will accomplish. the like.
How is 1t being done? What Is ths
answer to this achievement?
1t is that the four score men and wo-
men, most of them Americans, engaged in
shaping the success of this great enter
prise are giving their undivided attention,
their hands and their brains, their time
and their strength, to the work of relief
with never a thought of payment for the
sacrifices they are making, beyond tho
great sa tisfaction they find in alternating
in some measure, the black misery which
war has brought TO half the peoples of
the globe.
Working early and late. aided only IN
the mechanical details of their self-im-
posed tasks by a mere handful of paid
clerks and stenographers, they plan and
provide the daily salvation OF thousands
No obstacle is so grave hut they find
way to surmount il no problem is so COM
pick but they arrive at its solution M
demand is so great but they willingly
hear 1t no sacrifice is so heavy but they
gladly make ii.
Shoulder to shoulder with surgeon and
nurse and Red Cross orderly, they march
in the great American army of peaceful
volunteers that is storming Europe with
the ammunition of mercy. The battles
they are helping to win in the cause of
humanity will perhaps be remembered
long after Ypres and the Marine Nhavs
passed from the memory of all but the
dry recorders of history.
KENNETH PROCTOR LITTAUER
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American Was Passenger
In First Channel FIiuht

# HE wonderful progress which man
has made in the science and art OF
aviation and the immense space which
man-f1ight now takes up in the public
mind have caused many men with a ret
respective bent to recall the feats and
flights of Blanchard. the Frenchman
who became well known in the United
States because of his balloon ascen-
sions during the last decade of tho
eighteenth century.
The first balloon ascension in ths
United States was made by this dar-
ing Frenchman In 1898 from the yard
of the prison at Philadelphia. Presi-
dent George Washington, members of
his cabinet and various other distin-
guished Americans of that period were
witnesses of the unusual spectacle
At that time Blanchard was the most
celebrated aeronaut in the world and
eight years before coming to the
United States to give balloon-f1 flight eX-
hibitions had performed an achieve
ment which gave him unique fame and
which. in fact. made his fame secure for
all time He had made a crossing OF
the English channel through the air. His
point OF passage, as might be surmised,
was that narrowest part of the channel
called the Straits of Dover.
A very interesting fact in this pioneer
passage OF the channel was that Blan-
chard carried with him a passenger
and that that passenger was an Amer
lean, so that the first two men to
make the crossing through the air
were a Frenchman and an American.
The name of that American was JEFF
fries, and he was a medical officer in
the United States Navy.
The account which history has pre-
served of that memorable cross-channel
flight, or cross-channel drift, is that
a favorable wind, and finally rose from
Dover at l o'clock on the afternoon
of January Z. Two miles from the
French coast the balloon dropped to
within four meters of the water, in
spite of the fact that the entire ballast
fitting, anchor. instrument and so
forth, had to follow, together with
the passengers clothes. Once again II
rose and proceeded toward the French
coast, which was thronged with spec
tators. Then 1t flew another four miles
along the shore to the wood OF Fell
more. where 1t landed in the trees near
Guines about 3:45 pm.
Immediately after the perilous land
ing among the trees Blanchard and DR..
Jeffries were conveyed to a castle
nearby, where they were entertained.
Thence they were conveyed in a coach
drawn by six horses to Calais. The
next day, January s, 1888. banquet
was given in their honor at the town
hall in Calais and they were both pre-
scented with the freedom of the city, an
honor which DIR. Jeffries, as a foreigner,
did not accept. Blanchard, in addi-
ton, was presented by King Louis XVI
with a sum of $4,000 francs and a
subscriptions raised at Dover amounted
to $4,000.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, France, July :. 1915.
7T is a comparatively easy thing for
a sympathetic woman in America
to knit a pair Of socks destined
q for the feet of some European war
sufferer. But 1t is quite another matter
to get the socks on those feet.
This was particularly the case during
the early months of the war. At that
time the output of war relief munitions
fashioned or furnished by the ready
hands Of American men and women was
enormous But what happened to these
munitions, once they left the custody
Of the donors?
Just this: Thousands Of hurriedly-or-
ganized relief societies took them in
charge: boxed and baled them; ad-
dressed them vaguely to The French
Government" or The French Army"
or Belgian Refugees in France" and
sent them to any one of half-dozen
Atlantic ports. where they were con-
signed to the hold of some convenient
vessel bound for France and, thence
forward. left to shift for themselves.
Submarine warfare not being then
current. these haphazard shipmenA
reached the shores of France safely and
were there duly disembarked.
Up to this point there was no hitch
IN their journey. But here the trouble
began American shippers of relief car
goes had not taken into consideration
the disorganized state Of affairs on the
opposite side of the water. They had
not recognized the fact that France and
the French government were complete
1y absorbed in the stupendous business
Of averting national humiliation, and
that the matter OF few hundred thou
sand dollars worth of relief goods
shipped to them from America might
very easily escape the attention of
every administrative official in the en-
tire republic during the terrific stress
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in Europe during the sixteenth century.
In the Library Of Congress are several
old books treating of the game Sam
uel Johnson one wrote a preface to a
book on the game of draughts which
one William Payne had composed at the
expense of much time and effort
Students of checkers and very old
players of the game recall the names
of Anderson, an Englishman, and wyl-
lie, 'the herd laddie.' who were famous
checker players about half a century
ago. Wyllie travelled all over the world
playing contests with local checker
experts and enthusiasts. Martens, an
English player, and two Americans,
Yates and Barker, succeeded to the
fame of Anderson and Wyllie.