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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-15

ALUMINIUM SAUCEPAN SET. four pans
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3, and sH quarts. The silly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-15
JOSEPH E. RALPH RETIREs.
Is No Longer Active Head of the
Engraving Bureau,

Joseph E. Ralph closed down his desk
in the bureau Of engraving and printing at
the close of business, Saturday afternoon
and ended his services there as director.
Assistant Director Frank Ell Ferguson
assumed the acting dictatorship, pending
the appointment of a successor to Mr..
Ralph.
Director Ralph does not sever his rela-
tions with the government officially for
another month He takes leave of alb
Sence from October 10 to November Is
After that he will take up his new work
with the United States lntaglio Security
Company, a new organization of which he
Is to be president.
designated, II Is probable. until the re-
turn to Washington of Secretary McAdoo.
Indications now are that Assistant d.
rector Ferguson Is TO be given the place
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
VALUABLE HANDBOOK
ON FORESTRY
New And Useful Publication Deals
With Wood Resources Of
MARYLAND

A useful and interesting volume
that gives all available data relative
to the forest resources of the State,
has just been published by the Mary
land State Board of Forestry. 1t is
entitled 1.-THE Forests of Maryland"
The author is F. w Besley, State
Forester, and shows in condensed
form and orderly manner our present
forest resources, their value to the
people of the State and how these re-
sources may best be conserved by
wise use, not only to supply present
needs, but to anticipate the needs of
the future
The methods used in making the
necessary forest survey with ma
terial secured and manner of its pres
entation have all been developed
along original lines to supply as far
as practicable information likely to
be of greatest value to the various
users of the forest The original for
est maps, a separate one of each
county, show the character and ex-
tent of forest areas with the approx
mate stand of timber in every county
of Maryland. For the statistician and
student of economy the book con-
tains much of value.
This handbook of Maryland's for
ests will be sent without charge to
owners of woodland and those in
Maryland really interested in the for
ests and forestry of the State upon
application to the Board of Forestry.
532 North Howard street, Baltimore
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Soap.

SOAP is excellent as a means of get
ting the face clean or correcting coarse
language in the young, but 1t has its
drawbacks. 1t cannot always be de.
pended upon. A cake of soap that has
been in the family long enough to
seem tame and harmless will some
times run amuck in the bathroom and
lead one to the brink of nervous break
down. Starting from given point a
cake of soap, If slightly provoked,
will dash about, leaping from place to
place in wild flight till the pursuer
swoons in exhaustion. The cake of
soap peeks out from safe place I'M
der the tub to smoker maliciously. II
you recover and have the spirit to re-
sumo the chase you will have a gay
time in bagging the soap, even though
you have 1t cornered. The soap is
clever. 1t will not make move till
you have seized 1t, and then 1T Will
slip few inches away. After several
of your grabs the soap will estimate
neatly with a quick eye just the
length of your arm and then 1t will set
tie down q few inches beyond your
reach. In this case your only move
is to get a long stick and have the
soap out with few sweeps. If you
are only human you will probably beat
Ii to death with any blunt instrument
at hand. And then go and get another
piece of soap.-Illinois State Register.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
The Birth OF A Nation.

d. w. Griffith's 1.-THE Birth of a
Nation" 10 decidedly the most remark
able historical spectacle ever present.
ed in America 1t will be seen at the
Colonial, matinee and night, Monday,
September IL.
The foothills of South Carolina and
the wild rides of the Klu Klux Khan
live again in Mr.. Griffith's IL, 900 feet
of superb motion picture, which took
eight months to produce, cost $500, 600,
employed $4,000 people and 5000
horses. The great spectacle is an cpl
tome of scenes, incidents, characters,
passions and emotions of the whole
period from 1861 to lS70-the period
occupied by the Civil War and Recon-
struction. Suggested by Thomas
Dixon's 1.-THE Clansman.' and 1.-The
Leopard's Spots, it has a grandly
epiquslity of its own which stamps
it as masterpiece of genius.
The enormous popularity achieved
by it in New York. Boston, Chicago,
San Francisco and Los Angeles has
been repeated in in all the towns Of
the route, and the prospects are that
it will crowd the local theater at both
performances.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
SOME GOOD ADVICE


Kidney disease is too dangerous I
neglect. At the first sign of back
ache, headache. dizziness or urinary
disorders, you should give the weak
ened kidneys prompt attention. Eat
little meat. take things easier and use
a reliable kidney tonic. There no
other medicine so well recommended
as Doan's Kidney Pills. Annapolis
people rely on them. Here's one of
the many statements from Annapolis
people.
Mrs. v. Hodson, 29 Holland ST., An
napolis, says: 1.-TWO years ago had
terrible pains in the small of my back
and the attacks were so severe that
was confined to bed for q month.
hardly able to move. The bottom of
my feet were badly swollen and my
sight was 50 blurred / could hardly
read. The kidney secretions gave me
no end of annoyance too and / was
more tired in the morning than when
! went to sleep. Reading of Doan's
Kidney Pills got box at Green's
Drug Store. This medicine brought
quick relief and two boxes cured me. 4"
Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Hodson had. Foster Milburn
Co.. Props, Bufflao. N. Y.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
MOVING PICTURE ATTRACTIONS.
At The CslsnIal Theatre Tsnight.

Douglas Fairbanks in his latest
comedy Down to Earth. Bill and
Ethel have been playmates since child.
hood. Bill 10 q regular fellow and
after leaving college starts right out
to make living for himself. Ethel
has temper and unfortunately thinks
she is in love with an afternoon tea
hero. She begins q round Of bridge
parties and cigarette smoking, high
ball drinking affairs, so that before
long she goes to q so called san.tar-
ium. Bill in the meantime has been
knocking around trying to forget and
eventually ends up on his Wyoming
ranch. While there he reads Of
Ethel's breakdown and hurries East to
see her. He finds doctor in charge
of the sanitarium that allows his pa
tients to do as they like, and Ethel
not improving, he buys the place and
puts all the guests on his yacht. He
tells them wild tale about being lost
at sea and finally lands them on what
he calls desert island. Here he puts
them through course of sprouts that
finally makes of them regular people
again. Ethel naturally sees the light
and agrees that Bill is the man she
wants after all
Douglas Fairbanks has another big
hit to his credit in Down to Earth"
With bangup, highly amusing and
original story this feature has been
given an excellent production. The
star has one of those parts that he is
especially fitted for. de says things
and does things that no one but a red
blooded American young man would
dare to do or say. There is always &C.
tion when he is on the screen, from
the moment he is discovered making
the winning touchdown at the college
football game until he floats out to sea
with the heroine. The photography is
fiawless. the direction excellent, in
fact "Down to Earth" q story writ.
ten by Douglas Fairbanks himself is
undoubtedly isvery best production
in every way and one that can be
greatly enjoyed. Burton Holmes
Travelogue also. This is great show
this evening, don't miss It,
Tomorrow, Alice Brady, in "A Self
Made Widow.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
WORK OR JAIL? WHEN
TO CHOOSE WHICH
Chairman Malone Not To Be Lenient
With The Idlers-Police To
Make Arrests.

If il can be done Chairman George
A Malone. of the Compulsory Work
Board. is determined to compel all
men in Maryland between the ages
of is and so. who are without work
and are unable to do manual labor,
to earn their bread Where there is
obstinate refusal. Mr. Malone will
use the authority vested in the board.
and Jail the obstinate During the
two weeks, since the compulsory
work law has been in force. some $50
men have registered with Stephen c.
Little, Clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore. City. or these. quite a
number have made good and are now
employed, as far as the board knows,
for not every one out Of work is
placed in that position through his
own fault, and some of the men who
registered gratefully availed them
selves of this opportunity to procure
remunerative positions.
At the same time, however, there
are the professional slackers to whom
any physical exertion is a terrible
hardship and who probably would
work only then if they were on the
verge of actual starvation. Much of
this gentry has fed the State. antici-
pating the annual migration to the
South on account of its warm climate
during the winter months. Those who
remain are slowly but surely being
gathered in, the police having been
instructed to lend its assistance in the
matter and to arrest anyone of whom
they are suspicious that does not fol-
low regular employment
With the wilful refuser TO do an
honest days work, whose support is
thereby put up to the charitably in
clined or who get their daily bread
by questionable means, the board
will have no mercy. 1t will send them
to Jail And in the Jail they will work
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
TO TRAIN VOLUNTEER WORKERS
For The Red Cross First Step Was
Taken Today

As the first step in a plan to train
volunteer Red Cross workers for
home service during the war, the De-
partment of Civilian Relief of the
American Red Cross is holding con-
ference of !. Home Service Directors
here today
While the government will assume
the care of dependent families of sol
diers, there will be needs for other
than material aid which the Red
Cross plans to provide 1t will be
able to place at the disposal of fami-
lies medical and legal aid. together
with advice and suggestion on those
affairs which ordinarily are settled by
the husband In his absence the Red
Cross will act as an elder brother TO
his family This is called home
service
Following the Washington confer
ence. institutes to train volunteers in
home service will be established
throughout the country. Courses of
instruction will last six weeks and in
clude lectures and practical field
work. Membership in institutes will
be limited to twenty-five in order to
assure adequate personal attention
to each pupil.
The Institutes will be in charge of
special directors appointed by the Red
Cross and will be run in connection
with colleges or schools in the vari-
Gus cities. In charge of these insti-
tutes. w Frank Persons. director gem
eral of Civilian Relief, has appointed
DR.. Thomas ]. Riley. general secre-
tary of the Brooklyn Bureau of Chart
ties, and Porter r. Lee, of the New
York School of Philanthropy
Courses of instruction for home
service workers will be held in prac-
tically every large city in the coun-
try Extension courses will be given
for smaller cities and towns.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is local disease, greatly In
fuenced by constitutional conditions.
and in order to cure it you must take
an internal remedy. Halls Catarrh
Medicine is taken internally and acts
thru the blood or the mucous surfaces
of the system. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for
wears. 1t is composed of some OF the
best tonics known, combined with
some of the best blood purifiers. The
perfect combination of the ingredients
in Halls Catarrh Medicine is what
produces such wonderful results In
catarrhal conditions. Send for tes-
timonials, free
F. j. CHENEY, & CO., Props. Toledo.
o. All Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Alice Brady in Delightful Story
AT Colonial Tomorrow

Brilliant Alice Brady in story full
to the brim with surprises called "a
Self-Made Widow" will be the delight
full attraction at the Colonial Theatre
tomorrow evening.
Uniquel UnususlIl Differnt!li
Fascinating is "a Self-Made
Widow" The story tells of a girl
who goes to New York to marry a
millionaire and who masquerades as
the widow of a man who is supposed
to have committed suicide. Alice
Brady is superb in this production.
The story is fascinating, surprises aud
thrills come thick and fast. The cli-
max is delightful.
Alice Brady as the self-made widow
in this original and uttery different
sort of story "A Self-Made Widow"
is charmingly attractive. This is a
splendid entertainment that can be
thoroughly enjoyed by any one.
Pathe News also.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Al the Republic Tomorrow.

Director Lambert Hillyer began
work this week on Olive Thomas sec.
ond starring vehicle under the Tri-
angle-Ince banner. Hillyer is the au-
thor of the story as well as the direc-
tor. Charles Gum has been selected
as the leading male character. Miss
Thomas will be presented in a part
we'll suited to her real self, as she will
portray a girl who goes to the big
city and becomes the idol OF Broad
way, winning her girlhood sweetheart
after many adventures.
The latest recruit to the large staff
of animal actors at Inceville is very
young and unsophisticated calf, which
makes its screen debut in the latest
Triangle comedy drama, "Madcap
Madge." by R. Cecil Smith. in which
Thomas Il. Ince presents Olive Thomas
as star AS the beast was so honest
looking, it was christened George by
the members of the company, who
thought it would never be capable Of
telling an untruth.
A little nervous at first, the calf
hesitated modestly when called upon
to make its first entrance into dor
mitory crowde with pretty girls clad
in silken pajamas There was q mo-
ment of stage fright, and no one was
able to solve the mystery until Miss
Thomas rechristened the calf Teddy.
Immediately the animal began to show
real signs of life and dashed into the
ring of beauties. See this picture at
the Republic tomorrow.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Liobt a Fire Without Matches.

How to light fire without matches
is an important part of the training
given to United States Marines at
Port Royal, S. G. The primitive flint
and steel, used long ago by our fore
fathers, and the old wooden fric-
ton" method borrowed from the In
dians have been revived. so that the
sea soldiers may dispense with
matches when dampness renders them
useless.
United States Marines in the tropics
can start fire almost instantly by
using hollow piece of bamboo. This
is done by Sitting the bamboo. stuff
ing il with dry moss. and drawing a
stick to and fro across 1t as a violInist
uses his bow. These resourceful
worldwide soldiers are expected to
find a substitute for the useful bam-
boo In France.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
slberIa,s Resources UnrivaIed.

Siberia IS believed TO be destined
one day. to become the richest country
in the world, for it has a natural
wealth so diversified and as yet almost
untouched, that it has no rival in
the old world. Before the war ST.
IBERIA was producing from 100000 to
100000 tons OF -four a year. As a
grazing country it has no limits, and
1t exports large quantities of leather,
tallow and butter. It's forests are al
most inexhaustible, and 1t supplies
furs to all the world. Its mineral
wealth can only be guessed at. for
the greater part of the country has
never been prospected. But there are
several enormous deposits of oil.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Twas PRISONER IN A CROCK
Boys Plight Analogous to That Of
Many Whose Heads Are Stuck
Fast in Worries.

An earthenware crock which a boy.
playing policeman, had put ON his
head as a helmet, slipped down and
stuck fast. The boy made a rec
ord resignation from the police force.
and his muffied bowls attracted
prompt attention.
| His alarmed mother tugged at the
crock until the boys face was sorely
bruised; then excited neighbors took
turns until his neck was pain
fully twisted.
Meanwhile the bowling boy was suf-
fering terrifying visions of lifelong inn
prisonment, as secure as in dungeon.
and of his head from year to year
growing larger and tighter in the
crock. The poor boys trouble shut
him in from all the rest of the world
with an ingrowing Imagination. But
that is only what anyone's trouble of
any sort is apt-to do for one, OBJ
serves the Christian Herald.
The mother, the father, who had
been sent for, and a half hundred
neighbors, who had invited themselves
under the delusion that curiosity is
sympathy, finally settled down 10 sol
emn conclave and decided that, since
the crock had slipped on it must be
possible for it to be slipped off again,
but that only a slxillful surgeon could
perform the delicate operation.
A delegation was on It's way with
the boy TO a surgeons Office, when a
resourceful motorman, seeing the stu
alton, smashed the crock with his con-
troller handle.
Thus, by the simplest of processes,
the boys trouble was suddenly ended.
And it is by equally simple and d.
rect processes that most of the trou-
bles of most of us may be ended.
With our heads stuck fast in worA
ries, we rack our brains over thou
sand roundabout ways of slipping
them off-and the harder we tug at
them the more they hurt-but we
overlook the simple expedient of
smashing the crock.
Like the lad, we see terrifying vi
sions of the future; we suffer our
feelings to be cruelty lacerated and
our bodies to be twisted and torn in
mental anguish and despair; we run
here and there for sympathy and adj
vice and help; and it does not occur
to us how easy 1t is just TO break the
crock.
Most of the crooks that seem to slip
down over our heads are merely imag-
mary, anyway. They require no street
car controller handles to smash them.
All they call for is mental con-
.troller handle.
Did it ever occur TO you that most
of our troubles come, as this lads
did, through trying to appear what
we aren't?
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
SNAP SHOTS.

"A woman who loves money doesn't
necessarily love the man because he
has it.
"A wise man never attempts to
guess the use Of fancy work made by a
woman.
"A bachelor often lives to marry
the daughter of the woman who turn.
ed him down.
About the time man gets a pair
of patent-leather shoes broken IN the
patent expires.
Even first.lclass newspaper is
sure to occupy second place when it
comes to entering postoffice.
Its always safe but unsportsman-
like to reserve your congratulations
until the happy pair have been married
a year.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
At The Republic Tonight.

A bewitching young newspaper
woman who becomes disguised with
men in general by observing their ac-
tions at notorious divorce trial is the
part played by Bessie Barriscale in
the new Triangle play, "Hater of
Men," by C. Gardner Sullivan, pro-
duced under the supervision of Thomas
H. Ince, which will be shown at the
Republic Theater tonight.
One of the most novel of the preten-
tious settings used for this play is the
interior of an oriental resort, lux
uriously furnished with carved teak
wood, rich silken draperies. embroid-
cred screens, quaint incense burners
and rare pottery of the Orient. Geisha
girls play the curious instruments of
their native land, while Others of the
company perform the dainty butterfly
and fan dances of old Japan.
In such bohemian resorts as this,
frequented by women tired of their hus
bands and men tired of their wives,
the young newspaper woman seeks her
enjoyment after breaking with her
fiance. But she eventually realizes her
mistake and il miserable because she
feelms it impossible to reawaken the
admiration of the man she loves.
Nevertheless she prepares regular
old fashioned dinner and invites a
friend to dine with her. During the
course of the dinner the pretty man
hater is given the joy of her life and
forgets all about her antipathy for the
other sex.
Miss Barriscale is supported by two
of the bsst known leading men Of the
lnce forces. Jack Gilbert and Charles
K. French.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
At The Palace Tonight.

Irene Hunt. in "a Soldier of the
Legion will be the excellent picture
to be shown at the Palace tonight.
A story within story is the Gold
Seal three-reeler, "A Soldier of the
Legion, which was produced by Ruth
Ann Baldwin, from a story by Maud
Springer Nelson and E. j. Clawson.
Every parsonage in the tale appear in
two different roles, at fret as the in.
habitants of cheap clearinghouse,
and later as the dramatis personae of
an Algerian drama. The pi:ture is
filed with wonderful lignt effects, Law
ish sets and well-chosen exteriors. and
Miss Baldwin hits the highwater mark
with it as a production which is I'M
usual from all standpoints.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Change Of Weather

For some time the Weather Bureau
has been sending this Office the daily
weather report at between 9 and 10 3.
m. recently the Weather Bureau has
been turning out its weather report at
ID. m. Somewhat of change in
weather, but, then, all things must
change.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Last Weeks Weather Report

MIR. Joseph Billy, Jr.. Observer tenn
porarily in charge, in his weekly
weather report received this morning
saws. officially there were two clear
DAYS last week. Aug. q and IS; one
partly cloudy day, Aug. 20, and four
cloudy days, Aug. 80. 81, Sept. and
2.
The highest temp erature for the
week was 81 degrees on Aug. % and
%. the lowest So degrees on Aug. ~.
Rain fell Aug. 90, 30,Sept. l and 2.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Remodeling Old Homestead

Mr.. Charles Johnson, local mana.
ger tor the b. & o. railroad company.
who purchased the old Johnson home
stead, on Northwest street. is having
it remodeled. although the remodeling
will not destroy the colonial lines Of
the old house.
One of the improvements win be a
bay window and a large porch along
the front of the old house.
When completed Mr.. Johnson will oc-
cupy the homestead Of his ancestor,
the famous jurist, Reyerdy johnson.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Mystery Of the Year.

The most exciting serial story Of
the year. Ransom by Arthur Som
ers Roche, a master writer of mys
terry fiction-wiIl hold your attention
until the final chapter If you doubt
this, start reading it in The Wash
ington Sunday Star. September 9.
9-3-1w
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05

O.. tickets and information apply at
~, tT ticket Offices; West Street Station,
s House station; Sois as aVs Mssyl sDd
Bt9en r Kent Green, #. Boeasel, ONCE u.
Hoti FOR officers. midshipmen, ETC.,
> ao.c,ed with the Naval Academy.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-05
Remember

A delicious CONNECTION that is abb
solutely pure and clean, our candy
authorizations cheaper its excellent
quality, but every ingredient is Of the
highest grade and selected with the
greatest care. Rich In the nutritive
Of pure sugar, rich cream and fresh
fruit aayors, 1t is a wholesome food
a. we'll as pure, Ligh-grade candy.