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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
To Wipe Out Maclay Euisode.

That Congressman Mudd desires 10
wipe out all vestiges Of Maclay from the
naval establishment was again demon
stra;ed yesterday at a meeting OF the
committee on naval affairs. He offered
an amendment to the naval appropria-
ton, that no part OF the money IN The
paragraph providing Tor the purchase OF
books, &c, or in the bill itself shall he
used for the purchase OF any history Of
Spanish h-American war written by Ma
clay, for the Naval Academy or any
other part of the naval establishment
All the members OF the COMM. tee stated
that they would agree to the incorpola
ton Of Mr.. Mudd's amendment, bur u
was withheld for the present out Of deier-
ence to the secretary OF the navy, who IS
absent from Washington. Mr.. Mudd
stated that even # the amendment IS not
incorporated in the bill. which he has no
doubt, however, will be done. be viii
offer a resolution IN the House lOr tbs
same object.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
OFFERED OIL FOR TESTS.
Navy Department 20 Experiment
with Petroleum ms Fuel on
the Mig BattIeskips.

! There will be no difficulty for the
navy department in making expert
ments with liquid fuel. A number of
offers have been received by the bu-
reau of steam engineering TO furnish
from the Texas oil wells all the pc
troleum necessary in conducting the
proposed tests, and several steamship
lines which are about to adopt APP
pliances for burning liquid fuel have
invited the bureau TO make observa-
tions on board those vessels to the
end that the practical workings of
the system may be investigated.
Rear Admiral Melville will avail
himself of these privileges. He plans
to have the first test with liquid fuel
carried on with land boiler in WASH
ington at the same establishment
where the bureau has been conduct
ing extensive tests with coal. This
will enable a comparison under sim
liar conditions between coal and oil
as fuel. These tests will be followed
by experiments with liquid fuel on
shipboard, where, of course, the con-
ditions are much more severe. In
these tests Rear Admiral Melville
hopes 60 make use of gunboat, a
torpedo boat and torpedo boat de-
stroyer, which will enable observa-
tions 60 be made under varying con-
ditions, and If the results are sufii-
ciently promising n large vessel will
be used in the subsequent investiga-
tions. At first, however, Il is deemed
hardly prudent TO make use of ves-
sci of greater displacement than one
of the small erunboats
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
SLOW Tin Of San Franoison.

The Navy Department has received a
cablegram announcing the arrival Of the
San Francisco al Gibraltar. she was Z !
days Out. an unusually slOF trip. at
lubataoie 10 diills and gunnery practice.
The department has been informed
that the . .S0o-ton gun0oat Manila. which
was one Of the vessels captured by Ad-
miral Dewey. has lefg Cavite for the
UaIied States. coming b. the Pacific
island route.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17

A new wall covering is being placed
upon the market. 1t is an artificial
leather and is the invention of a
Frenchman. French leather papers
have not been sold in this country to
anything like the extent they were
90 or even ten years ago. Decoraline
and the various high reliefs, Anaglypta,
Lincrusta, Hgnomur, Cameoid and
Tyncastle, which lend themselves SO
readily TO decorative treatments, have
very properly taken the place of the
foreign feathers. The new paper con-
sists of pieces Of refuse skin and hides
cut exceedingly small. mixed in a vat
filed with an intensely alkaline solu.
ffou
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
Tot Causes Nirht Alarm

Zone night my brothers. baby was
taken with Group" writes Mrs. ]. c.
Snider. OF Crittenden, Ky, "it seemed
It would sirangle before we could get a
doctor, SO We gave it DIR. Kings New
Discovery. which gave quick relief and
pc manently cured it. We always keep
1t IN the house 10 protect our children
from Group and Whooping Cough. 1t
cured me Of chronic bronchial trouble
that no other remedy would relieve" {"
Infallible for Coughs. Colds, Throat and
Lung troubles. 50 cents and 81 90 Trial
bottles free at Feldmeyer Bros, City
Drug Store.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
Fourth Drawing OF Jurors.

Judge Revell made the fourth drawing
OF jui ors today as follows:
Third district-Theodore Jones, in
place Of w. T. Revell. excused.
Fifth distriet-Ffank S. Stocketi, Hi
ram 5. Kelly, Summetfeld n. Benson,
Albert S Hammond, in place Of RI q n
Howard Hammond. Robert L Shipley.
George II. Rider, Enoch 6. Jeffrey, ex-
cussd.
II is thought possible that some of the
foregoing jurors may not be able to serve
as they are large truckers and it may
seriously interfere with their farm duties.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
Peoule Believe Init

II has been cynically said that any
thing can be sold by advertising nova
days. This is not so. Many liniment
have been advertised but only one-Per
ry Davis Painkiller-has stood the tes
Of sixty years use. To-day its POPULAR,
ty is greater than ever and is based no
upon what anybody says but upon wha
the remedy does. There is but one Pain
killer, Perry Davis.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
win Appeal To State Board OF Health,

II is said that the proprietor OF the
Main street Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Co.'S. store will appeal TO the State Board
Of Health II the cess pool in the neigh.
bOrhood which is covered with green
slime and is menace 10 health and a
public nuisance is not Ttmsd ed at once
BY the city authorities. witch they seem
slow in doing
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
In ne. Pronunciation.

tt is definitely settled-for Stuart
Robson himself hath said IL. In a re-
cent chat he was asked to pronounce
his name, there being always differ
ence Of opinion as to whether it was
Robe-son or Robson. pronounce IL
as though il were spelled with two
BIS" lisped the comedian. ats Robb-
son-plain Robson, but with one b.
II IL were Robeson. I'd put an In Il;
but IL Isn't Robe. it'a Rob"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
Admiral Kempf's Wife Dad.

Mrs. Cornelia Selby Kemfff, wife Of
Rear-Admiral Louis Kempf. Uaised
States Navy, died at Oakland. Cal
from acute pneumonia. Rear-Admiral
Kempf. who returned from tue Command
of the China squadron on March I9.
was with his wife when she died. Mrs
Kempf was a daughter OF former Mayer
Selby, Of San Francisco.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
- - - ii - Nations

TIE MOST mesei and unlqae entertain
meat wiii be giVeu ~ the children Of the
Anaspois pa1ae scfual on tomorrow,
FrdEY tseniaE IN ne pabac sch0ol haH
az clock.
TEE character az me pFoEFsm has been
styled "tsaeass tcm Gehef Lads. 4"
whsrh wtl geass Eel ca afaeferisur sones,
marches. and 1hs. wsla caslames and
tYpical sorgs aaa aiafehes "a thase Wa
kzax - nsgs.
Ine entife ea.gffslaesFHf Ia EoeG -.
sen on t1e aszs ef fa9 asfens Nne
proceeds wlll oe ioF iAe atana fanA
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
Fresh Fish And mama

II you want Fresh Ffsk and C1grs.
go to VIM. Sands & Co, Stall 10. o.
Ffsh Ma,kef. We sell none but live ish
and fresh clans, delivered to any par,
of the city. Clans sold by the pint.
quart or IN shell. We keep Rock, Perch,
Crocus. Shad and Herring. always fresh
WM. SANDS & Company, No. 9. Fish
Market. mIs
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
A GARD OF THANKS.

The Board of Managers Of the Emer-
gency Hospital Ct Annapolis. herewith
extend thanks 10 all the FRATERNAL OR-
DERs, SOCIETIES, CHURCHES. CoRPORA-
TIoES and INDIVIDUALS, who have. In
any way, assisted them in establishing q
Hospital in this midst. either BY coniri-
buttons OF money or by personal effort.
BY order OF the Board,
MRS. EMMA ABBoTr-CAGE.
*Im-aI5 Secretary
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
The Best Plaster.

A piece of flannel dampened with
ChamDerlain's Pain Balm and bound to
the affected parts is superior to any plas,
ter. When troubled with lame back or
pains in the side or chest, give il a trial
and you are certain to be more than
pleased with the prompt relief which IL
affords. Pain Balm also cures rheuma.
tism. One application gives relief. For
sale by Feldmeyer Bros. City Drug
Store. 4
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17

"tsnucssre Earfnrf m haunv
comoguation "a several paeaIar sirraen5s
u prrFfrrrs taF esHrarF "a Hfe rn fha
sand hnis oi Nearfa al haaf fann.ae q.
Traditional rKaENel lanans. q haa ihf aat...
~ OF tke1rutrat II Hf afamH sfsaas
aiiheui irtlI.na .a wreHraH1t saHH
raitonts r IrItesa.rs Zee ~ le..
oi com1aY sHaaa. fhf slf af tsesf
iutFcdacuun aattrs Aas sas.as sa
nance F.lIafraaT afuetE Hffe ESQ
Wholeseutc senIssFrf IrnrrssHr e.
farducf uas saEEcsrtI - Efrf lfsssr b
e1qui1rc ruraaEe. Tee See hhfa Efef
AID camucn ..aE en fhn naF rrnnfI8.
saias ''u thcle uefe maFe raFa HhH
"leuuesscc Eafdrft thrfe auu.a 81
icsef -rulClsuas af thr u.assIs af fha sfare
and the bafEeas ln thase rIsFs nfeaent.
ed. TIE pruaucuoa b unaef the man-
agcmeut ol Pha hunf. hY arrangement
srih AIthur q. As. n. and wil b. seen
AZ the OPcia housc tonurow. FRIDAY
nIght April ts.h
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17

TIE b. & a. short Line Railroad
wil seil each saturday and sunday dur
ing Apui and Nag excursion tickets 70
aalgmuIe al - renls. These tickets viii
be good 10 reZuFn cn % trains TIE follow
iae Aon1ay. SmELLNAS B. BROWN,
& It. &F.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17

ID. X. Hartman, chat q qIsrtermaster
Y. ). y has been retired tIom the Navy
after thirty years service, Nith an unblem-
shed record. Mr. Hartman IS a native
Oi New England. bu; resides here with
hrs l2mily on Duke Of Gloucester street.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17

Commander A. Ross IS attached from
duty as inspector In charge Of the Filth
Lighthouse Disiricf. Baltimore, Md,
Nav q. and asdrrcd 10 command the
Buffalo MAJ To-
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
PUBLIC SALE.

The FIXTURES in the Office occu
pied as THE DIME SAVINGS BANK
will be sold on F'bEay. Ap,H ISlf. a
10 80 o'clock a. m.
Terms Cash.
GEO. THOS. BEASELY,
April 10Th, 1902. Sheriff.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
To Builders and Contractors.

PROPOSALS are invited by the Trustees of the
order OF the Knights OF Jerusalem for the remod-
cling of Clay street Hall. Annapolis. by adding a
story to the building and lengthening the same ten
feet, with certain other necessary changes 10 be
made to the same according TO plans in the hands
OF the undersigned.
All bids are TO he opened April 2Sth. 1904 In the
presence OF the Trustees. who the right to
reject any and all bids.
Proposals should be addressed TO the under.
signed from whom all necessary information may
be obtained.
J. ALBERT ADAMS.
al5 "a Calvert Street.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17

TIE wEDDISG-
The marriage bells rang loud aud long,
Aud this l. what they said
'There's nothing baked on earth can beat
Rulmann's Home Made Bread, .
tbs HoSEYMooS-
They billed and cOoed from morn tan nixht.
Then on a Pullman sped
They lived on love and never ate
Rullman's iome-Made Bread
LirE's STERN REALITY
The honeymoon was over.
The oven wouldn't bake
The "stafi OF life' and eweetmeats
No better than the cake:
The husband fused and freitcd
Cause he wanted to be fed
And his wife rushed down to KULLxArE's
For Rullmann's Home Made Bread.
MORAL.
Young ladies, ere you're married
To Tom. or Dick. or Ned,
Don't paralyse your sweethearts
With your homemade bread
And when you've signed the contract,
lfthese lines are rightly read
You'll always go to RuIIMANNs
al I'm For Rullmann's Home Made Bread.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

The firm of CHARLES A. HOWARD
* COMPANY was dissolved on the I2M
aay Of AbyiI, by mutual consent The busi-
ness in the future will be conducted by
CHARLES A. HOWARD. individually.
maI6 OLIVER c. GREGORY,
Late of the firm Of c. A. Howard & Co.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
he following'was the score:
1, 40. N
CLAss III.

Basil won the medal in Class A ard
Lockyer in Class b.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-04-17
Weekly Shoot Of Annapolis Gun Club.

The weekly shoot OF the Annapolis Gun
Club was held on the Clubs grounds on
the Spa. opposite Boucher's.
The loilousa., s.yao th. 1000.
Newport daily independent., 1902-07-03
RuNs OF AN ANCIENT CHURCH AT SAN SALVADOR.

the nobles; also one surrounding the European quarters. Pigafetta speaks of these walls, and his description of them is one the few things that can be relied on in his highly embellished book of romances.
 The massive walls and churches were built of the ironstone so plentiful on the plateau on which San Salvador is situated. Some huge blocks of this stone were used in the foundations and for the doorways and arches of the churches. The walls had thin layers of limestones used as "headers" to bind them together. Very excellent mortar was made, and an abundant supply of limestone was obtained from the quarries a few miles away. The amount of labor represented by these ruins must have been enormous, but we must remember that the work was done in ''the golden days of slavery" and Kongo at that time was the great center of the trade. The population of the capital then is given at 100000; to-day it does not exceed 1,500.
 It is impossible, with materials at our command, to say how long this city was occupied by the Portuguese. When the "trade" was firmly estab- hshed, and the kings and nobles of Kongo became the active agents of the white traders and faithfulivassals of the king of Portugal, the European residents could withdraw to the coast at LoSnda and 'Ambrizette, paying yearly visits during the dry seasons to San Salvador to conduct to the coast the accumulated gangs of slaves. Sometimes, however, the gangs were intrusted to the care of reliable na- tive. I knew we'll two old men who went repeatedly for this purpose to Loanda. They counted on three months for the return journey, and many gruesOme tales they had to re- late They thought that they were in the service of Nemputu, the king of Portugall The companies cf slaves were generally accompanied by one or more priests, who received slaves from the natives in return for baptizing their children and administering spir- itual consolation to the nobles of the land. These gangs of chained slaves, moving ponderously along on their way to the coast, have left behind them indelibe marks; and their tracks are easily recognized by the names of towns and villages where they halted or encamped for the night
 Such is the past record of kingdom which has now been reduced to all but an empty name, for the present king of Kongo is nothing more than an ordi- nary native chief, with very limited nowers, even over his own people. Nevertheless, he is endowed with re- markable amount of self-importance and conceit, imagining himself of more consequence than the tsar of all the Russias, and having an equal only in the king of Portugal.
 REV. THOMAS LEWIS.
 English African Missionary
Newport daily independent., 1902-07-03
Paying the Premium.

Some few months ago young matron telephoned to one of the young men she knew, who is connected with a large insurance firm asking him to write policy covering her new house. hold effects.
 Don't tell Dick" she asked. 'I want to surprise him. He really thinks I have no business head at all"
 The young man assented and issued the policy He waited a considerable time for the payment of the premium. His friendship for the young woman caused him to resist sending the bill, but he finally did so. The recipient complained bitterly to an acquaint- ance. who is considerable of a wag. and he readily encouraged her in her ideas.
 "Now, really" she said wrinkling her pretty brows. 'this bit of paper costs next to nothing. l could have written it myself"
 "Yes," said he "but if you have a fire the company will have to pay the loss"
 Well" she suggested, 'let them de- deduct what they say l owe them. Then they won't be out anything"- Chicago Record Herald.
Newport daily independent., 1902-07-03

a church be erected on the spot, to be called the Church of the Holy Cross. In all Il churches are spoken of as having been built here, but it is almost cer- tain that they did not'coexist. Old buildings were destroyed and rebuilt; these were rededicated to some other saint according to the tastes of the priests there at the time, and hence the confusion. We are assured, for ex- ample, that one night the devil came and carried away the roof of the church of Santa Cruz, and the Yakkas from the Kwangu, who seem to have been in league with his majesty of the lower regions, followed hard after, and completed the destruction of both church and city.
 When the Kongos, after short pc riod, reoccupied their capital with the help of Portuguese traders and priests, they directed their attention to the fortiication of the city and surround ed it with massive stone walls. They also constructed inner walls around the kings palace and the dwellings of
Newport daily independent., 1902-07-03
Photographing the oval Sun.

The fact that the sun when poised on the horizon sometimes appears great ly distorted, or drawn out into the form of an oval, is we'll known, and the explanation is very simple, namely, the rapid change in the refractive in- dex of the air near the horizon, in con- sequence of which the lower edge of the sun appears to be lifted with refer ence to the upper edge, and so the disk looks as if squeezed between top and bottom. Recently Prof. Prinz of the Brussels observatory, has obtained several large scale photographs of the setting sun which distinctly show the deformation of the disk, and render it's measurement very easy. In one case the vertical diameter is to the horizon tai in the ratio of 75 to 84 Sometimes the distortion is greater than that Science
Newport daily independent., 1902-07-03

coast, and it's being the first discovered by the early Portuguese travellers, and the country covered by the ancient kingdom of Kongo. We owe the very name of "Congo" to this old kingdom,
 We first became acquainted with this marvellous country in the story of the voyages of Diogo Cam, who, on reach- ing the mouth of the river in the year 14s2, learnt from the natives who boarded his vessel that liar in the in- terior there lived a powerful king" He thereupon dispatched to this king "some Christian negroes as his ambas- sadors," to assure him of the friendly intentions of his visitors from Portu- gal, and of their desire to trade. Thus was effected the first discovery of a wonderful people and powerful Afri- can monarch.
 Battell, Duarte Lopez, Cavazzi and others have left us truly wonderful de- scriptions of the kingdoms of Kongo and Angola as they were, or supposed to be, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. And, making due allowance for a vivid imagination in matters of detail, we are compelled to recognize the royal service which these early travellers rendered to the cause of what may be termed "unsc1entlflc geography" In those palmy days or the Spanish and Portuguese nations, there is no doubt but that certain amount of civilization was introduced ir4o +ba conntrv. The whites who were sent out from Portugal estab- lisbed themselves at several points on the south bank of the river, and with commendable skill and perseverance built houses, fortresses and churches, tbe ruins of which are still to be seen at Sonyo near the mouth, at MbemDe in the interior behind Ambrizette, and notably at San Salvador, the capital or inc ancient kingdom. This last is be- vond doubt the most important, ana IS full of historical interest We read or mighty monarch who ruled over vast region, with host of princes gov arning dependent provinces. The pomp and glory of this brilliant court are startling in the extreme, ana one oasns for breath at reading of the Tapidity with which the king ana nobles of hitherto heather and pa gan country put on the garp or our Frronean civilization and espoused the Christian religion. For in the year 14a1 le. - many priests arrived from Flu rome and very soon three churches were built-one dedicated to the Sa- viour. whence the city derived the name of San Salvador; the second ana third were dedicated to the Elrgln Mary and St. James, in recognition ol their miraculous intervention on pe- half of the people at a critical point in one of their battles. These were not however. the first, for church was erected when the first Christian king non Joao. made vow of fidelity to God, and planted large wooden cross in an open space in the town as a ,,- wlt- ness; afterwards he commanded that
Newport daily independent., 1902-07-03
EATS WITH HIS KNIFE,
Heroic Measures Adopted by Young Woman to Break Her Sweet
 hearts Had Habit

An injured heart tells this tale of woe i'll letter to the Philadelphia North American:
 "A young gentleman has been asked to dine at the house of the parents of the lady whom he fully intends to mar ry if she will have him. Should the man feel encouraged or not, provided he was given knife sharp as razor, and in unguarded moments forgot his proper table manners and lapsed into the old habit of eating with his knife? {? He cut his tongue, also his lips, each time he forgot his manners by using the knife. All this in view of the fact that the young lady was aware of his occasional lapse into feeding with the knife, she having dined before in res taurants with him. The other knives even the carver, were not nearly as keen-edged In fact, the other knives at the table were very dull. The one the man had could not have been keener if it had been sharpened to shave with"
 ''You see the loving young man bsanching at the steel. the sweetheart cruel only to be kind, papa and mamma looking on in amazement Embar- rassed by their presence. dazzled by his charmer, fascinated by the perilous edge, the youth wounds himself again and again, although he read treatise on table etiquette not five minutes be- fore he took fare for the house of his beloved There can be no doubt of her merciless purpose. It is clear that the carver is dull or papa wouldn't saw the roast SO All the other knives look innocent and incapable of hurting a pie. much less a man. The young mans weapon is trenchant blade, rapier, a srazzer' No wonder he is sore. No wonder he goes away in sadness and perpleXity. Is she whom he thought all sweetness no better than a savage? Knowing this weakness, should she not have spared him ?"
 The instruction was pitiless, but it seems to have been needed It is for the young man to be purified through suffering. The young woman must be forgiving young woman or she would have bidden him nevermore be follow CT of hers after he had knifed himself in the paternal and maternal presence. There she was justly sharp with him. If nothing but bloodshed will cure him of the odious habit, let blood flow! It 1 is for the fellows own good. If he can be reformed, if he can be reclaimed from the ranks of the knife-eaters, se- verity must do it. No doubt kindness has been tried at the restaurants, and has been found unavailing. What will teach this intractable booby the prop CT use of the knife? In the words ot Mrs. Micawber's papa, experience does it.
 A strange picture, this carnage in Philadelphia, the relentless lady, the bleeding swain angry with the hand that guides him. The bleeding swain ought to feel encouraged. Had he rather iab himself with knife than win lady who has undertaken to edu- cate him?
Newport daily independent., 1902-07-03
Women naronets.

Tn only two eases have baronetcies been conferred on women in England. Once was in 1886 on the mother of Gen. Cornelius Speelman. The other was Dame Maria Bolles, made so by Charles IN. Y Sun.