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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
MRS. WHITELAU DIES
ON KING GEORGE ST

Mrs. Agnes P. Whitelau, passed
away last night at her late residence,
81 King George street.
She was native of Scotland, but
had resided here for some months, her
husband being an employee at the Ma
val. Academy.
Arrangements for the funeral, which
have not been fully completed. are in
charge of funeral director, B. L. Hop
ping. The remains viii be buried
here, the interment to be in Cedar
Bluff cemetery
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
SANTA CLAUS LETTER
WRITERS TAKE NOTICE

So many children are writing letters
to Santa Claus that the genial old
gentleman is getting the heaviest mail
this year that has ever come to the
post Office at ToyIand There are so
many Annapolis correspondents that
the Evening Capital is having diff
Guilty getting them printed so they may
be forwarded on to Santa's headquar-
ters.
The Annapolis correspondents are
asked to be patinet therefore. All
their letters will be printed before
Christmas comes so there is no danger
of any little boy or girl being missed.
But it may take some time to get them
all in type.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
GATES DEATH THIRD
SUICIDE WITHIN WEEK
r-.-,sn,o,.n Horseshoer Takes
Own Life Last Night BY
Shooting
erFFFRED ILL H E A L T II

r,,se sulcdal deaths within less
- week is the extraordinary rec
'Ds- '1 eor tbis county made by the death
~. NIGHT OF John l.. Gates, aged
,-.,,-,vo at his home at Germantown.
Mr. Gales was found by his mother
.h bpIet wound in the left tenn
"a following a short absence by her
- the home. The family physician
..,,,ed soon but life was extinct when
=. c.me II is believed the deed must
sars been committed Immediately fol-
,ovInr the departure of his mother
Co. visit with her daughter in the
neghborhood.
mstice w S. Welch, acting coroner,
.ss called and viewed the remains,
M, as the circumstances surrounding
me death so plainly indicated suicide,
ne decided to hold no inquest.
Mr. Gates had been In i'll health for
.ome time and suffered from stomach
,,opble He was unmarried and lived
Nth his parents. No cause other
,bap his i'll health can be ascribed for
Me act.
As an expert horseshoer Mr.. Gates
VAS we'll known to horsemen and own
ers OF horses all over the country. He
was thoroughly familiar with the ills
Of horses hoofs and was considered
fancy" horseshoer by race horse
owners who entrusted their best
horses 10 him.
Coming OF the automobile caused
him TO close out his horseshoeing
business and obtain employment with
the c. a p. Telephone Co, with whom
he had been working for the last year
or more,
Mr.. Gates was, besides being an Elk,
also Red Man, and member OF
Chesapeake tribe, this city
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Basil
Gates, West street, extended, with
whom be made his home.
Besides his parents he is survived
by the following brothers and sisters:
Messrs. Samuel Gates. of Washington !:
Charles, Annapolis; William, of Phil
adelphia, and Brady, of Berwyn; Mrs.
John F. Stevens, Mrs. John Gesner,
Mrs. Vaughn Russell, and Mrs. Zach
Merriken, all of Annapolis.
The funeral will take place tomor-
row afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from his
late residence, arrangements being in
charge of funeral director. b. l.. Hop
ping
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
RETURN OF NAVY FORCES
NOT BEFORE JANUARY

All of Americas naval forces over
seas cannot be brought home before
January 1. 1920, at the earliest, the
House Naval Committee was told by
Captain Laning, of the Bureau of Nav
igation, who asked for million-dol-
lar appropriation for receiving ships
at home and abroad. Captain Laning
said the one serious mistake of the
Navy during the wa was the recruit
ing OF 1,200 too many men for the
aviation service.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
VAST CONSTRUCTION
PROGRAM PLAN FOR
THE NAVAL ACADEMY
Expenditures Will Reach Many
Millions For Several Years
To Come
MAINTENANCE COST
NEXT YEAR rs HIGH
Estimate Of Running Expenses
And Civilians Pay Is To Be
ST, 100000 Next Year

A high degree of prosperity to the
industrial and commercial interests of
Annapolis is assured by the condi-
tions that exist at the Naval Academy.
A larger sum than ever before will be
consumed in ordinary maintenance
during the coming year. while a pro-
gram of construction has been mapped
out which means the expenditure of
many millions of dollars each year at
the institution for years to come.
Superintendent Eberle's estimate for
ordinary running expenses and pay of
civilian employees reached a million
and half dollars. To this must be
added the pay received by officers, mid
shipmen and enlisted men at this sta
tion Another large sum is directly
connected with the presence of the Ma
val Academy here in the amount spent
by candidates for the academy and the
hundreds who come here to see rela-
valtiyes and friends belonging to the
naval contingent, and other visitrs. In
all, it may be said that the sum brought
here directly each year by the Naval
Academy, in the ordinary course, is
not far under three millions of dol
lars.
The program of construction already
authorized is great one, while there
are plans of a still more ambitious ma
ture which must take shape in the
near future Congress has authorized
the expenditure Of two and half mil
lion dollars for new building for the
department of seamanship and naviga-
ton and for great auditorium which
will seat the whole regiment OF mid
shipmen and have some room to spare.
1t has been determined to build the
seamanship and navigation building TO
the northeast of the present gym
nasium wing of Bancroft Hall, and
work is to begin on il as soon as
weather permits in the spring. 1t will
cost not less than $S00,OO0 The audi
torium will be commenced within a
few months. The completion of the
east wing of Bancroft Hall and of the
north seawall and the building of a
garage at the cost of 100000, are
some of the things which will add to
the work which is to be done.
There is little doubt that other great
construction work will be undertaken
at the academy shortly. The 'engi-
neering building is to be enlarged still
further and special building for the
ost-graduate department is con-
templated Undoubtedly, chapel
capable of holding the entire mid
shipmen body and with satisfactory
acoustic properties. is badly needed,
and, of course, all Annapolitans are
looking forward to the decision of the
Secretary of the Navy which will To-
cate the naval experimental labora-
tory here. in pursuance of the unani-
nous recommendation of the naval ad-
visory board.
Altogether a wonderful prospect is
presented by the Naval Academy of
the future, and Annapolis, is more
han ever in position to thank its for
tune for its location here. and for the
wise policy which has developed and
expanded the navy of the United States
and its alma mater
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
Notice. B. P. O. E.

ALL MEMBERS ARE REQUEST
ED TO MEET AT THE ELKS
HOME SATURDAY AFTERNOON
zoo O'CLOCK TO ATTEND THE
FUNERAL OF OUR DECEASED
BROTHER. JOHN L. GATES,
FROM HIS LATE RESIDENCE,
no. 451 WEST STREET. $50
O'CLOCK BY ORDER OF THE
EXALTED RULER. THOMAS E,
STRANGE.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
TUF NEW STAMP

The lS-cent stamp mentioned some
months ago has been approved and
will appear soon. The color of the new
stamp will be light green, with Frank
Inns portrait, and for the first time
In our country's history. there will be
stamp for every number from to 1S
all in use at the same time.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
CHARLES F. COLHOUN
IS NOW AN ENSIGN

Charles Forbes Colhoun, has won
his commission as ensign in the pay
corps of the U. S. navy. Ensign Col
houn is son of the late Charles Muir
ray Calhoun, and grandson of the late
Henry NJ. Murray, West River, this
county. He is also nephew of J.
Grant Colhoun, of Windsor" Har-
wood, Anne Arundel county.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20
A Cafeteria
Luncheon

WILL BE SERVED IN THE WO-
MANS CLUB, SECOND FLOOR,
OF THE ANNAPOLIS BANK
BUILDING, ON SATURDAY, DE-
CEMBER 21ST. BETWEEN IL
AND p. NJ. BOTH MEN AND
WOMEN WILL BE WELCOME.
d9-1t
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-20

:. The Best Advertising
is.5inr1 - In Annapolis. 1T
S.ns ne,,' To Advertise" Try
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11

appointment. He realized he was oniy
a has BEEN and wellington carried OF
the prize that he longed for at last.
Therefore I discredit the story of his
desire to become a rival of Napoleon's
ambition. He is intensely anti-British.
although he lis Queen Nictoria's oldest
grandson. He would choose to be
German sausage rather than an English
plum pudding, and while he is the war
lord of all Europe today he has pitifUl
contempt for his smaller kinsman, King
George of England He glories in the
FrancO-German war and he pats himself
on the bosom and talks of Emperor VIII
liam, the first and of how he made Otto
Won Bismarck come down and eat num-
BILE pie, and how he hated the British
doctor. when his mother, the Empress
Frederick, clashed with her royal son
over the deathbed of his father.
It stands to reason that he is prouder Ct
Frederick the Great than of Napoleon.
and he is doubtless sustained by his 10y
atty to Prussian Germany as against the
English kinnery. If the Great Frederick
who died many years ago could have
taken a running start with the present
kaiser, it is more than probable that he
would come out ahead in even the pres
ent wartime.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
A CHILD'S LAXATIVE
IS SYRUP OF FIGS
Made from frUit-Can't harm
tender stomach, liver
and bowels

II your little ones tongue Is coated. it
IS a sure sign the stomach, liver and
bowels need a gentle, thorough cleans
ing II once When your child is cross,
peeyish. liStIess. pale. doesn't sleep, eat
Or act naturally; il breath il bad. stOm-
ach sour, system full of cold, throat
sore. or IL fevsrish, give "A teaspOonful
Of California syrup OF Figs" and in a
few hours all the clogged-up, cOnstipa-
ted waste. sour bile and undigested
food will gently move out OF the bow
els. AID You lave a well. playful child
again.
Sict Children needn't 1e coaxcd 70
ak this harmless fruit laxative" Mill
lions u mother keep Il handy because
they know its action Oh The stomach,
liver and bowels is prompt and sure.
They also know a little given today
saves a child sick tomorrow
Ask your druEgist for bottle OF Cal
ifornia syrup Of Figs" which contains
directions for babies, children Of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly ON the
bottle. Beware Of cOUuterteits sold
here Get the genuine made by Cali
,fornia Fig Syrup Company Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Cough Nearly Gone :.
in ~ Hours
That's the usual experience with
this homemade remedy. Costs
nttle--try 1t.

Any one who tries this pleasant tast-
ing homemade cough SYRUP will quick
ly understand why it is used in more
homes in the United States and Canada
than any other cough remedy. The way
il takes hold of an obstinate cough, CIV
ing immediate relief, will make you re-
gret that you never tried it before. IL
is truly dependable cough remedy that
should be kept handy in every home, to
use at the first sign of a cough during
the night or day time.
Any druggist can supply you with
1-2 ounces of Pinex go gents WORTH.
Pour this into pint bottle and fill the
bottle with plain granulated sugar
syrup. The total cost is about 65 cents
and you have a full pint of the most
effective remedy you ever used.
The quick. lasting relief you get from
this excellent cough syrup will really
surprise SyOu. 1t promptly heals the
inf1amed membranes that line the throat
and air passages, stops the annoying
throat tickle, loosens the phlegm and
soon your cough stops entirely. Splendid
for bronchitis, Group, whooping cough
and bronchial asthma.
Pinex is a highly concentrated com
pound of Norway pine extract, and Is
famous the world over for it's healing
effect on the membranes.
eTo avoid disappointment ask for
"2 1-2 ounces of PineX" with full direc-
tions and don't accept anything else. y
guarantee of absolute satisfaction or
money promptly refunded goes with this
preparation. The Pinex Co, FIT. Wayne,
Ind AdVt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
TS50ONgIRR9Yz
lszsss gnety 7oglc5
& So 1 fSJszSa3isRz
THE PASSING OF THE SIGNERS OF
DECLARATION OF INDEPEED-
ENCE

The first continental congress was
presided over by Hon. Peyton Randolph,
OF Virginia, who died on October p,
1875. The Declaration of Independence,
signed on July 4, 1875, passed the con-
gress by unanimous vote. Button Gwin-
nett, one of the Georgia signers, died
May q, 1777, less than year later.
Robert Livingston, of New York, a
signer, died January IL, 1878; Patrick
Henry, of Virginia, died June 8. 177S;
George Ross, of Pennsylvania, a signer.
died July A, 1879; Joseph Halves, of
North Carolina, a signer, died Novem-
Der 10, 1873; George Taylor, of Penn
sylvania, a signer died February %.
1881. In 1855, July Is, stephens Hop
kins of Rhode Island, passed away.
William Whipple, of New Hampshire,
died November IS, 1885. In less than
ten years, eight of the signers departed
this life. Thomas Nelson, of Virginia,
died 4th January, ,l7S9. benjamin
Franklin, died at Philadelphia on April
IT, 1900 Benjamin Harrison, of Vir-
GINA, a signer died in April, 1871. RoS-
err Sherman, of Connecticut, died July
%. 1898, and John Hancock, president of
continental congress and first signer in
1875, died October s, 1898. John With
erspoon, of New Jersey, signer died
November Is, 1898; John Boatlett, of
New Hampshire, died May II, 1875;
Samuel Huntington, of Connecticut, a
signer died January, 5, 1896; General
and President Washington, died Deem
Der IA. 1893, aged o. Seventeen of the
signers passed away in 20 years. Cen
eral washington was in his prime at 81
years. Two ex-presidents, John Quin-
Taf inH IN
the same day, and about same hour, July
1, 1895 one at 80 years, the other at
50.
Ex-President James Madison died
June %, 1886. President Harrison was
inaugurated on March 4, 1871, died on
April 4, one month later.
These were all notable men--and serv-
ed their day and generation with pat
riotic zeal and loyalty.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11

The fact is that about the beginning Of
the year 1916 people were startled by
hearing OF a rev conspiracy against Rss-
gutiu. in which il was rumOred that the
minister OF the interior himself was
party. Things stood thus. y secret
agent Of the Russian police called
REewsky, a man about as inscriptions
a. Mauussewitsch ManiulOff but not so
clever. who had already figured more
han once in occasions when the need for
a provocative agent had been felt. arriv-
ed in Christiania. in Norway, where the
1lnfrocked monk Illiodore was living,
and sought him out His journey had
bsen undertaken without the knowledge
Of the chief OF the secret police Mr..
BfeIetsky. but on the express orders Of
Mr.. ChwostoT. the minister of the in
terror. Bieletsky. however. had suspect
cd that some undOrhand game was going
or. and had caused Rgewsky to be
watched. When the latter had crossed
The frontier at TOrnOe he had been thor
CuEhIy searched and examined by spe-
ciaI orders received from PetrOgrad,
without. however. anything being found
OF him When he was questioned as 20
the reasons for his journey abroad he
had. in order TO be allowed 20 proceed
10 own that II was undertaken by com
maud OF the minister Of the interior
on his return from abroad Rgewsky
was at once arrested under the
nretext OF having blackmailed an
other police agent Furious at what
he considered TO have been breach Of
faith. he contrived 10 apprise Rasputin
OF the position in which he found him
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
Ala
WHERE ZERO WEATHER Is THE
WINTER MEASURE

Dear Mrs. Thomas: We had some very
cold weather for December. There fell
about four inches of snow on December
g. and about sixteen inches on the 14th
then the mercury fell to 10 below zero
and stood for about five days between
twelve and nineteen below; it has mod
Grated a little and is some warmer. but
it stays around zero every morning. We
have lovely sleighing here.
We enjoy reading Billy Sundays ser
mons, also yours and Mrs. FELTON, part
in The Journal. We liked Billy of Dec
ember 14th best of all his sermons yet.
What / do for pasttime is house
work, sewing, and a walk of two miles
to the store and poStoffice 1t is good
exercise in snow and ice, but l have
good footwear and warm clothing and !
don't mind it at all.
/ have been very busy fixing for
Christmas for 1 haven't much money to
spend Instead of trash my children got
shoes, rubbers, stockings and other
clothes from Santa Claus. We had no
Christmas turkey, but enjoyed a good
substatial dinner from the canned goods
in the cellar. In countries as cold as
this we put up cabbages, potatoes, tur-
nips and other root crops as we'll as
can a great many things.
| suppose there are several grand
mothers among the writer's to this page
but none of them has a sweeter little
grandson than mine. He is six months
old and lives near enough for me to
see him every day. I have three other
grandchildren in New Jersey, two of
them l have never seen. / wonder if
those gardens in south Georgia and in
Florida lived through the cold that the
papers tell us rolled like a wave over
things from Canada to Cuba.
Wishing all of you a happy and pros
porous year. I am,
Yours truly,
MRS. A. J. MCBRIDE.
Fish's Eddy y. g.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11

and 1 saw that they had warm water
to drink
| only keep eighteen hens for winter
eggs, and in December l got one hum
dred and ffty-five. This month started
even better than that. l have about
fifty chickens four and five months DID,
some pulletS have begun to lay. Snow
was on the ground nearly two weeks
in December and my chickens were
kept up and their feed was not as eN-
pensive as you might think, because
their dry quarters did not demand as
much as the same flock would need Il
their food had been to keep them from
freezing. I've got just about twenty
dollars worth of chickens and turkeys
to ship as soon as the weather VIII
allow. but that is problem, every time
it has changed for the better 1t has not
lasted long enough to notify the par
ties. It's a risky thing to start of chick
ems in winter, a warm car and then a
change to a cold platform may start
roup. When baby chicks start from
here I notify the parties so that they
may be there, whether early or late
and not let them be chilled
If your hens are not laying try
hot bran mash every morning put pint
of cottonseed meal for every thirty
chickens, start with half pint the first
day, after four days another half pint
mixed with the bran, corn meal and SIX
pepper pods Parch your corn and give
that warm and you can have plenty OF
eggs in a. reasonable time.
Make up your mind that you are go
ing to have young chickens every month
except July and August. l set hens In
August so as to get started in time Tor
early layers Then get ready to take
nf hatChRS
hens in boxes, for as sure as you let
them out you may expect to lose your
chickens and put their feet to you
that be your mottol Pick up your young
chickens and put THEIR feet to your
cheek if they are cold get busy.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE o. THOMAS. q
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
DESIRES TO SURPASS NAPOLEON
OR FREDERICK THE GREAT.

In the beginning, 1911, II was 1T
ouently stated in the newspapers that
the kaiser was copying after FrederlcN
the Great. Later chronicIers decide he
is emulating Napoleon in this stupehdouS
war project. Maybe so.
Certainly he does not overlook the
circumstance that Napoleon died a pris-
oner on St Helena, in the custody OF
Great Britain Whatever Napoleon did
or failed to do, he finally dropped his
candy" He undertook little more than
he could accomplish. and although ne
rose like a comet and flashed across the
military orbit of his ambition. Waterloo
and Butcher sent him downward like a
falling meteor. He died in gloomy dis
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
OUR YESTERDAYS

All, why turn back life'S blotted page,
To dwell thereon in vain regret.
Better to turn the new page DER
And strive to pay the old ones debt.
BY Iargesse of the living thought
That moves on luminous word and
Through pain and wrong and painless
night
Straight to the heart of others need.
Making of Self Loves servant true
Who. waits not for the clarion call
But holds in an oerfowing cup
Some drops of tenderness for all.
If lovingly through each new day
Swerveless we walk life's nobler ways
Then one by one our God shall wipe
The stains from all our yesterdays.
Did YOU read Billy Sundays discourse
on our "tomorrows? 1 thought of it
when 1 clipped these verses about our
yesterdays.
We are sure of the yesterdays but We
cannot be sure of tomorrows. 1 can
count on my two hands, various per-
sons of whom 1 have known through
friends and personality who have late
" gone away suddenly, when they
seemed as we'll as you and well
enough yesterday-gone today-Wlth-
out a tomorrow. It seems as if greater
numbers go away without warning
these days. The doctors tell you it is
heart failure, apoplexy, maybe paraly-
sis. But it is all the same-touch and
go quickly. Here today, no tomorrow
And yesterdays are too often filed
with vain regret. Ambition does not
satisfy. Wealth cannot buy what we
want most, whether it be health or al
lection
Brooding over losses. grieving over
defeats, pining for what we cannot
have. and moaning for those who can
never come back again. will rob LIE
of it's peace and pave the way for the
coming of death-suddenly.
IF we are wise we will put aside the
yexations and the crosses that filled our
Yesterdays They are fixed unalterable-
will today with good thanks.
We should lean upon the Everlasting
sArms-"Then one by one our God snail
wipe the stains from all our yester-
DAYS"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
CAN You ASSIST

Tallapoosa. Ga, Dec. %, 1917.
Mrs. w. II. FELTON,,
Gainesville, Ga.
Kind Lady:-Pardon me for address,
ing YOU. I desire to know If you re-
member James c. Edwards, who was
raised In or near Gainesville? 1t IS
said he Joined the army during the
Civil war at Gainesville at the age OF
sixteen years. He is now old ana par
alvzed. has no property to support him.
and 1 want to get his name on the state
pension roll from Harralson county. II
YOU can give me the name and ADDRESS
of some one who knows of his service
in the Civil war it will enable me 70
helm him in his helpless condition.
Thanking you in advance for any
favors YOU may show me in this case
and awaiting your advice. l remain
friend to the poor and helpless.
T. J. JOHNS.
p. 81 do this without Mr. Ed
wards knowledge.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11

medicine for woman's ailments I ever
saw. Mrs. SARA SHAW, r. No. i,
Portsmouth, Ohio.
Mrs. Shaw proved the merit of this
medicine and wrote this letter in order
that other suffering women may find
relief as she did.
Women who are suffering as she was
should not drag along from day to day
without giving this famous root and
herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vego-
table Compound, a trial. For special
advice in regard to such ailments write
to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. LYNN.
Mass. The result of its forty years
experience is at your service.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-11
$4,000 Involved
In Spot Cotton Deal

ATHENS, Ga, Jan. 9.-One of the
largest deals in spot cotton in the his
tory of the Athens market has just been
negotiated by Miller & Co. who sold 20
I. T. Fitzpatrick, representing WE'LL
Brothers, 1000 bales for an all around
price of 30 cents, tn etotal Nancy paid
being approximately $555,00O.