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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
BRAWNY NORWEGIANS.
They Are the Longest Lived People In
the World Today.


the World Today.
The fine stature and unique physical
qualities of the athletic Norsemen are
thus described by Price Collier In an
article on Norway and the Norwe-
ginns. From an American Point of
View" in Scribner's' Magazine:
1.-The so called bonder, or agricui.
tural peasantry. form the very back
bone Of the nation In Norway. Each Is
proprietor Of his own farm. and thhy
occupy the country from the shore o.
the sea to the foot OF the hills and up
every glen or valley as far as corn will
grow. They are. as rule, fine looking.
athletic men. as their properties are not
so large as TO exempt them from work.
but large enonsh TO supply them and
their fl miles with wholesome food. In
the old days they built their own
houses. made their own furniture,
plows, carts, harness, ironwork. wood
work and basketwork. Probably there
are no communities anywhere else in
the world so self efficient, so independ
ent and so comfortable.
Indeed. their size and wholesome
aspect prove this. for they are the fair
est. tallest. broadcast chested and long.
est lived people in the world today.
'In the streets OF the towns. at the
farms. on tie roads. one seldom sees a
fat man or one who looks unweldy.
They are sturdily. sometimes heavily.
built. but they are lean in the flank.
broad OF shoulder and thick through.
and. though they do not always carry
themselves lightly or gracefully, they
look to have plenty or room for the
working machinery OF living. for heart
and lungs aud digestive apparatus.
Wherever you 60 IN Norway. from
Christiansand to the North cape. you
cannot go far without going up ana
down hill. nor can you 20 far without
inhalinc the champagne-like mountain
air. lt is not impossible thnt the plain
food-a necessity in poor country
the physical trimming in the schools. the
obligatory military training. the sen
sible temperance legislation. the up and
down hill exercise. the almost entire
lack of luxury and the fact that they
are NOT hard workers-no lazy, per
haps, but certainly leisurely in their
toll, seldom making any uudne demand
upon their nervous energy-nave pro-
duced what no artificial legislation can
annv'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
COAL MINERS CLOCKS.
Telling the Time Of Day by Lamp or
an Oil FLASK.

tSl'ns 1ne iime OF Day ny Lamp or
an Oil FLASK.
Do you know thar every miner when
descending into the pit 10 work takes
with him couple os clocks? These
are NOT ordinary timepieces, for they
have neither wheels, springs, dials nor
any OF the usual appurtenanees. The
Clocks" are simply his lamp and oil
flask. BY noting the quantity OF oil
consumed-or that left--the miner can
tell to within Il few minutes any hour
of the day OF uisht.
When miners lamp goes out, as il
not infrcquently does. in almost any
circumstances he must not religbt Il
himself Instead. though he may be
left in pitch darkness, he must grope
his way TO the lamp cabin or to some
other point where he can obtain the
proper assistance. He does the crop
Ing" with his hands stopping down
until he touches the tram lines along
which the coal is taken. and sliding
his hands along the metal until he
reaches his destination or meets some
one going In the same direction.
A coal hewer's earnings depend on
the weight Of coal he gets and also on
the number OF fathoms cut. A cubic
yard OF coal weighs about eighteen
hundredweight. and the outstretehed
arms OF an average man extend to
about one fathom, BY these measure
81 q
each man can roughly calculate his
earnings for any particular shift
London Tit.BiCs
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
The oriqin OF "Hurrah.r

The word "hurran" Is pure Slavo-
Man and is commonly heard from the
coast of DnImatia 10 Herring strait
when any OF the population living
within these limits is called on to give
PROOF OF courage and valor TIE ori.
gin OF the word belongs TO the print
tive idea that every man that dies
heroically for his country goes straight
TO heaven Hu-ray. 10 paradise ana
IN the shock and ardor OF battle the
coinbatantS inter that cry. as the
Turks do that OF "Aliab!" each animal
ing himself by the gertrude of imnIe-
diate recompense 10 forget earth and
TO contemn death.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
NanoIson and Rousseau.

Napoleon on visiting the tomb OF
Rousseau said:
1T would have been better for the
repose or France tbat this man had
never been born"
why so, Citizen Consult
III IS he who prepared the French
revolution"
II should have thought, Citizen Con
sui. that il was NOT for yon to complain
OF the revolution"
Well replied Napoleon. the future
will discover whether il was not better
for the repose OF the world thar neither
Rousseau nor had ever been horn
In these words we hear the first clar
ion of advancing Imperialism 1.-The
Personality OF Napoleon" ]. Holland
Rose.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17

of the Anti Saloon league attitude,
norrow-minded and intolerant. Be
cause The Reformer held the belief
that there was no great popular de-
mand for referendum on the liquor
question and called attention to the
fact that Mr.. Perry's belief was not
that of the town which he was sent
to Montpelier to represent it is ac-
cused of lining up with the liquor
men. Who are these liquor men,"
by the way? Is Judge James NJ. Ty-
Ter one ?-Brattleboro 2eformer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
Narrow and Intolerant

In commencing Representative Fer
ry for bearing the brunt of the fight
for the referendum bill the American
Issue, official organ of the Anti Sa-
loon league, says:
lie CHR. Perry had to suffer 4
most CALLING backiire from the local
paper in his own town and from one
or two papers which seemed deter
mined to line up with the liquor men. y
The foregoing is a typical example
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17

Judges C. A. Perry and II. N. Shaw
have done splendid job in the APP
pointment of license commissioners
for the town of Bennington. They
CAME here with an open mind and
talked the matter over with many cit
liens and have sought to appoint 4
board that would be above reproaeh
in every respect and in selecting Viii
liam A. Root, j. Ed. Walbridge and
Edwin d. Moore they have sue.
ceeded.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
What 10 Dissipation7

l think sometimes that our common
definition Of dissipation Is far too mar.
row. We confine it TO crude excuses
In the use of intoxicating liquor or the
crude qualification OF the passions, but
often these are only the outward sym.
Dols OF u more subtle inward disorder.
The things OF the world--a thousand
clamoring interests. desires. posses.
sions-hafe goo the better OF us Men
become drunken with the iuordinate
desire for owning things and dissolute
with ambition for political office. |
knew man once, n farmer. who de,
bauched himself upon land: fed his ap.
petite upon the happiness of his home.
cheated his children OF education. and
himself went shabby. bookess, Joy
less. comfortless, that he might buy
more land ] call that dissipation too
David Grayson in American Maga.
zine.
I see In the paper here that the
largest sponge ever found is three feet
across and ten feet in circumference"
That's just about Uncle Squeezly's
-i1o isn't II rn--Clnvoland plain DaaIar
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
How Indians Purified Water

The Indians bad Il way OF purifying
water from pond Or swamp by dig
ging a iIoe STOUT n foot across aud
down about six Inches below the water
level few feet from the pond. Aftec
ii was dlled with water they bailed II
out quickly. repeating the Dniling proc.
ess about three times After the third
bailing the hole would be Tiled with
filtered water. Try it, Boy Scout
Handbook.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17

Harry Thaw was dragged out Of
New Hampshire to be tried on the
charge of conspiracy. The jury
found that he was not guilty. 1t
would naturally be assumed that
Thaw would be entitled to return 10
New Hampshire as long as the charge
against him was not sustained, Du,
the great state of New York long ago
ceased to enforce even moderate
degree of justice. We never cease TO
be thankful that Ethan Allen and his
Bennington mob prevented Vermont
becoming q part Of New York. OF
all the states in the union New York
is the worst governed, the most cor
rupt, and the state. where the decent
citizen is most at the mercy of knav-
cry and wickedness. The millions Of
splendid people in the state of New
York seem 'nowerless to throw off
the yoke OF corruption and infamy
that makes the state the spawning
place and nursery of all that is evil
and wicked. Harry Thaw is a miser.
able, unfortunate specimen of human
ity who for the past ten years has
been the prey of greedy lawyers and
other eXtort.oners who have had
their hands continually in the Thaw
pocketbook. II now looks as though
the courts and officials of the state OF
New York are part and parcel Of the
determination TO work Thaw as long
as he has dollar to spend 1t is
another blot on the state of New
York which was pretty badly spotted
before.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
Advice TO YOUNG men.

When a man reaches middle life or
older, If he is poor he is glad he has
a Life Insurance Policy, and If he is
rich he isn't sorry. There is no dis.
appointment in insurance. National
Life Ins. Co, of VT (Mutual.) Earle
s. Kinsley, General Agent, Mead
Building, Rutland, VT Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
State OF Ohio, city Of Toledo, ;.

Lucas County, 90
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner of the firm OF L. J. Cheney
& Co.. doing business In the City OF To-
ledo. County aud state aforesaid and
that said firm will pay the sum OF ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev-
cry case of Cntarrh that caunot be cured
by the use Of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn 10 before me and subscribed IN
my presence, this 9Th day Of December,
A, d. 1886
(SeaD A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood ana mu.
cous surfaces OF the system. Send for
testimonials free.
n. j. CHEryEY e. co. Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. zoe.
Take Halls Family Pills FOR constipation.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
Cultures PROGRESS.

Our daughter is studying French
German. music. dancing and painting
said the fond mother complacenuy.
Well" replied Mr. Cumrox, THAT'S
a good start. Bot has she yet learned
not to use bnck number slang and
chew gum Washington Star.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
No Longer Company.
,iliurIty breeds conternnt.

Familiarity breeds contempt. ..r
True. When wis first invited over
to their house TO dinner they used to
let the dishes 20 until morning. now
they do them right after dinner and
call me into the Kitchen 10 help. De
troit Free Press.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
WHY Corn Has Silk.

A Potato Hill man who Is sixty-one
years old never knew until recently
that for every grain on an ear OF corn
there is silk running ont 10 the end
to light and moisture. These silks run
back under the husk. one is attached
to each grain on the cob and noursh.s
II. Everything in nature is more won
derfui than any invented story.-io
tato Hill Cor. in Atchison Globe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17

Italy will not gain much glory i'll
attacking Austria at this time. The
moral support of Austria and Ger
many through the triple alliance en-
abled Italy to take Tripoli away from
Turkey without interference. For
Italy now to try to grab territory
from Austria is about as honorable
as for healthy young man to strike
and rob his mother while she is sick
in bed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
Wednesday. March II, 1916,

Michael J. Moran is to be post
master at Brattleboro after all in
spite of Col. +. W. Childs and his
friends. 1t is a victory for James +
Kennedy, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic state committee. The Banner
is glad to testify from personal know
ledge that in selecting Mr.. Moran one
of the best citizens OF Brattlcbiro
has been named.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
His pafinition.
pa wbat Is a domacogne 2"

PA, what is Il domasogne?"
"A demagogne, my son. Is a person
who gives voice TO opinions that con.
Iict with your own."-New York Her.
aid.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
Couldn't Expeot Aim no.

Lady-l'm afraid you don't like
work, my good man. Tramp kin
/, mum? Works wot killed my poor
wife. Boston Transcript.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17

Peace hath higher tests Of manhood
than battle ever knew Whittier.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-17
Warner Sap Bucket

is the heaviest bucket made, size is
quarts, no bucket weighs less than ,
pounds: If your dealer has not got
them write us for prices. Geo. ID.
Jarvis e Co., Burlington, vt.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-09
RAILROADS PETITION STILL IS BEING HEARD

CHICAGO Mar 8.-The hearing Of the forty-one western railroads peti- ton to the Interstate Commerce Com mission for increased freight rates on certain commodities, was devoted to the presentation of statistics. These purported 10 show the com panies unable to maintain the roads at a standard demanded by the public and still pay adequate returns on the investment because of higher wages, taxes, and more requirements of elf ciency and forced reductions in rates.
 A witness for the railroads, h. E Wettling said the western roads in the next seven years would be re- Quired to raise money to meet S42O.- 00O00O in maturing obligations A E. Helm of Kansas. representing the shippers, elicited in cross eXamina. ton that in the last seven years the roads had met obligations equsllinq twice that much.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-09
NEW PRINCIPLE
 HELD IN OPINION
 SUPREME COURT
State Can Not Require a Road to Carry Any Commodity at a Loss Even Though Business is Profitable on Whole.

WASHINGTON Mar. s-The Su- preme court laidedown the principle that it is beyond the power of state to require a railroad to carry one com modity or class of tranic al a loss or only a nominal profit even though au adequate profit is obtained from its business as whole within the state Under this principle the court an- nAled the North Dakota Ignite coal rate law as to the Northern Pacific Minneapolis. st. Paul and Sault Ste Marie railroads and the West Vir- ginia two cent passenger rate law as to the Norfolk & Western
 Justice Hughes announced de- cision Justice Pitney alone dissent ed In arriving at the decision the court held when the state selects one commodity or class for traffic regu- lation, it must apportion to it pro per part of an general expenses and then allow substantial compensation "The state cannot estimate the cost of carrying coal said Justice Hughes in the North Dakota case. "by throw ing the expense, Incident 10 the main. tenance of road building and general expenses, upon the carriage of wheat. or the cost of carrying wheat by throwing the burden of upkeep Of the property upon coal and other com modiues."
 l In the West Virginia case he said
 "lt would appear that outside the field Of reasonable adjustment that the state should demand the carriage of passengers at a rate SO low that it could be justified only by placing up- on shippers of goods a burden of ex- cessiye charge in order to supply an adequate return for the entire ser vice" '"
Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-09
SECOND ATTEMPT
 AT SUICIDE Is SUCCESS
John Reid, Wrecked FinaCinaIy. Telephones to Preacher, Who PrayS for Him, Then humps From Building.

LOS ANGELES. Mar. Wrecked financially for the second time by the war when the European struggle. fol- lowing the Mexican strife. swept away his investments, John Reid. for merly general manager of a British oil concern, Ieaped one hundred and fifty feet to his death from the roof of a downtown hotel
 Before jumping Reid telephoued to a preacher who prayed aloud over the telephone for the man 10 give up his intertion, or at least wait un- til he could talk with him
 Letters Reid left prove that he chose his death as a means to as- sure his wife. Lillian, funds through ( $1OOOO life insurance policy. Some money he lost in Mexico and Europe had been supplied by Mrs. Reid. Be- fore killing himself, Reid selected his coffin and burial plot and wrote farewell letters to friends and busi- ness associates. Last December he attempted suicide at the same hotel by inhaling gas, but was resusticated after three hours work by physicians. Mrs Reid, hearing of the death. said her husband, while he failed to win financial victory on earth, was a good and brave man. She said she would retire from the world.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-09
MUCH WORKS
 STATE 1 LEGISLATURE
Land Bill, Appropriation Mea- SureS and Other Features Must Be Disposed of Before Thursday Noon.
CAN THE LEGISLATURE
 WORK THAT PROMPTLY
SOIOnS Still Working Over Land Code; Several Bills Are Sent to the Governor; Others Stay in Houses.

PHOENIX. Mar. s. - 1T. before Thursday, and in time for the gov euor to give the same consideration and his approval or disapproyal. the House and Senate have sent to him Ia land code to take the place of the law which now provides for the regu- lation Of the public lands and which law expires with the close of the present session. and also general appropriation bill no matter wheth- CT any other bin reaches him or not then there will be no extra session Of the legislature There is of course and must be an appropriation bill and while the land bill, which has passed the senate. and which makes the secretary of state the land com missioner, is not agreeable to the governor, he will accept it as better than nothing and the session will be closed He today made this known 10 several Of his callers There seems no possibility that the nCcess. ary laws to evade an extra session will be passed, for the house and sen ate are at outs over the question or land law.
 Several more sections of the appro- priation bill were through the house today when that bin gave way to the pressure for bills of lesser import ance. The prohibition bin was re- ferred in the house to the judiciary committee, and the bin appropnatiua a quarter of a million dollars for good roads was referred to the committee of the whole by suspending the rules and that committee approved the law appropriating $6O,OOO for convict work on roads
 In the senate the land bin was ur for the third reading, but errors were in the engrossed copy which lost it a place on the calendar and it went over for the day The new bank code was passed and sent to the house where it was put ahead of all bills on third reading It takes five hours to read the measure.
 The first proposed amendment to the state constitution. to be adopted by the legislature, was filed with the secretary of state today in the form of Martins bin providing that ini- tiated and referendum measures must be approved by a majority
Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-09
THAw ON TRIAL

NEW YORK, Mar S.-lu a room where he twice faced a jury for the murder Of Stanford White, Harry Thaw went to trial for conspiring to escape from the state hospital for the criminal insane at Matteawan The entire day was required to complete a jury.
 With Thaw, as co-defendants were five men who, the state charges, were parties to the alleged conspiracy. The taking Of testimony will begin tomorrow From the outset it is ey- ident the trial will be another fight on Thaw's part to gain his freedom His attorneys plainly intimated they intended to try and prove their eli ent was sane when he left the asylum
Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-09
TERRIBLE DEATH MET ON THE HIGH BY MINER
Unidentified Miner, Said by Some to be Garret, MangIed Be- meath Car Wheels of Moving Train.

Failing to hear repeated. and nerve racHng cries Of warninn. torn from the Ilos of two terror stricken mrake- men. a man supposed to have been James Garrett, was crushed to death yesterday afternoon on the spur Of the high line. Three cars, being push ed by the yard engine of the South western, went over the mans body The engine was stopped only after the truck rigging of the tender haa further mutilated tha body.
 IL was learned with no certainty yes. terday afternoon soon after the ter. rible accident that the unfortunate mans name was Garrett Several people are said to have identified him Others, who claim to have known Gar rett, declare that the dead man re sembled him in no way. It Is also said that Garrett's brotherinlaw vis- tied the morgue and after looking at the body said it was not Garrett. No one could be secured who could con. firm the story.
 Many who saw the body say thehy have seen the man about the District but could not remember what his name was. With some the belief suu remains that it is Garrett
 Many people saw the accident. The yard engine, with a full crew. was pushing three cars up the spur, which leaves just to the south of the post office building Two brakemen were standing on the forward car They saw the man walking along in front Of the onrushing train and called re. peatedly to warn him.
 People in the post office square, hearing the cries, looked up in time to see the man go under the wheels. An of the train except the engine passed over him, mutilating his body terribly,
 Soon there was a large crowd around the engineer Coroner Smith of Low ell was called and with a jury viewed the body after which it was removed to the O. K undertaking parlors.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-09
PHILIPPINE
 TRADE NEARLY
 DEAD IS REPORT
Lack Of Ships to Handle Com MerCe Is Said to Be Raising Freight Rates and Cutting the Prices as Consequence.
and Homer s. Cummings Of

WASHINGTON. Mar S.-Trade be- tween the United States and the Phil ippine islands is practically paralyzed and business conditions in the is- lands seriously depressed by lack of ship Co handle the commerce since the European war began. The situa. ton was reveale in letter from See retary of Commerce RedGeld to See retary Garrison SO whom Governor General Harrison had appealed for relief for the island shippers
 After reciting the conditions as cribed by the Governor General tho letter says. So long as there Is no law giving us any power over any shipping the government is powerlest tO act in the matter Private and corporate interests are in control of the situation We can do nothing" :"
 Reports of congested conditions in
 the islands said tht freight rates have doubled in the last ten days and that ships are not to be had to move products awaiting shipment at Ma nila. Prices are reported falling on account of short tonnage. and i'm creased rates Redheld is said to have investigated the request of liar rison that naval coliers be used to transport goods to the United States but found there was no power, under the existing laws, to utilize ships for such a purpose Also it is doubted if there is any authorit yto draft the Panama steamship line for the Phil ippine service, consequent ythe gov. ernment is helpless.