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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09

TombStones have been employed in
NottinghamShire, Derbyshire, Lincoln
shire and Lancashire. England
for purposes Of paving, and some years
ago the inhabitants Of the Vale of Bel
yor raised a vehement protest against
Seeh stones being used us a pathway
leading to the parish schurch. The 10.
cal authorities, however sought TO jus.
MY the measure on the ground that
there were plenty of old grayestohes
on hand, which, II used, might result
in a saving Of taxes
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09


A period Of religious instruction IS
required by Jaranese marriage Gus
toms for both bride and groom before
the marriage ceremony takes place.
The Young man starts instruction by
paying daily visits to the priest of the
village aud learning aiithe conplIcat-
ed phrases which he win lGEe to utter
CA the day Of his wedding, The pupil
is placed in tank of cold water and
stays there submerged up to his chin
while the priest stands over him and
reads lhe Koran, the performance TAX
Ing place in front Of the church. Tie
girl begins her preparations for the
great day by several weeks of semi
starvation, during which time she
takes only sufficient rice and hot wa
ter To sustain life. Because of this
hunger strike, enforced by custom, she
loses considerable weight, an enact
ated bride being considered a thing of
beauty on the Island of java.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Man Who Commands Success.

A man who is not cnamored OF his
lob. WHO lacks that resolute, deter
mined purpose whlch knows no defeat
recogni2es'no failure, is never a sue
cess. The man who IS victory organ
tied wifi yet up more determined than
ever after lie is Knocked down, The
harder the fall the greater the re-
hound. You can't keep such a man
down, you can't discourage him any
more than yot could have discouraged
Napoleon, for his personality, his
character, viii remain although his
home, his property, and every material
thing he possessed be swept away
New Success,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Marine eIus.

.hailne glue is prepared by Clissolv.
Ing one part Of India rubber In Grade
benzine and mixing with two parts OF
Shelac hy the aid OF heat. The wa
terproof character of this cement in
connection with Its elastic fexibilitg
makes 1t a useful substance in many
Applications to house construction and
to furniture. This glue is applied With
ease when warm, and cools with
promptneSS. 1t was originally intend
ed 10 be used chiefly on board ship
and is well known in Europe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
a Am Simply OverjOyed BY The
Way TanIac Is Restoring My
Health" Says Mrs. Nellie
Grant.

II am Just now on my second bot
&c Of Tanlac and have already gained
ten pounds in weight declared Mrs.
Nellie Grant, Of 90 Crescent ST., Rut-
land, Vt, the other day.
For long time / had trouble with
my stomach and kidneys and for nine
geeks last year ! was down In bed.
MY appetite was so poor just had to
fore myself 10 eat, and the little |
did eat caused gas and severe pains
In my stomach.
dThe gas pressed around my heart
10 / could hardly breathe, and some
times at night my heart would ilutter
so it alarmed me. ! was constipated
had a bad taste in my mouth all the
time and was subject to such terrible
sick headaches that often | was SO
dizzy as to nearly fall. In the morn
ings felt so weak and nauseated that
4 could hardly dress. My back hurt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09

An engineer has invented the follow
Ing method for making hollow concrete
blocks. Hitherto it has been difficult
to make large cavities in concrete, but
it can be done, the engineer points out,
by embedding blocks of ice in the mass
OF concrete and Introducing small out
lets for the escape of the water after
melting. This meAhod also makes I'M
necessary the constant moistenlng usu-
al in concrete work, as it Is auto
matically supplied by the melting ice.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09

Throughout Florida there Is more
rain In the summer than in the win
ter, The rainy season begins and
ends a little earlier in the western
part than in the eastern part of the
state. The dryness of the winters is
an important factor in making Flor
ida an ideal winter resort, BY far the
greatest part of the summer rain
comes in the daytime in the form Of
brief showers, which cool the air.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
500 Reward. SIGG

The readers of this paper will be
pleased 10 learn that there ls at least
enc dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stagea and
chat is eatarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Medicine Is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on The Mucous sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up The con
stitutlon and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith In the curative power OF Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls
to cure. Send for list Of testimonials
Address +, j. CHENEY q Co. Toledo,
Ohio, Sold by ali Druggists. 75c,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
His Reason.

Speaking of politics and elections,
we knew a man once who announced
that he would vote for certain can
ddate for office. When asked for his
reason, he replied that the candidate
was his friend. And when they
asked him If he had no other reasons
he said no he said he didn't need any
other reason. We have liked dhis
man ever since.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09

promptly wobbled frantlcoIly aud
eventually dIsmounted, with more
speed than grace
Trlsbey hurried to her assistance,
TO be met with spltcful remark:
DO you want all the road|
NO, madam replied Frisbey, cour-
teousIy. u abomlnate sehshuess. l
was simply DESTROYS OF being permit
ted to make use OF the small portion
which you were not using {"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Kirkland, Vt.

The Rutland Fair, horse and cattlt
show Sept 6 to II will be the biggest
fair ever held by this society. $40,
O00 are offered for the races $500 fol
premiums and an elaborate LIST OF at
fractions have been arranged for The
10. S. Cavalry viii give daily eyh.bi
uons. Admission days will be sd
cents and evenings IS.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Susnlclous.

The head Of the firm had secretly
called in an expert accountant to
check up the ca3hier. "Have you dis
covered any evidence of dishonesty? ?"
asked the expert accountant "Well,
I've noticed that he carries a differ
ent umbrella every time It rains" ex.
planned the head of the firm.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Record Piece of Jade.

The largest piece Of Jade known u
4 block Of fthis stone which is seven
feet long, four feet wide and weighs
three tons. 1t came from South island,
New Zealand, and forms the base for
aasatue Of a Mnorl eheftain on ex-
hibltlon insthe Museum of Natural His,
tt,fy, New York city.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
You will never be Younger

than you are at this cock-ticl1 Tie
sooner you take out your insurance
policy, the more economical you VII
find it to be, Consult us National
Life ms. Co. of VT, (Mutual) Earle
S. Kinsley General Agent, Mead
Building Rutland, w Adv
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
How TO Petrify Wood

Take gem salt rock alum, white
vinegar, chalk aud PEBBLES powder, Of
each an equal quantity. MIX well To-
gethef IF, after the ebuIlGtion rs over,
you throw into this liquid any wood or
porous substance it will turn TIE sub
stance into stone in four or five days.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Proposinu in Slam.

In Siam declaration of marriage is
very simple. 1t is considered a pro-
posal merely to offer lady a flower,
or to take a light from cigaret If
she Is holding it in her mouth, SO that
even the most timid Of youths need
hot fear the ordeal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Velocity Of Wind.

Wien wind travels Mt a speed Of
ninety miles an hour it becomes huf-
ricane, but ii Is on record that In trop-
zeal countries storms have been known
during which the wind reached yelQe-
ity estimated ut more than GOO miles
ap hour
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09

DR. G. Viale reports to Policlinlco
Rome) that cases Of long rebellious
malaria improve rapidly when the
nude trunk is exposed to the sunlight.
for several hours after each dose Of
quinlne
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
NorIcE!
NOTICE,
To the Taxpayers of the Town or
Hennini<tOns

y rate bin Of TIE Town Taxes Of 1920
hag been placed In my hands for col
Acctton as follows: sll5 on the dollar
For the Town Tax. 20 cents on he dol
1or for the Town Highway TAX, 10
scents on the dollar for The Town pls-
lhrict School Tax.
a / hereby demand payment Of said
taxes, and notify you that ! wtl at
4hend at the Bennington County Savings
TANK from 0 clock d. m. until o'clock
There will be discount Of per
per cent 'ou 'aown Tax If paid within
c. Il. DEWEY Treasurer.
Bennington, VT. Jdly Is, 1920.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09

one day he was
cycling along a
broad road, when
he espled ahead a
lady, also cycling,
who was wide Of
figure aud uncer-
tain rs to steer
Ing.
Fearing an ac-
cident he rang his
bell. The lady
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
Philosophy.

If | live another couple of years
ought TO be able 10 hold out for the
rcst of my life. Christania Tyrihans.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09
%------ The ----->
Scrap Book
EXAMPLE OF SOFT ANSWER
But Not Exactly That Which We
Have Always ecen Told "Turns
Away Wrath"

Frlsbey is one of the polltest men
You ever met according TO Ills friends.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-09

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Asanciated Press rs exclusively
entitled to the use Tor publication Of
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited In that paper,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
SDrlng Circular

Do not fail to provide clean, warm
quarters In which your COWS, ewes and
mares can bring forth their young.
Navel Ill comes from dirt.
1t is dangerous to expose young stock.
especially foals and colts, to spring rain
storms. A days exposure, il not fatal,
may stop months growth.
1t Is bad policy to turn the stock to
pasture before the grass has we'll start.
ed-bad for the pasture and bad for the
stock.
When the pasture season begins, turn
the stock out at night, Instead of in the
morning. Then they will feed through
the night, and not lie down until the sun
has warmed the air and the ground.
Get your horses into condition for
spring work,-the young horses especial
ly. Many colt has been ruined by be-.
ing put to hard work without prepara.
tion. 1t Is the same with green horses.
In warm weather, thorough grooming
is almost as important as feeding. With.
out it, dried sweat, dead skin and dirt
clog the pores, make the horse uncom.
Portable and affect bis health.
Look out for sore shoulders and backs,
especially in blowing. Be sure that
your collars fit. A collar too big is as
bad as one too small. If the collar rides
up, use martingale, or girth running
from trace to trace, back of the forelegs.
When the horses are at work on a
warm day, lift up the collars now and
then to cool their shoulders, and wipe
off the sweat and dir. with q bunch OF
grass.
Wipe off the harness marks on your
horses when you stop work at noon and
at night, and clean the inside of the har-
ness, the collars especially. The salt
sweat, drying on the skin and on the
harness, Is what makes the trouble.
II the skin is wrinkled under the col
lar or saddle, bathe it with diluted vine-
gar or witchhazel. If the skin is broken,
bathe 1t with clean warm water contain.
ing little salt. Fix the collar, with
padding or otherwise, so that 1t will not
touch the sore spot the next day. A
little carelessness at the beginning may
cause lot of trouble to you and suffer-
ing to the horse.
Clean your horses at night, water
them, give them good bed, and water
them again after they have eaten their
hay 80 that they will not be thirsty all
night. Let them rest an hour or more
before they are grained. The observance
of these simple rules will not cost you q
cent, and will make a big difference In
their condition,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
FOR SALE.

30 acre farm only eight miles from the two
cities of Lewiston and Auburn, located on state
road and electric car line. Only 1.a miles from
two villages and three railroad stations. About
Is acres In good illage, free from rocks; balance
acreage In pasture land, with wood and timber
for home use; small orchard. Buildings consist
Of colonial style house, nine rooms, connected
With barn 40I70 by ell and ahed. Barn has silo
and extra good tie.up for sixteen COWS. Run
place wants to move to the city, and If sold at
once will give extra good trade. This would
make an excellent potato farm. For further
particulars, or descriptions of other attractive
trades In farms, call or write
THURSTON.B .BICKFORD CO.,
Real Estate and Auctioneers,
1918 u Court Street, Auburn.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
Maine Silage Crops.

Edward W. Morton, Cumberland County,
Corn undoubtedly leads all others when
silage crops are considered. The cost of
production is lower, the crop is stored
more readily in the silo, and greater milk
production Is generally secured from this
crop than from any other. Not all sec.
tions of the state are adapted to corn.
The corn crop requires more or less labor
during the busy summer months. It is
not generally known that certain crops
may be substituted for corn and provide
excellent silage, requiring less labor in
growth of the crop and shorter grow.
ing season. The crops referred to are
millet, winter rye, oats and peas, oats
and barley, clover, sunfower and soy
beans.
Millet requires short growing season.
1t is especially we'll adapted for planting
in late wet spring, when 1t is impossi.
BILE TO get corn started at the right time.
The best silsge Is secured when the crop
is cut at the milk stage.
Winter rye, oats and peas and oats and
barley make an excellent silage. A
longer growing season is required than
with millet. The crop should be har-
vested when the grain Is In the milk.
These crops are especially practical
where labor Is scarce az midsummer work
is not required as 10 the case of corn.
Glover makes excellent silage, but as the
protein content is high should be cured for
hay II possible. A wet June is q disas-
ter when one contemplstes curing clover
for hay, but 1t Is of great benefit II the
crop is stored In the silo. Thus the
owner of silo need suffer but little loss
Some feeders claim better results from
clover than corn silage; others the re.
verse.
Supfowers have been used but very
little for silsge In Maine. Care must be
exercised that the crop does not stand
too long and become woody. In In.
stances where the crop has been used
good results are reported In feeding.
The great value of soy beans is In the
protein content. A fairly long growing
season is required. Only the southern
section OF the state affords such condi.
tions. Even in that section, an espe.
cially favorable season 10 needed for the
crop to add much to the silage other
than succulence.
The question often arises % to the I'D.
visibility Of storing the crop without
quitting. Any crop may be stored In this
manner, but special care must be exer.
oised to pack closely. Plenty Of water
should be added to clover to secure the
best silage.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
Farm Manure.
George e. simons, Professor of Agronomy
II of MY

George e. simons, Professor of Agronomy)
U.ofM)
About half of the organic matter from
crops fed, and three-fourths of the plant
food, are found in the manure. A ton of
manure contains, under average condi-
tions, 10 pounds OF nitrogen, 5 pounds of
phosphoric acid and 10 pounds of pot.
ash. Practically half of this should be
available for plant use the first year.
To replace, In value, with chemical
substitutes an application of 10 tons of
manure per acre would require 80
pounds of nitrate of soda, costing $3.50;
100 pounds of acid phosphate, costing
81 20, and 100 pounds of muriate OF pot
ash, costing 81; total cost, S21.70.
The soluble part of manure is often
lost through lack of care. Water leach
ing through the manure heap, loose piles
In which heating takes place, and partic.
ularly where manure Is placed In small
piles In the fields, are some OF the causes
of greatest loss. A tight.bott storage
room, and spreading the manure imme-
diately upon hauling to the field, will re-
duce this loss.
Records kept at the Ohio Experiment
Station snow tnat an increase OF 3
bushels of corn, / IL bushels of wheat
and 700 pounds of hay per year on an
acre was secured by use of fresh manure,
in comparison with manure that had
been piled In barnyard three or four
months.
The 1910 census showed the total
weight of cattle, hogs and sheep in the
United States to be equivalent to that of
go, 600, 900 1000 pound cattle. Those fig
ures would indicate total production OF
at least 150, 100000 tons of manure. To
haul sufficient quantities of nitrate Of
soda, rock acid phosphate and muriate
of potash to equal the plant food in this
quantity of manure would require 1000
trains of 100 cars each loaded with 30
tons of nitrate of soda, 500 trains for the
acid phosphate and 300 trains for the
muriste Of potash. The manure being
already on the farms, all costs of rail
transportation are saved.
In farm practice from 80 to 40 pounds
of acid phosphate added to ton of ma
nure will make up for it's deficiency In
phosphorus and add largely to the pro-
ducing power of the manure.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
Raising the Chicks.

(O..Wilbur, Poultry Extension Specialist)
Raising good chickens does not de
pend only upon the care Of the ohickenl
after they hatch, but 1t begins much far.
ther back, with the mating and selection
of the parent stock. Parent stock with
poor vitality, immature, closely inbred,
or kept In ill-ventilated, damp houses
and improperly fed, will affect the
strength of the chicks which come from
their eggs. Improper incubation of the
eggs will also affect the health Of the
chicks and their later development.
After the chicks are taken from the
incubator comes the matter of proper
housing, care and feeding. Chicks are
delicate little beings and many of them
suffer from lack of proper attention at
The proper time. Leave the chicks In
the incubator until they are at least 48
bours old.
The brooder house or coops should be
VI ample size and we'll ventilated, with.
out draughts. II brooder is used the
coal-burning type is by far the most sat
isfactory. The temperature under the
hover should be 98o to 1902 during the
first two or three days and then gradu-
ally lowered. An inch or two of sand
spread over the floor, covered with q
couple of inches of chaff or fine straw,
makes an excellent litter. This will In.
duce the chicks to scratch and will pre-
vent leg weakness. Let the chicks out
as soon as the weather permits.
Proper feeding has much to do with
keeping the chicks healthy. No feed
should be given them until they are al
least 4S hours old. About the 10th day
of incubation the yolk is taken into the
body of the chick and serves as nourish-
ment until the chick is at least three
days old. After two days feed good
chick scratch grain, or rolled oats about
TOO A. M. About 1000 A. NJ. feed for
10 minutes good, prepared chick mash,
or mash composed as follows: twenty
pounds each of bran, corn meal and
rolled oats; ten pounds of fine meat scrap
and five pounds of linseed meal.
At o'clock feed prepared scratch feed
in the litter. About 8 O'Clock feed all the
dry mash they will clean up in 20 10 80 min.
utes. Feed chick grit with the first feed,
and keep them we'll supplied at all times
with grit, shell, charcoal and green food.
Keep clean water and sour milk before
them at all times. Feed as outlined for
the first month.
When the chicks are one month old
change the feed as follows: At 100 A.
NJ noon. and 8 100 P. M. feed equal parts
cracked corn, wheat and oats, or good,
prepared scratch feed. Omit the oats
until the chicks are large enough to eat
them. Keep the folio wing dry mash Le-
fore the chicks in open hoppers at all
times: 200 pounds of bran, 300 pounds OF
corn meal, 100 pounds of middlings, 100
pounds of meat scrap or fish scrap and
30 pounds of linseed meal. Continue
this feeding until the pullets are put
into the houses In the fall. Chickens
should be given as much range as posi-
BILE. Keep them we'll supplied with sour
milk, green feed, shell grit, and charcoal.
Keep them growing. A stunted chick is
worthless.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
Satisfying Him.

"You ought to make your boy inter-
ested in the dairy business by giving him
calf"
"Humph! I gave him q calf, then an
other one, and COW of bis own, and q
half acre of ground and the use of my
truck and fifty dollars to start him 9
crop, and now what do you suppose he
wants? Says he just can't get along
nohow without couple of silos, barn,
and . tractor painted red with gold
stripesr'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
a Three-Row Potato Hoe.

Charles 81. Clark OF Easton, q we'll
known farmer, has invented aud had
patented three-row potato hoe to be
hauled by farm tractors. The machinery
10 arranged 90 that each hoe works inde-
pendently of the rest and Is adapted to
any width OF row, and is operated by
levers. Mr.. Clark invented two-row
hoe sbout year ago which has proved
to be very satisfactory wherever 1t was
used.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27

I have for sale small house near
the business center of Buckfeld vii
lage.
Iltf South Paris.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27

A farmers labor devoted TO producing
wheat In 1880 resulted In an average OF
hardly more than three bushels per work
day of 10 hours. AZ the result of i'm
proved agricultural methods and machin.
cry, says the United States Department
OF Agriculture, bis labor for one day
now averages product of go bushels, or
20 times - much - before.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
Turk,sh Antiques.

There Is a law in the Turkish en-
pire prohibiting the expcrtaticn OF rei.
ics and antiques more than hundred
vears old. Real objects OF art o.
uGcisnt are to - of valss are rarsax
k - purchAae6 =
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27

For more than 1000 years Chinese
farmers have known Of the application
of legumes and compost and Of their
value In treating the soil 80 - to stimu-
late production. Think that over.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-04-27
WANTED.

p,se,, psen and women sverywhsre 10 sen the New
m h supreme Accident and Health Policy.
nnea,s~ e~ proposition ever offered the insuring
-, Large indemnities and low premium
wSo -. sood liberal agency proportions for shose
eon,,sl uevote their part or spare time Better
Rsn..seas TOT those who win become Full Time
PSrpSs PSrrfpsSs1ssnyes. . Write for fun particulars.