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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-04-10
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Ralph F. Niles of Park street IS con
fined to the bed by rheumatism.
Harwood's. bricks, pineapple, van
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Adv
Miss Edith Manchester, who has
been visiting in town for a week, re-
turned to her home in Berlin, N. y,
Friday.
Mrs. A. W. Lord Of Danvers, Mass,
IFS passing the weekend at the home
of her uncle, Fred o. Graves Of Elm
street
| Alan Foster has returned from Wis
lit Of a few days with relatives in
SALISBURY Valley and is assisting in
Eates Market.
Last showing Of that wonderful
screen classic 1.-THE Soldiers Of For
tune" Opera house tonight Shows
Il and O'Clock.
| Coming Monday-Lbrary Theatre
Dorothy Dalton in THE Homabreak
fel' a special Paramount attraction
See our ad. Monday Adv
Something moving all the time ox
actly as Richard Harding Davis
Imagined it and as the screen alone
can picture It, Soc "soldie.s Of For
tune" at the Opera house tonight.
ADV.
Miss Margaret Pilling, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert e. Pilling Of SAT.
ford street, who for the past several
months has been engaged in Y. w. G..
1 a.. work In Boston, has resigned and
Iis doing work at the Blue Triangle
Hospitality House ia Burlington.
A piqaant comedy drama With the
Incompatible Peggy Hyland A
Mutt and Jeff comedy chapter 3 Of
The Adventures of Ruth" and those
great entertainers The Three Van
Cooks in g Chinese musical novel "
iact at Harte Theatre today. ADV.
Girls can earn n.s>. wages in a very
!eho time at the Black Cat Textiles
lCompany's mill and under expert
instructions given to beginners who
learn a liberal weekly wage and bonus
while learning, girls become expert
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short Tins Phone A. Aay., G7tl&
See when the man, recognizing in
his pursuor the girl he loves. leads
her a merry chase, laughing Ell hog
petty annoyance in THE WEB OF
Chance airing Peggy Hylana a
Mu ana JET, comedy chatter 8 THE
Adventures o. Ruth" ara the last ap.
rearancc Of the Van Cooks In a Chi
neso mn ical novelty act, Hare The,
atre todar. ADV
Announcement is made today Of ,he
marr.ase D Troy. n. Y, Sunday af.-
.crn15n Of Miss Olive Manly. daughter
oi Nir end Mrs A. II. Many Of 80
so IN street md Charles Valiant Of
Ftchbwg. Flge ceremony was per
icrasd Gals lyahg .lnstioe NlGevesr ii
Troy, Miss Alahy, who is one oil The
best known aud most popular Young
women OF the CITY, was a memAes oi
the class OF 1920 at Drury high school
Bnt.i recently For few months rasi
she ha been employed at the Woo
{ worth store. Nj. Nailian is naug6
Of Fitchburg, and attended the Fiteh
burg Normal school Since his erg1g
alton about year ago he has been
employed in the office cf the diFisicf
. engineer OF the Boston and Marie rail-
road in this city. He is an ex-scryicC
men. Mr.. and Mrs. VaIlian viii make
thci home in this c!iy.-Nofth Adamg
Transcript
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-04-10
BENNINGTON nGlEFs
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Miss Helen T. Melghor CT North
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a week in New York
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GrlHth's spectacular sensation Tho
Fall OF Babylon l25,000 people-75eo
horses and wild beasts-Watch FOX
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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

. ROBABLY John Adams was the
u unhappiest man who ever sat IN
Tie presidential chair. One of a dozen
unwanted presidents, who were taken
only because the men that were want
ed could not be elected, this humble
role embittered all the remaining days
or the proudest man In the line of our
Chief magistrates.
1t was hard enough for Adams to
be the understudy even of George
Washington, while serving as vice
president. When he became president
1t was maddening to his ego that he
should be expected to play second fld-
die to Alexander Hamilton, the mas
ter spirit of the old governing class,
left over from colonial times and
which controlled the Federalist party.
The president made the fatal mis-
take of keeping Washington's cabinet,
which really had passed Under the
control of Hamilton, who presumed to
direct the new administration, very
much as Tammany boss puts Tam
many mayor through his PAGES.
Like aristocracies everywhere, the
Federalists were thrown into a state
of panic by the French revolution and
by the rise of the Jeffersonian democ-
>racy in our yet aristOcratic republic.
In their alarm they frantically rushed
through congress the alien and sedi-
ton acts, which became only mill
stones about their necks, sinking their
party forever. Not satisfied with
shutting the revolution out of the New
World, many of them were for join
ing the monarchical coalition against it
in the Old World. In an uproarious
quarrel with the absurd French direc-
tory, the militia was called out aid
Washington summoned to command it,
after which the president astonished
the jingoes by suddenly throwing them
over and returning to pacific policy.
AS he had been the first minister
to England, John Adams was also he
first president to take up his residence
in Washington. As Mrs. Adams had
been the wife of the first American
envoy in London she was also the first
mistress of the White House, If for
only a few months. On the way from
Philadelphia she and the president
lost their trail in the wilderness until
a struggling black" came to their as
sistance.
The capitol was yet unfinished, and
out of desolate bog far off, the un-
finished White House rose to view.
There was neither fence nor a rec
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25
COM MERCIAL ACREAGE
OF VEGETABLE CROPS
Compared With Last Year Mark
ed Reduction Is Shown.
Estimates Based on Reports Received
From Seed Growers-increase Is
Indicated for Sugar Beet and
Garden Peas.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agricultural
The prospective commercial acreage
of vegetable-seed crops for 1920. COM
pared with last year, shows marked
reductions in the acreage reported for
dwarf snap beans, all beet, carrot, let
tuce, onion seed. radish, spinach, sweet
corn, and tomato seed, while a slightly
increased acreage is reported for gar
den pole beans, cucumber, muSkmelon,
watermelon. parsley. pepper, pump
kin, and Swede turnip seed.
These estimates are based on re-
ports received by the bureau of mar
kets, early in April from commercial
vegetable-seed growers and are as ac-
curate and complete as it was possible
10 obtain at that time.
The estimated prospective produc-
tiOn for 1920 computed on the basis
of the acreage reported and the av-
erage yield per acre for the four-year
period 1916-1919l, compared with that
for 1919. is about s. per cent less for
sweet corn and English turnip; 90 per
cent less for dwarf snap beans, celery,
parsnip, and squash; 90 per cent less
for cabbage and radish; and about
50 per cent less for garden and mangel
beet, carrot, onion seed, and spinach:
while an increase is indicated of 20
per cent for sugar beet and garden
peas and so per cent for onion sets.
The estimated acreage and prospect
i've production for 1920 are more COM
parable with those for 1917, and the re-
ductions in acreage and production as
noted should not be taken as an indica-
ton that the vegetable-seed growing
industry in this country is on the de-
cline from that of prewar years.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

MS gossiping parishioners from this
"eli-ehosen text: "John came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine, and
ye say he hath devil /"
Although she never went to school,
1ais parsons daughter was by long
eads the cleverest in the entire line of
our presidents wives, her published
letters forming delightfully."- human
oocument in our too often unhuman
history. When John Joined the fathers
Vi the republic in the great work of
setting up the most masculine govern
ment the world ever saw, this mother
Vi the republic had to stay home to
TUCK The cradle, cook and patch for
iour little Adamses and to tend the
arm hllking and churning, knitting
ana darning. teaching and praying.
toliing and saving, she supported the
l"lnlty' inspired her husband in his
progress to the presidency. and reared
d son to follow in the fathers foot
steps.
In the war, it fell to Adams to do
PICKET duty in Europe. Congress sent
niln TO France with thoughtful warn
ing 10 put in the bottom of his dis
pasch bag plenty of lead or stone or
otner weighty substance TO sink his
papers For his own neck no protec-
r,oh was proposed in event of the
nrltlsh capturing signer of the rebel
nahlIesto of July 4, 1TT6. Neverthe-
.esS' ne took with him on the perilous
UP MS ten-year-old son, John Quincy.
oh the next voyage, he carried not
ohiy John Quincy. but also his second
soI ana they were shipwrecked off the
coast Of Spain.
Ai'er nve long, anxious years of sep
aratlon from husband and children. the
lother herself sailed to Euroue, and
e pioneer American woman TO an
sear ut the Court of st. James was
1o'saii' the farmerette of Braintree.
ner presentation costume, according
W nef own description, was white lutte
ing covered with white crepe, fes-
soonea with lilac ribbon and mock.
no,n' lace, over a hoop of enormous
sN'ent and with narrow train three
us long; also rufffe cuffs, treble
, ,aee ruffies and dress cap, with long
s appets and two white plumes."
A. lou VIII be stared at a great DEAL
ne unke of Dorset kindly warned the
a ua ms On the contrary, every back
a.. ne court circle was turned upon
s sle Yankee rebels and Queen Charlotte
81 relsed Abigail with contempt and |
"a man can defend himself always,
t,n Aoisail's husband did right man. |
inaS. wnen IT fell to him TO be the first
the . American to stand before
W. e throne of England. George III
a,a," uF'ns to infer from his supposed
pe of France. a preference for
Island, his one-time subject frankly
so'fected the king: 81 must avow to
n,a" majesty that I have no at ach-
A but to my own country" l
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

A SCHOOLGIRL complained that
N American history was so Uttered
up with Adarnses'' that she couldn't
tell one fror1 dle other. Yet this moot
distinguished family In our national
biography lived In America one hun
bred and fifty years before 1t broke
into fame.
When the engagement was an
nounced of John Adams of Braintree,
Mass, to the daughter of Parson
Smith of the adjoining town of Wey-
mouth, people were shocked that Abby
should marry so beneath her station.
Was she not Quincy and Norton ?
And John, the son of a small farmer,
was put down to fourteenth place
among his twenty-four classmates,
when Harvard catalogues were made
up according to social rank. After
that he taught school in Worcester to
get enough money to study law, and
the strictest of the Puritans looked
on lawyers as ungodly.
Father-in-Law Smith was game, and
tradition says that he preached down
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

by the horses and the men can handle
about 30 per cent more hay.
Save Labor on the Stack.
The push rake furnishes the most
economical method of hauling hay to
the stack, barn, or hay press If the
distance is not much more than one
fourth Of mile. One man. or a boy,
with good push rake and a team
used to the work win handle three
times as much hay as two men with
small rack on a high-wheeled wagon.
Stacking hay with push rake and
an Overshot stacker mounted on
wheels eliminates nearly all Of the
back-breaking work OF the old pitch
fork method. With a yield OF one to
one and a half tons to the acre, two
men on the stack can easily handle all
the hay brought in by three push
rakes, accomplishing vast saving in
labor and hay over the pitchfork
method. Another method not so good
but still vastly better than the pitch
fork method is a stacker equipment
with a double harpoon fork. The out
fit can be made at home and will cost
very little compared with the labor it
saves. but harder work is necessary
to get the hay on the stack than with
the oyershot stacker.
When hay is to be baled from the
field, one man by working in the after
noon, can round up enough hay which
has been punched by push rakes to
keep the press going next morning IN
til the dew is gone from the hay in the
windrow. When the hay is not thus
rounded up the crew will lose two
hours or more on mornings when
there is a heavy dew.
Carelessness in setting the press
may result in loss of Labor. When the
press is properly set two men can get
plenty of hay to it from the stack.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

about the structure, and the presi-
dents nearest neighbor dweit half a
mile away. Mrs. Adams had hard
time to get wood enough TO keep her
family warm in the big, bleak man
sion. and she smiles at us still as her
letters tell us of how she hung her
washing to dry in the great east room.
After sitting at his desk until mid
night hastily signing appointments, to
forestall his successor, Adams drove
out of Washington at the dawning of
the day of Jefferson's Inauguration.
lie had no smiles TO hestow on the
ts,umph of his rival, and few enough
TO light his own pathway, through his
remaining years.
After his brave, good helpmeet hac
been taken from him, he lived on
eight years more. lived to see what no
other ex-president has seen, son in
the White House. At ninety, as ne
Law diving In the sunset of the fifhsth
Fourth of July, we are told that his
thoughts turned TO the first and most
glorious Fourth and that his lips muir
INJURED 'sThomas Jefferson still sur
wives" The author OF the Declaration
really had died few hours before.
and In their flight from earth the
spirits OF the two old patriots of T6
were strangely united again.
tcopyright. 1859, by james Norway
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25


and where books are difficult to get.
these professional readers are In great
demand They pick MP here and there
tales that appeal to all and bfnd them
into long narrative. Some people
have thought that Homersm long poems
originated I'm this way.
Everywhere In the near east the
traveller nnds these story-teIIerH to-
day. An eager audience collects to
hear them. each paying a small fee
fer the privilege of listening. The en-
fertatner aecIaims an he walks to and
fro and always stops hIs narrative Just
before an exciting climax, SO that he
Will be assured of listeners ON the
morrow. His audience follows his re-
cftaf with breathless interest. especial
iy when he illustrates thrilling cpl
~odes with lively pantomime.
Year after year these EroupH of
listeners gathered centuries ago. The
story-telier discarded the tales fhat
did mot hold the Alteration of hIs lis
teners. Gradually the process of elm
nation went ON until only the best
were handed down by word of mouth.
from generation to generation. Then
some unknown benefacfor of mankind
had them written down and connected
them with the framework of Scbehera-
Eade and Shahrfar. And these are the
Arabian Nights that have delighted
children and grown men and women
for decades.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25
1eJEMiIERAL
EARM5N0rRS

Plan your work and work your plan.
The application of acid phosphate
has paid web ON many alfalfa fields.
Humus, when decaying, makes avail
able plant food from the store of pn-
available plant food in the soil.
Humus acts as a sponge and In
creases the water~holding capacity of
the SOIL
For extra good melons, plant ON hills
OF rotted manure and thin the vines
to not over three plants to the hill.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

- HEHERAZADE was a vizier's
- daughter and when she besought
her father TO wed her to King
Shahrfar it was cause for grief to the
Etzier. For each day was it Shahriar's
wont to put to death his bride of the
day before. II befell, however. that
Sheherazade had her will. As she had
hoped, the king was wakeful and to
heguile him she began a story of
magic Dawn broke before she had
finished and so eager was Shahriar to
hear 1t all that he gave no order for
her execution.
For a thousand and one nights did
this befall while Sheherazade told
tales of love, war and soreery. of kings,
beggars and rogues, of lands where
diamonds were more plentiful than
pebbles and bigger than eggs, of in
trigues in the lanes and bazaars of
Oriental cities In towns and deserts
and far islands did necromancers work
their wills, Horses few; dogs talked;
mermaidens and creatures greater
than whales peopled the deeps; ogres
and enormous apes crept out of for
ests; birds so great that their wings
darkened the day swooped from the
skies, Here, too, were lovers in PAL
aces and novels, bold and cowarily,
yet all so enamered that they swooned
at the very thought of the beloved.
Underlying all was the colorful ORR
ent, with BARRIERS and porters icstIing
caliphs and prineeSses in the thrunged
and picturesque lanes of three cities
whose very names coniure up romance
-Bagdad, Cairo and Damascus
Now these are the best liked of She
heragade'S tales:
The Story of Aladdfn's Lamp.
OF Aladdin, son OF a poor tailor in
China, prankish scamp. An African
magician guided him to suhterranean
cave where he found the lamp that
summoned the genie. Out of nothing
ness did this genie spread banquets
for Aladdin and robe him in rich raj
ment. He provided him retinues of
slaves, bearing basins heaped high
with precious stones, who carried TO
the king Aladdin's suppliance for the
hand of the beautiful Princess Badroul-
boudour. In night did the genie raise
a palace OF glowing wonders, of shin
ing marble and gold and silver, with
windows incruSted with diamonds, en-
eralds and rubieS, with fragrant gar
dens and open courts. So Aladdin mar
ried the princess and they knew great
Joy. But the magician returned. stole
the lamp and in triee transported
the palace and the princess to Africa.
Then was Aladdin woeful. but by
magic he found his beloved, poisoned |
the magician. seized the lamp and |
came to China, where he and Bsdroul- |
boudour lived happily ever afterward. |
The Story Of sinhad.
OF Sinbad the sailor and his marvel /
Gus voyages, Wherein it is related |
that Sinhad landed upon what seemed |
an island but which was a grest fish /
that sank into the sea. And OF other
voyages and greater wonders, of which
one maryels most at the adventure
with the roc. the bird so huge that it
feeds its young with elephants. Sin
bad had fastened himself 10 the roc's
leg and 1t bore him to an impenetra-
BILE valley strewn with precious stones
from which he escaped by binding him
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

The marvellous
tales that Sche-
heraxade told to
King 8 b a h rfnr,
stories of love
and adventure and
mad magic cam
not be attFibnted
to any one author
for the very good
reason that there
never was an an
thor. They are
popular stories
I h a T. p e rh a y 3
aboaF the yea n
SO, were put
into the present
form by n profess
ssonaI stoFy-feIIer,
presumably a Per-
sian.
In pFf m 1 tive
C o m ma q N title =
where few of the
saMrz-HA
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25
AN UNHAPPY PRESIDENT

lIsa-John Adams elected vice
president.
1Is2-Re-elected vice president.
1T96--Elected president.
f9/-inaugurated second presi-
dent, aged 81.
4soo-conciuded peace with
France. Defeated for sec.
ond term by jefferson.
1s2o-Member OF Massachusetts
constitutional convention.
ls26-JuIy a, died, aged 90.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25
JOHN ADAMS AND ABBY

f7s5-oct. ~, John Adams born,
Braintree, Mass.
t755-Graduated at Harvard.
f764--Married.
177477--ln Congress.
f775-85-on Mission to France.
1885 80 Minister to England.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25
About Haran-zE-Rashid.

And of many tales concerning the
Caliph Harun-al-Rashid and his going
disguised into the lanes and bazaars of
Bagdad, where he CHANGED upon
strange people who told him strange
stories of magic. Once'he supped with
three ladies of dazzling beauty and
with him were a porter tiazed with the
magniieence he saw and three mendi-
cantS, sons of kings. all blind in the
left eye. Not knowing the Galiph they
told of their fantastic adventures and
sufferings and he rewarded them. And
pIo1ed him to strike him. youth who
Spurred cruelty a mare upon which he
rode and a ropemaker who had risen
suddenly from poverty TO affiuenee.
Their tales too did he hear and them
too did he reward. Nor should AbH-
HasSan. the wag. be forgotten. whose
trickery in pretending that he and his
E3ife were dead won so much gold and
so many laughs from the CaIiph. And
of like import is the mad tale of the
humphack who seemed dead and of
the tSikative barber who restored him
10 life, of all those who had believed
themselves murderers Of the hump
back and of the amazing tales that
they related.
So IL came to pass that by the end
of the thousand and one nights Shah
riar was so delighted In the cleverness
of Sheherazade that he welded her
again with regal pomp and they lived
happily ever after,
(copyright 1sls by Post Puhlkshirg Ca
The Bossoa Postl
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-05-17
Oklahoma Takes Lead
of United States in
the Production of Zinc

WASHINGTON, May l6 Okla
homa again became the leading
zinc producing state i'm 1919 after
having surrendered the lead 10
Illinois in 1918, figures Just an
'nouuCed by the United states
geological survey show The
oklahoma production OF zinc last
year was 12l,9SS short tons to
Illinois 1880.
The production for last year.
however. was far short OF the 1917
production and was falling of
even from 1918. In 1917 Okla
homa produced 204,39t short tons
OF zinc and in 1918, 1906 short
tons. The Illinois peak produce
ton also was IN 1917 with l7c,-
4S9, and in 1918 the Prairie state
produced liISi4 short tons.
Production in short tons in
other leading zinc mining states
I'm 1919 was as follows. Arkansas.
2li31. kansas i3.9i.: Fennsyl.
N1nit, oG'2l; AN other states,
56,A59,
The total primary production
IN the entire country m 1919 was
466,7i3 short tons as against AlT.-
921 the previous year and 66s
bI3 In 1917. In the country the
price Of grade A zinc had fallen
from IA cents a pound in 1917
to s3 cents In 1919.