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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
DIED OF PELLAeRA
Malady Claims Widow OF Former
Rutland Clergyman.

Rutland Aug. S,--Mrs. Electa l.
Purdon, widow of Rev Thomas H..
Purdon, for a number of years pastor
of the Seventh Day Adventist church
in this city. died at her home, s
Sheldon avenue Wednesday from pei
lagra, after being in poor health since
last winter. Her husband died seven
years ago.
Mrs. Purdon was born in Kemper,
ILL.,, February 2S. 1886 but had lived
practically all her life in Addison
and Rutland counties, for a long time
in Mddlebury, and the last 80 years
in this city.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
FRENCH FINANCES GOOD
Greatly Increased Revenue Expected
from New Eneome Taxes.

Paris. Aug. 2.-The income tax
voted by the Chamber of Deputies as.
sures France yearly 44OOO0.00O francs
more than In normal peace years,
and 669OO0,O0O francs more income
than In 1916.
Joseph Thierry Minister OF III.
nance, in announcing these figures.
told the Chamber that tho financial
situation in France was entirely sat.
isMotory. The number of incomes
taxable, said NJ. Thlerry, had risen
from 10000 to 100000. and the early
months Of 1917 had proved a favor
able guide for the year.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
FOOD BILL AGREEMENT
Appropriation Cut to stt,346,ooo In
Conference

Conference on the administration
food bill providing for national food
survey and appropriations to stimu-
late production reached an agreement
at Washington yesterday House ap-
propriations of Sl4,77OOOO were re-
duced to sl1,346,OO0. Several senate
amendments were eliminated, but
that allowing irrigationlsts on private
lands to secure water from govern.
ment projects without actually residing
on their land was retained.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
MEArLess DAYS FOR CANADA
Food Controller Announces Violators
viii Be Punished Severely.

Food Controller Announces Violators
viii Be Punished Severely.
Ottawa, Ontario, Aug. canada Is
to be put on rations and there is to
be penalty If the orders are not
obeyed. w ]. Hanna. Food Control
Ter Of Canada, has made recommends
tions to the Minister of Justice that
the people of Canada shall be required
to observe two meatless days week
two baconless days a week, and that
every caterer in Canada who sup
plies daily twenty-five meals must
supply bread that is other than pure
wheat bread The Government, he
says, must fix the penalties.
War and the feeding of the allied
nations are said to justify the recon
mendations of the Canadian FooC
Controller.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
BRITISH TRANSPORT ASHORE
546Wounded Soldiers Taken OFF
Steamer Near Halifax.

SAColllNl lNCdl
Halifax. ~ s., Aug. 2.-Announce-
ment was made today that steam
er, with 546 wounded soldiers on
board had stranded in the harbor
mouth yesterday during a fog. The
ship was steaming at nearly full
speed when land was sighted. and or.
ders to stop and fullspeed astern were
too late, The steamer plounged
headlong on a rocky shore, the bow
resting on rocks which penetrated tho
hull. while the stern hung in thirty
feet of water
Mine sweepers were sent to the res
cue, and all of the wounded soldiers
were safely transferred to the pier
hospital In Halifax Harbor.
Attempts made to float the steam
er have proved unsuccessful. 1t Is
said that the stranded ship is In no
immediate danger. The crew remain
f, ed on board.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
PERHAPS FATALLY HURT
Woman Run Down by Automobile in
Rutland

Rutland, Aug. 3.-Mrs. d. p. Hurl-
burt, wife of the pastor of the church
at Northam. in Shrewsbury, was in
jured, probably fatally and Mrs. r. H.
Mandigo, also of Shrewsbury, was Sc.
verely hurt Wednesday when they
were run down at the corner of Mer-
chants row and West street in the
heart Of the business district here to-
day by Miss Ada S. Walker of Chip
penhook, who was riding alone in a
Cadillac coupe. The car passed over
Mrs. Hurlburt's chest and one wheel
rolled over Mrs Manigo's right ankle.
1t was found at the hospital that
Mrs, Hurlburt has broken collar
bone, fracture of the shoulder blade
and internal injuries. Mrs. Mondigo
will not have to remain at the hospit-
al long.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
LEFT GREW TO DROWN
According to Story Of Submarine
Victim Survivor.

London, Aug. S.-Tho submarine
which sank the Belgian Price
smashed all the lifeboats with gun
fire and destroyed all life preservers
After assembling the crew, 3S in
number, on the deck of the subma.
rinc, the German craft suddenly sub.
merged, Nearly all Of the crew were
drowned. according to the story of
Thomas Bowen, a survivor, told in a
hospital here today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
CONGRATULATED BY KAISER
Emperor William JubiIant Because
Allied Offensive Failed

Emperor William, according to an
official statement at Berlin yester-
day, telegraphed to Crown Prince
Rupprecht of Bavaria his congratula.
tions on the great success of the Ger
man fourth army, July 81, Whereby
the vehement Anglo-French attack
intended to conquer the cost OF
Flanders failed"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
WILSON WRITES TO GRAHAM
Approves Of Suggestion Made by
Governor Of Vermont.

Montpelier. Aug. Gov. Graham
today received a letter from Presi-
dent Wilson expressing his apprecia-
tion OF the governors letter of July
II relative to speakers for the Ma
tional Guards of New England while
in camp at Charlotte, N. c., in which
the president says
Thank you for your interesting
letter of July 27. am sure that its
consideration of the authorities of the
consolidation of the authorities of the
war department,
Sincerely yours,
Woodrow wilson
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
1874 DEAE' SINCE MONDAY
Is Phlladelphia's Heat Toll as Showers
Cool Air

Thunder showers at Philadelphia
last night brought relief from the heat
wave which since Monday has claimed
the lives of 1S4 persons. Firty-fve
deaths and scores of prostrations
we're reported to the coroner yester
day The relief, however, according
to the local weather forecaster, will
be only temporary, as returning high
Temperature is predfcted for today.
The maximum temperature yester-
day was 95 degrees and the mercury
lowered around 95 for nearly seven
hours. Excessive humidity increased
the suffering
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
RUSSIANS IN
RETREAT ON
WHOLE FRONT
From Riga to Black Sea Are
Failing Back
Russian Troops Refuse to Fight and
Have Given Up Only Section of
Austria Gained In Three Years.

Amsterdam, Aug. 3.-Czernowitz,
an important point in the Russian
strategic line in Bokowina, has been
captured by the Austro-German
forces, according to dispatches re
ceived here today from Vienna.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03

Petrograd, Aug. S.-Zimbolung, one
of the defensive positions in the Rus
sian line in Bokowina, has been
evacuated, it was officially announced
today.
The Russians continued to retire in
the Dneister and Pruth rivers, il was
also officially announced
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
RETIREMENT NEAR RIGA
Germans Occupy Uskull After EVaeu'
alton by Russians

German forces have occupied the
Uskull bridgehead, on the northern
Russian front 10 miles southeast of
Riga, according to reports received at
Pertograd from the battle front. The
position had been evacuated by the
Russians.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
BATTLE NOT
DECISIVE IS
NOW BELIEVED
Both Sides Claim Victory in
Flanders Fight
GERMAN LINE HELD
But British Took Many Prisoners and
inflicted Heavy Losses All Along
Their Front.

London, Aug. 3--Brtish forces
Wednesday night launched a counter
attack against the German position in
Flanders Gen. Sir Douglas Haig re.
ports that the British troops COM
pletely re.established their former line
in the neighborhood Of the Roulers-
Ypres railway. some territory in
which area the Germans had regained
en- Wednesday.
The official statement reads
"A heavy, incessant rain has fallen
throughout the past As hours.
In the neighboIhood of the Ypres-
Roulers railway, where the enemy
yesterday afternon had succeeded at
great cost in gaining foothold in
our advanced positions, our coun-
ter-attack launched late in the even
ing drove back the German infantry
at all points and completely re-estab-
lished our former lines. On the re-
mainder of the Ypres battlefront
there was no change.
"On the right of the British line
southeast of Hargicourt our troops
successfully raided the enemy's posi-
ton and secured prisoners"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and slightly cooler to-
night. Saturday fair and warmer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03

New York, Aug. 3.-The German
battle line in Flanders has been NOV
ed forward as result of successful
counter.attacks, army headquarters
announced at Berlin yesterday The
hostile attacking forces effected no
gains and suffered heavy losses in the
face of the, unweakened Germn defen-
siye. 1t is declared
The text of the statment follows:
Western theater. front of Crown
Prince Rupprecht: On the battle
field in Flanders the heavy artillery
duels did not recommence until the
afternoon. From Langemarck to the
Lys the enemy directed drum fire
against our lines which lasted several
hours before he delivered new strong
attacks against this front In the eve
ming heavy fighting again developed
in which the divisions led into our
fire by the enemy. were repulsed
everywhere, while frequntly our battle
lines were moved forward during sue
cessful counter-attacks.
AT no point did the enemy gam
any advantages. On the contrary they
suffered heavy losses owing TO oui
unweakened defensive fire in addition
to several hundred prisoners which
we captured during counter'attacks
at points where the enemy had broker
into our lines.
Fresh English attacks delivered II
the early morning to the east OF Wyt
schaete after a restless night alst
failed with heavy losses" IN
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-03

Continued on Page FOur)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
PACIFISM WELL EXPRESSED

In the October issue of the Century Magazine
there appears, under the title of "A Letter" poem
by Ruth Comfort Mitchell This is a poem that
might be, and probably will be, characterized with
some severity by many readers especially by par
and for present purposes to call it peculiar or
surprising is enough Its two most striking
lines, perhaps, are these:
What has this loathsome to do with us?
What is this wickedness to you and me?
There speaks, or rather writes, the perfect
pacifst, perfectly. She the though 1t
were battle in some city sum between gangsters
who had fallen out over the division of blackmail
The Central Powers and the allies she views with
which they impelled the object they seek. In
consistency, and therefore presumably, she would
have like equality of scorn for two fighting men,
one of whom had attacked her in a lonely field and
the other had risked death to save her life or
honor
But that is not the only notable passage in this
poem It's author tells of motoring through what
she calls preparedness camp" She describes
the men in it poor earnest eager things" who
are "scuttling like ants whose hill is trod upon"
And she understands well why they are there!
They are:
Preparing, as the cave jewellers prepared;
Preparing like the prehistoric man;
Preparing like Dark Ages, only lit
With hellish modern ingenuity,
To plunge a radiant outstanding world
Back into dark, abysmal ooze and slime
How keen the paciist eye-how generous and
how accurate the pacifst Judgment! OF course the
men in the camps and good many of us who are
not there, had imagined that they were getting
ready to do something quite different.
Perhaps they and we still think So in spite of
Ruth Comfort Mitchell.-New York Times
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
Honor, the Best Policy.

Our chief and all-sunicient return for the bill
lions Of money which the United States is pouring
into the war will be the vindication OF American
principles and the lasting security OF American fire.
sides against Prussian sayagery. To have main
tanned our rights and upheld our honor and played
a worthy part in the giant struggle between HUI
manity and the Huns this would be compensate
enough for all the tides OF treasure of which
may be drained. But in the final accounting it will
be found that in addition to these inestimable gains
there many material items to Americas credit,
as a result OF war expenditures.
Many OF the things which the Liberty loans are
buying will be permanent assets. AS the Savannah
Morning News tersely puts IL, when the war is
over the United States will have the greatest mer-
chant feet in the world, the greatest feet of de-
stroyers in the world, an army as we'll equipped
and well trained any in the world, backed by
tories which called into being by the war and
which in themselves will be worth a very large
amount" Consider, too. the permanent and invaI-
liable results of the spirit of thrift which war
conditions are developing in the American people,
who heretofore were distinctly extravagant and
wasteful. The thousands of persons who are saw
ing to pay for Liberty bonds, having acquired the
habit, will keep saving when the is Con-
slider furthermore the gains in industrial efficiency
which the past seven strenuous months have pro-
duced. Think also of the goodwill which Americas
loyalty ideals has earned her the world over
side OF the Huns and Turks-a priceless asset that
never would have come with ignoble neutrality.
The United States is not looking for material
gains of any sort in this war. I'VE have no selfish
ends to serve; we desire for conquest no dominion
said the President in his epochal message of April
the second land he spoke simply the fact It is
none the less apparent that in material we'll
as our ideal interests the end will prove that honor
is the best policy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
COOPERATION SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY-By Dr. Frank

a free people not work together for great deed,
but must they talk, talk, talk forever?
The people who continue carping at the United
States for going to not noble heroes loyal
to their conscience, Martin Luhers, one-man-with-
God and all that; they petty petulant, egOstic
and wlful. They are like pouting school girls who
If they cannot have their own way, take their doll
rags and go home
When nations existence and the principles
that undere its liberties in danger you cannot
dignity those unruly and opinionated minds who
prefer the triumph of their contentious to the
life of the whole community
There is but worthy stand to be taken now
by the citizens of this country that to stand
solidly undivided behind the President, the army,
and the navy, submerging pride of opinion in pa
triotism, at least until this hour Of danger be
Overpast.
The who cannot do this cannot play the
game of life: he is bad citizen and point of
weakness in communal life.
Government by majority may have its flaws but
government by nuisance is intolerable.
Copyright. 1917, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30

legs and sometimes even the that controls
the heart are among the nerves that may be af-
fected.
THE paralysis is usually complete-so much
that the patient is confined helpless to his bed
He cannot feed himself. His heart is unusual
ly rapid. At times mental symptoms come into
the case
In short, victim of multiple alcoholic neuritis
is toleraby certain to experience bitter regret that
he did not give heed to the first warnings OF his
weakening nerves.
Neuritis, again, sometimes results from COM
bination of wrong living habits.
There may be no indulgence in liquor what
ever, most moderate indulgence. But perhaps
there is excessive indulgence in tobacco and rich
foods and late hours and worry.
A combination like this may prove Potent pro-
Queer of neuritis. The simpler the life,
quently, the greater the likelihood Of avoiding the
slightest neuritic twinges
To assist still further in the prevention of neu-
ritis, ALWAYS keep the eliminative organs in good
working order
Not only should the bowels be kept active by
proper dieting and exercise, but the pores Of the
skin should be cleared through frequent bathing
and water ought to be drunk freely.
Occasionally neuritis is caused by infective dis
eases, by metallic poisoning, by ptomaine poison
ing. But neurits thus caused is of infrequent oc-
currence compared with the neuritis resulting from
the aforementioned and readily preventable
causes.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30

The United States is just engaged in the
most critical enterprise in its history. 1t is
business that has to be done not pretty we'll, but
in the very best way possible
A stricken world, attacked by the most efficient
military organization known has cried out
for help. If the help offer is to be of any use
it must be overwhelming. The blow we deliver
must carry with it every ounce of strength we
possess.
No nation strike unless it is united It's
power is in exact proportion to its unity
1t is the glory of democracy that it gives the
individual citizen the maximum of liberty. He can
go and come carry his affairs, and express his
opinions as he pleases. This is the air of freedom
in which democracy thrives.
But if that is all there is to it, a democracy is
no more than mob and slumps into anarchy.
This spirit of freedom ought to be a spirit of
cooperation. If it be simply the spirit of eternal
dissension there is social progress, COM
munal strength.
This is what a lot of people do not realize. We
have decided through regularly chosen officials
to go to Before did it was proper to
discuss whether wanted or not. Now it is
not proper, 1t is weakness, folly and verges upon
treason
In revolt against monarchy we insisted upon
government by majority. If We will not let the
majority rule, but keep revolving, are sim
plv a lot of quarreling school children. We be-
come impotent and ridiculous
The trouble with people Of the stripe of Sena-
tor La Toilette is that they not good sports.
Beaten in the of public discussion they
fuse to give up. They incapable of social,
united effort. They would reduce govern
mental structure to a heap of stones.
Does intelligence preclude team work? Are
thinking people incapable of concerted action? Can
a people that play baseball not do as disciplined
service in defending their national existence? Can
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
The Empire of the Southeast

Impressed by the fact that the South Atlantic
and Gulf States, in addition to producing ninety
per cent OF the worlds cotton supply is also, poten
tally, the country's finest region, the Balti-
more American remarks that the most striking
thing about this big Southern is that it has not
yet attained to one-fourth of its capabilities in
agricultural production: at is dstinctively the
section of the United States with big. promising
future" Particularly is this true OF Georgia and
its neghboring States in the Southeast. Almost
everything OF food value that grows in America
can be raised in this fertile region, and almost
everything that is manufactured in America is
manufactured, here. But the fact OF outstanding
importance is that what the Southeast now pro-
duces is only faint presage OF what it will
tribute to the nations wealth and power when it's
resources fully developed.
In Georgia alone there is enough unused and
available land to produce, under scientific cutiva-
ton, more fruits and vegetables and grain and
meat than many OF the crowded countries of Ell
rope can yield. With area approximately the
same as England and Wales combined and with
diversity OF climate and soil hardly exceeded in the
greatest empires, Georgia is destined to become
OF the most productive of the whole
earth. Happily, too, this destiny is beginning to
fulfill itself under the eyes of our own generation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
PASSING OF SUMMER

Sweet, warm-breathed summer whom loved Ia dead
Within the casket of remembered days
The multi-cOlored gaTlands at her head
Are fOwerJ she sowed along the barren ways.
/ pine for her and Nature shows her grief
For her familiar foot fall fed soon;
Her mourning dress is the dark autumn leaf,
So different from the gay attire of June.
Yet, after the'drear winter months are gone,
She will return with garlands in her hand,
To wake the woodlands with her kiss anon,
Her sylvan songs echoing through the land.
If summer returns. why fear deaths toll?
Cannot time thus restore the heeting soul?
ROBERT SAINT SIMON.
Atlanta Ca, Oct "a, 1917
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
CHINESE IRON

Few people think of China as land of unex-
plored and almost unknown natural resources, yet
such is the case. Peopled by the most numerous
of single nations, dwelling under what is perhaps
the oldest of civilizations, there is still much be
discovered" in the Chinese republic. Recent in
vestgations into the iron resources indicate that
China may be the great industrial region Of the
future, for it has the boring deposits of coal
iron, and fux In enormous quantities that have
made other industrial states mighty. There Is
single iron mine in China, now being developed by
the Japanese, which has annual production of
100000 tons. The contractors expect to increase
this output to $500, 900 tons within two years,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
THE SEARCHLIGHT
MAKING THE ENEMY WEEP

Poison gases Of various sorts commonplace
weapons of modern warfare, but the latest OF
these, which is being perfected by American
scientist, has certain novelty and daring orgi-
nality about it. This gas is of such a nature that
il has a specific and localized effect on the lach-
rymal glands of the eye These the glands
which secrete the tears. When invaded by the
gas, they work vigorously that the eyes Of
their owner flooded, and he literally weeps so
profusely that he not shoot, and indeed can
hardly
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30
= CURTIS, like neuralgia, is often mis-
~ used word. Much neuralgia is mistakenly
called neuritis. So, frequently, is the con-

NJ CURTIS, like neuralgia, is an often mis-
N used word. Much neuralgia is mistakenly
called neuritis. &c. frequently, is the con-
dition known popularity writer's cramp.
Writer'S cramp' is essentially functional
trouble, based primarily in fear and in the
overstrain of muscles. Neuralgia is likewise func-
tional.
1t involves poisoning and degeneration of nerve
cells, and has its symptoms a steady, intense
pain and nerve-tenderness, accompanied by mus
cular shrinkage and weakness.
Being organic, it is difficult malady to handle
Its prevention is therefore matter of special i'm
portance
One of its commonest causes-Cabot says its
usual cause-is over-indulgence in alcoholic bey-
erages. The alcohol poisons and infames the
nerve-cells.
When a gentleman who has been a hard or
steady drinker begins to feel pain and numbness
in the legs, with perhaps some swelling
he should regard this as serious danger signal.
If he promptly chambers on to the water wagon.
AND STAYS THERE all will probably be we'll
with him.
But if he persists in dallying with liquor neu-
rits is likely to set in, possibly on an extensive
scale. He then is victim of what is technically
known as multiple neurits.'
Writing in Good Health, DR.. w. H. Riley draws
this picture of multiple neuritis
THE disease affects several of the nerves
the nerves of the hands and arms. of the feet and