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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
LOSES HAND

Frank Duckett, of DavidsonvilIe, met
with painful and serious accident on
Saturday, which caused him to lose a
hand.
While working with a fodder shred
der, Mr.. Duckett had his left hand
caught in the machine and badly
mangled. He was brought to the
Emergency hospital where it was
found necessary to amputate his
hand.
He is getting along as well as can
be expected.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
CALVIN AISQUITH DIES
OF WOUNDS RECEIVED

James Aisquith, farmer living near
Edgewater. this county, received offfc-
ial notification from the War Depart
ment this morning of the death of his
son, Calvin Aisquith, member of Com
pany B. 316th Infantry He died OF
wounds received in action on October
IL, last. On the day of his death, Pri-
vate Aisquith had been in the service
less than six months He went to
Camp Meade, and was sent across
after staying there about six weeks
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
mo- RRSuME PRACTICE

DR.. Lewis H. Green (colored), the
Baltimore chiropodist. who has had an
extensive practice here for several
years past, was in he city yesterday
to see his patients as usual, after an
absence of several months, on account
of the war service in which he was
engaged
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
SOUTH AMERICA
VS.. NORTH AMERICA

A number of men and women were
canvassing the town yesterday in the
interest of South American Missions.
'This is too much said some of the
people visited for funds by these col
lectors for South American missions
yesterday. HAS not North America,
who is looking out for Belgium and
the rest of the needy, enough to do
without helping at this time South
American"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
MRS. ASHBY BRADY
HEARS FROM SON

1t will be happy Thanksgiving day
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs Ashby
Brady, on Revell street, for they have,
after many weeks heard from their
son Theodore, of whom there were
several reports. Of him having been
wounded. There is no truth in the
rumor as Theodore writes he is well,
and the letter is dated October %.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brady have heard from
all three sons in the past week. Two
are in the Army and one in the Navy.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
THE CHAMPION
POTATO GROWER

S. R. Colbert, a farmer near s..
Margaret's brought to The Evening
Capital Office Saturday, half bushel has
ket of white potatoes which are por-
ton of his crop of ~ bushels. When
counted, we find that 16 po atoes fill
the basket, and he states that he grew
the " bushels from a planting of
three bushels.
Can any farmer beat this?
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
VACATION REVOKED

Owing to the pressure incident upon
Saturdays football game the vacation
order of Mr.. C. A. Forester, local
manager OF the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, were revoked.
Mr.. Forester hopes to get his vaca-
tion by Thanksgiving. when substi-
tute will be sent.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
TRIAL SET FOR sECRETARIEs

The trial of the suits against former
Secretaries of State to recover fees
which, it is alleged. they retained lille
gaIly while they were in Office is as
signed for tomorrow before Judge
Dawkins. in the Superior Court, but
viii probably not be reached until
later in the week.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
JAMES CALDWELL
GIVEN TEN YEARS
Sentence Imposed By Jury In The
Circuit Court This
Morning

James Caldwell was given a ten
year sentence in the penitentiary by
the jury in the Circuit Court this
morning for shooting with intent to
kill
Carrie Lannahan, was given is
months in the penitentiary for bigamy.
II was brought out in the trial she had
married a soldier while the wife OF
another man, and had collected the
soldiers stipend from the government.
There were several other minor
cases disposed Of
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25

The class of 1919 Annapolis High
School will give a ma .inee dance We'd
nesday, November 81, from $3.50 to 6
o'clock. in the High School Assembly
Hall
The dance is a subscription affair,
and the admission is priced at 20
cents.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
RESIDENCE In BALTIMORE

Mr.. and Mrs Carryl Bryan, Of War
dour, will take up their residence in
Baltimore at the Shirley, on December
for several months.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
Fresh Shocked Oysters Daily

Delivered In Sanitary Bottles TO any part
of the city by Pint. Quart, and Gallon.
Also Fruits of all kinds. All orders re-
j. A. BROWN. 275 Severn Avenue. East
port, il you miss wagon street. Call
up.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-25
MISSED GOAL AND
TUMBLE, RESULT IN
ACADEMY'S DEFEAT

Confined from page u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Bolivian Potato Production

IN A very instructive report, published in
4 recent Bulletin Of the Geographical
Society OF La Paz' by it's president, some
interesting facts concerning the potato
production in certain countries of South
America are presented. 1t seems that at
the weekly and annual potato fairs in
many important trading towns on the pla-
teaUs of Peru and Bolivia scores of va
rieties of potatoes the report Identifies
lS4) are offered for barter in numberless
sacks and giant heaps. 1t is worth while
knowing that in the Bolivian and Peru
Wan tablelands and high mountain val
leys the potato continues to form the
chief and in many places almost the only
vegetable food of the farmers and shep-
herds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Around the World and Back A9ai1
Japanese Hosiery Trade

~ branch of Japanese manufacture
"as' IN recent years, and especially
since the outbreak of the nresent
""i' SHOWN more remarkable develop
ment than hosiery, whose expectation has
increased tenfold during the last decade.
whlle the figures for 1916 show an in
crease or $50 per cent over 1915.
Here are the official export fquras.
1914, 3,266,064 yen (yen equal to soc Of
our money!; 1915, 10,717,524 yen; 1916.
2s,834391 yen.
before the war India took 90 Der cent
oil the total consumption. Since then
England has become the principal Gus
tomer-so much the worse for Germany.
The quality of the outout is. of course. a
better one
The making Of hosiery in Japan began
fifty-odd years ago. To-day the trade
las risen to d high degree of perfection
The government is now taking the neces-
sary steps to keep the European markets
even after the war is over. The founda-
ton for the present prosperity Of the
hosiery trade was laid during the wars
with China and Russia.
The main hosiery manufacturing CEN
ters are Osaka, Toxic, Aichi, iyago, Kan
agawa and Miye. Osaka turns out about
so per cent Of the total. Cheapness of
labor and abundance of cotton and silk ex-
plain the enormous success of this special
branch of the Japanese trade
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Protecting Concrete in
Cold " Gather

nURING the recent cold weather it was
~ interesting to observe the develop
ment of ''time-imi contract, which was
carried on in Chicago without any ma
terial interruption. This contract, for a
one story and basement factory, 80 by 100
feet in size was awarded about the middle
of last December The entire work, in
Guiding the cXcavating Of the basement,
constructing the foundations, basement
walls and piers and erecting the super
structure. was completed within the limit
of five weeks.
The basement walls and a centre row of
piers were of concrete Forms for the
concrete were constructed in the usual
manner. About one foot inside the base
ment wall forms, and the same distance
outside the pier forms, another form was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

among the worlds commercial fleets IN to
August, l9l4-has addressed herself to
China, despairing of receiving the required
heip IN Canada and the United States.
The Shanghai Dock and Engineering
Company Capital S5,000,0OO), the Yang
tsau Engineering Works, near Hank'eu.
working mainly with Chinese capital. and
the Hong Kong and Whampoa Company
gladly embraced the opportunity offered to
them to make few honest dollars and to
enhance at the same time the credit and
glory of their fatherland
Although the building material is. rela-
lively speaking, very expensive in China
labor is so cheap that Chinese shipbulders
can easily compete with their European
and American colleagues
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Education in Uganda

4 RCHDEACON R. H. WALKER be-
1 "A gins his article on education in
ganda, in the last issue of The Journal
this paragraph:
"A hot, moist climate seems usually to
produce two things-an abundant vegeta-
ton and strong dissemination on the
part of the inhabitants for strenuous and
sustained effort.
But Uganda, it seems. offers an excep-
ton to this rule of tropical inertia The
people, in the very construction of their
houses, in their articles Of native manu-
facture-in brief. in their whole social
make-up-surpas the surrounding tribes
The writer thus continues:
The Ugandans. therefore, quite naturally
formed very fertile ground for educational
effort. Especially the young men, from the
very first day of the opening of their coun-
Try to Christian civilization. were tiled with
keen desire to better themselves.
For many years the Bible and the Prayer
Book We're the only literature of the inhab-
tants. Gradually they woke up to the fact
that TIE world was much larger than they had
supposed, and that the setting did not
fall into hole at some measurable distance
IN the west
After certain time broader layers of the
Jgandan society, in their eagerness to sell
their goods to Europeans, felt the need of be-
coming more closely acquainted with the
three Rs.
schools were consequently started by the
missionaries, at first only in the chief towns;
hut now almost every village has its own
schoolhouse. Soon boarding schools under
European supervision provided for the
better classes of the population. Football
long before the young Ugandan misses woke
up TO the advantages of fair education
Wien the idea of educating girls was first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

built. Before the concrete was placed this
space between the inner and outer forms
was filled with solidly tamped stable
manure.
The mixing apparatus was so placed
that the concrete was wheeled but a short
distance. The sand was heated by piling
it over cylinder made of boiler iron,
which extended through the pile. A fire
was maintained continuously in this large
pipe. The water was heated in barrel
on the mixer platform by means of steam
from small vertical boiler placed near
the end of the mixer. The stone was not
heated, and no anti-freezing preparation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Testing Psychology in the Army

NOHE astonishing results obtained from
psychological tests in the American
army are reported in "The Medical Rec
ofd' IN the case Of recent examinations at
camp Dix, New Jersey, as to mental fit
hess for military service:
When the chief examiner Of the psyche
ogscai department needed a staff Of clerks
shd sse.starts he asked the division head
quarter 70 assign the necessary men from
,ss depot brigade. The authorities told him
ns n'ignt have the whole brigade from which
70 caoose. ~ result six hundred men we're
'soiected 20 she psychological tests and the
szaty highest we're ehoaen for department
nrTiee Without knowing their occupations or
mslisary rank
y mas fouad thai BIZ the test the cxamin-
Wy mad practically stripped the organization
VI the men who saw that the orders from
vac o'sicers we're carried out by the men in
me ranks, and that {. waa neccssary To make
s9ae other Adjustment Such finding rs
.a's ~ regarded ~ highly satisfactory from
1@o x.anapo.nts
~ has given great satizfactIon 70 the rner
"'ssfes,ed In the psychological tests as 81
p,sof 81 the accuracy of these tests and it II
~" compliment, 70 the system that enables
.hs oheers 70 pick for important positions
.sa "noss mental scores we're later shown
~ e' nigh average However the psyehol-
S'ss eiaim that their method has the ad~
image on it, side since II enables them To
successful choice Ia fifty Minutes
~Ss " takes the ofiiesrg number Of
$500 70 make suitable selection"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

4 MEXICAN troops in France are
"A now equipped with q new variety
Of steel helmets which, according
to THE Illustrated World" are shock
proof, almost bulet-proof, and which, in
addition, carry visor to protect the eyes,
nose and temples. This bit of headwear
greatly resembles the helmets worn by
knights of the Middle Ages, and is de-
scribed as follows:
when putting on his headpiece the sol
der first dons u skull cap of soft felt which
is covered with smooth oilcloth on the out
side The skull cap snaps, by hook and eye
arrangement, to the visor of the metal hel-
met itself. This is the only attachment,
however, so that when the headpcce is struck
by ut Of shrapnel other missile it can
give gancngly with the bullet, increasing
UNNECESSARILY the wearer's chance for get
ting away unscathed. Under the old sys-
TEN the helmets were 'shrapnel-proof until
nit BY shrapncl' az one Tommy sarcastically
observed With the new variety, however,
ANYTHING except q smashing, direct MT is de-
fected completely. and the latter sometimes
is TUNED sufficiently to keep the wound from
being serious.
nThe soft skull cap lessons the shock, and
70 give added protection set of soft rub
her pads is inserted beneath the metal to
keep the heavy jar from causing conclusion
Of the brain.
"The metal part of the helmet is comprised
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
A Thousand Automatic
Telephones for Australia

ORDERS aggregating ! 900 lines of au-
~ tomato central Office equipment and
1000 telephones equipped with the dial have
just been placed to be used as additions
to the automatic exchanges in Australia.
This is the second such order placed since
the beginning Of 1917, the first one. for
1900 lines, being received in February.
The progress of the automatic in Aus
tralia has been most rapid. Only five
years ago there was a single .,le0-line
exchange in operation, at Geelong. To-
day there are nearly score of exchanges
and a total of practically $4,000 lines of
automatic equipment in service through
out the commonwealth. No central" is re-
quired and thus MISUNDERSTANDING are
Standardization The Electrical Etpe1i-
MeRter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Getting Rid of Flat-F DOT

THAT fiat feet can IN many cases be
cured so that fewer candidates for
the army will be rejected is evidenced by
the results of cure tried out at Fort
Ethan Allen, Vermont, according to THE
Medical Record Out Of four hundred
men put under treatment about 30 per
cent were returned to the ranks cured.
The treatment recommended is as follows
The feet and legs should be free Shoes and
stockings should be removed. Under drawers
and breeches loosened so as IN no way 20 re-
STREE or limit muscular action of the legs. The
toe exercises are the first ones taken up. The
men stand on q raised platform-a Pinch
Iaank IS sufficient; they are then directed TO
Aex the toes TO the extreme point of nexion
with hard pull Of the fexor muscles OF tle
sole o. the foot at the extreme point -
fexion. This is followed by extension with
out effort. THIS exercise is repeated contint.-
sGsly from five to ten minutes. the shorter
period At the beginning, gradually lengthen-
'ng tne time Of this particular exercise until
the iu!l time is possible without fatigue.
me second exercise is q continuation Of this
aexion q the toes on the sole of the foot,
plus inversion OF the foot to the extreme,
bringing INTO the action the tibalis antcus
strong, hard pull is made, then the foot is
allowed to resume its usual position without
any muscular effort.
AT the beginning, fifteen twenty min
uses Is sufficient for the entire routine of ex-
ereise. Later, after the muscles become
stronger, full half hour may be devoted to
'ais without marked fatigue. The plan as
outlined above should be carried out each
morning under the supervision Of man
Trained along this line. The patients should
be instructed TO repeat this performance each
night on retiring. devoting one-haif the time
consumed in the morning. Many OF the cases
with marked aversion Of the foot walk with
the toes turned out The men are instructed
10 wax with the toes turned IN at all exer-
eises aud a. all other times during the day
We believe that this latter advice relative
70 waking is vitality important in the general
handing and treatment Of these cases"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Where Hard Beds Are
Easier

WHEN in a South China hospital all
the beds were provided with springs
and mattresses supplied by a philanthropic
American all the patients were found next
morning sleeping on the floor After be-
ing used to boards covered with a mat
they could not sleep properly on a soft
oed
This fact will not surprise our soldiers,
many of whom, returning from ''tenting
on the old camp ground have abandoned
the Gowny couch prepared by mother in
favor Of the more natural hoor-N og1d
Outlook.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
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'"""s> Observation-Disclosures
The Cows Near The Front Are
Blamed if Their Milk Isn't Up
&c Standard-But What Can
Poor Cow Do if She
Has Shell Shock?

CHELL SHOCK is now recognized as
one Of the commonest and most Sc
~ rious injuries of war, but she'll shock
affecting COWS is somewhat more novel A
case Of this sort is noted by The Lancet"
in the defence made by a milk dealer in
explaining why the milk he sold was not
Of orthodox purity:
The defendant claimed that the milk
reached the consumer exactly as it came from
the COWS. but 1t was drawn at time when
there was an air raid and the animals were
suffering from shell shock. The bench did
rot accept this explanation and the defendant
vas accordingly fined. Without discussing
the defendants statement. there can be little
doubt that such a defence might well be valid
IL IS well known that through restless
pess or nervousness holds back her milk, and
the quality is often unfavoraby affected un-
der such circumstances. Witness the occur
renee OF the milk depreciatIng in quality
when the cows are placed on exhibit. Thus
the analysis of milk obtained from a COW at
an agricultural show occasion prove,
to contain only 1855 per cent of fat, bu5 the
next day the milk was normal containing
S.64 per cent.
The quality of human milk is known also
TO be affected in some cases by mental strain
anxiety fright. Under such influences
normal metabolism and nutrition may we'll be
disturbed. with the result that the normality
o. the secretion of the nlammary glands is
.Rterfered with. The fact calls to mind the
illness sometimes produced BY eatine the
flesh of overhunted game or of overdriven
cattle. In the big drives in the Argentine The
days journey is restricted 10 certain mum
ber OF miles, which if exceeded. the beasts
getting tired, is apt to render the flesh unap-
petlzlng and unsound.
"Liebig. in his Letters or Chemistry.' pub
hshed good many years ago in our own col
umnS, cited case in which the flesh Of a
roebuck which had struggled violently after
having been caught in & snare gave rise 20
symptoms o. poisoning and, according to
Gautier. pigs have beer fatally poisoned
through being fed upon the flesh of horse
which had died during its struggles when be-
ing broken in. ana there are also recorded by
the same writer cases OF human poisoning by
the flesh Of roebucks which had died in g
state Of terror or exhaustion"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

Hibbs, writing to that publication, points
cut that those methods, admirable for
large plants, would be sure to prove
rather expensive for q small one" And.
he continues:
Following are couple of methods that
may be employed to watch the smoke and
assist IN keeping it down to the proper den
city and that can be used by almost any
plant, no matter how small Some of the
small plants have more trouble with smoke
than the large ones, as they do not have as
efficient method Of operations; and there is
more complaint in small place, as many of
the homes arc owned by the tenants.
zone method OF smoke observation is to
place post IN the boiler house yard with
Il mirror attached to It and set at such an
angle as will enable the boiler attendant
when standing in the doorway see Fig. II to
easily observe whether his chimney is smok-
ing or not. If it is, he can remedy the cause
"The other method can be used only in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Saving Daylight in New
Zealand

4 I PRESENT standard time in New
L "a Zealand differs from Greenwich time
by liz hours. This time was adopted in
1868, before the present worldwide system
of zone time was introduced. The Yelling
ton Philosophical Society is now agitating
the question of making New Zealand time
exactly II hours in advance of Greenwich
time, thus conforming to the regular hour
zones, and also securing. throughout the
year, the advantages of half hour of
daylight saving. '-Scientifc American.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Currency of the Dominican
Republic

IN 1897 the United States gold dollar was
a adopted as the standard of value in
the Dominican Republic. United States
gold and silver coins and. bills constitute
the principal medium of exchange. In
addition however, there is estimated to be
about 100000 pesos of metal coin of
Dominican coinage in circulation, which
passes at the fixed exchange of to l.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

mn THE accompanying picture one sees
\ British Tommy" of the signal
service testing an army telephone line
near the front. Comment explaining the
process appears in the February number
of "The Electrical Experimental:
THE little poles shown in this British Of
fetal photograph are used to keep the wires
high enough from the grousd to avoid
grc unding, while at the same time they ar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

boiler plants, in which the chimney rests on
The TOD Of the boiler. A Pinch pipe is put
through the stack at such an angle that the
fireman can see through i from the floor.
The pipe has several large holes drilled
through It to admit the smoke, but not large
enough 10 affect the draft An electric light
IS hung at the TOP end OF the pipe, as shown
in Fig. .. When the fireman looks through
the pipe he can see at glance whether
the light is clearly visible or not. The clear
with which the light be seen, of
course, indicates the smoke condition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

low enough to prevent their being seen by
the enemy.
The telephone ineman in this war is as
much Of a hero as the man in the trenches.
tic must often go out 10 repair broken cir
cults when that particular line is under shell
Ire. The ears OF tie army must not fail
AoI even Tor an instant. Every break in
eacuit must be repaired as soon as posi-.
bic. and that usually means few minutes
after she'll has hit. One thing is certain
the signal corps men rendering wonder
tuily efficient service in this WAY"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

HN7ORGES HANDLES OG SJOFART-
l y STIDENDE' (Chrstiania) writes
that Norway, which through the Ger
man submarine attacks has lost up
TO date more than one-third of her
former tonnage-and the Norwegian
merchant marine held the fourth place