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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-25
People Constipated
and Don't Know k!.

II seems odd. but II Is rue. that you
may he Constpated and not know IT,
You can see why Il 10, Take a
glass and pour IN water until full ic
YOU keep on pouring IN water after
the glass IL fun, Il viii run over, but
tho glass Rtays full
Just SO with your bowels; they get
fun OF waste matter and then they
pass off or cxpcl from the body only
about the same amount that goes into
II IN the form OF food.
So YOU may have n movement OF tho
bowels every day aud yet there will
remain waste matter that ought to be
removed.
Give your bowels gentle but
thorough cleaning out and you'll feel
great.
\ fine prescription for this Is put up
and sold under the name OF Or. True's
Elixir. Doctors and druggists use II
Ia their own families. Costs but lit e
tie and brings health 60 men, women
and children. Sweet and pleasant
tasting. Works gently. Children like
H. Remember the name, Dr. Truc's
Elixir.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-25
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Tolt
Briefly fer Busy Readers

News OF the Town and Village Tole
Briefly fer Busy Readers
John n. Leonard is in New York
ON business.
Charles s. Mills is homo from Dart.
mouth college for the spring vacation.
a son was born Sunday TO Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Crofut OF Fillmore
Farms.
The Light of Western Stars. fea.
turing Dustin Farnum at Harte Thea
ire today ADV.
Mrs Charles Maynard and daughter
passed the weekend in Springfield
and Holyoke. Mass.
J. 3. Harte. who has been confined
to the house by illness for several
days, is improving.
Frank L. Potter has returned from
a trip to the Boston auto show with
a new Maxwell car.
There will be special meeting to.
morrow evening al S o'clock of I'm.
ion No. 6 CT masons.
Frank Ford left this morning for
Springfield where he will remain for
a few days Oh business.
William Armstrong is at his home
here from his studies at the Universi.
ty of Vermont in Burlington.
Mrs. Sarah Canedy Of William.
stown was the guest. Monday. Of her
sister, Mrs. Roselma Vankleeck.
Two of the employees at the Gokay.
drug store, Charles H. Thompson and
Everett Morgan, are III or influenza
Willard Rose, the stone mason, is
rcmodeling fireplace at the resi-
dcnce of Harrison l. Norton OF Elm
street
BED White, Burr Campbell and
James Campbell returned Monday TO
SALISBURY after passing the weekend
in the village.
William l.. Gokay, Dr. +. S. Braley
and Dean |. Martin went last night
to New York to witness the big par.
ade of the 27th. division
Yarn for Red Cross knitting may be
obtained at the new headquarters in
the Richie block on Wednesday after
noon only until further notice.
! Howard Estes and Carl Chase, stu
dents at the University of Vermont al
Burlington arrived in town Monday
evening TO spend few dovs AZ thai,
homes.
! Warren II. Moore arrived from over
seas service Thursday on the U. S. S
Harrisburg and has been sent to the
Great Lake Training station TO await
his discharge.
The Fourth Quarterly Conferenc,
OF the Methodist Church which wa,
! to be held tomorrow evening. ha.
been indefinitely postponed due IL
the Illness OF the district st,pcrinten
dent. Ssh
Miss Fanny ! evin \ member ~ ~,
junior class ~ the Jrnircrsftv q, y-or
mont at Burlington. is spending IN,
spring vacation with her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Nathan Levin of Nortl
street. "A. .. .to
Daniel piserhnrc who ,,,,ye 4, ~,
orchestra NJ the Richnooa ,has,-o q,
North Adams has hecn snona;rr
few DAVIS AZ the home Of hjs motber
Mrs Cora Rjfcr bnrr Of pIe,sar
street, tgI
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morrow Nvoanesdavl evening G %
Tichets arc 5oc and NAV no Sod a
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menu ,dv
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-25

The Worse the Better.

Greest---I can't guarantee those So
cent eggs, madam.
Custorper--No matter; ] want 'sm
for when the neghbors come borrow.
iBs--Boston Transcript
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-25
Daily Thought.

! will be AZ harsh ~ truth and n
Incorporating NJ Justice, William
IAnsd Garrison.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-25
DON'T NEGLECT A
! RHEUMATIC PAIN
Go after it with SIoan's
Eminent before it gcts
dangerous

Apply hilc, don't RIB. let Il tcTe-
frcis. snd-good-by tviuSa! Same for
external aches. pains, strsins. stiffness
ofjoints or muscles, lansnsss, bruises.
alnHant relief without jpussness or
tpiled clothing. RcliabIc4tl1c biggest
sslling liniment year after year. Eco
nonical by reason Of enormous sales.
Keep a big bottle ready at all timer.
Ask your druggist for SloansLiniinent.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-25
INCOME. TAX PAYS
FOR PUBLIC BENEFITS.

\ Viewed IN lis largest aud
\ uuest sense. Tho payment of
4 taxes is payment Cor henedts
4 received or expected, Only from
4 narrow mud essentially selfish
\ sud shortsigh,ed viewpoint can
v the Individual propose 10 him.
4 selt the eynsion ~ tax liability
4 ny deSirable course or action"
= Daniel e. Ronrr. Commission.
4 er ~ Internal Revenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15

A million eggs were seized at Cbatta- ncoga. Will some expert statistician tell US how many omelettes that many eggs would make?
 # # x A New York newspaper takes a hu- morous view of the actors strike.J a view that is not shared. however, by the managers.
 x # # With the former Crown Prince keep Ing himself out of print. there's dearth of material for paragraphs.
 $. x + Reports from various parts of Bir- mingham indicate that ''quart-a- day. men are in dire straits.
 # < x few more sweltering nights and Bir- mingham will lose it's fame as sum- mer resort.
 # % 4 Figures may lie, but statistics on the high cost of living are painfully true.
 # # # Hat check pirates are also hard hit by the national drouth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15

sessed and he must be judged in his hu- man relationships. And so judged there will be no doubt as to the world verdict For Haeckel, as is true of so many other German professors whose abilities had been admitted and honored and even over -honored by other countries, when the world crisis came revealed so shocking lack of moral perceptions that his abuse of the allies and his boastful be- lief that Germany should by right of might dismember and dominate Europe and rule the world. can neveTbe forgot ten
 With all his industry and all his enor- nous grip on the vital issues of biology Haeckel in a social sense was but little removed from the tiger and the gorilla in his views as to those forces that should govern civilization And this blind spot that marked mind singularly well orl dered otherwise, revealed as it was in the action also of his 93 associates, who backed up all the hideous lies of the inn perial German government with their dogmatic approval early in August, 1914, in order to stampede the neutral world, easily indicates Haeckel as the typical German savant; true product of ruthless, atheistic kultur, capable of horrors not unlike those of "Frankenstein's" monster and ready to glorify and defend them a,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
TYPICAL GERMAN SAVANT

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 IA N or even thef deepest animosties of
 II M the war will prevent the English
 speaking world from paying it's tribute to the mental ability, the enor nous industry and the rare endowments as a naturalist which made the name of Ernst Haeckel one of world wide recog- milton for half a century Had the great evolutionist passed away in 1913, how ever, all those happier phases of his scientific achievements would have been dwelt upon that have given distinction to the human mind in its capacity to wrest the secrets from nature, no matter how minute or hidden the phenomena, and the lifetime and untiring application of Haeckel which resulted in the orderly and logical arrangement of vast collec- tions of related facts, which he made the unanswerable basis for his signal deduc- tions that supported the principles dis covered by others, would have come in for the most unstinted praise. 4But dying as he has after the crimes of Germany, for which he became at once one of the chief apologists and an au- dacious defender, have been established before all the world it is not possible to concentrate attention alone upon those
 abstract qualities of mind that he pos-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
DESERT TEMPERATURE

From the Detroit News.
 In the desert of Gobi in Central Asia, the largest streams either vanish in the van routes from China to Russia are still important trade channels, for the Russians insist that sea voyage de- stroys the flavor of the tea This great arid waste is 1900 miles wide and 400 miles deep, and the almost rainless years since antiquity have parched its sands to the dryness that drifts in gy- rating sand waves and snuffs out vege- tation with it's hot breath
 Here the temperature goes up to 1855, and most e the people wear scarf-like draperies on their hats as additional protection from the boiling hot sun. Many of the rivers never reach an ocean outlet, but lose their moisture in, the burning sand and dwindle down to nothingness.
 One section of the coast of Central Australia does not boast of even a rivulet to empty into the ocean The lakes, baked and cracked with excessive sun heat. Rainfall is practically nil and scrubby bushes are about all the plant life seen in these regions. Though not native of Australia, the camel has been introduced as pack animal in these stretches of waste. for he can go without drink for a week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
LUKE Nd'LUKE SAYS

Free advice is about as valuable as the rest of the free things you get in this world.
 man never discovers until after he is married that you can't tell a woman's age by her store teeth.
 When case is appealed it is usually an effort to gain time instead of justice.
 A man can't do it. But a woman can tell you lie without even opening her mouth
 And if there were not so many two- legged rabbits in this world there would not be- so many bossy wives.
 A woman is handicapped in one, way. She can't disguise herself by going and getting shave.
 Women are acting sensibly about one thing. It is no longer considered neces- sary to have your belt smaller than your necklace.
 And lot of men believe that hon. esty is the best policy when the other fellow happens to be looking.
 Under the head of how to be happy though married, we might cite the case5of the man who retains his wife s affection by not staying at home long enough for her to become well ac- quainted with him.
 The trouble with the male animals who use perfume is that they are not content to use a dash. They use a whole bottle.
 Matrimony is funny thing. If a man isn't afraid of his wife he is apt to be so fond of her that she'll get her own way, anyhow.
 Why doesn't some inventor win lats- ing fame and gratitude by inventing . motorcycle with a soft alto voice?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
Stars of the Stage
 at War With Managers

1.-THE spectacle of Americas high
 0 priced theatrical stars on strike in New York and threatening to sacri- flee their motor cars, their town and country houses and other worldly pos sessions rather than give in to the managers, is just another phenomenon of topsy-turvy world.
 It isn't so much a matter of wages, the actors say, as demand that the Actors Equity association and the right of collective bargaining be rec ognized by the managers. The asso- citation is now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and has all the dignity appertaining to that powerful order, although the actors do not work with their hands except 4n making pretty gestures or clasping a beauteous heroine in a passionate embrace.
 The actors ask that eight perform ances shall constitute a weeks work, with pro rata pay for extra perform ances. They claim that the individual does not stand fair chance with the producer except in collective bargain ing as provided for by the Actors Equity association.
 While the war rages along the Rialto and has even reached benighted Chicago, where several theatres have been closed as a result of "walkouts," theatre patrons are grumbling. Even the girl shows are affected and as result the tired business man suffers. It is hard for the average person to conceive of stars being imposed on by those shy, retiring men, the pro- ducers and managers. Perhaps we have been misled by seeing their nmes so often on billboards in box car letters and reading of their triumphal progress about the country in private cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
Warning to Mexico
 That Means Something

g7T1 HE warning sent by the admin
 N istration through the regular diplomatic channel to Mexico is, to all intents and purposes, an ultima tum. Only slight technicalities on the part of the state department at Wash ington leaves the way open for furth- CT correspondence.
 It is clear that the Carranza admin istration is a failure so far as it's willingness or ability to protect the lives of foreigners is concerned. Dis order in Mexico is ever the rule, and no other condition is to be expected until the United States takes charge of that turbulent republic and reforms and tranquilizes it.
 President Wilson's "watchful wait ing" policy brought no good results from permanent point of view. In order to show the Mexican people that the United States had no purpose of conquest, the faction-ridden country was treated with exceptional forbear- ance. President Taft's policy toward Mexico was anything rather than war. And President Wilson followed his predecessors line of action.
 The time has come-it should have come long ago-when the President has made up his mind to take charge in Mexico until human life is reason ably safe there. No American so- jouYning in Mexico-no American laborer or no American engaged in business there-is safe from the as- sassin's bullet. The Mexican govern ment, no matter how impotent it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
CHAOS IN BERLIN

one street the public is promenadinr ,,,.. concerned along neighboring thorougho race Hand organs are grinding and newsboys calling their papers.
 While l write this, not only do I hear the rattle of machine guns, but at the same time I hear the orchestra playing in the gorgeous salon of our sumptuous hotel, where many a daintily clad foot is tripping carelessly at tea dance
 Indeed, the people of Berlin resumed dancing with such extraordinary enthus- iasm after the relaxation of war re- straints that the poplice have interfered to enforce moderation.
 Death and dancing side by side-that is one aspect of the revolution. An- other aspect is ever reappearing Nemesis Incidents of the Belgian invasion. for in stance, are visited with almost startling Identity upon the German people them'- selves Their cities, spared bv war are ravaged by the air bombs and shells of their own aviators and artillery rifle accidentally discharged in a crowd cre- ates false alarm; and peaceful home is invaded and the inmates are killed. because the excited mob fancies that counter recolutionists have fired from it's windows. Two women had their throats cut under such circumstances at Hamburg. crowd of hungry children gathered around the field kitchen of a detachment of government troops m a Berlin suburb last spring, begging for food They did not disperse when told, and an angry soldier dropped" a fog bomb in their midst. In addition to those burned, four little girls and one little boy were carried, seriously wound fo boepita1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THE AGE-HERALD Events recorded August 15, 1899.

Maitre Labori. counsel for Capt Alfred Dreyfus, and one of the most promi- nent lawyers in France, was shot from ambush yesterday morning at Rennes. while walking with Colonel Picquart and lis brother-in-law M. Cast. His con dition is reported precarious
 The office of the anti-Semitie league, ir which Nj. Guerin, president of the Jew-baiter and ex-nayor of Algers, sought refuge from arrest on Satur- day in Paris, wal still beseged yester- day.
 It is. announced that Judge J. J. Will lett of Anniston will preside over a meeting held at the Hoffman House, New York, next Friday night, by friends of Judge Augustus Van Wyck, who wish to present his name to the democratic national convention as a candidate for the presidency.
 The Youngblood-Dim affair con tinues to cause discussion in Washing ton and in Alabama political circles. Following charges preferred, against Col onel youngblood, 1t is stated that tho department of justice will investigate charges involving Clerk J. w. Dimmick of the district court at Montgomery. :.
 The Independent Order of Railwas Employees is the name of new organi- zation which was formed in Birming. ham last night, by employees of the Ala bama Great Southern and the Central Railway of Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
AN EpMoND RosrAND NEEDED

From the Pittsburg Dispatch. Extended notice, so richly deserved, has not been given a sale of roosters ex- withon a few days at Demopolis, Ala. Hundreds of roosters of the bluest of blue blood are to be sold at auction under the aucpices of Impresario Frank I.
 Derby, the proceeds of this gigantic, me lodious, feathery, choral, gallinaceous project to be devoted, to the last nickel,
 to the construction of a $200,000 bridge
 over the Tombgbee river
 No Yankee ever devised so picturesque and cunning a scheme for the erection of
 bridge. The very thought of it must
 have been an inspiration of genius, na-
 tive to the land of Dixie: Mir. Derby last year made himself and Birmingham fam ous by sale of bulls which netted thou sands for the Red Cross. Next his bu to roosters and the noble stream of noble name, the very christening of which must have been impelled by burst of poetic levitation. the rhymer's fancy giv- ing to opalescent ripples local habita-
 ton and an undying name.
 When Edmond Rostand playwrighted NChantecler" into a spectacle for theat-
 rical stages of the whole world, entranc-
 ing millions no matter if he caught the icea from Aristophanes, he conceived no scene so fine as the auction sale of roos- ters for the bridging of the Tombigbee In his ethereal existence in some other world his enjoyment of complete supernal bliss may possibly be the least bit be- clouded by this dramatic coup on the um- brageous shores of the Tombigbee. The "Pons Asinorum" is immortal, but
 its fame may well be obscured by MT. Derby's and Tombigbee's Pons Rooster orum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
From the Atlantic Monthly.

From the Atlantic Monthly
 1N M( URDERS have multiplied in Ser UWII lin, and street battles are the matinees of the populace
 A dozen Spartacans start to storm a police office," writes an Austrian ob- server. "A flock of criminals swarms to ehe scene of disorder and begins to loot A detachment of marines arrive, and cap lures the leoters, whom it lines up against on the spot any one caught plundering' Then suddenly the marines begin to direct their fire against the police office itself. They have found an unpopular rival mili- tary organization garrisoning the place.
 Meanwhile, the general public crowds around Every one must be right on hand, women as well as men. They gath CT in dense groups behind the nearest corner that affords protection from the flying bullets. There they start lively debates. Then come people who want to cross the street where the fight ing is going on. They make a great com plaint because they have no time to make detour So they crouch down and seurry across the street, with the bullets and shells whistling past them.
 The deaths come with tragic sudden ness, but like those of an epidemic, they affect but little the callous public. A young girl steps out of the conservatory from her music lesson, and a bullet crashes through her forehead The pub lie gathers for a moment as it would after a motor accident; the corpse is carried into the nearest drug store. and the people hasten away on their daily arrapdc uyhiIa tba hottJo ;. r,y;,-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
THE MODERN TYPE
s of statesmen differ. '

Ideas of statesmen differ"
 That's true" said MT. Gadspur. "Ip the old days a man who wore A long, tailed coat and flowing hair and kent one hand thrust into the bosom or {. Prince Albert coat could pass for q statesman anywhere, but nowadays he's apt to look like brisk automobile sales man and go around with his pocke+s stuffed full of statistics on the high cost of living"
 THE DEAD PAST. Will you join me in a little grape juice?"
 "On one condition" replied the for mer connoisseur of Silver Fizzes" swhat is that?"
 Don't deliver a toast of yesteryear. I'm trying to forget"
 SOMETHING AT STAKE T thought your caller went away dis appointed
 He did"
 May ask what he wanted?' My autograph
 "A small request"
 Not on the back of a note"
 UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS An interpretative dancer and jazz orchestra at 8 church bazaar" Yes"
 My! What are we coming to?'' Latter day business methods. The good ladies cleared s10oo above all ex- penses and the deacons got a little taste of high life without visiting one of those sinful cabarets."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
Property Assessments

Although house rent is very high in Birmingham, the assessment of the property is exactly the opposite" said Lieutenant D. NJ Collier. medical of ficer at the local navy recruiting sta tion. 'I was trying to buy a home few days ago and had an attractive little bungalow priced to me at $8000 l was told that the house salone cost $To00, so I thought I would look up the property and see what it was assessed for I had an attorney look up the records, and the house which l had been told had cost $7000 was assessed at 5000. If this is a fair example, it appears that if the proL- erty in Jefferson county was assessed at 60 per cent of it's value, as is re- quired by law, there would be more money to build schools and other things needed by the county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-15
BLAkELock,s CAREER ENDED

From the New York Times
 Ralph 4. Blakelock might have died happy if friends had left him to en- joy in the Middletown Insane asylum the deusion of vast wealth, under which he once sent an sl1.oOo,ooo check to an acquaintance in New York in recogni- tion of some small favor. As it was, though out of the asylum. with sanity returning, an element of bitterness de- veloped, and his last days were not cheerful. Able to compare the prices at they were bringing in the art market today, he had sane reasons for regret, almost for irritation; modification that he had not known his own greatness.
 At 72 Blakelock passes, His best known Moonlight" which he once of fered to William T. Evans for $50 and later sold for $500, brought s20,0OO in 1916 But he painted many "Moonlights;" he painted on starched muslin; he painted on poplar slabs; he was indefatigable, and always in need of the small sums of money he could get for his productions before his fame was made. One picture. The Necklace he offered as security for unpaid room rent to the Y. M. c. A. It hung the walls for years. When the poverty of the artist in the asylum came to be known, it was sold for 5000 and the room rent with interest, $763 .13, deducted. The balance was paid to the artist.
 For IS years Blakelock was at Mid dletown. Released in 1916, he went back two years later. He died at liberty in the Adirondack camp of friend but that liberty had lasted only a month. Not by any means the greatest of American art ists, his best work has nevertheless so much of charm and delicacy as to justify his recent vogue He will live in our art history despite his many indiscretions and his many misfortunes. If he had had the thriftinecc of Whistler, his insanity might never have been discovered; but thriftiness of a Whistler, his insanity lacking to Ralph Blakelock.