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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
Live Stock Prices,

CHICAGO-HOGS lower; bulk of
mixed, ss.55as.s5; heavy. sS.Sogs:20;
rough, $S.30@8.50; pigs, $6.75@S.40.
CATTLE unsettled beeves, $7.25@
1880; steers, $6.40@9.10; stockers and
feeders, $5.50@S.10; cows and heifers,
e3;75@9:30; calves, $S.50@u.75.
lings. s6Q7; lambs, $6.60Q8.55.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14

1t is strange, that the newspap-
ers persist in making alleged jokes
about mothers-in-law, when nobody
living ever saw anything funny
about having a mother-in-law.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
The Old Style.
No, this is not Esperanto:

Koom oontaw theZ yelauoo sandz
And then taak handZ;
Koortsd hwen eeoo haav and kist
The wayld waavz hwst.
Nor is it the song Of boy scout who
Is initiating the below Of the hedge
hog and at the same time whistling
between his teeth. No. 1t is Shake
speare's lyric. Come unto these yellow
sands" etc, as rewritten after the
Elizabethan style.-LondOn Globe.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
ALSACE WOUNDED
CROWDH0SP|TALS
German Losses at Mue|hauSen
Were Heavy,
"A REPORT BY WIRELESS
Message Received at Tuckerton, N. j.
Says Kaiser's Forces Drove French
From Alsace.

From AiSace.
Basel. Aug. 1.-THE almost ncredl-
ble number of wounded at the battle
of Nuelhausen, in Alsace, have found
the hospital facilities inadequate.
Besides the hospitals, schools are
filled and churches and hotels nave
been taken over to house the wound
ed troops. Special trains have been
chartered to convey others to Muef
hansen, st. Ludwig and other towns.
The German losses are estimated al
from 5000 to 10000.
Several German army corps are es-
sembled around Metz and extend IN
the form of a triangle from Metz TO
Treves and Luxembourg, while a still
stronger force is stretched across Bel
gian Luxembourg and Namur province.
The German right flank rests on the
Meuse river near Huy. Three army
corps with supporting cavalry are es'
tablished on the left bank. This army
threatens to attack Brussels or invade
France in the direction OF Mons, IN
the Belgian province of Hainaut.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14

A woman finds it difficult to ex-
plain why she prefers one man to
all Others
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14

When you meet a fellow who
thinks he knows it all, it is ten
to one, that he is not married.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14

No other person in love acts so fool
Ishly as the person in love with him
self
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
Mlddles Back From Cruise

Norfolk, Va, Aug. 1.-THE battle.
ships Illinois and Missouri have ar.
rived with midshipmen back from
their annual cruise.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
PROCLAMATION
Proposed Amendment to the Constts
ton of Maryland.

Whereas, at the January Session of the
General Assembly of Maryland, held in
the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine
Hundred and Fourteen, an Act was pass
ed proposing an Amendment to Section
of the Constitution of the State of Nary
land. which said Act is known and deSig-
mated as Chapter S45 of the Acts of Mary
land OF 1914 and is in the words and lig-
ureS following:
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14

cr shame at sight of hira,
scene rushes on to its tragic de
C osummate and pro-
fame folly, inordinate greed of pew
er, imagines it can thwart Omnipo-
tence and continue in undisputed
possession of the venerable and au-
thoritative ecclesiastical establish
mentb y putting out of the way
this humble claimant to all its pre-
negatives and immunities. Rooted 10
the ground as before the Judgment
seat of the great assfZe, Jesus bids
the Hebrew oligarchy pass judg-
ment upon itself in the person of
the wicked husbandmen. AS a des-
perate bluff, the rulers nonchalant-
ly make their reply as if not recog-
nizimg their portraiture. But the
people, more honest, deprecatingly
crV God forbid
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
Your System
Dem an DIS

an occasional corrective to insure
good health and strength. Success
is almost impossible for the veal
and ailing. Enjoyment~Is not
for the sick. Impaired health
and serious~s icknesses usually
begin IN deranged conditions of the
stomach, liver, kidneys or bowels.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
Young Peoples Devotional Service.

Our Social Life For Christ.
while they communed together
and reasoned, Jesus Himself drew
near and went with them" 1t is
a paradox that one of the most
lonely and melancholy of men
should have written the most SUI
Perb description of the charm and
advantage of social life. William
Cowper declares that man in So
ciety is like a flower blown in its
native bed, and that only there can
his faculties be expanded and reach
their proper use.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
New Works First Mayor.

The first mayor Of New York, Thorn
as Willett, was indicted into office in
June, 1866. Governor Richard Nicolls,
the first English executive of the fu-
ture Empire State, was responsible for
the appointment Of Willett, who was
wealthy merchant and trader and had
a town house in New York and coun-
try estate in Rhode Island, where his
body was buried in 1914. Willett, who
was shrewd business man, governed
New York honestly aud we'll and after
! his first term Of one year was made
mayor again in 1867. The municipal
government Of which be was the head
was composed of five aldermen, three
Dutch and two English, and sheriff,
although police duties devolved largely
upon the mayor, and he was police
magistrate as well.-New York World.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
Near Fatality.

AN you were at MacDougsEs~fasf
NIGHT? What kind O. mah--<SheY'
"Leebral WI hi~~hisky. but the
)auality a> That INDIFFERENT | vera
lnear ~ some"-Exchange
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
WEATHER EVERYWHERE.

observations of United States
Gather bureaus taken at p. m
yesterday follow:
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14


nizing their portraiture. But the
people, more honest, deprecatingly
cry, God Forbid
The Teachers Lantern.
A dreadful sight. A man deliber-
ately stripping a considerable piece
of skin from the bare and health
full limb of another. Merciless?
Yes, so it seems, until you find he
is transplanting the skin to cover
the scar of a yaricose ulcer on the
limb of his patient. So Jesus fair
ly flayed the Hebrew hierarchy
alive in the terrific parallels of Pas
sion week. But it was the severi-
ty of mercy. He made them see, las
in an unerring mirror, the odious
nature of their motives, the despic-
able character of their methods, the
irretrievable ruin their persistence
| would inevitably bring upon Hebrew
| Church and State. He was refiners'
| fire and fullerS' soap, as Malachi
said he would be- Alas, it was in
vain. God is still planting vine
yards-vineyards, national, eccles-
iastical, and personal. There are
the evidences of his painstaking.
| Hedge, tower, and press,a ALI is COM
plete. The vineyards are''let out"
| The infinite Proprietor withdraws
| himself, to let his tenants work out
| the problem of the harvest and
the disposition of it independently.
History repeats itself. The tenants
| forget they are only lessees. They
scan the fruits of their professional
| and mercantile successes, and are
ready to cry with one of old, "Is
not this great Babylon that l have
builded?" They treat with silent
disdain or active indignity the
his demand for tithes. Thus many
who are dreadlfully scandalized at
| Israel's wicked and ungrateful
| course are verify guilty after the
same manner themselves. They ut
terly failed to apprehend and live
| the principle of stewardship. They
hold everything as by a fee simple,
not as in trust. Their little dole
| to charity has to be pinched or
screwed out of them. And when at
| length they loose their grip upon
/ it, they hold the Lord under ever
lasting obligation to them, as if
they had given him something of
theirs, and not his own. But the
vineyard is not merely money. 1t
is time, talent, influence. 1t is
ones self-the entire personality.
If we live, it is as unto the Lord.
The patience and goodness of the
great Proprietor, with whom each
one of us must have a reckoning,
has-a 1exely .,crti t s = - r., Is
dealing with Israel. His patience
is lasting, but not everlasting. The
siege and ruin of Jerusalem and the
dispersion of the Jews, is the stand
ing, imperishable example of how
God deals with wicked husbandmen.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14
De0bany
Pills

are recognized all over the world
to be the best corrective of troubles
of the digestive organs. They tone
the stomach, stimulate the liver, reg
ulate the bowels. They cleanse the
system, purify the blood and
act in the best and safest way
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-14

An Act to amend Section A. Part VII.
of Article 4. title, "'Sherltfs, of the Com
stitution of this State, and to provide for
the submission of said amendment to the
qualified voters OF this State for adoption
or rejection.
eraI Assembly OF Maryland. TIL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06
APPROVED BY THE PEOPLE.

Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, is right. The election, now
that the returns are made known,
show that the people have confidence
in the Wilson policies No party ever
before has done SO well in an of year
after revising the tariff. Had it not
been true that the public is pleased
with the constructive work of the ad-
ministration the control of congress
would have been taken away. As 1t
is, the president Will be enabled to
continue his program without being
harassed by a hostile majority in
either house.
An analysis Of the returns from the
Fourteenth district brings out the fact
that Congressman Tayenner's show
ing was more remarkable than at first
appeared. He carried Rock Island
county-something that no democratic
candidate for the Office has done in
% years. The progressive candidate
did not cut any figure, for Mr.. Tav-
enner received a larger vote, both in
the county and IN the district. than
he did two years ago. Notwithstanding
this was an of year. In 1912 Taven-
ner received 5.Os3 in this county and
this year ne received 6.1O4. In the
district two years ago he received
1904. while this year, with a pro-
gressive candidate in the field. he re-
ceived 1928.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06

The road building specialists of the
department of agriculture. in Bulletin
No. 1856. entitled Highway Bonds"
have the following to say about the
benefit of a well constructed highway
to property owners whose property is
not directly on the road to be i'm
proved:
I'm planning the highway system or
the main market ROADS, IL will be
found necessary to omit many roads
the improvement of which is greatly
desired by abutting land owners. The
fact that such property holders must
pay a tax for the bond issue is only
an apparent injustice, for If the high
way system is well planned the en-
tire country will feel the benefits of
the improvement. As. a rule, main
market roads reach the majority of
producing areas, and when they are
improved all land values tend to in
crease.
The fact that cities and larger
towns are frequently taxed for bond
issues TO build highways outside OF
their own limits is sometimes made
point of debate in bond elections. 1t is
argued that because a large part OF
the county wealth is within the cor
porate limit of such cities and towns.
highway bond money should also be
used to construct their streets. 1t is
even urged that the expenditure
should be made proportionate to the
assessed valuation within the city
limits. If the proceeds of highway
bond issues were distributed in this
way their purpose in many cases
would be defeated. The primary OBJ
ject of the county highway bond is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06
EDIsON's GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT

The recent visit of Thomas A. Edi,
son to his boyhood home near Detroit,
Mich, must have been one of unusual
interest to him. From the fact that he
started in life as a peanut and pop
corn vender" on a train running be-
tween Detroit and Port Hudson, his
ambition led him to become a tele-
graph operator, and through the study
of electricity in connection with his
duty as an operator he developed a
genius that has made him the wizard
of Menlo Park"
The greatest invention of Mr.. Edi-
son is perhaps the incandescent lamp
at least it has done more than any
other to make his name famous in the
field of science.
1t is worthy of note in this connec-
ton that the thirty-flfth anniversary
of the day on which Edison triumph ed
over all difficulties and produced an
time ago. It was on the 21st of Octo-
Der, 1879, that the first incandescent
lamp successfully performed its work
at Mr.. Edison's laboratory at Menlo
Park, New Jersey.
All the electric lighting in the world
dates its existence from the 21st day
of October, thirty-five years ago.
1t was a small beginning, but it
grew until today there is not a town of
any considerable size in all the civil
lized world where the inhabitants do
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06
mLUMINANTs NOT HARMFUL

The eye is of such supreme lmpor-
lance TO man and its mechanism is
so delicate that It is quite naturally
regarded as peculiarly susceptible to
all sorts of offending agencies and
exposed to a myriad of unsupported
dangers. Many of these fears and be
liefs are well founded. Some of them,
on the other hand, have led TO unwar-
rantable conclusions. Certain of the
modern illuminants have acquired the
reputation of being dangerous by rea-
son of injurious effects of the ultra
violet radiation delivered by them.
Drs. Verhoeff and Bell of Boston
have published a summary of an in
vestigation of the effects of radiation
on the eye. The vital question is not
whether a light source gives ultra
violet radiations. but whether it gives
them of such kind, and in sufficient
quantity, as to injure The eye. They
find that no artificial source of light
used for illuminating purposes con-
tains enough ultraviolet radiation to
involve the slightest danger to the
eye.
Experiments on rabbits, monkeys,
etc, and observations on the human
subject prove that the retina may be
flooded for an hour or more with light
of extreme intensity. without any sign
of permanent injury. Only when the
concentration of light involves enough
heat is the retina liable to be injured.
Actual experiments made on the hui
man eye show conclusively that no
concentration of radiation on the ret
ina from any artificial illuminant is
sufficient to produce injury under any
practical conditions. Glass-blowers'
cataract, often charged to specific "a
diation, ultraviolet or other. is re-
garded as probably due to the over
heating of the eye as a whole with
consequent disturbed nutrition of the
lens
1t is comforting to be told, says The
Journal of the American Medical AS
sociation. that commercial illuminanCs
are entirely free from dare under
ordinary conditions of their use. The
glass enclosing globes used in all
practical commercial ilIumilants are
amply sufficient to reduce radiations
very far below the danger point.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06

the democrats in an "off year. can be
accounted a fine victory. The result OF
the election shows that the people
have faith in Woodrow Wilson and in
tend TO back him up in his policies.
The presidents splendid record in the
face OF unheard of difficulties will be
better appreciated two years from
now than at the present time. The
European war coming on just when
the democratic tariff was proving its
true worth and necessitating the i'm
position of a war tax in this country
no doubt contributed TO some extent
in cutting down the democratic major
ity in congress. The war tax is a
necessity and its utility will be real
lied more and more. Two years ago
the country was swept by a demo
cratic landslide. In Tuesdays election
the results being more normal shows
n most substantial inclination to de
mocracy and one that is most en-
couraging.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06

Prevent What Can't Be Cured.
William Brady,M.D.

There are a lot of diseases which
physicians cannot cure. In fact there
isn't a single disease for which we
have an absolute specific. Even ma
laria does not always respond to the
quinine treatment, though quinine is
generally cited as typical of specific
cures.
Nowadays no educated physician, of
whatever school, imagines he can
cure anything. The word cure is
being handled with kid gloves. If
the old time doctors imagined they
really cured the various fevers with
their medicines it was because their
patients demanded cures. Today the
public is more intelligent. Nobody
expects a miracle from the modern
healer. What is expected from a
doctor today is good advice. His
first duty is to teach his patients and
all others who come under the
sphere of his influence how to live.
Insofar as he can succeed in that
the modern Hippocrates ruins his
own trade-although his enemies and
enemies of the community invariably
charge that he is merely endeavoring
to build business for himself.
The meanest charge our anti"
friends utter is that the principal
reason why doctors advocate and
practice vaccination against smallpox
is the dollar. Does any one imagine
a doctor can purchase vaccine virus,
gauze, bandages, etc, vaccinate his
patient, and dress the arm from three
to ten times afterward, and profit
financially by the transaction, on a
fee OF 81? What doctor could afford
to offer three office dressings for a
dollar? Not a competent man, surely
What is Prevented Need Not Be En-
dured.
Just as a reminder we will set
dwon here some of the diseases
which are now preventable and in
most communities prevented by the
efforts Of doctors employed by city, /
state or national governments:
Yellow fever-by mosquito exter- !
mination.
Bubonic plague-by excluding flea
infested rats coming from infected |
ports-
Cholera-bv detecting and quaran-
timing Carriers" on shiDboard.
Any one who can doubt that these |
plaques are prevented by sanitary i
measures discovered and applied by |
medical men must be a Christian /
Scientist indeed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06

, not enjoy the convenience and com
fort of Illuminating their streets and
residences by simply pushing a button
and the invention of Edison does the
rest
Growth of this system of lighting
is shown by the fact that in 1880 an
employee of the Edison factory carried
all the incandescent lamps in the
world from Menlo Park to New York
city in a market basket on his arm.
A year later it was considered a won
derful feat when the small factory
turned out thousand lamps a day. To
day the great Edison lamp factory at
Harrison turns out $4,000 lamps an
hour and has made more than $780,
100000
The incandescent lamp did not
come as the result simply of a lucky
discovery. His biographer says that
Edison worked twenty hours a day
for weeks, backed by his little group
of faithful employees, testing out lamp
materials, following different lines of
research, and blindly cropping through
the dark to the goal of successful il
Illumination. Edison took his meals
standing at the work bench and slept
on a roll top desk, and his men found
rest whenever and wherever they
could
That is the kind of ethusiasm that
brings results, and Mr. Edison is en-
titled now to more vacations than he
takes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06
BENEFITS OF GOOD ROADS

sue is to build county market roads
and not to improve city streets, al
though a high percentage of the as
sessed valuation may be city proper
ty. 1t is now known that the expendi
ture of city taxes on country roads is
sound principle and that 1t is one
Of the best features of state aid TOT
highways. In Massachusetts, the city
of Boston pays possibly 40 per cent
OF the total state highway fund, but
not a mile of state aid highway has
been built within its limits. New forh
City also pays about so per cent OF
the cost of the state highway bonds
Some state laws prohibit the expen
diture of proceeds of state highway
bonds within corporate limits of cit
les or towns.
"The improvement of market roads
results in improved marketing condl-
tons which benefit the city. Most cit
les are essentially dependent upon
the surrounding country for their
development of suburban property for
residence purposes is also dependent
upon highway conditions and IL is De-
coming evident yearly tat whatever
makes for an increase in rural pop
ulation must be encouraged. since
the introduction of motor traffic,
country highways are used to an IN
creasing extent by city residents. In
fact, the cost of maintaining many
country highways has been greatly in
creased by the presence of city-owned
motor vehicles. The general advance
in facilities for doing country bust
ness from town headquarters when
roads are improved is no inconsidera-
BILE factor in the commercial life of
the community"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-06
COUNTY FARM LEAGUE.

That Rock Island county, If it in
tends to secure a farm agent in the
next year or two, should apply at once
to the state agricultural college for a
competent man is the suggestion of
fered by H. II. Gross, president of the
National Fertility league in letter to
The Argus. Mr.. Gross attention was
called to Rock Island county condi-
lions through a recent editorial in
this newspaper commenting upon the
fact that the Clinton county farm
league had been sustained by the Gin
ton Chamber of Commerce, which is
now demanding that the farmers
themselves pay at least so per cent of
the cost of maintenance. The sugges-
ton was offered that it might be pro-
fitable for the commercial organiza-
tons of Rock Island, Moline and East
Moline to take hold of the financing of
such an undertaking here, keeping il
going till the farmers themselves saw
the need for it and thus became will
ing to shoulder the heavy end of the
expense.
That this expense in future need
not be very heavy is pointed out by
Mr. Gross, because of the aid which
will come from the federal government
as a result of the enactment of the
Lever agricultural extension act. The
head of the Soil Fertility league
writes:
Il beg to inclose you a pamphlet
covering the Lever agricultural extern
sion act that was approved by the
president on the Sth of May and came
into effect on the first of July. Illinois
has already received from the federal
government, $4,000. as the states
first participation under this act. and
the next fiscal year this amount of
$4,000 will be increased by an addi-
tional sum of s26,2 200, and the fund will
grow from year TO year until within
six years and continuous thereafter
Illinois will receive approximately
$4,000 a year from the federal gov
eminent, provided the state, either
itself or through county or other or
Plantations shall match the federal ap-
preparation dollar for dollar for the
entire federal appropriation for the
state. except $4,000. This enactment
is for the purpose OF covering exact
ly such conditions as prevail in Gin
ton county, where this work was start
ed and no provisions made for carry
ing IL on. The Lever enactment pro-
vides a permanent fund for farm ex-
tension work; places IL under the
charge of the agricultural colleges;
and provides for a rapid extension OF
the plan until every county in the
United States is supplied with a cap
able man 10 serve as a farm adviser.
and to take TO the actual farmers the
latest and best methods of farm opera-
tons known, and help them to apply
the same.
Rock Island county should apply
to the state college of agriculture for
man to do this work. As capable
men are limited in numbers. II may he
year or two before a man could be
had"