Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 100

22 THF GUNDAY @TAR V\«XQHINGTON D. C, FEBRUARY 23, 1930. Sunday Morning Among the Cross-Words - Acress. 104 Organic compound 1 Mty Selibbned. e 6 Evil influence. 107 Esthetic 10 Legendary King of Phrygia. 15 Kill: Chaucér. 108 18 Compound containing ammonia. 19 Tumuilt. 20 Vivacity. 22 Point in a planet orbit farthest frdbm, or nearest to, the sun. 23 Places of business. 25 Peruvian wood- . sorrel. “%6_Wan. 27 Hawaiian salutation. Chills and fever. Japanese statesman. Flexible pipe. Article. Roman emperor., Is: Latin. Ab:bement Poker term Metric cubic unit. Wrath. - Meaning. Poverty. Improvised force of men. Down. Chinese pagoda. Helplessness. Wrong ideas. Genus of cetaceans in the Amazon. The: German. Bosom. Passageway. Short letter. Most solid. Greek letter. Asiatic kingdom. Heavy wooden Hindu god. beetle. Once more. Occipital Small disk. protuberance on Sign of the the skull. zodiac. 12 Vessels for Acetic acid: comb. holding food. form. 13 Language of Knock. Abyssinia. Negative. 14 Man’s nickname. Unconfined. 15 Burn slightly. Irish clan. 16 Genus of water Decisive. lilies. : 17 Attack. 21 Beverage. 24 Province of Jugoslavia. 26 Strike an attitude. 29 Conceptions. 30 Brave man. 31 River island. 33 Elliptical. 36 Below: Italian. 37 Takes the place of. 38 Balkan country, now part of Jugoslavia. 40 wild ox of | 100 Denuded. 101 Peer Gynt's mother 102 Unit of surface. 22 Branch of the United States fighting forces. 24 Type measures. 26 Watering place. 1 Greater amount. 5 Adhesive. 10 Antlered ruminant. 14 At any time. 156 Those who mimic. Feminine name. Hardens. 18 Bracing. 19 Spar. &-soofred. 30 Caught sight of. 35 Fell in: collog. 36 Oriental shi) 39 Diner. 26 Rear ends of boats. 41 Dips out water. 43 Roman tyrant. 44 Went ahead. 45 Weds. 47 Tear on a seam. 48 Make ready. 50 Lauds. 52 Smell. 53 Rotate rapidly. 54 Pur-bearing animal, 57 Seniors. 61 Single thing. 62 German City. 66 Mental image. 67 Interpret. 68 Browned bread. 69 First man. 70 Pitcher. fl'flfl' S BE II Rare W as/zmgton Letters. Continued from Sirteenih P.n will not - allow me to correspond with my friends with the freedom and punctuality I should wish, they may nevertheless be assured that neither time, distance nor change of cir- cumstances have in the smallest degree altered the affection I have always felt for them. “Matters in this quarter have by no means worn the favorable aspect you have been led to believe from the publications in the Gasette. The pompous account of the marches and coun- ter-marches of the military, though true so far as relates to the expense, are false with respect to the service, for you neither could get them to stay in camp nor fight when they were there. It may truly be said that they were continually coming and going without rendering the least earthly service, although the expense of them surpasses all description. “At no one time since Gen. Howe's arrival at Staten Island has my force been equal, in men fit for duty, to his, and yet people at & distance, as I have understood by letters, have conceived that they were scarse a mouthful to us. To this cause—the numbers of posts we were obliged to occupy to secure our com- munications with the city—is to be attributed our retreat from Long Island and the evacua- tion of New York. 71 Pertaining to a European country. T2 Back of the neck. Down. 1 Muddle. 2 Baking chamber. 3 Nerve network. 4 Irish. 5 Eucharistic plates. 6 Footless animals. 7 Japanese coin. 8 Decorates. passages. 33 Weird. 34 Falls. 36 Less thoroughly cooked. 37 Melody. 38 Slides. 41 English noblemen. 42 Snakes. 45 Constructed. 46 Embark on & voyage. 49 Busy one’s self 9 Get away. with trifies. ; 10 Half: prefix. 51 American aborig- 11 Ardor. ine. 12 Other. 54 Wall in. 13 Rodents. 55 Afresh. 21 Tear. 56 Be carried. 23 Demolish. 58 Old Icelandic 26 Skin of the head. literature. 27 Less wild. 59 Garner. 28 Escape by artifice. 60 Identical. 29 Thing. i 63 Scatter seed. 31 Kitchen utensil. 64 Capuchin monkey. 32 Anatomical - - - 68 Kind of worm. “We found Gen. Howe had no intention to make an attack on our lines at the last- named place. We discovered by their move- ments that with the assistance of their ships they intended to draw a line around us and cut off our communications between the city and country, thereby reducing us to the neces- sity of fighting our way out under evéry dis- advantage. “That they might have accomplished one or the other of these if we had stayed at New York is certailn, because the city stands at the point of a narrow neck of land lying between the East and North Rivers, both rivers having sufficient depth of water for ships of any burthen, and because they were not only su- perior in numbers, but could bring their whole force to any one point, whereas we, to keep open communicatiol were obliged to have an extended line, or ral a chain of posts, for 18 miles. “It may be asked how we came to take pos- session of and remain so long in a place thus circumstanced. The place was taken and the works advanced before I left Boston. If our strength had been equal to the determination of Congress we should have had men enough to defend the city and secured the communica- tions, if their behavior had been good. “Our retreat from Long Island was made without any loss. So might that have been from New York but for a defect in the depart- ment of the quartermaster general in providing teams enough and the dastardly behavior ‘of part of our troops, two brigades of which ran away from a small party of the enemy and left me in the field with only my aid-de- camps.” Corn Borer’s Progress. 'HE corn borer failed to make more than the anticipated gains during the past year, and the country will have to take what comfort it can from that. The pest, which spreads about 20 to 30 miles a year, worked generally toward the South dur- ing the past year. The infested area now reaches from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Michigan .ndaouthuhrut.hep-n!unh of West Virginia.