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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-04-08
ALL NERVOUS WOMEN
May Benefit by the Remedy Mrs. Lit.
tie Recommends for Nervousness

May Benefit by the Remedy Mrs. Lit.
tie Recommends for Nervousness
Whitman, Mass suffered from
a nervous. rundown condition and
loss OF, streHgth SO it was hard for me
to get around and do my work. Az
ter other medicines had failed to help
me Vinol restored my health and
strength and heartily recommend it
to any one suffering from a nervous.
rundown condition. Mrs Il. NJ.
Little.
There is no secret about Vinol. 1t
owes its success to beef and cod liv.
or peptones. iron and manganese pep.
tonates and glycerophosphates, the
oldest and most famous body build
ing tonics. We strongly recommend
It. William L. Gokay, Druggist and
Druggist Everywhere.
p, S.-l'or any skin trouble try our
Saxol Salyo. Money back If Il fails.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-04-08
cultivate the 10y Of living

by eliminating worry over what will
happen to your family il YOU do not
live. Insurance removes the doubt, 1t
saves what II costs and beliers your
chance OF living to enjoy your saw.
ings National Life Ins. Co.. Of VT
(Mutual) Earle s. Kinsley, General
Agent, Mead Building. Rutland, VI
Adt
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
WORDS HAVE MANY MEANINGS
Imagination Cuts Bio Figure When
Terms Of More or Less Pictur.
esqueness Are Employed.

An amusing and plausible analysis
has been made of the way many peo-
pie in the United States use and un-
derstand the words ranch" "planta-
ton" and farm" In the magma
ton Of fasteners, says the analyst
in effect, a plantation or a ranch Jug
gests wide acres and a gentleman on
horseback riding about to oversee their
cultivation by picturesque hirelings,
whereas a farm suggests a compare
lively small field of growing vegeta-
bles personally conducted to harvest
by a plain man in %overalls. Yet many
a ranch or plantation is no bigger
than a small farm, and many a large
farm Is as big as q corresponding
plantation or ranch; and the word
gentleman" fits as many farmers as
ranchers or planters. The farm, how
ever, says this observer, may easily
get into society by being spoken Of
in the plural and all the farmer needs
to do to attain this distinction is to
build a fence across his land and then
call 1t the SOmething-or-other Farms.
Christian Science Monitor.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
No More Dark Continent.

One may nc longer believe in the
existence Of a strange white people
in Africa. Rider Haggard's splendid
race is probably only the Bahima,
originally discovered by Spoke in
southwestern Uganda. At least Sir
Harry Johnston claims to have discov-
cred in them the clue to many of the
mysterious white-race legends found
In the dark continent. = He was en-
gagged in nothing more thrilling than
a tour Of inspection Of Ankole when
he came acros them. They r Of a
very light complexion, and are the
a%ristocrats OF this region. Sir Harry
holds that they are obviously descend
ants from a Gala, Somali or other
Hamitic stock, and adds that some Of
them are more like Egyptians than
Is the case with CALAIS and Somalis.
Romance disappears before the tread
Of the explorer. The dark continent
is dark no MORE.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
hoover's Testimony Regarding Boil.
ShcViSm.
PHILADELPHIA Public Ledper)

philadelphia Public Ledger
Mr.. Hoover has done civilization
a service by fatty putting the re.
sponsibility for the famine in Rus
STA on the disorganization Of the
producing and the distributing life
Of the country by the Lenine and
Trotzky regime. There is little
reason to doubt the most pessimist-
ic estimates Of Branting, the Swed-
ish Socialist leader, and Doctor
Nansen, the Norwegian food COM
missioner. that starvation is kill
ing hundreds of thousands month
ly in Russia. One hideous phase
of the situation is summed up in
the statment that virtually "all
children of less than two years of
age are now dead in Petrograd."
And yet while this appalling fact,
which is only part CT the story that
Red Cross workers, industrial lead
ers who have recently got out of
Bolshevik Russia, have told Of the
famine that has followed the ces-
satiop of transportation and the
tremendous falling off in the ag-
ricultural output Of 1917 and 1918,
due to Bolshevik incompetency,
Lenine and Trotzky are still loudly
proclaiming the success Of their
methods.
The Red Cross. of course, is do
ing all it can, wherever it can, in
Russia to relieve the situation; but
as Mr.. Hoover points out, the diff
culties of an extensive relief of
Russia grow out of the fanatical
political policy of the Bolsheviks.
Recent writer's paint Lenine and
Trotzky as absolutely Indifferent to
the miseries around them, but
trusting to the sentimentalism of
the parlor Bolsheviks in the Allied
countries to cover over their fatal
failure to manage the industries
and production Of the country
through communistic methods,
which in most Eases put the least
ext ert in charge tf the most COM
plicated industrial problems. The
truth about Russia as Mr.. Hoover
sees it is that Lenineism is an au-
tocracy, accentuated by starvation
Of its own producing. For it is
BoIshevism that has produced fam
inc and not famine Bolshevism.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
CITY'S PRIDE WELL FOUNDED
Alexandria, Va, Has Right to Boast Of
Her Present as Well "a Her
Past Glories.

Alexandria, Va, is q thriving little
southern city with q historic back.
ground. The city can never decide
OF which 1t should be proudest-.ts
prosperous present or historic past
AS a rule 1t divides its pride equally
between them. Several times it has
been given an opportunity to become
part Of the District Of Columbia and
proudly refused.
A~lexandrians will show you with
equal pride their busy shipyards and
harbor and then escort you to one OF
their ancient landmarks, such as
Christ church or the Carlyle house.
Christ church Is sacred to the memory
OF the south's two greatest heroes,
Washington and Lee. The Washington
and Lee pews in the church are side
by side, their names marked by silver
plates. Twin mural tablets on the
church's wall are inscribed to their
memory. The chancel rail Is the one
before which they knelt, the tablets OF
the Lords prayer and Apostles Greed
were there In Washington's time. In
the vestry room relics Of the heroes
are preserved-the record Of their pur-
chase Of their pews, the Bible and the
long handled purse used in Washing
tons time for the offerings.
The congress Of Alexandria met in
h old Carlyle house, over twenty
years before the battle of Lexington
was fought. 1t was the first protest
against taxation without representa-
ton held in Virginia. 1t was in this
same old mansion that the Braddock
expedition was decided upon. Wash
lngton was a frequent visitor to the
house. His diary has often the words +:
"Lodg'd at Col. Carlyle's."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
BELOVED OF TOBACCO USERS
In Meerschaunn, Smokers ACKNOWLEDGES
That One Good Thing Has Come
Out Of Turkey.

Eski Scheir, In Asiatic Turkey, has
one unique claim upon public in.
terest, and If one is a smoker that
claim is a compelling one. 1t is the
home of m~eerschaum. M~eerschaum
In abundance is found only on the plain
Of Eski Scheir, and this city produces
all the marketable meerschaum in the
world.
Meerschaum, as it's name implies, is
supposed to be petrified seafoam, and
has been discovered floating on the
Black sea. Apart from the Eski Scheir
mines it occurs in Greece, Samoa,
Spain. Moravia, Utah. Pennsylvania,
and, in conjunction with s%erpentine.
in Norway and South Carolina.
The ancients are said to have used
1t as a decorative stone in buildings,
and this seems to have been confirmed
by the recent excavations in Corfu. 1t
is soft and whitish, and becomes NAL
leable like clay when soaked in water.
Meerschaum used to be considered a
mere curiosity by the Turks, who had
no other use for it than as a substi-
tute for fuller's soap. The story runs
that the Turkish ambassador at the
Austrian court, In the eighteenth CEN
fury, was a native of Eski Scheir.
Wanting to help his city at a time OF
great poverty, he took a sample Of this
queer stuff to Vienna, thinking that
the Franks" as all foreigners were
then called. might have some use for
1T. The Germans were quick to see
its utility for pipe bowls, but declared
1t was good for nothing else.
More than a century has confirmed
this Judgment, for who has yet discOv-
cred any other use for meerschaum?
For pipe making it Is an ideal raw
material. Here is a stone which is
easily nodded when wet, and when
dry becomes hard and resists fire.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
A. TO Punctuation.

With all that may be said about
punctuation its 8 Is pretty well as
much part and parcel Of the writer as
are the words Of the text. To q man
q comma Is merely "a breathing" and
he puts n In where a reader would
seem to need to pause for breath /;
whereas to others a comma is rather
q handy mark for setting off a word
or clause that is to q degree some
what apart In form or sense from the
direct implication Of the sentence. All
Of which brings to mind the words OF
that very practical schoolmaster who
was the frst to say to his class, "The
best rule Of an for punctuation is to
put in punctuation marks only where.
without them, the meaning would be
In doubt"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
OLD LAW ON STATUTE BOOKS
II British Judges Were Guided by 1t
There Would Be Some Confusion
in the "IsIand Empire"

Many curious acts of parliament
still remain on the statute book, re-
marks the London Daily Mail. Every
little while these appear in the courts,
but as the British judges decide cases
more by the public interest than by
the law they cause very little trouble.
Three acts have been quoted this
week. One referred to an act OF
George H., which allowed the land
lord to charge a tenant he wished
to leave his premises double rent
The plaintiff claimed, but lost his
case.
Another was a claim by the admir-
atty for freight on bullion carried
from South Africa on q warship. This
claim was decided in favor Of the
bankers, who got their freight free
owing to an act that was passed In
1919 for the purpose Of stopping the
abuse Of the privilege Of conveying
bullion in kings ships BY the com.
mercial community.
An act that Is still enforced Is one
Of James l., dated 1924, a Scottish
statute. It reads:
III any mine of gold or silver be
found In any lords lands of the realm
and it may be proved that three half.
pennies of silver may be fined out OF
the pound of lead, the lords Of par
lament consent that such mine may
be the kings, as is usual of other
realms"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
Weather SIGNS.

People living ear the seashore say
a storm Is "brewing" when the air is
salty, caused by the wind blowing
from the east.
A red or copper-colored sun or moon
indicates great heat. A silvery moon
denotes clear, cool weather.
The old Indian sign Of a dry month
was when the ends Of the new moon
were nearly horizontal and one Of
them resembled a hook on which to
hang his powder horn.
Many people troubled with rheuma-
tism and neuralgia usually are ex-
cellent barometers and can predict
changeable weather by feeling It In
their bOnes."
And the advice Of the old weather
sage Is never 60 out during April
month without being accompanied by
your umbrella"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
Famous ~sapphlres.

Fine sapphires are NOR valuable
than diamonds Of equal weight and
quality, only rubies being more pre-
cious. But ruby crystals Tin the roughly
are rarely more than half an inch long.
whereas those Of sapphire occasionally
reach three inches. Most priced are
the "velvet blue" sapphire and those
Of "~cornflower" tint.
One Of the most famous gems Of
this variety Is the wooden spoon sap
phire," which gets It's name from the
circumstance that 1t was picked up BY
Ceylonese dealers IN wooden spoons.
according to an exchange. A while
ago 1t was In the Hope collection. Il
10 violet BY day but red By artificial
llGht,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
Sir Redvers Buffers Ghost Story.

Some time after the FrancO-German
war OF 1870, writes Lady Butler In an
English paper, Sir Redvers (then Cap
tain) Butler left England to visit the
battlefields. and on arriving at the
town Of - gave directions that his
letters should not be forwarded. and
started on his tour of inspection.
After he had been away some days, he
awoke suddenly one night, thinking
he saw Lord Wolseley (then Sir Gar
nett, and that he heard him say: Il
wonder where that fellow Butler Is. l
can't think why he has not answered
my letter." This so impressed him
that he returned at once to the town
of -. where he found a letter await
ing him from Lord Wolseley, saying
that he must return to London imme-
diately, as an expedition against the
Ashantees was imminent.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-06-06
Prevention and Cure.

Jenkins lived In q fiat and the man
below was learning to play the from
bone.
He was surprised and a little fiat
tered when Jenkins came down to Dor
row the instrument. He lent 1t will
ingly, and told Jenkins he could have
It any time he wanted 1t. Jenkins
took full advantage Of the offer. he
was always borrowing that trombone.
'What do you borrow It fort" asked
jenkins wife. "You can't play It"
II know" said Jenkins c~heerfully.
"Nor can that fellow downstairs while
I've got It."
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
THE ENEMY TO BE FEARED.

do not greatly fear an enemy that
may embark from some distant shore
to do us hurt. do fear this liquor
foe that burrows his insidious way
deep into the vary vitals Of our pow
er, that not only smites the living but
that drives his poisons into the loins
of potential fathers and into the
wombs Of potential mothers to pre-
damn the race with the eugenic taint
Of alcohol. Give America clear minds.
clean bodies, and unspoiled souls, and
she will prove sufficient for her mo-
mentous present even as she has an
swered every question that challenged
her glorious past, and the conclusion
Is inevitable that any institution that
robs the state of these-clear minds,
clean bodies and unspoiled sOuls-is
an unmltigated evil and must be de-
stroyed-Daniel A. Polling.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
JAIL NOW A HOSPITAL.

"The city of Birmingham has the
handsomest city Jail in the South, cost
ing about 100000 and surrounded by
20 acres of ground beautifully culti-
waited. The normal number of pris-
oners confined within it before the adj
vent Of prohibition was 200 and up
wards. Today the number ranges from
go to 20, most Of them colored women.
"Now our new problem is, what to
do with this fine Jail. AS result Biz
mingham is forced to do its street
cleaning and garbage collection with
paid labor instead of with prisoners"
Hon. George B. Ward, former Presi-
dent of the City Commission of Biz
mingham, Ala.
Since the above was written this jail
has been closed for lack of prisoners
and has been offered to the govern
ment for reconstruction hospital.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
PUT C0UNTRY'S NEEDS FIRST
Plumbers and Steamfitters End Two
Weeks Strike as an Act Of Pa
triotic Duty.

The strike of approximately two
thousand plumbers and steamfitters
employed at the various military
camps and on other government con-
tracts in the vicinity of Newport
News, Va, which had been in effect
two weeks, was declared off. The men
returned to work. 1t is stated the
men decided to forfeit the charter OF
their union and to allow each of its
members to return to work as pa
triotic duty. The forfeiture was nee
essary as the pay the men will re-
ceive is less than that allowed by the
union regulations, it is said. They
will receive 70 cents an hour with
double pay for overtime instead OF
S7h cents and double pay for over
time, as demanded by the strikers.
Government activities, which in
clude camp construction work and
erection of houses for shipyard work
ers, had been held up pending settle
ment of the strike.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
EFFICIENCY AND CONFINEMENT
IN A DRY STATE.

"The contented workman" says Mr..
Gilmore of Louisville, Ky, president
of the National Model License league,
sis the efficient workman, and the
workman who feels he is getting
square deal" 1t is o shame, he de-
clares, that free-born Americans
should be denied an occasional glass
of beer or whisky. And the Pendle-
ton East Oregonian thus retorts:
1--WE are building ships ip Oregon.
Our workmen are breaking all rec
ords In ship production, so efficient
are they. They are neither inefficient
nor discontinued. The only dlscon-
tented person we've seen lately was q
chump who paid So for a quart Of
bootleggers' poison. He had a head"
ache and torpid liver"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
Temperance
lssNOteS"
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
PROHIBITION REcLAlMs MAN


The Sioux Falls Press, speaking edt
torially on the immense success" OF
prohibition in South Dakota as re-
CARDS decrease of crime and poverty
and the increase in legitimate business
profits, notes another result which, 1t
says, would be "worth while even If 1t
cost all the economic disaster the pro-
liquor element so noisily warn the peO-
pie against. Most men," it says, "have
had friends who were being ruined by
booze, men Of natural talent and I'M
usual ability in their professions or
occupations who were failing, dropping
deeper and deeper into the drunkarG's
low estate, men who could not, no mat
ter how hard they tried, let liquor
alone, and had begun to quit trying.
They did fool things, made spectacles
Of themselves in public and private,
and lost the esteem they once held.
Where are these unfortunates today,
and what are they doing? Every read
er of this article can, we are sure,
point to at least one friend who has
come back, whose eye has frightened.
whose shoulders have Strengthened,
who in one short year Of freedom from
the blight of drink has become a man
once more. Prohibition is retaining
brokendown manhood"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
HIGHER WAGES
| FOR RAIL men
facticaIIy All Classes of En-
! pIoyees Are to Share in
\ the Increase.
HFFEcTIvE AS OF SEPT. !
Means Addition of Approximately
ls150, 900, 900 to Annual Pay Rolls
\ / Eight Hours to Be Continued
as the Basic Day.

4INearly 100000 railroad employees,
Including clerks, track laborers and
maintenance of way men, are to re-
ceWe wage increases of $25 month,
Z thesequivalent of 81 a day, or II cents
an hour, over the pay they received
January 1, 1918, under wage order
issaed by Director General McAdoo.
Advances are effective as of Septem-
beli1.
This order, adding approximately
S1SO,00O000 to- the annual pay roll
in calculations of labor representa-
tiyps, represents the second largest az
giegate wage increase ever granted in
American industrial history. 1t is
supplementary to the general railroad
wage order issued nearly four months
ag1, providing for about S3OO,oOo,ooo
Increases, and for the classes of EN-
pltyees affected it supplants provi-
siOns Of that order.
Most of the employees covered by
the new order have made considerably
less than 500 month, and the vol
| unary increase was decided on by the
director general after investigation by
| his advisory board of railroad wages
ard working conditions of men doing
similar work in other industries. In
lib main, the boards recommends
! tins were followed.
The order specified that eight hours
lis to be considered the basic day, put
| overtime up to ten hours is to be paid
prS rata, with time and a half the
regular rate for overtime past the ten
| hours. Specific rules are laid down
lfr the promotion of employees on
grsunds of merit and seniority. 9th
err regulations forbidding dismissal OF
employees without cause and provid-
! Ing for hearing on appeal resemble
the rules now in effect under govern
nent civil service. These restrictions
viii affect mainly the 100000 railway
| clerks.
thousands of woman clerks EN-
plosed by the railroads are to receive
| the same pay as men for similar work.
but the Interpretation Of similar
| work" is left to executives.
Back pay from January l will be
| naAde under the other general wage or
/ 0e and the advances now granted
| will be figured on top of the wage OF
| January /, 1918, rather than on the
pay received in the immediate past
under the general wage increase. Min
imum rates of pay are established for
all classes covered by the order, but
the increases of $25 month, applied
| If the employee worked on a month
| ly or weekly basis, and of y cents an
hour applied if the employee worked
by the hour, In many cases will run
the actual new rate above the mini
mum.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
LABOR NEWS IN BRIEF

Every industry except farming IN
Eureka and Humboldt county, Cali
fornia, is on an eight-hour basis.
Traffic on the Middlesex and Bos-
ton street railway which serves ~
towns near Boston, was partly tied up
by strike. Thousands of workmen,
many Of them employed in plants en-
gagged on government contracts, were
unable to report for duty.
Representative Cox of Indiana took
up with the quartermaster general the
question of increasing the compensa-
ton received by thousands of women
in southern Indiana and Kentucky for
sewing shirts for the quartermaster
depot at Jeffersonville. The women
now receive $3.50 for sewing bundle
of eight shirts and Cox believes that
this amount should be increased at
least to $3.50 bundle.
Charles Piez, vice president of the
Emergency Fleet corporation, an
nounced that the July standing
of the shipbuilding districts, on
the basis of percentage Of assigned
task accomplished, shows the Great
Lakes district leading by % per cent,
with the California district and the
Northwest district next in line.
Employees of the Pacific Coast Steel
company, numbering about 1900, who
were on strike week, returned to
work. Shortage of steel in Seattle
shipyards, which threatened to cripple
several plants, was announced to the
men by the president of the Metal
Trades council, and they agreed to re-
sumo work while their case is being
submitted to federal arbitration. The
company has agreed to take up with
union representative the question OF
wage adjustment, which is to be
retroactive to August /.
Fifteen mines were shut down in
the vicinity of Harrisburg ILL.,, as a
result of the action of go switchmen,
employed by the Big Four road who
had walked out,
Employees of the Interborough,
New York, are to receive wage in
crease the total Of which will approx
innate S3,O00,000 a year. The new
schedule, which is effective as of Sep
TENDER 2, will bring to the men an adj
vance of about 81 day each. The
agreement that was in force before
September / expired on that date and
the officials prepared the scale that 10
now effective.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-15
A Forsaken Trade.

Automobile thieves have forsaken
their trade of swiping joy wagons for
more essential work-that of making
prison shoes. Very few cars have been
stolen lately. But it being an open in
dustry, women have invaded it. At
least one woman has. She didn't get
very far, but She was busy while in the
business. She stole a car, ran down a
Liam In the next street, hoped out Of
the machine, dragged her victim to the
sidewalk, sent in an ambulance call
and then, concluding that she didn't
really care for the car, walked away
ard left it.--New York Sun.