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NORTHWEST.

NORTHWEST.
,zth ,4t and Vermont ave-. John c. Haley
,eth ,et and P. Days Pharmacy
10Th and q. J. s. Clemence.
18th and Clifton. II. CoIodny Il Co.
~, I'm and Harvard. The Harvard Phs Storsl
18TH and Columbis road tEvans Drug store'
s401 18th Bronsugh's Pharmacy.
54th and Buchanan. Hchberger n
RiH9aeInn Hachn.. TIh,rmacy. Tnr 1901 i4th ST. M "
Holmeae Hl'i and Mse Oh. place. Holmead Pharmacy.
18th .Sth and Colorado ave. Piney Brsnch p,eassnt
500 Mount Pleasant at. NV. Mount f'e"'"D'
2134 18th, Payne's Pharmacy.
wardman Park Pharmacy.
I'll and o SITS. Associated Drug Stores; ss;s,n.on
sth th .na g., ,1d r. AVE- !! ps'rmses rIeres si"p
sth, sfh and Elm st.,. Douglas Pharmacy.
shol Ga. ave-. Eods' Pharmacy. - RccS
CO; ave; and Rock Greek Church ro'' "'e~
r. colodny & Co, Ga. ave. and Upshur It,
ssIs Ga. ave: Brentwood Pharmacy.
1901 A.. Morse Pharmacy.
: Dupont Circle, Dupont Pharmsey
18th at. and Fla. ave. Pearson's PharmAcs'
;:a T N'; .aS ayf;'V n 'WVae:I
Sn.,t ,s ave and LIST ST syivern s.pnPh .rssrs Phar.
l7eo Pa: ave. J. Louis Krick.
S1st and q SITS. Quieley Pharmacy:
Wisconsin ave. and Macomb ST., Cleveland
Park Pharmacy.
GEORGETOWN.
.sth snd SITS, Pride's Pharmacy.
s2o4 NJ st.. O'DonneII's Pharmacy.
,6th and NJ. Weller & Moskey's Pnarmsey: P,
wisconsin ave. and o. Donahue's fnarnAcs'
NORTHEAST.
"a and r cts. McChesney 4 Joach'n.
zth and SITS. Brock & Dickens.
ao7 r ST.. Garren's Music Store.
;ss, ,th St and M ave. louis r Br.h'e!'
1s1h 1s1h 81 H a. and Nd. Nd ave; Louis 81 Sacks
North Car. and Eye. KeneaIy Pharmacy.
East Cap. and 9th Bieloss Pharmacy:
10Th vt. and r. I. ave. Collins fharmae'-
5000 18th ne. Msyo's pharmacy--Brook!and'
SOUTHEAST.
st - 5, = snH Pa .vr Eeu. spsnsetans pn,ru.cy
Nth and Ps ave- Fealy's Pharmacy
ian snd Pa. ave. smyser's Pharu'acy:
1907 Nichols ave-. Weiss & Healy-Anacosts'
SOUTHWEST.
7th ans n sis. Lsntz Rros
az and T. sts.. Columbia pharmncr
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Selecting a Fish.
from the Milwaukee Journal

From the Milwaukee Journal
A negro servant was sent by his
employer to buy some fresh fish. Sam
went to shop, and. picking up a
Ash, began to smell 1t.
The fish dealer, observing his ac-
tion and fearing that bystanders
might become suspicious. said:
Hello. you rascal! Why are you
smelling my fish?"
"Ah no smell your fish. mister" re-
piled the negro.
Well, what are you doing them"
why, ah talk to him"
might I ask?"
why, ah ask him what news of
the sea. OATS all"
And what does he say to you?" re-
piled the fehmonger, trying to humor
the man.
He SAYS he don't know" replied
Sam. He amt been dar for tree
weeks"
Evening star., 1923-06-12
DEMOCRATS REORGANIzE
Wisconsin Committee to Prepare
for Next Campaien.

APPLETON. Wis, June 12.-Reor-
ganization OF the democratic state
central committee was effected here
yesterday. The state committee has
been enlarged to include four mem
bers from each OF the eleven con-
eressional districts.
An executive committee is to be
appointed, and this committee will
have wide powers in preparing for
the next campaign. other committees
win study goyernment problems in
other states. ,.,.
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DR.. sTRATTON INAUGURATED

BOSTON. June t2.-Dr. Samuel
Wesley Stratton. formerly director
of the federal bureau of standards.
was formally inaugurated as presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Institute
OF Technology yesterday in the pres
ence Of representatives of many edu-
cational institutions in this country
and abroad
Evening star., 1923-06-12
CARETAkER FOR
COUNTRY HOME,

Married couple as caretakers
for country home near ADnap-
oils, Md. Man must have expe-
rlence as farmer, woman to
make herself useful around
house. Good home and wages to
capable couple. Address, stating
full particulars. Box 2o4-B, Star
office
Evening star., 1923-06-12
HELP-MALE AND FEMALE.

MAN AND WIFE. or lady, reliable, to take
charge OF small house for the summer. In.
qnire COG Mass. ave. NV. IS"
MAN anG wife, colored, to 20 10 the country
FOR three months; wife must be good cook:
man TO assist in housework and care for yard:
SALESMAN-Live wires (men and women. to
sell newest advertising novelty to banks. in
surance agents, realtors large institutions.
merchants; quick sales and large profits; go
900 sold one eastern city in ten days; territory
also open In Virginia and West Virginia Call
or address Mr. Reich. Room 222, Riggs Bank
ings, 7:3O to O.
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WANTED-AGENTS.

SALES HELP. wanted. good returns paid for
few hours work per day selling a useful. at
tractive ard popular priced electrical house
hold appliance; guaranteed by old established
hrm: each sale nets YOU $3.50; write now to
i. y. Box 1851. Philadelphia
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HELP--DOMESTIC.
Continued.

ESEitAL H0TSEwORkER. competent re
rnia. Cleveland INV
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CLERk-Must be quick and
accurate at figures and write
well. In reply state age and
previous experience. Permanent
position. Starting salary, SIS
week. Address Box 81. Star
Evening star., 1923-06-12

BRICkLAAER with boiler set
ting experience. Apply TO Mr..
Eadie. Room I4S, State, War
and NAVY Dept. bldg.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
WANTED-SALESMEN.

SALESMEN-Exper.. selling twisted in wire
brushes direct to home: 500 commission on
hlsh grade line; exclusive territory: excellent
opportunity: state experience. l.. o. Box g.
Station y. New York city. l2s
Evening star., 1923-06-12

GENERAL. HOUsEWORk, c0Iored girl; sta,
nights: $50 per month. 20 Girsrd ST. NJ
Evening star., 1923-06-12

MEN-If you have had any kind
of house-to-house selling expert
ence you can make big money
and qualify for a good-paying
permanent position. See Mr..
Blum. between 9 and 10 am.
Castelberg National Jewelry Co,
OK Pa. ave. NV.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

A LOCAL corporation dealing
in first mortgages only requires
several energetic statesmen to
sell its Treasury stock; splendid
opportunity for producers. Ap-
DIV us Southern building.
Evening star., 1923-06-12
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES

COMPETENT HELP for your consideration
local elsewhere. North GOu9 Super Scrv-
ice Bureau, 2001 9th st NV
LABORERS, colored and white. 10 go PennsyI-
vania fare paid; wages, 81 10 SO. White Cross
Bureau. @.l y st. NV, Dr. Drew. President
Il"
Ma NNlFE wanted. s95 month; four woman
cooks for resort camp, SO Fuller's IA
change, 1921 18th ST. l3s
OFFICE POSITIONS-rr rec registration. Wasn4
inGton Employment Exchange, opera led for the
public by Washington School for Secretaries
and Nat. School Of Commerce. 14l9 ST. NV.
Evening star., 1923-06-12

WANTED - SALESLADIES.
House to house; no collecting.
no delivering; dignifed and
pleasant work; guaranteed sal
ary, s.. so per day and additional
commission. Apply at once.
1900 9th ST NV.
TYPIST, with office experience.
Apply employment Office, Stli
floor. G. st. side.
WOODWARD & LOTHROP.
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about IS years old Tor
GENERAL USEFULNESS
around store: boys of good character and
rntrey who desire to go ahead. Address Box
296-C, Star office. =
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sITUATIONs-MALE. FEMALE.

CoLoRED man and wife want place 30 away
for summer; young girl as maid: ref. 81 ;
Evening star., 1923-06-12
THE MYSTERY GIRL
A Thrilling Detective Story
BY CAROLYN WELLS.
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS ISsTA1LMENTs.
Copyright. by J. 3. Iippinoo.t co.,

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and all It's were at the COM
mand of the gobs and that they were
freed from responsibility to their Off
GERS insofar as concerned preparations
for the party.
You should have seen those boys
cut loose. The first thing they did
was to build a chimney and a fireplace
for the accommodation of the patron
saint of he holiday. The Yankee
Santa Claus was to be the central fea-
ture OF the celebration and the gobs
wanted all the atmosphere of home.
AS a browning glory they gave the
island its first snowstorm. and 1t was
then that the officers understood why
so many of the boys had been spend
ing their spare time. during the cruise,
In tearing up Did newspapers and 9TH
err fragments of white. The purpose
of the work became manifest on
Christmas Eve when scores of blue
Jackets began scattering snow in the
neighborhood of the royal palace.
They must have had tons of the stuff,
for the ground in every direction was
covered with white and the scene was
perfect.
Tin Cans As Tinsel
1.-THE Christmas tree was set up
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. cLOUS nn<o
3H/n| DO5[8H

journey around the track whose
length is the year, is always accom-
panied by it's shadow, one might say
that even in the daytime we are carry
ing the night with us. AS the ter
restrial sphere rotates on It's axis, we
are borne into it, through it, and out
or it into the daylight. AS we emerge
from it, we say hat the sun is rising.
We are accustomed to regard the
night merely as a period of darkness;
hat it has a shape does not occur to
the mind of the everyday person. Yet
1t does in reality possess a shape, be-
ing. as above said, conical in form
and of enormous length. That conical
tail of darkness is, SO to speak, a
permanent appendage of our planet.
The earth rotates on its axis once
in every twenty-four hours, but it's
shadow-tail stays in one place all the
time. In the exact middle of 1t the
time is always midnight. A WE'LL
known ghostseer says he is we'll ac-
quainted with a ghost that dwells in a
place where 1t is always precisely half
past one o'clock \. NJ. Experts in that
line aver that the s~hadow-tail of the
earth Is the home Of the spirits OF the
dead. and IL IS for this reason that
ghosts common appear in the night
time.
The moon Is $4,000 miles from the
earth. At that distance. the earth's
shadow-tail IS 500 miles thick, or
two and two-thirds the diameter of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-17
It Was At Least Four Years Earlier Than Is Gen
orally Supposed, and There Is No Reason For
Believing That It Occurred On the Twenty
Fifth of December = A Calculation
Based On An Eclipse of the Moon
BY RENE BACHE

life. The time of hat eclipse, day
and hour. has been figured out; for
astronomers are able to calculate past
eclipses with as much accuracy as
future ones.
Lest there be confusion in any
body's mind. 1t should be said that the
Herod who reigned throughout the
lifetime of Christ (after His infancy
was Herod Antipas, the son of Herod
the Great. This was the Herod whom
Jesus called a fox.
What Makes A Lunar Eclipse
Now this is a matter of such re-
markable interest hat it should be
worth while to tell something about
the curious phenomenon that is called
an eclipse of the moon.
The earth travels around the sun on
an oval track. One circuit makes
what we call a year. 1t is a wonder
full Journey of nearly six hundred mil
lion miles, and the speed Is terrific
eighteen and a half miles a second
Think of It.; one hour from now you
will be more than siXty-six thousand
miles from where you are at this mo-
ment. But the earth is moving
through a vacuum, and so the matter
| does not excite your notice.
The earth, on its journey around the
sun. is accompanied by a shadow-tail,
so to call 1t. which stretches off nearly
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the dignity, scholarship and saVoir
faire that to him represented the ideal
civilization. In the ~bluejackets he
sensed the charm Of ~good-natured
school boys. wholesome. rollicking and
filled with the Democracy that consid-
cred a King good company so long as
he behaved himself.
= In the cruises of the South Pacific
the island kingdom of this particular
monarch was one of the bright spots
of the life at sea. The approach of
the flag of tho Navy was the unfailing
signal for royal festivities and wher-
ever there is a gathering of the older
men of the naval establishment the
conversation is apt to include remi-
niscences of the dinners OF the king.
South Sea Royalty
"Ilh never forget the Christmas we
spent with this old ruler when l was
a lieutenant commander" said a re-
tired admiral to a group at his club.
when 1t was decided hat we
should visit the king at the approach
ing Yuletide the bluejackets deter
mined that they would give the South
Sea Islander a taste of a real Yankee
| Christmas. The first thing they need
ed was a tree. and for the provision OF
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through a great swarm of star-dust
fragments which collectively are
known as the Leonids. We encounter
that swarm once in every thirty-three
years. 1t is travelling around the sun
in an orbit OF its own. If it formed
a ring around the sum- we would meet
1t every year.; but 1t doesn't, it is Just a
swarm, and only once in so often does
the earth find the swarm blocking its
track.
Another swarm is encountered once
IN every thirteen years, and is called
the Andromedes. They are c~uriously
different in color, being red. and APP
pear to travel slowly because, though
really moving faster than the earth,
they are journeying in the same di-
rection and overtake us. The Leonids
-greenish or blush. with vivid trails
are going the opposite way; we meet
them. and so they seem tremendously
swift.
Years Reckoned BY The Moon
In the Solar System are more than
eight hundred known toy worlds,
called "minor planets" some of them
less than ten miles in diameter. All
of them put together would not make
a globe as big as the moon, which has
a diameter of 2,165 miles. To us. the
moon is by all odds the most interest
ing of all heavenly Understanding. OF
course, the sun-and since times long
prehistoric 1t has been to all mankind
an object of study and Of wonder.
In ancient times the years of time
reckoning were lunar years, a little
over four weeks long. Hence the ex-
traordinary ages of Methuselah and
the other antediluvian p%atriarchs.
With this correction, 1t appears that
Methuselah, the Oldest of them all.
died in his seventy-ninth year.
Most interesting of all lunar time
reckonings, however, is that which.
through the calculation of an eclipse
of the moon, has set back the birth of
Jesus to a date nearly four years
earlier than that generally accepted.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-17

molecules and dust and vapor of the
atmosphere. Out beyond the atmos-
pheric limits there is nothing to IL
illuminate. Interstellar space, being a
vacuum, is absolutely dark. 1t is not
Illuminated ever by the most brilliant
sunshine-though, If we were stand
ing on the moon. we would see the sun
and the stars shining in a black sky
with an intense brightness.
Space Filled With Stardust
The void of space, although a
vacuum. is not entirely empty. 1t
contains innumerable bits of 'star
dust" great numbers of which are
encountered by the earth on It's end
less journey around the sun. All of
them are travelling at tremendous
speeds, and, when they enter our at
mosphere, friction sets them on fire.
Thus they are nearly always entirely
burned up. but occasionally good
sized ones arrive on our planet with
out being wholly consumed. We call
them "meteorites."
Most of these star dust fragments
are masses of stone, but 3 to A per
cent. of those picked up are nearly
pure iron. with a small amount of
nickel. These "meteoric irons" 1t
seems likely, were originally parts of
stony masses which were smashed by
the shock of striking our atmosphere.
In the National Museum at Washing
ton is famous specimen known as
the ring meteorite." 1t is of iron,
~ring-shaped. weighs 1.400 pounds, and
was presumably part of a mass of
stony stuff that fell from the sky. An
army officer found 1t in use as an
anvil in a blacksmith's shop near
Tucson. Ariz, and bought it for a few
dollars.
The greatest "star shower" OF which
there Is any record occurred on the
night of November 10. 1888, when a
reliable observer at Boston said thai
he "never saw snowflakes thicker in
a storm.V This meteoric shower was
caused by the passing of the earth
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this important accessory they knew
they would be compelled to plan in
advance. Spruces and balsams are no
part of the South Sea landscape, and
no true COB would be willing to SUBJ
stitute a date palm for the Christmas
tree of his childhood. 1t was there
fore necessary to take the tree from
the States. Sailing day was near at
hand n there was little time for
preparation, but in some way the
b~luejackets procured a ten foot spruce
and tucked it away in a corner of the
ship. Just where the tree came from
was never divulged, but there was a
suspicion hat the Park authorities of
a California city missed one of their
priced ~evergreens about the time the
ship weighed anchor and turned her
nose into the waters of the Pacific.
"We dropped anchor in the island
harbor on December 23. To say that
the Old King was delighted Is much
too mild. He was overwhelmed with
joy at the prospect of the Yankee
Christmas for which, he had long been
wishing. After formal calls and cour-
tesies had been exchanged this sun
burned %potentate announced by royal
proclamation that the entire Island
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with the proper trimmings, blended
with the delicacies of the royal larder,
and 1t was a sight not to be forgotten
to see our officers and men, cross
kneed on the ground, surrounding the
banquet spread on the surface of the
earth, and holding drumsticks in one
hand while drinking native decoctions
from halved cocoanut shells with the
other"
Christmas Is Always Christmas
The Yankee Christmas is never
overlooked by the men of the Navy.
The day may be spent at a land sta
ton. in a foreign port or on ship
board in the midst of a bowling bliz-
gard or tropical hurricane, but it is
Christmas just the same. Parents and
friends need waste no sympathy on
the blue jackets who are far from
home on this greatest of all holidays.
The sailors may be Isolated and re-
mote, but the Christmas spirit Is with
them with a force that is not to be
overcome.
The Christmas tree is the event of
the day. Wherever located the ships
seem to be able to provide the tree
that Is needed. 1t may be a tiny
spruce or fir in IN earthen pot. but to
the Incorporating sailors It is none
the less a Christmas tree. The tree
shown in n of the pictures was used
BY the crew of the Naval vessel
Bridge a year ago in the celebration
which took place in the far-off port of
Constantinople. Held aloft by a sail
or. this .d%iminutive specimen of the
American forest received all the hom-
ago of the full-grown spruce of the
Yankee Preside and its contribution to
the exchange of Christmas packages
was no less important because of It's
lack OF size.
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a million miles into space. If inter-
planetary space were even slightly
dusty, the moon and each of the
planets would be seen to have a long
black shadow extending behind it
/. e.. away from the sun. But we can
not see these shadows because there
is nothing in the void of space for
them to be thrown upon-though now
and then Gas happened last Septem-
ber) the moon does throw its shadow
upon the earth.
That occurs whenever the moon
gets between our planet and the sun
on an occasion, that is to say, of
solar eclipse. Ordinarily the moon. in
c~ircling around the earth. passes
north or south OF the shadow-tail of
the terrestrial globe, without touching
It. but occasionally II travels directly
through the shadow. and thus is
ecllpsed by the earth. We call that a
lunar eclipse.
Earth's Shadow Is The Night
Our shadow-tail, like those OF the
other planets and the noon, is conical
in form. its point directed away from
the sun because the solar orb IS so
much bigger than the earth. We have
good reason to be familiar with this
shadow for the reason that every
evening we enter It. and. passing
through It with the revolution of our
globe. we emerge from IT in the morn.
ing. We call 1t might"
Inasmuch as the earth. on IT'S
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alongside the improvised fireplace and
no tree was ever so brilliant. From
the secret places known only to the
American bluejacket the boys had
scraped up ornaments with which to
give the tree its appropriate dressing.
Tin cans by the thousand had been
converted into cleaning strips, Of
Christmas tinsel, and l doubt If there
was a piece OF red cloth left on the
ship when the sailors got through with
their decorative scheme. Electric
lighting was not as well perfected as
it is today, but the chief electrician
had rugged up a system of incandes-
cent lights. fed with current from the
ships dynamos. which gave an Hum
nation such as the Islanders had
never dreamed of.
Santa Claus was on schedule time,
with eight gobs acting the part of
RENDERS and pulling a sleigh con
trived by the\ship's carpenter for the
occasion. The king and his family
were amazed and happy, and when
Santa Claus distributed his gifts the
celebration became a wnirlwind. Moth
ing pleased the Old King as much as
the tin and pasteboard crown with
which he was remembered. and he de-
ciared that no Christmas of the future
would be complete without the boys
of the American Navy. The Christ
mas dinner Included Yankee turkey
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the lunar orb. Obviously, then, a total
eclipse of the moon is an affair quite
different from an eclipse of the sun.
1t may last over two hours, so that
there Is plenty of time for observa-
ton.
Moon Doesn't Vanish From View
During a lunar eclipse the moon
remains visible Notwithstanding the
fact that our globe intervenes between
1t and the sun. unless. of course,
clouds get In the way. Though In the
s~hadow-tail of the earth, it receives
some sunlight hat comes around the
earth's edge. Under such circum-
stances it has q weird coppery hue.
The word eclipse was originally a
medical term, meaning a faint or
swoon. When the moon comes be-
tween the earth and the sun, all of
nature along the path of totality"
takes On a strange deathlike aspect,
as the shadow of the lunar orb. travel
ing ever the landscape at a speed of
1000 miles an hour. produces a sem
blance of night. But an eclipse of the
moon, viewed from hat satellite,
must be vastly more impressive rs a
spectacle, the earth appearing as a
huge black disk trimmed with light
turned TO rainbow hues by the refrac-
ton of our atmosphere.
On ordinary occasions. when the
moon is shining at night, 1t lights up
things considerably on the dark side
of our planet. We often speak of
bright" moonlight. But the moon
illuminates only that part of our
shadow-tail which is near the earth.
Il dnes that by lighting LID the gas