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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-18
CalebRogen.s Does
ABit of Figgerin'
By JOSEPH c. LINCOLN
OF the ViqiIantes.

Red Cross women with hot coffee and
sandwiches, a-makin' him comfortable,
doin' the little kind things you and his
mother are just longin' to do this min
ute.
when Christmas come who saw
that the bundles from home got to
him? Who gave him things-candy
and smokes and such-on its own &C.
count? The Red Cross, that's who
fever who supplied the nurse that did
more than anybody else to fight the
pneumonia off? The Red Cross, Dan !;
nobody else.
"And when he's on the ship gofn'
across, when he's marchin' through
France on his way to them trenches
we read so much about, when at last
he's in those trenches-who's loOkln
out for him every minute of the time?
Who's motherin' and fatherin' him,
same as you and your wife would give
all this wide world to be able to do?
Why, the Red Cross, just the Red Cross.
And when he goes over the top to
get his first real punch at the Kaiser's
gang of pirates, suppose he gets bull
let through him somewheres. It can
just as likely be him or my Sam as
anybody else's boy, remember that.
He's lynn out there In No Mans Land,
and it's night and cold and wet, and
he's in pain, awful pain, and
Mr.. Griggs interrupted.
"For mercy sakes, don't, Caleb r. he
pleaded. 81 can't bear to think of it."
"Then you ought to. Twill do you
good to think just little For pretty
soon who comes crawlin' along through
the hell fire to him and gives him wa
ter-and morphine, If he needs it-and
binds up his wounds and carries him
back to the place where the doctors
are? And whose doctors are they that
gives him the very best treatment
that's possible, and whose hospital
does he 60 to afterwards, and whose
doctors and nurses take such good
care of him there2 Putin 1t all to-
gether, who makes Jim Griggs a well
man again and makes 1t possible for
his father and mother and sisters to
lay eyes on him once more? Nobody
on this earth but the Red Cross. And
God bless 1t, I say!
What Is Your Son Worth to You?
"And now you wonder why a man no
richer than 1 am Is givin' a hundred
dollars to a society that's dom all that
and a million times more for my boy.
Look here, Dan Griggs. How much is
your son worth to you? If you could
save his life by dom 1t wouldn't you
sell the farm and the stock and your
house and the last shirt on your back?
Wouldn't you give him the last cent
you had If he needed it to save himself |
from torture and death? Well, the |
Red Cross is DOM everything humans
can do to save him from those things, |
and it's warnin' him and comfortin' |
him and keepin' him well and happy |
besides. And what it's DOM for him |
it's dom for every one Of the soldiers !
in the fields or the trainin' camps, the
in the German pris-
ons. And it needs money-and you
grudge givin' It."
Mr. Griggs shook his head.
"No, 1 don't" he said II guess l |
can spare a hundred tno-for the J
boys sake"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-18
BODY OF SLAIN BOY
IS FOUND IN TRUNK
BroOkviIIe, Pa, Child Was
Missing Since Sunday.

Brookville, Pa, May 1S.-Lee Hell
scel found the body of his eleven-year-
old son, Harry Helscel, jammed into
small trunk at the Helscel home
here
The boy had been missing since
last Sunday afternoon. Except for the
fact that his body has been found,
the mystery of his disappearance is
as great as at any time during the
week.
Not trace could be found of the
boy since Sunday. The father looked
into the trunk merely by chance. The
body apparently had been forced in
by doubling under the head and the
legs. The boys clothing and hair were
wet. A hasty medical examination led
to the verdict that death had not been
due to drowning
Had the boy been put alive in the
trunk and with any strength, his calls
would have been heard in all proba-
bility. The trunk is an old one with
a canvas cover. 1t lay on the sec
ond floor of a stable near the Helscel
dwelling.
The family has been about constant
ly since the lad was missed.
There are no indications of what
caused death. A large lump at the
base of the skull does not appear suf-
ficient to he fatal A theory that the
boy was killed in play and his body
smuggied into the Stable by p1aymafes
who feared TO tell is secuted by the
father and other relatives. narrow
stairway leading to the stables sec
Ond floor is of such a character that
it would keep man busy to carry Il
heavy burden up it, it is doubtful if
more than one person could work at
such a task because of the difficult
access to the second floor
The HelScels moved to BroOkville
from Kane last September. Mr.. Hell
scel going into partnership in gas
drilling with Andrew ]. Cooke, of
Rrookville
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them for the keeper taught them lots
Of things in his elephant school and
Ted was going up to higher class
every day.
THE elephant school is the school
the keeper started. in which he taught
the elephants to do tricks, for 1t would
be of little use to the elephants if they
were taught to do sums and to write
and read. No one can quite think of
an elephant sitting up with a pair of
glasses before his eyes and trying to
hold book before him with the aid
of his trunk.
Besides very few books would in
terest the elephants if they could read
except books on hay, and there aren't
many written on that subject
$50 the elephants learn to do tricks,
and the keeper calls his time for show
ing them how to do the tricks his les
son time. You know that in a circus
they have q school for the different
kinds Of animals and they have les
sons every morning. If they didn't do
their lessons well they wouldn't be able
to give such fine performances.
"Mr. and Mrs. Jock were looking
forward to the summer when they
would take real baths instead of the
Oil ones the keeper had given them
through the winter to keep their skin
from cracking
zone of Jocks best tricks was the
way he could catch pennies which were
thrown to him. He put them in lit
tie bank in his cage and every time he
did this he rang bell which the keep
er gave him. And when he is given
peanuts he is very wise, for he takes
as many as he can get and holds them
in his trunk if he hasn't time to eat
them all.
'He had his toe nails cut the other
day, for when an elephant is in the
jungle he keeps his nails in good con-
dition by going over rough ground.
They find plenty of oil in the marshes
for their skin, and they harden their
feet by rough stones which the keeper
tries to take the place of with sand
paper.
"When they drink they use their
mouths, which of course is what all
sensible folks and animals do-in fact
believe everyone drinks that way.
But then, you see. elephants have long
trunks and we often wonder just how
they can manage.
''They throw their trunks over their
heads when they drink. OF course
they get their food to their mouths by
the help of their trunks.
And tomorrow, for a treat, we're
going to see Mr.. and Mrs. Jock and
their two children in the zoo, so I've
told you lots of secrets about them"
And both Nick and Nancy screamed
with delight.
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DADlYyEV[NDN
EARY IAL[ 61
THE ELEPHANTS.
81 MARY GQAHAM BONNER

'Mr. Jock Elephant was very
smart animal" commenced Daddy.
HE had a fine memory as most of
the Mr.. Elephants have and was real
ly a good deal brighter than Mrs.
Jock Elephant.
'They had two fine children, one was
a boy elephant named Ted and the
other a girl elephant, only two months
old, named Title.
'Now Mrs. Jock Elephant had been
very cross for whole month after Til
lie had been born. She had been so
afraid something would happen to her
beautiful elephant baby that she was
angry with everyone else who spoke
to her and who took her attention
away from her baby.
"Mr. Jock Elephant remembered that
Mrs. Jock behaved the same way for
month after Ted had been born. She
was SO jealous and so careful of her
babies; she loved them so much that
no harm must come to them. And for
a whole month there was always dam
ger. After that they were stronger
and better able to look after them
selves.
Mrs. Jock Elephants home was in
the zoo and the keeper took excellent
care of her and of her family. But
still she behaved just as she would
have acted if she had been cut in the
jungles where she would have guarded
her baby so carefully. The keeper
knew this and understood how she felt
so he was kinder to her than ever.
"But the time was past for Mrs.
Jock to be cross, and once more she
was very pleasant. They had fine
meal one day of water and hay which
they like above everything else and to
show how much they appreciated it,
they began doing their tricks for the
keeper.
"Not only did the keeper watch
them, but many children who were in
the elephant house and who saw that
the elephants were about to perform,
came over and watched them. Mr..
and Mrs. Jock Elephant had many fine
tricks. Ted had learned number of
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GIVES HIS ALL AND ENLlSTS
Sells Farm, Buys Bonds, Gives to Red
Cross and Enlists


Washington, May 1S.-Linn F. Han.
son, young Nebraska farmer, decid-
ed his country needed him.
He had 24O acres near Wayne, Neb.
Selling his land and all his goods, he
contributed $500 to the Red Cross,
bought $1,000 worth of Liberty Bonds
and gave $1,000 to his church.
He then enlisted in the army. He
is member of an infantry regiment
stationed at Pensacola, Fla. In the
third Liberty Loan campaign he totk
$500 worth of bonds.
President Wilson has written to
Hanson as follows:
''In directly through friend have
learned of all the circumstances of
your joining the military forces of the
United States and want to send VOC
this brief line to express my admira-
ton of the spirit which prompted Your
action and prompted your whole
course in connection with leaving your
farm and throwing in your fortunes
entirely and unreservedly with the
great country we all love and seek
to serve"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-18
YOUR HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS
WAR FUND COMMITTEE
TELLS HOW IT WAS
SPENT.
No Part of 1t, Says John D. Ryan,
Went for Any Expenses of
the Organization.

John D. Ryan, vice chairman Of the
War Council, recently discussed the
disbursements Of the first 500, 600 900
American Red Cross fund and spoke
of the necessity for further funds.
He announced that the week set apart
for the drive Is May 20 to %.
1--WE have collected sos, 900, 900, I"
said Mr.. Ryan. "We have allowed
refunds to chapters-as you know,
chapters are entitled to retain 25 per
cent. of the collections covered by the
chapter They have not in all cases
availed themselves Of the % per cent,
but we have allowed $17,0O6,121 on
this account. We have appropriated
to date s77,721.91S and we have avail
able for appropriation on March 1
S10,371, PIT, with the addition of $3,-
100000 we know to be perfectly good
when called upon.
1.-THE appropriations have been
made to the different countries as fol-
lows: France. $30,936,1O Belgium,
s2,OS6,131; Italy, $3,5S8,826; Russia,
81. 243,845; Rumania, $2,676,36S; Ser
via, $S75,1S Great Britain, $685.
$50, including $1,O0O,OO0 that was ap-
propriated by the War Council to the
British War Relief, and for other for
eign relief work, $3,57e,3OO.
"For relief work for prisoners we
have expended $343,3O4, and this
work is only beginning. These appro-
priations have been made to care for
the prisoners that we feared might be
taken. We also spent for equipment
and expenses of Red Cross personnel
sent abroad $113,SO0; for army base
hospitals In the United States, $54,-
600; for navy base hospitals in the
United States, $4,000; for medical
and hospital work in the United
States. 1851, 900; for sanitary service
in camps in this country, $4O3, 900; for
camp service in the United States,
So, 49,, $50, and miscellaneous in the
United States, $1,118,74S. We have
funds restricted as to use by the
donors amounting to $3.50, 400, and
we have as working capital for the
purchase of supplies for resale to
chapters or for shipment to France
of $15,OOO,OOO. We have working cash
advances for France and the United
States of $4,286.OOO.
People say we use go cents to
spend a dollar. The expenses of the
Red Cross today are well within the
amount of money provided by mem.
bership fees. No part of the $1O5, OOO,-
300 that we got is spent for carving
on the work"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-18
FIERCE AIR BATTLES
Many Enemy Machines Downed b,
British Aviators.

Many Enemy Machines DoWned by
British Aviators.
With the British Army in France,
May 1S.-The ideal flying weather on
the British front in Flanders consti-
tuted bad period for the enemy air
service
One British brigade alone destroy
ed fifteen German planes and
driven six others down out of &C
This is according to unofficial b
liable figures which the corresU
learned. At least five 1etheE
machines were sent crashing
In spite of the determined
sition by German airplanes, n
aviators dropped bombs on factd, ~
and the railway statfon, at Saarhrncss
en-, in German Lorraine, startino = A.
on the railway.
After bombing the town fl,e Rr,t
ishers turned q the enemy. In aer,a,
fighting, says an official statament
they desnsed FIVE enemy macb;nas
Dine Britilfairpls be was lost ZINES.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-18
CUT GERMAN BREAD RATION
Allowance Per Person Will be Reduced
"A & 6 OuaHoe Ir,aa &c

THo"dnCe Fer ferSoh VIII be keouceQ
to Sc Ounces June is.
Basic, May 1S.-Reduction of the
German bread ration from 200 e
ounces) to $50 Csc ounces) grammes
a person has been decreed, says an
official despatch from Berlin.
The reduction will take effect June
16.
Speaking in the Wuerttemberg diet,
Herr Hausmann, the Progressive party
leader, said:
"On the day equal franchise was
rejected in Prussia it was decided to
reduce the bread ration"
A despatch from Bucharest to the
Vossische Zeitung reports the exports
OF foodstuffs and fodder from Ruma-
MIA passed the second million tons at
the end Of April.
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Contributed by Briggs.

Caleb Rogers was seated at the little
desk behind the counter Of his "gen
eral store" at Rogers Corners. His
check book was open before him, and
he was tapping his front teeth with
the end of d penholder and apparently
considering deeply. Daniel Griggs
who owns the big farm half mile uI
the road, entered the store and stood
for a moment regarding its proprietor
with an amused smile.
"Well, Caleb" be observed, ''yor
look and act more like a Rockefeller
every day you live. l presume likely
i you're fggerin' whether you'll invest
this months income in more Standard
he or use it to buy your wife another
diamond collar?"
Mr.. Rogers smiled also. but he was
Various enough moment later.
sDan," he said, 81 tell you what
i was fggeriD'. was figgerfn' whether
] hadn't better make the check l was
goin' to give the Red Cross folks a
hundred instead of fifty"
Griggs' mouth opened in astonish-
ment
What About Jim Grlags7
~You give a hundred dollars to the
Red Cross, Caleb Rogers!" he demand
ed. "Youl Are you crazy? You sar-
tainly amt worth any more money
than am, and I was calculatin' to give
about ten-not more'n fifteen anyway.
The Red Cross is mighty fine thing.
/ know that well enough. But If you'll
tell me why folks no richer than you
and me should give"-
Caleb's foo: which had been resting
over one corner of the desk, came to
the floor with bang. He straightenr
ed, leaned forward and shook his fore
finger earnestly at his visitor.
"Tell your" he repeated. eyes, Dan
Gnggs, / will tell you. I'll tell you be-
cause you've got boy, same as have,
up here at the big camp, and it won't
be many weeks, or even days, afore
they're both over on t'other side of the
big pond fghtin' the most cussed,
cruel, INSCRIPTIONS gang of thieves
and murderers that ever rugged up in
uniforms and killed women and babies
for fun. Oh, of course you know all
that, you'll say. You know your son
has enlisted and is goin' to war, to
battle, to run his chance along with
the rest of bein' killed or wounded or
taken prisoner. You know it, yes, in a
general way you do. Such things, the
woundin' and all that, happen to other
boys every day, but it's amazin' how
slow fellers like you and me are to re-
alize that they're just as likely to hap
pen to that one boy we set so much
store by. It's what I've just been try
In to realize, Dan. I've been sittin'
here thinkin' it out.
take my own boy-or take yours,
to fetch it right home-take your Jim.
Jim left here and he went off to camp
to be trained. And it was colder than
the northeast corner Of an ice chest up
In that camp, and he no sooner landed
thar than he realized he hadn't got the
heavy sweater he'd ought to have.
His mother would have knit it, but
'twould have taken time, and he'd have
pretty nigh froze waitin' So the Red
Cross gave it to him, along with
wrfsters and comfort kit On the
way up to camp wherever that troop
train he was on stopped there was
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-18
NO REASON FOR IT
When Cambridge Citizens Show
Way.

There can be no reason why any
reader of this who suffers the tor
lures of an aching back, the annoy
ance of urinary disorders, the pains
and dangers of kidney ills will fail
to heed the words of neighbor who
has found relief. Read what Cam
bridge citizen says:
Mrs. T. P. Vinton, 81 Cemetery
Ave-, says: II was in bad way and
suffered from sharp, shooting pains
in the small of my back. My kidneys
acted irregularIy and at times l
seemed to see little black spots be-
fore my eyes. 1 was in very mis-
cradle condition until l used Doan's
Kidney Pills. One box cured me-"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Vinton had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N Y.-Adv.
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WOODEN
SHIP A DAY
U. S. Has Built More Than
Fifty to Date.
SEVENTEEN THIS MONTH
The Concrete Vessel Faith is EQUAL
to Steel, the Official Test Trip
Shows.

to Steel, the Official Test Trip
Shows.
Washington, May 1S.-Wooden ships
have been launched at the rate of
more than one day for the last -four
weeks. The shipping board announc.
ed seventeen wooden craft, aggregat.
ing 10000 tons burden, had been add
ed to the American merchant marine
in the first seventeen days of this
month.
Last Wednesday four wooden hulls
We're launched, totalling 1850 tons,
probably the greatest amount of wood
en- tonnage ever launched in a single
day in the history of American yards.
The four ships were the Pascagoula,
5000 tons, Pascagoula, Miss, the first
wooden vessel launched for the ship
ping board in district five, comprising
the states of Mississippi. Alabama and
Louisiana the Kuwa, $500 tons; st.
Johns, Ore. Black Ford, 1000 tons,
Aberdeen, Wash, and Basco, $500 tons
Houston, Tex.
None of the fifty or more wooden
ships has been completed and deliv-
cred because Of a shortage of boilers
The shipping board is making a sur
vey of the boiler-making plants of the
country in an effort to speed the out
put to keep pace with the shipyards.
An official report On the behavior of
the concrete ship Faith on its second
trial trip off the Pacific coast, in
strong wind and choppy sea. 1t says
the vessel is believed to be fully equal,
if not superior, to any steel ship Of
the same size and equal power The
Faith soon will undertake her maiden
voyage with cargo.
The Faith made 1912 knots. Despite
much pitching, the absence of vibra-
ton was declared to be every notice
able" Scientific instruments, observ-
ed by experts of the shipping board,
showed that the vessel withstood
maximum range longitudinal stress
amidships of 1900 pounds per square
inch in steel deck and bottom
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Placed Dynamite to Be Hero

Hershey, Pa, May 1S--Kenneth
Slower, sixteen years old, wanted to
be hero and catch a German spy.
He reported that he had seen two
suspicious men, near the main build
ing of the Hershey Chocolate company
plant. A company detective investi-
gated and found four sticks of dyna-
mite, caps attacked. Slower confess
ed that he had placed the dynamite
where it was found.
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Road to Happiness.

Be amiable, cheerful and good ma
tured and you are much more likely
to be happy. You will find this diff
f1cult, il not impossible, however,
when you are constantly troubled
with constipation. Take Chamber
lain's Tablets and get rid of that ana
it will be easy. These tablets not
only move the bowels, but improve
the appetite and strengthen the d.
geStiOn
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Dix Closed to Visitors.

Camp Dix, n j.. May 1S-For mill
fary reasons, no visitors will be per-
united to enter the reservation be-
tween midnight Friday and six o'clock
Monday evening. This includes en-
trance by train, foot and auto. No
passes of leave will be granted to any
man in camp during that period
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SOLD ANTI-WAR BOOK
Accused Man Says He Conducts
"Truth Depot"

"Truth Depot"
Harrisburg, Pa, May 1S.-Sentence
was suspended in United States court
Union county village, on a charge of
circulating anti-war literature
He said he conducted what he called
a truth depot" the output being main
ly religious. Cases involving distri-
button of some books which are held
to be seditious at this time were con-
tinued until the Williamsport sitting.
James Bonned, Sunbury, was sen.
fenced to ten days for giving half
pint of whisky to his brother, a sol.
dier.
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RIVETERS BREAK RECORD
Negroes Drive 4875 in Nine Hours,
Previous HIGH Mark Was 4442

PREVIOUS f1iCn marx was 4+4Z.
Baltimore, Md, May 1S.-A gang Of
negro riveters working at the Spar
rows Point plant of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation broke the worlds
record for driving rivets in a steel
steamship.
Charles Knight drove 1915, three
quarter-inch rivets, 25s inches long in
nine hours.
The previous high record was 4442,
established in shipyard in Scotland.
The work was witnessed by w. Tin
sley and Joseph O'Keefe, inspectors of
the United States shipping board and
other men prominent in the shipbuild-
ing industry
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Paris, May 1S,-Ten passengers, one
European and nine Arabs, were killed
when the French steamer Atlantiqus
was tOrpedoed in the Mediterranean
early this month. The steamship man.
aged to reach port by her own
means.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-18
Hoover to Dole imported Wheat.

Washington, May 1S.-New regusa-
tons putting the distribution of wheat
imports under control of the food adj
ministration board. Applicants for inn
port license must guarantee not to he'll
imported wheat or wheat flour without
first obtaining approval Of the food
administration.
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Proper Food For weak stor,s,,.||

upper roou ror weak St0H3f QAS
The proper food for one malimd. z
be all wrong for another. Ever onsy<
should adopt diet suited to hi, agl
and occupation. Those who havi
weak stomachs need to be especially
careful and should eat slowly and
masticate their food thoroughly. II
is also important that they keep
their bowels regular. When they
become constipated or when they
feel dull and stupid after eating, they
should take Chamberlain's Tablets
to strengthen the stomach and move
the bowels. They are easy to take
and pleasant in effect. Adv
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To Sell 1000 900 Lbs. Hun Tobacco.

To Sell 1000, 600 Lbs. Hun TOBACCO.
Washington, May 1S.-Two million
pounds of German-owned tobacco will
be auctioned to the highest American
bidder at Richmond, Va, next Monday
morning by Alien Property Custodian
Palmer. The sale will be followed by
similar ones as fast as German-owned
tobacco IS unaarthe6