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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
II MEMORIAM

-onesome, yep! Amt got none, not
not no more;
.ost all my pep. Amt had no fun
not since the war.
30 rhum chaud, no cherie, an / can't
sing much,
think we was too pressay TO lick
them Dutch.
% some day I'm goin back to gay
Paree--
That is. if 1 can make the proper
touch.
70, there amt 10 Fiji or Mimi left
behind.
Don't think SO. An prohibition amt
my curse,
The way they put that over wasn't
kind,
3ut, seem we was gone. they might
done worse
left pal, that's what when / come
back
d like to see him; he was buddie
right;
stick? Say, he stuck tighter to me
than my pack,
IN fight? He never quit me in no
fight
It never mattered how much grief
l had,
When I was lonesome, or a-feelin'
blue
He'd think O. somethin' else that l
eould do.
Him just bein' there kept me from
feelin' bad
So, thought if l could get back over
there
an stick around awhile most any
where
Along the Boulevard say the Cafe
Angleterre,
Why. after while I'd be right apt to
see
Wy pal that used to stick around with
me,
sim promenadin' on some Trenches
neck. maybe
An ne, seem ali them service stripes
you know,
Red, white. or kind o white. and sort
o. blue,
I'd say. Just to surprise him. kind o.
slow:
Hello. OF timer. how's the world
with you?
What you been doin' since the great
war, C0ot?
Huh, 1t was your 'dad-him that
looked like you?
Excuse me. Cootie, my mistake -
thought,
Them stripes an all-you was a vet
eran, too. TX. Fl. III.
The Stars and Stripes, Washington
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
PIPE MAKERS USING BIRCH
Wood Has Been Found to Be Eminent
ly Suitable, After Treatment by
a Special Process.

American birch since the war has &C.
CURED a South American name. Nova
days it is fashioned into pipes and
then called something besides birch.
The only evident reason for the
change seems TO be the fact that the
process that converts soft birch into Il
hard pipe was originated in a Latin
American country, according to the
New York Evening Sun.
Brentwood owes its new name end
It's present prominence in the pipe in
dustry TO the war, which cut off the
supply of briar and sent the prices
of the stocks in America sky high.
Substitutes have been sought for
the expensive imported briar. The ces-
sation Of importations with the war
they haven't been resumed yet--inten-
sites the search for an American wood
that would provide a suitable substi-
tute.
Many native hardwoods were tried
without success. Most of them were
,lthcr too hard to be worked into pipes
or too neavy to rest comfortably he
tween a smokers HIS. Then some
anr lit on the expedient of trying
soft wood and employing process that
woGld give it the required hardness for
use III pipe manufacturing. Birch was
found the most suitable for the pur-
pose.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
Americanism in Literature.

1t takes more than grammars and
dictionaries to make q literature.
Technical training may give the mega
tive merits of style, as an elocutionist
may help a public speaker by Kidding
him of tricks. But the positive force
Of writing or of speech must come
from positive s0urces-ardor, energy.
depth of feeling or of thought. No
instruction ever gave these, only the
inspiration of a great soul, the great
need, or a great people. We all know
what vast deal of oxygen may 20
into the style of a man; we see in 1t
not merely what books he has read,
what company he has kept, but also
the food he eats, the exercises. he
takes, the air he breathes. And so
there is oxygen in the collective litera-
ture of. nation and it is by the pres
epce of this oxygen that American lit
erature is made great.-Thomas Went
worth Higginson.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
DROWNED COLORED MAN

Shortly after 8 o'clock Saturday
morning John Wheeler. of PASSPORT
while on his way to town saw what
he thought was a body floating under
| spa creek bridge As he was going
work he could not retrace his foot
lied officer Samuel Jones, of East
aori. OF what he had seen. Officer
Jones procured a boat and went in
search of the body which was re
covered and was that of colored
man.
Dr. Welch, acting coroner, was
a0t;fed and the following jury of in
quest was summoned. with Eldridge
Kent, foreman: Frederick Collision.
Alexander johnson, Carson Kelley.
John Wheeler, Enoch Brewer, Arthur
Burns. James Brown. Ralph Johnson
Robert Ford, Melvin Smith and Wes-
ley Smith. After viewing the body
he coroner's jury rendered a verdict
that the man came to his death az
The result of foul play"
Undertaken Albert Adams was no
SEED and got the body. which was
;ill unidentified up to that time, anC
DOL, Il to his undertaking shop tc
prepare il for burial
As john Simms. colored man
vaoee home was in Colts Court. had
been missing since Tuesday last. his
relatives were notified OF the finding
Of the body. and repaired to the un-
dertaker's to view the remains. The
body was identified by his sister.
Mary Nichols, as that of her brother
Difficulty in at first identifying the
body was due to the fact that it had
become badly swollen from having
been in the water for several days
There was a bullet wound over the
left eye that caused the jury TO rem
der its verdict foul play" and other
marks of bruises about the body
Some. however. are of the opinion
that Simms committed suicide by
shooting himself and then jumping
overheard. while others declare he
was seen at an early hour Tuesday
morning sauntering about one of the
lumber yards. and might have beer
mistaken for an intruder and shot
falling into the water afterward.
Simms was known about town. hav-
ing been for some years in the en-
ploy Of J. l. Harrington. liquor deal
or, ut his store, corner Green an5
Main streets. OF late he has been
toing odd jobs. cutting grass, and the
like. and was heard TO complain o.
feeling sick. He left his home early
Tuesday morning and when last seen
was going toward the City Dock.
His funeral took place this after
noon from the home of his sister. %
Colts Court, Rev. Thompson. of As
bury tcolored) NJ. E. Church, Off
ciating.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
SPORES SCATTERED sY WIND
Remarkable Reproduction of Species
OF Fungus is One of the Wonders
of NatuIe.

We often wonder at the amazingly
sudden upspringing of mushrooms and
toadstools. Today the green Of the
lawn is unbroken. In the night a gem
tie rain falls, and we wake TO see
crowded group of yellowish-white
''inkycaps" spreading their parasols
I'm the very shadow of our doorstep.
Mr. Burton o. Longyear in the Cutters
Book describes the marvellous repro
ductive powers of these fragile and
short-lived plants.
Each species of fungus produces
body countless numbers of minute re-
productive bodies called spores. SO
small and light are they that they float
in the air as an invisible dust. Many
of them fall to the ground and are
washed into the soil by rains. Others
are waited away on every breeze. car
red possibly for days, to be brought
down at length by rain many leagues
from their. starting point. In this
way they are carriSd to the ends OF
the earth. busted into every crack and
Granny. lodged on every exposed sur
face of wood or soil and caught on
every dew-molstened leaf or twig.
The amazing number of spores pro-
duced by a single fungus can be real
lied only by knowing their relative
size. Thus in the case Of most puff
balls at least three thousand of tho
globular spores. when laid side by side.
would be required TO form line one
inch long. A compact mass of such
spores, the size Of parlor-match
head. would contain the incomprehen-
sible number of thirty millions of these
microscopic bodies, enough TO cover
an acre of ground with four spores
for every square inch of surface.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
Bachelor Girls and chaperones.

1t is said that an attempt viii he
made by various great ladies' in Lon
don TO revive the custom of young
ladies' going out under the chaperon-
age Of married women, as they used TO
some fifteen or twenty years ago. 1t
is possible that these ladies may be
successful in their own immediate
circle, a London authority on social
matters says, but where the generality
of modern girls are concerned one can.
not imagine such an attempt ut put
ting back the hands of the clock hav-
ing any success. 1t is quite certain
that the bachelor girl, now she has be-
come firmly established, is in England
to stay.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
TO ORGANIZE A
PERMANENT LOCAL
"Y ASSOCIATION

On Wednesday, June Q. at , o'clock
AZ Y ". {. A. headquarters. State
Circle and Francis street. there will
be q meeting for the purpose Of or
ganizing a permanent local ass0cia-
ton. All members and all who wish
TO become members are invited 10 al
tend. A constitution will be adopted
aud the officers and board OF dircc-
tors elected
Mics Sarah Dietrich, Town and
County Secretary Of the East Cen
tral field. with headquarters at phila-
dclphia. has been in the city since
Thursday assisting members Of the
local provisional committee with the
plans She VIII remain until after
the Wednesday meeting.
Capt John Strahorn. attorney for
Tie Y. W c. A. has examined the
proposed constitution carefully and
found that its provisions are in ac-
cord with the laws OF incorporation
Of the State Of Maryland
J The work here was established by
he War Work Council of the Ma
iional Y. ". c. a. over a year ago
and entirely financed by them up IN
til January of the present year. They
made an expenditure Of $4,000. The
Provisional Committee purchased the
building: but all Of the furnishings
including cafeteria equipment, auto
m bile. and living room. bed room.
and Office furniture were turned over
10 the local Association, with no
strings attached TO lie kept by them
If Annapolis people were willing to
raise a budget 10 support the Asso-
citation.
During The latter part Of March and
he first of April sufficient funds were
raised to insure support for the year
and the Provisional Committee voted
to organize.
II is most gratifying to the many
ocal workers and members of the
Y. w. c. A. that it is now possible
hold this organization meeting. i'm
possible before the budget was as
sured
The Young Women's Christian As
ISOLATION has met a need in Anna
coils and has the good wishes O:
he Community in extending its work
a the town and county as a per
manent organization.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
TURNED FROM GRAVE TO GAY
Humorous Incidents That Have
Marked the Presentation of Some
of Shakespeare's Tragedies.

Shakespeare's tragedies have at
times provided much mirth. A cannie
Scot went to see Romeo and Juliet"
in the Henry Irving classic days of
the Lyceum. 1t was all new to him.
When Romeo enters the tomb and
finds Juliet apparently dead Jock
cried out over the front of the gallery:
'Shes only foxing, ma mamie. Gle
her a dig l. the ribs. Thatll wauken
herr'
Another North Britisher went to see
{ "OthellO." When IagO had treacher-
ously wounded Cassie from behind,
the latter's EXPLANATIONS were drown
ed by an anguished voice from the
gallery: Hes stickit him Ma gosh
He's sticl1it him n the legl He's the
vera deilw
One evening "Eamlet'' was put on
the bill in country theater as the
concluding feature of a lengthy roper
tOire. Owing to the lateness of the
hour it was determined to reduce the
play TO three acts. Even this conden-
sation found the graveyard scene only
half through when the town clock
struck twelve.
At that moment the manager stroll
ed on to the stage and remarked TO
the first clown: "Come up cot o. t
grave, George. It's high time we were
al in bed WI DOR neetcaps on."-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
FIVE KNOWN KINDS OF ICE
Application of Pressure Causes
Changes of Movement of Which
the Importance viii Be Seen.

There are, 1t appears, no fewer than
five distinct kinds of Ice. First, there
is the common ice, which is water
frozen at ordinary atmospheric pres
sure. This is called ice 1. 1t is from
10 TO 1875 per cent less dense than
water.
If this is placed under a pressure of
abort 1000 Kilograms the ice melts TO
. water. II the pressure is increased TO
! about AGO Kilograms the liquid water
! freezes again TO another Kind of ice
called ice 8. which is about g per cent
denser than water.
Increasing the pressure TO about
$500 Kilograms we get ice 4, the
volumetric pressure and the density
becoming from 5 to 8 per cent greater
I than water.
If we freeze water at atmospheric
pressure, but with a temperature of
so degrees c., ordinary ice Cce y is
changed into ice 8, which is on the
average per cent denser than water
! and 20 per cent denser than ice 1.
Further increasing the pressure, fee
turns into ice >. Which is about -
per cent denSer than ice l. On further
increasing the pressure, ice changes
to ice and then to ice 4.
Sometimes these changes take place
so quickly that a click is heard The
lower the temperature the more slowly
is the change effected.
This discovery has a practical appli-
cation. When water freezes in a closed
vessel immense pressure is developed.
The bursting of boilers and water
pipes is a familiar example OF this.
The water expands in freezing to ice
| ?, but If the pressure on the ice during
freezing exceeds about 1000 Kilograms,
corresponding to 10000 pounds per
square inch, ice is formed. AS this
is about per cent denser than water
and has less volume, it shrinks rather
than expands.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
TO DEDICATE ATHLETIC
FIELD AT CAMP MEADE

Interest at Camp Meade is centered
in the field day meet. which VIII be
conducted on June 20, in celebration
of the completion OF the new athletic
field. The soldiers have already ex-
pressed their determination Of turn
ing out in a body for the athletic fete
and strong competition for the top
honors is evident. Several candidates
for the Olympic games and victors in
the district and interdepartmental
contests are on hand and ready for the
meet Commanding General william
Reese Scott is supervising the plans
for the athletic meet.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
Oil weIls Detected Electrically.

New uses for electricity are con-
stantly appearing. One of the latest
is Tie detection of crude oil in the
earth instead of boring for it.
1t is stated that crude petroleum
has been located electrically in the
shallow oilfield near CorSicana, Texas.
and that further tests are being made
around Burkburnett. A series of bat
teries is used for the test. the negative
terminal being connected TO a wire
Which is dropped into dry waterhole.
valley or indentation, and the positive
terminal being connected TO LAND
wire" which is used 10 make contact
at various points on the surface Of the
field investigated. 1t is stated that
the higher electrical resistance of oil
compared with other constituents Of
the earth. permits il TO be located by
the reduced detection Of sensitive
instrument in the circuit.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
Novel Bookbindinos.

Among the exhibits at the Ruhleben
exhibition, Westminster, England,
were hundreds OF books which were
bound i'm the camp school at Ruhle-
ben. One is bound in an old leather
glove with the fingers stretched across
the front cover, one word Of the title
being on each finger point. Other
books are bound in portions Of brown
boots, trouserings, velyeteen, and cor
duroy.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
Opposes Higher Fares

Fearing that the proposed increase
in rates on the Annapolis Short Line
would keep many boys away from
the Scout camp near Jones Station
this summer, John G. Mathews. dis
trict commissioner of Boy Scouts, has
written to the Public Service Com
mission protesting against the higher
fares, which he says would prove a
serious drawback to many Of the
boys.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
QUEEN
BEGINS SERVICE

The supeTdreadnaugh Tennessee.
the largest and most formidable bat
ueship aGoat, went into commission
on Thursday last al the Brooklyn
Navy yard Constructed in New
York al a cost Of 500. 100000. she rep
resents the last word in battleship
architecture. she Is 6z5 feet long.
IS feet abeam. and has displaee-
ment OF $4,000 tons.
She is the next thing 10 a pleasure
yacht in the comfort OF her appoint
ment5 for officers and men. she is
the first battleship 10 recruit her en-
tire personnel from the state from
which she takes her name. and she
represents advantages taken from
lessons learned in the battle Of Jut-
land and other important naval bat
ties OF the world war.
This last special feature, which dis
s.nguishes the Tennessee from all
other units Of the United States Navy,
Is the highly organized fighting
brain" inclosed in a steel fort near
are concentrated devices not known
in the battle OF Jutland. enabling the
crew to quickly ascertain the posi-
lion Of enemy craft. Special devices
are installed in this turret which en-
able The crew TO quickly train the
Gonr;eon-inch guns on the enemy be-
fore the crew of any other battleship
known could even sight the Tennes-
see. This new device consists OF three
decks and their fighting complement
is twenty-five men.
BY special signalling devices. con-
nected throughout the ship, reports
from this fighting top can be flashed
instantly to all parts OF the ship, thus
'nsuring instant correction OF range
and rapid FIRE This fighting brain"
IS filled with mechanical devices for
range finding and other delicate in
struments never before used on bat
tleship.
Another important feature in the
construction Of the Tennessee is her
electrical control OF speed, enabling
her TO quickly change from her ca
1acity speed of twenty-one knots to
m almost inperceptible motion. This
s considered an important point,
from the standpoint of maneuvcring.
The Tennessee is believed TO have
icen built with more care for the
comfort of her crew than any other
hattleship in the world. Her size
makes possible capaciOus lockers,
nths and recreation quarters. She
aas a handsomely furnished club
room and library for enlisted men.
She has a printing shop with a limo
type machine, and presses on which
, daily newspaper will he printed
The Tennessee is the FIRST battleship
o be equipped with motion picture
,lmera She will not actually be put
Hto service until August J, when she
ill start on practice cruise to
guantanamo, Cuba. Her present
rev OF Tennesseaans numbers 631.
A large delegation of Tennessee
ok Was in New York Thursday to at
.end The ceremonies. Gov. Roberts
u Tennessee. who was expected to
present. telegraphed that he would
q unable TO DO so. Capt. Il. II. Leigh
the commander of the vessel.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
MONDAY. JUNE 7. 1920.
THE G. o. =. AT CHICAGO

At Chicago tomorrow the Ke-
publican national convention will
..,hegin its worlA Of picking can
didate for President in the cleo
ton this fall. All that can be
said with any degree of Ger
tainty is that the foremost ass
pirants for the nomination are
most likely not 10 get ii. Cen
eral Woods boom has been go
ing backward rapidly, and Hiram
Johnson's has not been going
forward. The yocIerous Cali
fornian really never had much
chance anyhow. but he has
knocked out Wood and Lowden
with his Senate investigation Of
campaign expenditures and dis
closures of fabulous "slush
funds" Johnson is too radical to
suit the G.. O. +. managers :;
Woods identification with com
pulsory military training makes
him unacceptable to very
large part of the electorate. and
Lowden's chief feature is that he
is a Pullman son-in-law. The
best guess is that out of the wei
ter this week at Chicago will
come a dark horse.
The national committee has
been having a cat-and-dog time
in passing on the contested dele
cations from the Southern States.
Some of these were "lily-white"
and others were exactly the OPP
poSite. The colored delegates
from Arkansas, Georgia and Fir-
ginia served notice on the ma
tional committee that the days OF
white leadership of the Republi-
can voting strength of the South
are past. The race issue was set
before the committee in all its
perplexity, but the "all-black"
delegations have been uniformly
thrown out. and new basis of
representation is to be adopted
that will do away with the pre-
pondcrance of the South in G.
Q. p. national conventions.
The South has been for years.
nominating the candidates, and
then giving them not a single.
elector in November. Hereafter,
instead Of having l6S delegates
the States in which the colored
voter has been persistently cod
died and then bowled over. will
have but 81 A Congressional
district that does not poll over
$500 votes for the e.. q. p. will
have no representation. Mary
land. however. will not come
within the prohibition. The
Fifth district. for instance. can
continue to have a colored dele
gate. 1t has one from Prince
Georges county at Chicago this
week, and his alternate is ]. Pier
pont Morgan's son-in-law. Her
bert Livingston Satterlee. of 3.
East seth street and 40 Wall
street, New York city.
On the eve of the convention
comes President Wilson's letter
to the railroad labor leaders, fix
ing responsibility for the high
cost Of living on the do-noEling
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07

The British Ministry of Transport
announces that the total number OF
passenger. exclusive OF season-ticket
holders. carried by the 16 principal
railway companies of the United
Kingdom during 1919 was 974,259, O66
LIT. 27s127. or 19.1 per cent. more
than in 1913.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07

Republican Congress. For a
party that such a short while
ago saw only victory in Novem-
Der, the G. o. 2. is now in sad
predicament.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07

Anthony Case, of Fostoria, o., has
returned to the bank at Greenville a
check that he found on his farm after
a severe windstorm and that had been
blown across six counties.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07

Prussia's potash deposits are esti-
mated to contain salts equivalent to
2.00O.0OO,000 metric tons of potash.
enough to supply the world for 1000
years at the present rate Of consump-
ton.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
DIE
saEzzE2EWzzssa1z,

DENYER-on june 9th. M the residence
Of his sister. Mrs. Walter r. Bennett. IA
Market street. WILLIAM FRANKLIN
DENVER. aged y wears. so; Of Mar
garet and the late George w ~. Denver
Funeral tomorrow afternoon at 3 u. m.
from 81. Marys Church. Intermen. a.
Cedar Bun Cemetery. II
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07

Drinking near-beer is about the
same kind of wisdom that swapping
Liberty Bonds for fake oil stock is
Houston Post.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07
CITY TAX SALE
City Property to be Sold to Satisfy lan
Due for the Year 1913.
COLLECTOR & TREASURER'S oII'i
Annapolis. Nd.


Nav = W
hereby give netice that under an1 y.
virtue Of authority vested 100 NE b} 20.
ton 5S-B. Of the city Charter ol A-
polls. Maryland. title. Taxes the A'''
signed Collector and Treasurer i".
thy for tie Levy OF 1913, having
upOn the same in accordance 2" lIt
v.iil oTer 20 p"hlic sale At the Court H'-
door in the CITY Of AnnnunLi.. %
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-07

An that lot Of ground situated as,yg
city on Duke of Gloucester street II .t
with improvements thereon, as-rs''es. y
Hannah Gray on the assessments ~" 1gl.
said city for taxes due for the 3e1'