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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24
ales of the Town
THE IDAHO MUsKETEER.

| love the sweet old summer time,
But summer would be sweeter
If we could Danish from our cline
The Idaho muskeeter.
think that wicked little bird
Deserves uncommon mention;
MY animosity, he's stirred,
And drawn my whole attention.
My hiae is punctured full of holes
And even as I'm writing
(Dodgast their crazy little souls)
Musketeers | am fighting.
With battle cries that fill the air
The savage little doggers
Come swooping down from every
where
And stab me with their augers.
Dog-snatch the rotten twisted luckl
Excuse my thoughtless cussing),
But this sure knocks a feller's pluck,
This scratching and this fussing.
I'll swear I've killed this very day
At least a half million;
And still with genuine dismay
see about billion.
From airy regions far remote
Come hosts of fierce musketeers;
Sayl this sure gets a feller's goat,
My courage slowly teeters.
| think I'd better go to bed;
But first I'll say prayer,
And then I'll cover up my head
And sweat, and roll, and swear.
'Oh, now lay me down to sleep
(Gol darn that pesky skeeter),
Ten thousand skeeters on me leap,
q hate punk 'repeaterD.
If | should die before | wake
(Oh, by the great Saint PeterD
pray the Lord their backs to break
Owe GOT to kill that skeeter).
Presley Praxton.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24
Life Is TOO Short.


Life is too short for any vain regretting.
Let dead deli hit bury its dead | say.
And let us go upon our way forgetting
The Joys and sorrows of each Yesterday
Between the swift SUMS rising and its set
ting
We have no time for useless tears or fret
ting.
Life is too short.
Life is too short for any bitter feeling
Time is the best avenger if we wait
The years speed by and on their wings
bear healing.
We have no room for anything like hate.
This solemn truth the low mounds seem
revealing
That thick and fast about our feet are
stealing.
Life is too short.
Life is too short for aught but high en-
deavor-
Too short for spite. but long enough for
love.
And love lives on forever and forever.
1t links the worlds that circle on above.
'Tis Gods first law. the universes lever.
In his vast realm the radiant souls sigh
never.
Life is too short.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24
Liver Trouble.

81 am bothered with liver trouble
about twice a year." writes Joe Ding
man, Webster City, Iowa. II have
pains in my side and back and an aw-
full soreness in my stomach. l heard
of Chamberlain's Tablets and tried
them. By the time l had used half
a bottle of them / was feeling fine
and had no signs of pain" Obtain
able everywhere.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

There is such a thing as keeping
poor by buying bargains.
The most satisfactory religion is
the one that teaches that our enemies
will go to hell when they die.
Give him a mirror and a red neck
tie and a man will entertain himself
indefinitely
In boydom, a mollycoddle is a boy
who can't dive without holding his
nose.
The fellow who casually hangs him
self because the weather is too hot,
may be jumping from the frying pan
into the fire.
There is at least this to be said
for the women: When a woman leaves
her husband she usually has mighty
good reason.
Although James Whitcomb Riley
was a poet, he left an estate of $780,
000 But then you must remember
he was bachelor.
The BARRIERS are not complaining
about the mail order houses getting
their trade. Two things you can't
send for are a haircut and a shave.
4 4
Eastern dress goods manufacturers
warn us that the supply of women's
clothing may run out. May we in
quire what became of it?
A correspondence school in dane
ing probably would have the smallest
attendance; there are times when the
student wants to get close to his
work.
81 think our new sergeant-major is
a bit of fool, sir. Iasked him who
held the Pass of Thermopylae, and he
said he didn't" "Hal hal ha! And
bet the old rascal did, you know"
No way of hugging girl and driv-
ing a motor car at the same time with
perfect safety has yet been discovered
in spite of persistent research. But
has anyone ever tried letting her
drive?
"Hey, Doc" called citizen to a
professional appearing stranger who
was passing the house. "Come in and
see if you can fix up my brother-in-
law. He's having fit or something.
But my dear sir, am veterinary
surgeon" Jaw, that's all right
Didn't you hear me say that this is
my brother-m-law?
"People can get along on mighty
little when they have to-" remarked
Old Bill Misgivens. "Out here in
Idaho, when | first settled. times were
tolerable tight. We hadn't any mon
ey and no way to borrow any. So we
just had to get along. For meat, well,
there were plenty of jackrabbits, so
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24
Notice to Subscribers.
CURRENT COMMENT.

If one man in five in this country
six months ago favored government
ownership Of railroads, it is probably
not far off to say that one man in
four feels that way now. And if the
mediation Of the president in the pres
ent difficulty fails, it is good gamble
that one man in three will be for
government ownership. If the dead
lock becomes a strike and traffic is
tied up from one end of the continent
to the other, two men in three in the
United States will be in favor of gov
eminent ownership of railroads. In
other words, not all the argument pro
and con for half a generation has
had the influence on public opinion
in regard to this question of railroad
ownership that the now threatened
general tieup is having. The country
cannot tolerate a situation which at
any time may stop business from one
ocean to the other.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

what might have happened in Mexico
must always be purely matter Of
speculation and guesswork.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24
Life is too short.

No Use as a Witness.
The lamentabe case of John Poor
Dog. an Indian accused of stealing
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

The New YORK word is ieaftully
wrought up by Gov. Hughes declara-
ton for woman suffrage by the direct
route. "The people of the states are
to be deprived of their sovereign
power" the World exclaims. 1t de-
scribes Gov. Hughes plan as follows:
Mr.. Hughes proposes that the Unit
ed States shall commit a new and
greater blunder in the way of federal
control of the franchise by the adop
ton of an amendment TO the consti-
tuition giving the vote to women in all
states. This is to be done by act of
congress and by act of SO state legis-
latures without a referendum, and
without any Of the processes by which
the franchise has hitherto been CON
ferred by the various states. 1t is to
be done by a method which gives Ne !
vada, with a population of 81 1915, the |
same power as New York, with a pop |
ulation Of 9,113,279. 1t is a measure
to enable Idaho to say who shall vote
in eleeting a mayor of New York City |
and Montana to say who shall vote in |
an alderman in Buffalo.
In short, 1t IS to be done the way
the constitution Of the United States
provides. With all its alarms and
wonder in contemplating this aston
ishing proposition, the World does not
stop to note that it is the constitu-
tional way. 1t is the way the income
tax amendment was adopted, and the
way the amendment for the direct
election of United States senators was
adopted. 1t was the way the negro
acquired the ballot, and is the way
that women will acquire the same
right. As to the power of Idaho or
Arizona or Nevada. all that is con-
lained in the constitution New York
never has had more of vote in the
United States senate than any other
state. New York may not think it
Just; but it is the American way--it is
according to the constitution.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

Taxation of land values, with ex-
emption of improvements, is now to
be tried in Sydney, New South Wales,
capital of that commonwealth and a
city larger than Boston. 1t will be
an experiment worth watching. In
North Dakota the Republican nominee
for governor is running on similar
platform - abolishiing taxes on
provements and personal property and
taxation of land values and franchises.
This is not the "single tax" exactly,
but is the same in principle. In fact,
as conservative a city as New York
has adopted a tax policy that squints
toward single tax The assessment of
improvements of real estate is to be
gradually reduced and the assessment
of the underlying land value increas-
ed Why not? 1t was not the Aston
family who gave to Aston real estate
so prodigious an imitation of value in
the last so or 100 years.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

The more Gov. Hughes emphasizes
economy in government, good men
in every office, elimination of pork,
making every dollar 90 a hundred
cents work, his proposed "responsi-
Bile budget" plan, the stronger does
his candidacy become with the great
body Of voters. The fact is apparent
that there's not much to choose be-
tween Wilson preparedness" and
Hughes preparedness" so far as that
much touted issue goes. Whether
Hughes, as president, would have pro-
tested against the occupation of Bel
GUM and got closer in to the war is
an academic" question at this stage
of the game. We can't go back and
make history over; but the future is
what interests the audience in this
campaign. Things might have been
better in Mexico had Hughes been
president for the last three years;
but while the Mexican revolution and
what happens at home in the conduct
of a government of 100 million intel
ligent, busy people is more important
as an issue of the voting booth. And
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

. HE very littlest thing in the
world which has been measur-
ed and the very biggest thing
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

No way of hugging a girl and driv-
ing motor car at the same time with
perfect safety has yet been discovered
in spite of persistent research. But
has anyone ever tried letting her
drive?
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-24

81 think our new 6ergeant-major Is
a bit of a fool, sir asked him who
held the Pass of Thermopylae, and he
said he didn't" "Hal ha! hal And
bet the old rascal did, you know
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
May RUN BAY BOATS
Would Have a Court Appointee OPP
crate Vessels-AlSO Want Pennsy
To Keep OFF.

| The power of the courts has been
invoked by stockholders of the Mary
land, Delaware and Virginia Railway
Company and the Baltimore, Chesa-
l.peake and Atlantic to prevent the
discontinuance of the two lines I'M
der an order of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in bill filed in
| Circuit Court No. 2, Baltimore.
Townsend Scott & Son, bankers
and brokers, holders of 1882 shares
and Virginia line, valued at $149,-
100, are the petitioners, and they
claim that the order of the Commits
sion, under the Panama canal act,
by which the lines are ordered to
ril l, will practically dissolve the
companies, entailing a great sacrifice
to the stockholders and others asso-
ciated in the service of the lines.
The Court is asked to assume en-
tire jurisdiction in the matter and
appoint receivers for the two lines so
that the railroad corporation may be
compelled to perform it's duties to
the public.
The receivers, if appointed, are not
Ouly W dUullHlStfdl0 tu0 dldlTS VI
the companies, but to operate the
steamboat and railroad lines as
going concern, and to have full pow
er to protect the interests of the
creditors, stockholders, bondholders
and others, and to bring, conduct or
defend any suits that may arise, un-
til new interests can be secured eth
er by sale or reorganization.
the officers of the railroad corpora
ton from interfering with the prop
erty of the two lines, the assets are
to be marshaled and, if necessary,
sold.
Judge Bond before whom the bill
was laid did not sign the usual pre-
liminary order requiring the defen-
dants to show cause why the relief
asked should not be granted, but, it
is understood, that the matter will
be taken up by the Court today
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
Forward! March!

Tired of camp life, the Grace
Church people have begun a march
in the conquest for souls. Eighty
five have already given their names
as workers in the campaign. Many
will be listening for the returns. To
win will be a glorious victory; to
lose, a pitiless shame.
No Retreat.
The drummer boy, who never
learned to beat a retreat, helped to
win many victories. Let no one grow
faint-hearted and turn back. Let us
burn all bridges behind us, so that
retreat will be impossible. Have
campaign to victory in spite of diff
Guilty or hindrance of any kind.
Suggestions From The Devil.
The devil will be ready with many
suggestions, as to our fitness, ouI
weakness, and our opportunities. Lei
us stop our ears to all of these, and
hear the call of the Master: ''Son
go work today in My vineyard" II
the work be difficult and hard al
times, let us lose not sight of the
fact that the compensations are
many and great. go we also into
the vineyard, and whatsoever is RICH
I will give you"
Expect Much.
We have set out to get one hun
dred souls by April 9th into tn.
Kingdom and into the church. There
will be enough to say, I'VE can't d.
it," Let us go on singing oul
chorus, 1--WE can, we can, and b!
Gods help, we will" Let us maxi
the motto of John Eliot our own
pray and pains by faith in Jesu
Christ can do anything"
Push, Pull, or Get Out of The Way
We do not need critics or censor
or fault-fnders. We need men an,
women who will do something TO
the salvation of the lost, and for tn
glory of God. Time is flying, oppor
tunities are going, and judgment i
drawing nigh. Let every child o
God help this campaign along. Push
If you can't push, Pull! If yo1
can't pull, get out of the way!
H. w. DUNKLEY.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
THE DAILY BANNER


CAMBRIDGE, MD, MAR. IS, 1915
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13

SEE US FOR, DRESS GOODS: Gaberdines,
Checks, Serges, Popins GRANTEES aud Stripe Suitng
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
Levin Richard Seward.

Mr.. Levin Richard Seward died
yesterday afternoon, at 2.45 o'clock,
following an illness of several weeks,
at the home of his son, Mr.. Edward
Seward, on Maryland avenue. He
was 81 years of age in October, and
was one of the oldest residents of
Cambridge.
Mr.. Seward is survived by four
sons, Messrs. John, Edward and Dan
iel, of this city, and William Sew
ard, of Philadelphia; two daughters,
Mrs. Benjamin Beehler and Mrs.
Solomon Stinchcomb, of Baltimore,
and one sister, Mrs. Frances Green
well, of Cambridge. He also leavey
81 grandchildren and 10 great
grandchildren.
Funeral services over the remains
will be conducted tomorrow after
noon, at 230 o'clock, at Zion M. E
Church, with interment in Cam
bridge Cemetery, beside the grave OF
his wife, Mrs. Amelia Seward, who
died Oct. 26, 1915.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
REHEARSALS NEARING END
Play to be Given by Fidelis Glass of
First Baptist Church Will be Civ
en- on Thursday Night, March 10,
At The Auditorium.

Valley Farm, the clever story of a
country flower transpianied to city
soil, will be given by the Fidelis
Glass, on Thursday night, at the Au-
ditorium. Miss Margaret Small is
directing the play and a splendid
production is expected.
The following is the cast of char
acters and synopsis:
Harold Rutledge, a young New
Yorker-Luke Ruark.
Perry Dean, son of the soil
Philip Gerlach.
David Hildreth, a New York law
yer-Lloyd Webster.
Silas Holcomb, owner of Valley
Farm-Reginald Fountain.
Azariah Keep, clock tinker
Granville Hooper.
Jennings, servant at the Rutledge
manSion-Mace Brohawr.
Hetty Holcomb, country flower,
transplanted to city soil-Miss Anna
Perry.
Isabel Carney, niece to David Hill
dreth-Miss Elsie Brannock.
Mrs. Rutledge, Harold's mother
Miss Nettie Travers.
Elvira Holcomb, sister of Silas-
Miss Lottie Marine.
Lily Ann Tucker, who borrows, but
never gossips-Miss Lulu Slacum.
Verbena, hired girl at the farm
Miss Louise Greenwich.
Act VALLEY Farm. An after
noon in August. The engagement.
Act 1.-THE Rutledge mansion in
New York city, the following Decem-
Der. The serpent has crept into Eden.
Act III-Same as before, three
weeks later. Parted.
Act IV-At the farm again. An
evening in the next March. The tri-
umph of love.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
Real Estate Transfers

Gustave T. Bramble from Eugene
Crocheron and wife, land in Lakes
district.
W. Grason Winterbottom and Ed
ward S. Phillips from Anna Maria
Bozarth, land in Cambridge Election
district.
Herman c.. Briggs and wife from
Gustave T. Bramble, land in Lakes
district.
Frederick H. Fletcher and J. Rich
ard Jones from John r. Pattison and
wife, land on Court Lane, $500.
| Norman H. Corkran from Ella L.
Thomas, land on Washington street,
Cambridge, $440.
Thomas Bremen from Rachel j.
Bremen, land on Muir street.
! Mary K. Wiley from Thomas j.
Jackson and wife, land in East New
Market district, $50.
Thomas J. Jackson from Clark w.
Demott and wife, land in East New
Market district.
L. Wilson Merrick from Fred
erfck H. Fletcher, land on Cedar ST.,
Cambridge.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
Commends Local Papers

In view of the tfda1 wave of pro-
hibition, which is sweeping over our
country, it is very encouraging for
me to state, as the president of the
w. c. T. u, that The Daily Banner
and Cambridge Record, two of our
town papers, have not received liq-
uor advertising for five years. These
papers are not alone in the stand
they have taken, for the better news
papers throughout the United States
are beginning to refuse such adver-
Using.
At the beginning of January, 1915,
there were 4S2 daily newspapers in
our country declining liquor adver-
Using, and in January, 1916, the
number had increased to $40.
MRS. JOHN T. MOORE.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
TO THE LADIES.

We wish to announce the arrival
today of more than one hundred diff,
ferent styles Of our NEW SPRING
SUITS and COATS, including the
much desired Taffeta Silks, Faille
Silks, Ottomans, Poplins, Gaberdines
Rodesia, Togos, ETC., of all the popu.
lar shades. We want all the ladies
to CALL AND SEE THEM.
HURLEY & WILLIAMS.
ADV. list.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13
Likes Maryland Cooking

Brs. Foutts, cook for the Billy
Sunday party, is greatly pleased
with Maryland cooking. She says it
is just grand and Mr.. Sunday says
so too. He likes Maryland biscuits
and Maryland griddle cakes and it's
many good dishes, even though he
cannot be persuaded to eat our Ches-
apeake oysters.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-03-13

Ticket No. 8 drew the doh which
is on display in the window at Mrs
L. e. Vane's millinery store.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-30

mend them to your favorable consid-
Grafton. They demonstrate them
selves. The time and the occasion
only emphasize their Importance. We
need them now, and we shall continue
to need them"
To Meet the Leaders.
President Wilson will tonight discuss
the legislative program to meet the
strike situation with Speaker Clark,
Democratic Leader Kitchen, Repub-
lican Leader Mann and Chairman
Adamson of the interstate commerce
| committee.
The committee of twenty-four
brotherhood leaders met soon after
hearing the presiden- address con-
gress. They declined to make any
comment. =.
Arrangements were made for all
of the committee except the four
brotherhood heads to leave for their
homes in order that they may be
among their men if the strike order
goes into effect
There was approval from both
sides of the joint session at sugges-
tons from the president of legisla-
ton to prevent strikes or lockouts
pending investigation.
The entire assembIage arose when
the president concluded, after speak
ing twenty three minutes. There
were several rousing cheers as he left
the chamber.
Throughout the address the express
sions of approval came mainly from
the democratic side, republicans sit
ting and listening in silence.
The two houses then returned to
separate regular sessions. The SEN
ate interstate commerce committee
met Immediately to consider bills al
ready framed to carry out the presi-
dents suggestions and in the house
leaders discussed the probable action
while awaiting developments.
1t was impossible to get a quorum
at the meeting of the senate commit
tee and it was postponed until tomor,
row morning, when consideration OF
legislation suggested in President
Wilson's message will be undertaken.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-30

Nicholas Oil company, said he had
supply OF gasoline to last his trade
for two months.
II do not believe the strike will
last thirty days at the very longest,
was his opinion.
Plenty of Milk.
Treasurer Dyball of the Atlantic
Dairy company believes a railroad
strike would effect the butter supply
more than milk and cream. Most of
the dairy products are brought into
Omaha by train, although much milk
is transported by auto trucks. II
rail transportation should be cut off
| suppose there would be All in
creased use of motor vehicles to near
by points, assuming there would be
enough gasoline for the motor We
hicles," said Mr.. Dyball.
Mr.. Dyball does not care to spec
ulate much on the effects of the pros
pective railroad tie-up.
Plenty of Gas.
1--WE are in good shape" said
Superintendent Taylor of the Omaha
Gas company, when asked regarding
the possible effect of general rail
way strike upon the gas company
operations. 1--WE have enough coal
and coke for at least four or five
months. As for the oil we use in
the manufacture of gas. we have a
sufficient supply on hand to last about
sixty days. After that in an emer
gency we could use coal oil if nee
essary, and l know where can get
a considerable supply OF that"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-08-30
RAIL HEADS REJECT
WILSON'S PROPOSAL
CONTINUED From Page One.)

CONTINUED From Page One.)
of millions of dollars, in the integ-
rity and solvency of the railroads
of the country, we cannot in con-
science surrender without a hearing
the principle involved nor undertake
to transfer the enormous cost that
will result to the transportation OF
the commerce of the country.
Ultimate Cost Enormous.
1.-THE eight-hour day without punt
tive overtime involves an annual in
crease approximating in the aggre,,
gate $60,000,000, and an increase OF
more than 20 per cent in the pay Of
men. already the most highly. paid
in the transportation service. The
ultimate cost to the railroads Of an
admission in this manner OF the prin'
ciple under contention cannot now be
estimated; the effect upon the eff
cheney of the transportation of the
country, now already under severe
test under the tide of business now
moving and at a time when more
instead of less effort is required a
public welfare, would be harmful be
yond calculation.
THE widespread effect upon the in
dustries OF the country, as whole
is beyond measure or appraisemen
at this time, and we agree with thu
insistent and widespread public con
cert over the gravity of the situation
and the consequences of a surrende
by the railroads in this emergency.
an like manner we are deeply i'm
pressed with the sense of our respon
sibility to maintain and keep open tn
arteries OF transportation which carr,
the life blood of the commerce of tn
country and of the consequences tina
will flow from even temporary in
terruption of service over the rail
roads, but the issues presented hav
been raised above and beyond the so
cial and monetary questions involved
and the responsibility for the conse
t quences that may arise will rest upol
{ those that provoke it.
, "The questions involved are, in on
!, respectful judgment, eminently suit
able for the calm investigation AM
decision by the public through tn
agency of fair arbitration, and can
not be disposed Of to the public salts
: faction in any other manner. The de
: cision OF a commission or boar