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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
THE FEAST OF PURIM
A JEWISH FESTIVAL
To Be Celebrated This Year On Feb
Tuary 26

The Jewish feast of Purim, one of
the minor festivals in the religious
calendar, will be celebrated this year
on the Goth of February Purim, ac-
cording to the scriptural book of Es-
Their, wherein the tale is narrated,
means lots" lots having been cast
before Hannah, viZier of Persia, for the
purpose of determining the day most
suspicious for the contamination of
his plan of eXterminating all the Jews
dwelling in the land. But the day
was fatal only to Humans plan and to
Hannah himself, for through a chain
of remarkable happenings the Jews
were delivered from their imminent
peril and the doom he had decreed for
them fell on their enemy himself.
From that year to the present time,
Jews all over the world have celebrat-
ed the anniversary of the day on
which the wondrous deliverance had
occurred.
Strange to say, Purim is hardly a
religious feast Religious features
added in comparatively recent times
only accentuate the essentially secu-
lar character of the day. Being in
the nature of a thanksgiving festival,
an expression of peoples gratitude
for their ancestors providential re-
demption from an awful death, il has
been from time immemorial a day of
"feasting and gladness, and of sending
portions to one another and gifts to
the poor" In the medieval ghettos
it was celebrated with all manner of
merry-making, while in modern times
it has come to be one of the days to
which the children of the Jewish re-
ligious schools most eagerly look for
ward
A special synagogue service is held
on the even of Purim, at which the
principal feature is the reading of the
Book of Esther, from a parchment
scroll In addition, there are a few
special prayers and hymns of more
recent date which have been inspired
by the recollection of the woes and
hardships endured by the martyr race
from the days of Hannah down to
brighter times There have been
many Humans in all ages who have
COuSplT60 the uSSA ouaAAOu VI SAAC4 LII
ination of the Jews, but, like their
Persian prototype, their plots have
recoiled on their own heads. And so
the Jew looks forward to the day
when Humans shall rise no more, the
specter of religious and racial hatred
will be laid, and an era of tolerance
an love dawn for all the world
Special services will be held by the
local Hebrew congregation.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
At the Republic Tomorrow.

An Eastern girl. bride of the sheriff
of Wolfville. forms an attachment for
the new postmaster, polished, dap.
per Fastener, and in his distress at
not being able to hold the affection of
his wife, the brave sheriff deliberately
seeks death that she may be free to
wed the postmaster.
He passes the lie to gambler and
refuses to draw his gun, but friends
detecting his purpose prevent a kill
ing. Then single-handed he engages
an outlaw leader and falls over a cliff
to seeming certain death as the posse
he is leading is routed.
Filled with remorse and her latent
love for the brave officer fully awak-
ened when the remnants of the posse
returns with void of his death and
that he died to free her, the girl up
braids the men for fleeing and leads
them back into the fight. The out
laws this time are defeated and Dead
Shot Baker, her sheriff husband, is
found wounded in cabin at the foot
of the cliff holding off an attacking
party. She nurses him back to life
and happiness.
Dead Shot Baker," the Greater
Vitagrsph Blue Ribbon Feature, will
be the attraction at the Republic to.
morrow.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
GUM CHEWING AN OLD HABIT
Red indians Are Said Thus to Have
Quenched Their Thirst in Fiji
teenth Century.

Cum chewing in the United States
appears to be a general habit, as il
'70u!d take quite q few gum chewer5
TO use up what is manufactured More
taan 80 million sticks of gum is the
annual output of American factori p
All this stuff is made of chicio
which comes from a gum tree in tls=
tropics, the importation of chicle intG
the United States figuring up two mil
ion dollars a year, The chicle bust
reSs has become a big industry in the
republics to the south. The gum tree
is tapped very much the same as the
rubber tree.
Spanish explorers found the Indians
Of this hemisphere chewing gum tc
qranch their thirst away back in the
fifteenth century, and they reported
that it relieved exhaustion; but it was
1875 before gum chewing became
habit among the nations, so at least
the gum makers say, being guided in
their opinions by the statistical rec.
ords. Still, the oldest inhabitants say
they always had gum. Resin or some.
thing else must have been chewed be.
fore the modern gum factory brought
out substitute that was better liked
Since that time the demand for this
commodity has increased to such an
extent that importing firms have been
obliged to search the markets and ex.
plot the growing of the tree in order
to obtain a supply sufficient to meet
existing requirements.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
EASILY DECIDED
This Question Should Be Ans wered
Easily by Annapolis People.

Which is wiser-to have confidence
in the opinions OF your fellow citizens,
of people you know, or depend on state
ments made by utter strangers resid-
ing in PARKWAY places? Read the
following:
Mrs. j Herold. 1877 West St., An
napolis. says: WEAK kidneys troubled
me for years. Whenever l stopped,
l had bad pain through the small of
my back aud / noticed the trouble
mostly in the morning when | got up.
l often felt as if hadn't rested.
My sight began to fail and was
quite blurred at times and was
obliged to get glasses A friend told
me about Doan's Kidney Pills and
decided to give them a trial. The
results of their use were very salts
factory. still take Doan's Kidney
Pills whenever | need them and |
strongly recommend them to any
other kidney sufferer
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Herold uses. Foster. Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Prusslan War Centennial.

The year 1913 marks a notable pas
sage in the history of Prussia. A hun
dred years ago Prussia rose against
Napoleon, who was already weakened
by the retreat from Moscow, and, with
the help of Austrians, and also a very
large body of Russians, they mana ed
to drive the French army over the
frontier, after defeating it in the ire
mendous two days struggle at Leip-
zig.
Many are the centennial celebra-
tons that are arranged for this year,
and, as a conclusion, it is hoped that
the car will visit the battlefield Of
Leipzig at the end of the year in com
pany with the kaiser. The Russian CO.
operation at Leipzig, it should be ex-
planned, was particularly strong, and
at least $4,000 Russian troops were
killed in the fight.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Most up.to.pate School.

New York claims that the Washing
ton Irving school opened in that city
the other day is the most up-to-date
in the world. 1t is an S-story building
and has cost the city $25O,000. Among
its novelties are a theater seating T..
500, a sevenroom furnished apartro mt
for the Domestic science classes, a
model banking institution for business
students, a garment factory Of many
sewing rooms, a bookbinding plant, a
miniature Zoo" for the study Of en-
imal life, an imitation department
store for girls learning business meth.
DDS, and a roof conservatory filed villa
growing plants. There are also BIAS
ket pail courts, gymnasiums. shower
baths, and lunchrooms in which 700
pupils eat at one time.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
WHEN EVERY LITTLE COUNTS
Applies TO Parcel Post as Well as to
New York Flats, Says SEN
ator Bourne.

Senator Bourne. of parcel post
fame. said recently in Washington:
The parcel post. limited as 1t is
thus far, saved the American people
100000 in it's first fifteen days of
operation. That isn't much-not much
to what it will do later on-but every
little counts.
Every little counts. in parcel
postage as in New York fats" the
senator continued smiling. 81 know
a New York man who, on his return
from the roominess of Washington,
said fretfully to his servant:
Jameson, this fiat seems much
smaller than when / moved into it
last summer
Eyes, sir Jameson answered
Quite so, sir. But you must remem-
Der. sir, that you are wearing your
winter underclothing now. SIR"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
LAUGH AT DYSPEPSIA
thing, and Never Suffer the Pangs
of Indigestion.

We hear much of American dyspep-
STA, but there is one native race of
America that is certainly not troubled
in this respect. The Eskimo defes
all the laws of hygiene and thrives. He
eats until he is satisfied, but is said
never to be satisfied while shred of
his feast remains unconsumed. His
capacity is limited by the supply, and
by that only.
The Eskimo cannot make any mis-
take about the manner of cooking his
food, since, as a rule, he does not cook
it Nor, so far as the blubber or fat
of the arctic animal is concerned, is
the Eskimo concerned about his man
ner of eating it. Indeed, he may be
said not to eat it at all. He cuts it
into long strips an inch wide and an
inch thick, and then lowers the strips
down his throat as one might lower q
rope into we'll
Despite all this, the Eskimo does
not suffer from Indigestion. He can
make 9 good meal off the flesh and
skin of the walrus, provision so hard
and gritty that in cutting up the ami
NAL the knife must be continually
sharpened.
The teeth of little Eskimo child
viii, it is said by those in a position
to know, meet in bit of walrus skin
as the teeth of an American child
would meet in the flesh of an apple,
although the hide of the walrus is
hal In
ness, and bears considerable resem-
biance to the hide of an elephant
The Eskimo child will bite it and d.
Eost it and never know what dyspepsia
neans.-Harper's Weekly.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
MOVING PICTURE ATTRACTIONS.
At The Colonial Theatre Tonight.

Delightful Constance Talnadge is
sgain the source of real enjoyment in
her latest comedy, The Studio Girl, ="
at the Colonial this evening.
Frazer Ordway, q New York artista
engaged to the rich Signorina Adrian.
Petroni, goes to Cliff Haven, a New
England village fora weeks rest. In
this town dwells Celia Laird with her
maiden aunts Rachel and Harriet Far,
mum. Celia is engaged to Obediah
Oaw, an awkward lout of twenty
three, the village catch. He is very
much in love with her but she does
not return his affection; and she is
stified with the narrowness of her sx-
istence. On the cliffs Celia comes
upon Ordway sketching. They get
into an animated conversation, and she
is quite oblivious of the fact that ODE
diah is cooling his heels in the Farnum
parlor and that the aunts are embar-
raised by her absence. In a week
Celia's acquaintance with the artist
ripens into firm friendship and her
aunts, seeing the trend of affairs, adj
wise an early marriage with Obed
But when Ordway leaves for INew
York in his car, he discovers Celia
curled up in the tonneau and he puts
her on a train bound, as he believes.
for Cliff Haven. On reaching New
York he goes direct to his fiancee's
home, but on returning to his apart.
ment ne discovers Celia bedraggled
and asleep in his armchair. The viii
lage constables arrive to arrest him on
a charge of abduction--his fiancee also
pays him an inopportune visit.
To learn how the artist adroitly es-
capes from both dilemmas, don't fail
to see the picture.
Constance Talmadge and Earle Foxe
are truly huge delight in this highly
amusing comedy.
Tomorrow, matinee and evening,
Clara Kimball Young, IN 1.-The Mari
onettes -
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Plea for Present.pay Authors.

In his Books and Persons" Arnold
Bennett says: "In the innermost
Strand, where there are 40 tObaccOn-
lists, 80 restaurants, half a dozen thea
tiers, IL necktie shops, there are only
two establishments for the sale of
new books. We travel for days and
never see a single bookshop. Of
course there are Franilinish and self
improving young persons who buy
cheap editions of the classics, which
the world will not willingly let die,
but I am anxious TO meet the man who
will not willingly let die the author
who is not yet dead"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Chance for the Reforn1er.

The Chicago Evening Post opens up
a vital question in ethics by wondering
how soon the time will come when tho
POSTMASTER at a banquet will feel at
liberty to squelch the speaker who has
oTa.Iun his time limit. Here is a
chance for those earnest souls who
spend their leisure and other peoples
time by organizing societies for the
prevention of things. We believe we
echo the soulful sentiments of nearly
every experienced bon vivant in lay.
ing down the dictum that a proper
banquet should DC one-fourth oratorY
AID thrce-fourths -ustatory. When the
FTCuorJions are rcversed-as usually
lGp.~Es-there ia Joy in neither phase
Or ne things, and life becomes a howl
ipE wilderness and q dreary waste.
Every banquet speaker should be
placed on an automatic platform
which would either collapse and drop
him into a coal chute or gently wheel
him cut Of the dining room at the end
Of p minutes. A banquet ought to be
something more than an endurance
contest
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Clara Kimbali Young at
Colonial Tomorrow

Clara KimbaIl Young in a wonderful
perturbation of the great stage sue.
cess, The Marionettes, will be the
superb attraction at the Colonial Thea.
tire tomorrow, matinee and evening.
In THE Marionettes, Clara Kim.
ball Young, rises to great heights in
her delineation of the simple little
country girl who blossoms into a Par
isian butterfly end wins her husband
love. In this tense story, Miss Young
relieves her emotional portrayal with
delicious touches of light comedy.
The Marionettes" is a thrilling story
gorgeously produced and with superb
cast supporting the beautiful star
which includes Corliss Giles and Nigel
Barrie.
Cara Kimball Young is truly won
derful in the leading role of this fG-
nous play The Marionettes.
Pathe News ALSO
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
ookinu THROUGH Axle.

The periscope, so efficient in trench
and submarine warfare, now has pa
cific application, according to tire Pop
ular Science Monthly. 1t promises to
avert many accidents resulting from
defective locomotive axles. The axle
is bored longitudinally, the size of the
bore being ample to permit insertion of
the periscOpe, which is about 40 inches
long and ~ inches in diameter. At
one end is a magnlfying mirror upon
which a light is thrown from the
handle. Looking through the periscope,
inspectors obtain a clear view of ev-
cry part of the axle and are enabled
to detect the flaws in the steel.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Old Houses.

A house at Winkel acquired for
Public museum is said to be the old
est dwelling in Germany, having been
built for the archbishop OF Mayence
in $50. According to some authori-
ties the Fighting Cocks inn, St Al
bans, which claims - be the oldest in
habited house in England, beats even
this record, having been built as
boathouse to the monastery founded
a. St. Adams by King Offa about 795.
It has. however. not served as an inn
50 long as some other buildings, such
Is the Saracen's Head, Newark, the
Old Green Man, Erdington, the Seven
Stars, Witty Grove, Manchester, and
Tho Bell Finedon.--London Chronicle.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
The Much Discussed
40 #. Submarine

The much discussed l10-foot SUBJ
marine chaser brought forth the fol-
lowing comment at recent hearing
of the House Committee on Naval At
fairs. Rear Admiral E w. Eberle,
u. S. N, Superintendent of the U. ).
Naval Academy, was giving informs-
tion to the committee as to the in
struction in target practice and gun
drills given the midshipmen and
reserve officers on board the two sub
marine chasers stationed at the Acad-
envy. Mr.. Browning said ne did not
think those boats were good for much
else" Admiral Eberle's reply to
this was: Il hope we may have eight
or Ten of them in the spring"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
FREEDOM in SIGHT
Poland Now Has Opportunity to
Strike Off Her ShackIes.
War In Which the United States Is
Engaged Against the Hohenzollern
Plotters Offers Chance to Un-
fortunate Race.

Every Pole, and there are many thou
sands of Americans of Polish descent,
knows Prussia is the hereditary enemy
of Poland. Ever since the tenth cen
fury, when the Polish king, Boleslas,
known as the Brave, was forced to de-
fend his territories from the brigand
Borusi, or PrusSianS, lying 10 the
north, that sinister power plotted the
undoing of the Polish people. That
ruin has been completed. as far as ma
tional life is concerned. There is no
Poland today. Poland existed, at the
start of this world war, only as a
vague district IL eastern Europe,
ruled, or rather misruled, by Prussia,
Austria and the Russia of the ear.
1t was in the early part of the sew
cntCcnth century chat Prussia united
with the electorate of Brandenburg.
All Prussian alliances have been for
offensive purposes, and this early al
lance with the Hohenzollern family
marked the first determined effort by
Prussia to subjugate Poland, for ii was
under the Hohenzollern kings of Prus-
sia that SaXony, Bavaria, Austria and
the old Russia engaged in the long
series of wars and secret treaties and
alliances that eventually brought about
the erasement of Poland from the POI
litical map of Europe.
This murder of state took place
under Frederick the Great. the one
king of Prussia who, with the eXcep-
ton of the present Wilhelm H., did
more than any other Prussian king To
embroil Europe in war TO the advance
ment of his own countrys political
aims and the enlargement of its terri
tories. Wilhelm ii, direct lineal de
scendant of Frederick the Great, is to-
day no more kindly disposed toward
the Poles than was his crafty and I'M
scrupulOus ancestor, who arranged and
completed the final ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
Poland; and Wilhelm IL has no more
intention of giving the Poles their pO-
litical and economic freedom than had
Frederick the Great when he robbed
them of their priceless heritage.
The United States today is engaged
in war against this line of disturbers
of the peace of Europe, these Hohen-
zollern plotterS against the liberties
of free peoples. President Wilson
has pledged this nation to an auton-
omous Poland. The thousands of Poles
who sought freedom here, and found 1t,
after centuries of oppression, have
devoted their sons to the cause of de-
mocracy. They soon will have an OPP
portunity to perform an equally splen-
did service toward the cause of freeing
Poland from Prussian misrule. They
may help in this great cause by lend
ing their money to the United States
government.
Every Liberty bond and Thrift
stamp purchased by Americans of Pol
iSh descent means that the day of
reckoning for the HohenzolIern family
is FASTENED. President Wilson has said
Poland must be free. The Poles here
in America can help free the old
home land. Their dollars can fight
along with their sons who have gone
to the front to wage the war of free
dom.-From the Treasury Department
Bureau of Publicity.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
HOW'S THISG

We offer one hundred dollars re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not he cured by Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine
Halls Catarrh Medicine has been
taken by catarrh sufferers for the
past thirty-five years, and has become
own as the most reliable remedy
for Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Medicine
acts through the blood on the mucus
surfaces, expelling the. poison from
the blood and healing the diseased
portions.
After you have taken Halls Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you viii see
a great improvement in your general
health. Start taking Halls Catarrn
Medicine at once and get rid OF
catarrh. Send for testimonials, free
F. J. CHENEY& CO. Toledo. Ohio
Sold by all Druggist, 75c.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
TOnight's Lecture at St Johns

DR.. Ernest U. Wilkinson, who has
been heard here on a number of occas-
ions previously with great pleasure by
his auditors, will deliver lecture to-
night in Mcdowell Hall, St. Johns
College on conditions in Russia.
DIR. Wilkinson is delightful speak.
er and his lectures are always full of
interest and instruction. While there
will be no regular series o: Lenten
lectures at st. Johns this year as for
merly, DR.. Fell, the President of the
college has arranged for a few lee
lures bv the best lecturers. The pub
lie is invited TO this evenings lecture.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
AeropIane Tires.

Such is the demand for special tire3
for aeroplanes that, it is said, more
than one big concern has made the
providing of such tires a branch Of its
business and found a ready sale for
the output.
The special requirements Of aero
plane tires are strength coupled with
extreme lightness and Tesiliency.
They must be strong for the work
they have to do when the machine is
on the ground. and yet so light that
they shall add but little weight-Har.
per's Weekly.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Irish STAY at Home.

During the nine months ended Sep
TENDER. 1917, there were only 1850
emigrants from Ireland, a decrease of
1891 from the corresponding period in
1916. The eInigrants in 1917 went to
the following countries: England and
Wales, 7S8; Scotland, 705; United
States, SO; Canada, 40; South Africa
u; Australia, ~; New Zealand, 8, and
other countries, /. Emigration to the
United States, as compared with the
first nine months of 1916, shows a de-
crease of 1882
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
First arrest In Two Months

The past two months in police cir
Giles have been unusually quiet. There
have been practically no arrests dur
ing that period until the arrest yes
terday of Harrison Hall, colored
Hall was arrested by officer Low
man on the charge of drunk and dis
orderly conduct. He had a hearing
before Justice W. S. Welch and was
fined 1915, in default of which he was
committed to jail
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Presbyterian Supper

Ladies of the Presbyterian Church
will give supper on Wednesday even
ing in the lower rooms of the Church,
corner Conduit and Duke of Gloucester
streets.
A delicious supper will be served,
by the Ladies Aid Society, under
whose auspices the supper will be
given. Generous patronage is So
licited.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Will Preach Mid Week
Lenten Sermon

The mid-week Lenten sermon at ST.
Anne's on Wednesday evening will be
preached by the Rev. Philip Cook of
Baltimore.
The Rev. Cook is one of the two
Bsltimor9 clergy recently appointed to
the army IS Chaplain, who will after
Easter leave for France to serve with
the men in the trenches, and admins
ter to their spiritual needs.
He has been heard here on previous
occasions during Lent, at St. Anne's,
with great pleasure by the congrega-
tion.