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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-13
LAST NIGHTS STORM.
Exceptionally Severe and Much
Damage Done Several Persons
Have Narrow Escapes.

The storm which visited Cam
bridge and vicinity about O'CLOCK
Monday evening was one of the
severest that has been known here
no means of ascertaining the veloci
| ty of the wind, by many persons il
was said to have been at least fifty
! miles, an hour, while others claimed
that it was as much as seventy-five
No matter what it was, it was 8
very strong one and great trees ben
under it's pressure just as they had
been mere StraWS.
From all over Cambridge there
came reports of limbs being blown
off of the trees and other damage
done. In a number of places the
telephone cables were broken loose
from the guide wires to which they
were attached.
Much uneasiness was felt over
the safety of a number of persons
who had gone to attend the big sale
at Castle Haven farm iG sail boats
and gasoline launches, but the ma
jority of them got home before the
storm reached its heighth. The
family of Mr.. James N. Sherman,
however, was one of those that were
caught out in it, and for sometime
quite a great deal of fear was felt
for their safety, but this fear was
relieved when it was learned that
they had left the sail boat in which
they were making the trip and had
gone ashore at Hambrooks in the
gasoline launch with which they
were accompanied.
Mr.. Scipion Cortez had narrow
escape from drowning. He had gone
out late in the afternoon for a sail
and was sailing around in the river
at the time that it came up. AS
the storm burst into it's greatest
fury he was seen headed for the
shore, but when those on shore
were able to look out again his boat
was nowhere to be seen and it was
feared that he had been lost.
Messrs. Fred. Flowers and Mel
vim Wiley, together with Captains
Hance and Will Parks, went out in
the gasoline boat of the Messrs.
Parks, and after cruising around
for awhile, located the boat, in a
half sunken condition, over the riv-
er toward Kirby's Wharf. Mr..
Cortez, realizing his dangerous po-
sition, had taken off all of his out
err clothing so as to be the better
able to resist the angry waves, and
when rescued was thoroughly
chilled and quite badly bruised, land
had it not been for his timely dis
covery by the gentlemen named
above it is believed he would have
been lost.
Besides the number of lives i'll
danger, a considerable loss was ex-
perienced by number of boatmen,
as many boats were driven ashore,
some as the result of their moor
ings breaking, while others were
damaged by contact with their land
in0S 4--
A large tree in the yard oil Mir
Geo. w. Woolford, on Glasgow ST.
was blown over and fell across the
telephone cable. A tree in the
yard of Judge Pattison, on the Mill
street side of the property, was bad
ly shattered, while all over the
city limbs were blown from the
trees, roofs of small buildings were
uplifted, and other similar damage
done.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-13

p NEW Yorkw about 5000 yards of Summer
We have had such bargains as we are
o a nnd aD way
prices For instance mention the following:
Voiles; Coo on The Dollar
re.5. s! Sc vo-Es Have all s'''S
+. ss v: We h hs" had
any lime
Silks; Coo on the Dollar
SOC YD A of shantusa Silk the sloo grade,
CSC w. Lot of Silk ground at 25c
Silk Suits Linen Suits
49,, S. EoR SO SILK SUITS. This is great bargain
ss 81, FOB a. AL LINEN SUITS splendid value
v.iss spy ss5
s1;se FOR So HOUSE DRESSES. spe'" value
White Waists so and CSC
We have @ at ! price big lot Of Ss
special values at so and sSc See window display
Mattings Is and l8c
w
per Mating sold elsewhere at % and 25c yard
$2.75---9x12 Mating Rugs
sell IS 70 Rugs at S2.75.
Stockings---Prices Down
15c 23c 45c
We have bought at
ngs regular Pure Silk Stockings
LOOK AT THESE PRICES:
sc Fl p r s4 Sc VIDE Emb.es s elsewhere at SOC
fsc YD Embroidery; very
t2c se Persian Lawn. for lie White Madras
&C YD. r o
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-13
TRADING STAMP NOTICE.

WITH all purchases of cream, sodas, can
w dies, ETC., amounting to l0c cash, give
of last weeks ticket (No. 81 Is entitled to 20
free drinks at my fountain. Geo. w. Meek
ms, High street, opposite postoffice. jf3-3t
The Banner office for Job Work.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30

/ had only one man no fight. That
was better than having a dozen, QUO
after the other. l remained beside the
princess.
'You have chosen a strong atyer-
sary," she said in a low tone
'Ishad no alternative, your highncss
l had to accept or give the challenge.
/ preferred to give it. Haye,I offend
ed youg'
"You have not offended me-
"You have heard nothing Of this
projected tournament until tontght?'
Il heard of it today from my
esquire"
She exchanged a quick glance with
the priest which could not read. /
did not understand her well; the
priest l did not understand at all.
"Sir yerrall, you have my good
wishes. The test is one / would not
willingly have put you tor
"Your good wishes are sure arln0r,
your highness,D said, STOPPING to
pick up the handkerchief she dropped.
Our eyes met us our hands touched
over the handkerchief which held to
her. A look In them gave me courage.
add only this favor" l said. ''Let
me keep this handkerchief as my to.
ken"
you fight for honor, Sir yerrall,"
she answered quickly.
For honor and for the approval Of
my princess
She turned from me With a height.
ened color and, with Jasar, Joined her
suit, but she left the handkerchief in
my hand.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30
RECESS TAKEN
By the County Court Until
the Coming Friday
Morning.

The county court took recess
Wednesday evening until Friday
morning.
David S. White, William H. Har-
bert and BENJAMIN W. Harbert were
appointed a committee for Elnar
Harbert with bond at $1,000.
The court directed the. county en-
ginaer to improve the road leading
from near the slocum residence to
the residence of j. R. Bartlett, in
Clay district.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30
MAN STRUCK
By AN ENGINE
And Almost Half Of His Scalp
is Torn Loose in
Accident.

\ MT. CLARE, Mar SO.-Margaret,
the two year old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edo Beach, died Tuesday ,eye-
ming and burial was made in the
Cork cemetery OF 2 o'clock Wednes-
day, Thres months ago Mr.. and Mrs.
Beach lost their twin babies in a
FIRE which destroyed their home and
that sad occurrence adds pathetic
feature Of the little girls death. The
parents aaxesthe sympathy Of their
many friends.
4 james Fultneer was struck by a
switch engine which was working on
the Hutchinson mine siding at 1920
o'clock Wednesday night. Almost
half Of his scalp has torn loose, but
there issnos fraeture Of the skull. He
had been drinking heavily during the
day and Was ASLEEP, by the track
when thsI accident occurred. The
train crew called DR. w. T. owens
to attend him. Fultneer is miner
and unmarried.
4 Miss EsteIIe Davis spent Tuesday
| night with her sister, Mrs. D. o.
Booth.
Pearl Johnson, travelling salesman
for Swift & Company, Of clarksburg,
was here Wednesday looking after
his trade.
L. W. Bartlett, of Buckhannon,
general manager Of the Byron Oil
and Gas Company, was business
visitor in town Wednesday.
Lee and Irwin Beach. Of Weston,
were here Wednesday.
S. L. Blake and Emory Brand
were in clarksburg Wednesday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse wag-
ner, March, 30, son.
Mrs. H. T. Atkinson is slowly re-
covering from severe attack of
lagrippe.
Mrs. W. P. Weekly went to Lost
Creek Wednesday to visit relatives.
Mrs. N. T. Smith, Of Clarksburg, is
visiting her parents, Mr., and Mrs. w.
N. Morris.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30
BAND REHEARSAL.

Eighteen musicians attended the
first rehearsal last night Of the new
Pythian band under the leadership
Of John A. shinn. The meeting was
enthusiastic and the prospects are
bright for another fine musical or
ganization here the coming sum
mer. Rehearsals will DE held every
Wednesday night il. the Pyttian hail
in Glen E.k
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30
CHAPTER VII.

| MY STOOD bending over the
III i handkerchief for moment
l6Z656I and then hastily concealed it.
&z I had almost forgotten what
occasloned the gift until rudely re.
minded by walen as we left the hall
together.
Il fear you have played into vasca's
hands, Verrall," he said.
COR he into mine.9
True, or he into yours. 1t is diff.
cult to Judge"
knowing so little OF me, you would
say" went on, putting. knew, his
thoughts into words. MY dear Wa
len, ask only fair field and no ia.
vor.. A few true friends and good
cause and success is half won.r
Men fall in a good cause. VERBAL"
ITO prove that 1t is good to those
who remain" / answered.
III news gets abroad quickly, and
0'Ryan had heard what had taken
place before Joined him.
"Verrall, you're an almighty fool.
Sure, it's sorry nm TO be compelled
to'tell you the truth"
4 don't fancy you've succeeded in
doing itnow, There was nothing for
1t but a bold move. vasca had de.
termined TO force nc into this fight
and to leave no loophoIe for escape.
Better surely to grip the situation firm.
" and trust to luck"
Luck lie exclaimed. II know what
vasca can do. You don't"
II very soon shall"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30
COURT TOMORROW.

There will he short session OF
the criminal court tomorrow. at
wnieh an order closing the term
will he entered.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick j. Clancy re
turned last night from St. Angus
tine. Fla.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-30

Tine smallest store In the city colilt
soon have people going out Of tieii
beaten paths to find Il Il Il were al
vertlsed IN the Telegram eIeFerIy-
even tllo0gh b tllo smallest way.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22
Taxleab LOO Years Old.

Even the taXicab is nothing new.
DR.. Giles, professor of Chinese at
Cambridge university, has recently dis
covered in the dynastic histories of
China a complete specification of the
mechanism of a Chinese taxicab. They
are first mentioned under the Chin
dynasty, A. D. 265-419. From that
time down to the middle of the four
teenth century frequent illusions to
such vehicles, known as the measure
mile drum chariots" are TO be found
Under the year 1927 A. D., and again
under the year 1907 A. D., full par
ticulars are given as to their construc-
tion, the number of wheels, their po-
sitions, the number Of cogs on each
Wheel etc, being all definitely stated.
On completing a translation Of the
specification Prof. Giles placed it in
the hands of Prof. Hopkinson of the
engineering laboratory with the salts
factory result that from a specifica-
ton recorded by the Chinese some
900 years ago Prof. Hopkinson has con
structed a model of a wheeled vehicle
which accurately registers the dis
tances traversed. At each II, or Chi
nese mile, which is about one-third Of
an English mile, a drum is struck,
while at every tenth Ii a bell is rung
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22
MINORITY RULE IN ILLINOIS
viii of the Majority Does Not Make
the Law in That Great State.


Last fall the voters Of Illinois voted
little ballot" that had three ques.
tions on it: /. The initiative and ref.
erendum, on which the vote was Yes,
443,505; No, 125,751. 2. Statewide
civil service, Yes, 4O4,444; No. 49,.
$50. 3. Corrupt practices act, Yes,
417,311; No, 122,16S. In each case
the vote was more than 3 to / in
favor Of the measure voted on. But
in Illinois the legislature has the last
say about measures voted on by the
people.
The Illinois legislature refused to
listen to the voters who asked for
the initiative and referendum; il re-
fused to submit a constitutional
amendment for the initiative and ref
endum. Is that majority" rule? Is
it representative government" The
Legislature represented" the 125,5O5
who voted against direct legislation
and refused to represent the 443,-
sos who voted for it,
The will of the majority should
make the law, but in Illinois the will
of the minority makes the law Tho
voters got from the legislature a sort
Of civil service law; but they did not
get corrupt practices law and did
not get the initiative and referendum.
And Big Business will tell you that
Illinois has a Representative" gov
ernment because it represents" Big
Business But where do the people
get their representation?
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22

She was engaged to another man
at the time-it was her third-and
she deliberately broke that engage.
ment that she might be free to deal
with the Boy. This was most effec-
tually accomplished
He was a queer mixture of poet and
sailor, the Boy was, and Miss Smell
was a little shocked at the tempest
she invoked within him. There was
something in his glorious avowal of
love that made former protestations
pale into insignificance. 1t carried her
away for the moment, and she gave
him her lips and she gave him her
promise, knowing very we'll in her
heart of hearts it was the old story
Of love on one side and submission on
the other. But marriage on his pay
was impossible, so the Boy went off
to his ship, and Miss Smell back to her
triumphs in the social whirl of the
city.
The letters that came to her from
every port the Boys ship made were
rather remarkable. They were Of a
new breed and species. The writer
seemed to have an uncanny divination
of everything the woman he loved did
or thought. In spite of that, and most
pitiful of all, an immeasurable love
breathed forth from every line. No
man should write the things he wrote
to any living woman. At last a letter
came from Honolulu that was so touch
ing in its pathos, so abject in it's devo-
ton, and still so marvelously prophet
ic in its conception of Miss Smells
life, that she felt called upon to write
him some truths This was just about
the time she met Starr, and fell a
victim herself to the passion she had
.rifed with so often.
When the Boy received her letter
le went down to his quarters in the
and blew his brains all
,ver the nice white paint that covered
he cruisers armored walls. Out of
lecency's sake the surgeon called it a
,istol-cleaning accident, but he was
,rutal enough to send back a blood /.
plashed letter that he found all /
visited up in the Boys hand to the
woman who wrote it far away at
Iome
The night before the Star-Snell /
.uptials Miss Smell did what all other
iris would have done, religiously
urned all those fantastic, extrayagant
etters the Boy had written her 1t
vas rather peculiar that she found the
ed-stained letter which had been the
'oys death-warrant and his last let
er to her from Honolulu lying TO-
ether in her bureau drawer apart
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22

from all the others, heaped carelessly
in a compartment of her escritoire
She did not remember putting then
away among her laces and her bon
bonnieres, but there yhey were, so she
took them over to the fire a little
gingerly and tossed them after theiI
fellows into the dancing flames.
Then she sat down and watched
them curl and crinkle in the eager
tapping flame, till the draught caught
the feathery black asnes and carried
them up the sooty chimney fiue. Spec
ulation on Miss SHELLS thoughts at
this time is, think, entirely problem
atical
Popular fancy has it that just be-
fore death and just before marriage
ones thoughts grow rapt-abstracted,
and the faces of old loves and the
faces of old friends come to look in on
one as they knew one in bygone days,
So it is reasonable to suppose that as
Miss Smell languidly reposed in the
glow of her bedroom hearth, among
the faces that chased one another
across her mental vision was the hag
gard, appealing face of the Boy; this,
however, is not given us to know,
The wedding on the following noon
was an event of social importance
and it came off with great eclat But
the crowds, and the music, and the
flowers, and even the six charming
Vatican shepherdesses with ribboned
crooks, who were the bridesmaids, do
not concern us here. In fact, my
friend, Mrs. STAIRS physician, tells
me that all / have written so far is
rather incidental and almost super
huous. He quite refuses to acknowl-
edge the connection between the past
events of Mrs. Starr's life and what
happened later. Our premises are so
radically divergent that with him it
could not be otherwise. But let it be
plain there is no question at all about
what is to follow.
Hardly had the couple returned from
their wedding journey, when Starr
called on the doctor and told him "he
was worried about the health of his
wife. Mrs. Starr" he said, was in an
nervous and hysterical
condition, and was growing more wan
and hollow-eyed as each day went
by" The man of medicine went and
looked at her, found that this was
true, prescribed the usual remedies
and continued tn visit har occaciona1-
y; but he did not learn the cause of
her trouble till some time had ex-
Dired; and, when he did learn, it was
from Mrs. Starts own lips that part
Of it came, Starr himself not only
in general all she said,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22
"ONLY
A
MISTAKE"
By CLARENCE Mako.

Copyright, by shortstory Pub. Coz
Any student of mental philosophy
Will tell you that every impression re
ceived by our brain cells at any time
and under all circumstances, no mat
ter whether We be sober or drunk, on
the field Of battle or in the region oil
abstract thought, is recorded on the
tablets of memory, and is never lost
Moreover, it is a singular fact that the
proper degree of molecular vibration
being excited in the brain, no matter
by what cause-and the possible
causes are without number-these
thoughts spring into active and con
scious re-eXistence, for they have
never been destroyed. Here lies the
key to some interesting phenomena
Have you ever on making a call
thought you had hung your hat up
on the hall rack, and when leaving
sought there vainly for the very hat
which perhaps you were holding in
your hand? If you have, you know
how unpleasantly this little trick of
your brain Jared your reason, in spite
OF your involuntary apology that 1t
was only a mistake, a trihng. absent
minded mistake, after all"
1t was all because of Just such a
little mistake, on the part of Mrs.
Starr, that foolish persons who postu-
late, Marriage is a failure" used to
point triumphantly at Starr and his
WTe. All on account Of a queer little
brain trick, Mrs. Starr blighted her
husbands life and her own.
Still, when they harnessed up to-
gether for better or for worse, no
couple could be more devotedly in love
with one another than were they.
This forms rather sad but, | think,
profitable little story.
Now that the principals concerned
are dead and gone, the physician who
attended Mrs. Starr says l am at lib
erty to tell the tale. He laughs. as
he is entitled to, at the construction /
put upon the facts-but inconsistency
evades sitting in Judgment on the case.
Men remember Mrs. Starr as the
beautiful Miss Smell, for her face in
those days was face that no man
could quite forget She was the most
utterly ruthless coquette of her day.
The family means, in her generation,
had fallen far below what was neces-
sary to keep up the prestige of the
family name.
Her papa and her mamma never
ceased to lament that fact, and Miss
Smell was dutifuIly impressed in her
early girlhood that her beauty must
win back the departed family glories
by social achievements. How well it
did everybody knows.
By mere coincidence, among the
persons chained by her smiles was a
Boy who did not have much of any
thing but a naval commission. some |
brass buttons, and a sword.
This business with the Boy was
quite unnecessary. Miss Smell had
nothing to gain by winning the Boys
love; still, she even went out of her
way to do it. The Boy avoided her
because he knew she was unobtain-
able for him, and because the first
time he looked into her eyes he knew,
with but half a chance, he would love
ler very badly. Miss Smell knew It.
90, but II the Boy had not avoided
ler she would not have done what
The did.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22
SHORT & DONOVAN, a.,
REALTY AGENTS,
Scranton Building, OELINA, o.

but adding a great deal more.
The first evening of their honey
moon, when unpacking her things,
Mrs Starr was rather unnerved tC
find, all covered up among the dainty
feminine belongings in the tray Of
her trunk, the two identical love let
ters that she had watched burn to q
crisp and fly up the black chimney
flue. UneXplainable as their presence
was, she could only put it down to a
mistaken impression on her part, and
! she made certain to destroy them this
time beyond question or doubt. Into
a gas jet she hastily thrust them, and
a second time she watched the flame
creep over the unwelcome letters
turning them into two charred black
curls~which fell in broken flakes on
the floor, and there were ground into
impalpable dust by two angry little
heels. That this was not witnessed
by her husband is almost unnecessary
to add.
When Mrs. Starr found the very
same letters in the very same place
day or so after, a thrill of alarm
chilled her through and through. With
sickening dread she tore them into a
hundred fragments, and threw them
fearfully out of her window into the
hurly-burly of winter storm.
Although she became positively i'll
from her scare at the supernatural re-
appearance of the letters, she did not
tell her husband about the matter,
but, womanlike, tried to pray herself
into belief that it was only mis-
take, after ala. mere common, or
binary, everyday mistake And this
was wrong.
In short time the couple returned
to the city, and Mrs STAIRS condition
so alarmed her husband that he called
on her physician. She kept the cause
of her trouble entirely secret, but how
often she found and destroyed those
two mysterious letters during this time
is not known. Physically she RAPIDLY
grew worse though her husband
showered on her a wealth of loving
care and attention. Her peace of mind
and her happiness were fast becoming
utterly destroyed.
One night Starr awoke, and in the
half light he saw the whiterobed
figure of his wife on her knees before
the open drawer of her bureau. She
seemed to be holding something in her
hands, which she was regarding with
a look Of terror.
What is wrong, sweetheart? Does
anything trouble your" asked Starr,
soothingly.
At the sound of her husbands voice
the woman carried her hands to her
face and rose. Then she tottered over
towards him repeating mechanically
in low whisper Of despair:
"Oh, my God Oh, my God!"
When she reached her couch she
sank back on the pillows choking with
dry, fearless sobs.
Starr rose and turned on the light,
and looked to see what had alarmed
his wife; in vain for there was moth
Ing there. All that loving man could
DO to compose and quiet her he did.
In the lull that followed she told
him something all-of the
strange relncarnations OF those let
ters, just enough to startle him and
arouse his curiosity immensely; but
be was wise enough at the time not TO
ask to see them or ask anything else
about them Nevertheless he deter
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22
Notice OF Teachers, Eraminatlons

Meetings for the examination of appli-
cants for teachers certificates. for either
common, high or special, Will be held at the
West School Building, In Oellna, on the
nrst Saturday OF each month OF the yenr.
Examinations for pupils who wish to
graduate from the elementary schools Will
be held In Oelna on the third Saturday OF
April and the third Saturday of May.
A. q. EIFERT, President;
j. w. POGUH, Clerk;
S. OOTTERMAN.
Members OF Board Of County Examiners.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1911-09-22
Imnrovlnn Movlna Plctures.

European inventors are successfully
ondeavoring to produce moving pic
lures which can be seen clearly with
out darkening the hall.