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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
Every Tooth Visible.

"All right, here they are, look at
them" This was the reply of local
manufacturer whose health has been
unsatisfactory and who went to To-
cal doctor for examination and treat
ment. Some of the doctors are order.
ing patients to have their teeth ex-
tracted when rheumatism or other
aches fail to respond to treatment,
Some perfectly sound teeth have been
pulled to relieve patients of illness and
they say the loss of all the teeth has
in some cases shut off the poison which
pyorrhea is said to supply to the cir
culatory system. This particular man.
ufacturer submitted TO a thorough ex-
animation and the doctor then said:
81 can't find the cause of the trou-
BILE. There must be something wrong
in your teeth. Let me look at them"
And then the accommodating patient
opened his mouth and handed the as
tonished doctor an upper and lower
plate-Indianapolis News.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
ROUSED HIS ARTISTIC SENSE
After a Little Reflection Mr.. Snggsby
Could See Beauty of Ornament
He Had Condemned.

Here's where patience ceases to
be virtue" said Sniggsby. Look
at this hat Tn wearin'. It's three
years old. l can't afford to buy
new one, and yet You go and pay S31
for that brass thing to put on the
mantelpiece Darned if I'm goin' to
stand for it"
"My dear! What shocking language!
What If the neighbors should hear
your"
81 want 'em to hear me. L don't
care who hears me. I've stood this
as long as I'm gon' to stand it. You
take that thing back tomorrow and
see that it's taken off our bill. I'll
never pay for it. Put that down
| where you won't forget it. The worm
has turned. Right here's where [
cross the Rubcon. I've stood for a
lot of darned foolishness, but I'm
through. I've got right up to the
| limit and"
"Henry, feel In your inside pocket"
"What do you mean?"
IT mean what I say. Feel in your
! inside pocket. Yes! l should think
| you would look worried. l found q
letter there last night. Who is
| Thomas Bickford, and what does he
mean by debts of honor? Where have
| you been going every Saturday night !
You told me you went to your club,
and that gambling wasn't allowed
| there Does Mr.. Bickford-"
"Polly, the artistic qualities of that
| thing grow on a fellow. I'm begin
| ming to like it. 1t sort Of sets off the
| room. Please tell the maid TO hurry
up and serve dinner Tn as hungry
| as a bear."-Dayton News.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
"Now Watch Me Perform"

the chimpanzees would do all they
could to amuse the children.
This day when they were talking
about what they could do the keeper
came along. There was little girl by
his side named Lucy and with Lucy
was her mother.
'Lucy, would you like to see the
chimpanzees do their tricks?' the
keeper asked.
And Lucy nodded her head, which
was q very nice head with yellow curls,
and said: ''Oh, please, keeper, do
have them show their tricks
"Well, how about a trick for the
ladyY asked the keeper of one OF the
chimpanzees.
The chimpanzee looked at the keep
er and then at Lucy and then at
Lucy's mother, and she seemed to say
"You all look like mighty nice peo-
ple-that is, know the keeper is nice,
so that makes one nice person, and
Lucy looks very nice, so that makes two
nice people. Her mother looks nice,
80 that makes three nice people. Yes,
/ do believe I can do my tricks for
three nice people. So l will start in
And the chimpanzee began her
tricks. Soon another chimpanzee
watching said to herself: Il would
Ike to 90 some tricks for this very
fne audience. Now watch me per.
FORM" This was the chimpanZee
na,nad Rotfy
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
CHATTER REMINDS OF SURF
Diner Wakes Poetic in Describing His
Impressions of Ordinary Res
saurant Gabbie.

"In the big and busy restaurant
where I dine" said Mr.. Flickerton, Il
am reminded constantly of the surf
that breaks along stretch of ocean
shore; not the heavy, smashing,
pounding that comes when the rollers
are storm driven, but the gentler ris-
ing and falling, more nearly droning,
sound Of the surf in fair weather; the
restaurant surf, of course, being the
sound that arises from the combina-
ton Of the voices of many people
briskly talking.
"The likeness of this sound to surf
might not strike you until there came
a general lull in the hum of conversa-
ton.
son the shore the surf seems to
break continually, endlessly; it is al
ways curling and tumbling, seemingly
necessarily; but as q matter CT fact
there comes now and then time when
by mere chance no wave breaks within
immediate hearing, when the sound of
the surf dies down; and 1t is precisely
like that with the table surf in a
restaurant.
There are times in the restaurant
when, by the merest chance in the
world, everybody, or almost every
body. stops talking at the same time,
when the vocal surf dies away almost
completely, and the restaurant is prac-
tically still, as the shore is when the
waves cease to break.
Like the surf. 1t always seems to
me. Did 1t ever strike you that way?"
New York Sun.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
ONLY MADE MATTERS WORSE
Small Girls Efforts to "Fudee" on Un-
fortunate Remark Could Not BE
Called Successful.

number of women were discussing
Iihcrty bonds one afternoon in neigh
bor's house. Almost unnoticed a little
neighbor girl had entered. AT TINS
poiIft in the discussion she exclaimed:
"Well, my aunt says she might just
as well buy Il Liberty bond as to be
taxed"
| Her remark caused a good bit OF
comment One guest. who has a son III
the service. became very Indignant,
and exclaimed:
! THE idea! Buying bond to es-
cane taxation! That's patriotism for
you! That makes me tired-anybody
as able as she is to buy bonds, or any
thing"
s'few' out of the house.
| The little girl, beholding the strife
and bad feeling she had stirred up,
| tried to fudge" on her remark, ex-
J claiming that 1t wasn't her aunt who
made the remark, but some other Wom-
nm. The neighbor women held her to
her first remark, and were making it
pretty warm for the little girl, when
she finally burst out with:
"Well, you don't know how much 1t
costs my aunt to live; and how much
| its costs her to take that trip to Nj
agara Falls!"
The laugh with which the women
greeted this innocent remark was suf-
ficient to send the loyal and INNOCENT
girl running from the room. Truly, her
'lines had not fallen In pleasant
| ,laces'' that afternoon.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
1.-THE Female of the Species"

1T could never think of marrying"
said old Prince C., "for I know
what my fate would be. Every Rus
sian lives under his wife's slipper"
Barring an occasional nutburst of
terrible Asiatic temper oil the part OF
observation-disclosures soon, and con-
tritely repented of-this is fact. The
Russian woman is always the strong
err. She has vitality and energy
which the men seem unable to cope
with. The stories of Tschaikovsky's
erratic marriage and terrific flight
like the aversion, founded on some
thing like fear, Of Strindberg for wom-
en- (Strindberg being a type Of Swede
that shows many Russian procliyities,
even as much Russian blood has perco-
lated into certain parts Of Sweden)-
receive many explanatory common
taries, If one has known something of
the more intimate aspect Of Russian
existence-A. G. Talfree, in the At
iantic.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
Horses i'm the PHILIPPINES.

The horses in the Philippine Islands
are ponies containing a mixture of the
blood of ponies and small horses from
northern China, French-Indo-C China
and Mexico, with a considerable adj
mixture of Arab blood. There are about
243 900 horses in the islands. In Ma
Mia alone about 100 dead horses are
collected every month, which are Gre
mated, hides and all, though there is
great need of horsehides for razor
strops and shoe leather. In the rest
of the islands probably $500 horse
hides are wasted every year because
no one knows where to sell them prof
itably.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
MYSTERY IN OCEAN CURRENTS
Satisfactorily the Many Vagaries
of the Waters.

There are as many VagarleS in the
waters as in the winds. Why, for in
stance, should great ocean currents
wide Pacific and Atlantic? Other and
equally mysterious currents exist in
well-nigh all parts of the world.
It is on record that the water has run
for weeks out of the Java sea, through
the Strait of Suda and thence back
again for the like period without any
perceptible rise and fall during those
times.
Then there is the Equatorial current
that flows into the Caribbean sea. the
ever-f1owing current to the eastward
around Cape Horn, the cold stream
flowing from the icy regions of the
north past Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia and along the American coast
to the extreme end of Florida, the con-
tinual current running with velocity
of from four to five knots an hour
through the Strait of Gibraltar into
the Mediterranean sea, the swift cur
rent running across the rocks and
shoals off the end of Billion island,
which apparently starts from nowhere
and ends nowhere in the vicinity of
the same place, and the current which,
starting half way up the China sea,
runs from two to three knots an hour
to the northeast and finally ends alb
ruply off the north end of Luzon.
Then we have those tidal vagaries
l., v0,11 &c hnrnc
Those that run up the Hugh and Ira
wadi rivers. from side to side, till they
reach their limit, often tearing the
ships from their anchorage, originate
nobody knows where or why.
At Singapore it has been observed
for days at time that there has been
but one rise and fall in the "a hours.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03

They did the most wonderful tricks
and how proud the keeper was OF his
pets. Betty quite took the prize for
she tried every trick she had ever
known, and some new ones as well.
But she loved to hear Lucy laugh.
1t was such a very cheerful, happy
laugh. And so she kept on doing
trick after trick.
After Il time Lucy and her mother
had to leave the zoo, and the chlmpan-
ices had to have their supper.
MAY we come again and see them:
asked Lucy.
From the way they have acted to-
day." said the keeper, Il am sure
they'd be glad to see you again.
They've had as good Il time as you
have had. And I love to have visitors
who don't tease the animals, but VINO
like them and who care to watch them
and grow to know them. Those Wis
itors are always welcome. But VS.
itors who would tease animals VINO
can't fight blackwell, that is too
dreadful
81 should just say it was," agreed
Lucy, as she went off, after waving a
good-hy to the chimpanzees and the
keeper.
A little more than three weeks later
Lucy and her mother went back 10
the zoo and there was Betty In her
cage, looking very quiet and peace
full.
"She doesn't feel like acting today
but she is we'll again. A day or SO
after YOU left" the keeper told Lucy,
..she was climbing a tiny ladder TO
her sleeping box when she fell by SLIP
ping between the steps at the top
She went right over and snapped q
bone of her leg. 1t had to be set and
nut in plaster of paris which is hor-
rid, stiff bandage, but 1t made the leg
quite all well again
Imagine Betty hurting herself like
that when she could do such tricks
said Lucy.
isn't it strange" said the keeper,
s.but though Betty won't be doing Won
derful tricks for US until little later
T must tell you that she's 8 mighty
fine, plucky chimpanzee, for she never
made whimper all the time she was
sick. Did you, Betty?'
And Betty looked so happ;' at his
praise.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
TRAIN MIND TO REMEMBER
BY the Proper Exercise of Will One
Can Teach the Brain to Regis
ter Photographs.

A man who has wonderful memory
says in the American Magazine:
If you can train your right arm to
deliver a good blow, you can train
your memory to retain facts. There
are just as many t1abby-minded men
in the world as there are flabby-hodied
ones Both kinds of fiabbiness are due
to laziness, the one mental, the other
physical.
Above all, you must remember that
the brain is a photographic machine
and you can make it take an enormous
number of photographs | don't con-
tend that each man may eventually
have as good Il memory as his neigh
boris, but | am firmly convinced that
90 men out of 100 can have better and
more Serviceable memories than they
now have.
Teach your brain to register photo
graphs of what you want it to retain.
Be enthusiastic about it. Work at it
every day while YOU are doing your
other work. 1t isn't very hard Most
| men use about 80 per cent of their
available energy when they're work.
| ing. Concentrate on what you are
| doing. Let it soak into you. Absorb
| it-and always absorb it with the con-
viction that it is going to stay alb
J sorbed.
There you have my recipe for a
| good memory: Determine to remem-
Der, don't worry, and learn how not to
| let your office worries and work go to
bed with you ut highland, above all
| things, get into the open and give ma
! ture chance. Fresh air and sun
| shine have as beneficial an effect on
the memory as they do on the other
/ parts of your general makeup.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
DADDSEWN[N
,GARY TAIL az
~ MARY GRAHA0 p bonner
THE cHlMPANzEE's ACCIDENT.

81 can jump and swing from my
trapeze so easily" said Betty, the
chimpanzee.
$50 can l." replied another chimpan-
zee in the zoo.
And then all the apes, monkeys ana
chimpanzees began to swing from one
trapeZe to the other, and from one
part of their cage to another part.
They were SO graceful and they
moved so easily; They could catch
themselves by their hands or feet IN
deed, they were regular acrobats, ana
could have gone into circus any day.
Still they were very glad that they
were not in circus. They had
splendid time in the zoo, such nice
keeper to look after them, and they
did their tricks for him and for the
children.
There were no special times when
they had to perform. Of course if the
keeper asked them too they would.
And if children stood before their big
cages and looked at them in a way
which seemed to say:
"Oh please jump and swing for US,
and hang by your tails and hands,
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
His Characters Real to Dickens.

When "Old Curiosity Shop" was pub
iished as a serial ii held the attention
of the entire reading population OF
England. AS the story neared its end
and 1t was evident that Little Nell
was in her fatal illness, so endeared
had she become to the hearts of the
people that Dickens was besieged with
urgent requests not to allow her to die.
But popular sentiment had no effect
and THE Child" passed away at about
the same time that retribution in the
form of terrible death overlook the
grotesque and villPinous Quilp. Dick
ems himself wss much impressed with
this story and Is quoted as saying he
had become so attached to the charac-
tiers he had created that he dreaded to
end the story.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
Reforest Bare Hiilsides.

The scarcity of lumber for mine pill
lars and other mine uses has led to
the creation of a forestry department
by several of the large mining COM
panies, one of which has just refor-
ested Bear creek watershed with 5000
white pine and 5000 Norway spruce
trees.
Thirty thousand more trees are in
process of cultivation at Hauto, Pa,
in the Panther Creek valley. When
timber is ready to cut in the vicinity
of the mines troublesome waits and
long hauls will be eliminated.
More timber in the anthracite re-
gion would stop floods, add to the
water supply, reduce the drought pc
RODS and enable the anthracite indus
try to add to its output. Many thou
sands of acres are available about the
mines for reforestation.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
Shorthand in Chinese

The inventor of the system of short
hand established in China, must be
nothing less than a genius. The Ian
guage has no written vowels and con-
sonants, and one syllable, spoken in
as many as nine different tones, has
as many meanings. In spite of these
difficulties. the new system permits a
speed of 40 words q minute. Schools
for teaching shorthand are being es-
tablished in various parts of the coun-
Try.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
BACK ACHE Is
DISCOURACINC
But Not So Bad Ii You Know How
to Reach the Cause.

Nothing more discouraging than
constant backache. Lame when you
awaken, pains pierce you when you
bend or lift. It's hard to work or to
rest. Backache often indicates Lao
kidneys Cambridge people recon-
mend Doan's Kidney Pills Read
this case:
Mrs. Frank Blades, 27 Cemetery
Ave, Cambridge, says: Il suffered
from very severe pains in my loins
which sometimes changed to a dull
ache. l never again want to expert
ence such misery. 1t seemed as
though l were weighted Down and L
had no life or energy. My kidneys
didn't act right at all. One day l
read about Doan's Kidney Pills and
used some. Two or three boxes cur
ed me-"
Price 6Oc at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs Blades had Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
CatalTh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as
they ca:-Iot reach :he sea. of the dis
ease Catarrh is a local disease.
u eatly influenced by constitutional
condition. ana in order to cur it
you mus take an internal remedy
Hans CatLrrh Medicine is taken in
tcrnally and ac,s thru the blood on
tho mucous SUI faces of the system.
Halls Catarrh Medicine was pre-
scribed by one OF the best physicians
in this country Tor years. 1t IS COM
posed of some OF the best toEics
known. combined with some OF the
Lest blood purifiers. The perfect
combination of the ingredients II
Halls Catarrh Medicine is What pro-
duces such wonderful results i'll ca
tarrhal conditions. Send 10: t3sti-
monlals, free.
f. j. CHENEY & CO, Props,
Toledo, O..
All Druggists, Use.
Halls Family Pills for constipa-
tion-Adv.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
FREE OF CHARGE.

Why suffer with Indigestion, dys-
pepsia, torpid liver, constipation, sou,
stomach, coming-up- of-food-a fter-e eat
ing, etc., when you can get a sample
bottle of Green's August Flower free
at McAllister's Drug Store.
This medicine has remarkable
curative properties, and has demon
strated its efficiency by fifty years of
success. Headaches are often caus-
ed by disordered stomach.
A gentle laxative. Try it. For
sale in all civilized countries.-Adv.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
Summer Complaint,

During the not weather of the
summer months some member of al
most every family is likely to be
troubled with an unnatural looseness
of the bowels, and it is of the great
est Importance that this be treated
promptly, which can only be done
when the medicine is kept at hand.
Mrs. F. F. Scott, Scottsville, N. Y,
states, Il first used Chamberlain S
Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy as much
as five years ago At that time |
had severe attack of summer COM
plant and was suffering intense pain.
One dose relieved me. Other mem
bers of my family have since used it
with like results ADV.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
CLOSING Wild Gas Wells.

Engineering feats. comparable in the
ingenuity required, If not in expedi.
ture of effort with the closing of the
Salton sea, have been called for in re-
cent years TO close wild gas wells in
northwestern Louisiana. An immense
amount of natural gas has been lost in
wells that have got beyond control in
the Caddo and Red river fields, and
the loss consists not only in the pre-
cious fuel wasted, but in the lowering Of
pressure on the associated oil, which
is rendered thereby more difficult TO re-
cover. Indeed, it is asserted by some
that the ultimate yield of oil from a
pool is considerably less If the gas is
allowed to escape than if it is closed
in until rs much oil as possible is tax.
IN out-Argonaut
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
English Meat Cards.

Meat can be purchased in metropol-
itan districts in England only under
the card system, which is to be extend
ed throughout the United Kingdom.
The chil"'s meat card is for children
under tea years of age, who are entt-
tied to only half as much meat as
adults.
Horse meat, bones, suet and offal
are included among the products for
the purchase of which cards are neces-
sary. No one is exempt; even the roy
al family is on meat-card basis. The
rigidity of control may be judged from
the fact that forgery of cards is pun
ishable by heavy fine and that in case
of death, the card must be surrender
ed before burial permit is granted.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
How HJohnny Cake" Got Name

Corn bread coming into its own Is
a repetition of the story of Civil war
days in the confederacy. At that time
the bread situation became acute and
throughout the South the people sup
planted the white flour article with
corn pone, later creating what we to-
day know as corn bread. Southern
soldiers saw very little other bread
during the war. These fighters south
of the Mason and Dixon line were
known to the Yankees as Johnny
Rebs," and when it was learned that
they ate corn bread the federal sol
diers at once named it Johnny Cake
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
Neck of the House.

The directory" man had called, and
asked the housewife for the name OF
the occupant.
"Mary Jane Smith," was the reply.
"Widow or spinster?" he asked,
briefly; then, noting the sudden glare
in her eye, he added, hastily: 'If you
are married, it's your husbands name
| want, as he will, of course, be the
head of the house"
"Oh, he will, will he?" exclaimed
the woman, with some asperity. well
if he's the head then Tn the neck, an
heads helpless sort o. thing if IL
hasn't neck to wag it."
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
WORK HARD AND DON'T WORRY
If There May Be Said to Be Recipe
for Long and Happy Life,
Why, There 1t Is.

America is anXiouSly scanning the
casualty lists these days poignantly
sensitive to the dread possibilities Gf
war. Yet if we paused to think, we
should find. as the Equitable Life As
surance society has deducted from its
vast experience in mortality data. that
"worry kills more men than war and
disease put together" We read of those
killed in action, dead of wounds, ac-
cidentS or disease at the front. and
our hearts are wrung for the loss of
these brave boys, but day by day a
larger company falls out of our own
ranks here at home to answer the last
call, the Pittsburgh Dispatch observes.
Some are spoken of as victims
of hard work, of overeNertion, but if
the truth were known, it would be
found it was worry that FASTENED their
end. Hard work never killed anyone,
1t is worry that kills.
A young man. for instance, rises to
the head of good business or to some
other responsible position. Perhaps
he begins to slacken, to ease up Il lit
tie, and leaves the details to his sub
ordinateS. Things do not move as
smoothly, and. when he wakes UP, he
finds he has lost his grip of affairs and
begins to worry. His friends think
hard work killed him, but it was worry
that shortened his years. While he
was fighting his way upward his work
engroSsed him, as it will any man
capable of q career Work left him no
time for worry. Keep peggins away.
Worry Is the grain of dust that up
sets the fine balance of the human
mechanism, brings loss of power, slow
ing down the engine and ultimately
racking it To pieces.
Bear in mind that worry kills more
men than War and disease put togeth'
err" and SO shape Your life and hab.
ituate your mind that you cannot be q
victim.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-08-03
Simple Menu.

"You don't appear to object to these
food restrictions"
Il don't see any restrictions worth
Mentioning" replied Mr.. Cumrox. 81
have been for years wishing l could
sit down in the best restaurants and
order cornbread and cabbage and pota-
toes right out loud"