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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
Discount in Canadian Exchange

The sharp discount at which the
Canadian dollar is received in the
United States is caus NJ serious d'f.
iiculty IN trading across the border
and has reached such pcint that
the Interstate Commerce Commission
is asked TO take some sort OF action
to equalize railway charges The
lprop0S ton IS 10 divide the joint
rate at the border so that the pro.
portisn of the through rate apple.
able to each country viii be payable
In the currency Of that country
Just how this is going to Dc worked
out in detail is NOT quite clear. but t
Is evident that something will have
to be done
Canadians themselves seem TO hCld
the idea that In some way the I'm ted
States is TO blame fer the present
situation and that it ia committing
an Offence against the country In not
recognizing Canad an money at par.
Il is, OF course, all based upon the
proposition that Canada has bought
N re from the I'M ted States than the
United States has from Canada and
that the balance OF trade is. there
fore, strongly in favor of this coun-
try. 1t has resulted in heavy ship
ments Of Canadian grain to this conn
try which IS about all that Canada
can offer in an effort to equali2e the
balance
ono effect of the present situation
Is that American farmers near the
Canadlan border IRE being induced to
sell their lands and mcye INTO Cana
da, where they are able to buy new
lands almost at the difference in eX
change In other words, their Amert
can dollars are worth so mulch more
IN Canada where lands ave cheaper
that the premium IS sufficient for the
new investment New York Com
riercial
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
Judge Rutherford

Il want the statement millions now living win
never die to be taken literally as it is in the light
Of fulfilled prophecy provable Biblical PROPOSE
ton"
j. F. Rutherford.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05

When one stops to consider that
there are over $4,000 miles of highway
in Vermont and by htt'e figuring
finds that there Is mile Of road for
every fifteen men, women and child
rem in the state, one is apt to cease
wondering why It Is that our high
ways are not all Doulevards. Yer
mont is constantly making improve
ments in her road system. but ii Is
easy to demand more than we can
pay fol st. Albaus Messenger.
The above is statement in Ian.
guage so clear that even the most
childish voter ought To be able to
understand. Apparently the Messen.
ger has made a slight error IN compu-
tation but there is clearly mile OF
highway in Vermont for every % men
women and children. This ought to
make i plain that Vermont cannot
possibly build cement roads on even
its main highways The state is not
populCus enough or rich enough to
stand the expense, All that We can
expect or reasonably hope for is ce.
meut roads on short links where traf
&c is heavy. properly graded gravel
reads on our main Trunk lines and
Ordinary dirt roads, decehtly smooth
tana drained % ,'ths back and side
roads With this limit a possibility
clearly before our view the state OF
verfont ought to 90 ahead and build
and maintain its roads according to
what it can have and not spend too
I much time signing after the unattain.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
Mesopotamian LANGUAGE.

M6sopsfaiiHg, hrter DE. Es yptl4n, We're
originally 1iieroglyphl6, Sid 1he sew
cral huadred.agroups of wedges by
means Of which the language was ex-
pressed In writing. may nov be traced
TO the original hierosiyphics. One Of
the early pleture.words was . cres-
cent aud star, and the picture was
employed TO express IN incanta-
ton or exorclsln, or anything capa.
Bile of driving the evil spirit from
the body Of which 1t had taken pos
session.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
500 Reward, SlOC

The readers OF this paper will be
pleased To learn that there is at least
enc dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure IN all It's stages and
that is catnrrh. Catarrh being greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrli Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru Tie Blood ON the Mucous Sur
faces OF the system thereby destroying
the foundation OF the disease, giving the
patient strength By huildlng up the CON
Sltuiion and aRssting nature in doing it's
work. The propnctors have so much
faith In the curative power Of Hairs
Catarrh Medicine that they offer one
Hundred Dollars for any case that Il falls
TO cure. Send for list OF testimonials.
Address r. j CHENEY & co, Toledo,
Ohio Sold By al Druggists 7Se.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
A Friend Worth Knowing

We make many acquaintance, some
OF which develop into friendship, but
not all prove themselves true friends.
II IS juSt as essential that VIC have a
reliable friend in the form of a medi-
cine as a personal friend. so that when
we are afflicted with various ailments
we can have something we can abso-
lutely depend upon.
The next time you have any stomach.
liver or kidney trouble, and you arc
not already acquainted with the won
derful merits Of SEVEN BARKS,
natures remedy Of roots and herbs. we
urge YOU 10 give it trial, and we will
predict that it will become one Of your
most valuable friends from a medical
standpoint.
For nearly half century SEVEN
Banks has been valuable and timely
friend TO all sufferers OF stomach and
liver disorders. a trial will quickly
prove It's wonder efficiency and after
that you will never be without it, and
gladly recommend it 10 your friends.
Doctors bills these slays run into
money fast, and can often be saved il
You will but keep on hand a bottle of
SEVEN BARKS, the old-fashioned
remedy that our parents and grand.
parents used to keep their families
rugged and we'll
II You want friend that will stand
by you in time Of need. ask your drug.
gist for SEVEN Banks. Price Int
90 cents per bottle, enough to last a
long time. 9 @
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1921

Representative A. B. Clark OF
Readshoro is asking for a state appro-
prlation to help biuld bridge over
the Deerheld RIVER in the village CT
Realsooro Bennington and Wind
ham counties are also asking $4,000
from the state to render the old
turnpike road over the mountain
from East Arlington to West Wards
boro again passable. It passes through
the towns of Sunderland and STRAIT
tan, both very small and poor, and
Vermont ought to and can afford to
give them this small aid.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
BIRD Film Artist

New York has a bird which has
started on q successful Tim screen
career. He Is a cockatoo called Cocoa.
His beautiful white feathers attracted
the attention Of the director Of a
large film company, and now he has
a Job appearing IN oil scenery where
birds are needed lie gets good
sAlArv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05

!. J a,ruI 3nl .Tgd 81 atuNtllI
an in Siaht. Tor. hllAt nInca or 81 n.nllnn

n. J 4tIul t,UI -.f4N sII llUlINN ~
man lpdsight. forAhajHlace, or itnnlan
is in sight who gives reasonable pro.
mise Of beng better and more eff
elspt alter short tenure in Office.
The Banner believes that Governor
Hsheness should reappoint state High.
way Commissioner Stoddard b.
Bates, not because he is perfect, but
because there is no one IN view who
aeems likely to prove as capable.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05

For heressha be great trbuaton such has not been
since the beginning of the world until Q941925 no
nor ever shall be- except those days be shortened no
flesh would be saved busfor the elects sake those days
will be shortened and millions now living VIII never de
Hear the evidence then Judge and rejoice
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05

roT0RtNHIE HTpON
There IS no reason n the world
uwhy the governor tShoifd Hreuppoint
any state atac al If there IS a better
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-05
Auspices Organized
Judge rutherford New York

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The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

meaeer facts. 1t was then that the icicis
myth was born.
As a matter Of fact, Charles Evans
Hughes had but four days for preparation
before the investigation began. That was
the reason he could see no one. As soon ss
the work was under way he was first dis
covered as non frigid.
Hughes got all the facts about gas and
pulled them out into the limelight. Before
he was through he struck the insurance trail
and forced the investigation. No man ever
worked harder, more intelligently, more ef-
fectively than Hughes. He worked at q
time when a new thing was coming into the
consciousness of the people a demand for
effective public service, for honesty in poll
tics. The growth Of that idea has been 80
great in the last two decades that sight mas
almost been lost of the conditions that ex-
listed when this century began. Hughes was
one of the outstanding pioneers.
THIS brings us up to the Hughes philoso-
L ply of life, of service. 1 have talked to
him about this. 1 thought that he might
have some idealistic theory of life that would
make the basis of a pretty sermon; in that
he might even be willing tc preach, through
me, that sermon. But he does not talk
about duty and service: not at all. Master
the job. That is the idea constantly in his
mind.
In executing this part Of his philosophy
Mr.. Hughes drives straight ahead. tolls in
cessantly. To the mastery Of the job he
brings a very efficient mentality. When he
was eight years old he told his father that
he was wasting time in school, mapped out
his days work. got his lessons at home and
progressed much more rapidly. He gradu-
ated from Brown University at nineteen
with the highest marks that it was possible
to get. He earned a scholarship at Colum-
bia. He masters the job. He has the brain
for it.
Then. when the job is mastered. there Is
the detail of its execution. In the conscience
of Mr.. Hughes it is to be done as it falls
out. 1t is to be done in the obvious and
direct way. Circumstances and consequences =.
are not to be considered at all. They are
but incidents. There is no such thing as
political Pexpediency. He did not stop when
be found that the Insurance investigations
we're leading to the uncovering Of Republ-
can campaign contributions. He would not
stop for personal advantage; for friendship
for party profit. He hews to the line. His
is the simplest, least complicated policy in
the world. 1t il strange that 1t 10 the
rarest.
For example: II Mr.. Hushs, should
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

Connolly before she was married, and she
was of Scotch Irish origin.
Mr.. Hughes was born in Glen Falls, New
York, in 1862 and is, therefore, now fifty
nine years old. Much of his youth was
spent in Oswego, in Newark and in Brook
lyn. He went to Colgate College, to Brown
University. and sfterward studied law at
Columbia while he held a clerkship in a
law Office.
LIS parents intended him for the min
IL istry, but he early drifted toward teach
ing. Prof. James o. Griffin. of Stanford
University, out where Herbert c. Hoover
was educated, was at the head of Delaware
University when young Hughes came out Of
Brown. The youngster presented himself
and asked for a plsSe teaching Greek.
''You could never make them believe you
were the teacher said Prof. Griffin.
You have no more hair on your face than
an egg"
II was to get this job that Charles E.
Hughes turned his whiskers out to grow at
the age Of nineteen and he has worn them
ever since.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

papers keep representatives there and these
insist on being given the latest news twice a
day. Most of the Secretaries see the news
papermen twice a week and some Of them
even less frequently. Mr.. Hughes sees them
morning and afternoon.
The impression was abroad before he
came that Mr.. Hughes would be a hard nut
Tor the newspapermen to crack, They
thought he would be austere, uncommunica-
tive, monosyllabic. They were to be given
the most agreeable surprise of the season.
MIR. Hughes appreciated the general interest
IN international affairs and the adyisability
OF giving the newspapermen a correct un-
derstanding of what was going on. So he
talks freely with them-not for pubIication
lie wants them to have the background from
which to interpret the news He explains
situations to them, answers their questions.
IL Is running fire of question and answer
Tor hfteen minutes morning and afternoon.
VI course, there are many matters about
winch he may not talk, but he tells them
much.
here is the Hughes personality revealed.
de comes in radiating geniality, enthusiasm.
energy He looks beamingly around the
circle, his eyes sparkling. He has a host
Oh expressive wrinkles about his mouth and
eyes and they work busily.. He smiles easily
ana broadly, exposing large, white teeth.
Ihe changes that run over his face are
kaleidoscopically rapid.
ITO MR.. HUGHES one Of the most anus
I ing things that has come into his life
is his reputation for being a human icicle.
He says that he is being constantly redis-
covered. At every phase of his life that has
brought him into the limelight newspaper
men have come to see him and they have
made great discovery. He is not human
icicle. He is genial and human. This dis
covery was first made and widely proclaimed
when he started The insurance investigations
in New York. The same discovery broke
out when he ran for Governor, again when
be ran for President and now he has been
found out again. He laughs heartily over it,
As matter Of fact, there is an interesting
story in how he gained this reputation and
how It has been attached to him from time
to time.
Prior to 1905 Charles Evans Hughes was
virtually unknown, although be had been
practicing law in New York for nearly
twenty years. Then the Legislature at AL
bany appointed a committee, of which Fred
eric c. Stevens was chairman. and sent il
down to New York to investigate the gas
companies. Something like this happens8
every season and was regarded as q, joke.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

He studied law at Columbia and after
ward taught it. Colonel Jonathan Mshev
Wainwright, who was recently appointed
Assistant Secretary of War, was in his
class back in the eighties. Mr.. Hughes
showed me the big, old fashioned watch that
be wears, opened up the back Of it that
might read the inscription. 1t was given
to him by his law class at Columbia back in
1887.
Mr.. Hughes settled down to practice In
New York. but there was not in the Law
the opportunity for study that be crsved.
He liked to teach and he loved his books.
Because of this. after ten years he gave up
his practice and accepted a professorship at
Cornell, Where he taught law from 1898 to
1895. But he did not get the chance for
study be had expected and, though strongly
drawn to the idea of devoting bis life to
teaching, he went back into practice. II
was ten years after that that he got his
chance by becoming attorney for the gas
committee and hewinE to the line.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

demonstrate to his satisfaction, after eI-
haustive study, that it was the advisable
thing for the United States to become,
rsrty to the Woodrow Wilson League OF
Nations. he would not be deferred from say
ing so from insisting on it by anything that
had gone before; by personal antagonisns;
by political e1pediency, or by the fact that
the man who defeated him for President in
1916 would thereby be made the greatest
figure in the history of the time.
Mr.. Hughes likes to refer to himself as
the son of an itinerant Baptist minister,
and to his birthplace by citing the case of
a little girl of similar parentage who was
asked where she was born, and answered:
Not anywhere. Daddy is a preacher"
The elder Hughes was of Welsh origin,
so the Secretary of State has a blood tie to
welshman Davis over at the Labor Depart
ment. Secretary Davis is likewise a Baptist,
which faith the two men may have had
passed down to them from the same source.
But Secretary Hughes mothers name was
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

Yet. as a candidate for President, Mr..
Hughes failed as he had failed nowhere else
in his entire career. he had been for six
years on the Supreme Court Bench. had been
a man apart. untenched by the rough and
tumble Of life. he was thrust suddenly
into its scrimmage. BE could not respond.
II was like taking the college quarterback
out of an Office where he had been working
for half decade and thrustins him into the
football game without a day to get back
in shape. So Mr.. Hughes failed. II h.
had been the same man in 1916 that he ia
today he would have, believe, been elected.
He is an odd man, is Charles Evan,
Hughes, in the importance he places on IN.
proper performance Of the Job. You re-
member Joseph Pulitzer. the publisher, when
be died, willed Charles Evans Hughes 500
900, and that Hughes was q poor man with
a considerable family, just coming out Of
the governorship Of New York. That sloo.
900 would have meant q good deal 70 him
and his family. Yet Mr.. Hughes refused
the bequest. Its acceptance might have IN
terfered with the work that be had ahead
Of him.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

pearance Of great strength. He walks with
yigor and with evident enjoyment He fairly
swings along. Sometimes he stops on
corner and chats informally with an ac-
quaintance.
The Secretary is usually attired in a dark
business suit, nearly black. 1t is a bit
wrinkled about the elbows and knees is quite
worn. 1t looks like the suit Of the family
doctor with a big practice He wears a
dark soft hat pulled comfortably down over
his eyes, an easy turnover collar. One
would say that he is Indifferent to appear
ances were it not for bis beard. He has
the most carefully tended beard in Washing
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26

But this committee fddled around so long
before it appointed an attorney that the
newspapers got interested. When his name
was finally announced it was Hughes, and
nobody knew anything about bin.
All the reporters could unearth was th:,
he was lawyer and a member of the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church - Rockefeller y
church. Hughes himself was in seclusion.
The newspapers held that the Standard OH
interests were back of the gas monopolies
So the demand for information about
Hughes had to be supplied out Of these
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26
THE CABINET PREMIER

Mr.. Hughes lives on Eighteenth street in
Washington, about half mile from the
State Department. l live another half mile
out on the same street. Mr. Hughes, the
Secretary of State, walks back and forth.
] often observe him. He presents a broad
back for the purpose. Five feet ten should
judge Mr.. Hughes to be. and to weigh $50
pounds. He is an outstanding man, a man
heavy through the shoulders, giving the ap-
The Washington herald., 1921-06-26
Secretary Hughes Laughs at "Human Iceberg"
Nickname is Really Warm Hearted Man

ton. Jim Ham Lewis never more studiously
barbered whtskers than Secretary Hughes.
They are cropped very close these days
where once they grew riotously. They are
parted with scrupulous care down his chin
and pressed to right and left. They are
half gray and half reddish brown.
This year there is more interest in the
State Department than any other agency
OF government. Consequently, all the news
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-28
SOUTH CABOT

Mrs. Kate Dawson Of East Cabot
and Ora Bolton of West Danville were
united in marriage at Danville Oct. IL.
Mrs. Frank 0'Conner was at home
from Glencliife, n. H., two days last
week.
The many friends of Miss Hazel Alb
bott will be pleased 10 learn that she
is gaining from her recent operation at
the st. Johnsbury hospital
The auction at Carl Durgin's last
Saturday was well attended. Things
sold very well. Vern Hudson was the
auctioneer.
Cecil Foster and family were visitors
Sunday at A. NJ Fosters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Horr of Calais
and Mrs. Flora Philips of st. Marie,
Ont, were visitors Sunday at f. r..
kidder's.
Mrs. Frank Walbridge Of st. Johns
bury is stopping a few days with her
sister, Mrs. r. VI. Houghton, who is
having an attack of asthma.
Mrs. r. NJ. Houghton received word
last Thursday of the death Of her
daughter, Mrs. Nettie Hunt of Rox.
bury.
George Gee and H F. Morse were in
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-28
"Diapepsin' for
Bad Stomach,
Indigestion


Take 4.Pape's DiapepsiD" now In
five minutes your stomach feels fine.
Don't bother what upset your stomach
or which portion of the food did the
damage. If your stomach is sour, gassy
and upset, and what you just ate has
fermented into stubborn Jumps; head
dizzy and aches; you belch gases and
acids and eructate undigested food
just take little Pape's Diapepsin AMI
in five minutes you wonder what be-
came of the Indigestion and distress.
Millions of men and women to-day
know that it is needless to have bad
stomach. A little Diapepsin occasional
ly keeps this delicate organ regulated
and they eat their favorite foods with
out fear. II your stomach doesn't take
care of your liberal limit without re-
bellion; if your food is damage in
stead of help, remember the quickest,
surest, most harmless antacid is Papc's
Diapepsin. which costs only sixty cents
for large case at drug stores. Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-28
Silverware

Sc Community Par Plate Teaspoons for sec
75c Community Par Plate Tablespoons. for ---.76c
Is Community Par Plate Forks, for ...s....---76c
CSC Community Par Plate Knives, 2 for ,..-...-..s sec
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-28
CABOT

Allen Smith and family, accompanied
by NJ. J. Beaton, made a trip to Cana
da last week, where they visited among
acquaintance and friends. They re-
turned home Monday
Mrs. Abbie Read, Mrs. Ida Barr and
Mrs Carrie Bliss attended the district
meeting of the w, R. c. at Williams
town Oct. 10. Arthur Read drove the
car and Mrs. Celia Harrington Of Plain
field returned with them for few
days stay with Cabot friends.
Mr. and Mrs. +. j. Rogers returned
from Boston Saturday night.
Mr.. nd Mrs. George Heath recently
visited Mrs. Rosa Houghton at East
Cabot.
Mrs. Jessie Sturteyant OF st. Adams,
a past department president of the w.
r. G., was in Cabot Oct. 20 to inspect
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-28

Newport Wednesday to see George
GonyS, who is very poorly.
Mrs. Byron Eastman is in Plainfield
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-28
The Rexall Store 1-Cent Sale
Continues Over Saturday for the Benefit Of Our
Outof-T Town Patrons
Rubber Goods

1915 Maximum Hot Water Bottle. . for sa.76
$275 Maximum Fountain Syringe 2 fog sa.7e
loo Zinc Oxide Adhesive Plaster for roc
4oc Zinc Oxide Adhesive Plaster, 2 for Al,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-28

Rev. +. J. Malzard has resigned as
pastor of the Congregational church in
Jericho Center.