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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07
Wheat Is The Test.

The appeal made TO the American
people by Herbert Hoover on Sunday
is terse and clear. We must ship more
wheat. and to ship we must save
Somehow or other, 30,000000 more
bushels must be provided. Instead OF
resorting to the brutal methods OF
Prussian compulsion, the Food Adj
ministrator puts the truth squarely be-
fore the public in the full belief that
it will now respond as enthusiastical-
ly and as intellectually as in the
past to any presentation of the facts.
Our army and our allies must have
wheat. 1t is the test of each ones pa
triotism to see that the call is answer
cd. None can escape that test
"All elements of our population can
not bear this burden equally" de-
clares Mr.. Hoover. The children and
the sick must be safeguarded, while
others so conditioned that they must
have a special food ration. That sim
ply puts the task where it belongs,
upon the shoulders of those best able
to bear il. The average consumption
of wheat must be cut down to one
third of normal To secure that aver
age-which provides for the absolute
minimum of the Allied requirements
those who can do so are put on their
honor to abstain entirely from wheat.
Those who are truly unable to achieve
that full measure of service are equal
ly in honor bound to do their level
best. The individual conscience is SUI
preme Food Controller in this self
governing land That is the demo-
cratic way, and democracy is a trial.
Proprietors of public eating places
have received personal appeals for
further thrift, and responses have
shown a laudable spirit. The extent
of their willingness to cooperate to-
wards the success of your cause is the
measure of their worthiness of your
patronage.
But in the public eating places is
consumed only one-eighth of the ma
TONS foodstuffs. The big savin, there
fore, must come from your home and
your neighbours home. Play the game
yourself and jack him up, if need be,
to take his rightful place on the wheat
saving team.
Mr.. Hoover speaks Of the suffering
millions in the Allied countries. Bel
GUM was on the verge of starvation
and. 10 rescue that heroic country. did
not sternly-rationed France go with
out imported wheat for twenty DAYS?
That is the sacrifice beside which the
utmost that is asked of the American
homes pales into significance. At the
cost Of some small inconvenience, the
United tates is required to give up its
wheat in favor of those to whom it is
a life-and-death need, There is no
the facts which Mr.. Hoover
has set forth. Not to face them, fairly
and fully, is to blot Americas proud
war-reeord with unthinkable shame.
The task is for all, and the test is
for all.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07

Communities newly deprived of
their liquor supply may console them
selves. Beer and whisky have become
frightfully expensive anyway. And
besides. the doctors assure us that
cooling drinks" with alcohol in them
don't cool
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07

ernOr. A Nurseryman, Agriculturist
And An Eastern ShOreman.
To the Editor of The Capital:
Senator Orlando Harrison came TO
town this week Che was also here last
week. and was not averse to talking
politics, although as a sterling Amer
lean patriot he also talked over the
war situation. He has been a large
contributor TO the Red Cross and other
war activities, as well as an investor
in all three of the Liberty Bonds. and
in fact no single war interest has gone
without liberal contributions from the
active and able young business man,
and farmer who represents Worcester
County and the people of the State
in the Upper House at Annapolis-for
Mr.. Harrison considers himself the
representative of the whole people.
and not solely the representative of
his county
He is candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor-openly a
candidate, and not gum-shoe seeker
after the honor. AS the largest fruit
grower and nurseryman in Maryland.
he is vitality interested in all that per-
tains to agriculture as well as horti-
culture, and there are many indica-
tons that he will be taken up by the
farmers of the State as peculiarly
their candidate; and should such turn
out to be the case, he will stand an ex-
cellent chance to win both the nomi-
nation and the election, nothwith-
standing the fact that he is somewhat
handicapped by his residence on the
Eastern Shore, and the evident hos
tility in some quarters to the candi-
dacy of any Eastern Shoreman for the
Governorship in the near future.
Another ground put forward by Mr.
Harrison's friends in behalf of his
candidacy is his knowledge of the road
question, and his attitude in behalf of
a liberal extension of the present ad-
mirable plan of State road construc-
ton, so that ii will eventually form a
network of paved highways over all
sections of Maryland. This was the
original plan of the late Governor
CrotheTs, the founder of the road
system, which has been permitted to
fall somewhat into allegiance during
the present and previous administra-
tions. A large proportion of the farm
ers and residents of the country dis
tricts now own automobiles, and many
which are useless for several months
of them are securing motor trucks
each year on most of the county
roads. The farmers are now demand
ing improved roads so that their
motor vehicles may be available
practically the whole year, and they
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07

many, we are driven TO credit to the
German people themselves.
So far as we can see now, they are
no better, and no worse. than their
government. Both have reverted to
barbarism. Both are our enemies.
Both must have the fear of God pound
ed into them.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07
NOTICE.

All persons having claims against Mrs
T. h. Taylor. 90 West street. Annapolis.
Nd, are hereby notified that they must
above address on or before July 1. 1918
MRS. f. X. TAYLOR
Jo-ot Annapolis, Nd.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07

Lost, wants, For Sale, For Rent, Etc.

All classified Advertisements of rs
words or less. first insertion, % cents.
Subsequent insertions, one-haIf cent
a word. Over rs words one cent q
word first insertion.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07

Another Armenian massacre merely
means that the Turk is running true
TO form
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07
RUBBER FOOD "TIRETITE"

For automobile tubes and casing; stop
leaks and prolongs life of rubber. OIL
preserves leather, so does Tiretite pre-
serve tires. Come and investigate Tire
tite. Auto accessories and bicycles. A.
II. Wilson, 81 West street. m21-m
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07

Senator Harrison Not A Gum-Shoe
Seeker After Honor, But An Open
Candidate For Nomination For Gov
ernOr. A Nurseryman, Agriculturist
And An Eastern ShOreman.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN-Money to loan on
mortgage. Apply to Winson q. Gett.
Annapolis. Md. n1S-6m
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07
Letters to the Editor

Please be brief AS a rule we
cannot allow space for over 300
words. More than this the edi-
tor reserves the right TO blue
pencil. With each communica-
ton your name and address must
be disclosed - not for publica-
ton unless you wish - but TO
show good faith.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
RAISE MISCHIEF WITH WIRES
Remarkable Effect Of Aurora BorealIs
on the Telegraph Wires Of
the Country.

When the aurora borealis, or north
ern lights" pay us a visit there is
trouble on all the telegraph and tele,
phone lines. The reason for this
seems to be that the aurora borealis,
which is really an unusual electric
emanation from the sun, sets up alb.
normal earth currents. The strength
of these currents has been measured
many times and found to have poten.
tial varying between 425 volts positive
and 225 volts negative and a resist.
ance of about 1000 ohms.
Donald McNieol, assistant electrical
engineer of the Postal Telegraph com,
'pany, who has given much study to
this subject made an official report In
1892, quoted In the Electrical Expert,
menter, in which he described the eff.
fects of earth currents on the ten At,
tantic cables then in existence Most
affected was that from Brest to Mique-
lon island, and the disturbances were
greater at the western than at the
eastern end, so that often st. Pierre
could send messages to Brest but could
not receive any.
Long cables were more affected than
short ones, southerly ones more than
northerly ones, and the abnormal cur
rents seemed to travel mostly from
east to west. Sometimes the earth cur
rents are SO strong that they iniure the
condensers. But they are most erratic
in their nature and behavior.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
The First Hc6nsnnff

Romanoff is the name of the Rus
sian imperial dynasty regnant in the
male line from 1913 to 1870, and
thenceforward in the female line. Con-
stant intermarriages with German.
prineely houses, however, have made
the Romanoff strain Of today more.
German than Russian. Nay; the old
est ancestor of the house Of Roman
off. Andrew Kobyla, is said to have
come to Moscow from Prussia (1341).
The name Romancff was given to-the
family by the boyar Roman Yurie-
witch, the fifth Of direct descent from
Andrew, who succeeded in getting a
female member OF his family on the
throne Of the czars by marrying his
daughter to Ivan the Terrible. In
February, 1913, Mikhael Feodorvitch
Romanoff, boy of seventeen, was pro-
claimed czar, grand duke and autocrat
of all the Russias in the Red square
of Moscow. With this accession to
the throne of the famous, or rather ILL.,
famed, dynasty began a 804 years
misrule that-let us hope-has ended
forever with the forced abdication Of
Gar Nicholas, In March, 1917.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
ONE OF WORLDS cURIosITlEs
Fir Tree in Belgium Has characteris-
tics Unlike Any Of Its Kind So
Far as Known.

What Is claimed to be one OF the
most curious trees in the world was.
found in Belgium by M. Louis Pre-,
president of the Royal Botanical So
ciety of Belgium. It is fir tree, stili
standing at last account, in the forests
of Aliaz, Canton of Vaud.
"This particular tree" reports Pro-
fessor Pire, islands 4,500 feet above
the sea and is surrounded by forest
of frs, which it exceeds In height by
80 to 40 feet.
''The trunk of this tree is ten me-
ters, or a little more than thirty feet.
in circumference at the base. At about
yard from the ground 1t puts out,
on the south side, seven offshoots,
which have grown into trunks as strong
and vigorous as those of the other
trees in the forest. Bent and gnarled
at the bottom, these side-trunks soon
straighten themselves up and rise per-
pendlcularly and parallel to the main
stem.
"Another most curious fact is that
the two largest side-trunks are con-
nected with the principal stem by sub
quadrangular braces resembling grid
ers. These beams have probably been
formed by an anastomosing or
branches, which, common enough
among the angio-sperms, Is extremely
rare among conifers."
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12

But really no exception should be
taken to the word Yankee, which is
an honorable title, says the London
Chronicle. When the New England
colonies were first settled, the inhabi-
tants were obliged to fight their way
against many nations of Indians. They
found but little difficulty in subduing
them all except one tribe, who were
known by the name of Yankoos-
which signifies invincible. After the
waste of much blood and treasure, the
Yankoos were at last subdued by the
New England men. The remains of.
this nation agreeable to the Indian
custom) transferred their name to
their conquerors. For while they
were called Yankoos; but from cor
ruption, common to names in all lam
guages, they got the name of Yankee.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
For the conversatIonaIlst.

No, you are not going to learn of
any new words that you can add to
your vocabulary or any modern version
of an ancient thought. What you are
going to read concerns only the woman
or the man who loves to chat over the
telephone, but whose arm gets fright
fully tired holding the telephone re-
ceiver during the conversation. AT an
up to date shop can be found a pedes-
tai or stand on which the receiver of
the telephone can be rested while one
is talking away. Think of the miles of
crocheting or the amount of embroid-
ering that can be done while one is
visiting over the phone! The convent
ence will not only be appreciated by
the guilty talker. but will be of much
value to the one who is obliged to be
polite and listen.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
Fol cro,vIrn plants

Scientists have found the way to
make the sun shine, as it were. upon
agriculture. They Tc8fsrge the soil with
electricity and the crops, fooled into
believing that the sun is shining, COM
mence to grow at rapid pace, There
is no deception about the results Of
this experiment, which are hailed as
an achievement of vast Importance in
these days of war when the production
and conservation of food are so tre-
mendously vital
In experiments that have been con-
Quoted under the auspices of the Eng
lish government young strawberry
plants are said to have increased in
yield by 80 per cent. and even old
plants are reported to have given 20
per cent more fruit. Potatoes can eGs-
lily be persuaded, scientists claim, into
the belief that a charge of electricity
is genuine sunshine. as result Of
which they forthwith grow ptOdi<i-
0uSly.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
By Augustus Goodrich Sherwin


Copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union. }
Always, when an acquaintance came
to see him, or he ran across an old
friend, or some children who had
heard Of his priceless possession.
begged to view the same. Earle Daw-
son led one and all into a rear room
sacredly devoted to a memento, re-
minder of his early childhood.
He was a full-grown man now,
twenty-three, engaged to marry Norma
Lane, his counterpart in that delicate
refinement of mind and soul that had
made him dreamer. Through all the
course of the years he had never for
an hour lost sight of one ineffable
longing to some day visit the little pic
turesque town, somewhere In France"
where he had been born during So
journ of his parents abroad.
His father had died there, was bur-
led there, at Leisle. His mother re-
turned to the United States with her
child. She, too, died q few years
later, leaving her child a competence.
His guardian was a man of esthetic
temperament and nurtured all there
was Of poetry, art and literary tai
ent In his ward.
So Earl Dawson had grown up with
a soul as clear as crystal, but utterly
untitled to cope with the rigors of the
world. When he was still a little
child he received a wonderful gift.
His father had given important f1nan-
cial assistance to a merchant at
Leisle, deeply involved. The loan had
saved the man from bankruptcy and
ruin. At Leisle there were those ex-
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
and
Rose
By Michael Jarvis Dunlap


Copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union D
Phantasy or reality, Walter Osborne
was dead. He had been ill for over a
year; he had closed his eyes peace
fully, the last kiss of his daughter Es-
telle seemingly still fitting upon his
lips. Then he seemed floating without
the room into space, through it. He
was no longer a mere entity, but a
part of some concrete All made up of
the elements of the universe.
His wish had always been expressed
that cremation, the scattering of his
ashes across some wide sea should
mark his fitting from one sphere into
another And now all that seemed his
world ego was a slowly ascending, va
porous smoke. The spiral fight mih,
gled its density with the higher air
and was swayed and dissipated until
only fine thgead, scarcely discerni-
Bile, remained. So far as an essence,
a spirit, could comprehend sentiment,
there was eXaltation in the rapid up
ward flight, where, with a new vision,
the world lay bare and fading beneath.
Then the tiny vestige of vapor was
taken up and buoyed along by other
masses of impregnated ether. The
volume of progress was retarded. The
Unit assumed a new aqueous form
with qualities of actual weight and
form. The sun withdrew its rays, the
mass descended now, and the frag-
ment of vapor that comprehended all
that was left of Walter Osborne as
sumed the substance of distinct drop
of dew.
This fioated downward, to perform
its tiny mission. 1t swayed with the
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12

sternation. He traced the delicate i'm
plication of his own unworthiness as a
patriot.
Il think ! understand you," he said,
almost coldly. "You place reproach
upon me. There is nothing more to be
said. Good-by." A sense of false dig
nifty had come to his rescue. Sadly,
but silently, she let him depart, He
went home, to shut himself in his
room, to think, to bare his soul to the
most critical analysis. Was he crav-
en-? Was it not just that the gentle
being he loved should show him the
path of duty?
Morning came, after a sleepless
night. He paced the room, ever and
anon giving utterance to the monot-
onous words: "One of us must gol"
The sudden strident cries of news
boys afoot at full excitement speed
with an extra" attracted his atten-
ton. He threw open the window and
hailed one of the nimble messengers
OF the press. He sat down and glanced
at the newspaper. 1t told of q great
battle, and Of the vandalism of the
enemy, of the wanton destruction of
town after town. holding the most pre-
cious works Of art and science, the
labor of years ravaged In a vengeful
onslaught, and there ON the next page
was a vivid illustration Of the results
of heartless, useless devastation of a
month previous: "Leisle as it is to-
day."
Slowly the face Of Earle Dawson be-
came a rigid mask. At sight Of the
heartless desecration portrayed, II
seemed as If, in the place of timidity,
of a representative shrinking from re-
sponsibility, there came to him sense
OF justice that f1rmed up every element
In his nature. The beautiful cathedral
at Leslie was meaningless mass! The
grand museum which held the historic
treasures of four centuries had been
burned to the groundl The pretty, an
dquated chalets were disfgured and
defacedl Even the graveyard had
been plowed up by bomb and ball, and
the shaft that memorized the last rest
ing place Of his father lay prone, riv-
en- In twain.
Earle Dawson took the picture to
the room where the cork replica of |
Leisle was. 'Leisle as 1t is today"
he quoted, the stern insistency of ret
ribution forcing itself upon his plant I
mind. Leisle as it wasl All, there
shall be no hesitancy now. The path
of duty showed clearly before him. If
1t ended at some lonely hill, on some
battle-beleaguered plain, better so, that
the world might be freeI
Earle Dawson went straight to the
recruiting Office. There was a new
majesty now in face and mien.
II have come to say good-by," he
spoke. as he presented himself before
Norma at her home. "You said truly,
one of us owed service to our country.
I am the chosen one"
And to her glorified vision he was
not only the man she loved, would ever
love, but her hero, as welll
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
Oak First for rahles

Oak was the wood first used In
tables then walnut came into general
use In the middle of the seventeenth
rentury. An early form of table was
The chair table, convenient because it
Ierved the purpose of seat when the
Iop was lifted and stood against the
side of the room. But gradually the
table took its present form and use.
1t became the custom to leave the
board upon the trestle instead Of re-
moving both, and in time the piece Of
furniture was called the table.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
Health So NECESSARY

Health is, indeed, so necessary to
all the duties as well as pleasures of
life, that the crime of squandering IL
is equal to the folly; and he that for a
short qualification brings weakness and
diseases upon himself, and for the
pleasure of few years passed in the
tumults of diversion and clamors of
merriment, condemns the maturer and
more experienced part Of the life to
the chamber and the couch, may be
justly reproached. not only as spend
thrift of his happiness, but as robber
of the public; as wretch that has
voluntarily disqualified himself for the
business of his station and refused that
part which Providence assigns him in
the general task of human nature."-
DR.. Samuel Johnson.
The Mount Holly news., 1918-02-12
&@aalf Pes q! s ;.I|;S; gaSzg
AuthOr Of AT GoodgoE5 SiWSssE9h1 SiWS y &yA
PANTS.

Pants are a natural monopoly re-
served by law for the sole use and
embellishments of man. They are
round Wherever men are reasonably
civilized, and, while not beautiful.
tney are great comfort and one
with which not even a man with
beautifully moulded and Apollo-like
legs would think of dispensing.
rants consist of doable-barreled leg
holders, surmounted by capacious
dome, the whole being affixed to the
Wearer by means of suspenders which
go over the shoulders and cause un-
limited grief and embarrassment by
dlssolving into component corpora.
tions without warming at critical mo.
ments. The suspenders are attached
70 the waistband or equator of the
pants The waistband is the most
important feature Of mans cloth.
ing. 1t is sort Of sartorial scales
Man doesn't mind his waist measure
until 1t gets over forty, but after that
he views 1t with dismay and refuses
lie with tears in his eyes.
Pants are of many styles and mod
els. The Turk wears peculiar knee
pants with ten-bushel legs. The Ho1-
lander wears pants in layers, peeling
them off like onion nusks one at
time as the weather lightens up in
the spring. The Englishman wears
loose pants made to fit a step ladder
and turns them up at the bottom
enough to allow his feet to escape.
The college boy wears bifurcatod bal
looms called pegtop trousers. The
minister wears shiny black trousers
with padded knees. Sometimes a
wife wears the trousers Of family,
but only figuratively. The law for
bids her to wear the actual pants.
but remains ingloriously silent con-
corning the conversational ones.
Our forefathers wore knee breeehes
made of silks and satins, which were
so expensive that their wives had to
dress plainly. Boys, baseball players
and diplomats in Europe still wear
knee pants,