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RihIe Stops Bullet,


When that American Sunday school
scholar gave his nickel for Tesla
ment for a soldier in Europe he did
not know that the Testament would
stop a bullet within an inch of
French soldiers heart and save his
life.
But Eugene Dufall, that gallant
French soldier whose life was saved
bv that Testament. knows it, and he
will always be grateful to some I'M
known American Sunday school boy,
or 1t may be Il girl. who that Sunday
back in America did his bit toward the
100000 Testaments and Gospels
which have gone to Europe through
the cooperation of the Worlds Sun
day School association and the Amer
lean and other Bible agencies.
This new Testament was given him
at Dieulefit. the first camp in Dau-
phine. by the French Bible society. On
January 10. 1917. he was carrying it
on his chest i'm the Schonholtz wood,
before Aitkfrch lin AlSace), when
bullet from Il machine gun glanced
from y tree or rock. struck him on the
breast and entered the Testament.
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f1( DAD[Y'S{y[NIN(|
I'll [AIRY TALE
IA 81 MACY GRAHAI BONNER |
ZE Blu WAYS.

81 feel sorry for you, Mrs. Zebu.
Yes. very sorry indeed l feel for you
"That's good of you, Mr.. Zebu," said
Mrs. Zebu. ut always helps a crea-
tuTe to feel that she has friends in the
world, but just why are you sorry for
me? I'm sure there are many reasons
for anyone to be sorry for me. They
would probably pity me because I'm a
zebu, but you don't object to that"
81 should say not" Mr.. Zebu an
swered. Il would be very uncompli-
mentary to myself If should be sorry
for you because you're zebu."
"Then pray explain yourself, for you
aren't very clear. In fact" Mrs. Zebu
added, 1--WE not the faintest idea what
you're talking about"
I'm sorry for you" Mr.. Zebu said,
because your horns are not nearly as
big as mine. In fact your horns are
quite small and they aren't straight as
they should be. All Mrs. Zebus should
have straight horns"
"You know full well why they aren't
straight" Mrs. Zebu said GROSSLY.
I'm not so sure whether I do or
not" Mr.. Zcbu answered. "And be-
cause I'm not sure you'd better tell me
so I will really know"
81 hurt my horns on the bars of my
zoo yard. Many of US have done the
same. We get angry with the people
outside and so we bang against the
bars and our horns get bent and
crooked"
81 thought there was reason" said
Mr.. Zebu.
"Then if you thought so, why did
you make me explain" asked Mrs.
Zebu. Its very foolish Of you to
waste so much zebu time"
whats zebu time? asked Mr.. Zebu.
Don't you really know? l don't
want to tell you and waste more of it
if you know already"
II don't know" said Mr.. Zebu.
"Zebu time" answered Mrs. Zebu,
"means our time-the time we're given
for eating and sleeping and walking
and talking and standing and quarrel
ing"
do they have zebu clocks?" asked
Mr.. Zebu.
"Of course not" said Mrs. Zebu.
"The very idea. It's enough to give
US all the time there is and to let US
call it what we wish"
"Who lets US call it zebu timer"
asked Mr.. Zebu.
mo one!" screamed Mrs. Zebu
proudly.
"Then whatever do you meanY'
asked Mr.. Zebu.
"No one stops us from calling 1t
zebu time and so we can if we wish,
and for one think it's fine idea. It's
showing that we think well of our
selves and value time just as folks do
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WANTED TO KEEP OLD RUSSIA
Desire Of Caucasian Princess Was for
independence Without BIemishes a.
Of IndustriaIism.

I met a Caucasian princess here In
Petrograd, Ernest Poole writes In the
Saturday Evening Post. She sat next
to me one day In the small press gal
lery Of the hall in which the duma
used to meet. Now in its place was
the council. The woman by my side,
l learned, was here as correspond
ent for a social revolutionist paper
down in the Caucasus.
l had been in the Caucasus years
before, and we spoke of the old town
where she had been born, high up in
the heart of the mountains. The Rus
SLAMS call the women there ''the dia-
monds of Russia" and this woman
was one of these. I was curious to
learn what had drawn her to a scene
like this, so many thousand miles
from home. She explained that her
husband had been killed in the first
year of the war and that after that
she had thrown herself into war activ-
tiles.
I'VE don't want to desert the Rus
sian cause We are all in favor Of
pushing the war through to the end"
she told me. "And at the same time
we are doing our part in the work Of
the revolution The president of the
council here, and half the other lead
ers, too, are Caucasians. We are do
ing our share. But at the same time
we want to be free from too much
rule by Petrograd."
what do you mean by autonomy?
How free do you want to be?" asked.
TELL me about your United States.
You have states, and a nation, too,"s
she said.
l tried to explain the relations be-
tween our states and the federal gov,
eminent.
"We wish more than that" she said :
1--WE want more independence"
l replied that in America we were
moving just the other way-toward
more centralized goyernment-and /
tried to explain how the growth Of
railroads, factories. mills and huge
-terstate corporations as-forcfag
us to grant more and more control to-
the men in Washington.
But" she rejoined, I'VE don't want
an ugly land of mills. We want our
Russia to stay as it isl mean with
its beautiful fields and its forests, Its
rivers and its mountains. You have
seen the Caucasus and know you Will
feel what I mean"
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AUSTR0- GER.MAN
BREACH W|DENS
Renewa! Of War in Russia
Strains Relations.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-Further evil
dence OF the growing strain in rela-
tions between Germany and Austria
over the refusal Of Austria to partic
pate in the renewed attack upon Rus
STA is given in an official despatch re-
ceived here from France.
It quotes the Austrian premier as
formally reiterating on February %
that Austria-H Hungary will take no part
in military action against Russia or
Rumania and will not send her troops
INTO Ukrainia. The despatch follows
Charles I paid a visit to William
Y on February %. I.udendorff was
resent al the interview. If we are
10 Judge from the tone of the inter
view it must have been lacking in
cnrdiality There seems to be little
doubt but that serious conflict has
broken out during the week between
the courts at Vienna and Berlin and
which Germany is determined to set
tie if need be by violent measures.
The international situation of the
dual monarchy is such that the Vienna
government III oTuef 10 avert d CdtdS-
rophe. has been obliged to distinguish
by means of public declarations its
own policy from that of Germany. The
report that at the conferences of Feb
ruary IA Hertling and Ludendorff had
decided to paw no attention 10 the
Russian rehabilitation and TO pre-
pare 70 begin again the conflict on
the east front caused A great stir
throughout Austria
st is not simply dissenting nation
alitics. the Czechs, the Slovenes or the
Poles. who do not desire to fight any
more. but it is the mass of the popu
lation of German origin who refuse to
sacrifice themselves any longer to as
sure the triumph of Prussian imperial
ism
IAN official note of the fifteenth had
announced that Austria for her part
would continue to consider the war
as terminated with Russia and would
abstain from taking part in the oper-
atoms planned by the German com
mand. A second note of the nine
'eenth repeated the same statement"
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Hard War Times,

The suburban housekeeper was again
without a washerwoman and had tried
in vain all over town to get another.
Each woman she called had Monday
taken, and every other day for that
matter. This woman did not care to
send her clothes to large laundry, for
she had just had put in new washing
outfit in the basement. AS last re-
sort she called up a woman on the tel
ephone who had done her washing the
summer before.
Mary" she said, would you come
around sometime next week to do my
washing? I'll give you S."
"Go on, Miss White" responded col
ored Mary. 81 am hayin' my washin'
taken out now Indianapolis News
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THE PRAISE CONTINUES
Everywhere We Hear Good Reports
of DOan's Kidney Pills.

Cambridge is no exception. Every
section of the U. S. resounds with
praise Of Doan's Kidney Pills. Fifty
thousand persons are giving testi-
mony in their home newspapers. The
sincerity of these witnesses, the
fact that they live so near, is the
proof of the merit of Doan's. Here's
a Cambridge case.
John w. Bramble, carpenter, Il 5
High St., says: Il suffered a great
deal from disordered kidneys and
backache. Sometimes, when work
ing, l have had to do lot of heavy
lifting and several times, when l
have lifted, have had sharp, shoot
ing pains catch me, like the thrust
of knife. The kidney secretions
have been scanty and scalding in
passage Sometimes | have had dir
~ spells and have seen black specks
and flashes before my eyes. L have
surely felt miserable until l have
used Doan's Kidney Pills, which
have bought at Bradshaw's Phar-
macy. One box has always relieved
me-"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Bramble had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
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49,
Animal"
who have clocks and watches which
tick, tick and go on moving all the
time, making them hurry for all they
are worth. Zebu time is far kinder. 1t
doesn't make US hurry. 1t will stop if
we want it to. It's the time I arrange
or you arrange"
"Why, Mrs. Zebu," said Mr.. Zebu adj
miringly, you are quite an animal. I
won't be sorry for you any more"
81 suppose you were sorry for me
too because my hump is so much
smaller than yours
''True," said Mr. Zebu, "but I won't
waste my sympathy on you any more,
but on the children who don't even
show signs of horns and humps until
they are almost a year old. And then
it's five full years before Mr.. Zebu
Is real and full-sized Zebu like my
self"
"You certainly are fond of yourself"
said Mrs. Zebu.
"Tell me-" continued Mr.. Zebu,
"what was the fight about this morn
ing?"
"They've been abusing me for two
days, but now they're through" said
Mrs. Zebu. They We're jealous of my
baby, my dear baby zebu. A pretty big
baby, but still my little pet" said Mrs.
Zebu. They're all right now though"
she continued. ''It only takes them a
day or so to get over their jealousy.
They tried to shove me and push me
out of the way, but now they're friend
ly. And I've been cross for a long
time"
That's so," said another Mrs. Zebu.
But so were you when Your zebu
baby was young. We're not interested
in anything but ourselves and our ba-
bies then. Now we're feeling happy
once more" They all agreed to this
and told the children stories Of how
famous they were and how in conn
try called India they were thought TO
be sacred and noble cattle.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-28

Pliny says: "The natives who In
habit the west of Europe have liquid
with which they intoxicate themselves.
made from corn and water. The man.
ner of making this liquid differs. In
Gaul and Spain and other countries it
Is called by different names, but its
nature and properties are everywhere
the same.
1.-THE people of Spain in particular
brew this liquid so well that it will
keep long time. So exquisite is the
cunning Of mankind in gratifying their
vicious appetites that they have thus
invented method to make water itself
produce intoxication."
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The Onium Habit

There are three different forms of
taking opium. Some people, for exam
pie the Turks, eat 1t; others, like the
Chinese, smoke 1t, while the inhabi-
tants of more civilized countries usual
ly drink it as laudanum. The drug is
obtained from the unripe fruit of the
common white poppy. Incisions are
made in the heads Of the plant, from
which a creamy juice exudes, harden
ing on its exposure to the air. This is
scraped off and made up into small
cakes, in which form it is sold The
confirmed opium eater or smoker re-
duces himself to an indescribably
wretched state of mind and body, and
very seldom lives to be forty If the
practice has been acquired at an early
period In life.
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GAS KILLS THREE
Psthe and Two Children Dead and
Mother Unconscious in PhIadelpfia.

p1Gne anu i"o SniIuTSH OeaQ anu
Mother Unconscious in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. Feb. 2S.-Two young
children and their father are dead
and the mother is in a critical con-
dition at Pennsylvania hospita, as
the result of leaking gas lamp at
1872 South Marshall street.
The dead are Madeline and Jessie,
aged three years and seven months.
respectively, and Thomas Foglietta,
inachinist, employed at the South
wark foundry The mother, Margaret,
twenty-three, is still unconscious at
the hospital. where all were rushed
in a passing automobile, Immediately
after the accident was discovered.
The bodies were found by the moth
er Of Foglietta, who occupies III first
floor rooms. about nine O'Clock III The
morning She had gene TO the apart
ment to take breakfast for the chill
dren, who have been i'll with measies.
It is said that all except the mother
had been dead for several hours. When
the gas lamp was found to be leak
ing about one week ago. wax tape WAS
used to repair it, and this. giving way,
is believed to b irresponsible for the
deaths.
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Formation and Color.

The iridescenes IF pacre, or mother
of-pearl, is a matter Of form and not
actual color. In fact, all ''changeable'
colors are more or less the result Of
form even where there is fermentation
beneath, such as in certain ribbed silks.
When sunlight bears directly upon
finely ribbed metal, as a file, there Is
the same play of colors.
In the case of mother-of-pearl an in
teresting experiment has been made.
An impression of the pearl was TAX
en- upon pure white wax. 1t was then
found that the apparently smooth sur
face of the pearl had still sufficient
irregularities to impress upon the wax
a surface that resulted in similar color
MISUNDERSTANDING Tarrisse.
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Girls! GIRLS. TRY IT!
STOP DANDRUFF And
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
Hair stops falling out and gets ti''ck'
wavy, strong and beautiful.

Your hair becomes light, WaNy.
fluffy, abundant and appears as SOFT
lustrous and beautiful as young
girls after a'Danderine hair cleanse.
Just try this-moisten cloth with
little Danderine and carefully draw
it through your hair, taking one
small strand at a time. This VIII
cleanse the hair of dust, dirt ana
excessive oil and in Just q lew mo-
ments you have doubled the beauty
of your hair.
Besides beautifying the hair at
once, Danderine dissolves every par
ticle of dandruff; cleanses. purlfles
and invigorateS the scalp, forever
stopping itching and falling hair
But what will please you most VIII
be after a few weeks use when you
will actually see new hair-fine ana
downy at first-yes-but really new
hair growing all over the scalp. II
you care for pretty, soft hair and
lots of it surely get small bottle
of Knowlton's Danderine from any
druggist or toilet counter, and just
try it-Adv.
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Has Plans for Biu Time.

Allen, fifty-one, known as the mil
ionaire Kid" declared in a San Fran
cisco police court he was going to
buy all the mountain dew in the world"
as soon as he got the fortune of $1,000
600 left to him by his father
Allen was arrested with other va
grants. He was asked if he was 60
ing to take his tramp friends with him
on the 10y party"
"SOme of them. perhaps" he replied
"We sure are going to have some time
but I'll never be buried in the potter's
field AS soon as get that $S00o.000
Tn going to set aside sI5 To-. ii decent
burial"
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When You Have a Cold.

1t is when you have a severe cold
that you appreciate the good quail
ties of Chamberlain's Cough Rene
dy. Mrs. Frank Crocker, Pana. ILL.,,
writes: "Our five-year-old son Paul
caught a severe cold last winter that
settled on his lungs and he had ter
rible coughing spells. We were
greatly worried about him as the
medicine we gave him did not help
him in the least. A neighbor spoke
so highly of Chamberlain Cough
Remedy that 1 got a bottle of it.
The first dose benefited him so much
that 1 continued giving it to him I'M
til he was cured ADV.
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Queer VIII Declared Void.

DIR. Cameron Knight, San Francis
co physician, had such poor opinion
Of the general run of nurses that he
wrote a will bequeathing his entire es-
tate to any woman who might nurse
him free of charge and without the ex-
pectation of any reward. When he
died Mrs. Alice Widrin, friend, Pc
titioned for the estate, saying that she
had taken care Of the doctor in his
declining years without the slightest
thought of compensation The courts
declared the will void, because it had
only one subscribing witness instead OF
two.
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heath PenaItv Reieeied.

Washington. Feb. 2S.-Recommen
dations by Major General Charles G
Treat. commanding the Thirty-seventh
national guard division. that the death
penalty be imposed to check deser-
items and to bring soldiers to Il reali-
7ation of the gravity of that offense
have been disapproved by Secretary
of War Baker General Troat b"sad
his recommendation on the number Of
iesertions from his command This
S composed almost entirely OF Ohio
troops. II is stationed at Camp Sheri-
Ian. Montgomery. Ala.
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HARD ANDlSOFT OR
ANY. KIND OF CORN
Tells how to loosen a tender corn so
it lifts out without pain.

You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who
have at least once a week invited an
awful death from lockjaw or blood
poison are now told by a Cincinnati
authority to use a drug called free
zone, which the moment a few drops
are applied to any corn, the soreness
is relieved and soon the entire corn,
root and all, lifts out with the 1ng-
ers.
1t is a sticky substance which dries
the moment it is applied and is said
to simply shrivel the corn without
inf1aming or even irritating the sur
rounding tissue or skin. 1t is claim
ed that a quarter of an ounce will
cost very little at any Of the drug
stores, but is sufficient to rid ones
feet of every hard or soft corn or
callus.
You are further warned that cut
ting at a corn is suicidal habit
ADV.
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Yiddish.

Yiddish is a term used to designate
a4anguage which is spoken at the pres
ent moment by some millions Of peo-
pie. Strictly speaking, Yiddish Is not
a language, nor dialect, but jargon
the jargon used by Judeo-German
communities dwelling chiefly in Ger
many and Russia, and by the immi-
grants coming from those countries to
the United States. Y1ddish owes Its
existence to the persecution to which
the Jews were subjected in Germany
at the time of the Reformation. Its es-
sential basis is high German, with an
admixture of Hebraic and Slavic ele-
mentS
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AMERICANS FACE
GAS ATTACK
Three Killed, Nine Injured by
German VapOr.
EXCELLENT TRAINING SHOWS
Teutons Make Two Formidable At.
tacks With Shells on Trenches Held
by United States Troops


by United States Troops.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 2S.-Three American soldiers
were killed and nine badly "gassed"
in TWO formidable gas attacks by the
Germans on the American positions
in the Toul sector early Tuesday with
projectors.
The enemy also heavily bombardei
American batteries with gas shells,
without result.
Only the excellent preparatory
training by the American troops pre-
vented the protector attacks. the first
more casualties
The attacks were made within ten
minutes of each other. They were
directed at a certain wood. Seventy
FIVE eight-inch shells Of so per cent
gas and twenty high explosive shells
were fred from German minenwerfer.
The flight of the projectiles was
traced through the air. The gas shells
burst in the air. The high explosives
detonated when they struck the earth
Large fragments of shell flew from
both missiles.
The gas caught some of the men
before they could adjust their masks.
They overcome others who were
asleep in dugouts.
The American artillery, Monday, re
taliated against the German artillery
which had been Smelling them, but
which, notwithstanding the intensity
of the fire, did no damage and wound
ed only one man.
The Americans began by Smelling
Montsec, where buildings were de.
stroyed. They also effectively shot
up a large working party to a dugout,
from which cries for help were heard.
The enemy on Tuesday concentrated
his fire on a certain town within the
American lines.
The weather cleared and there was
much aerial activity Several air
fights occurred over and behind the
American line. American anti-aircraft
guns were firing all day. Enemy
planes attacked a sausage balloon in
which an American captain was act
ing as observer The balloon was
hauled down hurriedly. 1t was not
damaged
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About. Cons nation.

Certain articles of diet tend to
check movements of the bowels. The
most common of these are cheese,
tea and boiled milk. On the other
hand raw fruits, especially apples
and bananas, also graham bread and
whole wheat bread, promote move
ment of the bowels. When the bow
els are badly cnostipated, however,
the sure way is to take one or two
of Chamberlain's Tablets immediate
ly after supper.-Adv.
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Saxon Kinu For Lithuania.

Zurich Feb. 2S.-Negotiations are
in progress for the union OF Lithuanla
and Saxony. according to a despatch
from Dresden. Prince Frederick
Christian, second son of the king OF
Saxony. is proposed as king of L1thua-
ia. Pourparlers indicate the wishes
Two Poles for a renewal &C the old
union between Poland and Lithuanj2
will not be fulfilled.
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BOY SHOT BY COMPANION
Lad Dying of Rifle Wound Received
Durinu Game Of Marbles

During Game OF Marbles.
West Chester, Pa, Feb. 2S.-Leroy
Wilson, nine years old, son Of Harry
Wilson. a Frazer merchant. is dying
in the Chester County hospital as the
result of a shot fired from rife by
a companion, James Bidd,son. four
teen years old.
The two boys and some companions
were playing marbles near the wilson
place of business when the boy was
shot by Biddison, who had the rife
with him when he entered the game.
Whether the shot was fired purposely
or accidentally cannot be ascertained
from the boys in the game. They tell
different tales of the affair. The bull
let struck the lad near the heart. An
operation was performed in an EFFORT
to remove it. but recovery is not ex-
pected. Biddison was not arrested.
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British HospitaI Ship Sunk.

London, Feb. 2S.-The British hos
pital ship Glenhart Castle was sunk
in the Bristol channel. There were
no patients on board. Survivors were
landed by an American torpedo boat
Eight boats still are adrift. An off
cial report says the ship was sunk al
four o'clock in the morning. She was
outward bound. All her lights were
burning. The Exchange Telegraph
company says 164 persons are miss
fnn
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Tries to Blow Up Shin Plant.

Newburg, N. Y, Feb. 2S.-An at
tempt to blow up machinery in the
plant of the Newburgh Shipyards com
pany was frustrated by William D.
gan. guard Hogan picked up q
bomb and threw II to a distance. 1t
exploded and did some damage, but
not enough to DELAY work at the plant.
The bomb was placed under com
pressor machine by stranger. Hogan
discovered him near the machine and
demanded his workman's badge.