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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-17
FURY OF A SPIDER.
An Insect Tragedy as Seen Through a
Magnifying Glass.

An Insect Tragedy as Seen Through a
Masnifyins Glass.
One day. rumaging in an old desk. ]
found a magnifying glass. It was
September, and in sunny, weed rid
den corner Of the garden I had dis
covered big black and gold spider
who had strung her web between two
tall burdocks and was doing thriving
business in grasshoppers.
Seated on the ground, l now sur
veyed her through the glass for an
hour as she hung in the middle of her
engine of destruction. When touch
ed the net with my finger she swung
frantically to and fro. prompted doubt
less by some instinct Of self preserva-
ton, but otherwise was as motionless
as If carved in jet
Grasshoppers were not very plenti-
full as yet. but at last large green
fellow few plump into the tolls. the
spines on his legs that had so often dis
coursed sweet music becoming entan-
gled. Instantly the crafty spider was
all alive. Darling upon her victim.
she took her station above him. and,
hanging by two legs, seized him In her
other six and rolled him round and
round, unswathing him in a band of
silver silk until he was as helpless as
a mummy. and then she bit him in a
dozen places with fangs oozing with
poison.
at the spectacle of her evil eyes
glittering with the lust of killing. mag
nified as they were by the glass, |
turned sick and rolled over on my
face among the weeds and lay for a
long time miserably inert.-Atlantic
Monthly.
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Eliminate of Mercury.

A popularity of illuminate of mer
curry is that it produces a shock t,
which all other substances are sensi
tive. and its supreme value as an ex
plosive rests in this fact and In the
known liability of all explosives to b,
detonated by more or less distant ex
plosions There is current of sympa
thetic influence in these terrible chem
fcal compositions that Is as strange as
1t Is dangerous. What is required t.
produce explosion is the rapid genera
ton of great heat along with large
quantities of oxygen. In gunpowde!
for instance, the nitrate Of pota-'
(saltpeter). which Is the chief fn@i
dent, is practically imprisoned oxyGel
and when 1t is decomposed along witt
charcoal an immense heat Is developed
which causes the gases to expand sud
denly. hence explosion.
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Lions and Tigers.

Three feet or little over Is the real
height of good sized lions and tigers.
And when sportsmen realize what an
extra six inches or nine inches added
to the stature involves in increased
length and general bulk to balance the
known proportions of the animals am
equally sure they will admit that no
lion ever scaled anything like four feet
at the shoulder and that the height
measurements of dead specimens give
quite false idea of the actual heights
of the animals in life. The following
are the heights at the shoulders Of
some of our large felidae: Large lion
ess, 2 feet II inches; Manchuria tigress,
2 feet 8 inches: Nepal tgress, 2 feet
8 inches; Sumatran tiger, 2 feet inch
es; large male jaguar, feet 3 inches;
male cheetah. feet inches.-London
Field.
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Tho Curious GrappIe Plant.

Plants have varied and ingenious
ways of scattering their seed. Some
with wings like those Of tiny aero
planes are blown by the wind; some
are thrown out of the seed pods by ex-
plosions; others. by means of hooks.
attach themselves to passing animals
and are carried long distances. OF this
last class is the fruit Of the gourdlike
grapple plant that grows in the deserts
Of the Transvaal and Orange river col
ony. From the hard pod Of this plant
project clawlike runners that are arm
ed with sharp pointed hooked thorns,
and when a springbok or some other
animal steps on them they pierce the
hoof and start the animal galloping
madly away. AS the pod often sticks
to the animals foot for several days
the seed Of the plant Is likely to be
widely distributed. This contrivance
Of nature seems unusually cruel. for
the animal that is so unfortunate az to
tread on the grapple plant not only
suffers intense pain. but often becomes
an easy victim of its enemies.
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Escort For the Holy Garnet.

AS Is well known to Mohammedans
but to few Europeans. the Holy Car
pet always travels with an escort ia
and from the holy cities of Medina and
Mecca. This escort consists of 300 to
$50 men Of one of the Egyptian infan.
try regiments. with two small field
pieces and two quick firing guns, and
about forty mounted men. together
with their horses. The object of such
strong escort is to protect the sacred
object from falling into the hands of
the Bedouin tribes. through whose
countries it must pass at various stages
of its journey and who are also on the
lookout for it. as the carpet is worth q
fine ransom. Desperate attacks are
not tnfrequently made upon the Holy
Carpet by the Bedouins of the desert;
hence the strength of the escort
Egyptian Gazette.
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STRANGE Freak of Memory

There is strange story Of how Sill
Walter Scoctt, producing THE Bride OF
Lammermoor' during illness, was aft.
erward found to have forgotten entire
~ what he had thus created. Accord
ing to James Ballantyne, 1.-THE book
was written and published before Mr.
Scott was able to rise from his bed
and he assured me when it was first
put into his hands in complete shape
that he did not recollect single Incl
dent, character or conversation it con
tanned. The original incidents Of the
story. which he had known from boy.
hood, he still remembered, but he knew
no more about the story he had written
than he did before he began to write
or even think about writing it." These
facts were corroborated by Mr.. Lock
hart, Sir Walter Scott's son-in-law and
biographer. so that they are placed be
yond question.
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- o
Curious Scientific Prediction.


Every one is familiar with the story
often told Of the great naturalist Gu
vier to the effect that, given single
bone he could reconstruct the animal
to which it belonged That a some
what similar law OF organization runs
through the various species that form
families in the animal world is indi-
Gated by a quaint case Of scientific
prediction to which attention has again
lately been called. 1t appears that En-
renberg when engaged in a study Of
the minute animals called diatoms
found that many species were distin-
guished by &e number of rays they
possessed, he series q ssaG;mens
none having. sspectively. twenty-sev-
en-, Twenty-Five, thirty, thirty-one, thir-
ty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-one, forty
two, forty-four, forty-flve, forty six,
forty-eight and forty-nlne rays. Still,
he predicted that the missing species
would some day turn up. This pre-
diction has already been verified, for
ten Of them have since been discov-
cred, leaving only three to be account
ed for.-Chicago Record-Herald.
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DEPORT KINGS LlBELOR

Mylius, English Newspaper Man, Or
dered Out of United States.
Washington, Jan. II. = Edward F.
Mylius, the English journalist detained
in New York, was ordered deported by
Secretary Nagel, of the department OF
commerce, on the ground that in libel
-leA-se U.sef- I'm eload ha had
committed a crime involving moral
turpitude.
Myths was convicted in London Of
criminal libel against King George V.
in connection with the publication in
the Paris Liberator of a tale alleging
that the king, when Prince of Wales.
had contracted a morganatic marriage
with the daughter of Admiral Culme-
Seymour at Malta.
In Myths defense it was urged that
If guilty of anything it was seditious
libel, and not criminal libel. Seditious
libel would be political offense.
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USE OF WHO OR WHOM.
Where Grammar Bunks Up Against
idiom and Gets a jolt.

Where Grammar Bunks Up Against
idiom and Gets Jolt.
The employment of the nominative
who" for the accusative In certain
forms Of interrogation has become so
imbedded in common usage that re-
sort, even now, to the strictly orthodox
practice frequently requires, on the
part of educated men. positive effort or
prolonged training. 1t somehow does
not seem natural. In the past assured
ly this nominatiye form, where precise
grammar would require the accusa-
tive. turns up with almost invariable
regularity in works which set out to
represent colloquial speech.
who is it from?' says the mother
in Jane Anstens Pride and Preju-
dice" to her daughter. who has just
received a letter. who is it ike?'
says the heroine Of Jane Eyre" to St.
John Rivers as she shows him the
picture Of Rosamund Oliver. Such ex-
amples could be multiplied by hun
dreds. There are cases, indeed. when
the use of whom" would strike upon
the ears of most of US as painfully
pedantic.
"Who the devil is he talking tor
says Sir Lucius O'Trigger in Sheri,
dams Rivals as he notices Captain
Absolute soliloquizing. To tolerate
whom in place of who" in such a
sentence as the last would require the
speaker to be so thoroughly stepped In
grammar that the sense Of traditional
usage. which has been hardening into
idiom. has at last been completely
overcome. That height Of linguistic
virtue few Of us there are who attain.
Thomas r. Lounsbury In Harpers
Machine
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A Knowing One.

Miss Maude Annesley in her book,
my Partisan Year." tells an excellent
story to illustrate the way French res
taurant keepers try to edo" the tray
cling Englishman.
She once went to very well known
restaurant with an Englishman who
had lived nearly all his life In France.
He wished to give dinner for eight
He studied the menu, decided on what
he wanted and then asked the price
per head.
"Forty-five francs. monsieur" said
the maire d'hotel.
Miss Annesley's friend looked stead
lily at him and remarked. 81 am
Frenchp'
The maitre d'hotel pretended to make
another addition, then said, "Well,
monsieur, we will do it for 40 francs!'
The other replied calmly. II am still
Frenchr'
''Thirty-five francs. then." said the
maitre d'hotel.
II have not changed my nationality"
was the retort, and Miss Annesley says
that the price finally paid was only
% francs per head.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-17
ELECTOR RETURNS SIS

Was Paid For Three Days When 1t
Should Have Been One.
Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 17.-William
H. Irwin, of Altoona, a presidential
elector, sent the state treasurer a
check for S., stating that he had been
paid for three days service as an cleo
tor, when he should have been paid
for only one. The electors get So per
day engaged in travelling and in at
tending the meetings of electors to
cast the ballots
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Founder of tho Japanese Navy.

The founder of the Japanese navy
was an Englishman named Will Ad
ans, who went to the eastern seas as
pilot of a Dutch feet in 1893 and was
cast away in Japan couple Of years
later. He became japanese noble
and constructor of the navy to the
tycoon, but was never allowed to re
turn to England. He died about TWEEN
ty years afterward. very ingeniously
leaving half his property to his wife
and family in England and half his
property to his wife and family in ia
pan. After his death he was deifed-
Exchange.
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LAWYER Convicted of Fraud.

Allentown, Pa, Jan. II. - Attorney
Charles Hauck, of Lehighton, was con-
victed in court at Mauch Chunk on the
charge of making false reports to the
state banking department as secretary
of the two Lehighton Building and
Loan associations which went into re.
ceivers' hands. Sentence was suspend.
ed, pending proceedings looking to-
ward a new trial. At the first trial
last October the jury disagreed.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-01-17
CONFAB
AT STANDST|LL
Powers Delay Presenting Note
TO the Porte.
BULGARIANS ARE EAGER
Troops Are Anxious to Renew War
Against Turkey, Whose Soldiers Are
Deserving AdrianopIe.

London, Jan. 17.-With the collec-
tive note OF the powers still III the
hands of the ambassadors, the peace
negotiations are at a standstlll ana
are likely to remain so for day or TWO
at least.
The delay in delivery is said to be
due to the objection raised by Ger
many to some of the clauses, and the
failure of the German ambassador to
receive final Instructions.
Part of the European press blames
Germany, charging that she Is stand
ing outside the concert of Europe and
playing a game of her own. The am
bassadors at London deny this. One
said:
"This suggestion is wholly unjust.
Thank God, the most promising fea-
ture of the situation Is that all the
powers are marching together"
Considerable difficulty has been ex-
perienced in carrying on an exchange
of views through code kilograms, and
this Is explained to be the real cause
of the delay.
The fact that King Ferdinand OF Bull
garia, with his ministers, journeyed to
Mustapha Pasha for a council of war
with General Savoff and the command
ers of the four Bulgarian armies Is
considered proof that the Bulgarians'
threat to begin the war soon is in
earnest.
DR.. Daneff, the chief Bulgarian en-
voy, has received long cipher teie-
gram from the premier, telling OF King
Ferdinand's visit and describing the
condition of the armies besieging Ad-
rianople and facing Tchatalja. The Bull
garian soldiers, says the premier, are
in high spirits and eager to measure
themselves against their traditional
foes again.
Fugitives, all declaring they are SOL
diers, are escaping from Adrianople in
such numbers that the Bulgarians sus-
pect a strategem on the part of Shu-
kri Pasha, the Turkish commander, to
rid himself of the burden Of feeding
civilians by sending them out as de-
sorting soldiers.
DR.. Daneff handed to M. Jonescu,
the Rumanian minister of the interior,
the Bulgarian reply to the Rumanian
claims respecting the rectification OF
the Debrudja frontier and the future
status of the Vlach communities in the
territory Turkey cedes to Bulgaria. M.
Jonescu will take the reply to Buchar-
est for submission to the cabinet.
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PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR quiet;
winter, clear, $410@4.25; city mills,
fancy, $4.75Q5.25.
RYE FLOUR quiet. at $3.6O@3.75
Der barrel.
WHEAT steady: No. 2 red, 97h4
CSC.
CORN quiet; No. yellow. 56@57c.
OATS firm; No. 2 white, 40k Gale;
lower grades, SSc.
POULTRY: Live steady; hens, $50
1910; old roosters, HOBO. Dressed
firm; choice fowls. Tie; old rOosters,
i2c.
BUTTER firm; fancy creamery, SIC.
EGGS steady; selected, SO q &c.;
nearby, 30c.; western, soc.
POTATOES steady; 7n@73c. bush.
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WOULD CENSOR PRESS

Governor Bease Attacks TiIIman and
an Editor.
Columbia, S. c., Jan. 17.-In spe'
cial message to the legislature, Gov
ernor Cole l.. Blease attacked Senator
B. R. Tillman and Captain w. A. Con
gales, editor of the State.
The attack was the retult of the Till
man letter published two days before
the recent primary.
Newspapers generally were attacked
and legislative restrictions upon the
press were urged by the governor.
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INSURANCE

THE NATIONAL LIVE STOCK IN
SURANCE COMPANY Insures Horses,
Mules and Cattle against loss by DEATH
FROM ANY CAUSE-Fire, Lightning,
cyclone, Accident and Theft. If any
animal sustains broken leg or other
wise injured and has to be killed. WE
PAY THE LOSS.
Take no chances The best costs no
more. If you have Policy in the
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK INSURANCE
COMPANY your Insurance Department
can furnish you With absolute proof OF
your protection. We have q larger
Surplus over all Liabilities than any
other Com pany in the United States.
Our rates are reasonable, Our Policies
are Broad. Our protection is unex-
celIed. In fact my Agency is known
by its
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Charles Major Very III.

Shelbyville, Ind, Jan. 17.-Charles
Major, author of when Knighthood
Was in Flower" and other novels, is
very ill at his home here. He is suffer
ing with liver trouble and has not left
his room for eight weeks. He has been
out very little since he returned from
England, where he went for his health
last summer.
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Some Bio Numbers.

II you fill tiny vessel one centine
ter cube with hydrogen corpuscles yor
can place therein. in round numbers
FIVE hundred and twenty-f octillions
Of them. If these corpuscles are allow
ed to run out of the vessel at the rate
of 1000 per second 1t will require sew
enteen quintillions of years to empty it
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Live Stock Markets.

PITTSBURGH (Union Stock Yards)
CATTLE steady; choice, $500
8.75; prime, $8.10@S.40.
SHEEP higher; prime wethers, $6.10
@6.25; culis and common, $2.50M $50;
lambs, $5.50@9; veal calves. $11.5O@
II.
HOGS lower; prime heavies, $500
IT'S; mediums, heavy and light York
ers, $7.70@7.75;- pigs, $725@7.50;
toughs, $6.25@6.S5.
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Posse Hunt Girls Assailant

Bethlehem, Pa, Jan. 1.-THE police
and posse from Hokendaukua are out
looking for Joseph Fry, aged thirty.
five years, of Catasauqua, who is &C.
cused Of attacking the fourteen-year.
old daughter of Mrs Conrad Schlenk,
a widow
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Will Admit Women.

London, Jan. 17.-Women are to be
admitted to the Royal Geographical
Society on the same terms as men. A
referendum among the members show.
ed a vote of three to on Elm favor Of
admitting the women.
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Five Killed on Steamship.

London, Jan. ia wireless dis
patch received at Faval says that five
persons have been killed by the expIo-
sion of an uptake boiler on the steam
ship Madonna. which was proceeding
toward Algiers
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Burial Lots For Sale.

A limited number of burial lots
In the addition to Christ Protestant
Episcopal Churchyard will be sold
to persons who are not Pensioners
of Great Choptank Parish. A dia-
gram OF the lots. together with
prices Of same, can be seen at my
office in the Daily Banner Building,
Cambridge. Md.
w. Irving Mace,
Adv. 1-13-1mo. Chairman Com.
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One of tho Ways,

"Who was that seedy individual !
saw you give dollar to?"
IAN old literary friend of mine; au
thor of Ten Thousand Ways of Max
ing Money"
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Srinoino IL Home.

Her Father-What are you and young
Shortleigh going to live on In case you
marry? His Daughter-Well. If you
must know, papa, look In the mirror
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II believe" said the CHEEKY philoSo
pher. that for every single thing you
give away two come back to you"
THAT'S my experience" said Pham
ley. Last June gave away m!
daughter, and she and her husba nd
came back to us in August"
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Lucky,

Dentist prodding patients gum in
search Of fragment of root)-Funny
l don't seem quite to feel it. Patient
dronical in spite Of the pain)-You're in
lucki
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She-And when you visited Germany
did you go up the Rhine? He-Rather
right up to the very top, and magnifl
cent view there is from the summit!
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Mind and Matter.

Teacher-ls there any connection be
tween mind and matter? Small Boy
Yes; If a boy doesn't mind there'lI be-
something the matter.-Chicago News
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The average woman harps on
man.
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Men are born to succeed. not to tai
-Thoreau
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EXCHANGE Seat $4,000.

New York, Jan. ia seat on the
New York stock exchange was sold for
$4,000, the lowest price recorded since
1908.
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POPULISTIC IDEA
MEETS APPROVAL
Congressman Bathrick Plans
System For Farm Loans.
EFFECT OF APPROPRIATIONS,

Suggested That Expenditures Have
Brought North and South Together
In "One Grand Raid" - President
Elect Causes Loekjaw Among States
mon Who Visit Him.
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There's nothing but what's bearable
as long as a man can work.-Eliot.
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LEE FONG
Star Laundry

We do our work by hand and
guarantee the best grade of work.
Will call for Laundry at any time
or place. All laundry that is
brought on Thurs. or Friday a. m.
will be done at six o'clock Satur-
day and customers are earnestly
requested to call for same as soon
as convenient.
LEE FONG
Popular Street.
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Gives Them Lockjaw

1T looks as If Woodrow Wilson had
kicked case Of lockjaw into Hoke
Smith and those other Democrats who
have been making the pilgrimage to
Trenton" remarked Charlie Carlin of
Virginia. 1T is noticeable that they
have nothing to say when they return"
Governor Wilson not only seems able
to keep his own counsel. but he makes
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-18
STEAMER SINKS IN
HARBOR COLLISION
Captain Prevents Panic When
Vessels Crash.

Chicago. July 1S.-The steamers
Sheboygan and Iowa of the Goodrich
line collided in a fog at the mouth of
the harbor here.
The sheboygan was only slightly
damaged. but the Iowa, with a hole
thirty feet In diameter In her bow,
after being assisted by tugs to her
wharf In the river. finally sank. No
n was killed or injured. The finan-
cial loss on the Iowa and her cargo
will be heavy.
Both ships were heavily laden with
freight. Before the crew OF the Iowa
had fairly sighted the oncoming craft
she Was upon them. There was a
splintering crash as the Sheboygan
struck the starboard bow OF the Iowa.
The water rushed into her hold In a
flood and the vessel began to sink by
the head.
From the state rooms OF the She
boygan rushed the alarmed passen-
gers who crowded to the rail. The fog
Increased the fear until II bordered on
panic. Captain and crew went among
the passengers and attempted to quiet
them. A number OF them made a rush
for the lifeboats but were restrained.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-18
AGED WOMAN IN SUICIDE PACT


San Jose, Cal, July 1s.-After feed
Ing Mrs. Olive J. Smith. eighty-six
years old. a drug for s~eventy-two
hours. and writing down the story OF
her lingering death, Stephen Mastick,
a tuberculosis invalid, threw himself
into a shallow lake at Monterey. The
body OF the woman was found first
and searchers later discovered Mas.
ticks corpse In the lake.
Letters signed by the pair said that
they had arranged a suicide pact and
told OF a celebration OF their inten-
tons in Monterey last Friday, when
they had Ice cream, pie and milk.
The woman has been supporting
Mastick on a $12 monthly pension
for several months. Mastick was
twenty.nine years old.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-18
AUTO IN RIVER; ONE DEAD
Racine Firemen Save Companion Of
Victim.

Racine. Wis, July 1S.-An automo-
bile operated by the %Brotherson Taxi
company and driven by Walter Bas-
singer. who, in company with Thomas
Mcclellan, twenty-three years old. was
driving to dinner, crashed through the
railing of the Fourth street bridge
and plunged into Root river. Both
men we're carried beneath the water.
Charles Dodd, a city fireman. jumped
into the river and succeeded In res
cuing Bassinger.
Mcclellan never returned to the sur.
face and IL Is presumed his body Is
entangled In the wrecked machine at
the river bottom.