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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
GREAT STORM TIES
Up RAILROADS
Holds Back Coal as The e.
Cities Suffer.

Washington, Jan. 14.-Au the nor L.
eastern section OF the country f.ocs d
critical ten-day shortage Of coal. worse
tnan any experienced this winl.r.
Reports received by the drey-,r
general of railroads say tat o..
freight movement has been abandoned
east from Pittsburgh and Bu1tl1.
Coal cars are piled up Ly tie In
sands at various switching cen,ers.
Switching has been paraIyzed
No freight is moving on OF Pitts
burgh or Buffalo to Chicago.
Passenger service has been a1an-
doned on all through service e ST Of
Chicago, only a few locals are run
ming.
Conditions are worse than the rail
road administration Anticipated. 3 IL
card weather, with the temperature
from ten to twenty-five degrees below
Pittsburgh to Chicago and further
west and south to the Ohio river
Everything is at a standstilI
Little hope for relief is expected
from the freeze-up within tie next
forty-eight hours. Such trains IS can
be moved out will be unable to meet
even the daily emergency d mands
a period of ten days eAtrsma sdc~~-
age is anticipated by the railroad ad-
ministration officials -
Freight moving week begins with
the government facing its worst stu
alton since it took control of the
reads. The administration issued an
appeal to all shippers and railroads
to cooperate to their fullest ability
to clear the freight now in tn yards
to cut the present danger as short a
possible.
n tie east are 81 eng 70
coal. Philadelphia, Baltimore. C.m
den, Chester, Newark, New To-k n 3
the New England munitions cente~s
say they are nearing the end of e'r
supply. Washington is at the bolt m
of its coal pile.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
PHILOSOPHY OF MAIN CHANCE
Lonely Bachelor Realizes Mistake In
Not Welcoming Both Joy and
Sorrow Into His Life.

| read a story in current magazine
today. And after I read certain
part of it l laid the magazine down,
and L too, looked far away. But L
looked past the printed page into
damp, dimly lighted trolley car-and
into the heart of my friend who feared
TO grasp a vision, Margaret r. Sang
ster writes in the Christian Herald.
In the story wealthy old bachelor
was telling his reason for never hav-
ing married
L began to wonder" he said.
whether there was any advantage in
marrying at all. l saw lot of peo-
pie who were wretchedly unhappy to-
gether, and even more Wretched after
hey had dissolved their matrimonial
ties. l discovered that marriage usu-
ally meant children, anxiety, sickness
and death. / took counsel of my fears.
Why fail in love and marry if by doing
SO L was going to expose myself to the
irrows of outrageous fortune? My
parents We're both dead Sorrow
couldn't touch me. Why invite unhap-
pines-? If l had no family l should
have only myself to look out for-to
worry about-and when died nobody
would suffer agonies of bereavement
on my account. So ] shut myself up
in my shell and built an iron wall
around my affections 10 keep out sor-
row.
Il was fool! What wouldn't
give now to have had sorrow Many's
the time I've envied my friend with
Il dead child. Pain and joy go hand
in hand. Deaden your capacity for
one and you lose the other Today I'd
rather have had year or so with
woman | bad loved and have lost her
than to be what l ana lonely, child
less, wifeless, friendless old man."
L read the paragraph over. And
then l took it to q man I know call
him sometimes, to myself, the philoso-
pher.
Il think" he told me, that the
reasoning is quite right!
There's an old proverb that COW
sfi h thin think Els
better to have loved and lost than
never to have loved at all p The word
love isn't the only one that will fit
into that proverb. You can put live
in place of love. or known or felt
Il Think l said, that you're right.
It's BETTER" l unused, ITO have lived,
TO have known, to have loved-and
lost"
You know" said the philosopher,
that every chance isn't losing
chance. Some people live and know
..a feel and love Mithc1lt. loSiGgt
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
/. 5. ABANDOHS WAR,
BERLIN ANNOUNCES
U-B0atS f0Foad Wilson to Quit,
German Ps0p.e Assured.

Amsterdam, Jan 1.-THE semi-of-
dci2l Norddeu-sc e AIlgemelne Zeit-
aug, OF Berlin, publishes a ep1rt
l-ciL Washington that the Unite /
&i@tes is sending 91oa0.0O0 bushels Of
wheat to Europe, and adds:
TITS is a heavy blow to the en-
teute cause. Shoru of rhetorical -four
tlh, il means that America has decid-
ed not to appea. on the European bat
tlefeld Tor an indefinite time. What
moved President Wilson to this
change Of front, which is the most i'm
portant development In American war
policy?"
The newspaper attributes it partly
20 the achievements of the German
submarines. partly to internal causes
and especially ID growing pacif IN
and friction with Japan. It contin-
ues:
The last hope of the entente has
gone. 1t will inevitably cause deep
depression in France. whose bread ra-
ton may be increased slightly, but
for whose war-wea~y troops there is
now no hope Of relief"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
WOMAN PLEADED FOR CAND0R
Matron Announcing Nearness OF Birth
day Found Truth Not So Attrac-
tive After She Got It,

A woman with a birthday in sight
spoke earnestly to three men who were
her friends, writes Ella Randall
Pearce, in life.
Tomorrow will be another birth
day for me-" she said. Il know the
| freshness of my youth has departed,
but l should like to know JUST how
old l appear in the eyes of the world.
Tell me, MY dear friends. if you We're
! looking on me for the first time what
would be your Impressions?
Said the first man gijnly: Il have
known you for several years, and you
appear the same as when l first saw
YOU. Your beauty is undimmcd; your
charm is undiminished. II l did not
know otherwise, 1 should say tomor-
row would be your twentieth birth
day"
Said the second man more slowly:
Il, too have known you for several
years, but it seems to lac You have
been favored by time. Your beauty
has ripened and deepened un.l now
you, who were once u lovely bud, are
a lovelier rose in bloom. l shHu'd
count tomorrow as the beginning q,
your twenty-fifth year
And YOU queried the woman Cd
the third man, who had been rog...-
ing her with clear-eyed fraukneSS
Between friends there should al
ways be truth" he replied graNy,y.
Il acknowledge your beauty and your
charm and both have been wonder
fully preserved iii Scmblance Of youth.
But you ask for canIor and You shall
have it. Looking at you closely,
should not expect you to see thirty
after tomorrow"
The woman faced the three men
who were her friends, and her eyes
were cleaning while her checks pink
turned crimson. She pointed an ac-
CuSing finger
you have lied" she said tremulOus-
ly, land you also. But | will forgive
you both because you lied TO please
me. But you'-she whirIed toward
the last speaker-'you are a hurbarcus
egotist. You have wounded ne in or
der to maintain your own reputation
for veracity. Truth. indeed. Your
honesty Offends me- We are no longer
friends. Go-and quickly"
"Whew!" exclaimed the third man
as he strobe through the outer dark
ness. Il wonder what would have
happened to me if l had really told
her the truth?"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
AME says MAN
FROM MOB VIOLENCE
Prisoner Kicked and Beaten
For ViAifying Flag.

Philadelphia, Jan. 14.-ETorts ar
eoiAg made by the police to ascertain
fte identity of a man saved fir
E4GAi1x here when he proclaim {
91ssN to be an international Social
iea, ald is alleged to have cursed
Dc American nag.
F4s police wish to ascertain whe+h
ny.
: The man, when rescued from an in
afuriated crowd. said he was Paul B Ill
mss. He is about f1fty-eight yelr:
Old.
He was taken to the Fourth an.
York streets police station surround
ed BY Gordon OF policemen, VIZ
with nightsticks drawn protectec
their prisoner from the kicks. blow:
aHi weapons Of the raging mob.
A huge throng had gathered to wit
hass the raising of the two fl gs o
stYs1ty nix employees of the Ed >litN
AAse4tAe niils who had entered tbs
faAiHtary service. AS the first flag We.
tbsan1 raised to the breeze with tbs
ssftakaG strains of 1.-THE Star Spanglei
slalasf" blarins from a band voice
vas heard to raise above the music
vAlifying tho dag.
Immediately the mob surround e
the man. Cries OF Lynch the trait
err" were shouted from hundred o.
throats, as hands sought to chcks
him.
At this point Policeman BarforG
made his way to the center of the
Eovd. but could not prevent Baiifuss
tom being kicked and beaten by the
n9ered mob.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
Dup Aaain!"

When we were little ShaverS. tod
ding about the house and went down
On the floor or the ground because our
feet could not keep up with our am
bition to run and get there" right off :;
grandmother, a lovely old down East
LADY, would sing out to us up again !!
Never mind! That didn't hurt you!
Up again 7" SO up again we would
jump all the hurt gone, just because
grandmother cheered US to try it over
aggiL. writes Vincent in Farm Life.
sam Jones has had the luck of bad
crops two or three years. Things have
seemed against him. But he has been
a. brave as a lion. No frost can ever
cove tHat froZe the smile from his
face or withered the hope in his heart
AuG he is right at it this year, just
as if he had had the best of luck all
through the years.
But ! wonder who of his neighbors
has been down to sing out to Sam:
"Ip again. old man! This is all right
Eu"'H come out all right-can't help
it,"
I don't know of anybody that has
hai time to look up from his own hoe
i'm aad blowing and digging long
enough 10 do that; it's a shame, too!
Come ON, Let's go down right now
a-I cheer Sam up a bit! Maybe we
can give him lift at the work, too.
All the world will be the brighter for
it after that-tO Sam and to you and
to ne, writes Vincent in Farm Life.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
Kate Fields Prnnhecv

When, Il good many years ago, Kate
Field wrote those clever verses begin
ming: "They talk about a wOman's
sphere as though it had a limit" little
she guessed how tremendously that
sphere was destined to be enlarged
by the coming Of the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and seven
teen. As matter of course, observes
an exchange. the great world war Is
responsible for the very rapid advance
the women are making in every sphere
Of the worlds work. We are no longer
surprised to find that women are doing
anything and everything that men can
40. from driving warplanes to shining
shoes. 4 shoe-polishing 'parlOr" in
which only women are employed is
now doing huSineSS in Boston, yet even
this innovation scarcely challenges at
tention in these times of shifting con-
litiOnS.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
hui, .l!cca:!S CvpY
SEA TERRORIST.
Daylight P2i4s Are Instituted to De
moralize the Civil PopuIation-T.. ey
Avoid Battle.

Italian Army Headquarters in \
them I.aly,, Jan. 14.-Day g, i
raj Is by the enemy after the rec II
series OF de tructiNe and deadly mig
ia ds over Padua. Castelfranco. Y &c
"a, Mcsire and Mon Belluna. l /,
the impression thst the enemy ha
embarked on an cyten7iv" ar al
pc i"y somewhat similar to the subm-
in campaign.
TIE cremv's air attacks die
ed chizfy against civilians instead q
the military apparently to terri. 7
the civilian population.
TT energy 2v i3"rce OF tig't n
IN ire op3u with TIE ftalienS sn1 "a
ariss makes it evident that he inv {
ers are less interested in damn
III stery Of the air than in spre d Il
fer among the inhab tauts OF tn
towns and the peasantry far benin
the front.
Beginning with a series Of II gA
raids in the moonlight cver du
and other undefend d Italian cite
'he enemy has become be,der Al
1eily appears in broad doyig,t ab V
the smell cities near the f~on+
Aerial warfare on an exten i've SCI
is developing. new that Ope1at on
along the Pave river and OF t.
mountain front have bcc~ma mac iv
owing to the wintry conditions.
Three raiders approached an
crowds in the streets saw 4 81 CO CT
ar battle in the sky The 6 ~ n
Wv a. an altitude OF 1900 fes
whsre the Temperature Wa h Il
thirty degrees below zero. r. m n.
ground the airp!anes looked k IL!
white specks in the bright sun g.
Shrapnel from city's de- nc
burst all around en-.
A great cheer went up fr N II
crowds as fleet CT italian Caproni>
made straight for the raiders tn
Germans adopted the ruse of drop
ping, and the sightseers came III
multous in their shouts. becau~ thH'
though the enemy macEino: re b
ing driven down by the It4'i7n a
men
But the raiders regained abr
and succeeded In planning av V u !
two Of them were brought WI b
the italian airmen. Both f the r. a
ers were ceptured ard p~0y9d to b
Germans, os had b"-n expected
As they aighted the enemy aviet {
sprang from their machines AM 20
them afire before thei- capt0~s { Ii
Interfere A third raider was lie
at about the same time by a BIRTHS
chaser on the Upper Piave rive.
No one was killed by the raid r.
but fragment of falling shr" pa
wounded a boy who had been SIN :
ing in the street.
Among the many recent raids on
one has been made against mi :
objective. This was against an ae 3
camp of the Italians and the Britis
near Treviso, and was so heavily =
pulsed-eleven enemy machines bei} 6
destroyed-that all later raids hav
beer made against undefended CON
munities.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
WILDCAT FROZEN TO RAIL
4sFst Ito Wet Paw Sticks, Then il
vainIy L.lcks to Be Free.

tssSt lts Wet Paw Sticks, Then IL
vainIy LIcks to Be Free.
BeI1efonte, Pa, Jan. 1.-THE rail
rad crew that runs the shifting en-.
olAe to and from the various m mes
b the Snowshoe region have found an
E1sver to the question what makes
Z wildcat wild?"
4 few mornings ago, when the Their.
AGAetor registered twenty-five de-
tees below zero, the crew were on
their way out to a mine, when they
aaw q wildcat on the road ahead of
then; but It was not until the engine
Was too close to stop It that they dis,
covered the animal was fast, appar.
emily by the head.
Not being able to stop, the engineer
watched to see what would happen,
end when the engine struck the cat
h Knocked it to out side, and with a
gurattng cry the animal picked itself
Up and ran off into tho woods.
Curious to know In what way the
cat Had become fastened on the track,
the engineer stopped and the crew
went back and were astonished tc
Ind the cats tongue and larynx hang
ing to the rail
The incident was explained wen
upsn further examination. they found
that the cat had been to a spring neal
~ for drink. It had evidently step
pod in the water. and when it was
crossing the railroad it stepped ontc
IT, tack. with the result that it foot
iAnediately frcge fast. Then, in at
teEpting to lick its foot loose, its
tongue froze fast
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
cULM AS A FUEL SOLUTION
ono eeriee Of the Readings Banks t.
Yield 1000 900 Tons.

Minersville, Pa, Jan 14.-An aug
1eated number of locomotives are
DaAH< u tho mountain ranges all
a1Sut this region, in one of the great.
6st sDorts ever put forth to furnish
- additional supply of hard coal in
he market.
TIE Reading Coal company is max.
INC similar efforts to increase the coal
s1tput, 80 that when the railroads are
prepared to haul more coal supply
WHl BE- on hand. If the present de-
hand continues the big culm banks in
this region will soon have been all
utilized and placed on the ma-ket.
Ne Philadelphia & Reading company
Il preparing to put all the culm banks
n tie Heckscherville Valley. which
5aSe accumulated by half century of
I'D mining, on the market. More
nan 100000 tons of steam sizes of
hi can be procured from these
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
NERVE OF boobies
Police Display Thoroughness
That k5t0niSheS Co!oniaIs.
LONDON Of Today a Marvel Forming
One Of The Most important War
Ccuters OF Entire World.

A Ehcdosian who has arrived In
Eng ana - Join up" after service in
the three campaigns undertaken by
,la South Africans, assures me of his
aston. lament ut the tact and thor
ou-..I.ss exhibited in the daily work
Of military police says a writer in
Westminster Gazette. The London of
tnaav is, indeed, a never-ending mar.
vel 40 the colonial soldier. It forms
one of 5he most important military
CuU>re Of the world. 1t is inhabited
by 81 floating population drawn from
one of the most cosmopolitan armies
in iis.nTy-an army, too, that is in no
Way remarkable for the gentleness of
its igE5in@ methods when the games
afonJ Vet, as my South African
friend phrased it. ''the whole mob
goes about on its business ana its
pleasures like a small flock of con-
tented sheep with Il couple of we'll
trained dogs behind them"
Things We're not always managed
thar way in the early days of the
forces raised by the dominions in the
first wear Of war. My informant illus
trates the contrast with an incident
that came under his notice while his
regiment lay intrenched at Sw@Fop-
aruI JUting the German South
w,sl' c.mDaign. One morning. the
men ri tho Union advanced posts saw
approaching them from the desert
three living skeletons, who staggered
like drunken men as they CROPPED
their way blindly through the fur
mace, Of sand. A comrade lay help
loss . mile or so behind. too far gone
-a walk. He was brought in later,
unconscious. but still alive. The four
h,roCS-captiypS in the hands of the
tIua-had preferred the chances of
dn",n to the grim certainty of a cruel
ami CALLING captivity. and had man
aged To escape from their iailers I'M
der cover of darkness. Practically
without food and. for the most part.
without water, they had travelled
some hundreds of mileS-frOm one
end OF the vast territory to the
other. Almost naked the ice-cold
winds of night had crippled them, hun
ger had robbed them of their
strength. and thirst had all but driven
them 10 madness. They had escaped
"by the skin of their teeth" from
both vengefuI Hun and prowling lion
And an oficious military policeman
greeted ;hem on their arrival in the
British lines with the order that they
We're uat to Ioiter in the streets of
the town!
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
Arrested AS DESERTER
Fat.1er Taken Into cus'ody After the
Funeral of Son.

Pottstcwn, Pa, Jan. 14-Thcmas
Guest, of Carbonate. fern my Of this
t1wu. vas arrested he-e en- the
c1s-se OF being a deserter from Camp
H1acsck, Augusta. Ga
He was a member Of the sunp,y
tra'n Of the sixth REGIMENT, and was
missing from the cantonment since
october II.
He reappeared in Pot.stOwn to at
tend the funeral Of lis son, con. who
vas killed in an autcro0 b;la "ccidant
last week. Chief cf Pc'ica Resnyde-
2nt wsd hin to stay thr .ugh I serv-
fDes. He will be te1-en to P i'ede phia
IND later to Camp Hancock
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
BEWARE OF HOT IRONS
Used For Relief After Exposure
Causes Loss of Foot

Used For Relief After Exposure
Causes Loss of Foot
Towanda. Pa, Jan. 14-E. W. Put
nam superintendent of the p1or Of
Bradford county, lies seriously i'll a
the county farm in Bur'inet n, follow
ing an operation which necessitatei
the removal of his right foot above
the ankle and two toes of the left
foot, the result of exposure.
Returning from work IN the open.
with feet chilled to what it seemed al
most to be impossible to start the
circulation freely, he heated several
fiat irons, lay down and applied them
to his pedal extremities. They
brought results.
Both feet were badly burned by
contact of the hot irons. He suffered
some, but the burns had apparently
healed until last week, when he dis
covered that notwithstanding had set
in, efforts to check which proved ur-
availing. and so operations were re-
sorted to- 1t is believed that the prog
ress of the disease has been stayed,
but it will take several days yet to
determine the rsults-
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
New RccneranQ Bullet.

The discussion of the war is heard
everywhere. Even negro janitorS find
time while shoveling on the coal to
talk about ii, says a New York news
letter. Two of them We're discussing
the wonderful inventions brought about
by the war. The man Edison is some
boy" said one of the negroes "How's
thatE' inquired the 0Iner. "Why mes
done gone ana invented a magnetized
bullet dat can't miss a German, if 1t
sees his steel helmet "Thut'S what [
calls some invention" exclaimed the
other. But dat amt all what that
bullet can do" continued the first
speaker. 'Whenever that bullet don't
hit nothin' it comes straight back to
the American lines. Dat 500" asked
the second janitor, with some doubt.
How do they manage to keep them
there comm back bullets from hittin'
our own moE| "WeIl, NAH frien',
didn't 'spluin that" answered the first
one, but you can betcher life that
man Edison has got dem bullets
trained. You d0an 'Spect he'd let em
Kill any Americans, do YOU? No, sir.
He's just got them fixed so dey will
come back and fall around our gun
ners' feet"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
Women in India keed Education.

At meeting IF IL WOman's Indian
Study association. Miss Boyd, secre-
airy in England for the Woman's Uni
5ersity settlement, Bombay, said that
Duly one per cent of Indian women
'ould read. She declared the great
need was for the Indian girls to take
Up the profession of medicine. 1t
lad been stated by an authority that
IN Indian woman in child birth had
ess chance than a soldier on the bat
lafeld.
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Ground Moles Are Bio Eaters

a Sc"tchW"man has just announced
the results OF an interesting series of
Observations on the common mole. The
most striking point to the laynran is
the inordinate appetite of this tiny
creature. y mole Will eat its own
weight III "arthWorms in 81 hours. An
ordinary man eating in the same ra-
no would require $50 pounds of food
day If the human race We're con-
St1tuted like the moles, comments an
exchange, Mr.. Hoover's task would he
hopeless from the outset. One of the
moIes which was a subject for study
weighed four ounces and devoured 100
ounces OF food in single month
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
Gin Ecarder's Business.

Paterson. \. j.. JGn. 14.-Brcause
he sold 400 pounds of sugar II the
MANAGER Of a local theatre for fee
distribution among the audience, Da-
vid N0chinsen. a wholesale go er.
We found guilty of ho1"ding b the
federal food board aud his licen was
spandod for one mont. The penal
" wa ~'~-ed ont With the amp oval
of Nat;o,.-r Admiais'rr II over,
he local l. .arl announced.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14

Nrr~is-Own. Pa. Ja0 ft.-When 10
sa2h Porchino eThihH-l = lump on the
aHcl. of his neck, indicating where hq
had been assaulted bv e:the~ Charles
FerZCno or Sophia Na2zr. be suhm''
ted 10 an operation, and bullet was
removed. He said he Lad ben Vi It
ing the NuZZo home when Nc FIT -
singing sensation. h. 'ifn'- Euow
that he was really shot Tat was
five months ago His alleg d assal
ants We're held for court.
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Fiery Eczema and Skin Eruptions
Readily Yield to This Old Remedy

This wonderful remedy is without an
equal as blood purifier, being prob
ably the oldest blood medicine on the
market. 1t has been sold by drug
gists for fifty years.
You are invited to write to-day
for complete and tu1l advice as to
the treatment of your own case. Ad-
dress, Chief Medical Adviser, Swift
Specific Co., Dept. H Atlanta, Ga.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-14
CoGfish for Trench Soldiers.

Tho Goldfish army is no dream. 1t
arrives in the trenches somewhere in
Tuvlce at the rate of 100000 pounds
q week. On its strength of two
BREAKFASTS and one fish dinner" Cana
dian and British "Tommies" are kept
W. to their working mark.
Canada herself is helping to solve
the food problem by having two fish
days Il wcek-Tuesdays and Fridays.
notes = correspondent. With this
great demand for fish the Nova SEQ
ria tt-ferman suffers neither fog, nor
rain. Tor ice. nor snow. nor darkness
nor submarine TO Interfere with his
task If supplying the dominion and the
empire with fish in quantities never
paraIleled in history.