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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
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Tenthousand gross of steel pens
can be made from one ton of metal.
A native Sitka widow when she /
puts on mourning paints the upper |
part OF her face a deep black.
The name of the captain of the
Spanish steamship Paulina, now at
New York pier is Gamechogoicoechea |
Tea requires a rainfall of go inches, |
and irrigation will not serve in lieu
thereof, as a somewhat humid atmos-
phere is needed.
Emory Titman, charged in court at
White Plains, N. Y, with passing a
worthless check for 800 and found
not guilty, weighs COS pounds.
| The Bank ofEngland has the right
to sell beer without license. This
privilege was granted to the bank in
it's charter of incorporation under
date of July 81 1894
When U. M Weaver of Altoona,
Penn, began to dismantle his shoot
ing gallery at Lakemont park he
found that 480 cigars of various
Igrades and brands which had been
surreptitously removed from his stock
were stored in a squirrels nest near
the roof of the building.
The Russell, Burdsell & Ward Bolt
& Nut company of Port Chester N.
Y, has given Liberty Bonds valued
. at $16,700 to 1913 employees who serv
/ ed in the war. The Ga who were in
foreign service each received 5000
bond and the 80 in domestice service
each received 500 bond
At Sunbury, Penn, John Buck is
showing his friends what luck he
, had in growing red, white and blue
potatoes. He explains that he plant
, ed number of blue variety of
, seed potatoes with some Oft pure
white variety. The breed mixed and
a hybrid that plainly showed red,
white, and blue skin resulted.
Bottled beer that was said to be
2.75 per cent. when it left Milwaukee
: registered from to Is per cent. al
J, cohol when it was delivered in Chic
+ ago. The trucks had been left stand
S ing for many hours in the sun, and a
e chemist says that the suns rays
$ would cause unpasteurized beer to
t ferment to such degree that bottles
I would explode
+ Unsuccessful in his hunt to obtain
home in congested Washington
4 Mich, Rev. l.. NJ Powers. who recent
e ly arrived there to be pastor of the
Church of Our Fahter, has asked the
4 district commissioners for permits
0 sion TO pitch a tent in Rock Creek
Park as a temporary parsonage until
u until apartments become vacant and
Il prices go down.
i One hundred feet above one of Lor
v don's busiest streets and within 200
/. yards of Big Ben, on the roof of the
. Institute of Civil Engineers. there Is
{ one of the best kept and most prosper
Gus poultry farms in the city. Il
II comprises SO hens, housed in three
ID spacious coops, but during the great
u er part of the day the hens are allow
ed to roam about the roof at will
II Boston Globe
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
Interpretive DANCING.

saw a barefoot lady dip
And kneel and rise and poise and
hover,
AS IL to pin pillow slip
Upon the line stretched high above
hei
This must be comedy" | said
Some esoteric highbrow joshing;
The nymph who moves with classic
tread
Is hanging OUT the family washing!"
The programme told me ! was wrong
The dance was labeled "Slumber
Song"
| saw maid with flying feet,
Whose clothes were singularly airy.
Go running through a fed of wheat
With all the tleetness of the fairy.
When ! had gazed awhile askanca
At her abbreviated habit,
] thought, THE title of this dance
Is Girl in Mighty Chasing Rabbit!
My guess was wrong-the programme
said,
"A Russian Peasants Prayer for
Bread"
Six damse!s, very scarcely clad
In white diaphNous CONNECTIONS,
Came tearing in and ran like mad
In many different directions.
"Aha!" ! cried, 81 think get
The meaning of this scene before
us:
The title of it, | will bet,
Is Mouse Stampedes Ziegheld
Chorus.
But my conjecture went astray-
The dance was Woodland Birds in
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

The Burlington News a few days
ago devoted two columns to Dragging
that there were no prisoners in the
Chittenden county jail. That same is
sue of the News, and the issues of the
few days preceding told of a dozen or
more crimes or offences in the county
of Chittenden. the perpetrators of
which ought to be in jail. OF course
if they allow automobile bandits to
kill girls incendiaries to burn up
the village of Winooski, the dragging
of young women on the street, bur
glaries of stores and residences, and
similar joyous little events, without
even arresting anybody, it may be
possible to keep the jail empty. Why
not rent it and thereby relieve the
tenement house shortage in Burling'
ton.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
FRIDAY. OCTOBER ,. 1910.

Not few people have had feel
ing ever since President Wilson be-
came i'll that his condition might be
more serious than reported. No man
can pass through what the president
has during the past year without
drawing heavily on his reserve
strength. Congress ought to take a
two weeks recess and give President
Wilson time to recuperate.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03
DEATH DOES MOI WAIT

for a protective tariff or for crops to
move. Life insurance must be gov
erned by present conditions. Insure
while insurable. National Life lns.
Co, of VT (Mutual) Earle S. Kin
sley, General Agent, Mead Building,
Rutland, VT. ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

This is the month in which we
have to play taxes in Bennington and
many other Vermont towns. Our tax
rate is high and most of us have a
feeling of resentment when obliged to
pay so much, apparently for so little
at any one time. After all though
we Americans do get more for our
tax money than any other people on
earth. The tax money pays for our
schools, lights, highways sidewalks.
sewers, supports the hospital, state
institutions, police and health depart
ments and all other public utilities.
In Vermont at least practically none
of it is stolen and the amount frit-
tered away in extravaganza and in
competence is not as large as in
most states. 1t is hard to pay heavy
taxes but tax money, properly expend-
ed is an essential part of civilization.
Don't grumble, it might be lot
worse.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03


The Brattleboro Reformer and st,
Adams Messenger are worrying again
because they cannot hurry up the
trial of Former Governor Graham and
because somebody doesn't send them
word about it, OF course it is too
bad that they should be kept awake
nights fretting and if it will help
cure their insomnia it may be proper
to say that if they want to know
about the status OF the Graham case
all they have to do is to go and in
quire. There is absolutely no secret
about it and this continued limiting
around that carries the idea there
may be some hidden chicanery has a
tendency to foul the good name OF
the state. II newspaper hasn't the
sprawl to look up the facts it ought
not to seek to tear down anybody
reputation by caviling innuendo.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

The Publishing Business
One hundred and fifty two New
York publishers including some of
the greatest magazine publishers
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
A Feeling of Security

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about to
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such medicine is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle Of Swamp-Root.
1t is scientifically compounded from
vegetable herbs.
1t is not a stimulant and In taken in
easpoonful doses.
1t is not recommended for everything.
1t is natures great helper in relieving
and overcoming kid ey, liver and blad-
der troubles.
A sworn statement of purity is with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root
If you need a medicine, you should
nave the best. On sale at all drug stores
bottles of two sizes, medium and large.
However, if you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Allmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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now, wanted to sell me the biggest
gold mine in the world for fifty thou
sand dollars, and from what know of
Leroux am ready to believe that he
would try to hog it If it really exists"
but how about Leroux?" 1 cried,
more amused now than vexed.
That" answered Tom, "is pre-.
cisely why I want to get hold of you
again, Mr.. Hewlett"
'But here is Mile. Duchaine %
shouted the old priest in despair.
Tom Carson raised his fat old body
about five inches and made Jacqueline
what he took to be bow.
pleased to make your acquaint.
ance, MISS" he replied. "Ah, well, it
doesn't matter. I guess that man,
d'Epernay, was lying to me. However,
l am ready to look at your gold mine If
you want me to-"
you'll have to do some blasting
then," said, nettled. "It's just about
two hundred feet below the ground -
''Never mind" said Tom. Lumber
is better than gold. Next time I'm
here shall be glad to have another
look round. And now, Hewlett, If you
want a job at five thousand a year to
start-to start, mind you, you play faip
and tell me where Leroux is hiding
himself"
I was too mortified to answer him.
But felt Jacqueline slip her hand into
mine, and suddenly the memory of the
past made Toms raillery an 1nsignif1-
cant affair.
"Mtnd you," he pursued, "he'n turn
up soon. He's got to turn up, because
the lumber cOmpany's all organized
now and in fine running order. What
do you say, Hewlett?"
Nothing" answered.
"An right" he said, turning away
with a shrug Of his shoulders. "Un-
practical as ever, amt you? Think it
over, my son. Glad to have met you,
Mr.. Priest, and as I'm always busy I
guess Dubois and will start for home
this afternoon"
"Messieurs," said the priest, "do you
know what day this is?'
Tom started. "Why, good Lord, it
its Christmas day, isn't it?' he
asked, little sheepishly.
cts bigger day for u.s." I said to
Tom.
He squinted at me in his shrewd
manner; and then he got up from the
table and wrung my hand.
"Good luck to you both," he said.
"Say, Mr.. Dubois, guess we IAN
pitch our tent here tonight don't
you?"
Alfred Dubois was graz x,ling with
our hands again; but hts onset was
less ferocious, because he had to loose
us every now and then to slap me on
the back and blow his nose.
eff only la retite Madeleine could
be here - he *houted. And I am sure
that was h. dinner voice heard.
THE ENID
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
Chinese Fond of Fireworks.

c. ma invented gunpowder and pop
" Liked firecrackers. The cheapest
Aind of firecracker is made of gunpow.
der rolled up in coarse bamboo paper
with covering Of red paper, red be-
ing regarded by the Chinese as bring
ing good luck. Alum is used to neu-
tralize the smoke. The Canton dis
trict is the center of this industry. The
Chinese seem to use f1recrackers upon
every occasion-to speed a parting
guest, in wedding celebrations, on fes-
rivals and birthdays and to dispel evil
and bring good omens. China exports
about 100000 worth a year.
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Example Of How the Tourist Is Vic
timized When He Makes Pur-
chases In Foreign Cities.

Some years before the war a resi-
dent Of New York voyaged to Venice.
Among his fellow passengers at sea
was a travelling salesman, whom he
got to know quite well. What the
New York man liked about the sales
man was that he did not "talk shop"
He had not even told his steamship
acquaintance what manner of goods
he handled.
The day after they arrived in Venice
the salesman went out on business, his
steamship companion sightseeing.
Among other places the latter visited
was a fascinating antiquarian shop.
Prices were steep, but what of that?
He wanted something to take back
to show ''the folks at home" that he
had really been in Venice. Finally he
settled on a bit Of Venetian glass,
square of gold-embroidered Venetian
cut velvet in a furnished gilt frame,
and a silver-handled dagger engraved
with the arms of one of the doges. In
the evening at the hotel he displayed
them, not without feeling of pride,
to the travelling salesman.
my friend" said the latter, "you'ye
been very decent to me, and now TIL
do you good turn. Say, but your
buying those things is feather in my
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oeDvrtGht. ". q. Chapman

cha1ne. The whole aspect of the re-
g1on had been changed; there was
neither glacier nor cataract, and the
lake, swollen to twice it's size and
height, slept peacefully beneath it's
covering of Ice and snow.
When we returned to the cabin we
were amazed to see a sleigh standing
outside, and dogs feeding. Two men
were seated at the priests table,
smoking.
"Diable, monsieur, don't you keep
a stove in your house?" shouted a we'll
known voice to Pere Antoine. Then,
as Jacqueline and approached the
entrance, the man turned and sprang
toward us with outstretched hands
that gripped ours and wrung them till
we cried out In pain.
1t was Alfred Dubois.
But I was stupef1ed to see the Sec
ond man who rose and advanced to-
ward me with a shrewd smile. For it
was Tom Carson!
Presently was telling my story
except for that part which more in
timately concerned myself and Jacque-
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
GREAT BELIEVER
IN BLACK DRAUGH1
Oklahoma Lady Tells How Her
Husband Believes in Black.
DEaught and Uses It For
Many Ailments.

Nowata, Ok1a.-A1rs. W. B. Dawson,
4 resident Of this place, says: my
husband is a great believer in Black
Draught and thinks it cures about
everything.
1t is splendid for headache, constipa.
ton (Which usually causes headache),
Indigestion or any kind Of stomach
trouble, and we just keep it for these
troubles. I don't know when we
haven't used it, and we always find IL
satisfactory.
know it has done us both a lot Of
good and saved US many dollars. use
1t in teaspoon doses at first and
follow with small doses, and it sure
does make a person feel like new.
1t cleanses the liver better than any
other liver tonic I have ever used,
and after taking a thorough course
nature asserts itself and you are not
left in a constipated condition that
follows lot of other active medicines.
This is one thing I like especially
about it."
d For over 20 years Thedford's Black
Draught has been in use for many SIM
pie ailments and today is a recog-
nized standard remedy in thousands
Of family medicine chests. It will
pay you to keep Black-Draught in the
house for use when needed.
Your druggist sells it.-Adv.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
Wouldn't Foruet,

At a theater the other night a pic
ture Of life in the navy was flashed on
the screen. Two women nudged each
other.
my boys in the navy. I'm so glad
I saw this" said one.
"I'm glad I saw it, too," said the
other, respectfully those scenes where
they scrub"
whats especially interesting about
that?"
''Well, my husbands in the navy,
too, and now that know what they
have to do, believe me I'll remind him
when he gets home"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
Unduenchable.

"Old Lutte Lathers is a great Teller
to always look on the bright side of
things" said the gaunt Missourian.
"He was riding to town on a load of
hay with his son-in-law the other day
when the roads were SO muddy. One
wheel dropped into a chuckhole clear
up to the axle, the hay slowed. and
Uncle Lutte rolled off and landed on
his head in a puddle foot and a half
deep. Well, sir says he, when they
had dug him out and mopped him off
some, these ere mud roads don't
bruise you up like a rock road does.
If that had been a hard-surfaced road,
b'dogged if it wouldn't have plumb
broke my neck !''-Kansas City Star.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER.

Stop a minute and think what It
means to say that "Green's August
Flower has been a household remedy
all over the civilized world for more
than half century" No higher praise
Is possible and no better remedy can
be found for constipation, intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the depress-
ed feeling that accompanies such dis
orders. It is most valuable for in
digestion or nervous dyspepsia and
liver trouble, coming up of food, pal
pitation of heart, and many other
symptoms. A few doses of August
Flower will relieve you. It is gentle
laxative. Ask your druggist. Sold in
all civilized countries.-Adv.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16

Bowels that move spasmodically-
should be healthfully regulated by DR..
Kings New Life Pills. In this way
you keep the impurities Of waste mat
ter from circulating through the syS-
tenn by cleansing the bowels thorough
~. and promoting the proper flow of
bile.
Mild, comfortable, yet always relia-
Bile, DR.. Kings New Life Pills work
with precision without the constipation
results Of violent purgatives. 25c. as
usual at all druggists.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16

Side.
line, and the narrative Of the murder,
which gave only as LacrOix had con-
fessed it to me.
A look of incredulity deepened on
Toms shrewd old face till, at the end,
he burst out explosively at me-:
'Hewlett, didn't think was a d.
fool before beg your pardon, miss.
If any man had told me that I would
have knocked him down. But am, I
am, and want you to be my mana
ger"
do you mean that I have lied to
you?" asked indignantly.
every word, Hewlett-every wuru,
my son. That is why want YOU back
with me. First you leave m, employ
ment without offering any reason {;
then you take hold of my BUSINESS af-
fairs and try to pull off zeal over my
head, and then yor .tII me a yarn
about castle Fall i. into lake."
'But, M. Carson" interposed the
priest, II myself have seen this cha
teau MANY times. And have gone to
the enhance and looked from the
mount in, too, and it is no longer
there
Never was" said Carson. "You
fellows get so lonesome up in these
wilds that you have to see things. This
man, d'Epernay, who is said to be dead
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
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.SceJ HfTn Is a local disease greatly indu.
6srSItorooy constitutional conditions. Il
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BIo"dS zen internally and acts through the
ternS On me Mucous Surfaces OF the syg.
dsstro,rd ALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
ths sA me patient strength by improving
doinse 0Ht neral health and assists nature In
CataSsrL IT'S work. $4,000 for any case Of
GEnfHHr>, that HALLS CATARRH
DrytHCsiiNE fails to cure.
FIse1Sts Toe. Testimonials free.
Cneney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
-'0NLY ONE THING
BREAKS my COLD!
''That's DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for fifty years %
cold-breaker"

NOTHING but sustained quality
and unfailing effectiveness can
arouse such enthusiasm. Moth
ing but sure relief from stubborn old
colds and onrushing new ones, grippe.
thrOat-tearfng coughs, and Group could
have made DIR. Kings New Discovery
the nationally popular and standard
remedy it is today.
Fifty years old and always reliable.
Good for the whole family. A bottle fun
the medicine cabinet means q short
lived cold or cough. Coo. and $1.2O.
All druggists Give it q trial.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
Red Tape Citadel.

decentralization Office is a descrip-
ton used by the great novelist, Charles
Dickens, in his book, Little Dorrit,"
to ridicule official delays and Indirect
ness. 1t is described as the chief of
public departments in the art of per-
ceiving how not to do it." The name
has come into popular use as q synO-
nym for governmental routine, "red
tape" procrastination and delay in
transacting public business.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
Left Out, Somehow.

Margaret likes Cecil's puppies and
Always refers to them as her father
uOes as litter of puppies" A day
VI TWO ago another playmate called
uer IN to see twin baby sisters. Mar
sdfet was thoughtful for a moment at
ue ulnner table that day. and then,
turning reprOachfully to her mother,
s sSiu' We never have a litter Of any
thlng at our house"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
One Month at Sea.

World war veterans are called on
to answer many questions. This took
place the other day:
young man, did you get across"
"NO, SIR" the soldier replied. 81
din't get a cross, or citation or a
decoration"
81 mean" says the other, "were you
in Europe?'
ooh, yes,' smiled the soldier;
France, nine months; Germany, two,
and the Atlantic ocean, one month"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
'utIcura Comforts Baby's Skin

moH "cura Comforts Baby's Skin
bathuu req, rough and itching with hot
Cn+is oI Cuticura Soap and touches of
nonr eu'd ointment. Also make use
ed a "nu then of that exquisitely scent
o On uusting powder, Cuticura Talcum,
Toi1oto u the indispensable Cuticura
>''et Trio.-Adv.
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Heading Her Off,

"My husband anticipates my every
WISH"
mine seems to have talent in that
direction, too. At least, when I am
about to express a wish he heads me
off with poverty plea"
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Cafeteria Cook

Mrs. Clymer (giving little dinner)
oh, Julia, the maid just walked out
m me- Won't you serve?
Cook (firmly)-Not in the dinin'
room! But I've had cafeteria expert
pnce, so if you'll line up your guests
and shoot them out here with their
mates I'll see that they get all that's
comm to them.
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On VaIuinq Men.

We commend horse for his
strength, and surepess of foot. and
not for his rich caparisons; grey
hound for his wondrous speed. not fo>
his fine collar; hawk for her wing
not for her jesses and bells. Why. il
like manner do we not value a man
for what is properly his own Mon
taigne.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
10000 Doc Soldiers.

At the time of the signing of the
armistice there we're 10000 dogs en-
pIoyed in various capacities along the
war front.
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Each TO His Trade.

Sensible man, this macaroni king"
"How SOP"
the Fiume question"
"Well?"
"He answered: I maka da spaget,
Senior Orlando. he maka da treaty."
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16

Accept California" Syrup Of Figs
onIv-look for the name California on
+be package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and most harm
toss laxative or physic for the little
stomach, liver and bowels. Children
1--we it's delicious fruity taste. Full
dirpctions for child's dose ON each bot
40 Give it without fear.
Mother! You must say California"
ADV.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16
Its Kind.

leads a double life''
"How dreadful"
''Not so very. He makes duplicat-
ing machines"
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Not Excused.

nm AIlle- oh! Excuse me, did I step
VI your foot again?
h oe''le--l couldn't say. I did not
D'" You were off yet.
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"ANTIQUES'' FROM NEW YORK

cap! We make 'em in New York. and
I'm over here selling 'em. TIL take
'em around tomorrow to the place
you bought 'em and get your money
back for you."-New York Herald.
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Defined

G, a. WHAT is an ecOnomfst?"
Who - economist, my son, is a man
othon ."'l save money by cutting down
'er Peoples expenses"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16

With your fingers! You can lift OK
any hard corn. soft corn, or corn be-
tween the toes, and the hard skin cal
fuses from bottom Of feet.
A tiny bottle of "Freezone" costs
little at any drug store; apply O few
drops upon the corn or callus. In
stantly it stops hurting, then shortly
you lift that bothersome corn or callus
right of, root and all, without one bit
Of pain or soreness. Truly! No hum
bugl
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-16

y ost, average depth of the Atlantic
'l'ated at about 10000 feet.