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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13

book shop which contains over %
miles of shelves carrying more than
100000 books
The Shah of Persia, Ahmed Mira
who recently visited Western Europe
speaks French fluently, but finds diff
ficulty in mastering English.
During the past season popular foot
ball matches in London and vicinity
have attracted an average attendance
of $4,000 to $4,000 persons.
It is estimated that the ash Of the
tobacco smoked yearly in America
would furnish a most perfect fer
tilizer for 10000 acres of land.
English farmers, whose profits have
grown enormously in the last five
years, are exempt from excess profits
taxes.
The elaborate tattoo marks with
which the Maori decorates his body
idicate the tribe and family history
of the wearer, and are, SO TO speak,
his visiting card,
mana is NOT IalnOuS LOT us llsn yet
has one which ranks as great dain
ty, This is the snow trout" Of the
Himalayas. 1t is caught only in the
cold mountain streams.
If a train moving at speed Of 40
miles an hour were to stop suddenly,
it would give the passengers a shock
equal TO that of falling from a height
of 54 feet.
Maeterlinck, the famous Belgian
dramatist who has recently visited
America, was an awful failure even
at his own job of writing at first. OF
his first volume Of poems nobody took
the least notice, The same fate sle-
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13
This SPRING TAKE
Hoods snrsapariIIa-A Good Blood
Purifying. Tonic Medicine.

1t is. medicine in which the
people oancand do nave entire con-
hdelee as pune, clean and safe.
AL tho claims made for it are
justified by the testimony of the
gratifying results attending its use
in n multitude of eases Of scrotula,
eczema or salt rheum, psoriasis,
blood-poisoning, catat.rh and rlleu-
matism, and of loss Of appetite,
that tired feeling, and low or run
down conditions common in the
spring.
1t is not adnlterated; it is not
misbranded, but honestly labelled.
1t originated in a physicians pre-
seription and is recommended and
used by many physicians today. It
has record of nearly 90 years OF
wonderful success.
Hood S Sarsaparilla "makes food
taste good" Get it today and be-
yin taking it at once.
IF you need mild laxative or
eathartie, take Hoods Pills.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13

fell his first play of which lie printed
25 copies with his own hands and
gave them away
In. former times all tobacco confis-
Gated by the English customs author
tiles was destroyed by burning in
furnace called the Kings Pipe. Now
adays ali such.tobacco, as we'll as that
which is returned as unusable for
smoking. is sold to manufacturing
chemists who turn it into sheep dip,
insecticides for the use of gardeners
and the like.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13
Odd and interesting.

on,y one man in 2OS is 6 feet in
height.
There are 1880 known varieties of
lizards in the world.
A chrysanthemum measuring 10
inches across and II inches in depth
was recently grown by an English
florist.
The rarest and most valuable preci-
Gus stone nowadays is the emerald.
One was sold in London recently Tor
$500 a carat,
A regular daily air service for 10th
passengers and freight is now main
tanned between London, Brussels and
Paris.
In London there is a secondhand
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13

action, music, song, revelry and
what not? 1t is entertainment easily
understood and assimilated by the
masses as we'll as the classes and al
the same time contributing to the gay
ETY. and bliss of the nation.
1t also might be added that Mutt
and Jeff are an institution. However.
in their new piece. entitled Mutt
and Jeff's Dream, divided into three
acts and five scenes, they have the
success of their careers. Gus Hii, as
usual is sponsor for the new produc-
ton which will be the next attraction
Int bennington opera house Tuesday
evening. March 10th.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13

helps farmers all over the
United States to make more
and more money. 1t would
please us to see you making
more money too, so we stand
ready to send in your subscrip-
ton if you just say the word.
One dollar buys It for a whole
year-52 big, friendly, helpful,
weekly issues. Get acquainted
with THE COUNTRY GENTLE
MAN-you're sure TO like it.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13

Sometimes banks get ac-
quainted with farmers by giving
good advice, or urging good
roads, or organizing calf clubs
among the boys. That last was
thewayofo whose storyis told
in THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
dated March s. Andwe'd like to
getacquaintedwithyo through
this Great National Farm
Weekly itself. We know that
TIL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13
\ MUrr AND JsFF NExr WEEK
Bud Fishers Famous Comics at Opera
House Tuesday Evening.

If you are not a Mutt and Jeff con
vert (thls seems impossible in view
of the fact that not to know or to
have head about them 10 like missing
some thing from the curriculum of
your edncation) you are bound to get
into the charmed circle after you have
witnessed their latest version of
Bud" Fishers famous comics, who
will disseminate chunks of infectious
laughter, screams, joy, happiness, wit,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13
L.ulye Welcome.

Il rent w 10 the front Geur Of the
,odgi'e louise and rang, and when the
landlady rame asked Can stay
bere?' She answered Yes. you can
stay ucrc us long rs sou like, end
slammed The door"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13
AUG T|ON SALE
FnrIn Stock, Household Goods
Farming Tools
THURSDAY, MARCH, Is, 1920.
Commencing mt 10 "A. IN.
NInsOn Hill Enrm. POyyuaf, VT.

Mason Hill Farm.t Pownai, VT
I4U Acres--f00 TiiIable, 40 Pasture
Including large 24-room house, conven-
iently arranged for Summer Boarding
Business. with bath room and running
water; and a, large new barn, l00x60
feet built in 1912
Abundance of fine Spring Water.
Wood lots:-One in Pownal, VT, known
as the MOBILES lot, and one in Stamford,
VT
10 Mich Cows, Graded Holsteins, due
n to freshen this Spring.
v One 3 yr. old Heifer one COW, regis
tered Holstein.' 5 yearling heifers one
bull. registered Holstein; one yearling
bull; one horse. 400 lbs. ,one mare, II
Years old, 1000 lbs, one mare colt, COM
ing 9; one. brood SOW, due May list; so
yearllng hens Rhode Island Reds; 10
tons first class hay two tons oat
sfraw; us bushels oats; 20 bushels
btckwheat; double wagon; 3 spread
chains; set neck Jokes; 3-seated spring
wagon: 2-seated surrey; 3 buggies, one
almost new; wagon box; hay rack: set
OF heavy sleighs; three seated. sleigh;
cutter, one fur robe, two lap robes;
one horse blanket, set heavy harness,
set light harness, rake harness, single
harness; manure spreader, most new;
Missouria drill, Deering reaper. Buck
eye mower Yankee horse rake, hay
feeder. sulky pillow. horse fork, rope and
pulley, side hill nloy, shovel pillow,
disc harrow. smoothing harrow. spring
tooth harrow, hitler, sulky cultivator,
two one-horse cultivators, corn planter;
tree spray pump. on 50-gallon tub with
extension rods; 1-2 Dbl. Lime Sulphur;
potato sprayer grlndstone, corn shelter
wheelbarrow, DeLavel cream separator
swing churn. butter worker, butter
box: two ladders; set tackle blocks;
three cable chains. two runner chains,
three trace chains; forks and shovels
other tools too numerous to mention,
and large quantity of household goods,
etc.
John Huntington, Auctioneer.
Frank F. Mason. agent.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-13
Remington Collection Agency
o. r. CLAYTON, Attorney

Why wait any longer before placing
those bills in our hands for collections?
Prompt attention given.
TcIs 1861. Bennington, VT.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
HOW "R0M0Lk" WAS WRITTEN
George Eliot's imr --t1' a., sSult Of
an Inspiration dno mueh
Hard Work.

The scene Of "Romola" is the Flor.
ence Of the fifteenth century, and the
plan OF 1t came to George Eliot IN the
course of an Italian Journey, zone of
those Journeys that seem to divide
ones life In half so many new ideas
do they suggest. so many new sources
of interest do they open W rhc mind"
Having fixed on her scheme. she re-.
turned TO Florence. visiting The old
streets, rummaging ancient hooks.
seeking to impregnate herself with the
spirit Of the venerable city. But she
was still far from her goal when.
on her return home. she at last set to
work, she saw It's difficulties rising
before her. Would not her genius de.
sert her when she left the familiar
scenes Of rustic life In the England uf
today for foreign countries aud past
ages7 She desmlred more than once,
gave up her task, then took II up
again, plunged (conscientiously MS she
did everythlng) into historical studies,
and brought forth In sorrow kind OF
moral tragedy which even the reader
cannot beholds without cmotlon.-Ed.
mond Scherer.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
willamette University
Endowment Campaign

Tho campaign TO raise 100000 for
Willamette University at Salem In
wcll under way. All Of the prclimin.
AIRY organization work has been com.
plotcd and about next week the actual
canvass for funds will bo undertaken.
This undertaking IL backed by the
Laymen's Association OF the oregon
Conference OF tho Methodist Episcopal
church and funds will. naturally. come
chiefly from members OF that demon.
ination, However. as others have In
the past given generously 10 tho fine
old inBtItutIon which for 75 years has
been steadily turning out men and
women whose lives have gone far
toward making the great Northwest
what Il In, SO no doubt will be- the
case In this effort adequately To H..
nance Willamette
While having the hoartiest. enthus
tastic Endorsement OF the late Bishop
Hughes, who set aside precedent aud
asked the pastors of the conference
To- have u special Sunday for william
cite. and the fun support OF tho min
isiors, the campaign IL really a lay
mons project AZ their conference.
held IN Salem last October. the dele
gates unanimously decided 10 take
hold ~ the situation this year and put
over a big job for tho school. There.
fore, they are directing the work
through a special executive commit
toe, backed boy larger advisory board
OF prominent lay members OF the
church Headquarters arc AZ 600
Plat building. Portland
Funds subscribed will go TO enable
the trustees 90 rebuild Waller hall for
mon and Lausanne hall for womon's
dormitory, with installation Of cen
tral heating plant, thus clearing up
the present crowded condition at tho
university,
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
YEAR ONCE BEGAN IN MARCH
Change In style May Be Said to Date
From t752-oreat Militant
Events In Month.

Few people know, or, II they do,
have forgotten, that March. nnd not
january. nj one time was the FIRST
month Of tho year, remarks the Chi.
cugo journal. For commencing the
year with March there seems to bc
sufficient reason In the fact that II IN
the FIRST season after the dead year"
In which decided symptoms Of growth
take place.
The name Il derived from tho TO.
mans. among whom II was nc an early
period the first month ~ the year. and
continued 60 be In several countries TO
n comparatively late pcrlod, the legal
year beginning. even In England. on
March 20. until the change of style In
1852. For the Romans to dedicate
their FIRST month 20 Mars and call II
MnrtIus seems equally natural, con.
sldcrlng the importance they attached
60 war and the use they made OF II.
In the history OF our own country
April appears 90 cnrry on tho palm
for tho month IN which great militant
events occurred, yet IN the world war
n number Of epoch'mnklng Incidents
took place In March; Tor instance, the
revolution In Russia IN 1917, when
Cynr Nicholns ahdlcntod on March ~,
The big drive on the 50.mlle front
from Arras 10 In Ecu began on the
2lst. ana Paris wus In that month BON.
bardcd 10y "Blg Bertha"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
HAS GREAT OPPORTUNITY
Campaign Of Oregon Laymen to Raise
100000 May Lead to a Very
Large Endowment.

According to A. r. Flegel, chairman
OF the campaign executive committee
OF the Laymen's Association of ore
gon, working In the interests Of WI
lamette University, there is excellent
reason to believe that, If friends OF
the old school in the Northwest sub
scribe 100000 for its immediate
needs, others who are watching the
progress OF the institution and are
but waiting TO see what is done now,
will come forward and make large
contributions that will 20 TO make the
university a very much larger one
before two or three years have gone
by.
The 100000 which the laymen OF
the Oregon conference are snow seek.
ing Is for the immediate restoration
OF Waller hall, for mon; completion OF
Lausanne hall, the womens dormi.
tory, and heating plant
With these improvements, which
are absolutely essential to the largest
usefulness of the university In caring
for pupils already enrolled and the
usual annual increase. willamette
will be very well provided for on the
present basis. Should there follow
large gifts, as predicted by MIR Flegel,
Of course a number of other buildings
would be constructed and the entire
activity Of the school would be greatly
enlarged.
The active canvassing for funds
probably will be undertaken about
next week From oil over the state
have come TO the mombcrs Of the
committee assurances Of support
Many have said they know OF no other
means OF investing money that will
bring larger returns.
Headquarters are at 5O5 platt build.
Ing, Portland
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
MAJOR HIRAM U. WEIGH
No. 149
On the Republican Ballot

Major Welch has served as a val.
iing officer of Multnomah Co. in
Administrations of four Assessors,
and is at present Chief Field Depu.
" in the Office. lie has the in
dorsement of Assessor Reed, who
says of him:
major Welch is an experienced
aud competent valuing officer. is a
man of splendid executive ability and
judgment, is familiar with the fun
damentals Of taxation and the laws
pertaining to il, and is fully quail
fed to fill the important Office Of
County Assessor. His service in
the Army in the Spanish War, in
the Mexican border troubles, aud
10 the world war entities him to the
special consideration Of the voters. 4"
Major Weleh's Slogan: Long
experience in the Assessors office
sure guarantee OF efficient service"
rsid adv
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
SEA WORM SAMOAN OELlCACY
ITS lnfrequent Arrival Always Made
the Occasion for the Holding Of
Great Festival.

Palolo, the most priced OF all gusta
tory dellcucies In Samoa. declared h,
Americans who have tried II to be su
perior to the lobster is a marin,
worm, being rather mysterious in that
II Is never seen save on two or three
nights In the entire year Its appear.
nnce seems to be regulated 10y the
moon.
The palolo chooses the time for It's
first appearance on the night when
the October moon changes. When the
moon rises the sea Is seen to bc alive
with wriggling green and brown
worms, some Of them Il yard or more
In length. The natives make a festival
of the occasion, going out with dip
nets among the reefs and sCooping up
the worms by the bushel They pad
die around In every available boat
with lighted torches waiting for the
moon. and then the scene becomes one
of great and joyous excitement.
The palolo comes once again when
the November moon quarters. and is
not seen ngain until the following yenr.
It Is said to live in crannins of the
coral reefs. coming 60 the surface to
spawn at these lunar periods. Some Of
the worms are eaten rs they wlggle.
but the bulk of the catch Is reserved
for a big feast on the following day
when they are wrapped in banana
leaves and baked.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
Strong Caps Of Paper.

Astonishing strong paper caps. cnpa'
bile ~ wlthslandng powerful blows,
though extremely Hight In weight, have
been invented by shipyard employee,
and are Intended Ia be worn boy work
men whose duties expose them Ia dan
ger from falling objects, says Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
The process by which the novel head.
gear is produced hus not been dlyulged,
hut II Is known that chemicals ARE EN-.
ployed 10 harden lhc material, without
adding 20 It's weight Several styles
have been made. The lightest weighing
about seven ounces, and others slightly
more. In n recent test, n lpound bolt
was dropped on one Of them from n
height 0f forty feet with the result
that a barely porocptlble dent was
made IN the paper The novel head
coverings are proof against water and
acids, and are nuuconduetors OF elee-
tricity.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
Pertinent ouestlons.

Among the many Irish anecdotes
told by Canon Hannay, author OF sew
eral books under the pen-name OF
George Birmingham, Is the follow
ing. An Irish gentleman who heard
Of the death of a great enemy OF his.
who had harassed him for many years,
remarked: "Well, it's comfort 10
think that the devils got that fellow
at last" A clergyman who happened
TO be present felt II his duty to re-
monstrate against this unchnrltable
view Of the dead mans condition. He
said he hoped that. I'm spite Of all that
had passed, the poor man might have
escaped the extreme penalty. "Well,"
retOrted the other, III the devil hasn't
got that fellow, all | can say Is that
/ don't see much use In keeping a
devil at ALL"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
SCULPToR'S USE OF CEMENT
Gigantic Figure Of Neptune ls Work
OF Art as Well as Architectural
Curiosity.

At Monterosso, near Spezln, Italy,
there stands nm architectural curiosity
"A gigantic figure of Neptune, con.
structcd Of cement and used to support
the extreme end Of terrace for sea.
side villa. The house Is the villa Pas.
tine, and the statue is the work OF Ar.
rlgo Mlnerbl, talented sculptor Of
Rome.
A small promontory on which the
villa Is built presented many difficult.
ties 10 the architect. hut he finally sue.
cccded IN building there very com.
modlOus aud comfortable residence.
rhe statue. which Is wonderfully life.
like, Is about SO feet IN height The
body. which, like the head. Is built OF
REINFORCED cement II hollow, nnd con.
talns n spiral staircase. Considering
the nature Of the material with which
slgnor Mnerbl had TO work, be is TO
be congratulated on the result OF his
lnbors.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
Penn and Land Buying.

The story that William Penn bought
from the Delaware Indians ms much
land as dozen bulls hides would
cover and then cut them into narrow
strips 10 cunningly enable him a. trick
the Indians by enclrcllng vast stretch
OF territory Is not true, This Is a very
old story, II was told In remote times
OF Dido Of Carthage, The legend Is
that Dido built that city after buying
as much land as bullock's hide would
cover. She cut the hide into strips.
getting a large biz Of real estate In
the transaction. The story reappears
Ia the ease of the Dutchman IN lrY-
lhg's "KnlekeTb0ekeF," who bought as
much land from the Indians as Ten
breeks trousers would cover, But
Tenbreek had ON pairs OF trousers
enough TO cover the Island Of Manhat-
tan.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
"AII For a Soma"

'TIo has sold his future FOR n song
they said Of rich mans son who, In.
stcnd Of taking advantage Of the un.
usual opportunities open to him Tor n
worthwhile career. was whillng uwny
his golden years on the Great White
Way.
"Ali for song" has come 20 mean
90 us ''paylng too much for n whistle"
any undue sacrifice or was,c FOR some,
thing that II worthless or only ~
transient moment, particularly the
superficial
II hns come down to ns from the
day when IT. significance WIS literal.
As n token OF her appreciation Of the
poet Edmund spencer Queen Eliza.
beth ordered Lord Burlclgh % present
him with flOO. which Ia those days
was a small fortune. Upon this Lord
Burlelgh Is said to have exclaimed
"All this for n song"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
Tlmld Old Soul.

My aunt was tlmld old soul and
was quite afraid Of holdups. For safe
keeping she always put her money In
her stocking. One day when she was
going 10 do some Christmas shopping
she thought she would play a Joke OS
the hOldups. She put the money IN her
pocket and carried her purse. In the
purse she put newspaper crumpled up.
She kept her hand IN the pocket that
had the purse and walked along mer-
rily. But 20 her surprise when she
had purchased her needs she reached
for the money but II was missing.
Then. forgetting, she reached for her
pOcketbook and pulled out the paper
She had to give back all the articles
and walk home empty-handed.-Chica-
90 Tribune.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
Heat for Alaska.

The Pacific hus its own "Gulf
stream" which Is called the Japan
current, and II Is formed in the same
way.
The trade winds, blowing from the
tropics, bank Ip the warmed ocean
waters In the yellow sea correspond
ing TO our Gulf Of Mexlc0). and thence
they pour out between japan and For
mOsa, the stream thus formed passing
south Of the AleulIan chain, along the
southern coast OF Alaska, and down
the west coast Of Norlh America.
Hence Il comes about that the whole
southern cOast Of Alaska has tenn
perate climate. II Is warmed by the
Japan current.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
What Really Keeps Time.

As a measurcr OF time the pendu-
lum ranks today as the most perfect
Of our instruments says the Scientific
American. II Is the part Of clock
that keeps time Al the rest Of the
mechanism Is simply for the purpose
OF keeping up Ms vibration or TO point
on dial the number Of vibrations il
has made. II swings back and forth
in a complete arc 30 times each min
ute, but allows the escapewheel TO
move a cog at each vibration, thus
checking or on the dial, by means OF
the second hand, 30 seconds Of time.
In a similar way, minutes and hours
are recorded, and by like process
watch Is guided.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
Rats as Food.

Doctor Kane. the Arctic explorer,
said that one Of the worst curses In
the far North were the rats that In
tested his ship. Nevertheless, when
In want OF other food. he was glad to
eat tthem-sOmetimes chopped up and
frozen into tallow balls.
He wrote: During the long winter
nights Hans beguiled his hours OF
watch by shooting rats with bow and
arrow. The repugnance Of my com
paniOns to share with me this table
luxury gave me frequent advantage Of
fresh meat soup, which contributed no
doubt 10 my comparative Immunity to
scuryy."
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
Portland Railway
Light & Power Company
'ByiOW Electric Goods tanEIeCtcStOle'

When you need any 4-foot
wood or short slab it would be 20
your advantage to call Skolfleld,
Woodlawn 1890. -
We BUY raise and sell fur
bearing rabbits. and other fur
bearing animals. List what you
have with us. stating your low
est prices on large lots shipments.
The Fur Specially Farming Co.,
516-5l7 N. p. Ave, Fargo, N.
Oak.
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tisers.