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Evening star., 1921-01-17
Harrison Coming Home.

MANILA, P. L-Governor General
Francis Burton Harrison of the Phil
ippines announced today that he will
leave the Philippines for the United
States March 27. There Is much
speculation here regarding the new
governor general to be appointed by
Mr.. Harding.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Omeials join strikers.

MADRID. - The strike Of govern
ment employees has had the immediate
effect Of interfering with the state
machinery. high officials joining with
their subordinates in refusing to con-
tinue their functions. Consequently.
government checks are unsigned and
persons to whom interest is due from
the public debt have been unable to
collect the money to which they are
entitled.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Chile short Of Food.

VALPARAISO. Chile. A serious
shortage Of foodstuffs in the northern
ports of Chile has been brought
about by the suppression Of sailinEs
of steamers Of the South American
Steamship Company, owing to
taken by the government to relieve
the situation and orders have been
given for a national transport to
proceed to IQuique for provisions.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

VALPARAISO, Chile.-The question
resulted in wide divisions In the re-
publican party. now, holding it's con-
vention at La Paz, say advices re-
ceiyed here. Tho majority Of the
delegates are declared to favor the
election of Bautista Savedra, who was
proclaimed provisional president after
the revolution Of last July.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Outlaws Pillaxe Santa Cruz.

BUENOS AIRES.-Damages esti-
mated to total many millions Of pesos
has been caused by the depredations Of
bands OF outlaws who are reported to
be roaming through the territory of
Santa Cruz. pillaging. burning crops
and ranches, destroying agricultural
machinery and killing and terrorizing
Inhabitants.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

Disabled Ship Reaches Halifax.
= HALIFAX. N. S.-with her ,rudder
disabled, the Norwegian motor ship
Parthta, from Jacksonville for Dundee,
Evening star., 1921-01-17

cONSTANTINOPLE. hun
dred refugees have been converted to
bolshevism by soviet propagandists
here. The communist committee re-
Gently received substantial funds
from the bolshevik representative at
Batum to help these converts and for
financing the bolshevik movement.
which. owing to dissatisfaction caused
by the high cost of living and unem-
ployment, appears to be growing.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Flyer Reaches Guatamala City.

GUATEMALA CITY. Guatemala
Juan Leguia, son of President Legufa
Of Peru, who is attempting sea,
plane fight from Peru to the United
brought with him a cordial message
from the Peruvian government ad-
dressed to all the Central American
countries
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Chinese Banker. HeIn R.ilro.a.

ChAhese Bankers Help Railroads.
fEhlNG-An important precedent
was established today by the signing
OF q six million yen loan by a group
of thirty-seven Chinese banks with
the ministry Of communications for
the purchase of cars and locomotives
for the four principal railways This
was the first time that there had been
such concerted support by native
bankers of tho governmental con-
structiva effortS
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Plan to Return Railways.

MEXICO CITY.-A step toward the
contemplated return Of the Mexican
railways from government control to
private ownership has been taken by
the cabinet. At a conference Of the
cabinet with President Obregon 1t was
ordered that a commission be appointed
to investigate every phase of the rail-
way problem.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

COPENTIAGEN-A special delega-
ton from soviet Russia has arrived
in Helsingfors to negotiate with the
Finish government. The delegation
comprises eight persons. all OF whom
will be held In quarantine until next
T,lesday.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Banks to Aid Starring Chinese;
Gable Me,us of World in Brief
Vienna Strike Ends-Central American Fedora
ton Planned-Ex-Empero Charles Improves.

By the Associated Press.
PEKING, January ia loan OF
100000 taels by American. British.
French and Japanese banks. to be ap-
piled to the relief of famine-stricken
districta has been concluded by the
ministry of finance with the approval
Of diplomats assigned to the Chinese
republic.
The loan will be secured by a Gus
toms surtax amounting to 10 per cent'
the date of the application OF WHICH
has not been fixed.
Ex-Emperor Charles Better.
GEEEVA.-Former Emperor Cnalies
Of Austria-Hungary. who has oeen
i'll with influenza, is recovering SAT-
isfactorily from the attack, It Is an
nounced in a PranginS dispatch.
VIII Review Pacific Fleet.
VALPARAISO. Chile. -Presldeht
Alessandri and members Of the CAP.
met will review the Pacific Meet OF
the United States during its visit at
Valparaiso, according to the program
arranged. North American residents
here have organized a reception com
mittee for the occasion, headed by
Capt. Edward H. Burrell. American
naval attache.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

vIENNA.-As' q result of an urgent
appeal from Vienna the
Polish government has instructed its
ambassador at Budapest to wise the
passports Of all Galician Jewih refu-
gees now interned in Hungary who
desire to return to their native homes.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

numerous wild cats. wild boar and
deer. Altogether the two sportsmen
accounted for seventy-six animals in
the course OF the day, Of which King
Alfonso shot more than half.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
Artist Sentenced for Forgery.

Artist Sentenced for Forgery.
ROME-Luis Ignatius Mesones. the
PERUVIAN painter. arrested q year ago
charged with the murder of his wife,
the daughter of a widely known art
gallery proprietor. and with several
other offenses. was convicted today of
forgery. Mesones received a sentence
OF three years in prison on the for
gerry charge.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

SAN LUCAR, Spain-King Alfonso.
with Arohduke Frederick Of Austria,
angagOd Sunday in IN extremely suc-
caesful hunting expedition In the for.
es&s ek this Vicinity, bringing down
Evening star., 1921-01-17
America. Woman Held In Berlin.

C000008 SGcU1ItIeD Nh 1znte0.
OTTAWA-The check placed some
time ago on reimportaion Of Ca
madam securities hoated in England
has been removed. Sir Henry Drayton,
minister Of finance, has announced.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

FI20 C60I101 OeWD2 DO0ys
PARASITIC committee OF jewish
DELEGATIONS, which has been in ses-
sion hero for q week, has concluded
its meeting with a decision to create
one central representative body for
the Jews Of all countries.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
spain I'm TariR Diaculties.

,MADRID.-Tari6 increases intended
to be directed against France, in con-
sequence of the attitude of that coun-
try in connection with. the importa-
ton Of Spanish wines. have now
taken a turn which affects the worlds
trade with Spain. Hundreds Of con-
tracts with foreign concerns have
been cancelled as a result Of the i'm
position Of virtually prohibitive
duties.
Evening star., 1921-01-17
vienna Strike Settled.

VIENNA-The strike of the tele-
graph and telephone employees in the
postal service has been settled by
the government. after three days of
disorders.
Evening star., 1921-01-17

LoNDON-Sir Alfred Mond. the
noted English hnancier, and Prof.
Chain Weizmann, the English Zionist
leader. arrived in Jerusalem yester-
day. says q dispatch from that city.
Sir Alfred, accompanied the Zionist
leader to Palestine in connection with
the plans for the development Of the
country.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
Reached for Hip Pockets.

Making of moving pictures is rather
novelty in Arizona; and BiSbee resi-
dents have difficulty in getting used to
seeing gaudily dressed western bad
mon" rushing around with artillery
strapped on .heir belts.
Some of the real Old-time western
ers are apt TO jump TO the wrong con-
CluSion when movie westerner" goes
on tine warpath. Tor this reason a
moving picture company, planning to
stage a holdup scene at the depot at
Osborn, eight miles south of here, had
the train crew warn passengers no less
than ten times before reaching the sta
ton that movie train robbery"
would be staged. In spite of this sew
eral old-timerS on the train reached
for their hips when the bandits" ap-
peared and had to be convinced by
follow passengers that the holdup was
not the real thing.-Los Angeles
Times.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
NEW FRENCH LINER ARTISTIC
The Paris, Recently Launched, Has
Eleven Decks and is Like an
Art Museum.

A writer In a recent number of lie
Petit Parisien devotes nearly column
of most poetic prose 10 the new steam
ship Paris Of the French Transatlantic
company. launched recently at lie
Havre for the New York run. The
Paris Is little more than seven hun
dred and sixty eight feet in length (not
quite as long as the Mauretania), has
IL decks. Ga lifeboats and three stacks.
Her weight is $4,000 tons.
While not palatial, the new liner is
described MS work of art. She car
ries a crew of 664 and about 5000 pas
Sengers. Among the features of her
equipment are mentioned terraced
cafe and an elaborate children's play
room. The vessel is an oil burner.
and all the cooking and heating Is done
by electricity.
The French writer, above mentioned,
observes that the Paris would do very
nicely as museum and Is "perma-
nent, lasting salon of modern French
art" In the grand drawing room,
lined with mauve woodwork, the Pain
ter Lalique has employed design of
butterflies representing the hours,
while Symbolical canvas from the
brush of Albert BeSnard pays homage
TO France and America.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
MAY COOL HOMES IN SUMMER
HUNGARIAN Engineer Has Designed
Evaporation Scheme to Regulate
Temperature.

Americans may soon be living In
"iee houses"
The houses will not be the kind in
which ice is stored, but new type
of dwelling designed by Leopold Pol
lax. an engineer and constructor, OF
Budapest, Hungary. He is contem-
plating building a house manufacture
Ing plant in Philadelphia so that the
public will have a place TO escape the
sweltering heat without trekking
shoreward or northward.
Mr.. Pollak said that the houses will
be made of infusorial earth and COW
cred with porous bricks. In appear
ance they will be similar to those
used by the natives of South America,
who use monkey jugs" or water bot
ties made of pottery, to cool their
homes. 4 f
The South American natives place
in each corner of a. room water jug,
and in. a few mements the room is
cooled by evaporation. Mr.. Pollak
does not go into detail about his new
plan, but states that he can regulate
the cooling of a house in summer in
similar manner as that of heating
the same building in winter. He said
he can make & home as cool as an ice
cellar on the hottest day in the year
at a cost of approximately 10 cents
a day.-Philadelphi Public Ledger.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
KILLED WIFE TO END AGONY
srlton Gassed Woman He Loved, In
curabiy III. and Then Ended
His Own Life.

"The doctor gives anesthesia TO
hopeless agony. The soldier spares a
thrust or a shot to a writing com
rade. Any decent man shoots his
women folk TO save them from dis
honor r
Such was the explanation made by
L. II. Eardley for killing himself anu
his wife in their little cottage at
scarborough, says an English ex-
change.
Mrs. Eardley was Y hopeless invalid,
and her disease had developed TO the
point where it became necessary to
place her In a home for the mentally
afflicted In the letter from which
the extracts above are made, Eardtey
said:
For two years now my wife mas
lived in hourly torment Her condi-
ton grows daily worse. can do moth
ing more for her; my will 10 live and
win is broken. There is nothing be
fore her but the madhouse, without
even the alienation l have been able
TO bring.
However human law may regard
the matter, my conscience justities
me; indeed. should live a coward IN
my own esteem if l failed her in this
extremity"
Even in his sorrow Eardley thought
of those who would discover the trag-
edy, and in the letter he wrote to the
friend telling him of his determina-
ton, he added:
.The bodies Of myself and my dear
wife will be found together In the lit
tie dressing room. Great care must
be taken in entering tho house; the
dressing room and communicating
bedroom will be full of gas
After hearing all the testimony anu
the reading of the letter the jury
found that the dead man took ms
own life and that of his wife While ne
was temporarily of unsound mind ana
added an expression of sympathy with
the relatives.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
EXPLOSIONS.

Volcanic explosions are commonly
regarded as the release of stores of
energy kept confined by external pres
sure, and boiler explosions and geyser
eruptions are typical of this class Of
outbreaks. An expert of the United
States geophysieal laboratory finds
that another class of explosions, that
of explosive mixtures like gunpewder,
are not likely TO occur in volcanoes.
But third class, that of explosive
compounds brought into CONTACT with
oxygen or water, is--more probably
the usual source of volcanic explO-
sions. and is illustrated by aluminium
seSquioxide - finely divided - brought
into such relation with water in the
electric furnace that mechanical detO
nation causes violent explosion. The
dust of Mont Peiee may have been
analogous TO the aluminium sesqui-
oxide.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
CUTTING REPORTED
ON BOTH SIDES IN
TODAY'S ELECTION


port Then there was another rumor
of deal in the Third district ana
other sections in favor of r. Tilghman
Brice. Republican. for Commissioner,
over Weems r. Duvall. 1t Is not
thought. however, that the reported
deals assumed anything Like the pros
portions OF concerted movement.
Whatever the reports amount TO.
there is no doubt but that the indie
pendent vote, which has been growing
steadily in recent years, is making il
self manifest in the battle of ballots
today.
Leading men among the Democrats
expressed confidence OF the election OF
the entire ticket although il was ad-
mittci that Lovely, the Republican
candidate for Sheriff, would poll a
:leavy vote and would make the fight
close with r. Harry Arnold. his Demo
cratic opponent. especially in Anna
polls. il was predicted~that Mr.. Levely
would run ahead of his ticket
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
"A BIRD of a Story.

r Lieut.. Chester Lewis of st. Clairsvina
Ohio, executive officer on the United
States. ship Paducah, is responsible for
the following: While the Padueahswas
Mt the Isle of Pines one of the hHejack-
cts captured peacock, which was
placed aboard when they started north.
The peacock took to ro0sting on the
radio shack and now is minus the one
part of its decorations for which pea
cock is noted--its tail. One night after
the peacock had gone to rOost. the radio
operator turned on the Juice" and
started sending messages.
The beautiful tail of the peacock was
in line with the sparks and the feath-
ers caught fire, considerable of the tail
being burned off. However. the fire,
according to Lewis, was discovered
and part of the Atlantic ocean was used
in eXtinguishing the blaze.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
Bull Became Municipal Idol

In 1885 Il Barcelona bull became a
municipal idol, the object of "A regu-
lar Apis worship. When he had killed
five men and ten or twelve horses, the
yard around his stable was thronged
with devotees, though his keeper, fear
ing foul play, would admit no stranger
TO the interior of the sanctuary. AT
ter his last victory, on the festival of
San Antonio. the crowd went almost
crazy with. excitement under deafen-
Ing cheers and a continual shout of
"BOIlos pdr ell toro!" Cakes for the
bulD libation of reals came down
like shower, and when the victor
was dragged out OF the gate young
girl who had got a prize in a pan
tQmime, leaned over the balcony, and
at the risk of being impaled crowned
the CORY brute with her own garland
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
japanese Easy to Learn.

Sir Dennison Ross, director of the
L.udOn school of oriental studies, i'll
an eXhortation to his cOuntrymen To
learn japanese. says that this is one
of the easiest languages of the world
To pronounce. Most of the words end
in vowels and none of the consonants
offer any difficulties" The structure
of japanese is very peculiar and very
strange to the beginner. 1t is hard TO
realize a grammar which recognizes no
persons and genders-but such is the
case with the japanese. The language
also has no relative pronOuns. How
ever there is no reason why people
whose mother tongue is English should
fight shy of the language. For prac-
teal, everyday purposes, six months
study of the spoken tongue will carry
an intelligent man Il long way provided
he has competent teachers.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
BEARSKlN A MARK or HONOR
Five British Regiments Won Right 20
Wear Headdress, at the Battle
Of Waterloo.

Recently published portraits Of the
king OF England at the historic British
ceremony, "trooping of the colors,' at
the Horse guards parade in London
show him wearing the high. shaggy
bearskin headdress which appears TO
the uninitiated TO be a heavy. >uncom-
Portable article of apparel. AS mat
ter of fact IT is not as uncomfortable
as II looks.
The bearskin. as II Is called 10 dis
tInguish IL from the shake and busby.
is made of the skin of the Russian
bear and stretched over a basketlike
framework. In reality II is not any
heavier than the oldtime helmet. The
one the king wore on clis occasion had
white plume on the side, the insignia
OF the Grenadier guards, of which regi-
ment King George Is honorary colonel.
Five British Guard regiments are en-
titled to wear the bearskin, q dis
tinction they won at Waterloo when
the British guards defeated the Old
Guard of Napoleon, who wore this
towering form OF headdress.
Besides the Grenadier guards a regi-
ment dating from the time of Charles
II, the Coldstream, Scots. Irish and
Welsh guards, the fatter formed dur
ing the World war, wear bearskins.
They form the brigade of Foot guards
in peace time and are part of the
household troops, whose duties include
the guarding of Buckingham and St.
lanes palaces
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
Finest of All Languages.

There is no modern language to
compare with the ancient Hellenic
tongue. There never was language
its equal. AS scholars have said,
every other speech compared TO the
ancient Greek is stammering. Other
tongues have their merits and defects,
but the Greek has all the merits com
bined and none of the defectS.@ 1t is
the perfection of speech. AS Ian
guage for affairs it is as direct as
the English or Latin; as a language
for philosophy it is as good as the
German and for science is better; as
the language of polite society it is as
elegant as the French and it Is more
melodious than the best Tuscan Ital-
ian. This is no eulogy (eulogy, by
the way, is Greek word of our own,
but a summation OF the dicta Of
scholars) Exchange.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
Britain's Bible Towns.

When a man is told TO go to Jericho
he might ask, "Whiclf?" for there are
at least a dozen in the world. .5.
sOn large ordnance maps of England
Paradise occurs five times and Nine
yghs Mount Ara1at, Mount Zion and
Mount Ephraim three times each.
In the county of Bedford there is q
Calvary wood, and i'll Dorset Jordan
Hill; TO mention the famous Quaker
burial place in Buckinghamshire known
as Jordans. Hampshire rejoices in Il
sleepy hollow called Land of Nod,
Cambridgeshire has a Noah's Ark, and
Worcestershire a Moab's Wash Pot.
After that such cOmmonplaces as
Hebron, Joppa, Bethlehem, Gideon and
Herod pass almost unnoticed. All the
same, all are to be found in England
London Tit-BirS.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
SIMPLE MATTER OF REASON
How Water Has Travelled From Ver-
saiIles to Columbia, Mo-, in Last
Three Centuries.

An old Indian was sitting by camp
fire near the present site OF Versailles,
Mo-. back in July, 160S. lie wGs tell
ing a story about Louis u. McScoSo,
successor 10 De Soto, who explored the
southwestern part of Missouri in 1542-
''Sure, Mike" he said. These hombreS
are white, have short hair, carry"
But his sentence was never finished.
About that time Ii began 10 rain and
the council adjourned 10 the shelter.
II is now 3l2 wears since that time, but
the water from that very rain We are
just now getting here in Columbia for
drinking purposes. Don't you believe
il: Well, here is the way they find
such things out. Daring the war the
army made some tests of how fast
water moves under the ground. This
was. done by digging two wells, plac-
ing some chemicals I'm one TO discolor
the water and then waiting 10 see how
long before the discoloration became
apparent in the water of the second
we'll The layer of sand from which
Columbia secures its water is a me-
dunn sand. neither coarse nor fine, and
Il was found that wafer moved $40 feet
year in such sand. The layer of sand
outcrops at Versailles, which is approx
imately fifty miles from here. Figure
Il out.-Columbia MisSourian.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-08
OUR WAR HEROES

Sergeant Samuel Woodhll,
whose home is in Bellview, Ind.
has been called to public attention
bv General Pershing as one OF
three greatest individual heroes OF
the war. Single-handed he slew
nineteen German soldiers and cap
tured three machine gun nests.
We have heard much OF Sergeant
York, who captured 1872 Germans,
and of Major Whittlesey, and his
men of the ''lost battalion" but
the feat of Sergeant Woodhll,
hitherto has had little notice eX-
cept in an official way, though he
was granted the Medal of Honor
by Congress and numerous other
decorations. From the time that
has elapsed and the fact that he
has remained so long unknown,
II would appear that he is not a
self-advertiser. In fact a man who
exhibits the courage that brings
conspicuous recognition rarely Is
of the disposition to go about
blowing a horn. The two attri-
butes are Incompatible This is
said without At all rejecting on
the others mentioned.
1t is proper that honor due
should be accorded men who per
form notable featS in the face OF
danger and it is gratifying that so
many escaped the perilS OF the
battlefield after showing the met
tie they possessed. Yet. how
many others there may have been
who possessed equal courage and
who made equally valiant at
tempts. yet persisted in the efforts
leaving no record of their daring.
Had any one of these men who
stand out as conspicuous heroes
been killed it is possible that all
evidence of their efforts would
have disappeared with them. Di-
vine diSpeuSation Is what makes
heroes and martyrs and orders the
time for them TO be given recog-
milton.