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Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
Purely Personal

A-s-s-s-s-s-S=s-S-s-s-s-s-s- J. H. Conway and wife, accompanied by Mrs. A. NJ. Brooks, returned from a visit to Southern California this week.
 Fred Hensing and wife came in i from Oatman and spent several days as Kingman visitors this week.
 Mrs. Lester Riggs visited from Valentine this week.
 J. Goldie is an Oatmanite who wis ited Kjngman this week.
 A. E. Neal and A. J. Townsend came in from the Big Sandy section several days ago and are spending some time ] in town.
 J. M. Neal of Hillside, Arizona, is one who spent some time in Kingman this past week.
 L. A. Phillips came in from Huala- pdl lnuISQay.
 P. H. Arnold, the old time salesman, is again with us from San Francisco. Pat is the same old Pat and the years seem to have no effect.
 N. O. Banegas visited Planet this week from the Sandy section.
 N. A. Bolles and wife of Yucca were Kingman visitors this week.
 Fred Moyle and Lyon N. Kay were visitors to Kingman this week from Mineral Park.
 S. S. Cutter and wife, of Seligman, were Kingman visitors this week.
 J. L. terrell was one of the Chlo- riders in Kingman from that camp this week.
 P. s. Virgin and wife motored to Kingman from the Lead camp yes terday and returned the same day.
 G. R. Hannah and Gerald Simpson, of the Standard Minerals company of the Wallapai mountain section, were guests of the Beale hotel one night this week from tha6 property.
 K. L. Sweetland of Oatman, was a visitor to our city this week from the Gold Camp.
 c. ". Miller, IT,, came in from San Bernardino the early part of this week and has been attending to business matters here.
 J. P. Loftus is in Kingman from his Secret Pass property attending to mat ters for his company.
 H. Klotsch of the Yucca Tungsten company, spent several days here this week.
 N. E. Scott, Santa Fe trainmaster, 1 was a guest of the Beale this week from Needles.
 W. T, Smith of Phoenix, is one of the late arrivals from that end of the state.
 Hubert E. Smith of Los Angeles, is late arrival here from the coast city.
 Mrs. c. R. Milne is in town from the | Arizona Butte property on Stockton Hill.
 T. J. Putnam came in from the Big | Sandy this week and took load of supplied back to his ranch there.
 D. T. Boone of Gold Road, is in Kingman this week from that place, attending to his mining affairs.
 H. R. Green and wife were guests of the Brunswick this week from Chlo- ride.
 Jack Keenan and wife spent several days here this week from Stockton Hill.
 W. B. Johnson and wife, and A. | Johnson and wife of Douglas, regis tered at Kingman hotel this week.
 Charles Whitfield, one of the old residents of this county, is spending some time here, visiting with friends.
 Joe H. Hofer is one of the Oatman- ties who visited Kingman this week.
 J. M. Worton and son came in from Walnut Creek this week to attend to business matters for their company.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13

There is no halfway house be- tween victory and defeat."-Lloyd George.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
OATMAN STOCKS

Latest quotations on Oatman stocks, furnished by Black Bros, brokers, as follows:
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13

Sales for past week, Los Angeles and 0atman:
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DADDSEV[NDN9
AlRY TALL eli
~ MzN GpA4A0 BONNER
FAsHIoNAstis SNAKES.

The snakes in thel eco were wiggling
with excitement, fbr many of their
were about to change their skins, and
and out In the country great many
OF their cousins wdre doing the same
thing.
When snakes arb wild they go to
sleep for the winteE. In the-zoo they
nap and sleep greht DIAL, but not for
AAa-#hele winteaE-.lAI.sough- is be-
cause they are fed regularly and are
kept so warm.
Now, Mrs. Sally Snake lived in the
country, and she had been asleep for
the winter. She stre~hed herself with
q wiggIe and said: "Oh, am hungry!
Now I'll have a fine meal for the first
time In three months
There are many snakes who only eat
every three months, and after each
meal they take nap. The maps of
other snakes are good and long, too!
"And after I've eaten" said Mrs.
Sally Snake, It'll sleep. All, what joy
those very words bring to my snake
heart-sleep and eat, sleep and eat"
and Mrs. Sally Snake Kissed them over
and over again.
It was not long after this that Mrs.
Sally Snake said: 'sIt's high time for
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-20
HOME OF CEREALS UNKNOWN
History Has No Record of Where Most
important Human Food Had
Its Origin.

The origin of wheat is lost in hoary
antiquity. Even the original home of
the cereal plants of which bread is
being made is not known, all the re-
searches and hypothesis notwithstand-
ing. Where wheat, spelt, rye, barley,
oats, buckwheat, ETC., first offered man
their granny ears for good is an I'M
solved problem. But that originally
bread was not roasted or baked, but
eaten as dough or paste, may be in
ferred from its relation with the word
"broth," both of these words being
derived from the root "breOwan,"
''bru," to brew. In all probability it
was originally the boiled coarse meal
with nothing added to it but salt. The
leavening and baking of the bread was
a later development. The origin of
these processes is d matter of specula.
tion but so much is certain that bak-
ing preceded the leavening of the bread
that causes it to rise; also that the
original form of the bread was not
the loaf, but a kind of thin, flat cake
like the matzoths, or unleavened
bread of the Jews, or the tortillas OF
the Mexicans. Like these, it was prob
ably roasted upon intensely heated fiat
stones.
With the discovery of the leaven the
fiat cake increased in height until it
assumed the form of our loaf.
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Proper Locomotive Signals.

Experiments conducted by the
Southern Pacific railroad to find the
most efficient means of handling the
locomotive whistle show the average
motorist or pedestrian is familiar with
the standard crossing signal-two long
and two short blasts-and that, I'M
less the signal is given just so. he is
apt TO dispute priority right to cross
ing. Superintendent T. Ahern, in a
letter to engineers, says: Extensive
tests show that whistle call for a
station signal should never be less
than five seconds, the long blasts Of
the crossing signal, two and a half
seconds, and the short ones, one Sec
oDd. Particular care should be ex-
ercised to cut off the blasts sharply
and not to slur them. 1t is of the ut
most Importance in causing sound to
travel that these instructions be car
ried OUT
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1--WE Must Be Fashionable" Said Mrs.
Garter Snake

me to have new skin or a new suit.
All folks want new suits in the spring
time and most certainly snake will
not be behind in the fashions"
"Most certainly not" the other
snakes Missed. 1--WE must be fash
ionable at all COSTS" Mrs. Garter
Snake said.
"Why do you say at all costs?'
asked Mrs. Sally Snake. "One would
think that we couldn't afford new
suits. Indeed can always afford one
when I need one"
Il said that we must have them at
all costs" replied Mrs. Garter Snake,
@as I've heard people walking and talk
ing. And their talking has been i'm
portant. They have said: oh dear me,
dear me, / feel so poor, and yet must
have new dress. Til have one at all
COSTS
$50 imagined" continued Mrs. Gar
ter Snake, "that we should pretend we
were poor and yet that we must get
new suits"
my dear" said Mrs. Sally Snake,
ut is very foolish to talk that way,
and / don't admire anyone who does.
II a creature is poor and can't at
ford new suit, admire her, or him,
for going without one But if crea-
ture isn't poor and is simply talking
that way-then call it very absurd,
and just wish they could go blind
for little while and really suffer for
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Cart lelp But
Admire Babies


Il is joy and comfort to know that
those much talked of pains and other dis
treses that are said to proceed child-bearing
may be avoided. No woman need fear dis
corfort If she will fortify herself with the
wei known and time-honored remedy, Moth
cry Friend.
|, fs is most grateful, penetrating, ex-
te IL application that at once softens and
mfes plant the abdominal muscles and liga-
nsts. By regular use the muscles expand
W;out the usual strain when baby is born
al paini and danger at the crisis is con-
Eently less.
omenf everywhere who have used this
ftous rtkmedy tell how they entirely avoided
wOusn4ss, twitching spells, bearing down
q stretching pains, and relate how they
aoyed fentire freedom from the many de-
EatingI and distressing experiences usually
pdent to approaching motherhood.
Hotheffs Friend is recommended only for
\ relidf and comfort of expectant moth
~ Thousands Of whom have used and
Epmme2nded it. 1t is for external use only,
abso1 utely and entirely safe and won
rfullyn effective.
Write the Bradfeld Regulator Co.,
ln1ar Bldg, Atlanta, Ca, for their "Moth-
hood Book" so valuable to expectant moth
J, and in the meantime obtain bottle Of
'ther' Friend from the druggist today and
IS I'd rtify yourself against pain and dis
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new things as we do"

new things as we do"
"You say in one breath that we
don't get our suits at all costs, and in
the next you say how we suffer for
Them" said Mrs. Garter Snake.
''Well, if folks are going to grumble
/ cam" said Mrs. Sally Snake.
''You just said that you didn't adj
mire them when they did grumble.
Why copy something you don't ad.
mirey
"True," said Mrs. Sally Snake. 'It's
strange how often we copy what we
don't like to see. It's just like say
ing: 81 hate to gossip about my
neighbors I don't like Mrs. Green
Snake because she does And then to
go on talking about Mrs. Green Snake
for talking to others! It's the same
thing, exactly, and I must be careful
not to do what I don't like or adj
mire."
for their new skins, for they get al
most entirely blind while the new skin
is growing under the old one.
A queer blue film comes over their
eyes and they can scarcely see at all.
But they are quite willing to put up
with such things for the sake Of new
skins.
"Did you hear what Mrs. Milk Snake
was supposed to have eaten for break
fast?' asked Mrs. Red Spotted Snake.
"No!" they all exclaimed. They
knew that Mrs. Milk Snake was liza
BILE to eat anything and that she was
very proud of her enormous appetite.
"She ate pig that weighed sixty
pounds!" answered Mrs. Red Spotted
Snake
"Fancy that!" all the snakes Kissed.
''Well, she has to change her skin
often" Mrs. Sally Snake added.
For the bigger the eater the sooner
will a snake need new skin, for they
actually grow out of their old skins and
have to have new ones. It's just the way
children grow out of their clothes, and
the more they eat and the healthier
they are the more they grow!
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"Chapels" in PRINTING Offices

Benjamin Franklin, who was him.
self printer in early life, gives the
following explanation as to VIII.
'chapels" are found in printing offices.
He says: ga printing house is always
a chapel by the workmen, the origin
of which appears to have been that
printing was first carried on in Eng
land in an ancient chapel converted
into printing house, and the title has
been preserved by tradition" Of
course, the reference is to Cextons
printing press, set up in one of the
chapels of Westminster abbey. The
father of the chapel is one of the
printers, who usually presides over
any meetings that may be held.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-20
City Boy Hears Better.

Our recruiting officers have made an
interesting discovery in gaging the
relative fitness of city and country
boys for service in the army and navy,
according to the Popular Science
Monthly for February. City boys have
better ears.
From the Washington records of the
Marine corps come the assertion that
only one boy in five among those re-
cruited in quiet neighborhoods has the
acuteness of hearing possessed by the
average dweller in a noisy town. The
reflections on the ground of defective
hearing were in the ratio Of five to one
in favor of "city ears"
The surgeons and scientists assume
that the quiet of country districts
tends to weaken, through disuse, the
nerves in the ear, while the constant
clamor Of the city, really keeps the
aural nerves responsive.
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tricts, including care Of i've thousand
families and sufficient reconstruction
to make houses habitable, required
over two millions.
Misery on an Unparalleled Scale.
These are all large items but the
Red Cross is graphing with human
misery on an unparalleled scale-a
world of it. The item for relief of the
blind amounts to four hundred thou
sand dollars. The dispensary service
sends supplies to more than thirty-four
hundred hospitals. The Red Cross re-
ceives and distributes more than tive
hundred tons of supplies daily at Paris.
For this distribution and its other
work it requires a big transportation
service Of motors and trucks. This
transportation service has cost mil
lion and half, and its operating ex-
penses run to million dollars.
Every dollar it spends means misery
alleviated Its work is building abroad
for the United States the best good will
in this world 1t is building the best
good will among ourselves. Whatever
else the war may produce, we shall be
proud of our Red Cross.
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Condensed Milk for Children.
Appreciated British Oysters.

AS early as 80 B. c. the fame of the
British oyster had extended as far
as Rome, and Sallust seems to have
been nose impressed by the oyster
than by any other feature of the coun-
try, for he wrote: "The poor BritonS-
there is some good in them, after all
they produce an oyster" In so
A. d. oysters were exported from the
Thames estuary to Rome, and ever
since that time England has had an
oyster Industry of respectable rEOpor-
tons, although for many yceis the
supply has been inadequate to fill
LondOn's gigantic demands, and iii
portations from the United States,
Holland and France have been necrs5-
sary.
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By WILL PAYNE

thing? The government replied: "We
must get condensed milk for the little
children here" The commission got
the milk. At one spot in France farm
work was stopped by lack of horses.
That meant more hunger The Red
Cross got in a big tractor and set 1t
to blowing for the community.
There are a million needs. Cold,
wet and the deadly physical strain of
the trenches undermine mems consti-
buttons. A frightful scourge of tuber-
culosis has developed in France. The
Red Cross has built sanatoria, pro-
vided over thousand beds and nurses.
Thirty Millions for France.
l have here a big sheaf of sheets
filed with figures. One item is thirteen
million and odd dollars-the amount
which, up to that time had gone to the
local chapters of the Red Cross in. the
United States for local relief. Twenty
five per cent of the money subscribed
through the chapters eventually goes
that way.
Over thirty millions have been ap-
propriated for work in France. Here
is million and a quarter-in round
numbers-for military hospitals and
dispensaries over million and half
for canteen service, where French and
American soldiers, relieved from the
trenches. can get good food, cot, a
bath, and have their clothes disinfected
and so 60 on for their brief holiday
clean, rested, nourished There are
over three millions for hospital supply
service; half a million for rest sta
tons for American troops.
Aid of refugees-eleven thousand
families-a counts for nearly three
million dollars; care and prevention of
tuberculosis takes over two millions
care Of helpless children over mil
lion relief work in six devastated dis
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Valuable New Cement.

A Vienna metal cement or solder,
supplied commercially in small cylin-
ders, is described as copper amalgam.
amount Of mercurous nitrate and wa.
ter, mixture of seven parts Of merA
curry with three parts of powdery cop
per precipitated from sulphate solu-
ton by zinc. When applied, the ANAL.
gam and the metal parts to be united
are heated to $50 or 100 degrees F.
Aside from its use as a cement. the
amalgam is stated to be an easily work.
ed composition for various uses. as II
can be hammered. rolled. shaped under
a die, or softened in boiling water suf-
t1ciently for making casts, and it takes
a good polish.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-20

Last summer the public subscribed
q hundred million dollars to the Red
Cross. At the latest statement over
propriated.
Where has it gone? you ask. For
many months the world has been
spending over hundred million dol
lars clay for the destruction of life,
limb and means of subsistence. Call
up what you have read about the wars
devasta ton. The American Red Cross
enormous job is to do whatever it can
to alleviate that-not after the war,
not after governments have deliber-
ated and resolved; but right now at
the minute, on the spot It's amazing
that it has done so much with so little
money.
Last autumn the Italian army fell
back precipitately. On your war map
that meant rubbing out one line and
drawing another half an inch further
south. Over there in Italy it meant
thousands of poor families fleeing from
their homes. Major Murphy, Red
CloSS COMMISSIONER III LilOpC. iuSltSN
to the scene and wired: 'Indescribably
pathetic conditions exist, involving
separation of mothers and children,
cold, hunger. disease, DEATH" In No
vember and December the American
Red Cross appropriated three million
dollars for relief there-a large sum,
yet small in comparison with the need.
Condensed Milk for Children.
Soldiers are only part of the Red
Gross work-probably the smaller
part. Every instant somewhere in the
vast flood of destruction, a hand
eea ches up in appeal. 1t is pretty apt
10 be chiid's hand or a yyoman's
When the Red Cross commission
reached Petrograd it asked the gov
eminent, what IS the most urgent
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Blind to Joy.

Life is always worth living. If one
rave responsive sensibilities. But we
u the highly educated classes ESQ
,alled) have most of us got far, far
seek the choice, the rare, the exquisite
exclusively, and to overlook the COM
non. We are stuffed with abstract
conceptions and glib with verbalities
md verbosities; and in the culture of
:hese higher functions the peculiar
sources of joy connected with our
simpler functions often dry up, and we
grow stone blind and insensible to
ife's more elementary and general
goods and ioys.--Willias James.
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Part 0f VaIIr = Jur,4ion

Training in cheerfulness should be
regarded as one of the most important
features of education. What is the
use of learning science and mathemat-
les and foreign languages, if when all
is done, you are so miserable that you
ask yourself if life is worth living?
A training in cheerfulness is the best
foundation for education.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-20
Give Heed to the Warning.

Pimples on the face and other
parts of the body are warnings from
Nature that your blood is sluggish
and Impoverished. Sometimes they
foreten eczema, boils, blisters, scaly
eruptions and other skin disorders
that burn like flames of ire.
They mean that your blood needs
S. S. s. to purify it and cleanse it OF
these impure accumulations that can
cause unlimited trouble. This remedy
is the greatest vegetable blood puri-
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HE CURED
CHRONIC COLD
With VINOL
Mr.. Bagley's Letter Printed Here as
Proof.

Dunn, N. CT suffered with a
chronic cold for four months, cough
ed day and night. Had to keep On
working when was not able to. l
saw Vinol advertised and tried it,and
L want to tell you it just cured that
cold in short time. -. G. Bagley,
Dunn, N. c.
That's because Vinol is a constitu-
tional cod liver and iron remedy
which aids digestion, enriches the
blood and creates strength. Then
chronic coughs and colds naturally
disappear. Your money will be re-
turned if it does not help you.
c. P. Craig G Son, Druggists, Cam
bridge, and at the best drug store in
every town and city in the country.
ADV.
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Why They Were There

What horrible crime was II
brought you here?" asked the nice
lady of the convict.
I'VE amt criminals here ma'am,"
said the convict. "Were all the UNI
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Ugly, Unsightly Pimples
Are Signals Of Bad Blood

fer known, and contains no minerals
or chemicals to injure the most deli
cate skin.
Go to your drugstore, and get a
bottle of S. S. S. today, and get rid
of those unsightly and disfiguring
pimples, and other skin irritations.
And it will cleanse your blood thor
oughly. If you wish special medical
advice, you can obtain it without
charge by writing to Medical Direc-
tor, 20 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta.
Georgia.
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LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN
Notable Utterances That Have Been
Accepted by the World as More
or Less Authentic.

First words of human beings every.
where are as much alike in their signi-
ficance as are III the essentials Of de-
pendence and trustfulness the infants
who stammer them. Last words DIFF
fer as greatly IN purport as do their
utterers in age, experience, environ
ment, intellect aid character. OF the
many "dyfng sentences" that have
passed into the category Of familiar
quotations. it is, Of course, impossible
always toll srsfate the apocryphaI
from the deal b attempt such d.
vision would nd be worth the pafaf0
II Is, - 80 q
iblel md thlzafrly authentic. Some q
the are the deliberate speeches Of
tho in full possession of bodily
str 18th bit about to suffer execution.
SUD are Sir Thomas More,s adjura-
tio as heffaced the scaffold, "See me
sal up for my coming down I can
shi for myself" Sir Walter Raleigh's
ref ction on the axe, "'Tis sharp
rel edy but sure one for all ills;;'
Md lame Roland's 20 Liberty, what
cri hes are committed in thy name! p
an Nathan Hale's 81 only regret that
hve but one fife to give for my coun-
tr Other sslast words embody
dying effort at conference or are mere
lyuthe murmurs of delirium. Two fa-
mSus farewells are attributed to Rabe-
la.s-"Draw the curtain, the farce is
eIf1ed," and 81 am going to seek great
p{Fhaps." Goethe's plea, which the
wbrld has refused to take as spoken
literally, for Light! more light!' has
aFmore modern counterpart in Tenny-
sons enigmatic 81 have opened 1t" per-
haps referring to the volume Of
Shakespeare at his side but susceptible
also of esoteric Interpretation.
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ADDING to 1t.

II fear you are too pretty nurse
for this case"
why SOP"
''The patient already has palpitation
of the heart."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
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InseuarabIe Three.

Lasiness, encouragement and pow
erty follow one another like ducks in
4 puddle Youths Companion.
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It is doubtful if there is a street
in the world that has a stranger name
than one in Hull, England. 1t is called
''Land of Green Ginger"