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The log cabin Democrat., 1915-05-03
OUR "JITNEY" OPERATES AND 5c.

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip. close with five cents to Foley Co.,, Chicago. Ill.,. writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Comound, for coughs, colds and croup. Foley Kidney PiIls, and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-09
LED CABINET IN PRAYER
President Wilson Asked Gods Help
in Guiding the Nation

How President Wilson went down
on his knees and led the cabinet in
prayer at a recent meeting was told
at indianapolis Friday by Bishop Viii
liam f. Anderson of Cincinnati, at a
session of the Indiana Methodist
Episcopal conference A United
States Senator told the bishop of the
incident The senator had heard it
from one of the cabinet members
who had prayed with the president.
When the president arrived at the
cabinet meeting said Bishop Ander-
son, g his face wore solemn look 1t
was evident that serious affairs ofthe
nation were in his mind. He said TO
the cabinet members. 81 don't know
whether YOU men believe in prayer
or not. / do. Let us pray and ask
the help of God"
"And right there the president of
the United States fell upon his knees
and the members OF the cabinet did
the same and the president offered
a prayer to God While the war rag
es in Euorpe we in this country
should thank God that in this crisis
we have a chief executive who is a
servant of God and who stands with
his hand in the hand of God Every
minister in the land should every
time he offers a prayer take Wood
row Wilson by the hand and lead him
into the presence of God, and ask
that he be given strength to continue
to be the great apostle of peace
among men"
There was a chorus of "amens"
from the ministers. Later n telegram
expressing the confidence of the del
esates in him was sent to the presi-
dent
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-09

The morning session opc~el !. $50
O'clock with a sunrise mcctn- I'D by
Rev. l.. A. Edwards of Newport and
at $50 there was devotional service
conducted by Rev. S. w. Anthony of
St Adams. During the forenoon the
normal classes continued the study
OF home mission work under the dir
ection of Rev. c. H. Merrill of ST.
Johnsbury. Miss Beulah H. Bates OF
Bennington spoke on foreign mission
work as applied to junior workers
and foreign missions were discussed
by Rev T, NJ. Bishop Of Cohoes, n.
y. Following the business session.
Rev, Thomas Stevenson, missionary
to Africa and Porto Rico, delivered
an address THE Birth of a Church"
Rev. J. S. Brown of Manchester
Center led the devotional service
which opened the afternoon session
and which was followed by study of
mission methods. At 3 o'clNck a
home missionary play. "Cndy's
Chance" was presented under the dir
ection of Miss Maude r. Davis,
state superintendent of missions. Rev
Edward A. Tuck, field secretary OF
the New Eangland Lords Day league
delivered an address, and Miss II.
lone Smith and Miss Eta F Graves
discussed Christian Endeavor meth
DDS.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-09
PURE BLOOD MAKES
HEALTHY PEOPLE

Hoods Sarsaparilla removes
scrofula sores, boils and other erup-
tiUns, because it drives out of the
blood the humors that cause them.
Eruptions cannot be successfully
treated with external applications,
because these cannot purify the
blood.
Hoods Sarsaparilla makes rich,
red blood, perfects the digestion,
and builds mp the whole system. In
sist on having Hoods. Get il now
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-09
c. E. CONVENTION ENDS
Busy Day at Closing of Three Days
Session at Poultney

Poultney, Oct, 1.-THE three days
session of the state convention OF
Christian Endeavor societies ended
this evening with a conservation SER
vice following an Interpretation OF
the Biblical character Oh Nehemiah
by Rev. C. II. Boyd of Burlington.
The evening session opened at 7,SO
with praise service conducted by
F. o. Vaughn OF Fair Haven.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-09
SOUTH sHAFTsBURY

TIE semi annual meeting of the
Parent.Teacher association will be
held Monday evening, Oct. IL at 1870
in school hall All interested are in
vited to be present.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
Quake-Proof Homes.

Can man protect himself against
earthquakes? Japan says yes, for of
recent years she has been applying the
results Of seismology to the construc-
ton of bridges, embankments, tall
chimneys and suburban villas. Built
on anti-earthquake principles, these
new buildings have up to now defied
Japan's persistent one-a-minute efforts
to shake them down. Had the houses
of Avezzano been erected on the JAP
anese rules instead of on dry-building
principles it is likely that there would
have been as little loss of life as there
was in San Francisco, where the steel
built houses cracked in all directions,
but did not bury their inmates under
shapeless ruins.-London Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
Economy in Small Thinas.

An engineer who is careless in
starting and stopping may easily
break the air hose in time, and the
cost Of that equals hauling ton of
freight 225 miles. A broken draw
bar knuckle equals hauling one ton
of freight 300 miles, and a fireman's
lost shovel means hauling ton 80
miles to pay for it.
The economy bug is carried into
every department of the road, and
track walkers, switchmen, yardmas-
ters and shop workers are brought
under the new system. Trackmen
and switchmen are warned that Ian
terms must be handled with greater
care A white lantern globe equals
in cost the hauling of ton of freight
20 miles; a red lantern globe, Is
miles, and a complete lantern, 100
miles Even a pound of waste for
wiping engines and switch locks is
worth ten and half miles Of freight
haulage.-Illustrated Sunday Maya
zine.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
24,OOO,OO0 Home-Makers.

According to bulletin by Mrs. Iris
Prouty OLeary on Cooking as a
Training for Home Making Vocational
Schools" issued by the United States
bureau of education, home-making out
ranks all other trades in the number of
persons employed, according to the
bulletin. Of the 31,000,000 females
over ten years of age in the United
States, 24,000,000 are engaged in home
making. Mrs. O'Leary says: While
girls may enter other trades, the great
majority of women become at one time
or other home-makers. Wage-earning
for them is but a temporary affair
which they will leave for permanent
position in their own homes"
The bulletin lays emphasis on the
fact that cooking is scientific process
and should be taught as such, especial
ly in the new vocational schools being
established.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
AVOIDING THE STRAIN
FRICTION TRANSMISSION FOR
SMALL LOCOMOTIVE.
Machine That Is Said to Make for
Economy in Operation of Railroad
Can Haul Load of TWen-
ty Tons.

Friction transmission is employed
on small four-wheel-drive gasoline
locomotive which is being construct
ed for industrial purposes such as
clay working. A fiber wheel operates
in contact with friction disk, carry
ing the power by chain to a jack
shaft from which it is directed to the
front and rear axles. There is a f1ex-
ible connection between the friction
shaft and the engine which relieves
the strain upon the latter The ad-
vantage claimed for the transmission
system in this use is that when a
heavily loaded train is starting, suff1-
cfent slippage may be allowed until
the locomotive pulls out easily, thus
avoiding a heavy strain upon gears
and shafting in starting. The locomo-
tive has drawbar pull Of about 500
pounds when travelling five miles an
hour, which means that it can haul a
20-ton load at that speed on level
grade.-Popular Mechanics
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
USED OIL AS LIFE SAVER
British Governments Recognition Of
American Tanker's
Captain.

Another striking instance of the
value of oil as life saver at sea was
recalled when the British government,
through the Liverpool marine depart
ment of the board of trade, present
ed Captain J. B. Johnson, master OF
the steamship Lackawanna, and for
merly chief officer of the Narragan.
sett (both steamers belonging to the
Anglo-American Oil company, Limit
ed), with binocular glass in recog-
milton of his services while on the
Narragansett in assisting to rescue the
passengers and crew of the steam
ship Volturno, which was abandoned
in the North Atlantic in consequence
of fire, says the Pail Mall Gazette.
The steamship Narragansett first
received the S. o. S. from the Car
mania. Immediately on arrival at
the scene the former vessel pumped a
large quantity of oil on to the tremen-
dous seas, thereby smoothing the
troubled waters and greatly facilitat-
ing the task of rescue.
Various other presentations have
been made in this connection Cap
tain Harwood of the Narragansett re-
ceived piece of plate from the
board of trade, and gifts were, made
to other members of the crew by the
same body.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
OUTsP0KEN ENEMY OF ROAD
tempt at All to Conceal VIM
dictive Sentiments.

The following letter, says Railway
and Locomotive Engineering, was re-
ceived by the claim agent of one of
the western railways not long ago:
For some weeks past my dog has
been in the habit of sicking himself
unto the cars as they sped past my
place, and he never harmed no one by
so doing, nor never would, as I have
known him from child, very peace
full and fond of young children, and
awful fond of the butchers shop, be-
fore where he would sit up on his
hind legs and beg with voice of JOY
for anything he requested. When he
savage, but still would niver injure
the train by word or deed if you had
hundred trains whizzing past by day
or mite.
'But what does the fireman on the
Stick in the Mud Express do but en-
tees my dog to close quarters and
throw chunks of coal and squirts hot
water upon him, which he tells me in
a blith and frivilous tone is to take
the bark off my dog. That is what
makes me halt your railroad and that
is not all by a long choke. for yester-
day they misled my dog and got him
in front of the engine, when they
pulled her wide open and smashed
my dog in way that hurts your rode,
and causes it to be looked at askaDce
by every thinking tax payer and
mother. I say fly on such rode as
yours, with it's sandwiches that have
thin rim of ham round the aige, so
when you lock your teeth with it you
get left, and the rode has got your
money in Dennis. Fly on the whole
thing is what | say"
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
ONE BANE OF RAILROAD MEN
"Hot Boxes" Are Easily AvoidabIe-
Show Rank CareIessness of Car
Department Employees.

Serious delays and accidents to
trains are often due to overheated
bearings or, as they are known in rail-
road parlance, 'hot boxes
A ''hot box' is the result of rank
carelessness on the part of employees
in not keeping a good vigil for the
condition of the car wheels, or rather
the care of the journals of the trucks
under the car where the "hot box"
is found A 'hot box" is a sign that
the safety first rule is not practiced
by some car department men.
There is no excuse for a hot box"
after car is sent out if the train is
carefully looked over at each terminal.
Primarily, a "hot box is caused by
poor waste and an insufficient "greas-
ing at the time it should have been
done and there is no excuse for one A
''hot box" is liable to cause wreck,
and a wreck on most railroads costs
money, much more than the price Of
sufficient quantity of waste and oil
and grease to protect the journals of
the car wheels.
The farmer who buys new buggy
has pretty good idea of what hot
box" means, and the ways to prevent
it. He sees to it that the spindle is
well creased SO it will not get hot.
He watches it closely, and does not
take any chances on the wheels rum
ming hot. If they did the wheels would
stick, and if the farmer persisted in
driving ahead, he would soon have q
bad spindle and a bad wheel.
However the results would not be
SO disastrous as they would be in a
train of cars running at a speed of
fifteen or twenty miles an hour. It's
no wonder that trainmen use language
unfit for Sunday school class when
they find a 'hot box in their train.
They know that someone has been
careless and Sinking in his work, and
that is to blame.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
send for Amy Ferris. So the new dec

send for Amy Ferris. SO the new dec
orator became known.
Not long after this a parish house
was under construction in Hartford.
Conn, and when the authorities came
to buy the furnishings it occurred to
one who had seen some of Amy Fer
ris' work that she was just the person
whose advice they needed
So Miss Ferris was sent for, and she
went to work to plan out a scheme.
AS usual, she drew up a very specific
statement of what she purposed doing
before she started in her work. There
wasn't detail in the whole plan that
suggested that the building was in
tended for church home 1t was
just as comfortable and informal as
though it were private house.
Surprised the Church Folk.
AS she showed her plans, some of
the authorities looked aghast. They
had associated parish house with
something dark and funereal They
never thought of having missionary
meeting and choir rehearsals and Sun
day school and prayer meetings in
such comfortable-looking place. But
why not?" Miss Ferris asked, and she
had her way. Another thing that sur
prised some Of the good parishioners
about the new parish house was the
basement, where the men of the church
had their meetings. This was actually
called rathskeller and Miss Ferris
had furnished it in modern Viennese
style for all the world like one of the
Austrian cafes she had seen. why
not?" said Miss Ferris again when the
people looked surprised. TT is a good
honest style of decoration. Men like
it and men are to use the room" And
so the plan went through.
Since that time Miss Ferris has be-
come a leading interior decorator, with
suite of six rooms, including a shop
where she has on sale all manner of
furniture and lamps, draperies and
other wares used in interior decor.
ating. She decorates not only parish
houses, but churches, Office buildings,
club rooms, stores, town houses, and
country cottages and villas One of
her most recent achievements was in
decorating the home for the women
workers of the New York city mis-
sion
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
She posted. the letters and

house. She posted, the letters and
waited.
With one single exception she re-
bidding her come and inspect the
houses to her hearts desire The
young American girl started out at
once alone and unintroduced to see the
dukes and earls and lords of England
In many cases these important peo.
tertained her cordially. In other cases
they instructed their servants-bu butlers
and housekeepers-tO receive her and
give her carte blanche to their houses.
At WorsIey Hall.
One of the great houses Miss Ferris
hall, near Manchester. 1t belonged to
the earl of Ellesmere, who had as
part of his household decorations the
matchless art treasures collected by
the duke of Bridgewater The earl an
swered her request promptly and on
her arrival instructed his head butler
to treat her with every consideration.
The butler showed her solemnly
through the house from one spacious
hall to another, telling her the story
of every tapestry and painting better
than the earl could have done himself.
Finally he showed her into the count
ess of Ellesmere's boudoir.
will you please to remain here as
long as you wish, ma'am," he said.
There may be several things that will
interest you. When you are through
inspecting them if you will please
press the push button 1 will return.
You will perhaps feel freer to look
about if you are alone"
The butler withdrew and the young
American girl found herself sitting
alone and bewildered in the countess
of Ellesmere's richly upholstered arm
chair. Before her wondering eyes
there hung a priceless Raphael, near
it a Vandyke, a portrait of one of the
earls ancestors, and there a Lawrence.
There were rare prints and ancient
tapestries also hanging on the wall,
and the furniture-Elizabeth chairs
and Jacobean tables that would have
made an American collector stagger.
And here she was. with permission
to study it and enjoy it to her heart s
content-just because she had asked.
This experience taught Miss Ferris
women long time to learn. 1t taught
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
FIRST ALL-STEEL CAB0oSE
Eastern Railroad Has Done Away
With Wooden Car, So Long
a Menace to Safety

The wooden cabooSe attached to the
rear end OF a freight train for the
housing OF the crew has always been
a factor in railroad fatalities. In a
rear end collision it usually happens
that it is smashed to splinters and the
crew killed: often fire is started by a
broken lamp or lantern and employees
who might otherwise escape serious
injury are burned to death. Distressing
accidents on passenger trains stirred
a public sentiment which is forcing
the railroads to the abandonment of
the wooden coach. but until quite re-
Gently nothing has been done to re-
move the same dangerous condition
on the freight train. A short time ago,
Influenced, perhaps, by the nation
wide safety-frst movement, one OF
the great eastern railroads built the
first all-steel caboose. 1t is without
posts above the floor, the necessary
rigidity having been accomplished by
means of sheet steel bulkheads. The
car should be non-collapsible and fire
proof Railroad work requires the
trainman to spend more of his life in
the caboose than the clerk spends in
an Office or the mechanic in the shop.
He both eats and sleeps there Con-
sequently it's equipment is to him
matter of Importance. The new car is
furnished with improved types Of
hunks, an improved stove for heating
and cooking, a washstand a desk and
lockers for the crew, water cooler
and a refrigerator.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
HOW AMY FERRIS
FOUND HER PLACE
Story of a Young Woman Who
Has Become a Leading
Decorator.
VISITED HOMES OF GREAT
Polite Request Gave Her Entree to
Houses of England's Nobility
Her Novel Ideas of Decorating
Residences and Shops,
BY OSBORN MARSHALL.


Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure Newspa-
paper Syndicate.)
When Amy Ferris wen- to Europe 70
study interior decoration she wanted
to see the real thing. She was tired
of studying books and looking at pho
tographs and diagrams of the insides
Of houses. She wanted to see with her
own eyes the rich and costly interiors
of the famous mansions and historic
castles of the old country. She want
ed to know how the dukes and earls
and lords who owned these places ac-
tually lived in them. So she decided
to visit them.
But how can you?" her friends
asked when she told them her inten-
Gion. You don't know single titled
person in Europe-and you have no
millionaire friends in America to in
troduce you to them"
Il am going to ask permission" she
said, and that is just what she did.
When she arrived in London she
looked in the various blue books and
red books that tell all about the no
bility and their estates and found out
what castles and mansions she wanted
to inspect. Her list included every
important earl and duke and lord of
the realm. Then she sat down and
wrote a polite letter to each of these
distinguished men and told him that
she was an American girl studying in
terror decorating and would deem it
courtesy if he would let her see his
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
Fewer Killed on Railroad Tracks.

Statistics furnished by the Pennsyl
vania railroad show that there has
been marked decrease during the
last seven years in the number of per.
sons killed while ltrespassing on rail-
road property In 1907 the number
was 572 During 1914 1t was 301, the
lowest figure with the exception OF
that for 1912, when 255 trespassers
were killed. These figures are for
the system east of Pittsburgh only.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
Started on Borrowed Money.

O]Sti SSN VII w SVSd "OuVys
1t was after she had finished a
short course in the art school that she
went to Europe. On her return she
went to work in the shop of an interior
decorator, where she remained three
weeks. At the end of that time she
decided to start in by herself.
Her friends tried to discourage her.
1t was perfectly impossible, they told
her, for an interior decorator to start
in alone in New York without all kinds
Of capital and all kinds of backing.
She would have to furnish her office,
to buy equipment-stationery, sewing
machines and all the other parapherna-
liza of her trade. But Miss Ferris was
confident of her own ability and her
own judgment. She borrowed five
hundred dollars, took tiny office in a
first-class Office building in the New
York shopping center and waited to
make good. In the meantime she told
everyone she knew about her plans,
and kept up with the alumnae activi-
ties Of her alma mater
One of the first orders that came to
her was to decorate the home of Miss
Woolley, the president of Mount Hol-
yoke college. Not long afterward the
Collegiate Equal Suffrage league
opened little shop in the shopping
center of New York and Miss Ferris,
who is an enthusiastic suffragist her
self, offered to decorate the place free
provided the suffrage league would
consult her on all decorating schemes
The league had taken a hopeless little
basement store. 1t was dark and
stuffy, but with thoughtful arrange
ment of yellow and brown and careful
ly arranged lights the little shop was
thoroughly transformed.
Soon Became Known.
There are many suffragists of wealth
and influence in New York and when
they came to the suffrage shop to buy
the latest book on the feminist move
ment, suffrage note paper, banners and
badges and other paraphernalia, they
were struck by the pleasing effect of
the shop. Later when they thought
of having their town or country homes
furnished or refurnished, they would
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
Mathnd in His Madness.

Hyker-Until yesterday l had nc
idea that old Graspit was a philanthro
pist. ,,
Pyker-How did you get >he idea?
Hyker-He was circulating a peti
tion for the purpose of raising money
to enable a poor widow to pay hel
rent.
Pyker-Graspit knows his business
all right. He owns the house the pool
widow lives in.
The Winslow mail., 1915-04-03
Extracting Tar From Gas.

Electricity is being employed with
success at Detroit coke oven for the
purpose of removing tar from artif-
cial gas in the purifying process. The
gas is passed through a highly ionized
field, which is produced by high
tension discharge of current ranging
as high as $4,000 volts, with the result
which are then easily separated.