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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-11-24
BRITISH CAPTURE
IMPORTANT POST
Drive Enemy From Hill Which
| Dominates Cambria.
Improve YPRES POSITION
Two Companies Of Cripples and Con.
vaIescents Are Captured in an Ex-
hausted condition-Haig Still Fors-
&c Ahead.

British Army Headquarters in
France. Nov. 24.-The British drove
back the enemy at the elevation call
ed Tadpole Copse, which dominates a
large section of the Canal Du Nord
and large part Of Moeuvres in the
Cambria area.
The Germans have been drawing
troops from other sectors and push
Ping them to the Cambria region.
Among them were two companies Of
cripples and convalescents, some of
whom were captured exhausted and
helpless from valiant attempts to
fight under the whips of their officers
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-11-24

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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
To Revive Blankets and LaceS.

In the Woman's Home Companion
are the following directions for clean
ing fine blankets and laces:
Blankets cleaned in the following
way will be as soft as new: Put them
in two warm solutions of white soap,
using one pound of soap and two
ounces of borax to each eight gallons
of water. Follow with two warm rims
ings and warm solution of one-half
ounce Of oxalic acid and one-third pint
of acetic acid to Is gallons of water.
If the blankets are colored omit the
oxalic acid, otherwise they are cleaned
just as white ones. Dry in the open
air If possible. To make them look
particularly well when they are dry,
lay them on a table and brush the
nap In one direction on both sides.
"Fine laces should be cleaned in the
following way: If of silk use the dry
cleaning method, If of cotton haste
them on a piece of white cotton cloth
and handle them repeatedly in boil
ing solution Of white soap, using two
ounces of soap to each gallon of wa
ter. Rinse well, and put them in water
to which one teaspoonful of oxalic acid
to each gallon of water has been add
ed. To give necessary body, pass
them through solution of one ounce
Of gum arabic to one quart of water.
When nearly dry, pull into shape, lay
them on well-padded board and press
them on the wrong side with a cloth
over the lace"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Coal Dust for Fuel.

Spurred on by prospects of shut
downs during the winter because Of
the shortage of gas. manufacturers in
the Pittsburgh district have been con-
Quoting experiments with coal dust,
which, they assert, prove that the dust
can be substituted for gas. The pro-
cess Is to blow the crushed coal into
the open-hearth furnaces by means of
compressed air.
This fuel, although not as cheap as
natural gas, Is being furnished to man.
ufacturing plants of the Pittsburgh
district considerably cheaper than con-
sumers' gas.
The Carnegie Steel company, realiz-
ing that there will be shortage of
natural gas for manufacturing pur-
poses this winter, has installed coal
dust fuel machinery at "a of its 81
open-hearth furnaces in the Homestead
works and for eight of it's Is open
hearth furnaces at Charlton. BY so
doing the company will save 10000
900 cubic feet of natural gas daily at
its Homestead works and 100000
cubic feet at its Clarion works, or a
total of 100000 cubic feet daily.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Ancient Lead Diuuinus,

Several Indian lead diggings and evi
dence of smelling furnaces used by In
dams many years ago have been found
by Charles e. Brown and Albert O.
Barton of Madison while studying the
Indian remains in Grant county, ac-
cording to an article published in the
latest number Of the quarterly bulle-
tin of the Wisconsin Archaeological
society.
Although many evidences of Indian
village sites, cemeteries and planting
grounds have probably been destroyed,
the authors of the article were able to
lind about Is village and camp sites,
and ten mound groups in Platteville,
Harrison, Potosi and Paris townships
and in the vicinity of Cassville.
Some of the old Indian lead mines
were found within the city limits Of
Platteville. They consist of burrows
dug In the base of hill near the
waters edge. An Indian smelling fur
mace was discovered some time ago In
Platteville township at place known
at Tufa Falls. 1t consists of hopper
shaped hole, lined with stone CRATES
upon which the lead ore was heaped
and covered with burning wood. The
melted lead dropped Into the hopper.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

scented the real wealth of the family,
made themselves snug in the rest of
the room. The floor was trodden
earth, and sanitation was as the
snakes Of Ireland. The extraordinary
thing to an Englishman was that this
insufferable atmosphere produced
beautiful children, healthy women and
sturdy men. have seen children come
out of hovel whose graceful carriage
might be the envy of woman of fash
ion, and whose faces were those of
angels.
Typhus Is Their Scourge.
According to our notions, they should
all die of consumption; but typhus,
born in dirt and nourished ON under
feeding, is the real scourge of the coun-
try. When a case breaks out, the
family of the victim go to the church
and the whole village comes to pray
with them for the patients recovery;
and typhus being one Of the most in
fectious diseases known, it must be a
very mild, innocuous type that does
not produce an epidemic when these
are the only means taken to cure it.
l suspect that much of the heavy
mortality among the troops fighting In
Galicia has been due to this cause.
There have been hints in the Austrian,
and more particularly the Hungarian
papers, of terrible outbreaks all along
this front. The doctors can do little
under military conditions; only winter
can lessen the scourge-by killing off
the victims. But in spring the whole
thing will break out again.
Meantime the condition of Galicia
must be miserable indeed. The heavi-
est fighting on the eastern front has
been there; the terrific battles of
Halicz have almost rivaled Verdun. 1t
Is known that the Germans have car
ried off much of the stock to replenish
their own larders. Nearly all the able
bodied men of the country have been
called up for military service over two
years. Agriculture has been practical
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Paper Napkin Is Passing.

The American paper napkin Is rapid
ly passing out of existence. The pa
per manufacturers have threatened to
stop making them altogether. During
the last year they have steadily in
creased the price, but the cheaper res
taurants have chung tenaciously to the
paper napkin idea and gone on de-
handing them. The laundering con-
nected with the cotton variety was con-
sidered too much of a nuisance. Now,
however one by one, each large paper
firm has quietly dropped its paper nap
kin trade. AS one firm declared last
week: "We have been making 2,00O,-
600 paper napkins day, and even so
cannot keep up with the demand. There
is more money in other lines of goods,
and we can no longer afford to spare
the material"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

the least visited, of European Cities
was threatened for some months, but
has so far only heard the echo of the
guns. 1t is the villages and smaller
towns that have suffered.
Its Villages Not Beautiful.
Now, Galician village Is not, as a
rule, beautiful object. No artists
visit the country to paint its cottages i;
no authors waste superlatives on its
rustic charm. Indeed, the only thing
superlative about it is it's mud, which
Is as much specialized product as
London fog In the winter, when the
snow Is hard, one may, If sufficiently
foolish and inexperienced, walk down
the street without leggings reaching to
the knee and still emerge recognizably
human; in high summer the mud
changes its form but not it's evil ma
ture, by turning into dust. But for the
rest of the year 1t is just mud. Even
the women wear wellingtons, and tuck
their skirts in at the top.
Nor is Galician interior much more
attractive. The house, which is built
of clay, is necessarily fashioned to re-
sist the cold, for the winds from the
north blow straight down on the prov
ince. Even if the window is made to
open, 1t is not opened from October to
May. | remember entering one such
cottage on an Easter Sunday morning
some years ago. The whole winters
accumulation OF STALE exhausted air
was insupportable after the fresh
spring breeze out of doors. A sick
child was in the large family bed; a
hen with its chickens looked at me
suspiciously from the other end of the
colored quilt; an inquisitive pig pro-
truded its snout from beneath the bed,
The whole family slept in that bed at
night, except the husband, who occu-
pied the warm corner by the stove as
Of right; and the animals, who repre-
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

this crater. The lava that floats
around is dark with frlnges of bright
red. Then from the midst of it leaps
up a great fountain of bright liquid
fire and scatters in all directions, send
ing its cleaning spray thirty or forty
feet high, then another fountain rises,
and then a third; then the fountains
begin to move, approaching the rim of
the crater, and dash against 1t like
waves of the ocean, and you hear
roar like the breakers on a rocky
beach; then more red lava boils up,
then more, then there is quiet for
few seconds, then all breaks out again.
We spent the whole afternoon here at
the crater and then stayed on into the
night. If it be terrible in the daytime,
it is doubly overwhelming at night,
when all you can see is the fiery en-
broidery of the black floating mass,
then the outbreaks the fountains of
fire and the great waves dashing on
the circle of rocks around the pit.
We were just Oh the point of leav-
ing for the hotel and a number of us
We're walking toward the automobile
(Which was only q few hundred feet
away when saw the most spectacu-
lar outbreak of all, and called the rest
back to enjoy IL. The biggest Fourth
of July fireworks that man ever saw
might be more variegated and artistic.
but it couldn't hold n candle to this in
the great mass Of material involved.
The scene was so fascinating that
even the pangs of hunger were forgot
ten and though we had had nothing to
eat since an early lunch, It was hard
to break away.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

The wall of this inside crater Is gen.
orally 600 feet deep. 1t was that deep
last May. But the lava has been grad
ually rising since that time till the
fiery lake is now less than 100 feet be-
low the rim, and it is rising still,
though higher now than it has been for
many years. In the middle of this lake
Is black, rough, irregular-shaped pro-
montory which looks like an island.
The top of it Is now about as high as
the rim of the crater. But the propri-
etor of the Volcano House "a Greek
who rejoices in the combined glory of
the names of Demosthenes and Lycur-
gus) tells me that a few months ago
this island was 500 feet lower than
it is today, that it has gradually been
pushed up by the molten mass below.
would not like to be near when 1t
topples over like an iceberg, which 1t
may do soon if the lava keeps on ris-
ing. Around this island and against
the circular walls of the crater the
fiery flood RACES and seethes, sweeping
generally toward the left (while was
watching it as 1t circles within this
tremendous cauldron. Now there are
no actual flames such as you see when
a house burns down or forest isrcon-
sumed. 1t Is not like that at all. But
If you have stood near the door Of a
blast furnace and seen the molten met
al run out and gradually become black
from contact with the air and then
more white and red metal follow, you
can form a better idea of this molten
lake.
Gorgeous Fire Display.
Yet that comparison Is Inadequate
you would have to multiply the furnace
thousands of times and then you would
not see half the things going on in
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

edge Of the largest active crater in the
world. nearly eighty miles in circum-
ference and on an average 600 feet
deep. inclosing an area of some 1850
acres, the floor being made of hard
ened lava, partly smooth and partly
rough, and often wrought into all sorts
of grotesque shapes. Steam and sui
phur are pouring out from many
places.
Crater Within a Crater.
But within this great crater, little
southwest of the middle, there is an
other one, something over 1000 feet in
diameter. filled with the boiling lava.
This is called Halemaumau, 1.-THE
House of Everlasting Fire" After
lunch we drive thither, ride of seven
miles still in our automobile, passing
on the way Kilaueaikl and Keanaka-
koi, two extinct craters (of which
there are many hereabouts), splendid
natural amphitheaters with smooth,
brown lava floors and verdure growing
up the sides. When at last we descend
to the great crater cross it and reach
the rim of the smaller one within and
look over the edges of that a scene is
presented which surpasses belief or
description. l think nobody can quite
form an idea of it who hasn't seen it.
With many of the wonders of nature,
Niagara, for example, or the Grand
Canyon. 1 have heard people say:
"Well, this is great-it is tremendous,
but 1t is not quite as great as l ex-
pected." 1 certainly did not feel like
that, in looking for the first time on
this terrific sight, a visible and boil
ing hell right at my feet.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

"HE city of Honolulu is a charm
err! Beautiful houses, some of
them low bungalows, others
more pretentious, and in every
style of architecture, surrounded by
luxuriant tropical trees and shrubs Of
every sort, and with smooth green
lawns, and gorgeous flower beds-all
this close to a sparkling sea, and with
picturesque and rugged mountains ris-
ing behind-forms a combination of
rare attractlveness, says William Dud-
ley Foulke, writing from the Hawaiian
city.
The air is soft and laden with a
peculiar, delightful sedgy perfume
you lie on the beach and don't want
to move or think, but just to dream
and watch the rich tropical scene.
1 took passage on the "Mauna Kea,"
one of the little interisland steamers,
for Hilo, in the Island of Hawaii to
see Kilauea, the great volcano crater.
1t is always active, but just now there
is particularly brilliant eruption.
We landed at Hilo, thriving town
of some 5000 inhabitants, and started
in an automobile up through the sugar
fields and then through forests and
endless groves Of fern trees, for some
thirty miles to the Volcano House at
the edge Of the crater. AS we rode
on some one in our company asked:
"Where is the mountain?" for there
was no evidence of any in the vicinity.
1t seemed rather to be one vast plain.
But without noticing it we had risen
gradually some 1000 feet-now we be-
gan to see steam rising from the
bushes and rocks around us, and a
smell of sulphur, and then, suddenly
emerging from the woods, we found
ourselves at the Volcano House on the
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Developing Alaska.

John Noon of Seward, Alaska, talk
ing In New York the other day, de-
clared that vast empire Is now In
the making in Alaska. Gold mining
Is proceeding on an extended scale,
he says, and many men are making
fortunes. Coal deposits are being I'm.
covered and agricultural possibilities,
especially In Matanuska valley, are
being exploited profitably. In this
valley last year 1900 tons of farm
products were raised and sold at good
prices. In 1916 potatoes brought SAT
u ton for home consumption and but
ter so cents q pound. In Tanana dis
trict the 1el6 production of agricul-
tural articles reached 1000 tons, all
sold locally.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

- politics combined to make Cali
cha a province apart from its
neighbors. On the south the
Carpathians cut off easy access from
Hungary; on the north the Russian
frontier was much more than con-
ventional line.
Galicia was part of the old kingdom
of Poland, but in the eastern part of
the province its population, mainly
Ruthenian, was openly antagonistic to
the Poles-as the stormy debates in
the assembly at Lemberg and the stu
dents rows in the university of the
same city often proved. Even in re-
ligious matters there was no union,
and the provincial capital boosted
three rival archbishops as well as a
high dignitary of orthodox Jewry. The
Jews, indeed, were everywhere, as pet
ty traders usurers, bankers, and year
by year they were becoming more and
more the economic masters of the
country, writes A. Wyatt Tilby in the
London Graphic. The country was
poor, but it was made to be wealthy.
The soil is. good, there is excellent
arabic and pasture, there are valuable
mines in the mountains, and, above
all, there are vast oil fields. 1t was
the oil which attracted the only Eng
lishmen or Americans who ever went
to Galicia. But there was a heavy
annual drain of emigration, and it
used to be said In jest that there would
soon be more Galicians in Chicago and
Winnipeg than In Galicia.
But two years of war hit Gnlicia
hard, and the second year harder than
the first. Lemberg, which has changed
hands twice, has indeed escaped dam
age, and Przemysl-a miserable, sec
ond-rate town, in spite of it's strategic
importance-suffered little during the
prolonged siege. Cracow, too, far away
to the west, where the great monu-
ments of old Polish history combine to
form one Of the most interesting, If
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
WHY?

If it takes nine tailors to make
a man, why should too many
cooks spoil the broth?
And if the worst Is yet to
come, why does every cloud have
silver lining?
Which is best, to count your
chickens before they are Matched
or look before you leap?
If you should look not upon
the wine, how is it that a little
wine for the stomach's sake is so
frequently urged?
Is travel the greatest educator,
or doesn't a rolling stone gather
any moss?
If all things come to those who
wait, why is it that nothing ven
ture nothing have?
Of course, a patient waiter
may be no loser, yet time and
tide, it is said, wait for no man.
Everybody knows that stitch
in time saves nine, also that 1t is
never too late to mend.
What goes up must go down.
food prices are very much higher.
Age Is a great improver, yet
the good invariably die very
young.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Use for Apple PeeIs.

Delicious apple jelly can be made
from the Feelings of apples. Put the
Feelings into a jar, cover with cold
water, and let cook slowly in the oven
till the Feelings are tender. Then
strain, add one pound of sugar for
each pint of liquid, and boil till it
jellies.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19

ly ruined; communication between
east and west is cut off by the line of
the opposing armies, which lies fat
across the province from Volhynia to
the Carpathians; and very many Of
the villages have been destroyed, as IN
other parts Of Poland. Whatever the
political fate of Galicia after the war,
the conqueror will have to rebuild its
industrial life from the foundation.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
VexatiouS.

ri certainly would like to pick up a
newspaper that wasn't full of big black
headlines" said the fractions man.
"Tired of reading war newsT'
Eyes. And to make matters worse
I've reached the point where / believe
nearly everything / read"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
The Usual Thinn

Il see where women aided the Rus
sian soldiers to dig trenches"
That's nothing. Women always did
busy themselves about getting men in
q hole"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Exercise.

@You manage to do your share of
dancing in spite of your fondness for
riding"
"Yes," replied Mr.. Chuggins. st
keeps my ankles limbered up for the
pedal work on the motor car"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-19
Puzzllnu.

Puzzllnp.
Why Is 1t women eager to 60 shop
ping are unwilling to go marketing1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-04
FAIRFIELD

The younger set of the Plunket Me- morial Sunday school celebrated Hal loween with mask party in the Sun day school rooms of the church Wednesday evening, when the boys of the intermediate class entertained for the junior girls. All of the Hallow- cen stunts and games were played and a most enjoyable evening was spent
 Miss Hardy, teacher of the primary department of the Fairfield school, is III at her home in West End.
 Rev. William McDougall will preach at Plunket Memorial both Sunday morning and evening.
 Mrs. J. A. Wicker is visiting relatives in Greenville.
 Tho Halloween at tho Fairfield Methodist church Wednesday evening was an enjoyable event for all ages Most of the guests went unmasked, which added to the enjoyment of the evening. At late hour pumpkin pie, doughnuts and coffee were served.
 The Fairfield Five Hundred club was delightfully."- entertained by Mrs L. w. BeclSley Tuesday afternoon. Besides the club members, Mrs. Beckley had as her guests Mrs, Harry Meyers of Nor- wood and Miss DuBose of Atlanta
 The Methodist Missionary society will meet with Mrs. Robert King on Forty-fourth street Monday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-04
EAST LAKE

The Pi Sigma Psi club was entertained by Mrs. Hugh c. Grant at her home Fri day afternoon. After a short business session rock was played. salad and ice course was served. Twenty persons were present.
 The members of the Pierian club met at the home of Mrs. c. c. Jones Tuesday and worked on the club outfit for the base hospital unit. At 2 o'clock lunch was served to the 15 members.
 The FQrtnightly Shakespeare club met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Donald Mcdonald. After an interesting pro- gramme refreshments were served. Red Cross nurses were given to the members and visitors as favors. Twenty-Five were present.
 The woman's Missionary union of the Ruhama church gave 8 birthday social at the home of Mrs. J. A. Hendricks last week. musical programme was given by Misses Hattie Lou Burns, Leta Mae Hendricks and Mrs. A. H. Darden. For tunes were told by Mrs. Mrs. Ed Me kinley. About 50 members attended.
 The Psi Delta fraternity entertained at it's chapter on Howard campus Fri day night An orchestra furnished mu- sic. The colors. purple and gold. were carried out in the decorations and r.- treatments. Fred Bryant. E. M. Strick- land and Miss Jessie Macon welcomed the guests The faculty of Howard col lege and 50 other guests were invited