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TRYING TO SEND CLEAN COAL
Many Operators, Under Observation,
Get New LIGHT on Law.

'~'y SHS' o oiaOI SboOi V&SiSty
Get New Light on Law.
Potts~ille. Pa, Feb. 1S.-As a re-
suit of exposures made by Represen-
tative Frank c. Reese on behalf Of
anthrs cite coal consumers. the quality
of coal being sent from this region is
greatly improved.
Coal companies now are making
fna-geti" efforts to clean the coal be-
fore sending 1t to market, and con-
sumers are getting a much better ar
ticle than for years. The elimination
Oi slate and dirt from the coal a'so
has the effect of aiding transport alton,
since 1ittle but actual coal is now be-
ing sent out.
Several companies have been caught
violating the coal regulations, and not
only making no preparations to pro-
perlv prepare coal, but mixing the
smaller and less expensive sizes with
the hieher- priced grades. Government
officials are not yet ready to announce
the names of the offenders; but some
names on the list, 1t Is known. wiz
cause surprise.
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Russ Ambassadors Pay.

Berne, Feb. 1S.-Bolsheviki govern
ment at Petrograd has notified its
representatives here that service in
its diplomatic department will be re-
munerated according to the following
scale The lowest salary will be s125
monthly, rising to $3.50 for the highest
officials. such as ambassadors and
ministers. In no case is any salary to
exceed $3.50, and no money is to be
lowed for expenses.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-18
BRuMBAuCn FOR
A DRY SESSION
Has Prohibition Hunch Urdar
Reapportlonment GuIse.
WOULD SPEND $4,000

He Goes to Florida to Think the Mat
ter Over and Then Prods offise
Holders.
Harrisburg. Pa, Feb. 1s.--GoVerno:
Brumbaugh Is willing to allow the
state to spend 100000 just TO show
the people the number OF wet and d y
members there are in the Pennsylva
MIA legislature.
The money he is willing to hav-,
spent represents the amount il would
take to pay for an extra session Of
the legislature, which he is foste Ing
under the guise Of reapportionment Of
the state
Since going to Florida the governor
IS letting his oflceholders here know
that he favors an extra session for the
purpose Of reapportioning the repre-
sentative and senatorial districts Of
Pennsylvania, and he is urging that
they sound sentiment ON the matter.
To date most of those approached are
asking why the governor allowed two
sessions Of the Legislature to pass
without attempting to force action,
and why 1t is that now. with q census
less than three years OF. he wants the
matter threshed out.
The only explanation there appears
to be, persons in touch with capitol
Hill matters say, Is that the 6 verno'
wants to have proclaimed the names
Of wet and dry members, for 1t Is
foregone conclusion that there Will be
no reapportionment 1t this time.
There could y no other reason, 1t Is
said, for the men who would attend
an extra session would be the same
men who were here at the last Sos
sion, and there would be few willing
TO sacrifice parts Of their districts Just
before an election.
The governor Is seeking to have
dry legislature elected. together with
a dry governor. and indications are
that he is making an effort to hold up
for ridicule those present members
who do not agree with him. As tar
as can be learned, the governor has
very few supporters on the extra ses-
sion proposition, and there Is very
little likelihood Of its being held
The extra session matter now ssp-
pears to have prompted the trip t"
Florida, for It Is pointed out here that
the governor never goes far from
home unless he wants to sound SEN
timent on some matter or L. about to
demand the resignation OF some ofi-
cial.
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ooERAANY ENDS
RUSS ARM|S1ICE
To Renew War Upon the SIavs
at Once.
REPORT TEUTON MUTINY

Petrosrad Hears of Uprising at Two
Points of Huns Who Refuse to Go
west-havs Defeated Loyal Troops.
Berlin, Feb. 18.-The armistice BE-
tween the Russian and German forces
which has been in existence for sever.
IL weeks on the Russian front has ex-
PRED, according to an official state
ment issued by the German army
headquarters.
Anothe" official statement sal Us that
the Petrosrad government by its con-
duct has denounced the armistice.
This announcement is regarded az
having occurred February TO-
'In conformity Herewith" tn Z state
ment says. "the German COVE nment
must. after a lapse of seven days,
give notice Of the termination rs pro-
vided for under the treaty snd re-
serve free hand in every direction"
Discussing the puzzling relations be-
tween G rmany and Russia, the Keel
fnsrhe Zeitung says:
Our bread peace with the Ukraine
Is threatened. Fighting between the
Bolsheviki and the Rada already has
brought the Rada government into
such peril that It has been Transferred
from kiev to Zhitomir, and the SUI
burbs of Kiev already are in thei
hands Of the Bolsheyiki. This fghting
not only endangers the Rada Govern
ment. but the supplies Of food I'm the
country.
THE BoLsheviki are rushing troops
to reinforce the anti-Rada FORCES, In
Guiding the Nineteenth infantry divis-
Ion and parts Of the Second guard
corps. Further fighting is to be sx.
pected. which has a serious characts,
for u.s." 4 ,stsUA
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The inventor Of the fundamental
principle Of the microphone on the
modern telephone Is said to have been
the Able Rouselot, French phoneti-
clan, born at Saint Cloud (Charente)
In 1S46. He became a vicar and cur
ate at Cognac and Jarrezac, then as
sistant professor of French philology
at the Catholic institute Of Paris, and
two years later he opened the first
course of experimental phonetics ever
established. In 1897 he was appointed
director Of the laboratory Of expert
mental phonetics at the College De
France. the plan for which originated
with him. He Is the inventor of pho
netic instruments. the maker Of sew
eral discoveries tending to cure deaf
ness and suffering and the author Of
q number of works on his speciality.
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Roof Garden For Piqaeries.

Scranton, Pa, Feb. 1S.-Roof gar
dens for the propagation Of the pig
family was suggested at a meeting Of
council when the question of recalling
the ordinance prohibiting the keeping
Of pigs In the city was brought up f.
discussion. Thomas Saville. C uncH
man advanced the roof garden theory,
saying that through 1t would be elimi
mated the odor that generally goes
with pig culture.
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U. S. TROOPS ESCAPE TRAP
Caught Between Line Wires They
Aud the Ground

Caught Between Line Wires They
Hug the Ground.
With the American Army in France,
Feb. 1S.-An American patrol having
passed the first line of German en-
tanglements and approached the sec
ond line Saturday night was suddenly
cut off by a current of electricity
along this first wire line.
Instead of attempting an immediate
return to their trenches, which would
have meant certain death from cleo
trocution or machine gun fire, the
Americans chung close to the earth.
and, later, when the electricity was
cut off, returned in safety to their
nasitions.
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EXECUTE BELGIAN OFFICIAL
Letter Written by Him Just Before
Being Shot Reaches Superiors.


Havre, Feb. 1S.-Emile Stevigny,
formerly customs official at Maese-
yuk, a Belgian town near the Dutch
border, was shot by the Germans De-
cember Is.
An ante-mortem letter written by
Stevigny at the Brussels prison Of
st. Giles, December -, has eacHed the
Belgian authorities here by an undis-
closed route and was made public by
Alloys Van de Vyvere, the Belgian
minister of finance. 1t reads:
"At the moment of leaving this life
send to you (co-workers in the Gus
toms office) as we'll as to my admins
trative superiors and my subordinate
colleagues. my last adieu. thank my
superiors for the friendly solicitude
they always have evidenced toward
me and beg them to continue to exer-
else 1t toward my poor wife and my
dear little children. I die without bra
vado, but without fear-for my coun-
try"
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sanatorIun1s For sojdIsra

Washington, Feb. 18.-Sanato iums
for the treatment of soldiers suffering
from tuberculosis are to be estab' fish
ed at New Haven, Conn, and at Whip
nle Barracks, Prescott. Arts. in add
ton to those TO be built at Ashsviils,
N. c.. and Denver. 1t Is understood
that they will cost about $3.50, 900
each. The medical departments An
nouncement gave no Indication as to
when work would be started.
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from enforcing the law after April 2.
1918. the date named for It to take Of
feet.
The action of the court disposes OF
the last of the preliminary steps be-
fore actual trial on the facts. and
oTAes the way for an immediate ap-
peal to the Indiana supreme court. II
the dry interests desire to take that
step.
Judge Hostetter declared that the
prohibition law, In his opinion, was
not one designed to limit and regulate
the making and handling of alcoholic
beverages, nor to confne the use OF
such beverages within the bounds o.
temperance and moderation, but alb.
solutely to make temperate and Md
crate use Of intoxicating liquor legally
impossible He decided the present
constitution of Indiana would not per
uu such law to stand.
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TO START DRIVE ON
PENNA. FOOD HOARDERS
All With More Than 80 Days.
Supply Must Report.

Philadelphia, Feb. 18.-Hoarding,
been placed in the penalizing cate
CORY Of grand larceny by State Food
Administrator Howard Heinz.
War has been declared against this
sinister ally of Kaiser Wilhelm, and
thousands of investigators will search
Pennsylvania to expose it and punish
its perpetrators.
Millions of pinched-faced women
and children of England, Belgium,
France and Italy are literally begging
for American wheat, meat, fats md
sugar. Only by curtailment of con-
sumption can America send across the
waters the needs of these sufferers.
Reports have flooded the admins
tration's Offices of households with
unnecessarily large stocks of -four,
sugar and other commodities. County
Food Administrator Jay Cooke has for
days been effecting system capable
OF exposing and convicting these
hoarders. He is now ready to drag
all hoarders from their snug compli-
ance to justice.
Two years Imprisonment or $4,000
ine, or both, is the heavy ance
that will be instituted on all persons
found guilty Of storing more than
thirty days supply of these valuable
t-1,, ,.c, IL, A am In yaSE u 2
listed investigators, Cooke calls upon
neighbors and all citizens who may
have knowledge Of traitor-hoarders to
report to him, declaring that those
who hide such knowledge and conceal
1t are untrue Americans.
II shall show no leniency to hoard
ers," was Cookies verdict "The fight
is on"
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Federal Chemist Accused.

San Francisco, Feb. 1S.-Carl Eisch-
ner, a chemist, who is a member OF
the United States Geological survey,
was arrested by the United States
mashal as a dangerous enemy allen.
Federal officials charged him with be-
ing implicated in an alleged plot to
blew up a British government cabln
station on an island ia the Hawaiian
gronn
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Certain to Win.

"How's your boy getting on at the
training Campo"
wonderful !" replied Farmer Apple
cart. 81 feel a sense of great security.
An army that can make my boy get up
early, work hard all day an go to bed
early can do most anything.
Home Journal.
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Prison For Army Suroson.

Augusta, Ga, Feb. 1s.-Captain ID
gar Bulls, Camp Hancock medical o.
fcer. was sentenced to serve . year
and a day in the federal prison At At
lanta, and pay q fine Of u. He was
found guilty by the federal court jury
for accepting q bride to obtain the re-
lease from the army of Private W 8.
T. Burger, Of Carnegie, Pa.
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MANICURIST MISSES RICHES
VIII Leaving Her $500 900 Ia Thrown
Out as a Foruery.

Sok 40 FoFSoFy.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Feb. 1S.-A docu.
ment purporting to be the will of Jo-
ssph X. Fleming former wealthy bust
ness man of this city, and which left
practically the entire estate OF $2oe,.
900 to q manicurist, Clara Belle Elem
ing. who was a niece OF the deceased.
was declared to be forgery by Judge
Trmble, In orphans court.
He ordered 1t stricken from the
records of the registers office.
II Is the first time in the history of
the county that a will has been de-
clared forgery without the question
being submitted to the jury. Judge
Trimble declared that at did not take
q handwriting expert to determine
that oil the signatures on the will ex-
eept one are forgeries."
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HUSBAND FUND DEAD
PHILADELPHIA Police Investigate Shoot
ina and Arrest Wife.


ina and Arrest Wife.
Philadelphia, Feb. 1S.-Police of the
Twenty-eighth and Oxford streets sta
ton are investigating the mysterious
shooting of Robert Vandegrift. thirty
years cd. of 2916 Oxford street.
Vandergrift. who was declared dead
at the Lankenau hospital. YVES found
with bullet in the forehead in the
kitchen Of his home by boarders, who
hurried to the room after hearing a
shot.
In the meantime, Mrs. Grace Van
dergrift. the dead mans wife, ran
from her home hysterical. She was
arrested, and the police say admitted
she and her husband had a quarrel.
but refused to say whether she shot
him or whether he committed suicide.
Wilbnrt vandergrift, thirty-three
years Old Of Twanty ninth street,
near Oxford street, brother Of the
dead man, Is held as material wit
ness.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-18
All Traces of Scrofula
Cleansed from the Blood

for removing the last trace of Scroll
ula and other blood taints, and there
is no case that it does not promptly
reach. S. S. S. will thoroughly cleanse
and remove every disease germ that
infests the blood and give you new
life and vigor. It is sold by all drug
gists and you should get bottle and
begin its use to-day. Write COM
plete history Of your case, and you
can obtain expert medical advice free
by addressing Medical Director, 80
Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
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caruso Paw. $50 900 income Ia,


|. New York. Feb. 18.-Enrico Caruso
the worlds most famous operate ten
or. has just paid the government $685.
/ 900 income tax for 1917. This sum is
not the tax on his salary from the
Metropolitan Opera House alone, but
from his returns from Phonograph
|; records and his appearances in con-
carts
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City Hunts Reptile Heap Owner.

Harrisburg, PPa., Feb. 18.-City au-
thorities have been unable to trace
the unknown individuals who dumped
Q wagon load of dead snakes and tur-
ties on North Third street, in one Of
the chief residential sections Of the
city. The snakes were Of ali varieties
from garter to rattle, and the turtles
-aneed rom four inches In width to
fifteen. The pile OF reptiles was fouf
taat high and six feet long.
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Canned Corn is Condemned.

St. Louis. Feb. 1S.-One hundred
thousand cans of corn, shipped to s..
Louis from Iowa, have been condemn
ed as impure by the state food and
drug inspector. About 10000 ems
have been conf1scated by inspectors.
end they are trying to find 10000 cans
that have been sent. to- retain. grocers.
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Women Track Hands Strike.

PottsviMe, Pa, Feb. 1S.-Women
section hands employed by the Lehigh
Valley railroad on the Shenandoah
Lost Creek branch, went on strike
They are getting $3.50 for nine hou
dav. and are striking for 81. They W
be organized by a union organizer.
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Impurities Promptly Wiped
Out.

If there is eny trace e Scrofula, or
other impurities in your blood, you
cannot enjoy the full physical devel-
opment that healthy body is ca
pable of until your blood has been
thoroughly cleansed and purified of
all traces Of impure matter.
S. 8. S., the wonderful old purely
vegetable blood remedy. has no equal
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-18
Horses Run Wild In New Caste.

Horses Run Wild In New Caetie.
New Castle, Pa. Feb. 18.-Fourteen
horses in a shipment going through
this city on the Pennsylvania I
loose and were not recaptu ed until
thev had been chased over much O.
the city. One of the horses fell thrfSh
a trestie and was killed. while several
nthass suffered broken ankles.
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The Eye for IN Eye.

Mother Ito curats)-And do you
really pray for your enemies1
Ethel (overhearng)-Id do, mummy.
Curate-And what do you say In
your prayer, my childf
Ethel pray that they may DC
boa
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THEY GAVE
HER VINOL
AFTER SICKNESS
1t Completely Restored Her Strength.

IL 1olHpieteiy RESTORED f1ef StfenSlh.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-"Pneumonia left
me weak and tired, with pains under
my shoulder blades, a bad cough and
no appetite. Five bottles of Vinol
restored my strength and health. 1
gained in weight and my cough dis
appeared. Mrs. B. Richter. 1872
Menhan ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
This is because Vinol is a consti-
tutionaI, cod liver and iron remedy
which creates an appetite, aids diges-
ton, enriches the blood and in this
natural manner restores health and
strength. Formula on every bottle.
Show it to your doctor. He knows.
C. P. Craig & Son, Druggists, Cam
bridge, and at the best drug store in
every town and city in the country.
ADV
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British Chief of staff R.-,on.

London, Feb. 1S.-Gansra, Sir Will
Ham Robertson, chief of the British
Imperial staff, has resigned, It was
officially announced. General Wilson.
anb-chief Of staff, takes the vacated
mace.
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FILLING HER CLUB NIGHTS
How One Girl Succeeded in Danish.
ING Loneliness Caused by Civ
ina Up Old Custom.

Barbara Carson felt bored as she
sat toying with her book Ter the
light of the table lamp after dinner.
It was club night for the girls Of her
Get, and she pictured them enjoying
the excitement of the lights and the
music as she had done every week
through the winter.
She had had to admit, however, that
the tone of the club-night dances had
gradually grown lower as the winter
wore on, and she had made up hel
mind to break away from this group OF
young people. She wanted to attach
herself to persons who were more
worth while.
In remaining away tonight she hac
taken the first step, but she had nos
realized how hard it was going to be
Just then her mother entered the
room and noticed the troubled look In
her eyes.
''What is the matter, DEAR" she
asked. HAS something made you un.
hnppy?"
mo-" said Barbara, mot exactly
that, but I didn't realize how deadly
dull it was going to be to spend club
night at home"
aren't you trying to take something
out of your life without putting any.
thing else in it's placer" asked he.
mother. "The Bible speaks about OUT
overcoming evil with good. You are
trying to overcome it with nothing.
You are like the man of whom Christ
spoke who had swept and garnished
his ssoul-house and then left it empty.
The result was that the old evil spirit
came back and brought seven other
worse devils with him. And, as Christ
tells us, the last state Of that man
~ worse than the first. The man
soul to let. Where he
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Tho Weather.

Fcracast for this section: Fair 10
inv.ad ~ whit rain or snow tOdsy an
'c-nn'r>w: moderate winds
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INDIANA DRY LAW UPSET

Declared Void, But Appsai May %
Taken to Supreme Court.
Evansville. Ind, Feb. 1S.-indiana's
statewide prohibition law WAS held 70
Re unconstitutional and void by Judge
T. M. Hostetter, of the Vanderbursh
county superior court in ruling on q
demurrer to complaint filed BY .
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ROUNDUP OF LOAFERS
POSSIBLE IN JERSEY
Governor Approves Bill to React.
Useless Men.

Trenton. N. j., Feb. 1s.-Loafers,
tramps and other idlers Of the male
sex will now have to 60 to work in
New Jersey. \
This was settled when Governor
Edge signed the bill recently passed
by the legislature providing that such
persons would be conscripted to some
useful employment during the war.
The bill, introduced in behalf of
Speaker Wolverton, of Camden, re
quires "all able-bodied male persons
between eighteen and fifty years of
age to be regularly or continuously
engaged in some useful, lawful and
recognized business, profession, occu
patton or employment necessary and
essential for the protection and vel.
fare Of the state and ot.the United
States" A method of procedure is
provided by the act, which also i'm,
poses penalties for noncompliance.
Persons temporarily out Of employ.
ment through differences with their
employers are not affected. Labor
interests, at first inclined to oppose
the measure, supported II when IT
was learned that the new law could
not be used for strike-breaking pur-
poses.
aaS T. -
SaAfylanu and 1t said to have work
ed out satisfactorily there It is
not necessarily aimed at what are
known as "bums," but 1t will actually
permit the governor to force any
wealthy idler to go to some useful
occupation,
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Repont German MutInx

Petrograd. Feb. 1S.-German sol
diers at Grodno' and Kovno, according
to a report received here from Mos
cow. have refused to obey command
to move to the French front.
The troops have intrenched them
selves under the protection Of their
own artillery and have defeated a de-
tachment Of loyal forces which the
German staff sent to punish them.
This despatch was the first receiv-
ed direct from Petrograd SINCE Feb
ruary 6. It came through with a batch
OF belated messages from Petrpgrad
some ten days old.
The despatch above may be{ the
echo Of an earlier report Of amhtiny
Of German soldiers on the Russian
front. The Russian wireless news
service sent out . message January
to the effect that $4,000 German sol
diers In the region east of Kovn4 had
revolted in consequence of thel GHr.
man governm ents drafting of.aHeol-
diers below the age of thirtJ or
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italy Recruiting 1900 Glass.

Rome, Feb. 1s.-Recruiting of the
.,unc in the J~urn"l Hr g..
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German deserters were aa

IeTWdu QeBeTIorS were 10 as
saying that the men rebelled, march
ed out Of the battle line and intrsnch-
ed themselves with rifles and machine
guns against other German units
The German military authorities
were said to have been poweriess
against the mutineers and were en-
deavoring to cut of their food sup
plies. One OF the motives for the re.
volt. according to the German desert
ers was that the sending Of troops to
the western front was a contraventicn
OF the Russo-German armistice agree
ment.
In an all-night battle, during which
jewelry stores and wine c,alars iE the
capital were pillaged by aui,ng
soldiers. about 100 persons were kill.
ed. ssa
Forty thousand German and Aus.
TRAN prisoners who were freed by the
councils of workmen's and soldiers
delegates In smaller Russian towns.
now are In Petrograd homeless and
in danger Of starvation as a result of
the riots.