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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-14
slNN FEINERs ARE STRONG
Able to Carry Almost Any District lr
Ireland.

ireland.
London, July 1.-THE election of
Edward De Valera as member of Parl-
lament for East Clare, the third Sim
Feiner to be returned to Parliament
of late, is treated as an event OF great
political consequence by the morning
papers which devote considerable
space to the victory. The tendency
of the Unionist press, rejecting their
advices from Belfast and Dublin is to
emphasize what it always contended
the folly Of the government in liber-
ating Sim Fem prisoners and refrain
ing to deal with revolutionary talk and
acts as such would be dealt with in
England These papers regard the
situation as gravely threatening for
they see nothing in the Sim Fem
movement but rebellion.
The liberal press also is alarmed
but rather for the position OF the Of
fetal nationalist party and for the
prospect for the establishment of con
stitutional home rule. One opinion
seems common among all parties
namely, that the prospects of the con
vention in Ireland to consider home
rule are seriously impaired if not en-
tirely doomed. Another view Is that
the election is an irreparable disaster
| for the Irish nationalist party which
many Irish people complain. held the
country for years in the dead hand
of rigid machine nOiicv
The Sim Fein movement is regard
| ed in the same quarter as an expires
sion Of discomfort rather than a revo
lutionary tendency.
The Telegraph's parliamentary re
porter says all the Irish sections o
the House Of Commons regard tn,
result as virtually q death blow I,
the nationalist party-the end of con
stitutional agitation and the beginning
OF republicanism. 1t is declared tina
no nationalist seat outside of Dublil
is now safe.
Timothy Healy. NJ. p, frankly graf
fed, says the English people are mi:
taken about the Sim Felners. The
are not rabid extremists but devote
idealists.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-14
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village TsId
Briefly fer Busy Readers

Robert Harris left this morning for
Arlington on a fishing trip. He will
be the guest of d. p. Harrington.
Mrs. Frank LaFranchise and daugh-
ter, Blanche, left this morning for a
two weeks stay with friends in Bur
lington.
There will be a meeting of the field
day committee of the F. NJ. T. A. b.
Immediately after late mass tomorrow
forenoon.
Earl w. Williams goes to Brattle-
boro tomorrow and will return with
Hudson speedster. 1t will be the
first car Of the type brought into
Bennington. The model is a four
passenger built on rakish lines.
Several members of Bennington
council, Knights of Columbus, are
planning to go to Adams tomorrow to
attend the third degree work by the
Adams council. The church service
will be held at o'clock and the exer
cises will follow Immediately.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-14

a,tic, yet of something that must have
taken its place-possibly the larger
and more frequent closet with a
window in it,"
In any event, attic or no attic,
things have come out that have the at
tic salt-the old book, the dress sister
wore at Ethel's wedding, the art nou-
veau that now evokes a smile, the old
crockery that once attracted by its
strangeness, the singular table that
tried so hard to be different, the OBJ.
ject dart at which the family limous-
inc now SHES violently and trembles
in every limb
The attic may go, but the attic
spirit remains. Somebody in the
world somewhere, wants these things
They come out and are snapped up
IL there is no attic in the modern home
there must be something that CORE.
spends to it. II is big closet some
where, or is there a room at the tor
that still gathers the odds and ends
Minneapolis Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-14
THERE STILL ARE Arr.cs
And Plenty Of Appreciation for Treas
ures They Hold.

An eastern newspaper laments the
passing OF the attic The modern
house is without this historical mus
e1hfSM the family And as for the
fiat, why the attic of the fiat is mis-
cradle little storeroom in the base
ment. Where the attic once dourished
in the old fashioned mansion with the
clock on the stairs, there is now q
luxurious suite for the cook, or for
the boys. And the walls have paper
With pink roses on it, and there is
plumbing and all that sort of thing
Where are the trivial fond records OF
the family's long or recent past nov
kept?
In this section of the country We
take heart of grace. A sale to aid the
cause OF woman suffrage reveals the
outpouring, If not of the old familiar
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-14
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs. Lucretia Z. Toogood, aged n,
died Friday at the home of her only
daughter, Mrs. Henry Spencer. The
funeral will be held from the house
Sunday afternoon at 2 O'Clock. Rev.
Mr.. Hayford will ofiiciate and the
burial will be in the South SALISBURY
cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-14
!. w. w. EXODUS

1900 Disturbers Shipped to Columbus,
N. NJ, Today.
Hermanos, N. H., July 14-Twelve
hundred l. w. WIS from Bisbee, Ariz,,
were loaded in box cars and sent 10
Columbus, ~ NJ, today.
Upon their arrival at Columbus the
men will be fed and cared for until
their final disposition is decided upon
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
Experiments With Tiny Animals and
Insects Reveal Interesting Data
on Color Inheritance.

Fruit flies, mice, guinea pigs, rats,
animals now teach many facts about
natures laws to students of expert
mental breeding. knowledge of hered-
ity today is largely based on study Of
inheritance of color, and many inter-
esting experiments with tiny animals
and insects are being carried on at the
University of Wisconsin.
Small animals are studied in this
research to shorten the time of expert
ment. More generations of guinea pigs
or mice can be studied in a year than
could be studied in a decade if the
subjects were cattle. If pair of fruit
flies are stoppered in bottle, Il days
later hundreds will be swarming in
side. And, as some have white eyes
and some have red, much may be
learned from them about color inheri-
tance.
The direct relation of color to liz
heritance is shown by the fact that if
red-eyed male fly and a white-eyed
female be mated, the sons will have
white eyes and the daughters will have
red eyes. On the other hand, If q
white-eyed male and a red-eyed female
be mated, all offspring will have red
eyes. This is the same principle on
which color blindness is inherited in
| mankind Similar experiments with
mice of various colors teach other facts
/ of color inheritance.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01

if he might be out here for his health
like a good many other fellows who
have no particular use for q doctor.
How is he making it?"
The engineer, hard-bitted man with
the prognathous lower jaw characteriz-
ing the tribe of those who accomplish
things, thrust his hands into his pock-
cts and walked to the window to look
down into the Brewster street. When
he turned to face Baldwin again, it was
to say: 'That young fellow is won
der, colonel. I put him into the quarry
at first, as you suggested, and in three
days he had revolutionized things to
the tune of 20 per cent saving in pro-
duction costs. Then gave him hack
at the concrete-mixers, and he's max
ing good again in the cost reduction.
That seems to be his speciality"
The president nodded and was suf-
ficiently interested to follow up what
had been merely a casual inquiry.
"What are you calling him now?-a
betterment engineer? You know your
first guess was that he was somebody's
bookkeeper out of a job"
Williams wagged his head.
"He's a three-cornered puzzle to me,
yet. He isn't an engineer, but when
you drag bunch of cost money up the
trail, he goes after it like dog after
rabbit. I'm not anxious to lose him,
but I really believe you could make
better use of him here in the town Of
| fee than can on the job"
OUSlV
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
USE 5000 WORDS
Persons of Fair Education Are Said to
Have a Vocabulary Ten Times
as Large.

The Chautauqua Magazine said
few years ago: "It is estimated that
an English farm hand has a vocabu-
larry limited to 300 words. An Ameri-
can workman who reads the newspa-
pers may command from 700 to 1,OOO
words. Five thousand is large num-
Der, even for an educated reader or
speaker" This differs considerably
from the statement published in re-
Gently compiled English encyclopedia,
which states that 'ft has been reck-
oned that the agricultural laborer uses
about 1900 words, but this is probably
an overestimate. Intelligent artisans
have vocabulary of 1000 words, while
educated persons are familiar with, If
they do not use, 5000 to 10000 words"
This is step forward all along the
line, but it is long distance from DIR.
Joseph Jacobs discoveries. In a re-
cent review, Doctor Jacobs said "that
the average well-educated American or
Englishman can control from 10000 to
35 900 words. But given an individual
with a vocabulary of 10000 primitive
words, it is a simple matter for him
to increase his stock of words by the
use of prefxes and sufixes. From -four
to six derivatives may be formed by
the use of these from nearly every
primitive word. If proper names be
added to either of these totals (40O0(
to 60,0O0), they might yield total OF
$4,000 to 10000 terms, says the New
York Times.
The foregoing facts seem to warrant
these general conclusions: Every we'll
read person of fair ability and educa
ton will be able to define or to under
stand as used nearly or quite, perhaps
more than $4,000 words. And the sam'
person in conversation and writing will
command not fewer than $4,000 to 20,
600, and can add 5000 to 10000 t.
these numbers if he be literarily in
clined. The plain people, as Lincoll
liked to call them, used to read under
standngly from 5000 to 10000 words
according to their general intelligenc
and conversational power, while
person who cannot read, but who ha
a good degree of native mental ability
will command about 5000.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01

ed man, wearing his gray tweeds as
one to whom clothes were merely a
convenience. He was chewing a black
cigar, and the unoccupied side of his
mouth was busy at the passing moment
heaping Objurgations upon the limp
ing motor. A hundred yards farther
along the motor gave a spasmOdic gasp
and stopped. When the young tramp
came up, the big man had climbed out
and had the hood open. What he was
saying to the stalled motor was pic
turesque enough to make the young
man stop and grin appreciatively.
"GOne bad on your" he inquired.
Col. Dexter Baldwin, the Timanyoni's
largest landowner, and a breeder of
fine horses who tolerated motorcars
only because they could be driven hard
and were insensate and fit subjects for
abusive language, took his head out
of the hood.
''The third time this morning." he
snapped. "Pd rather drive a team of
wind-broken mustangs, any day in the
yearl"
81 used to drive a car a while back"
said the tramp. "Let me look her
over"
The colonel stood aside, wiping his
hands on piece of waste, while the
young man sought for the trouble. 1t
was found presently in a loosened
magnetic wire; found and cleverly cor
rected. The tramp went around in
front and spun the motor, and when it
had been throttled down, Colonel Bald
win had his hand in his pocket.
"That's something like" he said
''The garage man said it was carbon.
You take hold as if you knew how
What's your fee"
The tramp shook his head and smiled
good-naturedly.
Nothing; for a bit Of neighborly
help like that"
The colonel put his coat on, and in
the act took better measure of the
stalwart young fellow who looked like
hobo and talked and behaved like a
gentleman.
"You are hiking out to the DAMP" he
asked brusquely.
81 am headed that way, yes" was
the equally crisp rejoinder.
"Hunting job?"
"Just that"
"What sort of jobT
Anything that may happen to be in
sight"
"That means pick and shovel or a
wheelbarrow on a construction job.
But there isn't much Office work."
The tramp looked up quickly.
"What makes you think I'm hunting
for an office job?" he queried.
"Your hands," said the colonel
shortly.
The young man looked at his hands
thoughtfully. They were dirty again
from the tinkering with the motor, but
the inspection went deeper than the
CRIME.
'Tm not afraid of the pick and
shovel, or the wheelbarrow, and on
some accounts guess they'd be good
for me. But on the other hand, per.
haps it is a pity to spoil middling
good office man to make an Indifferent
day-laborer-to say nothing of knock.
ing some honest fellow out of the only
| job he knows how to do"
Colonel Baldwin swung in behind the
steering wheel of the roadster and held
a fresh match to the black cigar
Though he was from Missouri, he haC
lived long enough in the high hills tt
know better than to judge any mar
altogether by outside appearances.
"Climb in," he said, indicating the
vacant seat at his side. "rm the pres
ident of the ditch company. Perhaps
Williams may be able to use you; bu
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
SCRAPS

Genuine Turkish caviar in its solid
roe form is clean to handle and keeps
for years.
Cuttlefish preserved in its own ink
is the only preserved-in-ink foodstuf
known to us.
Cigars Is inches long and several
inches thick are smoked in some parts
of the Philippines.
There are more than 1000 miles Of
underground tunnels in the anthracite
mines of Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh has opened a big new
market building where farmers may
meet and deal with city customers.
On the West Australian coast the
tides are so variable that it is not an
uncommon sight to see vessels high
and dry at their piers. In the Bay of
Fundy the spring tides reach a height
of 60 or 20 feet.
The fig tree is common in Palestine.
Mount Olivet was famous for it's fig
trees in ancient times, and they are
still found there. "To sit under ones
own vine and ones own fig tree" was
an expression among the Jews to de-
note peace and prosperity.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
ATTEMPTED MURDER OF BANK
PRESIDENT.
Society-Leader Cashier EmbezzIes
100000 and Makes Murderous AS
sauIt on President.

Lawrencevilie May 15.-J. Montague
Smith, cashier of the Lawrenceville Bank
and Trust company. and leader in the
Lawrenceville younger set, is today a fu-
gitive from justice with price on his
head At a late hour last night the
watchman of the bank found President
Durham lying unconscious in front of his
desk Help was summoned, and Mr.. Dun
ham. who was supposed to be suffering
from some sudden attack of illness, was
taken to his hotel. Later, it transpired
that the president had been the victim of
a murderous assault Discovering upon
his return to the city yesterday evening
that the cashier had been using the banks
funds in an attempt to cover a stock spec
ulation of his own, Durham sent for
Smith and charged him with the crime.
Smith made an unprovoked and desperate
assault upon his superior officer, beating
him into insensibility and leaving him for
dead. Since it is known that he did not
board any of the night trains east or west
Smith is supposed to be in hiding some
where in the vicinity of the city. A war
rant is out, and reward of 81, 900 for his
arrest and detention has been offered by
the bank. 1t Is not thought possible that
he can escape. 1t was currently reported
not long since that Smith was engaged to
prominent young society woman of
Lawrenceville, but this has proved to be
untrue.
He folded the newspaper and put 1t
in his pocket. The thing was done,
and it could not be undone. Having put
himself on the wrong side of the law
there was nothing for it now but a
complete disappearance exile, q
change of identity, and an absolute
severance with his past.
When he had gone little distance
he found that the wagon road crossed
the right of way twice before the con
| struction camp came into view. The
last of the crossings was at the TEN
porary material yard for which the
side track had been installed, and from
this point on, the wagon road held tt
the river bank. The ditch people were
doubtless getting all their materia
over the railroad so there would be lit
tie hauling by wagon. But there were
automobile tracks in the dust, ant
shortly after he had passed the mate
rial yard the tramp heard a car com
ing up behind him. 1t was q six-cylin
der roadster, and its motor was miss
ing badly.
Its single occupant was a big, beard
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
UNCLE SANS SEA SOLDIERS
Marines Have to Do With Ships, as
the Name Indicates, but They
Are Not Sailors.

What is the marine corps and who
are the marines? Evidently they have
something to do with the sea, as the
name shows, but they are not sailors
and are not connected with the navy.
What, then, are the marines?
The marines are sea soldiers, troops
especially adapted to the requirements
of maritime war. The corps dates from
the establishment of the American
navy. It is wholly separate military
body, though under the control of the
navy department. It was formed in
1775, and, says the Encyclopedia Brit
annica, ''has a history of brilliant
services rendered by land and sea
in all the wars of America since that
date. The corps is commanded by a
brigadier general who bears to the sec
retary of the navy relation similar to
that of chief of bureau.
Nearly all fighting ships carry body
Of marines varying in size from few
men commanded by a sergeant on
more commissioned officers, on large
vessels. On board ship they perform
sentry and orderly duty and assist in
police duties. Ii action they act as
rifiemen and sometimes serve portion
of the guns. When it is necessary to
send a force to shore from naval YES
sells, the marines are the men sent !:
and often they take part in severe
fighting. They guard American inter-
ests in foreign countries, at legations,
| etc They also garrison such places
beyond the territory limits of the
! United States as are under navy con-
troll. Their vogue was recognized by
Admiral Farragut, who said of them :
'"The marine guard is one of the great
essentisls of the man-of-war.''
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
A Judges Humor.

AS the result of Judge Landis' pc
culiar sense of humor many stories
have gone the rounds.
While practicing law he was en-
gagged in a case before Federal Judge
Christian Kohlsaat. There were two
other federal judges in Chicago. They
were Judge James Henley and Judge
Peter Grosscup.
Judge Kohlsaat called young Lands
to the bench.
"Say," he said to the young attor-
ney in a severe tone. 81 understand
you have been referring to me as
Chris Kohlsaat?"
Young Landis grinned and said:
ssI'll bet I know who told you that.
It was either Jim Henley or Pete
Grosscup."
His sense of humor has never de-
serted him.-Case and Comment.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
Had Her Reasons,

They were discussing church affairs
when Mary came home from school,
and Aunt Maria remarked little pitch
ers have big ears" and the conversa-
ton stopped. A few days afterward
the minister came to tea and gave
some of his attention to Mary.
"Do you like to go to church?" he
asked.
"No," answered Mary, very firmly
but politely.
"And why not, my little dear?"
ooh" said Mary, with smile, 'Iittle
pitchers have big ears" very much to
the surprise of her mother and Aunt
Maria, who colored consciously, and
the minister changed the conversation,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
CHAPTER w,
WanteH-A Einancier.

WanteG-A FlnancIeF.
It was a full fortnight or more after
this motor -tinkering incident on the
hill road to the dam, when Williams.
chief engineer of the ditch project, met
President Baldwin In the Brewster Of
fees of the ditch company and spent
busy hour with the colonel going over
the contractors estimates for the
month in prospect. In an interval Of
the business talk, Baldwin remembered
the good-looking young tramp who had
wanted job.
"Oh, yes; 1 knew there was some
thing else that 1 wanted to ask you,"
he said. "How about the young fellow
that 1 unloaded on you a couple of
weeks ago? Did he make good?"
t'Who-Smith?
"Yes; if that's his name"
The engineers left eyelid had quiz
zical droop when he said dryly: Its
the name he goes by in camp; John
Smith 1 haven't asked him his other
name"
The ranchman-president matched
the dropping eyelid of unbelief with d
sober smile. 81 thought he looked as
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
YES! LIFT A CORN
OFF WITHOUT PAIN!
Cincinnati man tells how to dry
up corn or caIIus so it lifts
off with fingers.

You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says this
Cincinnati authority, because a few
drops OF freezone applied directly on a
tender, aching corn or callus, stops
soreness at once and soon the corn on
hardened callus loosens so it can be
lifted off, root and all, without pain.
A small bottle of freezone costs very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
lively take off every hard or soft corn
or callus. This should be tried, as it
is inexpensive and is said not to irri-
tate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to get small bottle for you
from his wholesale drug house.-adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
His Crouch,

"Yeu need never accept any more
dinner invitations from them"
"Why not?"
'"They only invite us when they want
to use u.s."
II don't see what makes you talk
that way. It was lovely dinner party
and they certainly gave US nice
time"
"Oh, the dinner was all right, but
we weren't asked because they really
wanted US. You saw that homely girl
they made me take in to dinnerY
"Yes."
"Well, all the other men there
had good-looking partners. They sim
ply had to have someone to unload her
onto, and they picked me out for the
lob"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
CHAPTER III.
The Hluh Hills.

The Nevada through freight was two
hours late issuing from the western
portal of Timanyoni canon. Through
the early Notwithstanding hours of
the night and the later flight across the
Red desert, the dusty, travel-grimed
young fellow in the empty box car mid
way of the train had slept soundly,
with the hard car floor for a bed and
his folded coat for a pillow. But the
sudden cessation of the crash and roar
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
Packrats Damaue Forests

On parts of the Angeles National
forest in California the packrats are
so abundant that many of the young
pines planted by the United States for
est service have been killed or injured
by the rodents. The damage seems to
take place chiefly in the late summer
and fall and is more extensive in dry
than in wet seasons. 1t is thought
that the rats tear off the tender bark
of the trees to obtain moisture at
times when water is scarce.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
Possible ADVANTAGE,

Wederly-Can the girl you are en-
gagged to marry swim?
Singleton-Really, don't know. But
why do you ask?
Wederly-Because if she can you
ought to be happy. Any girl who can
swim knows how to keep her mouth
shut.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
SOFT, CLEAR SKINS
Made So by Daily Use of cuticura
Soap and Ointment-TriaI Free.

The last thing at night and the first
in the morning, bathe the face freely
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. If
there are pimples or dandruff smear
them with Cuticura Ointment before
bathing. Nothing better than Cuticura
for daily toilet preparations.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere-Adv.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-01
The Question.

'sTm trying to figure him out.
"What's the matter?
"Tve been watching him at work in
his back yard for the last week and
I'm trying to make up my mind
whether he's doing all that digging
from love of gardening or from sense
of patriotic duty"