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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
A Reward For Merit.

One of the last official acts of General
Charles Haywood, Commandant of the
Marine Corps, who will be retired Sat-
urday. October 5, was to promote Ser
geant Thomas Gaskins to Quartermaster
Sergea for meritorious conduct. Ser
geant Gaskins will retire November 10
after 80 years of continual service in the
old and honorable corps. He has an
exceptionally fine record, bears an ex-
cellent character and is very popular.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Hanover Street Improvement,

The work of concreting Hanover street
has begun and the laying Of bricks will
begin next week. The street bed inn
provement has been made necessary by
the Government acquiring city property
in that locality. 1t is probable in a few
years the street will again be torn up
and additional city property acquired.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Eighty Cent Trips

Commencing October grid, we will sell
on each Saturday or sunday during
October and November tickets to Balti-
more at 80 cents good to return on and
before last train Monday following date
ofsale. SHELLMAN b. Brown,
G. +. & T. A.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Engagement Announced.

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Strange have
announced the engagement Of their
daughter, Mary Caroline, to Mr.. A.
Aubrey Jackson, of Williamson, West
Virginia The wedding will take place in
the early winter,
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Carpenters Discharged.

A number of carpenters who have
been employed at the Naval Academy
on the building OF temporary quarters for
accommodation of midshipmen, were
discharged yesterday. the work having
been completed.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01

Who has been spending the summer in
Europe has returned to his home. On
Saturday next, October 3rd. he will start
his regular visit to Annapolis. His: Office
where he practices his specially. Eye and
Ear, is at the Maryland Hotel.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Executiv. Appointments.

George ]. Finney has been appointed
Chief Judge of the Orphans Court for
Hartford county. vice James NJ. Cain,
deceased. and George Lebrum has been
special police p. n. c. & p,
b. & w. Railroad.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Dance At Carvel Hall.

The social season vii be inaugurated
al Carvel Hall tonight by dance given
by the Navy contingent. The Naval
Academy orchestra viii furnished the
music.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Few Burials.

Keeper Isaac Machin, of St. Anne's
Cemetery, reports only two burials for
the month Of September, both children.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01

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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-01
Burglary Insurance.
Something New in Annapolis.

Insure your Residence. Stable, Store.
Safe, Bank, Baggage and Hotel against
loss by burglary and loss Of theft by your
own servants
For information apply to
JULIAN BREWER. Agent.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
SET A THIEF TO ~
~ CATCH A THIEF
BY MARION TREvAIL.

IF ANY person had told me the day
before it happened that was capa-
BILE of stealing valuable article from
the house of friend I should have
called that person a story teller and de-
liberately knocked him down. But
there, man never knows himself until
he is tried, and so it happened that
/. John Granger, hitherto considered
honest, did nefariously abstract a
thing of value from my friends house
and did often gloat over the same in
secret.
Occasionally, will confess, contrite
pangs assailed me, but as time went on
these became less and less, and so 1t
was that about six months after the
dreadful event had almost ceased to
remember that l was-well, I'll put 1t
politely, and say "kleptomanlac."
And then something happened, alas!
which brought my crime home to me
in a manner which / shall never forget.
1t was, as / said before, about six
months after had committed the dark
deed when received troubled note
from my cousin, Dollie Leslie, urging
me to go to her at once.
As I had been kindly put ''in loco par
entis," or Gin loco fraternis," to Dol
lie by her husband during his enforced
absence, she having TO other male rela-
tive, there was nothing for it but for
me to go Immediately. So Invent, and a
pretty kettle of fish | found when l
got there. 1t seems that Mistress Dol
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Insinua uation.-Madge - "She has .
lovely complexion Marjorie-"No o
wonder; that girl studied chemistry"
Smart Set.
Eyes, l believe that even inanimate
objects have intelligence of a sort. -
"For instance?" "Well, for instance,
the policeman at the street crossing"
Baltimore News.
"How is this-you have three invita-
tions to dinner tomorrow, and still
you find fault?'' "Why shouldn't I?
They are all for the same hour!"-
Journal Amusant.
One or the Other.-"I don't know
whether she has shaken him or prom
ised to marry him." "Why?" HE
has stopped buying extravagant pres
ents for her. .''-Catholic Standard.
His Future.-"That inventor has a
brilliant future" "He has. Inever
knew man with so long list of great
things he is going to do. He is one of
the few people whose futures make
them famous Wa shington Star.
The Safe Way.-Clerk Tin village
drug store)-"Do you live here?" Gus
tomer-"Sure." Clerk-"Then you'll
have to wait till the boss comes back;
I amt allowed to put up prescriptions
except for strangers" Detroit Free
Press.
Love in Spectacles.-He-"Is suppose
now that l shall have to ask your
father for his consent" She-''No,
Harry. After the first time you called
pa said I might have you if I wanted
you. Pa and I have understood it for
| a long time Boston Transcript.
Voice of Experimentation can't
judge by appearances, paw" said
Farmer Sorghum's eldest daughter.
Beneath the toughest exterior may
nestle the heart of gold" The old man
looked thoughtful. "That sounds
nice,',. he said, ''but it seems to me it's
jest the opposite with gold brick
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Saws North Is Worse Puzzled Than
Ever Over Race Problem.
The PensiOning of NegrOes-Btshop
Turner'S Proposal to Send Them
Back to Afrlca-Praises Recent
Southern Literature.

''Timeo Danaos dora ferentes."
That's what the Romans said when the
Grecians brought them presents. BE
ware of the Greeks when they come
with gifts" 1 suspected Mark Hanna
when he introduced that bill. He is a
Greek, and he is from Ohio. Beware!
But he made bad break. He was
trying to get ahead of Teddy, and
failed. Bring in another horse, Mark.
We were willing for your folks to pen
sion our old darkies, but your billwould
have salivated half the population, and
included the 10000 you stole from US
before the war. Our old negroes are
the best we have got. They are still
humble and trusty. My wife bought
day, and got another to put split bot
tom in a chair. We would rejoice to
see these old negroes handle some pen
sion money. An old woman got $24
yesterday for her husbands service.
and l asked her what he done, and she
said he kept the officers of his COM
pany in chickens all the way from
Chattanooga to Savannah. Our old
cook, Aunt Ann, said the colored peo-
pie were powerfully fond of chicken,
too, and it her old man could not get
a chicken any other way, he would go
to town and buy one.
But it looks now like Teddy's hand
has busted on the race problem. He
can't solve it. The north is worse
puzzled over it than ever, and Secre-
tary Root has spoken out in meeting,
and says that social equality and Office
holding has to be abandoned. Bishop
Turner declares that the whole prob
lem is in a more unsettled condition
than it has been in 80 years, and they
must be sent back to Africa. That is
right, but we want those who brought
them here to be made to take them
back. Confscate Fanueil hall and sell
it out for enough money to build one
ship, and 11ame it the Jolly Bachelor"
which was the first slave ship that
brought them here. Load it down
with cargo of bucks and buckesses
under 30 years of age. When Turner
begins to ship 'em from this part of
the country we want to pick 'em. There
are about so trifing vagaboqds hang
ing around this town, and we can't
kill 'em off with smallpox or anything
else. Two of our doctors went to the
nigger school to vaccinate 'em and took
the police and locked the doors, but the
coons all jumped out of the
windows and some ran under the
house and some ran home and
some hid in hollow log or behind
fences, and the doctor did not get half
of them. But we are getting along
fairly we'll with our negroes, our house
hold servants, the cook and washer
woman and their children. They were
all brought up here and vaccinated.
Negroes in daily contact with their
white employees give no trouble. They
are respectful and Industrious. They
do not want to go to Africa, and they
are not going. 1t is this restless float
ing population that we want to get
rid of. There are young white men not
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
PERSONAL AND IMPEPSONAL.

A woman in Lyons, N. j., died from
the bite of a pet cat.
A Manchester (EnglanD man is su-
ing a woman for breach of promise,
| and she is suing him on the same
charge. They won't agree to COM
promise.
Congressman Goldfogle, of New
York was towing party of his con-
stituents around the capitol building.
Pausing in the rotunda, he said: ''That
is picture of Washington giving up
his commission" One of the party,
practical politician, observed regret
fully: II didn't know Washington was
such sucker as to give up his commits
sion. How much was it?'
Gen. Booth, the Salvation Army
leader, has been a pronounced vege-
tartan for years. He even refuses to
indulge in butter, milk or vegetables
cooked in fat, living entirely on cereals,
principally boiled rice. The general
says he is vegetarian for two reasons.
One is his belief that primitive ma n ate
no meat and the other is that after a
long trial of that diet he finds himself
much younger than his years.
Queen Alexandra's. especial fad is
that of having her pocket money made
perfectly clean and bright before she
fingers it. Whenever check is turned
into hard cash for her use the coins are
scrubbed in a lather of spirits of wine,
water and soap before being placed in
her purse, and any change that may
be rendered her when. making pur-
chases is taken charge of by the lady
in-waiting until it has been subjected
to like process of publication.
Senator Perkins, of California, who
spent years of his early life at sea,
tells of stowaway being found in the
hold of vessel. The: lad was made
cabin boy to the captain, who took
quite fancy to him. When the ship
made her first stop the captain gave the
lad 500 and sent him ashore for some
vegeta bles. The boy told a grocery
man what he had come for and the
storekeeper, pointing to barrel of
dried peas, said: "Them's vegetables y
The boy invested the $40 and on rowing
out to the ship, which was anchored
in the bay, was hailed by the captain:
"Have you brought the vegetables?' @
eyes, sir,' said the lad, not very con-
fidently. "Look alive, then, and hand
them up one at a time"
Not long ago Sir Richard Powell, a
famous London physician, was called
to treat King Edward. The kings reg
ular physician, Sir Francis, Laking, was
present. After examining his august
patient, Sir Richard said in his char
acteristically brusque way: ''You have
eaten and drunk too much. will send
you a prescription that will put you
| right" Then he hurried out to see
| other patients, when Sir Francis fol.
lowed and protested against his abrupt
way of treating the king. "My dear
Laking," said Powell, "if there is any
squirming to do you return and attend
| to it. I really haven't the time.''
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
POPPlN' CORN.

When we useter shell the pop corn
OF an evenin' in the pan,
An we'd pour the butter on 1t,
An the salt-oh, 1t was gran!
An we'd hold 1t Ger the embers.
Each a takin' of his turn,
Jest a-shakin' of the skillet
So the pop corn wouldn't burn!
Nights when I 'ud go calm
She 'ud git the pop corn down.
An I'd shell it in the skillet.
An she'd stir an shake it roun'.
An the fire 'ud throw the shadders,
Dancin' all eroun' the place.
An the roses 'ud be dancin'
In her blushin' country face!
Oh, but she was wuth the winnin'!
Bouncin', red checked, full O. fun!
Jest as graceful as a willer,
Dippin', swayin' in the sun!
Eyes as brown as any spaniels,
Teeth as even an as white
As the pop corn in the skillet.
Like we popped it ev'ry night!
You kin talk O. candy pullin's.
An o. frolics in the snow;
But l want, jest me an Nancv
An chimney place l know!
An I want ter shell the pop corn
In the skillet like l did,
An ter hear the kernels poppin'
"Rataplan!" agin' the lid.
j. M. Lewis, in Houston Post.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
RED-HEADED GIRL DID IT.
Her Young Man Delayed the En-.
gineer for s'GOO-GOOing'' and
Saved Many Lives.

1'As to railroad smash-ups," said
an old conductor who has long had a
run out of Detroit, you may hit or
miss by a close margin. Five seconds
at a crossing may mean safety or
tragedy. My closest call from a
head-on collision was mixed up with
red-headed girl, and feel that l
can never, be too grateful. The girl
was a waitress IN railroad eating
house where our passengers took
supper, and 1 suppose 1 made goo
goo eyes at her occasionally. / sup
pose SO from the fact that a lusty
young man to whom she was en-
gagged sent me letter threatening
to do me up if didn't quit. l lit a
cigar with the epistle and continued
to goo-goo.
"One night we stopped as usual for
20 minutes refreshment, and L got
my orders from the train dispatcher
to make up four minutes lost time
in the next 20 miles. He gave me a
clear run, and though it was late in
the fall and a dark evening the
track was in good shape. I cut the
passengers short by a minute and a
half, and had just got the last of 'em
aboard when man walked up to me
and planted a right-hander between
my eyes. Lordy. but I thought the
heavens and the earth had come to-
gether. l was knocked as fiat as q
pancake, and the fellow piled on to
me and got in two or three more
good ones before he could be hauled
off It was the red-headed girls
young man, and he was making good
his threats. was helped aboard
the train for repairs, but we had lost
six minutes. The brakeman wa:,
about to give the signal to start
when freight train of SO cars came
booming in to take the siding. The
train dispatcher had made a mix Of
it. Had we pulled out on time we
should have met that train three OK
four miles up the road. and no on-
can say how many dead and wound
ed there would have been. With my
nose skinned, two front teeth out
and my eyes going into mourning, ]
sought out my rival and blessed him,
and I sought out the red-haired girl
and would have kissed her had she
permitted, and when we finally
logged along there was a song in my
heart and didn't care cent whetls-
er school kept or not
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
POOLING WARSHIP LOOKOUTS.
Champagne Bottles Set AfOat Neck
Deep Resemble Submarine
Boat PeriEcOpes.

When a submarine torpedo boat is
about to deliver her attack she must
rise close enough to the surface Of
the sea in which she is submerged to
make fresh observation. Bearings
are obtained by lifting out of water
the upper end of vertical tubular
device called periscope. The ex-
pertinent would probably be tried
when the submarine was SO near to
her foe that detection of the former
by the latter might prove a serious
matter. A few we'll directed shots
from small caliber rapid fire gun
on the threatened battleship would
disable, if they did not sink, it's tiny
assailant. Lookouts on big warships
have, therefore, heen trained to
watch for anything which resembles
the tip of periscope during naval
maneuvers, and to report their dis
coveries promptly. says the New
York Tribune. At least, such is the
practice in the French navy, which
includes considerable number of
submarines, and which has given
them man, public trials.
1t has recently been noticed that
the end cf periscope looks like the
top of champagne bottle. Accord
ingly, by weighting a number of such
bottles so that they will float with
just the right amount of neck out
of water, it is often possible to fool
the most vigilant observer. The
crews of the French submarines have
already derived much fun from the
trick, and they hope to profit by it
in time of war. If by such means the
enemy can be induced to misdirect
his fire, there would be better
chance of a successful attack upon
him with a torpedo.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
THOUSANDS OF WILD GEESE.
Great Flight of Big Birds Witnessed
by a Hunter ON the Coast
of Texas.

A citizen of St. Joe, Mich, lately
returned from shooting trip to the
southwestern coast of Texas with an
idea that the wild goose is not so
smart a bird as it has been written.
His party had little trouble in killing
all of the geese they wanted-many
more than they could eat-and they
killed them sometimes under circum-
stances which indicated that the birds
had been feeding upon loco weed,
reports St. Joe paper.
The hunter says that a man on
horse carrying shotgun across
his saddle could nearly always ride
within gunshot of them when grazing
upon the prairie and knock down two
or more as they rose heavily and
SO thickly that missing them was
impossible. He tells of one instance
in particular which shows either
that the Canada goose sometimes
does not know much, or else does not
care for anything when it is in n
hurry to get home.
He found himself one afternoon,
when the sun was not more than half
an hour high, on the edge of long
arm that ran up from the sea and on
this sea arm the geese were in the
habit of roosting. He had dog with
him and had been walking along the
swampy edge of the salt water kick
ing up an occa sional snipe.
Hearing honking, lie looked ont
over the prairie and saw the first
flock of the geese coming in to roost.
There was no shelter anywhere near,
so he lay down fiat on his back. The
dun grass matched fairly we'll with
his clothing and the dog, which was
iver-colored, lay at his feet.
The first fight of geese passed too
high for shooting. but he could hear
others coming and in little while
all the air was vocal with the cries.
Fifteen minutes after the passage Of
the first flock the geese were going
over in steady stream and the rush
ing of their wings was continuous.
Some of them were high and some
lower, bit as the sun sank they came
nearer to the ground and his shooting
began.
He had no means of seeing them
until they were directly over him, but
he waited until they had passed and
took them going from him. Lying On
his back, with his shoulders on the
ground, the shooting was difficult,
but he managed to do fairly well.
When his gun was discharged Ill
the geese near him would. veer to
the right or to the left, but the
noise and, when it got darker, the
frefiashes had no effect on those
further to the rear. These came on
as if no gun had been fired.
There were SO many of them that
all could not escape. Those which
went by him unhurt pitched upon
the salt water half a mile out. and
there rested.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04


Bright's Disease. Doan's Kidney Pills
cure all ills of the kidneys and blad-
der. Read this testimony; it tells Of
q cure that lasts:
Mr.. A. w. Lutz, carriage wood
worker, of 100 18th Ave-, Sterling, Ill.
says: "After procuring Doan's Kid
ney Pills in the month of November,
1897, I took course of the treat
ment which cured me of backache
and other annoyances due to over
excited or weakened kidneys. Dur
ing the three years which have
elapsed, I have had no occasion to re-
tract one word of my statement
made at that time. I now unhesi-
tatingly and emphatically re-endorse
the claims made for Doan's Kidney
Pills.
A FREE TRIAL Of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr.. Lutz
will be mailed on application to any
part Of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
For sale by all druggists, price 50
cents per box.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04
WHAT he LEARNED.
Quail ON Toast Was Not Such mn Un.
common Dehcacy NJ He Had
SuppOsed.

In the wire grass region of Georgia quail
are very abundant, and are known to the ma
tiyes as cartridges" says the Philadelphia
Public Ledger
Recently one of the south Georgia crack
ers" sold off lot of turpentine land and de.
eided to indulge himself in trip to far of
New York while his money was still in hand.
Once in the amazing metropolis. there was
another indulgence he was determined ON.
Delmonico's was Z name that had long ago
tickled his fancy, and quail on toast was
high bred dish that he had long yearned to
know personally: =.
So to Delmonico's he hied himself, and
there ordered the delectable bit It came,
he eyed it severely, then tasted, finally
sampling thoroughly. But his after com.
ment on the feast savored of that sad knowl-
edge which borders close to, disgust,
'Wall, ef / hadn't come to New York I6
never knowed that quail on toast warn't =
blamed thing but G1ynn county patridges
stuck up on burnt light bread.
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04

lie. never wise, had engaged for her.
self a companion as a kind of solace for
her husbands absence.
This companion, Miss Lucy Firman
bv name, had decamped with Dollie's
diamond bracelet and host of other
trif1es. At least, SO my cousin declared,
and had no reason to doubt her word; !;
for, after great deal of trouble, l
elected the following facts: That
Dollie had never even taken the trouble
to verify her companions references;
that she had thrown herself headlong
into gushing friendship with her new
acquaintance; and that Miss Firman
had greatly admired Mrs. Leslie's jew
els-which, it is needless to say, had
never been properly locked up.
After administering severe lecture
60 the youthful matron on the sin OF
leaving yaluab bles about and thus ex-
posing otherwise virtuous people to
temptation-I could speak feelingly on
this subject next questioned the
servants.
From them l CLEANED a good bit OF
Information. None OF Lnem cOulu
abide her" "She wasn't a real lady
"For her part, she never could see what
her mistress took such fancy to her
for, poking, prying thing"-this last
from Dollie's own maid. Ireturned to
my cousin in the drawing room and
found that young lady PROSTATE with
grief, partly at my lecture and partly
at the thought of losing the
"b-b-r-a-c-e-let, F-f-f-r-a-n-k's Last
p-p-p-res-e-e-nt."
"Dollie!" said severely, "you must
rouse yourself, come now, give me an
accurate description Of Miss Firman,
and if you have such thing as photo
graph of her let me have tit will be
Invaluable to us in tracking her down"
Dollie, thus alluded, sat up, dried her
ewes, remembered suddenly that Lucy
had presented her with photograph
of herself, and, after some delay, pro-
duced the aforesaid likeness. Armed
with this important aid to detection,
St. Tammany farmer., 1903-04-04

Many women and doctors do
not recognize the real symptoms
Of arrangement Of the female
organs until too late.
"I had terrible pains along my
spinal cord for two years and suffered
dreadfully. I was given different
medicines. wore plasters; none Of
these things helped me. Reading Of
the cures that Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has brought
about. / somehow felt that it was
what I, needed and bought q bottle to
take. How glad / am that I did 90;
two bottles brought me immense re-
lief. and after using three bottles more
felt new life and blood surging
through nv veins. It seemed %
though there had been regular house
cleaning through my system, that all
the sickness and poison had been taken
out and new life given me instead. I
have advised dozens Of my friends to use
1,viia -. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Good health is indis-
pensable to complete happiness, and
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has secured this to me.
-MRs. LAURA L. BREMER, Crown
Point, Indiana, Secretary Ladies Relief
Corps. 5000 forfeit Z o,igi.ai q above 'etts,
proving genuineaess cannot oe p'o0uceo'
Every sick woman who does not
understand her ailment should
write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass. Her advice is free and
always helpful.