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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
CONCRETE FLOORS ARE BEST
Floors With Wood, Says Mime
nesota Highway Commission.

It is poor economy to build bridges
with wooden floors or to replace
WORKOUT floors with wood, the Mime
sofa State Highway commission says
in a late bulletin issued to county
boards and district engineers.
1.-THE department is frequently re-
Quested to inspect old bridges and de
termine whether it is feasible to re-
place a wooden floor, because in a ma
jority of cases the old bridge is found
to be dangerous when carrying trac-
ton engines" says the bulletin. cit
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

in saving so many hundreds Of lives
and thousands of head wounds. Round
the forepart of the rim of this helmet
runs a slender rod, to which is attach
ed a strip of steel chain mail, about 3
inches deep. This slides on the rod
as easily as a curtain, and it can be
drawn, like q veil, fairly close by an
ingenious continuance and fastening.
The eyes of the wearer are thus pro
tected against any flying fragment OF
she'll. or. what Is almost equally dam
gerous, any stone or piece or eartn
thrown up by the explosion OF q shell.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Fish Are Mrsnamed

Apparently every popular name for
fish is a misnOmer. There is q fish
plentiful on the coasts OF Alaska
known as the atka maekerel. The bu~
reau Of fisheries patiently points O1S
that It Is not mackerel and nothing
Ike a mackerel- But it is an excel
lent food fish, and can be shipped salt
ed Alaska canneries have been en-
cOuraged TO salt this fish, which VIII
be known as the atkafsh, and IL
should make its appearance In ouT
markets In the coming winter.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

It is not claimed. OF course, that this
which would inf1ict a mortal wound
Against that no protection is possible.
But the great majority OF cases Of
blindness are due to small flying parti-
cies of shell or stone which, If they
had struck the check or forehead,
would not have caused a serious
wound.
It is believed by the inventor, Capt
R r. Cruise, r. A. II. c. CD, the we'll
known ophthalmic surgeon that hts
visor win save a very large percentaee
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Building Concrete Bridge.

takes a strong bridge to carry a con-
crete floor, but we find that after the
original floor has been replaced twice
with wood, on a light truss, the eX-
pense is as great as it would have been
to build a concrete floor bridge, with
heavier steel, and any further expense
is a clear waste of money"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Both Appropriate.

Longmore-The former clients Of
Smith, the divorce lawyer, who died
last week, are going to do nice thing.
ShOrt-What?
LOngmore- Show their appreciation
by erecting a monument TO his mem
DRY.
Short-Have they chosen the design
LOngmore-Not yet. A number of
them want something among the lines
of the Statue OF Liberty, and the 9TH
ers favor colossal granite cleaver.-
The Lamb.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Didn't Need to Be 1oid-

Katherine, age six, had been going
TO school about two weeks when she
said to her mother one day: Mother.
1 am the incest and the prettiest and
the smartest girl in our class" Her
mother, very much elated, exclaimed ::
WHY Did the teacher tell you that,
dear?'
"Oh, noP" said Katherine. 81 just
found il out myself"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
WATCH YOUR SKIN IMPROVE
When You Use cuticura-The Soap 70
Purify and Ointment to Heal

On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash
of Ointment in five minutes with Cuti-
cura Soap and hot water. Continue
this treatment for ten days and note
the change in your skin. No better
toilet preparations exist.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold eyerywhere.-Adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
TO SAVE EYES OF SOLDIERS
Chain Visor Helmet Used by BRUSH
1t Is Believed, Will Prevent
blindness

One of the most interesting among
the exhibits of women's work at the
Colonial institute recently was the ne"
chain visor helmet, which Is now De
ing supplied to the British troops, Lon
don Tit.Bits states. This is an adapta-
tion of the familiar steel antishrapnel
helmet. which has been instrumental
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Of cases Of preventable blindness. The
steel mail. OF course. obscures the VS.
ion to a certain extent. but not to such
degree that the soldier is unable to
use his rife. But If he wishes greater
clearness Of sight, half the mail can
be Iooped back and one eye viii sin
be securely protected.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
EvanneI Of Good Roads

The automobile is the evangel CT
the good roads movement. Every sale
CT a five-passenger touring car with
tires subject to sudden and dishearr-
eniue puncture means better roads and
more OF them. Therefore, everyone
should buy touring cars because he
Will then become a good roads adyo-
cate.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Kdd-They say Venice has canals
instead OF streets What do you SUP
pose the Salvation Army does for CO.
ners7
Kidder-Guess they have to use The
navy department over there.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot-Ease, the antiseptIc powder to be
shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot
bath It relieves painful, swollen. smarting feet
and takes the sting out Of corns and bunions-
Used by the British and French troops at the
front Aliens FOot=Ease is q certain relief for
tired aching feet Sold eTeryEhere-AdV.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Road Must Be Maintained.

Be not deceived. Building a road
does not mean having a road It must
be maintained And for this the King
road drag is an aII-important tool
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Out OF the 5.67s miles OF railroad in
Japan. all but 265 miles are owned by
the government. The japanese gov
eminent plans to construct 200 miles
OF new railroad each year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Enthusiasts in Rainy Season.

There are more good roads enthu-
siasts during the rainy season than
at any other time OF the year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Still Very Much Alive.
"She has a past"
"OhI Why doesn't she bury itP
at isn't dead yet."-Judge.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

what Is q sinking fund, JohnnyT'
"Pa's bank account when the bin be-
gin 70 cOme In"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
want.d for hnthinn

Ram, are something which everybody
wants for nothing
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Smile, smile, beautiful clear white
clothes. Red Cross Ball Blue, American
made, therefore best. All grocers. Adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Let me tell you that every misery I
miss is a new blessing.-Izaak Walton.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Coed in Any State

The King method viii work in any
state, on any sort CT soil, on any aver.
age mile OF road.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

corn between the toes, as well as pain
full calluses on bottom OF your feet 1t
never disappoints and never burns
bites or inf1ames. II your druggist
hasn't any freezone yet, tell him to
get a little bottle for you from his
wholesale house.-aCV.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Pittsburgh has measured telephone
service
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Pain is no longer pain when it II
past-Margaret J. Preston
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
When Your Eyes Need Care
Try Murine Eve Remedy

10 e9=ri1E- szss De cezforL o es1s -
E2EIEE ~ Co. CHCAR0
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

OR many months after the out
break of the war abroad the sub
marine mine was a close second to
the torpedo in achieving the de-
struction of all kinds of shipping.
Thereafter the mine fell somewhat
behind, not because it lacked
power to do harm. but for two
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
PAY JEWELER HIS OWN MONEY
Partisan Swindlers InveiaIe Merchant
Into Signing Name to Order for
Three Hundred Pounds.

A very clever swindle was success
fully carried out in the Rue de la PaiX,
Paris. A carriage drove up to large
jewelers. shop, and an elderly man,
with his arm in a sling accompanied
by footman, who carried rug, en-
tered the shop.
The gentleman selected and bought
some three hundred pounds worth of
jewelry, and then said, IF you do not
mind, l will send my man home for
the money" The jeweler bowed and
the gentleman continued: 81 should
be pleased if you would write for me.
l have hurt my arm. Just write,
Please give Robert three hundred
pounds and sign it Henri"
The jeweler wrote as he was direct
ed, and in a quarter Of an hour the
fOotman came back with the money,
and then he, with his master, left with
the jewelry.
When the jeweler went home to
dinner his wife asked him the reason
he had sent for three hundred pounds.
Then the swindle was discovered. The
rogues knew that the jewelers. name
was Henri, and they had got him to
write the note for the money, which
was taken to his wife, and then they
paid him for the jewels with his own
money
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
FARMER SLAIN in HOME
James Stanley, Shot Through Win
dow, Found Dead by Neighbor.

Easton, Md, Dec. 6.-James Stan
ley, who lived alone on the Wise
farm, Bambury Neck, near Trappe,
owned by Mayor Nichols. of Easton,
was murdered last night by someone
unknown.
Stanley conduc Led the farm for
Mayor Nichols, and this morning
Greenbury Griffin, who lives on an
adjoining farm, went over to Stan
ley's house to get him to help on his
farm. Griffin raped on the door and
called, but received no reply. He
then went to one of the windows,
where the shutter was broken and
peered through. lie saw Stanley ly-
ing on the floor ty the table, dead.
Griffin notified his neighbors and
Sheriff Stevens, at Easton, and up
on the officers arrival the door was
forced.
Stanley's side had been riddled
with shot, which had been fired from
the window. A large hole was found
in one of the panes and the shutters
which were partly closed had been
splintered. 1t is supposed the MUIR
derer crept up to the house at night
with the intention of robbery and
seeing Stanley sitting in a chair by
the table decided to kill him and
then rob the house.
-O
Advertise in The Banner.
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No One Person Knows 1t All

Sid says, in the December Ameri-
can Magazine:
Marguerite Clark says that when
she became famous in the moving
picture game it was a sad blow to
her vanity to find that most people
did not know she had ever been on
the stage. Yet she had been a star
in six comic opera and dramatic pro-
auctions and had earned as much as
six hundred dollars a week before
she ever dreamed of going into pic
lures
Many things happen in this world
that lots of people know nothing
about. A short time ago cub re-
porter on a New York newspaper
took up reading as sport. Some
body gave him a novel by Thackeray.
He read it and enjoyed it enor-
mously. He enjoyed it so much that
he talked about it and he talked so
much that one of his older and less
kindly associates tumbled to the fact
that he had not heard yet of Thack
eray's death-although II Happened
in 1868. So the suggestion was gent
" made<ts the reporter that if he
hkela9hackeray SO much why didn't
he go and interview him for the
Sunday paper. To this idea the
young man rose like a trout Where
does Thackeray ive?' he asked. In
Yonkers,' was the quick reply. But
whereabouts" in Yonkers?' oh,
Just get off the train and ask any
body. Everybody knows Thackeray,
the great writer. Some guy-that
Thackeray! Has a big house in
Yonkers; anybody will point it out
to YOU So began the trip to Yon-
kers and enlightment.
"An men who have dealings with
the public know that great numbers
Of human beings who are well up
in one field of knowledge may be
grossly ignorant in another Book
publishers who handle Dickens
works frequently get letters to Dick
ems marked Please forward to au-
thor When a theatrical produc-
ton of Don Quixote' was made a
few years ago there we're some calls
from the gallery for the author Yet
Cervantes, the author, is practically
dead-having passed away in 1916.
When The American Magazine pub
lished the story about Cecil Rhodes
one very interested reader, an ex-
ceedingly smart and energetic young
man, told the editor how much he
had enlOyed the article and then
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
LOANED WATCHES RAN AWAY
Timepieces Borrowed From JeWeler
inherited Odd Habit of One Left
to Be Repaired.

There are several kinds of watches
there are gold watches, silver
watches, dollar watches and watches
the jeweler has to lend his patients
while theirs are being repaired.
For the last ten days we have been
carrying a borrowed watch, relates a
writer in the Detroit Free Press. Our
der, it would run, but 1t had no con-
troll. 1t ran wild on the bases. 1t stole
the second and third hour frequently.
We would set it at eight o'clock and
look at it 20 minutes later and dis
cover that it was Is minutes past three,
enough to keep up with that watch
So we took it into the dry dock, where
the man squints at it through sawed.
off telescope and tells you that it will
cost 50 to fix it.
After he had told us it would cost
US 50 we asked him to lend us watch
until we called for our own. This he
did. He wound up ticker and set it.
It was II noon when we took it from
his hands. Two hours later a friend
asked US the time, and we showed him
our watch. 1t was a quarter to seven.
"Gosh," he said, 81 didn't think 1t
was that late. l overlooked dinner
time in some way"
So we went back and borrowed an
other watch from the jeweler. ''This
one is o. H." he said with a smile.
We carried it for an hour. In that
time it had jumped 16 hours. We don't
know now when we look at it whether
it is Berlin time or tomorrow's time.
We can set it at two o'clock, and when
the city hail is ringing three our Dor
rowed watch swears it is Is minutes
after four o'clock tomorrow. At first
we looked on the watches suspicious
~, but now we have begun to suspect
ourselves. When three watches begin
to lie to your face something is wrong.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
Notice to Subscribers

Starting January LIST, 1918, The
Banner will no longer be served by
the month, quarter, semi-annually or
yearly within the limits of Cam
bridge, but will be served only thru
carriers. who will collect each week.
The price, for Inc present, at least,
will remain the same, five cents a
week, and all patrons are requested
to have the money ready for the car
rier when he leaves the paper Satur-
day night, as all carriers will be re-
quired to settle for all papers taken
out. AS matter of actual fact. the
customer will not be known to this
office, the papers will be sold to the
carrier boys, who will be held re-
sponsible for them. Carriers will be
required to pay for all papers taken
out, consequently, there will be no
free customers. The instructions to
the carrier boys will be to leave no
papers except those for which they
are paid weekly. This means every
one, and there will positively be no
deviation from the rule.
THE DAILY BANNER.
Adv. 12-1-6t.
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WOMEN'S COUNCIL AIDS
FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS
Continued From Page Three)

We found boys thirteen years of age
bridge.
Sec. 2 Books and magazines are
being sent to soldiers and sailors
weekly. The Dorchester Council has
shipped IL barrels and one box of
canned fruits and vegetables to
Camp Meade and Fort Howard. The
Red Cross Chapter of Dorchester
county has shipped 800 Christmas
packages to the soldiers and sailors.
g. Work of Colored Women.
Two meetings of the colored wo-
men have been held since November
1st. They responded splendidly dur
ing the Hoover Food Drive, and are
organizing a Red Cross Auxiliary.
They have raised money for wool,
and are knitting for their drafted
men now at Camp Meade.
10. Liberty Loan.
AS chairman of the Woman's Lib
erty Loan Committee 1 wish to re-
port 587 Bonds purchased by women
amounting to about $4,000. The
banks were most courteous in giving
us desired information.
During the month of November,
the Council has re-organized several
districts, and held meetings at Wen
ay-Galestown,-Ea ~-Mew-~-Market,
Williamsburg, Woolford, Madison,
Golden Hill and Taylor's Island. The
Hoover and Liberty Loan Campaigns
were of great educational value to
the women of the rural districts.
The Dorchester County Red Cross
Chapter has now five branches orga-
nized.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
American Troops to Italy

"They also" said the President,
speaking of Bulgaria and Turkey,
"are the tools OF Germany. But they
are mere tools and do not yet stand
in the direct path of our necessary
action" 1t is clear enough today
what he meant by that Austria
Hungary does stand in the direct
path of our necessary action. She
stands on the Pave and in the noun
tains, and the direct path OF our
necessary action leads to that river
and across those Alps. 1t leads where
the soldiers of Italy. who for mon
tn have been standing there and
holding back the tide of vandalism
singlehanded, are calling for Ameri-
ca to aid them. 1t leads there, be-
cause there the United States can
show that she understands what TIA
ly has sacrificed and won for the
cause of freedom, and can testify her
understanding and her gratitude by
doing for Italy what Italy has done
for us all.
1--WE shall go wherever the neces-
stiles of this war carry u.s. said
the President. The necessities of this
war carry US to Italy. The House
Committee on Foreign Affairs re-
vealed yesterday what was in his
mind when he spoke those words.
One of the prime necessities of this
war is that American soldiers shall
stand with Italian soldiers. even if
it is only one division, one brigade,
even if only one American flag flies
over fighting men in Italy. Our
name has been made use of by the
German propagandists, whispering
the lie that We have entered the war
only to draw out of it; it has been
made use of for the discoura cement
of Italy, and American guns on Ital-
ian soil must make the answer for
the encouragement of Italy. That is
one of the necessities of this war;
and the Germans and Austrians who
have made use of that lie will find
to their sorrow that by making it
they have placed themselves lin the
direct path of our necessary action"
IN. Y. Times.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07

said that he had never heard OF
Rhodes before. When Billy Sunday
roasts Bob Ingersoll, the result is
that hundreds of people go TO the
library to find out who lngersoll
was They don't even know whether
he is or was This is an absolute
fact-checked up at the New York
Public Library CThe girl who copi-
ed this on the typewriter Is twenty
,wo ana a good church member, but
she Just admitted to me that the
name BOB Ingersoll is news TO herr
Ina ginC an evangelist twenty-five
years ago running into great shoals
of people who had never heard OF
lngersoll.
Such is fame. The sea of hui
mainly is 50 vast and deep that we
sink out of sight in it rapidly. On
The surface are those now alive and
kicking. Underneath are the forgot
ten billions who have gone before.
But even those on the surface are so
busy struggling to stay there that
you will have to excuse them If they
don't know all that is doing now
to say nothing of all that was do
ing in the past.
so don go around thinking IHdI
other people are idiots because they
don't know precisely the same things
that you know. No matter how much
you know, you can be sure that you
don't know much. No matter how
we'll posted you are, it would be easy
to produce an expert in some line to
whom you would look like simple
ton. 1t has been said that as late as
the seventeenth century great
scholar like Milton could master
most of the knowledge recorded.
That was because little was recor-
ded. In those days there were few
printing presses and poor facilities
for transmitting information. Many
men must have had good ideas which
died with them because they had no
way to communicate them. 1t is diff
ferent now. Ideas and facts are put
into books, magazines and newspa-
pers where they can be referred to.
And many things get into print
which are neither facts nor ideas.
suppose that the truth finally pre-
vails-but we know that it doesn't
always prevail in time for the type
setter. Anyhow, Milton, if alive
now, would be busy boy, with no
leisure for skating, if he tried to
pass all the examinations that could
be put up to him."
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
To Water Consumers

We, the undersigned Directors Of
the Dorchester Water Company, take
this means to notify the public that
the action of enforcing the rule for
collecting water rents in advance was
the unanimous action of the Board.
This action was absolutely necessary,
as we found it impossible to make
collection by collectors, and many
customers were using the water with
out paying for it, and as the Public
Service Commission compels us to
treat all alike, we had to enforce the
rule that would apply, not only to
those who were not paying, but also
to those customers who have always
paid promptly.
w. G. WINTERBOTTOM.
LEVI B. PHILLIPS.
J. G. MILLS.
LEVIN S. DAHL.
GEO. W. WOOLFORD.
ANDREW J. FOBLE.
Adv. 11-30-1w.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
The Boy Scout

He's clever little fellow with a
smile and with will,
An he looks just like a soldier, but
he isn't trained to kill
A boy in size-but watch HMM
mis- doings hes a man;
He's on the job and pledged to help,
where, when, and as he can.
Beside the schoolwork training, he
has just the right amount
OF common-sensish learning to pro-
duce the things that count;
His eye is peeled for action, and his
hand for work is barred,
An he's marching to the music of
the motto, BE Prepared!"
He's not a gallery artist. he's in line
for something higher;
Scouty knows the way to help 'em in
a wreck or at a fire,
And many are the wounded ones that
owe the lad a debt,
For he it was who knew the spot to
twist the tourniquet.
An the boy from out the river that
seemed drowned beyond a doubt
Scouty pressed an drew the life back
that had almost vanished out.
It's look around an help for his
the utmost never spared,
For he's marching to the music of
the motto, BE Prepared"
Hold still-you men-salute him
seems like you clean forgot
Take off your hat to Scouty-he's
the biggest thing you've got
A dozen years en- he will show the
measure of his worth,
He'll make better homeland of this
precious bit of earth.
There's three hundred thousand like
him, fit an snappy every one,
You can hear them-listeni- tramp
ing louder, louder, coming on.
He's the sample of legion that to
righteousness is squared,
An he's marching to the music of
the motto, BE Prepared"
J. H. Taylor,
In the Boston Globe.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-07
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

scriber, Lille a. Jones, hath obtained
from the Orphans Court of Dorchester
county, in Maryland, letters testament
ceased.
All persons having claims against
said deceased are hereby warned to
exhibit the same. with the vouchers
thereof, legally authenticated, to the
subscriber on or before the 1st day of
June, next; they may otherwise, by
law, be excluded from all benefit IF
said estate. All persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make i'm
mediate payment.
Given under my hand this Sth day
of November 1917.
LILLE A. JONES'
Executrix of John H. Jones, deceased
RUSSELL p. SMITH,
True copy. Test: Register of Wills
Russell Z. Smith liz