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Evening star., 1917-11-04
TOWN HALL Wins
ELKR|DGE CHASE
Leochares Best of Twelve
Starters in Serial Handicap
+. at the PimIico Track.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. November 3.-With two
stake features on the program of the
first Saturday program at Pimlico, the
racing this afternoon offered one of
the best cards provided In Maryland
this fall. The stakes were the Elkridge
steeplechase, for three-year-olds, with
$4,000 added, and the serial handicap
No 1. at six furlongs, in which some
Of the best handicap horses in training
were entered.
The Elkridge steeplechase had a field
of eleven, including W. R. Goes Town
Hall. winner of the Harbor Hill at
Piping Rock last month. and the son
of Ballot and Dorval was the winner
of one of the most spectacular races
for three-year-old jumpers ever seen.
Gold Bond. Town Halls stable COM
panion was the better horse of the
two and would have won had not the
stable declared to win with Town Hall.
These two had the race between them
practically all the way. with Acabado
furnishing the contention. Town Hall
went to the front early and led his
field. with Acabado running in second
place. On the second turn of the field
at the fence. before the stand, Town
Hall made a bad landing and almost
went down. but he recovered quickly.
Meantime Gold Bond went into the
lead. while Acabado kept his position.
Going to the last fence, the Coe pair
had the race safe. and they drew out
in the run to the finish. Just before
the end Crawford, on Gold Bond. pulled
up his mount and let Town Hall win by
a head. while Gold Bond vas lengths
in front of Acabado. Melodrama, the
Davies jumper. that led to the last
fence ip the Harbor Hill. and then went
down. ran disappointing race and
fell at the twelfth jump. while Rural
bolted at the same hedge.
Mr.. Coe purchased Gold Bond last
night from VI. Smith for $500, and
the finish of todays stake showed it
was wise purchase.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
ENGLISH OPENING.

The following scores are from the
FIRST round of the Brooklyn Chess Club
Championship tournament. started last
week.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Tippity Witchet Wins Again.

rare quality when he took the PikesviIle
purse, a six-furlong race for two
year-olds. The Brighton Stables
youngster, who has won ten out Of his
last eleven starts, was meeting q
worthy opponent in Jack Hare. jr., but
the game little fellow went to Apple
gates colt furlong out and won in q
drive.
Emil Hers Manister Toi woke up in
the sixth race and beat the Brighton
Stables Ed Roche very handily, and in
the last Felucca caught Yodeling in the
last sixteenth and won q good race by
two lengths.
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Mental Attitude Important.

Aside from the system employed I
believe the most important element in
world series is the mental attitude Of
the contesting teams. Let one club,
for instance. get the jump on the 9TH
er. Let 1t take the first two games.
The odds are then mathematically two
to one in favor of that club. 1t needs
its opponents must needs take four.
But the odds are rather more than
two to one in favor of the team with
two games to its credit, for the con-
fldence of that team is greatly
strengthened, while the confidence of
its opponents is no less weakened by
those two victories. Nor is the dis
couragement of the losing club due to
lack of gameness, as is frequently as
serted. 1t is due to a correct estima-
ton Of the facts. During the season
the team would undergo no depression,
Evening star., 1917-11-04
Use the Old Army Game.

There is a system of playing base
ball which players call the old army
game In this game every move .s play
ed according to Hoyle- When the first
man gets on the bases by pass or an
error or hit. the next man promptly
sacrifices and SO on through the list OF
approved methods of trying to make
that man score Everybody on the
other club and most well informed
persons in the c-ov-d i"cr- s. -
will happen under given conditions. OF
course, they do not ki.:.H -, J
happen, but they do know what use
will be made of it when it does occur
and how the next man up Will try to
act under the circumstances.
Because both teams play the cautious
game, the old army game. If you will,
is, in my opinion. the main reason why
world series are usually onesided. Last
year, If you remember. the count was
to 1. The previous year showed the
same score. The season prior to. that
games and SO on down the list. Two
series in particular have been very well
contested, but most of them have been
onesided.
This onesided score. as I started to
say. is largely the result of the Army
game and the stronger will almost in
variably win out. 1t will win out large
ly In proportion to it's advantage in
strength. 1t will win nearly every
game. Take last season for example.
they proved that opinion correct.
We're the stronger club. If the series
had lasted ten games instead of five
doubt II Brooklyn would have had
much higher percentage than was the
case so long as the players remained
uninjured and both teams followed the
same system. The Red Sox were bound
to win by small but decisive margin.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
LLAMAS MUST BE HUNDRED
Will Not Endure Force or Threats
When Being Loaded They Are
Careesed by Drivers.

The South American llama will bear
neither beating nor ill-treatment. The
animals 60 in troops, an Indian walk
Ing a long distance ahead. If the
llamas are tired they stop, and the
indian stops also. If the delay be
too great the Indian, becoming un-
easy toward sunset, after all due pre-
caution, resolves on suppllcating the
beasts to resume their journey. He
stands about so or 60 PAGES off, in an
attitude Of humility, waving his hand
coaxingly toward them, looks at them
with tenderness, and at the same
time, in the softest tones, reiterates,
nc, ic, ic" If the llamas are disposed
to resume their course they follow the
Indian in good order and at a regular
pace, but step fast, for their legs are
long but, when they are in Ill humor,
they do not even turn toward the
speaker, but remain mOticnless, hud-
sled together, standing or lying down.
The straight neck and the gentle ma
jesty of bearing, the long down Of their
always clean and glossy skin, their
supple and timid motion, all give them
an air at once sensitive and noble.
If it happens-s,hich is very seldom
The case-that an Indian wishes to OBJ
tain, either by force or even by threats,
what the llama will not willingly per-
form, the instant the animal finds it.
self affronted by words or gesture 1t
raises it's head with dignity and, with
out making any attempt to escape i'll
treatment by flight, lies down.
The respect shown these animals by
Peruvian Indians amounts almost to
superstitious reverence. When the
indians load them two approach and
caress the animal, hiding its head that
1t may not see the load on its back. 1t
Is the same In unloading.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
An Army Dentist.

A gunner of the Garrison Artillery,
who had successfully passed black
smiths course, was home on furlough,
wearing the hammer and pincers on
his arm, when he was accosted by a
civilian, who asked what the decora-
ton was for.
"Oh," replied Tommy, "Tm an army
dentist!"
81 see," said the civilian. "Of course,
the pincers are for extracting teeth.
But what is the idea Of the hammer?''
"Well, you see, it's like this. Some
Of the chaps are bit nervous, so we
use the hammer to chloroform them
WITH" was the reply.-London Tit
Bits.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP-ROO1

Thousands upon thousands Of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and
never suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble. or the
result Of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer a great deal with pain
in the back, headache, loss of ambition,
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, a PHYSICIANS pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, re-
stores health to the kidneys and is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con-
ditions.
Get medium or large bottle immedi.
ately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure
and mention this paper. Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Live Stock

KANSAS CITY, MO.-Hogs-Bul
$16@1725; heavy, s1675@17.40; pack
ers and butchers, s1650@1775; light,
$15.50@16.50; pigs, $14.75@15.25.
Cattle-Prime fed steers, $15.50@
1915; dressed beef steers, $11@15;
Western steers, s8@1250; Southern
steers, s6.75@11; COWS, s5.5O@9.25;
heifers, s6.50@12; stockers and feed.
.ers, s625@12; bulls, s6@7.50; calves,
s6.50@13.50.
Sheep - Lambs, $17@1765; year.
lings, s12@13.50; wethers, s11@12.50;
ewes, s1O@11.50; stockers and feed
ers, s8@17.75.
CHICAGO. = Hogs = Bulk, $16@17;
light, $15.50@17.10; mixed, $15.S0@
17.40; heavy, $15.75@17.40; rough,
$1575@15.95; pigs, s11@15.
Cattle-Native steers, $6.75@1I50;
Western steers, s5.9O@13.65; stockers
and feeders, $e@1140; cows and
heifers, s4.S5@11.s0; calves. s9@16.
Sheep = Wethers, $9.10013; ewes.
$S.50@11.75; lambs, $13@1S.25.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Activity of Russian Women.

AS Russia was the first country
where women were given control over
their inherited property, and as PetrO-
grad has had for some years the larg'
est medical college for women In Eu-
rope, it is not strange that women
have taken such an active part in the
military campaigns. In all the revolu-
tionary movements the women stu
dents have been more dangerous per-
haps, to the government, than the
men. 1t is believed that the majority
of the women amazons are revolution
lists and that their military experience
was sought for the opportunity it gave
them to spread their doctrine.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
What's Going On in
Maryland
THE STATES LARGE PLANS.

Uncle Sam and Commissioner
Hoover will have a local ally in the
campaign for conservation of food,
which, if present plans mature, will
give to the people Of the United States
seafood in such quantities as hereto
fore only dreamed Of.
The State Conservation Commission
raised the flag Of Maryland over two
new plants, which have been secured
for the propagation of fish to be dis
tributed in the Bay and tributaries and
mountain streams Of the state. Will
liam H. Killian, secretary of the COM
mission, closed a deal for hoT>cboat
used for number of years on the Bay
and known as the FLOATING Theater." :"
The boat is rs feet long, with 20
foot beam, and is peculiarly adopted
for the work for which it is intended.
On this boat the Conservation Commis-
sion hopes to turn out shad, perch and
herring in endless quantities. In addi.
ton an attempt is to be made to propa.
gate rockfsh. Little or any effort has
heretofore ever been made to cultivate
this delicious member of the finny
tribe, and it is thought that the Chesa-
peake Bay and tributaries will receive
in the spring thousands Of these small
fish to be turned loose for propa cation.
The second plant is to be located
at the foot of the Catoctin Mountains,
near Littlestown, Frederick county,
and will be both a hatchery and pond
plant. There are already some Is
ponds covering from half to one acre
Of water area.
At this plant it is proposed to pro.
duce trout, bass, catfish, crappie, blue.
gills and Dream. These three latter
species are practically unknown to the
commercial fish markets in this state,
but are excellent food fish. They are
to be distributed into fresh-water
streams, and as each Of these species
are fish that readily take the hook and
line, it will mean not only furnishing
many pounds of food to the country
generally, but will furnish devotees OF
the angling sport an unusual opportun-
ity to ply their art.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

K. T. Weber, Cumberland, was killed
probably fatally injured when a motor
cycle they were riding crashed into
an automobile belonging to B. W.
Pickett, Woodbine, on the State road
at Benevola. Zimmerman was driving
the motorcycle and Weber was on the
rear seat. Zimmerman was carried
with the machine into the car and
wedged fast. Weber was hurled over
the machine to the side of the road
He was dead when picked up.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Governor Harrington demonstrated
his ability as marksman with a ma
chine gun at test of the Berthier
rapid-fring rifles Of the Motor Arms
Battery at Saunders Range. The test
was made by the battery for the Mary
land Council of Defense, Governor Har.
rington, Adjutant General Warfield and
a number of state officials.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Food Will Win the War-Don't
Waste" This slogan has been placed
on a sign board to be erected on the
courthouse green in Salisbury. The
board is 16 feet high by 6 feet wide,
beautifully designed and painted in
color, below the slogan the national
food seal and at the top lighted by IL
electric lights.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
FOR SKIN TROUBLES
That Itch, Burn, Torture and DIsfg'
ure Use cuticura-TriaI Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. They
usually afford immediate relief in itch.
ing, burning eczemas, pimples, dandruI
and most baby skin troubles. They
also tend to prevent little skin trou-
bles becoming great If used daily.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Melancholy Thouohts.

"The falling leaves fill me with mel
ancholy thoughts" said the Poetic per-
son. "They used to have that effect
on me-" said the unpoetic person.
"What changed your" II moved into
an apartment and don't have to rake
them any more"
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Kindness.

Private Simkins had returned from
the front to find that his girl had been
walking out with another young man,
and naturally asked her to explain her
frequent promenades in the town with
the gentleman.
"Well, DEAR" she replied. 1T was
only kindness on his part. He took
me down every day to the library to
see If you was killed."
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

During a quarrel over the spoils Of
a crap game aboard the supply train
on the Baltimore and Ohio, Monroe
Tibbs, colored, II years old, drew a
knife from his pocket and stabbed
Elijah Burley, %, colored. The knife
pierced Burley's heart, and he died
in a few seconds. Tibbs was arrested
and lodged in Elkton Jail. The affair
took place near Barksdale Station.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
HOw's This =?

We offer $10O.OO for any case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Is TAX
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
Sold by druggists for over forty years.
Price 75c. Testimonials free.
r. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

News was received in Easton that
Sergeant George H. Davis, son of Carl
ton c. Davis, died in France, October
s, of gunshot wounds. The telegram
from the War Department to the elder
Davis simply stated that Sergeant
Davis had died of gunshot wounds AMI
that letter giving details would fol.
low.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Only Ones Who Haven't.

Willis-YOu're more of q historical
scholar than thought you were. How
did you know that Assyria Media and
Carthage are dead nations?
Gillis-Well, 1 hadn't seen anything
in the papers about their declaring war
on Germany.-Judge.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

The Washington County Temper
ance League has sent to the Demo
cratic and Republican Legislative can
didates questions concerning their at
titude on the enactment Of laws for
the enforcement of prohibition, which
goes into effect May1.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Governor Harrington has appointed
Mrs. J. Kemp Stevens, Of Denton,
chairman of the Women's Council of
Defense for Caroline county, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Mrs. Thomas W. Jones, of Ridgely,
who resigned on account of her'health.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Wooden Redsteads.

Furniture manufacturing has been
greatly stimulated in South Africa In
recent months. Because the steel tube
factories Of England have been en-
gagged in making munitions the South
African furniture market shows many
wooden bedsteads.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as "a Gen.
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. II acts on the Liver. Drives out
Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System 80 cents.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Save superannuated Oysters.

Polluted oysters may be purified, it
is claimed, by keeping a short time in
water containing little calcium hypo-
chlorite. The oysters are not only
made perfectly safe and suitable food,
but the flavor is not affected.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

The phrase "a cock-and-bull story
is a corruption of the words, "a con.
cocted and bully story" the latter term
being derived from the Danish word
bullen, Exaggerated"
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

The police of Cumberland have petit
toned for an increase of salary, from
SIS to $85 per month, but it does not
look as though the council will be able
to grant it before making the next an
nuaI levy, about six months from now.
The amount appropriated for police
purposes will just about run the de-
partment at the present salaries until
time for the next levy. Mayor Koon
and three commissioners have spoken
In favor Of the increase and are trying
to work out some method to grant
the increase
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

The air pressure developed by the
opening and closing Of ordinary doors
has been utilized by French inventor.
for the automatic winding Of clocks.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Struck by an automobile driven by
Foster Yost, of fGrantsville, Mrs. Berke.
ley Rohrer, 70 years old. near Clear.
spring, was seriously injured.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Seven employees gathered 100 bushels
of potatoes on the patch of two acres
of Owen Hitchins, near Frostburg.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Forty residents of Bush River Neck
appealed to Secretary of War Bakez
to abandon the Hartford site fer prov.
ing grounds.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

If her heart is In the right place 1t
matters not whether woman Is
younger or older than she looks.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

J. Calvin Boulden, brother Of Mrs.
James E. Dean and Mrs. VIM. T..
Boulden, of Elkton, was killed by cars
at Butler, Pa.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

1t is surprising how many things a
man can find to criticize and how few
he will commend.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Sore Eyes, Blood Shot Eyes, Watery Eyes
" applications Of Roman Eye Balsam Adv
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Some men are known by the friends
they fail to make.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Diplomacy Necessary

A man doesn't care how little a
woman thinks he knows if she doesn't
try to convince him that she's right.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

John L. Zimmerman, Of Cumberland,
died in the Washington County Hos
pital from injuries received when a
motorcycle on which he and John T..
Weber, also Of Cumberland, were rid
ing ran into an automobile driven by
B. W. Pickett, Woodbine, Md, along
the state road near Benevola. Weber
was almost instantly killed and Zim-
norman was picked up in an uncon-
scious condition and rushed to the hos
pital here, where it was found he had
both legs broken and was internally
injured.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Joy for the Janitors.

Joy TOR the Janitors.
NOnslipping tOngs to handle cuspi.
doris by inserting the points in their
openings have been patented by Kan
san.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

The Caroline County Chapter of the
American Red Cross Society, which
obligated to equip As beds in one of
the base hospitals in France, has COM
pleted the work, and the equipment
was forwarded from the county to be
sent to France, the equipment for each
patient being: Six sheets, 4 draw
sheets, pillow cases, 3 suits of pa
jamas, hospital bed shirts, / con-
valescent gown, pairs Of socks, 2
pairs of bed socks, 2 bath towels, A
face towels, 3 wash cloths, 1 pair OF
slippers, 1 hot-water bag cover, ice
bag cover and 6 handkerchiefs.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
MARYLAND NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS

One of the barns on the r. W. Wal
dron estate, at Middleburg, was de-
stroyed by fire of incendiary origin.
In the building were farm horses, ma
chinery,. hay, etc. The horses were
saved, but the other contents were de-
stroyed. The fire destroyed the hay
barracks also, and some small out
buildings. Shortly before the fire
broke out a man was seen running
from the barn. An investigation dis
closed the fact that the building was
set on fire in three places.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

County Treasurer Shanahan has
Just received check from the Hartford
County Breeders Association for the
sum of $4,868.57 as Hartford county's
share of the receipts Of the recent
race meet at Havre de Grace The
spring race meet netted the county
$2,066.12, making grand total of
$6,934.69 the county has received as
It's share of both meets. The amount
will be equally divided among the
five county districts for public road
improvements.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

In response to a telegram from the
State Bar Association members of the
Dorchester Bar met at the Court House
to organize for the purpose of pushing
the second Liberty Loan Judge John
R. Pattison presided and V. Calvin
Trice was secretary. Great interest
was manifested and a resolution was
adopted offering the services of the
members of the bar individually and
collectively to the Loan Committee.
The members of the Bar as individuals
subscribed to about $4,000 worth of
bonds.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27
Heard Of an Office.

II see Price has Joined the army"
Good! II he doesn't advance rap
idly, he'll be different from all the
other prices"
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Will UC CQudily ulFluCu diuoA6 lHC
five county districts for public road
improvements.
The feeding of these small fish is
something of which the public general
ly have no conception. For instance,
gills and Dream fish will be given a
diet of sound beef liver, until they are
large enough to be distributed. Bass
or catfish are to receive cut trout dur
ing their infantile period. Supervision
of this work will be done by w. G.
Bell, assigned to the State Conserva-
ton Commission by the United States
Bureau of Fisheries.
At the conclusion of a trial lasting
eight days, jury in Circuit Court at
Harrisonburg returned a verdict of Sec
ond degree murder in the case of
Robert Monger, who killed J. Milton
Hensley, near Elkton, on August 10,
and fixed his punishment at eight
years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Berkeley Rohrer, Of Clear
Springs, who was struck by an auto
mobile driven by Peter Yost, Grants
Vile, on the state road, near her home,
died after having lived two days with
fractured skull. Mrs. Rohrer did not
regain consciousness after the acct
dent She was IS years of age.
Frederick county will subscribe ST.
100000 to the second National Liberty
Loan, which is about 100000 in ex-
cess of the minimum amount desig-
mated as this county's quota. This " as
decided at meeting of the Frederick
County Liberty Loan Committee.
Hartford county women are making a
canvass of the county to learn how
strictly the food conservation plans
are being carried out.
Arthur Me- aw, colored, who was re-
Gently convicted Of manslaughter, for
the killing o. William Hughes, white,
of Havre de Gee, was sentenced by
Judge Harlan to eight years in the
| penitentiary.
| A canning factory and ,lcndry
owned by ]. o. Scarborough, Fa,Iston.
was destroyed by fire and only through
hard work on the part OF Nr. Scar
borough and his neighbors War, it pos
sible to save his hrr 1a=S<a large
barn.
Middletown transcript., 1917-10-27

Arthur Me- aw, colored, who was re-
Gently convicted Of manslaughter, for
the killing o. William Hughes, white,
of Havre de Gee, was sentenced by
Judge Harlan to eight years in the
penitentiary.