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base. they taper gradually and are
frequently one hundred to one hundred
and fifty feet without a branch. The
wood IS coarse grained. light and soft
but especially durable when in con-
tact with the ground. The bark is
sometimes two feet thick and futed.
The heartwood is of a deep red and
turns much darker upon exposure
while the sap wood is white and thin.
These trees grow only on the western
slopes of the Sierra Nevadas. where
the soil Is warmed in summer by the
mild Pacific winds heated in their
passage across the lowlands, and
blanketed in winter by many feet of
snow. Countless springs and streams
sheltered by foliage keep the earth
moist. As If to please man and make
his visit to them easy and safe they
grow in groves of which there are
about a dozen. each n containing
many big trees. They produce little
resin and do not burn easily.
Both parks are of easy access. There
is a small log hotel in the Giant
Forest where the larger trees are To-
Gated and several tent camps are
maintained for those who are willing
to enjoy the life in open and for those
who wish TO enjoy the real beauty Of
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Kinley close by is two hundred and
ninety feet high and has a diameter
of twenty-eight feet. In MUIR grove
stands the Dalton, twenty-seven feet
in diameter and two hundred and
ninety-two feet in height. Garfield
Grove boasts of the great California"
a giant Sequoia hat lifts its head two
hundred and sixty feet in the air and
has a diameter of thirty feet. The
Theodore Roosevelt tree has not been
officially measured up to the present
time. but is a perfectly formed tree
and very large. All the Sequoia bear
large cones
The discovery of the big trees is
attributed to a hunter named Dowd,
while he was chasing bears in 1850.
but it is claimed that John BidwelI.
another hunter had actually visited
the same grove a year before. How
ever. it makes little difference to the
tourist as to who saw hem first so
long as they are there and are to be
protected for all time in their beauty.
Fine Trails And Camping Sites
There are excellent horseback trails
through the park and the lover Of
hiking will find his wishes gratifed
by the Landscape which unfolds when
he climbs some of the mountains that
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may sleep in the open in perfect
safety. These trees arc the nesting
places of perhaps forty or more
species of birds, many songbirds OF
exquisite plumage.
The General Grant
General Grant National Park near
by offers similar attractions although
it is not so large. containing only
1886 acres. 1t is the smallest Of our
national parks and was established
for the protection OF the General
Grant Tree. which Is noted for Its
enormous size. There is luxuriant
forest surrounding 1t and camp sites
can be obtained in this park as well
as Sequoia.
The General Grant Is second only to
General Sherman in size and is sup
posed to be about the same age. 1t
was named by Mrs. Lucretia p.
Baker, who was a member of a party
which camped near the tree in 1857.
This noble specimen of tree life has a
height of 264 feet and a base diameter
of thirty-five feet. In the same section
is the George Washington, only a few
feet less in height and six feet smaller
in diameter.
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By"
She is nineteen years old. and was
born in Brooklyn. n. Y. Her picture
career is a long one, n includes
The Apple Tree Girl" THE Wall
Invisible" Come on In" Good
Bye Bill" Gosh Durn The Kaiser"
The Rescuing Angel" The Final
Closeup" 1.-The Winning Girl Her
Elephant Man."
She is five feet high, weighs "a
pounds. has brown hair and light blue
eyes.
Tom Moore And Hazel DAILY
TON Moore and Hazel DAILY meet
their Waterloo in stop Thief the
picture adapted from the Broadway
success by Carlyle Moore.
A a merry pair of crooks they
have had things all their own way but
now. with a revolver drawn on them.
the tables are turned. The plan was
to be there for the wedding. clean out
the house. stage a wedding OF their
own. 90 straight, and live happily
ever after! But the bridegroom was
not so slow-so the ending was not
exactly as they had anticipated. but
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very happy. Plenty of laughs and
thrills with Tom Moore at his best"
Lila Lee
Lila Lee made her first hit as a
child when she sang Look Out For
Jimmy Valentine" in Gus Edwards
Revue. Then she was known as
"Cuddles." a name she retained until
she made her screen debut. Recently
she has been seen as leading woman
for Houdini in Terror Island" and
Thomas Meighan in The Prince
Chap"
Earle Williams
Earle Williams holds the record
among motion picture stars for the
length of time he has remained with
a single company. almost thirteen
years.
The star is a native son of Cali
fornia. He was born in Sacramento,
the son of Augustus p. Williams. a
California pioneer. His mother. Eva
Paget-Williams. was a sister of James
Paget, a notable figure on the stage a
generation ago.
During his picture career. Mr.. Will
liams has had for his leading women
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these great gifts of nature camping il
the open is much more attractive.
Named In Honor OF Statesmen

The trees and groves are named in
honor of statesmen, especially the
trees of the Giant forest, for here one
finds that king of trees. TIE General
Sherman, which is said to be the old
est and largest tree in the world-in
fact. the largest living thing. 1t is
computed to be about four thousand
years old. When the celebrated lover
of trees-John Muir-was in the park
he counted four thousand rings in the
trunk of a fallen giant. and as the
General Sherman tree is much larger
it is safe to say that it might have
been a contemporary.
This wonderful specimen of tree life
rises to the height of 275 feet and is
nearly thirty-seven feet in diameter.
The General Sherman tree was dis
covered long before the creation of
the land as a National Park by James
Wolverton, a hunter and trapper, who
named it General Sherman and the
name was never changed.
In the same grove stands the Abra-
ham Lincoln tree. two hundred and
seventy feet in height and thirty-one
feet in diameter. while William Nc
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Don't Ever Marry" and "Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm" fame.
Although but thirteen years of age.
little Wesley is one of the most D
lar characters of the screen world. For
three years he has been carefully
coached by Mr.. Neiland. and during
this time he has been given more i'm
portant work in each succeeding pic
ture. And now Wesley plays the big
part in his W production. .Dinty." a
story especially written for him by MIR.
Neiland and Marion Fairfax. In this
picture Wesley plays the part of a
newsboy whose chief characteristics
are TO scrap and his love for his
mother. played by Colleen Noore
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Something About These Tracts of Land Set Aside By Our
Government for the Protection of Our Giant Forests.

Born in 1860. he lived with his mother
at a Cherokee town rear Fort Louden
in the eastern part OF Tennessee.
AtSan carly age he became a hunter
and fur trader. and also developed a
mechanical ingenuity in making sill
yer ornaments. Sometime about 1909
he became impressed with the diff
culties of his own race to commune
cate with each other by writing and
set about to make a system whereby
this might be accomplished. Seouoia
spent years of labor in the work and
was rldiculed by his own people. but
when several years later It was per-
fected and submitted to the Cherokee
chiefs for a public test its value was
at once recognized and in a few
months thousands of illiterate Chero-
KEGS were able TO read and write in
their own language.
He went West in 1928 and tool ur
a permanent residence and in 1899 he
succeeded in bringing about a better
feeling between the "Old Settlers" as
the Arkansas band was known. and
the great body of the nation who had
moved from the East. He was re-
garded as one of the great men OF his
day and a few years after his death.
which occurred in 1913. the people
of California named these great trees
in his memory with the exception of
changing the letter ~" to that of "i'.
and when it came to name the Ma
tional Park the Government gave 1t
the name of the trees.
Parks Close Together
As the parks are near each other
both arc usually visited on the same
trip. Sequoia contains 161 .597a acres ard
ang in altitude from 1000 to 11.a00
feet. There are millions of sequoia
trees in the park ranging from tiny
baby shoots a year old to the great
trees which must have been growing
during the days of Pharaoh. There
are pines and frs as well and flower
ing shrubs of many species. all adding
to the beauty of the place. But it is
the great trees which attract the tour
ist. The giant trees are buttressed AT
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XwHEA~e @1@ "
Mze[2~@ 1s@ Z&1@~

ravishing heroines-Sylvia Dreamer
and Enid Bennett. Sylvia started her
histrionic a~crobatics in Australian
stock companies. Then the silent
drama called" and she migrated to
these shores. where she soon became
one Of the stellar lights in the Triangle
armament. Starring engagements in
Missing" Dawn" "A House Djvid-
ed" 1.-The Moonshine Trail" and other
films subsequently established her as a
prime favorite in the calm OF the
canned drama.
Wesley Barry
The newest star of screenland IS
Wesley Barry. freckle-faced boy of
Daddy Long Legs" go and Get II"
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working on THE Romance Pro-
moters." adapted from a well-known
story that appeared in Ainslee's
Magazine.
Sylvia Dreamer
The battling Kangaroo used to be
Australia's only claim to fame. That
was before the spreading of flmania.
Now, the Antipodes has annexed a
new and more lustrous laurel to its
terrestrial brow. 1t has become famed
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such prominent stars of today as
Anita Stewart. Clara Kimball Young
and Corinne Griffith. The pictures in
which he has appeared that loom
large in the background are "The
Christian" The Love of John
Ruskin," MY Official Wife" and
"Arsene Lupin." Among his most re-
cent successes are 1.-The Fortune
Hunter" from the famous play by
winchell Smith. and Captain Swift"
by Haddon Chambers. He is now
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Kismet On Screen - Starts
Stage Life AS Wee Tot
StopThief- Another Child
Star - Holds Record -
Freckle Faced Fighter.

AISMET." which will be presented
to the motion picture public in
the late fall. promises to be one
j \of the biggest events OF the sea-
SON. Otis Skinner. who by reason of
his remarkable Characterization has
been a conspicuous figure on the
American stage for a good many
years. makes his debut as "a screen
star in "Kismet," playing the famous
role of Haji. the beggar. In this role
Mr.. Skinner enjoyed the greatest sue
cess of his stage career.
'Kismet" has always appealed to
me as the most ideal of my various
vehicles for screen interpretation"
said Mr.. Skinner. I'm fact. it is the
only n of my plays that / have
been really anxious to see upon the
screen. but l would never consider its
being filmed unless it could have the
sort of mounting that / really believe
it is worthy of. And now it is being
presented in a name l had never
dreamed Of"
Shirley Mason
At the age of two and a half years.
the agency of Mrs. Taliaferro. mother
of Edith and Mabel. for a part with
Peter f. Daily. A year and a half
later she was engaged by William
Faversham for the role of Little Hal
in 1.-THE Squaw Man." Her correct
name is Flugrath. She has two sisters,
Viola and Edna. the latter is working
in pictures in England. She appeared
in Augustus Thomas famous play,
'The Burglar" later appearing with
Joseph Jefferson in RIP Van Wrinkle
She supported Edith Wynne Matthi-
son in 1.-THE Piper" She also appeared
with Richard Bennett in "Passers.
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I TOOK our Government a ANHH
'ime to awaken to the fact that our
forests were being rapidly denuded
8and that unless something was
done 1t would be only a short time
when the damage would be irrepar-
able. This means a vigorous policy
CT permanent standing for It taxes
centuries for a forest to reach its fuil
growth and a temporary policy of
short duration would yield little or no
results.
1t is to the Far West M must go
for the great tree life of our country
for the trees Of the East pale into in
significance as compared with the
great trees of the Pacific Slope.
Two of our national parks contain
the taIlest. the biggest and the most
symmetrical trees in the world. They
are the Sequoia National Park and
its little sister. General Grant Ma
tional Park. which is only a few miles
distant. They embrace a fairyland oil
forest set amidst mountain scenery OF
unsurpassed beauty.
They lie on the western slopes of
the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Cali
fornia. south of Kings River Canyon
and west of the Canyon of the Kern.
Established In 1890
Both these tracts of land were set
aside as National Parks in October Of
1890 by an Act of Congress. and are
governed by the National Park Serv-
ice of the Department of the Interior.
They contain at least 10000 trees that
are over ten feet in diameter. For
some strange reason the soil of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains Is best fitted
for these giant trees. and they have
grown up in groves and consist of
two kinds. the Sequoia %giganta. known
as the big trees and the Sequoia sem
perverviens, the technical name for
the beautiful redwood. The former
are the largest forest trees in the
world and perhaps the most beautiful.
Roth trees are named for n mixed
blood Cherokee named Sequoia. often
known as George Guess. famous as
the inventor Of the Cherokee syllabagy.
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. HISMET." which will be presented
TO the motion picture public in
the late fall. promises to be one
y \of the biggest events OF the sea-
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MONEY TRUST FUND.

II would be the height Of wisdom
and safety II every man should regard
the money he possesses In the light OF
n trust fund. The honest custodian
Of funds held in trust feels a grave
responsibility. He seeks to do intel
IlgentIy his duty by the owners of the
sums In his charge. Now every man
with capital, small or large, is yirtu-
ally trustee for somebody-for his
dependents or for himself. He should,
therefore, be as careful as possible TO
make good employment OF the money
he has acquired. A poor investment
reacts adversely on the individual II
lovers his morale, sours him, lessons
his account as a citizen, while It may
impose suffering on those whose pro-
tettor against want he should be On
the other hand, a paying investment
makes one more Of a man and better
factor in the community, while 1t MAY
add to the happiness\o f many besides
the investor says Lesle's Weekly. One
Of the essential steps in making the
world better and brighter is to teach
men and women what to do and what
not to do with their money.
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The bath is the sign and substance Of
civilization. The clean are conscious
Of superiority. Physical dirt endured
too long encourages mental dirt. The
morale of the stanchest patriot will
break If he is kept too long from his
tub. A natIcn may be judged by its
per capita consumption Of soap, and
the dearth OF soap played no small
part in the breaking of the military
machine that was Germany. The hot
bath that hourishes among US on Sat
urday nights and leaves the nation
with that peaceful pious feeling on
Sunday mornings is an Institution dis
tlnctIy American. writes Robert Quill
len in Saturday Evening Post. In no
other portion Of the known worf do
FIVE score million humans set aside
business and pleasure, lock themselves
In their homes and indulge IN this
rite with soap and brush at the close
Of the weeks activities.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-06

In these days It sometimes seems
as II all the world was motoring. This
condition has brought into the ranks
OF automobile users a great number
Of people who have had no previous
experience IN the care Of vehicles up
on the highways Theyahave not had,
FOR example the training in driving
horses which has proved Of assistance
to May man when he has first UNI
deuakeu to guide motor car These
new drivers constitute a serious prob
lem In themselves Arbitrary action
taken against them as d class would
lie unfair and would defeat Its pur-
pose, says Boston Transcript How to
educate those among them capable OF
hecnming skllful drivers and how to
eliminate the unfit are questions
which will cali for careful eonsIdera-
tlon. 7u 900
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II Is refreshing to read that oil but
one partner in certain Philadelphia
concern refused to prodteer in sugar.
The one partner has been called 10
account by the United States govern
meut, and, consequently. is getting a
large proportion of the newspaper
publicity. This fact is an iroulcal
commentary on things as they seem
to be. says Christian Science Monitor,
UuqueStlonably there are thousands
of honest men who are content with a
fair profit and who see business in
the light of service rather than as an
opportunity for exactlng "all the rat-
&c will bear" Stll. that great ma
jorlly too often receives scant men
tion while those mixed up in anything
undesirable get preferred positions
on the front pages
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-06
A WOMANS BACK
This Advice Of This Bennington Wo-
man Is Of Certain Value.

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Many womans back has many
aches and pains.
Outlines It's the Kidneys fault
That's why Doan's Kidney pills are
SO effective Ask your neighbor,
Many Bennington women know this
Read what one has to say about it.
Mrs Earl H. Prentss, POS County
ST.. Bennington says: About year
ago was troubled with severe pains
in my back caused by heavy house.
work. found it hard to stoop over
and got so lame couldn't even wash
had dizzy spells at times and would
become nervous was also troubled
with bad headaches read of Doans
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got box and they gave me very
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Price 60c at all dealers. Don't
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Doan' sKidney Pills--the same that
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Diamond Minlno Old Industry.

Diamond mining IS an ancient in
dustry ,and In India antedates
Christs birth 10y many centuries. There
cal be no question that the Roman
Nautilus was acquainted with the In
dian diamond In A. d. 16. and ring
of imperial times, set with a one-carat
rough stone. has been preserved. Since
then, misunderstanding mas furnished
employment TO lens Of thousands, and
for well over two hundred years TO
from Seyenty-fve to one hundred thou
sand men. II is a worldwide Industry
In which the common labor is almost
wholly done by uegroeS.-Exchange.
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PITTSFIFLD MAN TELLS
INT GRESTING STORY
Experience With Case of
Rheumatism % Years Ago

Geo II Carpenter runs carriage
and automobile painting shop at Pitts
field, Mass. He enjoys a reputation as
highly regarded
In letter he wrote he said "Mys-
ferrous Pain Ease $3.50" | used it
% years ago and it cured my rheu-
matism"
A simple straightforward statement
OF fact from substantial citizen,
Think what ne must ha7e suffered
and how grateful he teit after %
years. f.sn.,s5. fr
The Scotch Liniment know as
Mysterious Pain Ease" penetrates in
such way that It relieves inhamma.
ton and pain ceases to exist
Many people in all walks of life
have heartily endorsed &C. Users of
Mysterious Pain Ease recommend
II for pains of rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains of al kinds, ueuritis lumbago,
scatica, burns muscle cramps, stiff
neck, chilblains, muscular colds
where the shoulders, chest and back
muscles are in pain, and pain arising
anywhere from inflammation
Pain is a matter of Inflammation
if you can overcome the Inflammation
the pain goes,
a Scotch liniment and it did stop
pain so surely and quickly that PEG.
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Mysterious Pain Ease Is sold by
most leading dealers Any druggist
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An Of Staining Glass.

Fifty years ago the old secret OF
staining glass, which was lost with the
decline Of art in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries was re'lscoyered
aud, with the MD Of chemistry. has
made remarkable progress. This is
shown by the fact that today The
glass-stainer dlsposcs, of more than
5000 different pigments, while In the
twelfth century. the golden age OF
glass stalplng, only II colors were
known.
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He Wouldn't Stop
Work for Wedding.


DISQUALIFICATION to duty
prevented Nicholas Alexander,
cook, from taking m hour off to
get married.
Ills dancee, Isabelle NJ Sahay-
cav, applied at the county
clerks Office for a marriage II
cease and, in response to ;he
clerks question as 10 why the
bridegroom-to-be had not come,
she said Nicholas was too busy.
She said further that they had
agreed 10 marry a year ago. buf
they had n quarrel ANA Nicho-
las tore up the license he had
taken out.
After long and mature delib-
Grafton Isabelle came to the con
clusion that she had been wrong
mud that II she did not admit il
she ran a good chance OF losing
Nicholas forever
She went 10 him IN a penlteat
mood and found him receptive,
but on one point he was ada
mant. He would not leave his
work for a minute to get mar
ried, and IL she wanted TO be-
come his wife SHE had to take
out the marriage license, engage
a minister and bring him to The
Kitchen where the cercmonY was
TO be performed. They were
married,
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Chain "reen doors have been found
satisfactory as q protection for fire.
men against the intense heat Of metal,
glass and chemical furnaces. The cur
tain of chain shuts in heat. gases and
sparks, and shuts out cold mir, permits
an unhampered view Of the interior
Of the furnace. and allows tools or
other objects to he very easily pro-
iected into IT,
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Donald NJ. Can Is one Of "a living
Medal Of Honor men in this country
and tie only actor who received the
citation, the most distinguished marx
OF honor the country can confer.
During his service with the French he
received divisional citation for the
Crolx de Guerre With a silver star.
He transferred TO the tank corps on
April |, 1918, and was made cor
poral in y company Of the Three Hun
ired and Forty-fourth battali0l and
earned his Medal Of Honor In that or.
ganzation The official award dated
December II, 1913, reads; Donald
NJ. Call, second lieutenant, tank corps
For conspicuous gallantry and lptre-
pldlty above and beyond the call OF
duty In action against the enemy near
Varennes, France, September %, 1873"
He was in tank with an officer and
was driven out by gas following hit
which wrecked the tank. He Noticed
that the officer did not follow and
went back and carried him, under IN
tense machine gun and shell fire, over
q mile to safety. The officer was John
Wesley Castles, Jr., Of New York. The
French government gave Call the
CroIx de Guerre with palm and also
TIE Legion of Honor chevaller. Mon
.cnegro bestowed the order Of Danilo
Two days after the Medal OF Honor
exploit from which he emerged with
out a scratch, Call was wounded lie
returned 10 participate in the Argnnne
and st. Mihel ofrenslves