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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-17
Never overwrap the baby-it

Never overwrap the baby-it is
sure way to give him a cold.
Never use a scraper to take
crumbs off the tablecloth. A brush
will not roughen the surface of the
linen
They are giving the imprisoned
White House pickets tests to deter
mine their sanity, but it would seem
easier merely to judge them by their
actions.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-17
CHURCH LOCALS.

st. Hilda's Guild will meet on
Tuesday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock,
in the Parish House, for Christmas
work. Bring workbags.-Adv.
The place to spend pleasant
and profitable hour-Grace Baraca
prayer meeting, at 7.30 o'clock to-
night, in the lecture room of Grace
Church. The men of Cambridge are
invited Come and bring friend
Adv.
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- lee 10 .sl.o,
The Dorchester County Fisi ana

Game Protective Association will
run it's annual Field Trial Thursday,
Dec. goth, two classes, to be all-age
stake and derby Handsome premi-
ums will be given the winner in each
class. Enter your dogs and show
their calibre. Entries close Wednes-
day evening, Dec. 10Th. For furth-
err particulars, see the committee,
which is composed of w. H. David
son, chairman; Clarence Dean, VIII.
Simmons, D. L. Hurley.-Reginald
Henry, Field Marshal-Adv. 15-2t.
r. Tilt
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Tax Notice

Pay your taxes between now and
January 1st, and save interest on the
county taxes for four months. Upon
all taxes not paid by January 1st, in
terest will be charged upon county as
well as State taxes from Sept. 1st.
1917. Do not delay, de not put this
off, pay now and save interest.
JAMES r.. JONES,
County Tax Collector.
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Private Sale

l desire to sell at private sale the
following articles:
One Weber wagon. 2-horse. nearly
new.
medium size.
One top buggy. 1 phaeton.
One set of good carriage harness.
One No. 10 Oliver pillow, l dirt scoop.
One 15-tooth spring harrow.
One Black Hawk corn planter.
One 50-tooth spike harrow.
Two t-horse cultivators.
One set leather wagon harness
Four sets chain wagon harness.
Four sets rope pillow harness.
One 16x18 International hay baIer,
with h. p. engine. Used two seasons
and in good order.
EASY TERMS.
JAMES II. JONES,
10-19-tf Cambridge, Nd.
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B. c. & A. RY. co.
WEST BOUND.

II. Murdoch n. ii. SOuldby 1. e. Jones
Gen. Mgr A G. ?. A. D. P. A.
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ORDER OF ELKS GIVES
GREAT WAR HOSPITAL
Aili spend Quarter cit Million For
Che Reconstruction OF Manned
Eud Wounded

the EIks' War Relief Commission
announced recently that the Govern
ment had accepted d gift OF $780,
zoe from the Elks TO provide a great
reconstruction Lospital-the first in
The United StateS-Where manned
and dlsliguFGl american soldiers and
sailors may receive the best of eX-
pert attention and Cccupational in
struction. The statement issued re-
Gently from the New York office of
the commission, 149 Broadway, reads
il part as follows:
This first reconstruction hospital,
where our soldiers will be re-educa
Ted IN occupations which will best
fit them not to become d burden to
society, will be erected in Boston. 1t
will consist of a complete unit OF
twin ward hospital buildings. voca
tional Workshops, barracks, mess
hail, and post exchange. This was
definitely decided upon at meeting
of the Elks' War Relief Commission,
composed OF John X. Tener, chair
man; Joseph L. flaming, secretary;
Jerome b. Fisher, James r. Nichol-
son, Edward Rightor, and Fred Har-
per, Grand EXal.ed Ruler, following
Il conference Will sui SeSl-SSlISld d.
Gorgas.
The site will be on Parker Hill,
Boston contiguous to the Robert
Brigham Hospital. The institution
will serve as the model, the stand
ard-maker, for similar plants to be
established throughout the United
States. The buildings will be thor
oughly modern in architecture, light
and cheerful, and will have a we'll
trained and especially efficient pro-
fessional staff"
Ex-Governor Tener, chairman of
the Elks' War Relief Commission,
said:
In the beginning of the war, ex-
cept for Germany, the nations, in the
conservation of their men, conducted
their work upon the lines that had
held in all previous wars. Disease
was to be prevented so far as posi-
bic and the treatment of the wound
ed consisted in saving life, with the
expectation that discharge from the
army with some sort of pension
would be the future, if any perma-
nent impairment of function remain
ed. No medical or surgical thought
apart from the saving of life was
given or considered necessary.
Within a few months. however 1T
became evident that the mere saving
OF life, unless 1t was followed by or
associated with attempts to restore
function to the damaged part, rep
resented a waste that was SO great
that the very existence of the nation
was jeopardized. Associated with
this, the pathetic condition in which
most of these young men were plac-
ed, with the greater part of their
llyes TO live bound by their physical
handicap, was too overwhelming not
10 make it obvious that something
more than mere life-saving was call
ed for
The Government officials are par
ticularly grateful to the Elks for
this magnificent gift, which Will tend
20 minimize the suffering and disa-
oilities caused by the war; said
Major Elliot G. Bracket, Director of
IA iIit =. 6lrfh nneliaS with boa
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ALL men ARE INCLUDED
] IN MlLliAkI 3EhVICE
Everyone Between p And 80 Year
OF Age, Including Those WAC
Have Secn Exempted heretofore
Will be Classified.

Under the new regulations WhIc4
are now in effect, everyone within
the draft age, that is, all men be
tween the ages of q and 30, inciu-
sive, on June 5th. 1917, including
those heretofore exempted, will be
classified; except, however, those
men who have been sent to the mobi-
hZation camp ana have been finally
accepted for service. Under these
new regulations al men will be d.
vided into five classes.
Glass l includes practically the
same class of men who were held Tor
service under the old regulation.
Glass Nos. 2, 8, and 5, under the
new regulations include all men in
the class discharged under the Ola
regulations. These men instead,
however, of being discharged, will be
divided into four classes, the classes
being based ON the dependency and
vocational claims. These five classes
will be called in their order for mill
tary service; that is, class one will
be called first and upon its eXhaus-
ton class two will be called then
class three, etc The effect OF the
new regulaticns,> therefore, as COM
pared with the old regulations, IS
that the men who were discharged
under the old regulations on account
of dependency or vacations or any
other grounds of exemption are now
only temporarily discharged. This IS
accomplished by placing them in de-
ferred classes.
Under these new regulations each
man who waS registered and who has
not been finally accepted at the mob
lilzation camp will be sent series of
questions or questionnaire, upon
Whics exemption claims will be
heSa questionnaireS are
TO the men according 10
r numbers. Five per cent.
sent out by the local boards
ay, so that If carried out the
or sending out the question
1oires will be completed within 20
days. All missionaries must be
returned within seven days from the
date of their mailing and drafted
men are charged with the duty o. m
curing OF their local board in regard
to obtaining the questionable If not.
received by mail. Failure TO re-
ceive the QUESTIONABLE does not e1-
cuse the men within the draft age
from the duty Of answering.
At the end of 2T days, therefore,
a complete record of the status OF
every man who was registered for
The draft with respect to his depen-
dents or his vocation or other
grounds for exemption should be in
the hands of the local boards.
One OF the most important fea-
lures OF the new regulations is the
fixing of strict time limits for the
return of the QUESTIONABLE. The 10
cal boards are required to mail the
QUESTIONABLE to each man register
ed in their ward who has not actual
ly been finally accepted for military
service at the mobilization camp. Il
for any reason the QUESTIONABLE is
aniiTnredre 1IaSoInt of change
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BUS TO ADJOINING TOWNS.

Call up SOS or ISL for schedule
tor Salisbury, Easton and Hurlock.
All town calls for one person, z5c.
For more than one person. 15c.-
SLACUM'S GARAGE.-Adv. 12-z2-tf
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
WESTERN.

Hundreds of armed men resist draft
in Oklahoma.
Drafted Arizona men are to be held
in the state for the present.
Deported /. w. WIS want martial
law declared in Bisbee, Ariz.
Missouri's corn crop, estimated at
23O,OOO,OOO bushels, will be about co.
100000 bushels in excess of that of
last year
All saloons in Eagle Pass Tex,
were ordered to cease business by mil
itary authorities acting on orders from
Washington.
With one of their leaders slain and
! many in jail, peace officers believe
the Oklahoma anti-draft move has
been crushed
Charged with selling in and about
Salt Lake court plaster infected with
! tetanus germs, Joe Bergerman, 21
years. old, was arrested.
No new evidence or clues were dis
covered at Butte, Mont, which might
lead to the apprehension of men who
1ynched Frank Little, Industrial Work
ers of the World leader, He was bur-
led Sunday.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
Sociable.

An orderly chosen from among the
student officers at Ft. Harrison sits
daily outside Brig. Gen. Edwin f.
Glenn's Office door. A different man
is chosen each day, and the other day
the post fell to the lot Of Charles e.
Shafe of indianapolis, says the Indian
apOlis News. Shafe went on an er-
rank for the general, and returned just
after the general had wished to speak
to an officer in one Of the other rooms
and there being no orderly to summon
him, had gone after the man himself.
"By George" Shafe commented to
the camp adjutant's orderly, q Tenth
infantryman, fresh from five years in
Panama, "the general did some Of my
work for me-"
"Yeh, amt that nice, now!' the ad-
jutant's orderly returned. "Why don't
you go in there now and do some Of
his work for him, just to be sociable?"
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
WASHINGTON.

Revised war tax raises fund over
two billions.
Employees of postoffices not to be
exempt from draft.
Seven hundred merchant ships re-
Questioned in building yards.
American mission to Russia, headed
by Elihu Root returns to United
States.
Court plaster forwarded to the pub
lie health service by the Ohio State
Board of Health has been found by
analysis by the hygienic laboratory to
contain tetanus germs.
Government geologists are much en-
couraged over prospects for new oil
fields and developments of old oil
fields in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,
New Mexico and South Dakota.
With the exception of Ell Paso,
more lies have been sent out Of Zurich
than any other place know Of" was
the comment of Acting Secretary Of
State Polk on the report that the al
lies were negotiating or expected to
negotiate with Austria for a separate
peace
Draft resisters face execution, says
Gen. Crowder.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
SPORT.

The Pacific Coast Baseball league
will finish the season as usual, accord
ing to statement by President A. T.
Baum.
Barney Oldfield won three races
from Ralph De Palma in a match
event on the one-mile dirt track at the
State Fair grounds at Indianapolis,
Ind
Outplayed and outlucked in every
department of the game, the reinvig-
Grated Bears dropped the opening con-
test with the Des Moines Battlers by
a score of IL to 4 at Broadway park
in Denver.
What was said to have been
worlds record for home runs. in any
one season, was made at Muskogee,
Okla, by E. D. Calbert left fielder of
the local Western association club,
when he hit twice for the circuit for
total of thirty-five home runs.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
sLAVs HOLD OWN ON EAST.
English RepuIse Raid Near Ypres.-
Canadians Gain on Lens.

London, Aug. ATTACKS by the
Germans at Hollebeke in the Ypres
salient, were repulsed by the British.
Crown Prince Rupprecht also met
with failure in an assault against the
British at Westhoek, north of Ypres.
LENS, the coal center of Arras, is
slowly falling into. the British net
The Canadians moved forward again
Monday, the Germans giving up the
outer posts under severe bombing.
Great losses were sustained by the
Germans in an attempted raid north
of Arleux. From st. Quentin to- Yer
dun on the French artillery front, du-
els are in progress.
The Russians are holding their line
north of the Dniester but are retiring
from the Pruth southwark to the Ru-
manian frontier.
Kerensky's Cabinet is practically
complete. The Constitutional Demo
Gratis have agreed to participate and
the list OF members who will form
the new ministry has been agreed
upon.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
FOREIGN.

British cruiser sunk and many sail
ors drown.
War is not as bad as German peace
declares Lloyd-George.
Anglo-French continue big push
while Russians offer more resistance.
Gen. Erdelli, military governor of
Petrograd, has been killed, says the
Bourse Gazette.
: A state of siege has been declared
in the whole Greek department of At
tica, including Athens and Piraeus
Eight naval gunners were lost when
the American tank steamer Motano
was sunk by submarine. Sixteen
members Of the crew also perished.
The Holland-American line steam.
ship Noordam struck mine while
bound for Holland, and although bad
ly damaged, reached port under her
own steam.
Czernowitz has been the scene Of
some of the most bitter fighting Of
the war and the Bukowina capital has
changed from the Teuton to Russian
hands altogether ten times.
Premier and War Minister Keren-
sky and all the other members of the
Russian cabinet except Vice Premier
Bekrasoff resigned. Later, with the
exception of M Terestchenko, the for
eign minister, they withdrew their
designations.
Prince George, former crown prince of
Serbia, had narrow escape while in
specting troops on the Macedonia
front, according to a telegram re-
ceived in London. The horse on
which he was riding was shot and
killed.
DR.. Livingston Farrand, president Of
the University of Colorado, the Rookie
feller anti-tuberculosis commission
chief, has arrived in Paris to cooper
ate with Homer Folks, the tubercu-
losis expert of the Red Cross. DR..
James Alexander Miller of New York
accompanied him.
villa has less than 100 men and
was in the vicinity of Inde, Durango,
"AOn VIC AoSCAVOU ouI last IAAOt uo
tion about him." Gen. Murguia said at
Ell Paso, Tex. "He is no longer to be
reckoned with in military way and
is now leading the life of a bandit,
which he knows so well.'
Dissatisfied with the progress Of
negotiations with Germany growing
out of the sinking of the Argentine
steamer Toro, the Argentine govern
ment has broken off the discussions
that were being conducted with the
German minister at Buenos Aires and
has sent final, categorical note to
Berlin, requiring a clear and final re-
ply to the Argentine demands within
a reasonable time.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
Greatest Tax BUDGET Reported.

Washington-The war tax bill, fin
ally revised to meet latest climates,
was favorably reported back by the
Senate finance committee 1t proposes
to raise s2,OO6,s $4,000 by taxation.
The House bill proposed $1,867, 7,000,-
900 in new taxes. No provision for
additional bonds to-. be considered
later by the House are made in tho
Senate bill. Chairman Simmons plans
to call up the revised bill for debate
this week and hopes for it's final en-
actment {; by Congress early next
month. A
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GENERAL.

At Briar Cliff Manor, N. Y, Maj.
Gen. John F. Weston, who fought un-
der Custer in the Indian war, died aft
er brief illness.
Nathan Mosely and Willie Green,
negro farm hands among the first men
drafted in Leon county, Fla, have mu-
tilated themselves to escape serving.
The Hotel Association of the city
of New York voted to lend the gov
ernment 24O cooks for service with
the national army cantonment at Yap-
hank, Long Island.
Dr.. Franklin Martin, of the council
of national defense at Chicago, issued
an urgent, call for the services of 34,
900 physicians in the armies of the
United States and the allies.
While temporarily deranged through
fear that he would be. drafted, Alma
Walt of La Porte, Ind, killed his 2
year-old son., wounded his wife and
committed suicide. Mrs. Walt will
live. ! ~ @
AS Chicago's answer to the call to
the colors and ChicagO's rebuke to
slackers and draft rioters, more than
5000 whose, names have been called
by the draft boards marched through
the streets to the music of military
bands and the accompaniment of
cheers from thousands.
Private John Mercouris of the cav
airy troops guarding the mines in the
Globe, Ariz., district, where the cop.
per miners are on strike, was found
beside the highway near Midland City
with his head in pool of blood. He
was Immediately rushed to a Miami
hospital.
Thirty-one men dead and twenty
five injured was the known toll at
Clay, KY, of an explosion in the south
entry of No. mine of the West Ken
lucky Coal Company, according to
Charles s. Richardson, vice-president
and general manager.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
HALF BILLION is TAX LEVIED.
Youngest of All the States Is One Of
the WeaIthiest.

Phoenix, Ariz.-The most youthful
of all the states and yet one Of the
wealthiest is the enviable position of
Arizona, according to the report of the
State Tax Commission which places
the total valuation of the state at
$666,236, ,581.68. This is an increase in
wealth over last yearof 2OO,O0O,OOO of
which amount $165, 100000 is due to
the increase in the value of the mining
properties of the state.
This total valuation of nearly two
thirds of billion dollars, represents
the net valuation, all the properties
which are by law exempt from taxa
tion being deducted from this amount.
The total assessed valuation of the
state by counties for this year as made
public by the State Tax Commission is
ell
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

British capture more than 5000
prisoners In Flanders attack
usso-Rumanian offensive in Ru-
mania results in capture of 1900 pris-
oners.
Near Bixschoote, north of Ypres,
the French are following up their sue
cess of last week.
Northeast of Ypres, after intense
bombardment, the British re-estab-
lished themselves in the town of st.
Julien.
Southeast Of Arras, the German at
tacks on the British lines were futile,
as were the Teuton raids near Rheims
on the French lines.
Premier Kerensky has consented to
remain at the head of the cabinet, all
parties have agreed to give him full
powers, designating him in speeches
as the only man who can save Russia.
Four thousand Greeks have been
starved to death in eastern Macedonia
since the Bulgarian occupation began,
according to reports received by the
Greek government, says Havas dis
patch from Athens.
The German advance in Galicia and
Bukowina seemingly is aimed at Ka-
menetz Podolsky, fortified city
north of the Dniester and in the di-
rection Of Odessa, Russias great port
on the Black sea.
In an. offensive near Baian, east of
Czernowitz, the Russians were win
ners and captured 500 prisoners and
thre machine guns. In Bukowina the
Russians are still fleeing, and the en-
emy has taken several towns.
British casualties in all theaters OF
military operations published in the
newspapers during the month of July
total 1882 officers and men. The Of
ficers killed, wounded or missing to.
tai 2,503, while the men number co.
329.
The Canadians have pushed forward
their line on front of 1000 yards to
depth Of 200 feet in their drive on
Lens. They consolidated the position,
which is within 1000 yards of the cen
ter of Lens on the western front of
the town.
While the Germans are advancing
steadily in their Galician campaign,
the British and French are steadily
pushing them back on many points on
the western front All the positions
east of Monchy-le-Preux which were
captured by the Germans have been
retaken by the British.
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
Naturally Grave.

"I have here" said the party with
the unbarbered hair who had elected
his person into the editorial sanctum
when the Office boy wasn't looking, "a
little poem entitled, "A Pauper's
Grave!"
Huh !" growled the editor. Nothing
remarkable about that. Who has bet
ter right to a grave than a pauper?
You certainly wouldn't expect his mirth
to slop over, would you"
The Benson signal., 1917-08-11
FIVE MINISTER'S AND FIVE SEC.
RETARIEs IN GERMAN CAB !.
MET RESIGN POSITIONS.
VONKUEHL NAMED
NEW FOREIGN SECRETARY OP-
PONENT OF U-BOAT WAR AND
WOULD MOLLIFY ENGLAND, +


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Berlin.-Official announcement was
made Monday that five ministers of
state, Foreign Secretary Zimmerman
and four secretaries of state, includ.
ing Finance Minister Lentze and In
terror Minister Won Loebell, had re-
signed their portfolios.
DR.. Richard Won Kuehlmann, the
German ambassador to Turkey has
been appointed secretary for foreign
affairs in succession to DR.. thinner
mann.
The ministers and secretaries of
state who resigned were:
Ministers of State-Minister of JUS
tice, DR.. Beseler; minister of ecclesi-
astical affairs and instruction, DR.. Won
Trott Zu Solz; minister of agriculture,
domains and forests, DR.. Won Schorle-
mer; minister of finance, Dr. Lentze;
minister of interior, Herr Won Loebell.
Secretaries of State-Imperial post
office, Herr Kraetke; imperial secre-
tary Of Justice; DR.. Lisco; secretary
for foreign affairs, DR.. Alfred thinner
mann, appointed November, 1916;
president of the food regulation board,
Adolph yon Batocki. -
DR.. Richter, under secretary of the
imperial home office, also resigned.
DR.. Karl Helfferich will continue to
be the representative of the imperial
chancellor and member of the min
istry of state and temporary minister
of the interior.
The Landrat Won Graevinitz was ap-
pointed to succeed Arnold Wahnschaf-
fe as chief of the imperial chancellery.
In addition to the appointment of
DR.. Won Kuehlmann as secretary for
foreign affairs Herr Ruedlin was
made director of railways and minis
ter Of posts, and Privy Counselor Won
tice Over-President Won Waldow was
appointed chief of the Department of
Army Nourishment.
The vacant Prussian ministerial
posts were filled as follows: Minister
of justice, DR.. Peter Sphan, leader Of
IAO SdCAO1lC poACy LII IAC INClNhCLo6,
minister of the interior, Under Secre-
tary Drews; minister of instruction,
Ministerial Director Schmidt; minis
ter of agriculture, DR.. Essen-Hart-
ruthe; minister of finance, DR.. Hertz
Amsterdam.-In a character sketch
Of DR.. Richard Won Kuehlmann just
appointed German secretary for for
eign. affairs) the Nieuwe Courant of
The Hague, says that DR.. Won Kuehl-
mann has always been a vigorous op-
ponent of ruthless submarine warfare.
He is also,, says the newspaper, dis
ciple of the policy of doing everything
possible to avoid the further aliena-
ton of Great Britain, believing that
after-the-war friendship between Great
Britain and Germany is necessary to
"a