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ON medicine
The worlds tolest chimney, recent.
~ constituted at Anaconda, Mont,
is three feet higher than the Wash
ingtCn monument
A mon ter Crawdsh measuring over
three feet in length and weighing so
pounds was captured recently OF the
Florida coast
SO many baby passengers are now
crossing the Atlantic that one OF the
big steamship lines is providing chill
dren's cots
THE phrase, "a feather IN his cap,
originated m an old custom in Hun
gary which forbade anyone to wear
a feather N his cap unless he had
killed q Turk
On one Of the big tourist steamships
leaving New York for Mediterranean
cruise. live FISH were carried In tanks
for consumption on the liners dining
tables.
For centuries after it's first discoy
cry China carefully preserved the
secret cf silk culture, and amas2d
great wealth by export ng Il to India,
Persia and Arabia,
The meaning Of word IN Chinese
ia indicated ty the musical tons In
which il is uttered One word MAJ
have as many as FIVE am tones.
each Of which, when sounded. gives
tho word IN entirely different mean
iAg.
Tn famous sapphire ledge at ogo
Creek. in Montana. was discovered
through the medium Of ANIMAL. Or
ienaly colony Of badgers inhabited
the ledge. and it was trapper en-.
Caged I'm capturing these animals who,
quit, by chance, discovered sapphiros
in the earth throwa out by the bad
gers.
Among the superstitious peacocks
feathers have always had a bad repu-
lotion 1t IS common belief that to
keen them in the house for decorative
purpo es portends disastrous events,
and that IL there are daughters in the
family they will never marry while
the m omened feathers form a part OF
the household adornment
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-30
OLD DOCUMENT FOUND
oranal Copy OF Resolutions, Dated
1896. WI CHI Made Rutland CO. Seat

Original Copy OF Resolutiop1, Oateo
1896. WI CHI Made Rutland Co. Seat
TIE original copy Of the resolutions
adopted by Rutland county conyen'
ton in 1885 which moved the county
seat from TnmCuth to Rutland and
declared how large the county should
be was recently presented to the city
of Rutland by Edward c. Taylor, town
clerk OF Tlnmouth and former county
senator, and Is now framed and on
exhibition in the office OF the county
clerk. George II. Hartman. at tie coun-
" court building on Center street
In looking over some cd papers IN
the desk o. the town clerk in Tin
mouth Mr.. Taylor discovered the pa.
per which is signed IN pen By Brew.
ster Higley, town clerk of Tinmouth
IN 1855. Above the name Of Mr.. Hig-
ley, appear the names oi . delegates
who took part in the convention, their
names being appended to TIE clause
of the resolution. written in ink With
several erasures and crossed out
phrases
The resolutions show ,hat Rutland
county was intended to include seven
towns and that the court house and
jail (Which was spelled gaol in the
resolution SHOULD be erected in Rut'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-30
ODD AND INTERESTING

Among ostriches. the male birds in.
cubate the eggs.
Fish has always be9n one OF the
chief articles Of diet in China.
A beetle has been known to dispense
with food Of any kind for three years.
A large motorboat building for a
Los Angeles man will be Of solid
mahogany.
An average Of 2,17S persons a day
join the various churches in the Unit.
ed States.
The grape fruit has nothing to do
with the grape but is believed to
have been named after crap, shot.
A woman n Stockholm rs the moth
er Of three daughters OF different hges
whose birthdays fall on the SAM date.
The average Chinaman has great
faith IN drugs and frequently spends
considerable portion OF his income
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-30
ohservinn Other Planets.

On the noon, as wei as on Mas.
there are many varied shades and tints
of color to be seem green's and blues.
browns. yellows and reddish browns,
as well as black, white and grays.
A study of the color effects produced
by our own vegetation and vast seas
when viewed f;om great elevations
may aid in an Interpretation OF
the splotches Of color that are easily
observable on Mars and the moon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-30
RIVER AND HARB0R
BILL GIVEN BIG BOOST
house AGd5 St5,ooo,coO 10 Original
Estimats OF Appropriations
Committee.


Washington, March 20 DlsfeBaru'
ns recommendations OF the budget
Dui eau aad % Ihe apPIofI -aIloH Cum
@tlee' the ticuSe Yesterday Wy
10 vote edded Sl5,o00V0o 10 lne
amount carried ~ me army ApiIo'
WluIluh Dil iOi river ana harpoI Ilh'
proFcment5
an amendment 70 idereG5e AK AK
lump sum lGliheht from -HOG9'z9o
u flzelo'ooL was OF efeI NY mar
.lah Delhpsey 81 the hLFe'7 aHu ii9i'
DIETS committee ana "aa adopted w
No'e q zoe 10 % al'cf In.ce ~Vals
q acrimonious aepate' curing |nich
l3''y meA9erS a'rea lleir We've. ny
'ole 1h I'e aNleAolleAl WIS D'QIs
aostiohai iathFF thdh party mes ne
p19.!tahd Spilit.hs on the pfoposa',
who m~st OF we democrats laVoIeI
IAe ulscuss'In was 30 pro'raclen
ll' q Ilt"l F0'e y" D-o o'I eou''
10y De ieacAea'
HePie5oh'at.'o Mohati' ReplDNcan
{ Ie~'et' Cha''Hl@H HauuoH VI tHe AZ
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AhlloHy OF lAe snRco'hlh uee ii
en-. NO 'Ae 'lll' ~ 2IsaeI,aliFe
2'al.uIu' 70 ,l''lc@n' ;" '5cuH7'n =
n'eiloeE Oh tn' aup-9oilillt1ee; ana
~ NJ ''eIl'a Ivy hGltoh' hsPuplcGh
ono luflhet chairman Oh the
i'l.eIs ana llaI ilII OolH"a !i' were
allons '-ose oPpoSeu 10 'he meas
W an
Luz ph.ase, Forh pa Iol ieslaia'
~" HequeHty was injected mo
l"e ueOVto' "h-cn hda ~ the ear.
ipaINs Oh cJi.SieaaloAal "raHbies oi
III i-eI Spal7 over rivers ana ht' 3ofs
aPPioprlaIloAs'
b., Nv Siio ,I' oIIs'Hei-y Ie,om0ehd
- 'le ~ was 81 sht5 " excess
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-30
Georae Matchmaking piary.

4 year after his marriage Washing
ton began Il formal diary, which he
continued until June 10, l71j, the time
Of his appointment to command The
arm, of the Revolution lie called II
his Diary" and later Where. and
how my time Is Spent In II he en-
tered The happenings Of the day, his
agricultural aud ether experiments a
recori Of his guests, ana also q. de
tailed account Of the weather Wealth
or seemed to be- a hobby with him, and
his attention TO ii In his diary was
most particular
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-30
Catarrh

Catarrh Is q local disease greatly iniiu
euced by constitutional conditions.
CATARRH MEDICINE is a
Tonic and Blood Purifier By cleansing
the blood and building up the System,
CATARRH MEDICINE restores
normal conditions and allows Nature 10
do It's work
Al Druggists. Circulars free.
+. J. Chepcv q Co. Toledo. 0aio.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-30
land

The first signature on the paper is
That Of Reuben Hartman. who was the
great. great uncle OF County Clerk
George ~ Hartman. The other eleven
signers are James Mead, Obediah No
BILE, Elihu Smith. Darius Chapman
Eli Cogsel Philip Priest, Benjamin
Hecock, James Ewing. Thomas Nc
Ciure John Grant and Alisha Nos ey.
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Avalt knsctat!on.

Don't bothcr'abuut others be your
self; there will always be some to ap-
prove and some 10 dlsapproye, no mat.
ter what YOU 10 or don't o.--Auon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-11

cite Square after he gave up his Pc
litical position. and W. w. Corcoran
bought II. To Washington, the name
of W. W. Corcoran is a household
word. This banker and philanthropist
was at one time the richest man in
the capital. He gave the city the Cor
coran Art gallery. He founded and
endowed the Louise Home for gentle
women in reduced circum instances And
he was responsible for the retur8s- to
this country of the body of John How
ard PAYNE author of Home Sweet
Home" Payne had died in Tunis,
Africa, where he held a government
position. and it was due to Corcoran's
efforts that the poet was brought back
to lie in Oak Hill cemetery in George
town.
Corcoran carried on the high social
tradition of the Webster mansion.
The most famous men of the day
were entertained in its beautiful
rooms. and the house continued to
build up its name as a place where
history was made
Now. the site is to hold a five-story
Greek temple with(a colonnade of pill
lars-an imposing edifice. in keeping
with Washingtons architectural at
mOshere- The same architect who de-
signed the towering Woolworth build
ing for New York planned the low,
graceful temple of commerce for mod
ern Washington
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-11

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in a
recent address declared that: IF
there has ever been a man in respon-
s5bhe office in this country who had
the understanding and the vision of
labor's rights. it was woodrow Will
son" And yet. comments the Sioux
City Tribune, when the enemies of Mr..
Wilson closed in on him. labor failed
to come to his aid; in fact it helped
put on the finishing blows. What the
Tribune says is true and it applies
especially to the railroad men. for
whom Mr.. Wilson brought about the
pa ssage of the Adamson law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-11
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BK LEE FATE.

Ma got a letter today making her
all ixcited. and when pop came home
she sed, Wat do you Suppose, william,
I've bin elected a member of the Daw=
ters of Cleopattera.
Fine. good for you, sed pop hanging
up his hat. and ma sed. I must say
you're not very Enthusiastic over it.
Meny q calm exterior hides a blaz-
ing volcano, sed pop hanging up his
coat. And aftir suppir he started to
reed the spoarting page. and ma sed,
The password to get into the next
meeting was in the letter, and there
was a pOstkript saying to bern the let
ter immeeditly, so of corse I did, and
now there's no chance of enybody heer
knowing the password but me.
Crate stuff. sed pop reeding the
spoarting page, and ma sed, Don't you
wish you knew the secret password q?
No, sed pop
Willyurrl. you do so. sed ma, I can
see ute throo you, you're berning to
know, but I wouldent tell you if you
killed me ferst, IL begins with NJ but
you'd never CESS it in 1000 yeers, do
you think you could?
want to reed. sed pop.
There's letters in il and the ferst
one IS NJ. but 4 wouldent give you
another hint il you tried to drag it
out of me with wild horses, so there's
no use trying, sed ma.
I've started this base ball story 5
times and now I'm starting it agin, sed
pop.
can see rite throo your Pretended
indifferents, you'd give enything if you
ony knew wat the secret password is,
sed ma. and pop jumped up saying
zee gods. il enybody asks for me I'm
down in the parler reeding the paper
in peece- Which he went down TO do,
ma saying. He cant fool me he's jest
dying to know and he's mad because I
wont tell.
Wicr maybe he was and I started to
CESS words beginning with NJ. but ma
wouldent even anser me weather I was
rite OF rong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-11
Dorothy Dix Tails
How to Propose-2.


| Il is a blow to a girl who had
1 dreamed of being wooed in beautiful
Robert W. Chambers language to
have her proposal handed to her with
garnish of roast beef, medium done
and mashed potatoes, but if she is
sensible she swallows the bitter pill
of her disappointment without making
faces, and says, Yes and lives COM
fortably ever after.
The really bashful man hurls his
proposal at woman as if it were a
bomb. It comes to her out of a clear
sky, with no preliminary flourish or
warning, and she has got to take it or
leave it on the spot. because he will
never screw his courage up to going
thru the ordeal a second time.
Strangely enough, no woman ever
fails to interpret rightly the bashful
wooer's incoherent, haf-uttered pro-
posal, and she generally accepts it be-
cause she knows there is peace and
rest in a husband who regards love
making as one of the tortures of the
Inquisition.
There's the widower. He always be-
gins his Iove-making by telling q
woman how much she is like his late
lamented Maria, and he ends by Of
fering her the deceased lady'sf shoes
It is a marvel how any man can
have little enough sense not to know
Lucrezia Borgia down whom a woman
wouldn't rather resemble than the
first wife of the man she loves, and
she would dearly like to say NO" ex-
cept that good. house-broken
widower is too much of a preferred
ma trimonal risk to let slip.
Then there is the proposal by let
ter. which is a mean, dastardly trick
because it robS a woman of the one
big thrill of her lifetime. And there s
the platonic near-proposaI which
seems to be the real thing until a
woman supplies the acid test. and
finds that it makes no mention of any
wedding day.
There are all sorts OF proposals. ex-
cept the real honest-to- goodness one
in which the man gets down to- bra IS
tackE and makes as square a. Dove
proposition to a woman as he would
IA business proposition to afman. No
man makes that.
When the ordinary man popsf the
question he tells the girl that she is
an angel. and that he worships her
and that all he asks eff life is-just the
privilege of adoring, her. and that if
have anything to DO but soothe his
fevered brow.
He doesn't say to her, Now see
here, Mary Jane, I am a poor, weak
miserable human shrimp. 1 am can
tankerouS, and grouchy, and fussy
about my eating, and I don't make
but forty dollars a week, and the
woman who marries me will have to
work. and econ omize, and wear made
over clothes. and have the patience of
Job, but you are no world-beater
yourself. and = if you are bound to
throw yourself away on some man it
might as well be me as anybody else.
For L love you, girl, and I will make
you as decent a husband as I can.
Are you sport enough to give me a
try?"
Now that IS what I call a nice
honest proposal, but no man ever tries
it. and perhaps no girl would say
Yes" if he did. So there you are,
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father admires you so much He will
be glad that 1 fell in love with you
instead of someone else. Because you
konw, 1 did. That first morning after
I'd put in the netting I knew Twas
hope1essly in love with you and I'd
never marry any one all my life if
you didn't love me, too. And now
everything has turned out beautifully
and father will be so surprised"
But who is your father?' demanded
Langdon Moore. And why have you
been working for me?"
"Oh father is Prof. Bates, professor
of mathematics at Vernon university.
think you came to our house once
when I was quite a little girl. But
you don't remember. And the reason
why I was working is because I've
been at camp over on Lake Pleasant.
We wanted to raise money for the
fresh air children and we. decided that
it ought to be money that we had
really earned. So the girls all went
around earning money from the ma
tives- I pledged SIS and it has been
SO easy to earn it. But we weren't
supposed sto give our real names
only our camp names But think It's
all right in this case"
Copyright. 1922, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
INDULGENCE

IEDULG ESCE.
Ny Judgment wisely cOunseIed no"
And yet he pleaded with me
/ bought the candy that he asked and let
him eat his fill;
Induling thus his childish within, endeavor-
ing to be good to him.
That night learned my foolish love had
made him very i'll.
Who would he kind must first be wise.
In childish pleas much danger lies,
They cannot know and understand what
older minds have learned.
Who, just to please boys desire, permits
the lad to play with fire
Shall find that what he thought was love
has caused him TO be burned.
Indulgence is disasters tool, 1t is the maker
of fool,
1t brings to -sorrow. grief and pain the
youth II seeks to please;
Who holds his child IN high regard, must
answer no." however hard,
And now and then deny to him what he
coald give with ease
Love prompts us all to crafty the whims
that wisdom would deny,
And IL is easier far to give than to refuse
the Joy:
But sorrow. hurt and shame and pain, all
follow the indulgent train
Tho no is harder for the man, it's
better for the boy
Copyright, 1922, by Edgar A Guest-l
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Quesfions-AnssDeH

Il. Q. Are railway locomotives compelled
TO have electric headlights? G. A
sion says that there was an order esta B.
lished in 1917 whereby railroad locomotives
were compelled to have electric headlights.
Q; Who was Vice President and Presi-
dent of the Senate during Andrew John
sons administration? T. W. H
Andrew johnson succeeded to the Presi-
dency thru the assassination of President
Lincoln Senator Daniel Clark of New
hampshire officiated President of the
Senate.
9: Which is shakespeare's shortest
A Macbeth is shakespeare's shortest
play and is Evidently much mutilated
g q What is the Malthusian Theory? G.
A. Thomas r. Malthus an English econ
omist. pronounced the thesis that pOpula-
non IN all times has tended to Outrun sub
ststence. He argued that population tend
ed TO increase in geometrical ratio. while
subsistence might Increase in arithmetical
progression. For this reason, he concluded
that there could be no permanent anchor
alton Of the lot Of the poorer classes.
flag of France? Il. P. 1870 '-'
A. Marquis de Lafayette brought about
the adoption Of the tricolOr in 1883
O. Is Lowestoft china still made? o. O.
A The production Of this celebrated blue
toward the end of the eighteenth centuPy.
but it is no longer made.
Q: How wide long and deep is the
A The Amazon River is about 3 400
miles long. and is $50 miles wide at its
mouth. The river varies greatly in depth
on account of floods. For $50 miles from
its mouth It is nowhere less than 80
fathoms deep.
Q. Is kelp stiIl being harvested for its
potash on the Pacific Coat? W. +. s.
A. The keIp industry. which grew TO
importance in California during the war, Is
now a memory, all plants having closed
down.
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One Of the most formidable objec-
tions to continued government opera
ton today-an objection that is insur-
mountable-says Chairman Lasker of
the shipping board. is that the ships
owned by the government would in
due course wear out, even with proper
repairs. No one suggests. he points
out. that the government should build
ships to replace those that are worn
out, or that the government should
build new type ships. There Is a
unanimous opinion in the country. he
says that government construction of
Merchant ships should cease. Thus
the continued operation by the gov
eminent OF its present fleet would be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-11

During the period since January l.,
SAYS s ". Straus * Co. there has
been "a large increase in construction
as compared with the corresponding
pcrfod last year. There is no funda-
mental reason at this time they de-
clare. why these activities should not
progress on an ascending scale, thus
reducing unemployment. stimulating
general production and improving
conditions in all lines Of tnade and in
dustries What is here said regarding
The building industry is true of other
industries In fact a revival in any
ofthe basic Industries of the country
can not take place without having
favorable effect on every other line
OF business Bradstreer's reports that
luidin- expenditures permitted for
at les cities for the month lust closed
totaled S194-661.O72. as against only
Ss9.2i9.326 in February and $91.s75.-
757 in March a year ago. a gain of
90 per cent over February and OF 112
per cent over March. 1921. itself a pc
riod OF exceptional activity. Most in
teresting. however. says the report. is
the fact that. with only 100 cities so
far reporting. March this year fur
nishcs a larger total than was ever
before seen in any month in the coun-
try's history.
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making no progress toward a perma-
nent policy on the seas or q renewed
and enduring merchant marine. This
one phase alone, he declares. calls for
legislation along the lines proposed to
insure the governments retirement
from ownership and operation. What
Chairman Lasker suggests proba bly,
is satisfactory to the people generally.
but 1t does not follow that they are
willing 10 pay anybody to take the
ships off the governments hands and
operate them as proposed by Chair
man Lasl1er.
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There can be no effective remedy
for the existing situation in the coal
industry, says Coal Age. that does not
contemplate the prompt squeezing out
OF the mass the inefficient mines.
which means fewer workers and few
er operators II there are. as esti-
mated. 10000 more mine Workers
than are necessary for proper func-
tioning. it says. they must go. as must
many high cost mines. II this be the
program of the operators they may
expect to have a big fight on their
hands for some time to come. To win
Il they must convince the public OF
the justice OF their position.