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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-25
The DAILY BANNER
CAMBRIDGE. ND. IAN. IS. 1919
Brief Local News

Miss Mary Corinne Jones returned
on the train last night from a short
| visit to relatives in Seaford and Del
mar.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ewell, of Balti-
more, are spending several days as
| the guests of Mrs. Ewells parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James N. Sherman, at
their home on Mill street
DR.. E. E. Wolff, local health officer
for Cambridge, states that twelve
| new cases of influenza have been re-
ported to him during the past two
| days, six yesterday and six today.
The numerous friends of Mr.. John
w. Matthews, of the firm of Mat
thews & Company. are glad to see
him out again. after having been con
fined to his home with influenza and
pneumonia.
Mr.. ]. Lockwood Shepherd has re-
turned to his home on Oakley street,
! after having spent several days this
| week in Chicago, where he attended
the annual convention of the Nation
al Gamers Association.
Col. Albanus Phillips, of the Phil
lips Packing Company, has returned
to his home on Mill street, after nav
ing spent the week in Chicago in at
tendance upon the sessions Of the
National Gamers Convention.
Attorney Henry L. Johnson, who
has been spending several months in
the military service, has received his
discharge and returned to his home
on High street. He expects to re-
sumo the practice of his profession
at once.
Mrs. Captain Escott has arrived in
Cambridge to take charge of the Sal
walton Army work, and states that
there will be no change in the time
of meetings, which will be held as
usual, on the corner at $50 o'clock,
each evening, and in the Hall at s
O'Clock.
Mr.. Harry FoXwell, who resides on
Glasgow street, this city, has receiv-
ed a telegram from his brother. Pri-
vate Edgar C. Foxwell, of the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces, stating
that he arrived safely in New York
city yesterday, On the steamer Goen-
toer, and expects to be sent to Camp
Merritt in few days.
A prominent Eastern Shore Re-
publican was asked in the lobby of
the Hotel Rennert Thursday night,
who the next Governor of Maryland
would be. He stopped for moment
and then replied, why, really do
not know; I haven't been to Cam
bridge lately" Then, after a mo-
ment's pause, he said, But tell you
if you really want to know badly, and
want to know at once, will call up
Cambridge and find out for you"
Now that the war is over, it would
be a good time, suggests one of our
citizens, for those patronizing the
telephone service to see if it is not
possible to have the order rescinded
which permits the giving of infor-
nation at the time of fire. At
present the operators are not permit
ted to tell where a fire is, with the
result that a man living away from
his place of business may have his
entire building and contents destroy
ed without knowing anything of it.
1t is against tn erules of common
sense to expect every person to get
up and rush to a fire whenever the
alarm sounds. The rule is a very
drastic one, and it is quite likely that
now that the shortage Of help and
other troubles in connection with the
war are at an end, the management
will, willingly, rescind the order.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-25
REV. E. |. HUBBARD, D. D..
TO ADDRESS THE ELKS
Weli-knOWn Minister From Beck
with to be The Speaker This Sun
day Afternoon.

The Rev. Z. l.. Hubbard whose
reputation as d public speaker is by
no means confined to this part of the
| State, nor, for that matter, to Mary
land, will be the speaker at the eXer
cises at the Elks' Home tomcrr at
| ternoon. Dr. Hubbard was told, as
have been all of the speakers, to Sc
I lect his own subject and all of the
members may be assured that the ad
| ing and instructive.
At the Elks' Home last night one
of the finest meetings that has been
| held since the Lodge was instituted
! here was held. Mr.. Thomas Footer.
founder Of the famous Footer's Dye
| Works, of Cumberland, and at pres
ent District Deputy Grand Exalted
Ruler for the jurisdiction of Mary
land, made his official visit to the
Lodge. Every chair in the Lodge
room was occupied, and number of
lilC W hO SSoio iol SSt IL
for the session, came later.
Mr.. Footer made an address in
which he congratulated the members
of the local Lodge upon the splendid
progress which has been made and
added that it was certainly source
of great pleasure to find the men,
bers so interested, not only in the
routine work of the organization, but
also in carrying out the principles of
the order, namely, to be of benefit to
the community through the teaching
and practising of the principles of
real, true Americanism.
In private conversation, he not on
ly stated that he heartily approved
of the Sunday afternoon meetings,
but that he was going to make spe-
cial report to the Grand Lodge upon
the subject He also urged that the
Lodge give special attention to the
Big Brother Movement. The Elks or
der is definitely committed to this
project, which has as its object the
picking up of the waits upon the
street and watching over them, CIV
ing them good advice when It is need
ed, giving them an opportunity, now
and then. for real unselfish happi-
ness; in other words, to try and i'm
prove the conditions under which
they are being reared, in order that
they may become useful, law abiding
and substantial citizens.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-25
CHURCH LOCALS.

Services at the Baptist Church
tomorrow as follows: IL a. M, ser
mon; $50 p. m, Sunday School; ev-
ening service at 100; subject, 1.-The
Failure of Philip
Services at st. Pauls NJ P.
Church tomorrow: 9 a. M, class;
10 a. M, Baraca Glass; preaching at
II a. NJ; Sunday School at 2 p. M. !;
Christian Endeavor at $50 p. M;
preaching at 100 p. m.
Order of services for Grace M.
E. Church tomorrow: 9.45 a. M,
Baraca Glass. IL a. m, sermon by
the pastor. 2.15 p. M, Sunday
School. 7.30 p. M, sermon by the
pastor. The public cordially invited.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-25

Miss Mary Corinne Jones returned
on the train last night from short
visit to relatives in Seaford and Del
mar
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Continued on Page TWo.)
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REPUBLICS I.

triumph at the head OF his troops.
and Montiel and Zavala fed, broken
in power. They were captured and
thrown into prison together with most
Of their officials and supporters. and
Zelaya proclaimed himself dictator Of
Nicaragua. issuing a grandiose procla-
nation calling upon the people TO obey
and respect his Government and an
nouncing that Nicaragua would now
take her rightful place among the ma
tons Of the continent.
stirs Up Trouble for L. 8.
In the fifteen years that Zelaya con-
trolled the destines of Nicaragua he
amassed enormous wealth. he caused
the United States more trouble than
any other OF the numerous Latin
American rulers. who were forever
kicking up rows. this trouble culini-
mating finally in the shooting Of two
American citizens by Zelaya's troops
and the landing OF American marines
at Bluef1elds and at Managua. This
brought Zelaya's career to a close,
and he fed the country in the face
of successful revolution started
by Gen. Estrada and openly supported
by the American Government. He
went to Brussels. and then TO Paris.
and from there to Barcelona, Spain.
and four years ago he came to the
United states. There was some excite
ment at first over his arrival here
lie was arrested. and many columns
were printed about him. and then he
was released and forgotten.
For more than three years he lived
quietly in New York, this man who
had set all Central America by tho
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European smartness and education.
He Immediately became interested in
politics and made himself extremely
obnoxious to the then President Char
mora by insistently advocating radical
reform in what he termed an obsolete
government. He finally became a
leader of the Liberal party. and as
such was so prominent and so vocif-
erously against the Government that
the President quietly caused him TO
be sent out Of the country into exile.
He went to Guatemala, then under the
rule Of Rufino Barrios. Barrios was
Just beginning an attempt to put into
effect his remarkable scheme for the
unihcation of the turbulent Central
American countries into the United
States OF Central America, and in his
dream he saw himself master OF an
empire far greater commercially and
militarily than his northern neighbor,
Mexico, and second only to the
United States, In Importance on the
North American continent Zelaya
took commission in Barrios's army
and at all times had an active part in
the plot which failed some time after
Barrios issued his famous proclama-
ton in 1885 announcing the uniflca-
ton.
War over Mule.
The interest in this scheme which
his service with Barrios seems to have
awakened never left the mind of Ze-
laya All the time he was a dictator
OF Nicaragua he was working toward
NHs, ,nt1
Central American States, and TO that
end he waged several wars against
Honduras and against other Central
American States. But for the first
few years after he had returned to
Nicaragua and seized the reins of gov
ernment Ielaya was fully occupied
with putting down revolutions against
himself, so that it was only after he
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spending a couple OF months with Miss
Winifred Hollis Phare de France
giving English lessons TO blind SOL
diers. The American offensive at
Chateau Thierry had Just started and
Countess Tolstoy was then asked to
come to DR.. Blakes Hospital. There
she had charge of sale of fifty beds,
her patients being almost entirely
American boys of the Fourth ana
Twenty-eghth Divisions who had been
wounded in the big drive. Speaking
of this phase OF her experience Coun-
tess Tolstoy said:
1T seemed quite like being back
with tho Foreign Legion 10 be with
the American boys again. They we're
such dears always bright and cheer
full, those lightly wounded Joking about
II, those seriously hurt lying patiently
with never a murmur of complaint.
Later when working with tho can
teens OF the American Red Cross
came in close touch with the boys and
learned what they thought OF the
agencies doing war work at the front
They couldn't say enough OF the Red
Cross and Salvation Army.
The Red Cross canteens did as good
work as any in France and from my
own observation those in Paris and
along the line OF the railroad to Brest
filled a great need. In Paris fourteen
canteens served a deliciously cooked
meal for Is confines and the boys cer-
tainly did appreciate it when food
elsewhere was so high. In connection
with some OF them small hotels were
run where n soldier could get a bed at
any hour OF the day or night for u
small sum. I heard no complaint from
the boys about conditions at Brest
and during the five days / spent there
saw nothing TO criticise but much to
praise. For seven months after the
signing OF the armistice | worked in
the bureau OF permits and passes for
the Red Cross in Paris and only left
the work to return to New York for
much needed rest"
Countess Tolstoy was in Paris dur
ing the air raids and its bombardment
by the big Bertha" but after being
at the front the chance OF being hit in
Paris. she said. seemed very small.
Nine, Tolstoy during her stay in New
York is sitting for her miniature done
by Miss Edith III. Whitehead. to be en-
hibited at the Royal Society OF Nina
ture Painters in London in June.
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1T was very dark, the night only
Illuminated by the flash of big guns,
so we had to proceed slowly. | don t
think l ever PASSED a more physically
! uncomfortable time in my life, for I
was sitting in crampcd position
| holding the baby, which lay a dead
weight in my arms. Every time a
shell broke the women screamed in
terror and when we passed over n
shell hole the wounded groaned in
concert.
But strange To say I wasn't so
much afraid OF getting a smell as or
catching coolies. l knew the ride
couldn't last forever and, after being
for ten kilometCrs under fire. We final
~ reached Proudly and | turned my
charges over to the surgeons. Poor
| little Marie Thcrese--I should have
liked to have adopted her. she was so
pretty, but she only lived the day
died from shock. After a cup OF hot
coffee | started back to Trigny and
upon my arrival was warmly greeted
by the head surgeon and staff, who
thanked me for making the trip.
About this time the Seventh Corps
d'Armee was replaced by the Second
and I stayed on with them until the
first of June, when I went on to Vaux
Narennes, near Berry au- Bac. II was
on June that Gen. Cadoudal came to
Naux' and presented To me the CroiX
dc Guerre. Tho work nj NauX was
frightfully heavy. as VIC got mostly
dying men from the Aisne, most OF
them from the Foreign Legion, who
occupied this particular sector. One
exciting event occurred here when the
Germans. for no reason at all, dropped
bomb in our midst, breaking every
window in the hospital and terribly
exciting the patients. although for
tunately wounding none of them. The
noise Of the shell which exploded in
the park, leaving a hole as big as the
chateau, was like nothing I've ever
heard before. | thought the end Of
the world mad come"
After this Countess Tolstoy rested
up a bit, then worked six weeks with
the American Army in Paris later
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4 NICAR a y an

Ze'sya employed to keep himself in
office without recourse TO his army
Is tfat of the manner in which he
manipulated the elections. The first
two times he put himself I'D for cleo
ton he showed an utter contempt for
tile intelligence OF his people. In
many OF the districts of the republic
the native, hot headed and a lover of
bombastic oratory, was given to I'M
derstand that there were three can
didates for President OF the country
Jose, Santos and Zelaya. The native
knew only that he was to support one
of these three. Always the people
divided into factions, with each party
arguing and debating. Those who
supported Jose always denounced
Santos. and those who cried for San
ties denounced Zelaya. But always
In the end when the votes We're count
I'd the man called Zelaya was elect
e., and invariably the candidates
Jose and Santos retired from public
life. And 1t was only in the capital
That the new President was known as
Jose Santos Zelaya. In later years
Gen. Zelaya tired of this system, so
ne cHahBeu the law ana nad nlmSelt
reelected President by the Legislature
and he owned the Legislature by
virtue of owning the army.
Students of genealogy probably
would have picked Gen. Zelaya as the
last person In the world to become a
dictator, soldier and a man feared
ana hated throughout large part OF
a continent. There Is nothing what
ever in his ancestry TO indicate such
an inheritance. as SO far back as the
records of his family go his people
had been peaceful planters and mer-
chants and farmers. His father was
a coffee planter, wealthy, and as a
boy Zelaya had little to do except at
tend the cockhghts and the horse
races and gamble. When he was
twenty he was sent to Paris to be
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countess osoys Brave Deeds That Won Four War Decorations
IRON four years active service
|" in hospitals at the front. much
of the Tina iipdar IN. atroa, n.

IRON four years active service
r In hospitals at the front. much
of the time under the direct fire
OF enemy guns, the Countess Tolstoy.
an American girl, formerly Miss Mary
rockingham Of New York, Ia lust
back from France with four war dec
oratlons to her credit. Wearing her
honors modestly. the young widow of
Count Alexander Tolstoy refuses to
consider her work other than in the
hght OF a good solder. And this de-
spite the fact she wears the Croix de
Guerre, the Russian military medal
the Cross of st. George. awarded for
bravery under fire and incidentally
the only woman in France to receive
II; the French insignia for three
years hospital service: the Monte
negrin medal for bravery. personally
presented by the King Of Montene-
gro. and the Croix Rouge service
badge of the French Red Cross. Ma
dame Tolstoy also has been recon-
mended for the Reconnaissance dec
Grafton given by the French Govern
ment for work done for France.
1t was when the Countess Tolstoy
was associated with the Vicomtesse
Benoist d'Azy at Trigny, Just back OF
Brtmont, then the centre OF a bitter
artillery duel between the French and
the Germans. that she was cited for
bravery and won tho Crolx dc Guerre.
To the Vicomtesse d'Azy, Infirmiere
Chef OF the French Red Cross Hos
pital, which graduated Countess Toll
stoy, had been given a post closer to
tho German lines than any other
woman had held previous TO this time
and asked the Countess Tolstoy TO go
to the front as her assistant So early
In April. just before the French often
sive OF 1916, the two women arrived
at Muizon and were swiftly driven by
motor to Trigny. where the Seventh
Corps dArmee had established an
ambulance In anticipation Of the big
drive.
A few days later the attack was on
and instead OF the several hundred
wounded expected 5000 cases passed
through their hands in two days. The
huts. chateau and park lay thick with.
tho dead and dying, so thick in places
they we're almost lying on top OF one
another Five operating tables were
kept going for forty-eight hours, the
surgeons working in eight hour shifts.
"M'ny OF the men were Arabs" said
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O-,s~~A~s-.. ~s~s ssA &.

ears, this modern Nero whose methods
OF punishment were said to rival those
OF the Roman emperor and OF the
Spanish Inquisition. He attracted little
or no attention here, and when death
came to him recently It found him
In commonplace Washington
Heights fiat, with few Of his neighbors
aware that the Zelaya family WIS
headed by the man Of so much ad-
venture and varied life happenings.
And by a curious coincidence. Gen.
Zelaya died Of intestinal trouble--and
one Of the grave charges made against
him by American agents and consular
officials was that his favorite mode Of
Furnishing political offenders in Mica
rasua was to clap them in prison and
give them diet that always caused
acute inflammation of the intestines
and abdominal tracts, or else have
them beaten across the abdomen, pro-
ducing the same effect.
Yet as feared and as hated as Ze-
Iaya was, II cannot be denied he in
troduced many material reforms into
his country that were OF lasting bene-
Mt TO his people. He caused laun-
dries and electric lighting plants TO
be established in his capital city in
the face OF determined opposition from
Nicaraguan aristocrats who thought
such things violated their ancient ira
dition. He built more than 200 miles
OF steam railroad and made possible
the transportation Of passengers and
freight across his republic. He inaug-
urated the novelty OF machine shop.
and built few warehouses and
wharves and opened up a port or two
so that vessels could get into them
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New York Girl Back From France After Long Service Hospitals Under o
test of Enemy Fes Women and Rabies

Countess Tolstoy in telling OF her ex-
periences, who lay there stoicaIlv
bleeding to death without n word
NOW and then they would ask for a
drink or water but that was all. Late
AT night of the first day an American
ambulance unit stationed at Muizon
was called In and tho men worked like
rro)ans. ! don't know what we would
nave done without them. We were
the only nurses. though later our
number increased TO ten.
IAN this time the most frightful ar
tillery duel was going on. Germa n
aeroplancs were constantly flying over
mead while the enemy guns lombard
cd the French artillery on our right.
Curiously enough. the German fire
was so accurate that the shells never
once dropped OH our side OF the fence,
although they fell heavily on the
French artillery stationed beyond and
as far back as the railroad at Proudly
we received an aeroplane warning
that II we didn't move they would
bomb us, but we couldn't move. We
had too many dying men for that.
one day they carried out their threat
and shelled tho village, killing the
mother Of seven months infant,
wounding the child, the aunt. the aged
grandmother and killing outright a
number OF soldiers quartercd I'm the
house. II was near midnight that
the shell exploded. and although we
had had orders not to get up unless
the hospital was attacked-for we
worked at such tension and needed the
rest-I just had TO see what had hap
pened.
THE injured. / found. had been
brought TO the hospital. The mother,
horribly mutilated, lay dead; the aunt
had lost leg; the grandmother an
arm and the little baby was alive.
though unconscious from severe
scalp wound It was dt clded. as the
shells were falling so continuously, to
try to get the patients on to Proudly.
Some one had TO take the baby, so |
offered TO do SO. We were put In the
ambulance, the two women. several
wounded soldiers. myself and the baby
and VIC started on our grewsome ride.
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How He Led Army to Victory Against
Revolutionists Only to Seize Reins of
Government Himself Is One of the
Most Drastic Stories of His Career

by the influence Of Zavala and Mon
tiel. Zelaya planned to seize the reins
Of government for himself and to make
himself absolute dictator of Nicaragua.
But TO do this he must get rid OF the
two opposing Generals and their
armies. So one night Gen. Zelays end
his soldiers slipped quietly out OF the
capital and the noxt day he appeared
before the city and demanded its sur
render. Montiel and Zavaia refused.
and there was some two or three days
Of desuitory hghting. at the end OF
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TIME President Of the Central
American republic of Nicaragua
cat with his Cabinet in the greet
council room OF the presidential psi-
ace in the capital city Of Managua one
day in the summer OK 1898. They
waited to greet and congratulate their
victorious General, Jose Santos Zelsya,
whose army mad arrived in the city
after a successful campaien against
the revolutionists. The table in front
OF the President was Uttered with dec
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as Stormy Regime as Dictator of Nicaragua
Kept All Central America in Turmoil
Until Shooting of Two Citizens of US.
Caused Him to Flee His Last Years
Quietly Passed in New York City

educated, and spent two years as q
student at the Lycee in Versailles,
although II is said OF him that Mont
martre was a great deal more familiar
to him than the halls and classrooms
OF the college. Then he travelled
through Europe and the United
States for two years, observing con-
dit ions.'' 3
He returned to Nicaragua a rest
less cosmopolite with a thin veneer Of
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had finally overthrow the turbulen.
element in bis own country that ha
seized upon the slightest pretext for
going to war with his neighbor.ng
States.
On one occasion he went to war with
Honduras because Of n mule which had
been stolen by Honduran soldiers who
slipped across the boundary line. The
Honduran Government refused to sur
render the guilty Soldiers to the tender