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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
HOW KOREANS HONOR DEAD
Weird Ceremonies Commemorative Of
the Departed One Described by
American Woman Traveller.

4 little round-iaced nun from The
nGunery w the mounialnsidr above the
monastery was giving a commemora-
tive service for her dead parents. We
went into the temple about eight
o'clock II was almost dark inside.
The one large standing Buddha was
dimly lii by foW tapers SET in high
stands. Before him on the altar stood
10 copper plates piled high with DIFF
fcrcnt kinds of breads and above these
were heaped cakes and fruit between
the artificial flowers. TO one side
we're the nuns from The nearby nun
merry with shayen heads. and haggy
white trousers and long gray robes cx
actly like the priests. The faces were
indisiinct IN the dimness. Hour after
hour8wc sat cross-legged on mats. All
around rs was The sound Of informing
"Kwanzean Posal, Kwanzcan Posal,
Kwanzean Posal Kwanzean Posal."
with slow genpdections, fill the head
touched the floor, slow risings, then
geDulectous, endlesSly repeated The
abbot struck on wooden gong, faster
aud faster came the calls 10 Kwanzean
PosaI; the incense from the censor
filed tho room. The reiteration Of the
liturgy grew almost hypnotizlng
suddenly when | felt that | could bear
II no longer. the neophytes carried IN
numbers Of little tables, one FOR each
( priest lighted a candle on each
I spread our one OF the holy books md
retired silently. The candles brought
the faces into sudden relief against
! the darkness. AZ signal the homes
opened their books each chose what
ever passage he wished and began in
ioning. each voice at different key
and rhythm and words. vet all blend
ing together into Il twisted strand of
sound And over the gcuuaectinc
monks and the funny wriukIed round
faced nuns stood The one dim golden
Buddha with folded hands. Al iva
o'clock in the morning beneath Il
westcrung moon the priest, led by the
abbot filed ont aud performed what
looked for all the world like a solemn
snake dance in the middle Of The court
We we're each presented with large
pink lotus. and then all marched TO n
lower terrace. where in The shadow OF
the gateway they read for a last tim,
the names of tho dead. and then con
signed The heaps Of flowers TO the fire
that writhed like tortured dragon
splitting out sparks Of burning petal'
high in the air. -F.lizabeth j. Coats
worth, in Asia Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
EXPLAINING FALL OF JERICHO
Scientists Have Shown How Happen.
ing at Which Many Have Scoffed
Was Quite Possible.

Many have refused 10 believe the
biblical suggestion that the walls Of
Jericho fell down before the lsraelites
rs result of the sound caused by
their shouts aud the horns blown by
the seven priests.
Modern researches and discoveries
in regard ia sound phenomena, how
ever, show That such biblical miracles
could he reconcied with natural law.
Vibration of sound is Il thing the
possibilities Of Which we do not yet
understand. II is said chat one Of The
great tenor singers can break wine.
glass by singing into IFS KEYNOTE
The sub-bass Of the pipe organ Is
known 70 rack pews to pieces with its
sympathetic note
The authentic story is told OF an
old fiddler who, angered by the work.
men constructing the first suspension
bridge Mt Niagara. threatened to fiddle
II down. OF course he was laughed
at. but. seating himself near the
bridge he began 70 experiment with
his bass string.
When he found the note that suited
him he sawed away on that note The
cables responded and soon the bridge
WAS swaying in an alarming fashion.
# he had not been stopped he might
have fulfilled his threat. In any case
care was afterward exercised to pre-.
vent n particle of vibration IN the
bridge.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
SPEECH THAT "MADE" RILEY
Incident in Early Life OF Beloved In
diana Poet That Is Well Worth
Recalling.

After many Disappointment in for
tune, James Whitcomb Riley was EN-
ployed, at few dollars week. as
writer on the indianapolis journal.
Shortly after, Lie lIalford, who was
afterward private secretary 10 Prcsi-
dent Harrison. came TO the paper as
managing editor. lie decided To cut
down expenses and began by discharg-
Ing Riley as his first victim. The blow
was n hard one for Riley. and he was
discouraged and about ready to give
up in despair But couple of days
later there was a political convention
Ia The city and one Of the men nomi-
mated was big fellow who had never
made Il speech IN his life. He was
called on 10 speak, and, shifting from
one foot to the other In perfect agony
for moment, he blurted out: Gen
tlemen. / thank YOU for this nomina-
ton. ! can't make a speech. hut I
can tell YOU Que thing: The ticket
you've nominated today is goin' to
win when the frost is on the punkln'
and the folders In the shock"
That speech took the house by
storm and It was evident that the del
cgates and the spectators had read
this poem of Riley's which had ap.
peared in the paper just few days
before. The circumstance brought the
papev back 10 Riley's rescue, and his
first book, THE Old Swimmln' Hole
and 'Levcn More Poems" was pub
llshed and made great hit. Tho orig
inal copy Of This book recently sold
for $500
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
BEFORE THE AGE OF STEAM
"reminiscences OF Time When the
Stage Coach Was Most important
Method Of Travel.

1T was q hill village Oh the stays
road midway between - ana -.
stage roads in the year 1870 varied
with the seasons from bad to worse. In
the spring they were rivers Of mud
through which the faded horse.
dragged the coach YEARLY; in the
summer the passengers were choked
with dust and Ia the autumn. by rea.
son OF the ruts and holes IN Tie road,
they were tossed about like dice IN
box; In winter the roads were blocked
with snow. but the stage, when there
was stage, always came into our
village with a clatter of eallopiug
horses and sounding horn. lis round
body. swung on leather straps. us gal.
liant driver, its four smoking horses
and its merry horns we're followed by
shouting boys, who SWING from the
straps OF the boot or fell oT IN
cloud of dust. The stage driver was
parsonage IN every Village that de-
pended on his arrival for the daily
mai ana the latest news from the OFT
side world. He was gazed upon with
awe by the children rs a sort OF hero
vt romance, who never worked, but
drove galloplng horses back and forth
through a perpetual holiday. He was
an expert with the rcins whose repu-
tation was counties Wide. As he
whirlod up 10 the tavern porch The
leaders OF his team. which, ii was
whispered, had been sold Ia the Stage
company 10y the farmers because OF
their vicious tricks, walked around 10
the stable with dropping heads and
into their familiar stalls rs soon rs
their traces were uuhookcG, as Juno
cent-looklng as II they had never
kicked a farmers boy or picked up a
groom by the collar" William Heavy
Shelton IN Century.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
INFLUENZA LEAVES
THE BLOOD THIN

An attack of influenza leaves the
blood thin and the nerves weak.
Until the blood is built up there can
be no complete recovery of strength
and health. In fact the thin blood
often results in a lack of nutrition Of
the nerves that produces a form ofner.
vouS trouble called by medical writer's
post grippal neurasthenia," or neu-
rasthenia following an attack of the
grp. Such acondition is described by
Mrs. Henry II. Miller, of No. l2l Eli
colt street, Brattleboro, VT, who says:
II had severe attack of the grip
asst January and it left me with my
blood so weak that had no strength
at all. would be confined TO bed for
a week at time and more often for a
day or two. | was very nervous, had
terrible headaches and finally suffered
from rheumatism in my lower limbs.
Several years ago / had been bene-
flied by DIR. Williams Pink Pills and
decided to fake them again. After
had taken two boxes of the pills |
commenced 10 feel better and could
see that they were helping me. con-
tinued their use and now / feel better
than | have in long time. / haya
recommended DR.. Williams Pink Pills
to many of my friends aud will con-
tinue to do so for / am grateful for
what the pills have done for me-"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills build up
the blood and strengthen the nerves.
They are justly regarded as peculiarly
adaptedto building up the health after
q siege of the grip.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, price so cents per box;
six boxes $50, or will be sent by
+ mail, postpaid, on receipt Of price, by
the Or. Williams Medicine Co, Schen-
ectady, N. Y. Write today for q free
copy Of our blood book.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
The United States used S66000OOO
barrels OF oil last year. And most of
It at OBJ cents nor gallon. too.

A German newspaper is already talk
Ing about the next war; and says II
win he won In the air. BY the time
The bill for this one Is paid The Ger.
mans won't care where the next war
Is To- he fought.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

The German submarines that start
cd TO this side to destroy our trans
ports. never dreamed in the height Of
their arrogance that they would one
day be coming over as spells OF war.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

Druggists refund money II pAZc
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching
Stops Irritation; Soothes and Heals
You can get rcstful sleep after the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
loo DANGEROUS.

Here's story about girl who
swallowed Il diamond ring"
"She was n very foolish girl. A
diamond ring is too ricl for anybody's
Digestion"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
NOTICE

Tie annual meeting Of the Young
Mems Association for the election OF
officers will be held IN the Library
Marcn l1th, 1919. Polls open At
o'clock and close at o'clock in tn,
afternoon.
FRED G. MARTIN,
Recording Secretary
Bcnninpton VI, March 9Th, 1918.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
lfil$l cate! s'|s|||
Fir Turnentine.

Copenhagen engineers are expert.
menting with the production of tur-
pentine from fir trees, the roots and
twlgs being used as well as the trunks.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

A cat may look at q king, but she
has TO travel n long way these days TO
get chance
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

You can hardly blame France for
wanting TO make sure that the war
will never happen again.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
Tagged Out Women
VinOl is What You Need

If all the tired, overworked rundown women in
this community could realize how our delicious
Vinol which contains Beef and Cod Liver Pep
tones, Iron and Manganese Peptonates and Cyce
rophosphates supplies the vital elements necessary
to enrich the blood and create working strength
we wouldn't be able to supply the demand.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

WANTED Man or woman, salary
$2i. full time soc an hour spare time.
selling guaranteed hosiery TO wearer.
experience unnecessary Address s..
Box 40. 40t1
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

NOTICE X man succeeds IN the
work he likes. If you would like Il
responsible railway position. one that
enables you to travel and 20 advance,
starting ut $1,000 a month and eN-
pcnscs. no age limit. write for booklet
NlSl, Standard Business Training In
stitutc, Buffalo. y. iOtl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

TO RENT Bungalow Of two rooms
for light housekeeping; electric lights.
30i Grove 81. f0tG'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

WANTED---AIan would like to rent
farm on shares. all ready stocked
have no children hest reference Civ
en-. Box ISL. No Bennington.Vt iOtG'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

WANTED-Board and room in good
home for girl attending high school
Address II, Box i40 40t2a
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
Dukedom, Tenn.

II live on farm and keep house
for six in my family. | got into a
nervous, rundown condition so it
seemed as though l would die. A
friend advised me to try Vinol. /
have been greatly improved by its
use and am better and stronger in
every way. Mrs. H. H. Goodwin.
For all rundown. nervous, anaemic COZ
feeble old people and delicate chill,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05
Burdett, II. Y.

Burdett, n. 7.
81 keep house for my family Of
three, and raise chickens. / had a
nervous breakdown, so was unable
to work. The doctor did not seem to
help me, and cousin asked me to
try Vinol. 1t built me up-I now
have good appetite and am well and
strong. Mrs. Loyal Palmer.
iitions. weak women, overworksd men,
rem. there lie no remedy like Yinol.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-05

For Sale by W l. eoEOy and ounlaus Pharmacy
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
Your Town

Statistics compiled by the Depart
ment OF Health for the week enueo
July 26 reveal a marked decline in the
death rate of Greater New York, with
ne Borough of Manhattan leading all
others with the low figure of S.25
deaths thousand of population.
Queens is second with 800, Richmond
tAird with $50. Brooklyn fourth with
800, and The Bronx last with 9.97.
The average city death rate for the
week is S.S7 THOUSAND, as compared
with 1l.21 for the same week last year.
Only l.060 cases of infectious disease
were decorded during the week. with
not one case of smallpox or typhus
fever.
The estimated population of the
greater city on July last, according
to the Health Department. was 6.Oos.-
'94, as compared with the 4,766, 1888
estimate given for July /, 1910,
The Health Departments reuort
shows that in the first thirty weeks of
1919 there were 5o,o43 deaths, compared
with 1882 during the same period in
1918.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
Association Charges Federal
Vocational Board With
Faulty Administration.
Delays and Hardships
I'll Given Good Jobs"
Hundreds Made to Wait Long
Periods on Charity With
out Pay, 1t Is Charged

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 6. Hum
dreds of war cripples throughout the
country are registering serious com
plants against the Intellectual results
obtained by the Federal Board for Vo
eational Education, the government,
sgency charged by Congress with the
responsibility of retraining disabled
soldiers for lives OF usefulness, ac-
eordng to a statement issued TODAY
BY the Association for Disabled Sol
6iers, Sailors and Marines. Cases of
wounded soldiers who have been made
10 suffer untold delay, injustice and
actual hardship because of the faulty
admin stration OF the Federal board
are said to have come TO the attention
of the association, which is an organ
jsation OF more than 5000 disabled ex-
service men bent on getting a square
deal for themselves and for the thou
sands of their fellows who are badly
in need of encouragement and CON
structlve assistance.
The Federal Board for Vocational
Education with headquarters at Wash
ingtQn IS under the charmanship of
Secretary Of Agriculture Houston.
Secretary of Commerce Redfield, Sec
Ietary Of Labor Wilson and Commits
soner OF Education Claxton are mem
bers OF the board. while James P.
Munroe is vice-cf~ifman. The director
Of the board is Charles A. Prosser
The Association Of Disabled Soldiers.
Sailors and Marines. with Headquarters
in Philadelphia. was organized ma
tlonally IN June of this year Ray
mond l.. Cuneff is chairman. John ].
Ridgway is secretary, Harry Remes is
treasurer and Robert +. Browning is
field secretary.
Association Statement
The statement of the association fol-
lows in part:
after waiting patiently for many
months for the Federal board to make
adequate provision for the scores of
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
Dram a
THE Red Dawn" Is Produced
at the Thirty.Ninth
Street Theatre
By Haywood Broun

According to the advance notices,
President Wilson's official family was
wildly enthusiastic about Thomas
Dlxon's new play, THE Red Dawn
but then, they are all Democrats. To
US the play seemed the crudest mixture
OF nonsense which has ever come to
broadway. The only saving grace was
the fact that not infrequently the p;ece
was so ludicrously inept that 1t was
hilarously amusing. Only the simplest
sort Of changes would make It a gorge
Gus burlesque.
The play S supposed to be an at
tack on Bolshevism, but it never at
tains even the dignity of propaganda.
Ihe scene of the drama is laid in d
racine ISLAND, where Communism is
tried with the most disastrous results.
t.ach man on the island is assigned to
the task to which he is best fitted. and
the play points out that the scheme is
impractical and bound to fail How
ever, there is something to be said for
such a community. for in it We doubt
whether Doraldlna would be set to act
ing or Thomas Dixon to writing plavs.
A delegate from the Russian soviets
comes to the island and finds the brand
OF socialism practised there not red
enough DN half. lie arrangeS a counter
revolution, which shall be preliminary
to the establishment OF d prolctarian
dictatorship in the United States. Ac-
cording to the Red leader has cause
can count on an army of one million
eX-convicts. three million men thrown
out of work by prohibition ana ten
million negroes. At the end of the &c
ond act it would have been nossihlc 10
have augmented the forces Of Ascoa-
tent by the addition of ten determined
dramatic critics. The play was ,ome-
what enlivcned in the second act by
some spirited dancing of Doraldina
and "a chorus Of Hawaiians. The island
soviet seemed to us somewhat pur.tani-
cal, fer Miss Doraldina was quad com
plosely in pink TIGHTS and a close H.
ting jersey, or whatever you call it.
The assistant dancers seemed more in
tent on elf-determination.
The quality Of the dialogue may be
judged from the fact that it is studded
with such lines as ISIS me once, chief
and then kill me if you like" The chief
for some reason or other, availed him
self of neither opportunity.
II the crop of anti Bolshevist plays
keeps up in the same manner in which
it has started the Russian revolution
lists have much TO answer for to New
York theatrecoers.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
Motors and Motorists

1t is officially announced through the
National Automobile Chamber of Com
merce that the army will retain for its
use list of types of trucks and pas
senger automobiles which is given
herewith. It is interesting to note that
the passenger car list includes Dodge
Brothers and Cadillac cars. This would
seem to indicate that the army Will not
dispose of any Of the cars of these
marques and ought to serve 10 set al
rest the recurring reports that Cadillac
and Dodge cars are going to be auc-
toned OF by the army at very low fig
uros.
The list, which is extremely inclu-
sive, coeers not only trucks and tour
ing cars, but motorcycles, trailers and
bicycles. 1t is as follows:
Type L. Passenger Cars Medium,
open, Dodge; medium, closed. Dodge;
heavy, open, Cadillac; heavy closed,
Cadillac
Type 2, Light Delivery Truck-one-
half-ton light delivery, Dodge three
quarter-ton, White three -quarter-ton,
G. NJ. c.; onc-ton, White. Tebo.
Type 3, One and one half and Two
ton irucks-White, Garford, Rackard
~ Pc =, HIce ana fOuf-tOn IruckS-
Standardized B." Riker; three and one
half-ton trucks-Macl< f. w. D.
Type 5, Five-ton Trucks or Over
Mack, five and one-half-ton; Mack. Spe-
cial Engineer.
Type s, Motorcycles Harley David
SON
Type 7. Ambulances C. NJ. c.
Type s, Trailers, Cargo -Three-Quar-
ter-ton, tank, water, 18O gallons; three
quarter-ton, ration and spare parts;
one and one-half-ton, two-wheel, light
aviation; one and one half-ton, four
wheel, cargo; one and one-half-ton,
four wheel special bodies; three-to
gun and caisson; four-ton, four wheel
cargo; fourton, four-whecl, special
bodies; fiVe-ton, tire press; ten-ton,
portable crane; ten-ton, tank corps,
with ramp.
Type Q, Trailers, Kitchen-One and
one half-ton, two-wheel, kitchen, A
and B type.
Type 10, Trailers, Machine shop
Four-ton, four-wheel, machine shop,
spare parts
Bicycle estfield. c. E. T. S.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-07
Women, Disabled i'm War.
Trained for New Jobs
Nurses, Yeomen CD and Fem.
mime Marines Have Same
Chance as Service Men
Netc York 4'ribnns
yyaSkfe0saa Rsraau

WASHINGTON, Aug. Announce
ment has been made by the Federal
Board for Vocational Training that
American women injured in the line
of duty during the war with Ger8anv
are taking advantage Of the oppor-
runity to refrain themselves a. gov
ernment expense for other locations.
as are the soldiers, sailors and marines
The courses in vocational instruc-
ton for wounded soldiers are also
available TO women OF the nursing
corps, yeomen F. and the marines.
among the women enrolled is
nurse who contracted tuberculosis
While on duty. She is setraining for
work not so exacting as her own pro-
fession. A member of the yeomen (F>
contingent, deaf after an attack OF
spinal meningitis. is taking a course
in lip reading. An army nurse with
serious heart trouble, the after-egects
of diphtheria, IS being trained in land
scape gardening that she may he out
of doors.
Others are specializing in dictetics
or secretarial training.