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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-05-02
Han, an 10 Your Um3reN'. Ezra.

Mrs George DEMPSEY lost ra'r Of
now I'D coyes at tie Method st
caUr'a sunday evening jew Il Re
paLI,an.
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south pral.Ie tens


Martin Kaiser has gone to kansal
CITY W. understand I Is not hogs
be Is iootins after this tine WI
ind bGt htr Aurora Advertiser
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Nor to Get Leaf Tor the D r'n1 Tahls.
Adam didn't have 10 80 % the furni
tura store u get his side Dor del
phos Republican
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-05-02

Nhgt rlt az the m-uu would the
10 lew nL which appears in your col.
um in The Rgformcr. 20 under soup
roast entrees, pudding o. pi -m1ybe
Eskimo nie?
Two tablespoons e. tap,0co added
90 o Q,att oi any KIND Cf cap about
Is minutes h2to7 removing from tn
fire adds greatly 90 its ilaycr and
Uour,hug qua ties
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-05-02

Che Small Basket Won't Amount %
Anyth ng.
Two women get ont of eeC1A en-
Lake avenue and picked q small ba
kct OF dabdeiou blossoms and then
r-tutrcd % tn In care ey aad
Pam Dca or.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-05-02

We have ragged Sally and she re
ommends tying Z i'm your dage.bowl
first
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-05-02

The op-n.ng Of the Boat ne Season at
Tyson.
NJ and Mrs. Allen Boswell spent
Sunday with her mother on Twenty
Nil, Stream. r, SON, Vt, item.
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that had come into my life. For
my wife had developed a most extra
VACANT habit Of spending money
Furthermore. she remained away
from our home repeatedly.
when I demonstrated with her
about this conduct my protests were
rebuffed with angry displays. In a
fit Of temper she exclaimed:
You have gotten on my nervesr
MY leave expired and I returned
to duty at Saltburn-on-the Sea. From
there, considerably incensed at her
deportmsnt, I wrote Mrs. Watkins
that'I would no longer live with her.
A few months later. in 1917, she
filed a petition for restitution of her
conJugal rights. but she did not pro-
coed with It. Later that year I was
invaded out of the service.
IT thought the matter over at
length and decided to attempt a REQ
onciliation. was determined to
win back my wife's love, for even
then my love for her had not waned,
however intense my indignation at
her treatment of me. managed TO
effect a reconciliation. She visited
me in Hoy and in Daviot, in Scot.
land.
again was bitterly disappointed,
for she persisted In making her hone
in London. We parted in Novem-
Der, 1917"
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MY protests were strong. But
they were without avail. Despite
my most earnest pleadings. she re-
mained in London and I returned
home alone. Shortly afterward my
leave expired and returned to my
duties.
II did not again see my wife until
late in the year, in November or
December, when I managed to obtain
another loave. We were reconciled
for the time. But the reunion was
short-lived, and merely served to In
tensify the bitter disappointment
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venient intervals. These were fur
nished ostensibly for drying the
hands but served best for patrons
who found 1t hard TO keep their bal
ance when the bar went down hin
too fast or turned an abrupt cor
ner.
The ornamental brass spittoons
which we see in the pictures hold
pathetic memories for the old
timers. Into these a man would
surreptitiously toss drink when
they came too fast for him to
stow away. He hanks back now
to those abundant times and each
spurned drink comes to haunt him
as did the Ancient Mariners alba
tross.
The shiny brass rail that paral-
lels the bar in front enabled
man to elevate one knee and thus
I'LL up only one leg alta time. It
also gave the short fellow a chance
to be noticed.
On the far side Of the bar is
gentleman in a white coat. This
is the bartender. He has heard
more hard.luck stories than a
father confessor. more family dis
turbances than a divorce lawyer
and has turned down more attempt
ed loans than a. hank president.
He always answered yes" and
mo" at the right places. His
sympathy was inexhaustible. He
knew more formulas than Thomas
Edison. had more friends than
Hylan. He could play popular airs
on the cash register with one hand
and shake. a cocktail mixer six
ways at once with the other. A
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GERMAN BEER PRICES
RISE AS MARK DROPS

Urivsrssi ssrvios staff oorrespsndent.
BERLIN. Jan. 2s.-American pro-
hibition. together with the de-val-
uation Of the German mark and
Austrian crown. have had . dew
astating effect up the once flourish
ing export trade Of the Pilsner brew.
cries in Bohemia and Moravia, now
constituent part. Of c.scho-ao-
valkia-
y Over . million gallons Of the
roaming fluid was exported into
Germany before. the war. Austria
Hungary consumed the same
amount. and half . million gallons
were shipped across the Atlantic.
After 0ermany's economic de-
bacis, drastic steps were taken to
bar out all articles Of luxury, among
these being Pilsnea beer. BY raising
the duty from 900 to 5000 marks q
hundred gallons. A hsctolitre, or
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twenty-five gallons of Pilsner de-
hvered at the German frontier now
costs around 1,400 marks. or about
four times the price Of genuine
"Muenchner."
As aconsequence Of this the once
popular Pilsner has now disap-
peared from the repertoire Of the
German beer addict. To mako
matters worse, Germany has turned
the tables upon her neighbor and
II importing increased quantities
Of her homemade brsws into
Czecho- Slovaiia-
As far ~ Austria Ia concerned,
only q millionaire can indulge in
the luxury Of q glass Of Pilsner,
now that q hectolitre costs 10000
crowns at the brewery. in addition
to the high duty on this article
which the Austrian government re-
quires shall be paid in effective
gold crowns.
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New Device Guides
Airplanes I'm Fog
By Universal Service.

BY Universal Service.
paris, Jan. 2s-A device to guide
airplanes In fogs or heavy
earth-clinging clouds. which may
revolutionize commercial aviation
by making It as absolutely reli-
able as other transportation. has
been invented by a French marine
officer. Lieutenant 10th. -
Tho apparatus consists IN laying
an electric cable with a frequency
Of 900 vibrations to the second
close to the earth along the regu.
lar air-plane routes, such as Lon.
don-Paris. Special instruments in
the airplanes would be actuated
by the current beneath. so that
the pilot would always be sure Of
following the enact route.
First experiments carried out at
Villacoublay field. near Paris, have
been completely successful. Some
pilots claim. however. that II the
system were attempted on a mum.
Der Of lines crossing and inter.
secting each other the result
would only be confusion. Tho in
ventor believes he can overcome
this by changing the frequency of
the currents and the sensitiveness
Of the apparatus.
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New Alps Tunnel

THE great undertaking Of drill
inga double tunnel through the
Alps into Italy, begun twenty years
ago, has been completed. Traffic
will be diverted from the old to the
new tunnel while necessary repairs
are made in the former.
This new Simplon tunnel was
pierced simultaneously with the
first tunnel to facilitate the aeration
Of the workings. But its transfer
nation from a mere gallery into an
international highroad was started
only In December, 1912. Each tun.
mel is twelve and one.half miles
long, of which five and one-half
miles Is on Swiss territory.
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q guest In the captains home, the
plaintiff began to appreciate the
futility Of his efforts to regain his
wife's heart.
HOLDING HANDS,"
To her husband. while the Earl
was at their home as a guest, Mrs.
Watkins was entirely indifferent.
To the Earl she was enthusiastically
attentive and was most receptive Of
his caresses. The court was told of
strolls In the night, Of protests by
the captain to his wife, Of long
tete-a-tetes in corners Of the house
between his wife and the. Earl, Of
the departure for London of the CO.
respondent and the similar depar-
ture shortly after Of his wife.
A servant employed by Mrs. Wat
kins testified that In the fiat he es-
tablished for her in Portland street,
Lord Lanesborough frequently WIS.,
tied Mrs. watkins. occupying the
same room. She said the pair went
to Monte Carlo together and made
no effort whatever to conceal their
intrigue.
Hetty schwab. a woman detective
employed by Captain Watkins to
gather evidence, testified that she
served the defendant with divorce
papers and that they were accepted
with q smile. She said she found
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bartender had to act az peace
maker and bouncer. He decided
bets. directed strangers and gave
advice. He knew the. baseball
score and the track results. He
gave you something at night to
make you sleep and something else
in the morning to pick you up"
He told you when you had had
enough and when to go home. In
short, he was a mighty handy
man to have around q barroom.
He helped to make you what you
are today. hope you're satisfied"
Back Of the bartender Ii a mirror.
No bar could do business without
one. The better the bar the bigger
the mirror. This enabled a man
taking a drink to see what was
going on behind him. A methodical
drinker could watch the mirror and
when he saw his eight brothers
grouped about him. all dressed in his
clothes and going through the same
motions as himself. he could safely
start ordering short ones. The
mirror was also useful for the bar
tender because every once in .
while some smarty from the prov
inces would try to take an extra
crack at the Mount.vernon when he
turned his back to ring up . con-
trtbution. -
The bars Of old inspired many .
literary gem. Among them are the
never to Be forgotten Ten nights
in . bar room" and Tho face on
the bar room floor" While these
masterpieces never did the bars any
particular good. they added greatly
to American, letters and will live
long in the hearts Of q thirsty pub
lie.
:. Every man had his favorits bar
but that was no good reason for
being 'narrow-minded about the
others. Any sincere drinker would
60 70 your bar II you asked him to.
Most bars made q speciality of
some one mixed drink. This was .
great convenience for the man who
was too tired to think. We are all
familiar with the mental energy
necessary today when we have to
decide between chocolate, vanilla,
strawberry. pineapple or pruns.
If you were chummy with the
proprietor he might ask you to have
. drink ION the house." No one
liked to DO this but nearly everyone
did TO avoid hurting the proprietor's
feelings.
Some men had q habit Of fire.
Quenting their friends bar when BY
some mischanos they had spent
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It was not until May Of this year
that the couple met again. The
plaintiff went on:
Mrs. Watkins, when I rebuked
her for her conduct, and urged her
to return to me, informed me she
would never again live with me. I
questioned her purpose and she said:
"T have for some time been liv-
ing with Lord Lanesborough! am
going to live at a fiat in Portland
street that he has taken for me and
has equipped in most luxurious
Style"
The same month. on the 18th, Cap
tain Watkins received from his wife
this letter:
Dear Guy-I am now living with
Lord Lanesborough as his wife. I
have already told you I have defi-
nitely and finally refused and decided
not to return to you.
you are at liberty to take any
proceedings and to make any In
quiries, and perhaps 1t is only fair
for me to tell you that Lord Lanes
borough will marry me IL you decide
to divorce me.-Dorothy watkins
The plaintiff testified that Lori
Lanesborough was so brazen In his
attentions to Mrs. Watkins that he
visited Captain and-Mrs. Watkins in
the brief period they were together In
Daviot. There, while he remained %
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Hero, foIks, are some Of Wash
ington's famous places for thirst
erasure in the heyday Of the demon
rum.1 Here, II you remember,
man could push his way through the
little half.portion doors. stroll up to
Sthe highly polished mahogany bar.
look the bartender square in the eye
and call for what he wanted, No
fear of prohibition agents chilled
his heart. No thought Of what the
future had in store came to spoil
his heather pleasure.
Here the free lunch flourished.
Free lunch that was also free break
fast and free dinner for the twelvt-
doIlar-a-week newspaper men Of 1915.
BY virtue Of this splendid American
Institution they managed to keep
their fronts and backs from grow.
ing together. When the free lunch
faded out the publishers had to raise
their prinoeiy incomes to save the
city editors' paste.
1t was At the free lunch counter
that many OF them learned the first
principles Of tabls etiquette. II was
considered p serious faux pas to rush
at the food a. your appetite urged.
One must approach It with the easy
nonchalanos Of man who had just
dined and was only attracted by
{ the pleasing display. The. sand.
witches. wsre munched, with a .jaunty
indifference which turned to bored
} unconcern At the bartsnder's uneasy
glance. This gave the journalists
self control and perfect poise. Be-. +.
All good bars were equipped with
commodious towels, securely at
tached and evenly distributed at con-
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Mon and women prominent In
London society listened eagerly
TO the testimony given before the
Right Honorable Sir Henry Duke.
jurist In tho case.
b.. Captain Watkins. taking the
stand. testified he married Miss
Braud In Portsmouth on February
%. 1910. There are two children,
whose custody the court has given
the plaintiff. His testimony went
on:
I'm 1915 I Joined the royal naval
air force. Until then ! had lived
very happily with Mrs. Watkins.
In January. 1915, obtained a
brief leave Of absene and returned
to my homo at Coombe Place.
Lewes.
WIFE TURNS sPENDTHRIFT.
''It WIS then that I received the
first shock in the series of my
domestic disturbances. One dny
during that period OF leave my
wife and accompanied some
friends to a matinee In London.
AT the close of the performance
my wife. who had been acting to-
ward me throughout the after.
noon IN rather frigid manner,
suddenly informed me she would
not return with me to our Coombs
Place residence.
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Gay Earl Who Broke
UP Home Must Pay
for Hero's Divorce.
London ciety
Shocked by Lanes
borough's Romance,
'orough's Romance.

Mrs. Watkins and Lord Lanesbor.
ough In room. Mrs. Watkins was
on a couch and the Earl was sitting
on the couch holding her hands.
Further evidence Of this nature
was given by servants of the e.
adjustment in Portland street.
II Mrs. Watkins becomes the wife
Of Lord Lanesborough she will have
possession Of his magnificent estate,
Swithland Hall, Loughmorough, one
Of the show places of Leicester.
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respondent 10 q member Of the
peerage. but moro because he II the
father Of the Duchess of Suther-
land. Lady Lanesborough, the
beautiful daughter Of the late Sir
Henry Tombs, ". c., died q short
time ago. Since her death the
Earl has been most assiduous in
his attentions to Mrs. Watkins.
WILL THE EARL MARRY HERR
Proof of the nature Of these At
tentions won for Captain Watkins
an interlocutory decree Of divorce.
Incidentally, the decree paves the
way for contamination Of his wife
candidly announced purpose OF
marrying the titled correspondent.
In furtherance of that purpose
she refrained from entering q de-
Tense. She was formerly Miss
Dorothy Kate Braud, noted
beauty. But-will the Earl make
her his bride7
The case brought to light tie
romantic story Of a husband who
strove necessarily to win back
the love Of a wife who had lost her
heart to q man Of far superior
worldly means and social standing
than her husbands. II revealed
the futility Of the captains efforts
to break the grip the earl's lavish
ly expensive attentions had Oh.
tained on the woman's affections.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-29
Machine Smokes q Pipe

HUNDREDS Of smokers in Eng
land have been converted to the
pipe by a little machine which puts
q new pipe into condition. It has
abolished the discomfort Of break
ing In" pipes. To see a pipe alight
In the mouth Of "Adolphus." as the
machine il called. is to imagine that
It Is being smoked by a seasoned
clubman. The bellows inside are so
regulated by electricity that the APP
paratus can puff and draw in the
normal manner or in any style re-
Quired-
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do the Dead Live?
: Scientists Replies
do Not Agree
NJ Universal Service.
PARIS. Jan. %.

- PARIS. Jan. %.
no the dead liver Ii death the
warning, Dust thou art and to
dust thou returneth," the final. ire
vocable word on immortality? Or
10 there q resurrection for all living
thingsf
These questions. as old as the
HImalayas, have been reopened
again by a symposium among three
Of the greatest French savants--
Camille Flammarion. the astrono-
mer; DIR. Geley. director of the Meta
psychical Institute and Prof.
Charles Richet. famous scientist
to discover whether modern science
can shed new light on a world-old
subject. Their answers follow:
By CAMILLE FI.AMMARION,
Eminent French Scientist.
commenced work on these ques-
tons in 1862. I have therefore
studied them for sixty years. and IL
today you put to me the question,
do you believe in spirits?" I will
answer, IT do not know"
understand absolutely nothing
in the realm Of the psychic. Moth
ing to my mind has been satisfac-
tortly explained. No discoveries
have been made which explain
death. life. determination Of sex.
heredity or mental telepathy. We
do not even know how the mind
functions. nor how the brain works.
In an age of discovery we are
still children humbly searching for
truth, and It is as far away az In
the days of Omar Khayyam, whose
philosophy is worth every bit as
much as the philosophy OF modern
science.
will state one thing. however,
and that is that in unquestionably
genuine demonstrations Of spiritism
or Of psychic phenomena 1t has been
proved that auto-suggestion plays
the greatest part.
Are we to conclude then that
psychicism comes from within?
can only repeat after sixty years of
investigation 1 do not know"
Note.-Camille Flammarion re.
Gently announced that he had sue.
ceeded In holding communication
with the soul of his dead dog.)
BY CHARLES RICHET,
Dean Of French Savants and
Famous Inventor.
/ do not believe one single word
Of spiritism!
i do not believe in one single
spiritual phenomenon!
On the other hand, I do believe in
most Of the psychical phenomena
which can be classed in two di.
visions - the subjective metapsy.
chism. In which can be included 80
per cent of phenomena, and OBJ
5ective metapsychism, which has do.
minion In action, without contact
and which Is rare because IL comes
from the psychical force in the
living.
Summed up. I believe:
i. That human intelligence has
methods Of knowledge which we do
not understand.
z. Such knowledge has a tendency
10 attach itself to a single, person.
atty and generally finds this per
sonality among those who are al.
ready dead.
That is all that we have the right
to affirm, We know nothing more
10 absurd to think that we vet
know all the processes Of nature.
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Pennsylvania Tea
Resembles Orientals'

Pleading, Pa, Jan. 2S.-It IL not
generally known that Pennsyl-
vania has a tea crop indigenous to
the Blue Mountain region near here
anu which largely supplants the
us r y Orr 'ntal tea in several
9, this section. The crop
- ng gathered and tons of
the = are being picked and dried
for winter use.
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Lord "LAnesborougn as rls
wife," 8 -.
This frank def. startling British
society when II was read in court.
was the factor that finally deter
mined Capt. Guy st. Barbe sladen
Watkins, q hero Of the royal naval
air service In the war, that he had
really "gotten on the nerver" Of his
wife, as she once proclaimed. This
letter induced him to bring into
court the sensational details Of his
wife's intrigue with John Brins'ey
Butler, Earl Of Lanesborough. The
extraordinary consequence was that
the earl. and not the wife. was or.
dered to pay the costs Of trial
which won q divorce for watkins.
Court circies.wsre scandalized by
the case. for II acquired important
moment not emily because the co.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-29
SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF VOLSTEAD LAW BRINGS BA
THIRD RAIL MEMORIES OF OLD LANDMARKS
OLD-TIMER is POETIC
i'm WISTFUL LAMENT
OVER HAPPY DAYS

The gentleman i'm the White Coat is One with
NineVeh and Tyre, but the Scent of His Fra
GRANGE Lingers Still, With Accent on the Still.
Free Lunch FlouriShed Like a Green Bay Tree,
but the Wicked Have Been Turned Over to- the
Tender Mercies of Bootleggers.
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+. BY MARSHALL NICHoL.

sYsstsrdav nsndpess did prepare; .,. o.,
Tonoyr0sCs Silence triumph despair; T.
Drtgkf not tobence Uhy;
Drtnktfor you Uhy sohsre" ~
" on, said something, Omar Khayyam, for tits true
I that when you drink your hootch today you know
notawhy you 60, where ..-.. ~. ,..y.,.>>,.>
Many thousands of years Of vigorous ardity lie ahead
Before we pass further into the glowing futurelet
cast. on Q last glance at the benighted past.
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THE accomp anying
L. photos show some
of the popular thirst
parlors Of the days when
tho word Volstead was
unknown. Most Of these
GASES are now trans
formed into dining
rooms, automobile stores
or cigar shops.
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I'll AM GOING TO BE EARL'S WIFE SHE WROTE HUSE

Captain Watkins Tells
How p a t her of
Duchess of Suther-
land Played Romeo
i'm His Very Pres
ence = and Wooed
y Wife. 50,
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ONDoN, Jan. 2s.-"Dear
, Guy: I am now living with
Lord LAnesborough as his