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Putnam patriot., 1913-01-17
FLED BEFORE FLAMES
RUSSIAN PEASANTS SUFFERERS
 FROM PRAIRIE FIRES.
Huge Areas Devastated and Human Lives, as We'll as Live Stock, Sacrificed-Whole Settle
 ments Wiped Out.

Midsummer in Russia has been ush- cred in by a great epidemic of fires on the steppes.
 The intense dryness of the season has spread the fires over a huge area. ! One of the most dreadful fires that the Russian steppes have ever seen ragged few days ago in the Province of Turgai, on the other side of the Ural mountains. and to the northeast of the Caspian. On these steppes vast seas of grass stretch to the horizon. raised only by shrubs of the wild cherry and dwarf almond on the hill- sides or by clumps of wormwood when the soil Is clayey. Herds of cattle and horses graZe on the plains.
 It was early In the morning when mighty clouds of smoke suddenly rose up from the steppe sure sign to the inhabitants that fire was in progress. So appalling was the speed with which the fire rolled over the dry and yellow grass that the peasants had quickly to concert measures for sav- I ing just their own lives from destruc- ton. Feverish activity prevailed in all the villages until the tongues of flame which came on nearer and near CT with uncanny swiftness appeared on the horizon.
 Swept forward by the rushing wind. sparks from the confiagration kindled In advance another fire. which in a short time enveloped 30000 acres of grazing ground Swifter and swifter before the wind dashed on the wall of fiery waves. Enormous pillars of flame shot up Into. the air The sue ton was so strong that slabs of turf and burning branches were hurled up into the air and thrown far away.
 Men and cattle were hard put to 1t to save themselves. Their least dan ger was of being scorched by the fiery breath which swept on ahead of the furnace Women and children who sank helpless to the ground were dragged along by the other villagers, for only hasty flight was now of any avail. But even this would not have saved them had not a lake lain in their path, into which they all rushed, wading in as far as they could with out drowning.
 Imagine. then, hundreds of persons standing in the waters up to their shoulders, while all round them masses of flame ran along the banks and sent out fiickering tongues over the water in their direction, baffled in their thirst for victims.
 Some of the inhabitants of the vil- lages on the steppes directly they saw the fire advancing set to work to burn large areas, and on these oases they collected all their cattle and household goods At last heavy shower came and extinguished the prairie fire. Many perished in the flames or were stified by the smoke. five in one vil- lage, three in another. and so on. Be- sides this there was great destruction of livestock, large and small.-Ham- burger Nachrichten.
Putnam patriot., 1913-01-17
How the Picture Animals Talk


 A Parisian novelty is picture book of animals. and each animal ut ters its own characteristic cry. The pictures represent the most familiar 1 domestic animals. and each animal speaks It's own language. To cause It to break silence nothing Is neces- sary but to pull little string at the edge of the book.
 In the books are to be seen 8 rooster, a COW, a lamb, little birds in their nest, donkey. cuckoo. goat. On the last page are children who are welcoming their parents. By pulling the string at the right page the cry of any particular creature is elicited. The listener hears the donkey heehav and the rooster crow. The growing Is well initiated. The string is pulled again and the lamb bleats, the birds twitter. the cuckoo sings, the COW moos. or the little children call out "pepa" and mamma"
 These interesting results arc ob- tained simply by the aid of small bel lows placed in box hidden in tho book When the string is pulled the air enters the corresponding bellows and is thence expelled by spring. The air makes its exit through . spe- cial tube appropriate for each cry. and at the same time the bellows meets with obstacles placed on Q 1 wire.
Putnam patriot., 1913-01-17
TELL AGNES-NOTHING'
But Telling" Agnes Proved
 Most Delightful.
BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS.

Tell Agnes!"
 It seemed to John Emery that the only words he had heard during the last fortnight were those two-"Tell Agnes" He had come to believe that his trip to America was planned merely that he might convey endless messages from one sister to the other.
 On the contrary, he was going to New York solely on business, and It was more or less of bore to have to look up all the sisters and uncles and aunts who had gone to America.
 It was gross exaggeration on Elm ery's part to imagine that he had to look up all the relatives who had left the home land. Because he had heard the words Tell Agnes" so many times he had come to look upon Az nes as a tyranny. But because Agnes was the sister of the girl whom Elm cry intended to propose to upon his return from America she had to be endured. She had left the home land some months before John Emery had found hls way into the friendship Of the Doan family.
 There is only one more message have for Agnes" Mary Doan told him the night before his departure, and am telling you because you will see her before my letter reaches her. Mary blushed shyly, and John Emery felt a strange drop in the tempera- ture.
 "Tell Agnes that-I am going to marry Billy Wade in September and that want her to be my bridesmaid"
 John Emery never could remember just how he got out of the house and away from Mary Doan's happy blush ing face.
 "Tell Agnes-nothing. muttered Emery, as he stepped off the boat on the New York side of the Atlantic. q will not even look her up now.
 "Oh-are you MT. John Emery? asked feminine voice at his side.
 Emery looked up from the steamer trunk he had been opening for the customs man.
 "Oh, I say!" the Englishman caught his breath. After acknowledging his
Putnam patriot., 1913-01-17
Exercise.

faere may be, courtesy. there may be even temper and wit and talent and sparkling conversation, there may be good will, even, and yet the human est and divinest faculties pine for ex. ercise.-Thoreau.
Putnam patriot., 1913-01-17
Aoh,risms of Lady Grant.

It is such a relief to let go" as my aunt said when she gave up keeping a waist, Women find man dull and uninteresting when he proposes to another woman. The CneQuer Board by Lady Sibil Grant
Putnam patriot., 1913-01-17
There Are Compensations.

"This increased cost of living is something terrible!" said the young man as he paid the third installment on the engagement ring.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
70 CENT "CAsCARETS"
S1RA|GHTEN YOU UP
No Sick Headache, Bilious Stom-
ach, Coated Tongue or Consti-
pated Bowels by morning.
Get a 1O-cent box now

Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out-the head
ache, bi!iousness, indigestion, the
sick, sour stomach and foul gases
turn them out tonight and keep
them out with Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take
a Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset
stomach.
Don't put in another day of dis
tress. Let Cascarets cleanse your
stomach; remove the sour, ferment-
ing, food; take the excess bile from
your liver and carry out all the
constipated waste matter and poison
in the bowels. Then you will feel
great.
A Cascaret tonight straightens
you out by morning. They work
while you sleep. A 10-cent box
from any - drug store means
clear head, sweet stomach and
, clean, healthy liver and bowel &C
ton for months. Children love Cas-
carets because they never grippe or
| sicken.-Adv.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03

There is more Catarrh in this
section of the country than all 9th
er diseases put together, and until
the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it a local
disease and prescribed local RENE
dies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronoun-
ced it incurable. Science has prov
en- Catarrh to be a constitutional
disease, and therefore requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only Constitutional cure on the mar
ket. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonfu1. 1t
acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for cir
culars and testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.-Adv.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
EATON INQUEST SECnET

Prosecution Says 1t Is Satisfied With
Case Against Widow.
bingham, Mass, Oct. 3.-The mystic
rious death of Rear Admiral Joseph G..
Eaton at his home in Assinippi, seven
months ago was the subject of a fur
Their secret inquest here.
Eight witnesses were heard, most of
them neighbors of the cations. 1t is
upon the evidence adduced at the in
quest that Mrs. Jennie M. Eaton, the
rear admiral's widow, who is charged
with numbering her husband by admin
istering poison to him, is to be tried on
Oct. IA.
At the close of the proceedings the
inquest was again adjourned indef-
nitely, but District Attorney Albert S.
Barker announced that 1T would be re-
convened before Mrs. Eaton is brought
to trial. Mr. Barker declared that the
government is satisfied with its case
as developed to date.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
CANAL NOT INJURED
BY The EARTHQUAKE
Absolutely No Damage Done to
Waterway Structures.

Panama, Oct. 3.-Absolutely no dam
age was done to the structures OF the
Panama canal by the earthquake that
occurred in the canal zone Wednesday
night.
The disturbance began with slow
oscillatory movement which gradually
became more marked. Houses swayed,
clocks stopped and articles of furni-
ture were thrown to the floor. Many of
the residents became panic-stricken
and women rushed from their homes
with children in their arms.
An early investigation of the condi-
tons of the buildings at Panama
showed that more damage had been
done than it had been at first believed.
Although no walls were seriously i'm
paired, slight cracks occurred in sew
eral concrete buildings, Tbis condition
was particularly 7ke
street, mean S5FFssE = IA 4
Three hours sitter the oeeuffence "
Wednesday nights disturbance one of
the Central and South sAperican ca
bles' broke at a point about $50 miles
north of Panama. This may have been
a coincidence or it may have been the
result of the shocks. The break caused
no inconvenience to the cable COM
pany's traffic.
The earthquake appears to have
been of submarine character.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03

The form in which Il proposal OF mar
rage is made hAS undergone great
change in Germany during the past
few years At one time any young
man who proposed marriage attireu
himself in his dress suit and carried
bouquet as IN Offering to his chosen
ono We must not seek to prl into the
intimacy Of such proposals. but II the
disconsolata lover left the house carry
ing his bouquet with him it was sure
sign that he was rejected. Nowadays
proposaIs are less formal. but engage
ments are no less binding. In fact.
betrothal is regarded as almost as sol
emn and binding us the wedding ITSELF
On every possible occasion German
lovers appear arm in arm, and the Gus
tom is not confined to one class alone
Peasants walk thus. and princes ano
princesses follow the popular CUSTOM
London Standard
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
LorrihIe Duelino,

a particularly terrible kind OF duel
was fuu..ht Oh one occasion in Mexico.
The opponents We're an Indian settler
and rich cattle owner The weapons
chosen np"c butchers knives. and 1t
WAS settled that each combatant was
to ho!G rnt his hand in turn; to haGll
one Of his fingers cut off ~
to show the least sign Of Sufferin
was to have Il bullet put throus
heart by the other. The Indian
the first cat and amputated the ca tile
owners first finer ut Il single blow.
The Indians first injury was the loss
of thumb. and he likewise remained
as imrasSiv" rs marble. This horr1-
bic drama Vent on until each COM
Blatant had lost furr digitS. Then the
cattlemhn'S second became so fright
cned IT the ..iiaStly sight that he shot
the Indian dead and ended the fight
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
Cause For Tears.

DR. Pitcairn being in Il church Ill
l,diuhur.,h where he preacher was not
only emphatic. but shed tears r"ll""S-
Iv was moved to inquire OF !; country
man who sat ny him what it was ai'
,hout What the drevil makes him
oreet:" waS the inquiry. "falth. salu
tbe man. slowly turning round. we
had maybe greet yourself if We was uF
there and had as little to say!'-Dur~
dee ADVERTISER
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03

Lightning Strikes Man Carrying Iron.
Norristown, Pa, Oct. "a thunder
storm of midsummer's severity wash
ed away bridge on the Skippack pike
above Center Square and did thou
sands of dollars damage to the Butler
pike, leading into Amber. John For.
dan, while carrying iron in Consho-
hocken, was struck by lightning, which
ignited his clothing and seriously
shocked him. Workmen extinguished
the fire.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
MAY FREE MINER TONIGHT
Rescuers Near Man Entombed Sever
DAYS In Coal Mine.

Rescuers Near Man Entombed Seven
Days In Coal Mine.
Shamokin, Pa, Oct 8. = Today Is
the seventh day since Thomas To-
sesky was entombed in breast at
the Lehigh Valley Coal company's
Continental mine at Centralia, since
which time brave rescuers have toiled
necessarily to liberate him.
Officials believed that from fifteen
to eighteen feet of solid coal would
have to be cut before he could be
reached and that it would require the
hardest kind of toll to iberate him by
this evening.
Tosesky through a tube told the res
cuers during the day that his nerve
was still with him and that when re-
leased he would be strong enough to
walk home.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
MAY SIGN TARIFF
Ill TONIGHT
Both Branches Of Congress
Take Final Action
IN NOW up TO WILSON
After Vice President Marshal and
Speaker Clark Signed the Bill 1t
Was Sent to the President.


Washington, Oct. 8. - The Under
wood Simmons tariff bill possibly will
be a law before midnight.
The senate agreed to the conference
report by a vote of SO to II. At the
same time the senate receded from the
Clarke amendment taxing cotton flu
lures and disagreed to the Smith
Lever amendment voted into the bill
by the house.
The report of the conference com
mittee was laid before the house at
noon today, and the house promptly
receded from the Smith-Lever amend
ment. This was the final act in the
passage of the tariff bill.
The bill was engrossed and ready
for the signature of the vice presi
dent. speaker and the president. After
the senate acted Vice President Mar
shall signed the bill. Speaker Clark
signed today, and it was then present.
ed to President Wilson for his sigma
ture.
The senate debated the bill for near
ly eight hours before vote was taken
A demand was made for the reading
of the entire report, which consumed
about two hours. Then there were
speeches by Senators Simmons, Pen
rose, Burton, Pomerene, Gronna and
others. Senator La Toilette took no
part in the argument.
There was less interest shown in
the debae than there has been at any
other time during the consideration
of the bill. The bottom seemed to have
fallen out of the tariff controversy.
The roll call on the adoption of the
conference report showed fourteen Re-
publican senators absent without pairs.
Had they been present and voting, or
paired, the report would have been
adopted by majority of five. which is
the real Democratic majority.
AS on the passage Of the bill Sena-
tors LaFollette, of Wisconsin. and
Poindexter, of Washington, the former
a Republican and the latter Progress
sive, voted for the report, and Sena-
tors Thornton and Ransdell, of Louis
lana, Democrats, voted against it.
The announcement of the result
aroused no particular enthusiasm.
Chairman Simmons was quietly con-
graduated by Democrats and Republi-
cans alike on the successful manner in
which he has handled the bill. 1t was
recalled that on IA votes taken in the
senate on amendments the finance
committee was sustained on each and
every one This showed party disci-
pline as it has never been known be-
fore in the history of the senate. The
finance committee made a few conces-
sions and changed some rates, but on
every test of strength Senator Sim
mons had the pleasure of having his
view sustained by majority of the
senate.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
Womian's Winning Way.

I'm all my life" she said. with
sigh. II have seen only one man that
/ would care to marry
Ibid he look like me?" he carelessly
asked. Then she flung herself into his
arms and wanted to know what secret
power men possess that enables them
to tell when they are loved.-Chicago
Record Herald.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
new YORK FATALITIES
Sixty-three Persons Killed on Streets
nurino Sentember

New York, Oct. 3.-September holds
the record for street fatalities in this
city, the National Highways society
reported.
Sixty-three persons were killed.
thirty-three being children under the
age of seventeen. This makes a total
of 1913 children killed on the streets
since Jan. /.
Automobiles killed more than all
other classes of vehicles combined.
There were thirty-fve killings by au-
.tomobiles. thirteen by trolley and fif-
teen by horse drawn vehicles.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
FIGHT 0NsiMExlCAN BORDER
Federal Filibusters Clash With U. S
- n.A.~I - A&&,oL IIoon To>up

Patrol In Attack Upon Town.
Piedras Negras. Mex, Oct. 8. = A
Alfbustering expedition, composed OF
Mexican federal refugees attempted
to capture Piedras Negras from the
American side OF the R o Grande.
They were repulsed by the Ameri-
can border patrol and the neutral
guards placed in charge of the city af-
ter the Constitutionalist evacuation.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
hon man TAKEN
rs A DYNAM|TER
tEor Alleged Destruction Of
New Haven Bridge.
IS SAID TO HAVE CONFESSED
us. Marshal Arrests Iron Worker In
New York as an Accomplish OF Nc
jNamara Brothers.

us. Marshal Arrests Iron Worker In
New York as an Accomplish of Nc
1Namara Brothers.
New York, Oct. 3.-George E. Davis,
slias George O'Gonnell, was arrested
bIfa United States marshal here on
| charge of blowing up with dynamite
New Haven railroad bridge at Mount
| Vernon. N. Y, Sept. 3, 1911. He waived
e4tradition and was taken to Indian
/ abolis-
| Davis also is charged with having
| cdnspired with the Mcnamara broth
ers. Frank NJ Ryan and other officers
Eof the International Bridge and Struc-
It,iral Iron Workers union to wreck
1.-THE Mount Vernon and other bridges.
q The, marshal asserts that Davis has
addressed.
In his confession. it is alleged, Da-
WIS has implicated union officials.
1Dayis was arrested on the complaint
OF Robert J. Foster, private detec-
tive, of Louisville, Ky. Foster charged
/ that q conspiracy of Ryan, the Mona
mara brothers and fifty other iron
Workers to transport dynamite to De
,ised - in wrecking property OF the
American Bridge company was still IN
/ dxistence.
/ The formal charge against Davis,
Mo is an iron worker, is that he vio-
IlSfed the federal law against the trans
bortation of high explosives on passen-
Ter trains engaged in interstate COM
Ineree.
i The complaint asserts that DAVIS
Ind his fellow conspirators, on Jan. ~
k91I, transported forty-fve pounds OF
4 dynamite from Bellefontaine, O., to In
t51isnapolis over the Cleveland division
df. the Big Four railroad. On Sept. 8,
1911, it is alleged. Davis carried thirty
Il bounds of the explosive from New
4 York city to Mount Vernon, suburb,
Il Ind there blew up part OF a railroad
= bridge
a The United States district attor-
Il 6ey,s- office gave out what purported to
II he a SYNOPSIS of Davis confession. 1t
II laid that he had done dynamltlng
q lob at Trenton, N. j.; had blown up
Il In Erie railroad bridge at Harrison,
4 ~. j.: had plotted to blow up the
u blapkwell's Island bridge in New York
q eity;s had wrecked a bridge at Pei
Il ham, N Y; Baltimore & Ohio bridge
4 1t BRADSHAW. Ind; the Chelsea pier IN
II he North river, New York; had de-
Il ktroyed materials in the yards OF the
II Eennsylvania railroad at Philadelphia;
d recked drawbridge over the Bronx
n liver New York, and done similar jobs
u n Perth Amboy. N. j.; Somerset,
4 MSS. and, Providence, R. l.
ff Foster. has been employed by the
Il National Erectors' association and was
Found guilty in Indianapolis on March
lbs. 1912, of assault and battery on the
3person of Mr.. Ryan, president OF the
Il International Association OF Bridge
f3and Structural Iron Workers.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
Find War "shinriaster" In Old House.

Cambridge City, Ind, Oct. 3.-Work-
men, when remodeling> the home of
Emil Ebert, found in the wall under a
window $1G741 in gold and silver coin
and fractional paper currency known
as "shinpla sters," showing that the
money had been placed theer at the
tim eof or soon after the close OF the
Civil War
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
AGED Woman Blows Out Gas.

Scranton, Pa, Oct. 3.-Mrs. Susan
Harding, eighty-five years old, of Gun
Hill, South Gibson, not understanding
modern house lighting, blew out the
gas while a guest at the home of her
niece, Mrs. ]. B. Knight, and was as
phyxiated.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
a Ifa,,s DiScnNerY.

An enthusiastic >";Ier. one or those
fellows who can speak on nothing else
but golf. was ole Gay taken by
friend TO orr local observatory TO nave
81 lock through the building. The golr-
er's friend. who was IL keen astrono
mpr. got him il look ut the moon
through the telescope and then asked
him what he thought of the planet
To his am;Zrn3pit he answered back,
IFS y RI III hut lis awful fn' o
hu,,kers World Of Golf
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TRY TO BLOW up NEWSPAPER
Potter County Enterprise Object of
Dynamite Outrage.

Potter County Enterprise .ObJect OF
Dynamite Outrage.
Coudersport, Pa, Oct. 3. = An at
tempt was made, to wreck the plant
of the Potter County Enterprise in this
city,
A heaxy charge of dynamite was ex-
ploded under the type setting ma
chimes. The side of the building was
blown out. but the machines were only
eighty damaged. No one was in the
building.
s. Tor explode the charge tunnel had
been made from an. alleyway under
wall. There was no basement under
this part of the building.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-03
Senator lodoe Out of Danger.

Nahant, Mass, Oct. 3-United States
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has main
tanned the improvement shown in his
condition. His physicians believe that
danger Of serious results from his re-
cent operation has now passed.
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COST OF RADlUM JUMPS
Valued at $52,ooo,ooo Pound Because
of Great nenoand

Berlin. Oct. 3.-The price of radium
has been advanced $4,000 gram be
cause OF an unprecedented demand for
the precious substance.
Radium is now sold at $4,000 a
gram. which means a pound of il
would be valued at more than $52,-
100000. if such guam iiy of it could
be amassed