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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
PIN MONEY.
How Quaint Explanation of II Be.
came Current.

came Current.
The term pin monny'S dates back
to The seventeenth century. when the
modern pin was invented After that
time the maker was allowed 70 sell
them openly only on Jan. / and Q. go
that court ladies ard fashionable
danes alike we're compelled to buy u
large quantity to last them over the
year. So extremely important was
this yearly purchase that husbands
gave their wives largo slns OF none
for the pins. BY ana BY pins became
cheaper and cheaper and women spcnt
their allowance on other vantles. but
the term pin money remained in use
'or ell Isl cnding" money.
The exp cssion salt money IS an.
1thcr such This Oates very far back
when the l.oman WORKERS In the salt
mines were laid IN salt The salt tbey
got in return for their labors was
called in Latin "salgrum" or salt al.
lowancc. The word salarium later on
was applied to the fees men got for odd
jobs. For instance. the Roman noble
would say. For patching my toga
will give the fellow a slight salariun--
a bit Of money 10 buy salt with II
nally snlarium came 10 mean wages.
GALAXY. what it does today. When we
say "A man is rot worth his salt We
mean that he Is not worth his salary
nr wages
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22

troubled with cramps and feel ike a
different woman. l cannot praise
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound too highly and l am recommend
ing it to my friends who suffer as did. !"
Hrs. GEORGE R. NAYLoR, Box 72,
l1arysville, Pa.
Young women who are troubled with
painful or irregular periods, backache,
headache, dragging.down sensations,
fainting spells or Indigestion should
take Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Thousands have been re-
stored to health by this root and herb
remedy.
Write for free and helpful advice to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (con-
fidentiaD, Lynn, Mass Only women
open and read such letters.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
How to Keep Roses Fresh In the Aous.

Cut flowers. especially roses. will stay
fresh longer if they are kept In salt
water To get the best results a small
piece OF the stem should be cut on
each day. The stem should then be
slit about half an inch and salt pui
in the slit, Fresh water should bC
put in the vase each day. Great care
should be taken not 10 drop water ii
The roses themselves, as it will turn
them dark.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
FROM The SISTERS OF ST. MARY
Grateful Letter Tells OF Good Results Obtained
by Using Father Johns Medicine
for Colds and COUGHS

We have following
from the Sisters Mary, ny
The sisters who been taking Johns Medicine perfectly
cured OF their having medi
cine without
like Johns Medicine
and colds. Gratefully
(sgned) Sisters OF St. Mary, Farnham, N. Y.
is important remember that Father Medicine had 60
free from alcohol dangerous 10 any form
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22

ranged stomach, swollen upper lip,
sour stomach, OFFENSIVE breath. hard
and full belly with occasional grip
ings and pains about the naval, pale
face of leaden tint, eyes heavy and
dull, twitching eyelids, itching OF the
nose, itching OF the rectum, short dry
cough. grinding of the teeth, little red
points sticking out on tongue, starting
during sleep, slow fever. II your
child shows any of these symptoms,
start giving DR.. True's Elixir at once.
At all dealers-35c, soc and $l.00. Ad-
vice free. Write to me.
snhsrs. Nxins eJfs- /h|AJs-A.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
How to Rid Cats and Dogs of the Pes'
Of E,e.c.

W 4 tS-s-s
Attention has been called to the fact
that care must be taken in using tar
camphor on dogs TO rid them OF ileas.
not to let them lick their fur before
The tar canphor has been brushed off
Tar camphor never should be used on
cats. for they naturally lick their fur
10 keep ii smooth, ana in this way the
camphor will get into the alimentary
canal and poison the animal a valu
able cat treated with the camphor haC
to be killed 10 put it out If It's agony
But in the case Ct dogs this danger is
slight.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
GoVERNM EMIT.

Government is not reaeon; it is
not eloquence; II is forcel Like
fire, IL Is dangerous servant
and a fearful master. Never for
the moment should it be left to
irresponsible action. - George
Washington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22

WOulu nave 10 stay
in bed several days
every mon til. |
tried all kinds of
remedies and was
treated by doctors,
but my trouble con-
tinued until one day
! read about Lydia
E. PiHkham s Vege-
table Compound and
what it had done for
others. | tried It
and nCH I am never
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
How 20 Clean the Oven Without Much
Druddory,

If the inside of the oven grows rusty
looking pour little oil on a cloth and
thoroughly wipe out the oven walls
and racks while tho oven is yet warm.
This will not affect the favor of things
cooked in the oven
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22

dren and am never with
cut DR. Trues Elixir, the
Family Laxative and
Worm Expeller, in my
house. Mrs p. n. Gle,
West Newbury, Mass
Signs of worms are: De
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22

The German pound is exactly one
half kilogram or about one-tenth
heavier than the American or British
pound.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
Happinesn.

Happiness is always byproduct. 1t
never comes TO those who concentrate
on securing it, The unhapplest per
son in the world is the one who con
stantly pursues happiness. Not more
elusive was the nymph that fed Apoi-
10 than is happiness TO those who pur
sue it as an end and aim. Ii always
comes as a result of something else.
The pursuit of noble things, the things
essentially worth while, brings happi.
ness. AS man goes or life's jour
icy with brave heart, dong the best
he can and leaving the issues Ito the
powers that wait on noble ends he
often hears the faint Gutter of invisible
wings, he feels presence, a compaa-
ion. 1t is Happiness.-Chicago Herald
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22

Women like attention. ana wives arc
women.
A clean life never needs any white.
washing.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
THOSE AWFUL
CRAMPS
Suggestions that may save
Much Suffering

Marysville, Pa.-'For twelve years
I suffered with terrible cramps. J.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
Oh Id Saved fro m Worms

A mother of six children writes
My baby was very sick and friend
OF mine suggested irving DR.. True's
Worm Elixir. Now ] have six cbD
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22
NOTICE 2

TO the Ladies' ana Gentlemen Of Ser
nlngton and Vicinity.
Call and see my new Fail ano
winter samples, and you VIII eurel,
leave your oruer Srices very rea
sonabIe. Clean:.s. pressing and q
terations q specially
Nathan Lsvin,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-22

Estimates on new buildings. Repairs, eIc.
promptly made. Shop In rear Dir. A. 2.
Cutler Block, Main St. Telephone II. +.
lockwood or NJ. E. Buss
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
ROOSEVELT AND MANN

Minority Leader James r. Mann, in the debate in the house
ON Saturday on the administration army bill, fully justified
those few dissenting republicans who refused to support him
for speaker and thereby made his choice for that position inn
possible. However, the attitude of Speaker Clark leaves it a
ties.
When if w proposed to so formulate the bill as to per-
nit of Colonel Roosevelt going to France with a body of vol
unteers. all of whom are eager to go, Mr.. Mann opposed the
amendment in a manner so discrediable to himself that the
worst things ever said of him were probably not harsh enough.
Gum Shoe" Bill Stone, in the senate, was even further out
Of time with the wishes of his country in respect to the
proposed Roosevelt division, but this was to be expected.
And while Mann was doing this in Washington Colonel Roose-
Welt was addressing a public meeting in Chicago at when Dr.
Judson. president of the university of Chicago, introduced a
resolution which he asked to be adopted and forwarded to the
president. requesting that the Colonel be asked to raise a di-
vision and lead it into France.
Colonel Roosevelt interrupted to ask that he might amend
if to read 1--WE want the division under any competent officer,
and that Mr.. Roosevelt be permitted to go along" TO this Dr.
hudson assented and the resolution was UNANIMOUSLY adopteo'
Il would go as a second lieutenant added Colonel Roose-
Welt. and suggested that Major General Thomas H. Barry, who
was among those at the speakers table. was about the type of
man who bv virtue Of his character and his experience might
we'll lead such a division.
The country has already attested its approval of Colonel
Roosevelts desire to be permitted to do for France some meas
ure of what France did for this republic in its original strug-
ole for liberty. Already l25OOO men have signifed their de-
sire to 90 to France under any command with which Colonel
Roosevelt NAV be associated. He originally proposed 10000.
More than six times that number have already offered their
services.
The country will quickly place its comparative estimate
ON the patriotism and the usefulness in this emergency of Col
onel Roosevelt and James R. Mann, and the comparison will
not be to the credit of Mr.. Mann.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
MOBJLIZING HIGH-SCHOOL BOYS

In three Massachusetts counties, Essex, MiddleseX and
Suffolk, they have modified 5000 high school boys who have
enlisted for work on the farms of those counties, beginning in
May, until the close of the summer vacation. The farmers are
going to put in big crops and give them intensive cultivation.
The state of Massachusetts normally has to import %$3OO,OOO,-
900 worth of goods and provisions, but they hope to cut down
those needs by increased home production.
SO far as the high school boys are concerned, a summer
on the farms will be of the highest and most practical educa-
tional value. A boy who has not had some farm experience
is handicapped. Farming is the greatest of all occupations in
the country, the most healthful and the most beneficial to man
kind. for it is the farmer who feeds the world, and without his
products even the battles for the freedom of the world could
not be fought and won. A boy who learns to do his bit Of
farm work will thereby be made a better and more cOmpre-
hensive citizen. 1t is one of the best parts of his education.
And there is another thing that it will do for the boys; it
will give them an interest in the affairs of the country. They
will be brought into a realization of the responsibilities that
they owe to the world at large. We cannot look on that
Massachusetts mobilization in any other way than the ways of
encouragement.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
QUESTION OF MORALE IMPORTANT

Whether reports coming out of Germany at present may be
depended on as a basis for opinion is of exceeding Importance
at this juncture. 1t is reasonably certain that some foundation
exists for the tales of popular demonstrations of revolt against
the military rule of the empire. This feeling is indicative of
the end, if of anything, of the great war. Discomfort among the
workers at home, on whose activity SO much depends for the
success of the armies in the field, is a sign of disintegration
that portends the ultimate dissolution of the whole campaign.
On the morale of the nation, as much as of the army itself,
hangs the fate of the country.
At the outset the German nation was unified for the strug-
gle as no nation ever was before. Years of training and prep
aratiOn, of constant victory in wars and unprecedented prog
ress in arts and industry had cemented the people soldly to-
geher and the first magnificent sweep of the gray green wave
across Belgium and Flanders and France was the irresistible
movement of the conquering German spirit. When this drive
had spent its force and was turned back on itself at the battle
Of Marine the end was made clear, although its time could not
be ~prOphesied with accuracy. Still the mastery remained with
the Germans and for many months they held the moral advan-
tage against the allies, who made desperate resistance. This
condition has changed and the prestige of attack has passed
over to the allies.
Germany is now fighting a defensive war. Whatever no.
ton of conquest may have animated the leaders at the outset
has given way to plans for holding out until the German en-
pie may be made secure. With turn in the fortunes of battle
comes the more serious effect of weakened morale. Even the
slightest foundation for rumors now heard of the unrest in the
empire is proof of the crumbling of the unity that made Ger
many so formidable at the outset.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
WHERE THE BATTLE WILL BE WON

Many thousands of young men who will not DE- calico upon
for duty i'm the army are anxious to help wherever they can De
of most service in the present crisis. To these the farms VI
America offer opportunity of rare Importance.
Never in all our history has such a call been maze 10 te
farmers of America a s now. On them depends the future.
Many months ago a statesman of Germany said the decisive d.
Gle of the present war would be fought in the wheat felds OF
America, and he predicted that there the Germans would WIN:
And on the wheat fields of America falls the greatest of respon-
sihility.
If our farms are to yield as is expected of them men must
be had to do the needed work. The government is busy just
now gathering data preliminary to a general survey of the
country to determine the number of men available for farm
work, particularly for the harvest time, which will commence
about the first of June and continue until late in the fall.
Young men in schools. clerks in city offices who are plan
ming for summer vacations and others who are eager to serve
ere available for this work. It is service as essential and as
worthy as any in warfare. The call from the farms is as clear
as the call from the camps. Will the young men heed it?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

One of the most pernicious of all doctrines preached out of
Washington this year is that there is a disgrace in the So
called draft. Even Speaker Clark felt impelled to give out
such mistaken ideas. Is it a disgrace when a man is called
upon to pay his taxes, to serve on juries, or to do or to per-
form other public duties? 1t is not a disgrace to be called
upon to defend a nation in peril. Instead it is an honor, and
the only disgrace would consist in treating such a duty as a
disgrace. Men are continually being drafted for this or that
public duty. If a thousand names are placed in a box and the
one hundred drawn first are called upon to do certain things
in the name of their government, the men so called should not
feel disgraced, but honored. There may be some men who
would resent being drawn, but they thereby prove that they
sre the very men that ought to be drafted. 1t is not the willing
ones who ought to be compelled to render all the services
that a nation may require. Often the unwilling ones should
be compelled to do their share, since they are living ard en-
pect to live in their share of the benefits.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
STABBED IN HIS OWN HOUSE

Speaker Champ Clark lost his temper on Saturday, and so
far forgot not only himself but the dignity of the office he
holds, as to threaten to drive out of his district with a double
barrel shotgun some of those who had telegraphed him to urge
his support of the presidents policy in meeting the crisis the
country is facing. He has joined forces with Gum Shoe" Bill
Stone, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations;
Floor Leader Kitchin. of the house Chairman Dent. of the house
military committee, and others, whose course is giving to the
kaiser more comfort than any of his own trusted leaders in the
German reichstag. And they are all men of the presidents own
party.
And the LOT of them are doing all within their power to
embarrass the administration and cripple the promotion of the
100" Was ever before such a spectacle presented in the ma
';"'- hiStorr' \ president is deserted in a national crisis by
the leaders of his own party and is obliged to rely for support
on the opposition leaders. Were these men less pa
triotic and more partisan they might seize the opportunity now
to deal the president a blow that would be one of crushing hui
initiation, rendering his administration a failure, and turning
the country upside down. Happily for the nation, however,
thy are not built along lines so sinister.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR

Mr.. Balours interviews, in which the great British states
nam simply states some of the impressions he has received
since landing, give us a very intimate glimpse of a side of the
war that has been minimized by the accounts of the fighting.
Cities sitting in gloom, homes darkened and the orderly life
Of great centers of social activity disarranged have all been
familiar enough because of stories sent to this side from The
actual scenes, yet the situation has never seemed so real as
made by Mr.. BalfOurs statement. To walk along properly
lighted city streets was a novel experience to him and to 9TH
ars in his party. Just that one little bit of municipal house
keeping marks the difference between war and peace. 1t was
nni needed for Mr.. BalfOur to refer to the losses personal tic
himself and his friends that his statement might have full
weight or that the sacrifices of those who are warning for lib
cry could be duly emphasized. Sorrow enough that these sac
rifices are needed, but it is well for the world, perhaps, that
they were made, and it is now up to Americans to see that they
were not made in vain.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
A FRIENDS

President Wilson has had no more loyal or consistent sup
porter than the Saturday Evening Post. The Tribune read
with interest an editorial in the Post of April a, an editorial
that seems to have appealed to others as it has to us, for it has
been wiedly copied and as generally and unanimously approx
ed. It contained this language:
The people of the United States are prepared to back
up the federal government to the limit. In return they
demand that the ablest men in the country be placed in
every important post over which the federal government
has jurisdiction.
This is no time for corner-grOcerY strateglsts and
small bore statesmen. Government by politics and
precedent cannot be tolerated. The weasels, the foxes
and the mOles of partisan politics must be run to their
holes The bow orators and the tWO-hit office holders
must double quick to the rear. Ealf-hearted, chicken
hearted Americans. our two worst breeds of hyphen-
atps. 40 matter how moss grown in office or how strong
the gang back home. cannot command the confidence of
the country. Neither can sincere, earnest souls who bring
popeun minds to forty-twO centimeter problems. TO ap-
point a mediocre man Just now to an important position:
to continue in office Il proved incompetent; to permit
anyone to hold a vital post who is not heart and soul with
the country in its purposes, is simply manslaughter.
The mills of the American people grind exceedingly
fast on occasion and they grind to powder.
No one doubts for a moment what this means or to whom
it refers. It is a declaration that before there can be eff
ciencv in Washington the "lame ducks" and those who are out
of step will have to go-that there must be an end to the petty
partisanship that has tn Is far been in evidence and that the
Stones. the Kitchins. the Bakers, the Danielses, he Graysons,
and the Creels will have to be bundled out of the way and
their places taken by he-men of vision, breadth and patrotisIa.
than the pride of any man, no matter what his station.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
CLARK'S STATE ANSWERS HIM

In speaking against the selective conscription bill recently
Champ Clark, the democratic speaker of the lower house o.
fongress, shouted at the top of his lungs:
protest with all my heart and mind and soul against
having the slur OF being a conscript placed upon the men
of Missouri. So far as MissOurians are concerned, there
is precious little difference between a conscript and a
convict.
This would sound a good deal better if Missourians were
coming forward as volunteers. But they aren't. They are hid
ing out just as they hid out in the civil war, lodging service on
either side. The enlistments in Missouri are a conclusive and
final argument against Mr.. Clark and in support of the presi-
dent.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
mot FOR THEIR SAKES. BUT FOR OURS"

The Rheinlsche Westfaelische Zeitung, which is something
of an official organ, has no hesitation in saying what it means.
Speaking of the rioting in Warsaw, among the Poles. it saws
that the Poles confuse autonomy with independence. The Ger
mans have given them autonomy, but not independence. eve
must possess, it explains, military and political guarantees in
Poland. We did not free the Poles for their sakes. but for
ours Have they freed the Poles? And even their autonomy
affects only the Russian Poles. The German Poles and the Ans
TRAN Poles have received nothing as yet and nothing is held
out to them. Let it be hoped that they also will be included
in the new Polish realm when it is set up out of the ruins of
this war.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

Early abatement of the squeeze in leather goods is indicated
in a report of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.
New sources of supply of pelts in South America, China and
Africa are reported and steps taken to secure shipments. Last
years imports were greater than in any previous year and graf
err area requistioned this year promises to ease the prevailing
pinch.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

Well! Well! Mr.. Bryan has renowned his desire "to fight
as a private soldier on the firing line" and declares that he will
do his bit by lecturing through the west on the necessity OF
stimulated food production. We should like to hear him, too,
the admission fee isn't eXOrbitant.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

The United States supreme court has decided that congress
rannot cite for contempt those citizens who persist in expos
ing the offenses of congressman and demanding their retire
ment. It is we'll.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

By virtue of the decree of the democratic caucus "Gum
Shoe Bill" Stone is a democratic leader in the senate and Champ
Clark and Claude Kitchin in the lower house. And they really
are leaders, too, the only trouble with them being that they lead
in the wrong direction.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

In proclaiming the superiority of a volunteer army over a
conscript army congressman merely beat about the bush for po-
itical effect. The claim is beyond argument. The real point
at issue is that the supply of volunteers does not come within
mailing distance of the demand.