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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-03

Thomas Manion of Mt. Carmel,
Pa. owns a thirty-year-old hen.
In the heart of Russian salt
fields many houses are built of
salt.
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TOWER COLLAPSEs.
Omitted Press Leased Wire.

CHICAGO, 2Thirty Chicago
lice to have been injured when two towers the
factory haywood
y injured Company officials that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-03
BASEBALL MAN RE-ELECTED

CINCINNATI, o., JAM 1.-The National
elected Garry Hermann chairman and
Bruse secretary and
The commission then adjourned but will
later I'm the day.
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1t Is the Supreme Duty Of
Every American to Watch
Great World Developments

tin
rapidly developing toward crisis is to be based intelligent
ton the facts that the their significance
the tremendous drama which being mind
The "aloofness from diplomacy which the
end on Monday Dec B 1916 when President Wilson each the
nations asking them for the sake Of humanity the interest
tell each other and the neutral nations what they fighting
Whether for good evil this president made the United
THE E 9 s EpER E A a CERTAIN
TOUCHED IN HIS MOST INTIMATE LIFE BY THE IMPENDING
ERFUL
That is important of every
igence.
The issue war; hanging
balance will be decided in the near future
Ii there to be the United States the richest and potentially the
most powerful nation the world cannot would view of the pres
dents action eade It's share OF the responsibility OF either BY
treaty. alliance equally binding form of agreement that the will
1t responsibility
president had not initiated proposals without pleading
guilty and cowardce incompatible with national
self respect and dignity
So then when peace shield,
mental policies guided respect
nations, during its 40
The country up
country 1t not too much that this will be the
in the development of national ean augt with the
en possibilities for good evil to and child and
the unborn generations
What about probabilities
that from the will be waged with roy and
with less regard for international law and the rights Of neutral nations than
before.
Each side will realize that the must be fought the bitter
Knockout as Lloyd George has said .
Under the conditions which will rapidly develop
battle fronts would nothing
the United States the
neutrality which they have occupied with such great difficulty during
Far be it from alarm unnecessarily peace
would be failing duty did
ton the serious which only probably impending
Probably nothing that all of slightest
But the questions which these
this republic for decision of supreme
responsibilities
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Yesterdays Late News
FEAR FOR BIG LINER

NEW YORK, Jan. 2-The S,000on White
which left Liverpool Dec with
reached
should have made the transatlantic thirteen
Officials of the line believe George up They
point the Germans
portanee they would have given out the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06

infertile. The shells must be clean
and free from cracks a single crack.
ed egg may cause the whole batch to
spoil. Get water glass solution from
the drug store. dilute with nine parts
of cool boiled water and place eggs
in small crooks containing the water
glass. The solution should cover the
eggs TO II depth of two inches above
the topmost layer OF eggs Cover the
crock and place in a cool place where
1t will not have to be moved about.
Replace the water which evaporates
with cool boiled water occasionally.
Limewater may be used in place of
water glass. Make the solution with
three pounds of unslaked lime in five
gallons Of cool boiled water and use
the clear liquid after the lime settles
Containers for eggs must be clean and
should be scalded with hot water after
washing.
Eggs preserved in water glass or
limewater should be rinsed in clean
cold water and used Immediately after
taking them from the solution. They
can be used for soft boiling up to
November. frying until December and
after that, until March. for omelets,
scrambled and in cooking
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
WAR UPON INSECTS.
A Conflict That Sooner or Later the
World Muct Face

A writer in an English journal has
suggested that the next great war will
be between man and the insect world.
This war would he wagcd not only on
insects that actually attack man him
self, but also on all those winged or
creeping things that are his enemies in
less direct ways-those species that. TO
use the writer's phrase, exist at the
expense of human progress and happi-
ness
We all shudder With horro: at the
thought of scorpion or of n ccntipede.
although few OF us ever see one Of
them. but we do not shudder enough Mt
the thought of the untold millions Of
disgusting things that we are putting
up with all the time.
Perhaps 1t is unfortunate for us that
many of these harmful and even death
dealing insects are very small. f they
were as large as they are bad we
should soon rid ourselves of them.
When we see the househy or the mos
quito hugely magnificd we realize at
once that, compared with them struc-
turally. the tiger is a charming and
beautiful thing, but we go away and
forget the magnificd picture and sub
NIT to the original of it.
The determination of these pests is
duty that the world faces, righteous
crusade in which we should all join
The scientists will tell us the best way
TO wage the fight, but scientific meth
DDS must be REINFORCED by public
opinion that will cease to tolerate UNI
clean dwellings, stagnant pools, uncov-
cred tanks, Accommodations of exposed
filth and everything else that invites
vermin and menaces human beings.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village TOLD
Briefly for Busy Readsrs

Miss Rachael Conan, who has been
visiting in town for several weeks, has
returned to Boston.
Branch No OF St Marys Guild
will meet Thursday afternoon at the
Parish house from to 5.
There will be dancing at the rooms
of the Young Woman's Club Thursday
evening from $50 to 11.S0. Admission
20 cents.
Mrs. Joseph Fortier of Schenectady
is passing the week with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lawns of Ben
nington Falls.
Frank Stockwell, Bennington boy,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Stockwell,
| has enlisted in the ambulance corps
being organized by DR.. William Stick
ney at Rutland
Regular meeting of Bennington
council Knights of Columbus will be
held Thursday evening There is i'm
portant business and a large atten-
dance is requested
Mrs. Mary l.. White OF Depot street
raised a flag at her home this noon
with the assistance of neighbors and
friends. William Watson acted as
spokesman and light refreshments
we're served.
Rev and Mrs Phillip Schuyler of
Portland, Me- are expected to arrive
in town Saturday and will be the
over Sunday guests of Col. l.. f.
Abbott. Mr.. Schuyler will preach in
St Peters church Sunday.
Dave" Shean, former northern
league baseball player, who has been
seen on Bennington diamonds on sever
al occasions and who is now the sec
ond baseman OF the Cincinnati ma
tionals, was prominent actor in the
game yesterday when the Reds defeat
ed the New York Giants to ..
Thirteen young men, nine of whom
were recruited by Capt Ernest w.
Gibson OF company | while in town
Monday evening, two reservists and
two additional recruits, Floyd II.
Morse and Charles Silver, made up the
detachment of Bennington boys who
left here this afternoon for Fort
Ethan Allen. John Purcell, a reser-
visit. who had charge of the squad, d>f
not go but gave his transportation TO
one of the new recruits He will go
later in the week.
George E. Donnelly has received
letters recently from his brother,
Edward Donnelly, now a member of
theatrical company now in South
Africa Mr.. Donnelly writes that the
company is meeting with excellent
success and that its members are be-
ing royalty entertained by the people
of the communities in which the com
pany is appearing. The company ex-
poets to remain in South Africa about
thirty weeks and to make world tour
before returning to America.
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Old Time London Ruffinns.

At the beginning of the eighteenth
century number of rufIianly young
men of the higher classes-called by
Swift "a race OF rakes that play the
devil about the town every night
known as "Mohocks," infested London,
sallying out drunk into the streets, car
rying short clubs loaded with lead at
both ends and perpetrating shame
full cruelties upon peaceable passersby,
wnntonly wounding and disdguring the
men and subjecting all alike to afro
cious insults. Lecky says that ma
irons inclosed in barrels were rolled
down the steep and stony Snow hill
Watchmen were numerically beaten.
and their nses were slit. Coaches and
chairs were overturned on rubbish
heaps, and country gentlemen visiting
the theaters had to be accompanied
by their armed retalners as if in time
of war.-Pearson's Weekly.
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WORRY DOES NO GOOD.
II Won't Bring You Health or Happi-
ness or Another Job, lU

Worry is like drug. 1t grows upon
| you. lt gets to be n habit. 1t is in
sidious. 1t is dangerous. 1t is deadly.
Worry saps the vitality. 1t makes you
old. 1t brings wrinkles. 1t brings gray
hairs. 1t brings i'll health. Worry is
an invention of the evil one.
You worry at the possibility of
losing your work? Don't You are
suggesting unemployment to yourself.
Suggestions frequently become realiza-
tons. If you suit your job and your
job suits you why worry? Why think
about it? DO your best in the position
you occupy. Strive to do better, but
don't worry because you appear to
make no progress. All in good time.
Nothing ever came by worry.
Should bad trade or such-like lead
you to believe you may lose your posi-
ton look out for another If you do
good, efficient work, as well as your
competitor or better, why, YOU will
probably secure just as good a posi-
ton as the one you are worrying about
You may be worrying over the health
of relation. What help will ii be for
you to worry yourself i'll also? Is there
reason OF sense in it? Worry brings
nothing good to pass, never did, never
will.
Keep a brave front, Keep steadily
on the march, whether you have any
reserves to bring up or not. Why, IL
you forget the strain on your resources.
forget your problems, forget your anx-
ieties for time. you will find on re-
consideration that a quarter, maybe
half. have disappeared.
AS friend OF ours says: "Do the
work; let the other fellow do the wor-
rying" You will find plenty of people
in the world doing enough worrying
for two. Don't you do it.-Exchange.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Pimento Butter.

This is such an excellent relish 10
use with broilcd fish and also as a
sandwich filling that it is sure to prove
a popular favorite Use the canned
pimentos drained, chop finely and
then mash to a pulp with spoon.
Beat quarter OF cupful of butter to
a cream, add sufficient of the pimento
pulp to flavor to taste. pinch of eel
cry salt, tablespoonful of lemon
Juice and one heaping tablespoonful of
chopped parsley. Mix well before using.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Mothers Doll Story
A Baby Doll

May was just three years old on the
last day of May. That's how she GOT
her namc.
Her papa was rich. SO May always
had to wear nice clean dresses with
lace and ribbons on them and big pint
bows IN her hair She never could
seem TO mHnage it TO go out and dig in
the garden the way some little girls do
little girls who wear blue socks and
nice blue gingham gowns with big
pockets on them.
But il May never could get into the
Garden to dig she had one big comfort.
The was n lovely little doll baby that
everybody who knew her used TO say
looked just like May herself when she
was Il tiny baby.
THIS baby doll had beautiful car
riaec to ride around in. And, Just like
May, she always wore fine white
dresses. OF course. baby dresses are
very long and have lots of lace around
the bottom And she always wore a
French cap OF white lace and pink
rosebuds.
SO around and around the big piazza
May used to wheel her doh baby in a
beautiful carriage. But deep down In
her heart she always wanted to wheel
her baby right out into the garden and
tip her over into the verbena bed. But
this would have soilcd her lovely dress.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
CoLoRs IN sURNAMEs.
Why the English Word "Red" Is Not
to Be Found Among Them.

WY Niu Au9fSff WOfQ nSo 10 wv
to Be Found Among Them.
Black. White and Brown are COM
mon surnames In English. but there Is
no English family called Red. The for
mer names were given originally be-
cause of the complexion of the persons
who received them. 1t seems strange
that in a people among whom red
heads were common none should have
acquired the name Red" especially as
this is frequently bestowed as nick
name. A dictionary explains this us
follows:
RED, like lead Qed), with which It is
phonetically parallel. had in Middle
English n long vowel, which has be-
come shortened. The long vowel re-
mains, however, IN the surnames Read.
Reade, Reed, Reid. which represent old
forms of the adjective and the exist
ence of which as surnames explains the
almost total absence of the expected
surname Red, parallel TO Black, Brown,
White, etc"
The equivalent of red" in foreign
languages is just as common a sur
name as are the equivalents of
BLACK" white" and brown" for the
reason that in them there has been no
modification of the original word
New York World.
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Food Economy.

Every bit Of meat and fish can be
combined with cereals or vegetables
for making meat cakes, meat or fish
pies, and so on, and TO add flavor and
food value 10 made dishes.
Every spoonful of left over gravy
can be used in soups and sauces or as
1avoring for meat pies, croquettes and
vegetables.
Every bit of clean fat trimmed from
meat and every spoonful of drippings
and every bit of grease that rises when
meat is boiled can be clarified. if need
be- and is valuable in cookery. Don't
fatten your garbage pail at the ex-
pense of your bank account.-Ios An
geles Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Save Bottles to Use
In Putting Up Fruits

The home canning specialists of the
United States department of agricul-
turc urge every housckeeper to save
bottles. especially wide necked ones,
for putting up fruits, preserves. jellies,
jams and fruit juices. Saving of bot
ties is highly important they say, as
there threatens TO be serious short
age of regular jars and preserving cans
This season.
The fruit products named, if sealed
with corks and parafiin, can be kept
perfectly in these makeshift contain
ers. Jellles, jams and preserves can
be kept even in ordinary drinking
glasses by the use of paper and paraf
'fin. Fruit juices should he packed in
ordinary small necked bottles.
Vegetables, soups and meats, on the
other hand, to keep must be sealed by
The usual fruit jar or tin can packing
methods. Reserve regular containers
for foods that cannot be packed in bot
ties.
The specialists are also urging all
members of canning clubs and others
not only to can products, but to dry
and evaporate all such products as APP
pies, pumpkin and squash. They adj
wise strongly that if containers are
scarce locally those IN stock should be
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
How to Tell the German FLAG.

The flag of Germany used in every
place except on battleship is composed
OF three broad stripes, red, white and
black, which run the fun length Of the
flag. No other mark distinguishes it..
Tho flag used on German battlcship
is white with two black stripes the
length and width of the flag. making
large cross and three small black. white
and red stripes and a small cross in the
upper left hand corner.-Cedar Rapids
Gazette
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Method of Preserving
Eggs In Water Glass

When the hens are producing eggs
faster than they can be used on the
home table, or if neighbor has an
ovcrsupply of eggs. it is time to put
them away against the egg shortage
Of fall and winter, according to the
Kansas College Of Agriculture, which
tie, ) how to do il:
Legs must be fresh and preferably
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Home Cookery
A Novel Fruit Salad.

Mix together one cupful of large
Strawberries cut in halves, two diced
bananas, two slices of chopped pine
apple and the yellow pulp from one
large sweet orange. Let the fruit stand
IN a cold place covered for half an
hour, then drain. Place two heaping
tablespoonfuls of the fruit mixture in
each nest Of crisp lettuce leaves. Pour
over whipped cream dressing that
has been favored and blended with
the drained fruit juices and serve i'm
mediately.
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CHROMIUM STEEL.
A. Metal That Will Neither Rust Nor
Become furnished.

~. hCtdl mat WIN NGit1eT NuSb INor
Become Tarnished.
Cutlery made of steel that neither
trusts nor furnishes Is now sold in all
| first class shops. The new STEEL" says
| the Scientific American, was discover
ed in England. but is now being made
in the United States and sold as table
cutlery. 1t is what is commonly called
an alloy steel-that is. il differs from
ordinary steel in that it contains a
special element or metal.
In this case it Is chromium which is
mainly responsible for bestowng the
stainless and rustless properties. BY
Incorporating from II to Is per cent of
this metal in mild carbon steel the new
properties are obtained.
IAN English metallurgist in gathering
together some rods of steel which had
lain a long time in his laboratory,
noticed that while most Of them were
badly rusted or stained, "A few were as
bright as when originally made. This
led to the discovery and manufacture
of the steel.
1.-THE new steel is more expensive
than the old, which usually appears in
the every day table knife. Its advan-
tages and lasting properties. as well as
its appearance and the convenience
arising from its use, more than Offset
the extra cost. The fact that it does
not tarnish, stain or corrode augments
its value decidedly. 1t is supplanting
not only the old steel cutlery, but also
the plated. Its possibilities, however,
are by no means limited to cutlery.
One can readily imagine to what count
less uses n stainless and rustleSs metal
can be put"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Southern Eaa Dish.

Heat an earthen dish over moder-
ate fire and drop in piece of butter.
Season with an onion minced fine. a
little rcd pepper and small saltspoon-
full Of fine salt. Break six eggs very
carefully into the dish and cook until
the whites set Turn carefully, cook
until done and serve hot from the dish
In which they were cooked.
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Garden Paths.

Have all garden paths with some
pl;.;Sts of fragrance growing alongside.
In some gardens of larger size special
fragrant pathways are built where they
appear to pass through Tickets redo
lent with pleasant odors. But every
path may easily have enough fragrance
to keep the mind unconsciously in the
garden spirit.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06

Many women allow their faces to be-
come tense and set and then wonder
why lines develop. Relax the muscles,
cultivate pleasant expression and re-
member that lips which curve upward
and smile are much more attractive
than the dropping sort.-Pittsburgh
Press.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Camp Fire Girls.

Home enlistment is now the slogan of
the campfire girls in the United States.
They are putting to use the knowledge
of household work which the govern
ment requires them to acquire and re-
lieying their elders of home duties so
that the women can take mems jobs
while the latter are at the front.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Lima nean and Celery Salad.

Take two cupfuls of cold boiled lima
beans, n cupful of chopped celery and
four hard boiled eggs, also chopped.
Toss in mayonnaise, add the juice of
an onion and lay up the salad on white
lettuce leaves. Garnish with strips of
red pepper.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
II LURES Benniaetons New Department Store

used TO preserve perishable products
which havo the highest nutritiye value
Nothing should be packed in Jars or
cans which can be conserved effective
ly in other ways
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Agricultural Expert
Favors Food Control

Food spectators and gamblers, some
OF them men OF great wealth, who
have been opposing the request Of the
president that congress give power TO
the executive TO control the distrlbu-
tion of food are allies of the kaiser and
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06

Shotgun cartridge wads made in
France from graduated cork are said
to lessen the recoil of guns in which
they are used without impairing their
efficiency.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06

To the ice consumers on and after
Monday June 18th the price of ice to
users of 40 cakes or less per week will
be 20 cents per cake. Users of over
40 cakes per week; 15c per cake. No
deviation from these prices.
Signed L. II. PERCY,
NJ. T. Hamlen
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Lettuce and Eoa Salad.

Cut with Kitchen scissors white let
tuce leaves into crisp ribbons. Place
the cold boiled egg cut in pond lily
fashion in nest of the lettuce and
heap with mayonnaise.
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ONE WHOLE DAY.

Every day is little life, and
our whole life is but a day re-
peated. Those, therefore, that
dare lose a day arc dangerously
prodigal, those that dare mis-
spend it desperate.-Bishop Hall.
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traitors to their country. said Carl
yrooman, assistant secretary of agri,
culture. in recent pronouncement.
Mr.. Nrooman is native of Missouri,
forty-five years OF age, ana was cdu-
Gated at Washburn college, Kansas
and Harvard university At Harvard
he specialized in economies and later
studied at oxford, England, and on the
continent, Following his studies in
Europe Mr.. Vrooman took up scientific
farming and for many years conduct
ed and still controls several thousand
acres of land in Illinois. His home Is
at Bloomington.
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Expectant.

"What did the doctor adviser"
"a change Of scene"
''Do you think you will get it?"
Il have hopes. It's about time for
some new advertisement to be painted
on the billboards out my way."-Bir-
Age-Herald.
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Polite Reticence.

Guest-Why. Willie. your plate is
empty. Don't YOU like pie? Willie
You bet, but we've got to wait to see il
you want second help.-Baltimore
American
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Still Fishing.

He-Paulon me. | didn't catch your
last name. She-I haven't caught it yet
myself Boston Transcript.
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Keds, the perfected rubber-soled shoes,
combine comfort, style, economy

They have tops of a specially woven, fine grade
of canvas Workmanship and materials of the
highest grade throughout They are, without
doubt the best in sport shoes for all wear.
Light comfortable and always in good taste.
Various styles for men, women, children. We now
have an excellent assortment in stock for your
choosing. They meet perfectly the summer foot
wear requirements of all the family.
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DO what You should; attempt what
gou -Chatcaubriand,