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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Tswn and Village Teie
Briefly for Busy Readers

Bert Lytell in the big 5 act produc-
ton ''Lembardf Ltd" Coming soon
Adv.
There is still opportunity to obtain
good seats for the Yama Yama Min
strels tonight.--Adv.
Donnelly's orchestra viii render
special arranged muse for the show
at Harte Theatre today.--Adv.
Nucoa Nut Butter g white. color
ing process is simp-e; details sur.
round each print Estes market. Adv.
II you wish to know who are TAX
ing the leading parts In the Yama
Yama Minstrels, read the display ad.
in the Banner.-Adv.
Spinach, string beans. escarolle, en-
dive, sweet potatoes, caulifower,
cen peppers ce.ery and Boston let.
tuce at Estes market Adv
j. Warren Kerrigan in Live
Sparks'-you know what that means
--and the mighty Ed Polo in
Cyclone Smith" (se-des p a Western
thriller, at Library Theatre today.
Adv.
The regular pr'ce on fancy canned
fruit varies from 80 to so cents can.
You can get Libby's Peaches and
Back chez les. advert sed in several
popular magazines, at the rate of 2
cans for SO cents at Estes market.
Adv.
Dan Fitzgerald has been laid up
since Saturday by an injury to h 8
back He Is not confined to his room
but is unable to be at his work.
NJ. and Mrs. Ralph +. n les de-
lightfully entertained a number of
friends, inc I'D ng mostly employees
OF the Bennington Garage, at maple
sugar party Wednesday evening at
Their home ON Park street. The lat
ter portion of the evening was de
voted TO dane ng and cards.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22
oucbracho Dark Valuable.

Quebrncho BARK, one of the CHIEF
exports OF the Argentine, viii tan
leather at least three fines as fast as
the bark Of the oak or the hem!ock,
ana in less than ten years fortunes
have been made by Investing In que
bracho lands. Nearly 100000 tons o.
the wood or the dry extract, are sent
70 the United States ana Europe an
uually. Tho growth % the tree is AZ
The slowcst, and 1t is estimated that
1Go years is required eor it to reach
maturity
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22
WHISKEY SMUGGLERS
USE BIG BAG OF TRICKS
Extra Automobile Tires and Hot Water
Bottles Found to Contain
INN

Liquc'.
Buffalo, Jan, % 10 tricks are be-
ing revived and new ones invented
by smugglers who are matching the
wits aga INST those OF the customs Of
fieiers in an effort to bring contra
band Will key from Canada into the
United States.
The de Of the whiskey movement
VIII oh for more than two years flowed
from the United States nto Canada
has turned back or the same
smugg ers who once took long
chances to send liquo across the Dor
der into Canada now are attempting
TO evade The American instead of
Canadian laws.
There has been a part al lifting OF
the han in Canada. The order in
council issued by the Dominion gov
eminent in wart me which prohib ted
inter-provincial traffic in intoxicating
liquor was resc nded on Decembe 81.
Ontario sti has a dry law prob bit
ing the sale Of liquor across bars or in
any way except by government ven
dor upon an order from physician.
lHlb, OHldT U law, uOWcNcis Sdhhve
prevent nte province traffic by ma
and express. Consequently Americans
who want to take chances with the
customs laws have experienced lit
tie difficulty in having quor deliver
ed at the United States border.
Some OF the tricks used to eyade
detect on by Canadian customs in
spectors when the movement of liquor
from the United States to Canada
was In progress were very ingeniu
Gus. Spare Il es on automobiles turn
ed out to be receptacles for contra
band wet goods Partitioned gaso-
line tanks served the same purpose
A hot water bottle used by woman
fe ginning Hines was found to contain
VIII key. A carload of scrap iron
billed from Detroit to Buffalo over the
Michigan Central Railroad was side
tracked somewhe in Ontario and
VIII skey was substituted for the iron
The liquor was seized at Buffalo.
Custom officers here expect re.
vival OF these tricks and development
theirs in order to bring quor from
Canada into the I'm ted States. The
force of inspectors on this side of the
Niaga river from Buffalo TO For
Niagara has been Increased.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22
BLOOD THAT IS BLOOD
Any Physician win Tell You II Is
indispensable TO Health.


tt is required by every organ of the
body for the proper performance Of
its functions.
+. II prevents biliousness, dyspepsia,
constipation, kidney complaint,
weakness, faintness, pimples, blotches
and other eruptions. e
1t is pure, red, rich, free from hui
mors, inherited or acquired. 1t gives
vitality, vigor and vim. There is no
better way for securing it than by
taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, famous
the world over as blood purifier,
vitalizer and enricher. If you need
this medicine get it today.
Take Hood s Pills for laxative
they are gentle and thorough and
purely vegetable.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22
VINO Knows the future?

We are daily paying claims on men
who expected to live an average life
tine but did not. Life insurance may
not lengthen life, but 1t certainly pays
what l'fe would have earned. Ma
tlonal Life ms. Co. (Mutual.' Earle
$, Kinsley, Mead Building. Rutland,
Vt Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22

Origin OF "The fourth Estate"
Burke, British statesman, gave tc
ths press the designation THE fourtl
es nte.'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22
Took on: Dreadful Soreness

/ When the kidneys are weakened or
overworked SO that they ia to filter
and throw all impurities out of the
blood, the poison remains In the sys-
TEN and backache, soreness, lameness
and rheumatic pains are likely to de
velop. Mrs Day Henry, 65 st. Lin
coin Ave. WASHINGTON. N. j.. writes
Foley Kidney Pills are doing me
much good, both my kidneys and the
rheumatism They took the dread
full soreness out Of my limbs. Sold
Everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-22
nsTATn or DAVID A. GLEASON

Tho undersigned, having been ap-
pointed by the Honorable Probate
Court for the District of Bennington,
commissioners. to receive, examine.
and adjust the claims and demands of
all persons against the estate of David
a. Gleason, late of Bennington in said
District, deceased and all claims exhib-
tied in offset thereto, hereby give no.
tice that we will meet for the purpose
aforesaid, at the First National Bank,
IN the village of North Bennington in
said District, on the 13th day of jan
uary and 10th day of June next, from
O'clock p. m, until 4 o'clock p. m on
each of said days and that six months
from the 10th day of December a. D..
1919. is the time limited by said Court
for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and al
lowance.
Dated at North Bennington, VT. this
18th Gay OF December A. D., 1919.
RALPH A. JONES
EDWARD A. TOBIN
Commissioners.
COmmissIoners' Notice.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-09
LITTL., GIFTS TO
MAKE FOR CHRISTMAS.
For The Roudoir.

A frilly lampshade will make an
appreciated gift for young girl
Take wire frame of the size and
shape desired and cover with a
foundation of rose colored silk. To
this ruffles of Valenciennes lace are
sewed. A row of tiny rosebuds fin
ishes the top.
Dainty Gift
Dainty powder boxes are easily
made. A "lass bowl is used for a
foundation. Plated rose or blue
satin and a piece of net is gathered
together in the center around the
feet of small kewpie doll. The doll
is dressed in net and rosebuds. The
powder "uff is attached to the silk
and forms the cover of the box.
A Pillow Cover
Organdie makes a very attractive
inflow cover for a Young girls room
Use I-vo shades of pink organdie. An
oblong of the lighter organdie is
stitched TO the center and two rows
of hemstitohing trim the edges Five
oroandie roses add a finishing touch
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-09
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPLE

Editor, Times-Recorder: | see in
today's Constitution that Commits,
sioner j. j. Brown will intercede with
Governor Dorsey to call an extra ses-
sion of the legislature for the pur-
pose of passing "Stay Law" Let
me tell YOU in confidence that Gov
ernor Dorsey will do no such thing,
however much he sympathizes with
the holders of cotton, as, all do. OuI
Supreme court has ruled in several
cases that all laws impairing an OBJ
legation are unconstitutional. Mr..
Brown had best inform himself be-
fore he scatters to the wind his opin-
ion about soliciting an extra session
for the passage of stay law. 1t is
splendid political ammunition per-
haps, but poor logic. Let all that
think as Commissioner Brown, read
the decision in 9th Ga. Report, pages
ia to 166 and we will hear no more
from Hon. ]. j. Brown about the
passage of stay law.
Warner, chief justice, says in the
oLlnion, 1.-THE question made in the
record of this case involves thu con
stitutionality of the act of tn, leg
islature passed on December Is, 1886,
commonly known as the Stay Law
the constitution of the United States
declares tina; 10 state shall pass any
law impairins the obligation Of cor
trarts.' The constitutiol Ct Georgia
declares that ex post facto laws,
laws iInpairing the obligation of con-
tracts. and retroactive laws, injuri-
ously affecting any right of the citi-
zens are prohibited" The constitu-
ton further declares that 1egisla-
tive acts in violation of the consti-
tuition are void, and the judiciary
shall so declare them"
The constitution, it will be per-
ceived, does not prohibit the states
from passing laws impairing con-
tracts. The prohibition is expressly
directed against laws which impair
the obligation of contracts.
"The obligation of a contract is
legal, not mere moral obligation,
it is the law which binds party
to perform his undertaking" A
perfect right is that which is accom-
panied by the right of compelling
those who refuse to fulfill the cor
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responding obligation. A perfect
obligation is that which gives the OPP
posite party the right of compulsion.
ANY deviation from its terms by
postponing or accelerating the period
OF performance which it prescribes
or imposing conditions not expressed
IN the contract or dispensing with
the performance of those which are
however infinitely or apparently i'm
material in Their effect upon the
contract of the parties, impairs its
obligation and consequently is with
IN the institutional prohibition
Ga. 439.
In Winter VS.. Jones, 10th Ca, 1876,
this decision was approved:
eff it would be violation of the
constitution to deprive a party of all
remedy to enforce the legal obliga-
ton of his contract, what clause of
the constitution would such legisla-
ton violate? If it would be a viola
ton of that clause Of the constitu-
ton which declares that no state
shall pass any law impairing the OBJ
legation of contracts why is it not
equally unconstitutional to enact a
law which postpones, alters, imposes
conditions, or dispenses with the per-
Torrance of that legal obligation for
definite time, as it would be to
defeat the performance of that legal
obligation by withstanding all rem
edy for its enforcement? It is
question of degree only, the one de-
stroys the legal obligation to perform
the contract, the other only impairs
it."
To maintain the integrity of the
fundamental law of the state is one
of the highest and most sacred duties
of every court. Unless this is done
faithfully and independently there is
nc security for the protection Of
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inch pieces and cook separately in
boiling sailed water. Make nest of
the cooked spaghetti an platter
and fill with the meat and sauce.
CREAM PIE.
Sd cup -four.
1-3 cup butter
l tablesnoon sugar.
egg.
Sift flour and sugar. Rub in but
ter with rs of the fingers. Add
egg slightly beaten. Stir till smooth.
Roll out on molding board keeping
the crust as round as nossible. Line
a deeo pie dish with the dough and
bake in moderate oven. Prick with
a fork if the crust shows tendency
to rise in the center Fill with
thick boiled custard made of the
yolks of 2 eggs. Cover with me-
ringue made of the whites of the
eggs.
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IF YOUR thermos bottle has not
been used for some time it will
very likel' be a bit musty.
Before filling it, it's a good plan
to rinse it out with soda water. For
pint bottle put quarter of tea
spoonful of soda in the bottle, fill
with hot water, cork and let stand
few minutes Shake well. This
sweetens the cork as we'll as the bot
tie. Turn out the soda water and
rinse again with hot. clear water.
If this treatment is used there will
be no danger of any one complaining
of funny" taste about the coffee
from a thermos bottle.
Menu For Tomorrow.
BREAKFAST-Baked apples with
sugar and cream, fried bread, syrup
coffee.
LUNCHEON-Cream of lima bean
soup. toasted bread sticks, baked win
ter pears, nut cookies, tea.
DINNER-Pork steak with spag-
hetti. mashed sweet potatoes. grape
fruit and orange salad, cream pie,
coffee
MY Own Recipes
Pork steak is really nothing more
or less than a slice of fresh ham. It
is an economical cut to buy as there
is very little bone and therefore lit
tie waste. Cauliflower might be sub
stituted for the sweet potatoes as
the starchy food is supplied in the
spaghetti.
PORK STEAK WITH SPAGHETTI.
/ slice fresh ham cut / inch thick.
onions.
] green pepper
| IL Gu canned tomatoes.
2 tablespoons -four
boiling water
l Gun spaghetti
Cut off some of the fat from the
meat. Put meat in a hot flying
pan and brown on both sides. Add
onions sliced, pepper shredded and
tomatoes and cook 5 or 10 minutes.
Rub flour into meat, cover with boil
ing water Season with salt and
pepper. Cover and cook slowly for
so minutes. Break spaghetti into 2
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Confessions faBide
CoPFlqT 1920 By The Nuspa per Enterprise SocaSon

derstood each other morally. They
had the same idea about duty. Eth
les is the science of human duty. I'm
less husband and wife understand
each other morally, they do not I'M
derstand each other at all.
There was less of passion between
them than was usual between those
who marry. But that could be trust
ed to take care of itself
1t made me happy to think of Deb's
future. For Deb had been the sta
bilizer Of my own happiness.
To Deb I owed the continuance Of
my life with Bob. She sad taught
me that love is as much a matter of
choice as the books one reads or the
clothes one buys. She had taught me
that love can be preserved if it is
cherished voluntarily like a garden,
or that it can be destroyed as a fine
flower may be, by neglect.
Deb had taught me to will to keep
my married life up to the standard
| set for it in my girlhood. | had
failed because / had not used my
will!
Deb had shown ME that sex ro-
nance creates an unwholesome APP
petite, thirst which never can be
ouenched.
Deb had shown me that temper
ance in love as in all things means
a long life of love; and that morbid
denial and uncontrolled emotion are
equally destructive of the finest hu-
man feeling.
/ Deb had made me see that l was
responsible for the state of my do
nestle life; that l was not released
from my duty to my marriage, nc
matter how my husband might re-
gard his own duty.
Deb was fed up with the best mod
ern thought on the most interesting
of all subjects.
And it was all as old as the hills
! Softly, kissed my husbands clos
ed lids and vowed once more "to
build Heaven in Hell's despair"
(To be continued.)
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THE BOOK OF DEBORAH.
Deb and Ted Will Be Happy Because
Their Ethics Are Alike

While Bob slept softly, I sat by his
bed and finished the final pages of
my little book about my friend De-
oorah. 1t seemed to me that Deb's
marriage must turn out happier than
marriage made on impulse, and
founded on passion. and entered into
without reason or logic. But l
realized that many romantic misses
would sonsider Deborah Burns Moore
much too cold and practical to serve
as a model for imitation.
According to tradition and the de-
mands of art and literature, and the
deals of romantic maidens, Deb
ought to have martyred herself for
love of a married man, since she was
far to healthy to die on account of
it. She ought to have inundated
herself on the cross of unfulfilIed
desire!
But according to modern science.
which controls destiny in this decade,
girl hopelessly in love is no longer
required to be so silly.
Deb had moved straight to her very
great happiness, had moved as d.
LeCGeu ny the new modern wisdom.
In this connection | recalled a quo
tation from the preface to Heart
break House,"
millions of persons have been
taught (by the war; to make up
| their minds that certain things have
to be done. for the first time in their
/ lives"
And I said to myself: at is only in
love and in marriage that certain
persons absolutely refuse to admit
that certain things have to be done.
And that is why certain marriages
are doomed to failure"
And there was another reason why
! Deb and Ted would be happy.
They moved on the same ethical
pplane. They had the same notions
about right and wrong. They I'M
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ither person or property.

either person or property.
The constitution is-stable and per
n,anent. not to be worked upon by
the temper of the times nor rise and
fall with the tide of events. l. re-
mains firm and immovable as a noun
tain amidst the strife of storms or
a rock in the ocean amili; the rag
ing waves.
Every one is anxious to help our
farmers hold their cotton, bus let US
stop this gush about a stay law. If
the debtor only was the person to be
considered, then it would be quite
different. There is no such thing in
Georgia as stay law and there new
er will be except such stay as the
creditor will extend to the debtor
An obligation is as binding in storm
as in sunshine. Very truly yours,
C. r. M'CRORY, X
Ellaville, Ga, &c. 6, 1920.
Three Frenchmen have developed
a machine that takes moving pic
lures at a speed of 10000 a second.
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any answer from me. I didn'tmeau
to tell you this so brazenly-but
you see, they did ram you down
my throat sol"
Good Lord" exclaimed Roger,
you're Peggy Jerome!"
"YeS," breathed the girl.
From the house came the
strains Of a waltz, faint and sweet
The moon was bathing the garden
with a magic enchantment. Roger
King and Peggy Jerome faced
each other. a rather shy light Ia
her eyes, a very determined one
in bis.
I'm afraid you win, In thai
point by point game We were play
Ing a minute ago." she said finally
q do not win" replied Roger
with decision. "She is the mos
beautiful girl | have ever seen and
after I have persuaded her that
am neither very eligible nor at al
handsome, | am going to-"
Peggy interrupted him, quickly,
"Let's go and dance" she said.
Newton won, hands down!
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other women as well as for my
self.
Ill had q child to take care Of,
| wouMn't go around hunting for
silly fads! And ] wouldn't be wor-
rying, half Of the time, about
whether my husband loved me OF
not. I would simply take 1t for
granted that he was perfectly wild
about meas the mother Of his
child!
Motherhood | considered a pro-
fession, and the most difficult one,
/. to. fill adequately, that any human
being can undertake. | had my
ideals about It. And didn't think
that any woman was fit 10 under
take it without certain deals.
Arm had none, and yet she was
the potential mother. ! felt sure.
It would be exactly like a perverse
Iate 10 DleSS neT VIII Lorlulet
heir!
What II she-who cared nothing
for children-were to have a son
while ! had none?
In face Of this stupendous posi-
bility, what did my little flare over
smoking amount to!
Nothing at all!
And Bob had been out Of patience
with me because ] was 50 trivial!
It was the silly little cigarette
1t was the state Of mind which
found satisfaction in such a silly
fad that offended a man like my
Bob!
Don't weep so darling. The In
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Floyer
Has a Story
AHk Ou,l
THE ARBUTus.

The fragrant pink and white
blossoms Of the arbutus express
fhe pretty sentiment "You only
do | love- After the first severe
winter which the Pilgrims spent
IN America, where the snow melt
ed on Burial Hill, the bright leaves
and dainty blossoms Of the arbu'
tins appeared. No wonder the
grave pioneers loved these HOW,
ers, for to them they were The haF.
bingers Of spring.
The trailing arbutus grows only
IN North America, 1t can be found
along the eastern coast as laI
south as Florida and as far west
as Minnesota.
Alegend Of the lroquois tells the
story Of It's birth. In one o. lls
forests near the Great Lakes lived
an old man long before the white
/, man. came to America. HIS beard
and hair were long and white anu
he Ras clothed \ IN beayerskins.
One day a beautiful maiden enter.
ed his tepee. The old man wei
coined her and said: Il am Mani
to. the Great. turn the water 10
the rivers and lakes to Ice. Birds
Nv before my breath, and leaves
But the maiden replied, mantle
Is very great, but when ! smile
flowers spring up, fields become
green, and the birds sing"
Tae maiden waved her hands,
leaves sprang up about her feet
and birds flew into the lodge sing
INF. From her bosom, the maiden
took some delicate white and rose.
pink flowers, kissed them and
said, II give to you all my beauty
and nv sweetness and men shall
gather you with bowed heads and
on bended knees Then she pass
ed from the lodge, and wherever
she stepped, but nowhere else, to
this day the arbutus grows.
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CONFESSIONS
OF ABRIDE
Copyright, 1920

Bob made no comments on the
cigaret incident as We walked home
| under the light Of the moon. Il
was a magnificent evening, but
Cynthia herself couldn't have ARGUS
ed Bob from his gloom that night.
Ny domestic happiness had been
| Seriously ieopardized at rather
regular intervals ever since ] had
been married. +,
From much bitter experience, ]
should have learned to avoid the
dangerous conflict between Bob's
moods and my own pride, Many
times had made a compact with
myself:
"Let other wives proceed accord
ing 10 their own. light. Let; them
assert themselves as independent
feminists in the new way, or obey
their husbands fondly and blindly
as In the old way; ! am for both
i ways-or either way-or neither
\ I'm for any way which will main
itain my home In perpetual peace"
| For Il ! didn't succeed as q home.
maker, I couldn't see what work
Of Importance | had In the world.
Each day ought to see me adding
one solid bit Of construction to my
domestic happiness. That's the
/, wites' business quite as much as Il
d the mans to add a mite to bis
J prosperity account every day. But
| in spite Of my earnest efforts, and
almost before ! realized what was
happening Bob and | were at odds
again.
Bob had absolutely refused to
be surprised because I had leanet
to smokei He was neither anr2el
nor shocked!
But be seemed to enjoy his oT1
!, cigarette very much, | observed.
as We wandered sloWly homcHad
through the Lorimer park
Bob, please give me q cigarette
I said suddenly.
/ To my establishment, Bob Pre-
duced his case. ! took one out.
III you will kindly Egnt 1t 9T
me?"
NV husband was courtesy itseli.
But, when at last, ] had the horrid
thing in my own fingers, ! threw
It away from me.
Bob stopped and watched II bal.
ance on the edge Of the box hedge
And then he seized me In his armI
u really didn't want to smoke
lat all dearest whispered y
never did,"
Bob kissed me, and ended fur
ther explanations.
"You make me awtuHy glad, dar.
Hing" he whispered. Il do love
You so-when you are your owl
sweet natural Sci, you know. But
| when you try to BE- Ike other girl
when you pose. my dear-well
you can see for yourself, whats
bound to happen. /,
Il could see thai, for mysek. And
] ! could zee something else too. 10