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Middletown transcript., 1902-05-10
CHESAPEAKE CITY ITEMS

Mr.. J. Polk Steel spent last Monday in
Philadelphia.
| Mr.. H. Fl. Brady was in Middletowr
on Thursday.
Mrs. Byron Bouchelle visited Elktor
one day last week.
Mrs. Alexander Evans, of EIkton, was
in town on Saturday.
John Banks was the guest of friends in
Baltimore last week.
Henri A. Lindsay, Jr, of Wilmington,
spent Sunday with his parents.
Mrs. J. Polk Steel spent Monday with
Mrs. III. V. Manloye, of Elkton.
George Conrey. of Philadelphia, visited
his mother, Mrs. Mary Conrey last week.
Miss Elsie Karsner spent several days
last week with Miss Helen Scott, Of Elk
ton.
Mrs. Wright and Miss Carrie Wright
spent Saturday and Sunday in Philadel-
phia-
Mrs. D. P. Boulden spent several days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.
Brown, of Elkton.
The Daughters of the King" met at
the home of Mrs. W. A. Alexander.
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. M. E. Ferguson and Miss AIverta
Ferguson, Of Cecilton, visited Mrs. By
ron Bouchelle recently.
A number Of persons from here at
tended the funeral of Mr.. James w.
Clark, Of Bohemia Manor, on Saturday.
Lewis, the six-year-old-son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Bristow, died on Saturday
afternoon and was buried on Tuesday
afternoon.
The town base ball team and the team
rom North East played game OF ball on
Saturday. The score being IS to 20 in
avor of our team.
Mr.. Henry Pensel is erecting a wind |
nill to supply his house with water. Mr.. |
I. P. Steele will join with him, they are |
10Th putting in bath rooms. 1
The entertainment given by the United
Daughters of the Cenfederacy" was
ute success, and was very well at
ended notwithstanding the unpleasant
yening.
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rrrrnAr saRAKs LOOSE AGAIN

In the United States Senate
on Wednesday of this week, Mr..
Tillman, Of South Carolina, he of
pitch fork fame and only recently
censured by the senate, made a
most remarkable speech. He
has never denied the frauds at
election, but this time openly
boasts of them. The Damocra-
tic Senators who have been Wilt
flying the army for what they
said were the prosecutions of
the F,ilipinos were Mortified at
Tillman's defence of lynchings
and murders of colored people
in this country. So badly hu-
inflated were they, that every
Democrat except McLaurin, Of
Mississippi, and Gibson, of Mon.
tana, left the chamber and would
not listen to the indecent rant.
''In one county there were 1000
more negroes than whites and
yet we returned Democratic
majority of 5000 and could have
made it $4,000 just as easily.
"When we think it is necessary
to put a nigger's face in the sand
we put his body there too"
eve use the shot gun as one
Of the means of maintaining
white supremacy"
These are specimens of his
oratory, and it is not surprising
that such means should bring
forth such a Senator. A rule of
brute force produces brutal rul-
ers.
The probabilities are that this |
speech will mark the end of |
Democratic agitation of the |
Philippine question. Mr.. Till
man has furnished the Republi-
cans with enough ammunition to
more than repulse any attack
made on the administration. It
is hardly conceivable that men
even so regardless of the facts
as some of the younger Demo
cratic Senators will dare talk
about abuses and prosecutions
1000 miles away and upon a
barbarous race, when one of
their own leaders openly boasts
of worse practices in the states
which they represent, and upon
q people who have always as q
race been considered as law
and peaceful, and who
from centuries of life in this
country have absorbed our civil.
ization.
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Low-Rats Tour to the -y4ltwst6ne Park Wis
Pennsylgnia Railroad


On account q the Annual Convention
of the Rational Educational Association
"a Minneapolis, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company will run personally-con-
Quoted tour to Minneapolis and the yell
lowstone Park, leaving New York July 5,
and, returning, arriving at New York
July 20. Round-trip tickets covering all
necessary expenses for the entire trip,
will be sold at rate of $3.50 from all points
on the Pennsylvania Railroad east of
Pittsburg. Rate from Pittsburg S. less.
A special train of Pullman. dining, sleep
ing, compartment, and observation cars
will be used. Six days will be spent in
Yellowstone Park.
For itineraries and other information
apply to ticket agents, Tourist Agent,
1l96 Broadway, New York, or George W.
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia.
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Mr.. BOZ WIS ADVICE

Upon being ed from Trenton
Penitentiary, W oggs, former teller
Of the First Ma Bank of Dover,
said to New Yoi Id reporter: 'It's
not hard thing from bank.
What l did can by any book
keeper left in chal be books every
day in the week. anking regula-
tions need to be cha as to change
bookkeepers at irregu ervals, and to
keep every employee the bank for
at least forty-eight houl nannounced
periods. lam starting Ill ew without
money. We will begin again and
live in Philadelphia"
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THAT BILL OF TESTERS

We deem it but right to not,
a correction as to the facts il
the case of the bill of James W
Jester for oyster shells, to which
reference was made last week
When the article was written,
we only knew what all of the
Wilmington dailies reported as
the action of the Levy Court.
Since we have seen the bills and
the records in the case. Instead
Of one bill for 1920 there were
five bills each for less than $500.
but all were for the same work
and continuation of the same
contract. The attempt at eva.
sion was SO evident that Comp
troller Kelley could but refuse
to approve them either as one
bill or as five bills.
After thoroughly investigat-
ing the matter, the court could
do nothing but pay the three
bills aggregating $1,000. AS to
the price mentioned 81 cents per
bushel, applied to delivering
UutV, as Si1atfs cann0t
chased in large quantities for less
than 8 or 4 cents per bushel.
The court has also passed a reso.
zion not to receive shells in
small quantities in the future,
but when shells are wanted the
contract will be awarded to re-
sponsible parties to furnish the
quantity desired in bulk.
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EARLEvILLE NOTES

Mrs. John Rowan visited friends at
Cecilton on Tuesday. "
Miss Mamie Taylor spent few davs
with relatives near Cecilton this week.
Messrs. Roy Carpenter and Howard
Benson were in Cecilton on Tuesday
evening.
Mrs. Walter Nickerson spent one day
tins week with Mrs. Warner Geary At
Kennedyville. "
Some OF the young friends of Miss
N. mabel Allen gave her surprise party on
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a had Eely iastrumsn

tal ID do 6lng and building,
that won Che victory The conn.
try has lost a brave soldier and
an accomplished man.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-26
BRIEF MINNESOTA NEWS

Fire destroyed the large frame
warehouse of the Hamm brewery in
St. Paul, entailing a loss of $12, 500.
The element had secured good head
way before being discovered. It start
ed from a hot stovepipe.
The Samaritan Home at Waterville.
owned by DR.. f. p. Case, caught fire
from a defective chimney and burned,
together with most of it's contents,
The inmates narrowly escaped. Loss.
about $4,000, partly covered by in
surance.
Prince Henry cannot come to Min
nesota, so Minnesota's governor will
convey the greetings of the north
star. state to Prince Henry at Mil
waukee.
Robert L. Deakin, formerly reading
clerk in the Minnesota house of rep:
.resentatives, died yesterday at his
home, 1920 Marshall avenue, Merriam
Park, from the results of stroke of
paralysis. 80. r -.,. -.f.s 49,.
i The parish of St. Anna, {;tearns
county, will build a. $4,000 solid
brick church to. replace the former
structure recently burned.
1.:5. -: :
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know the particuIars1or can IL form
against the oyerseers. ;" If Was hington
had been writing about farmers in Illi-
nois, Iowa and other prairie states lie
could not have hit the nail on the head
any harder than that.
The first turnpike road built by cor
porate interests was the Wilderness
turnpike, from the Shenandoah valley,
Virginia, over the Allegheny noun
tains at Cumberland Gap, to central
Kentucky. This road had toll gates
20 miles apart, where tolls of two dol
lars were collected from every travel
err. The next good road constructed
was the Lancaster and Philadelphia
turnpike, which is until this..day an
excellent work on the macadam plan.
In 1906 the government had received
over 100000 from the sale of public
lands in Ohio, and the congress appro-
priated $4,000 for the beginning of the
construction of the Cumberland road,
from Cumberland, Nd, to Wheeling,
Va. This was the first national high
way. 1t was we'll macada1nized, the
rivers and creeks were spanned by
stone bridges and toll houses were sup
piled with strong iron gates. Henry
Cay was the chief advocate of this
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work, and there is a monument at
Wheeling commemorating his services.
Incidentally, by giving work to thou
sands of men, and by opening this ar
terry for commerce, Henry Clay made
many thousands of votes for his presi-
Dental aspirations. From 1910 to 1916
total appropriations amounting to
$6sO,O00 were made for this work.
That was at period when money was
not as plentiful as it is to-day.
The doctrine of estate sovereignty"
which played such an important part
in all national legislation prior to 1861,
operated against further appropria-
tons for national highways, President
Monroe having vetoed a large appro-
priation bill for this purpose, on March
10, 1917. 1t is singular fact that
John c. Calhoun, chief champion of the
doctrine of state sovereignty, had
spoken and voted for that appropria-
ton. But instead of voting money out
of the national treasury for highways,
the different states were allowed GER
tain percentages from the sales of pub
lie lands for the purpose of building
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HISTORIAN AT WORK
What He Found Out About Early
- Roads in America.
Washington Was Deeply Interested
In the Construction of Solid
(Highways-Calh0u Part
in the Agitation.
Especial Washington Letter.l

l0PSSA0A y" 0SAA6 WI ACIlcA.l
"7AEN Maurice o. Eldridge was
w acting director of the Office of
public road inquiries for the
department of agriculture he made a
study of the history of highway con-
struction in our republic, and the re-
suits of his research were given to-day;
in brief, for the informa ton of the
readers of this newspaper.
The sentiment expressed by Mr.. FL
bridge willmeet with general approval:
IF our first settlers had arrived when
the Roman empire was at the zenith
of its CORY, our republic would now
be bound together with perfect sys
tenn of magniicently constructed
highways" True, the Romans were
good road builders, the first and the
greatest of whom we have history.
The expansion of that empire made
good roads as necessary Is soldiers and
statesmen. The mighty legions of
Rome required good roads for troops
and impe dimenta; also for couriers,
civil and military. The cavalry and
chariots, the big catapults, the am
munition wagons and supply wagons
were heavier than those used by mod
ern armies. Moreover, Rome was
trafficker, and as industrious in spread
ing her commerce as the Yankee ma
ton of this present day; and good
roads were necessary for commerce.
But Rome was declining when this
continent was discovered and settled.
The immigrants came from England
and France mostly, countries which
still used road systems inherited from
the dark and illiterate ages. Naturally
our first settlers knew nothing of road
building, for they had received no in
struction to that end. Everything must
have a beginning, and our ancestors
began with the Indian trails along sea-
shore, river and forest primeval. Their
forefathers had not known nor taught
them, so they learned from the saw
ages how to travel about this bound
less realm of natures businesses.
For more than a century after the
settlement at Plymouth Rock no ef-
forts were systema tically made to pre-
pare roads over which passengers or
supplies could be safely transported.
Each individual blazed his way, as did
the Indians before them. They chung
close to seashore and streams, thereby
maintaining personal and commercial
relations by means of sailboats or row.
boats. Because of the scores or hun
dreds of miles between settlements
there was, there could have been no
concerted systematic attempt at good
road building. Indeed it may be said
that full four centuries elapsed before
the government undertook this work
for the whole country.
It was not until 1911 that a great
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JUDGES AND ]. JU q i !: |. Z
According to This Authority Theff
Relations Are Not Always the
Most Pleasant.

It would be perilous for any ordi-
nary mortal to address jury in such
language as Mr.. Justice Phillimore
felt compelled to use at Carmarthen.
"A juror" says Mr.. Oswald, in his
well-known work on contempt of
Court" twill be protected from insult
in the same way as judge" Even
counsel must be careful of the atti-
tude they adopt toward a jury. Mr..
Oswald refers to a criminal case in
which the foreman of the jury sew
eral times interrupted the counsel
for the prisoner in his cross-exami-
nation of the witnesses. The counsel
in his address to the jury said: II
thank God. that there is more than
one juryman to determine whether
the prisoner stole the property with
which he is charged, for if there were
only one, and that one the foreman,
from what has transpired to-day
there is no doubt what the result
would be-" This was regarded as an
allegation that the foreman of the
jury was prepared to violate his oath
to try the case fairly, and the advo-
cate was found guilty of contempt of
court and fined EGO.
Mr.. Justice Phillimore is by no
means the only judge who in recent
years has come into conflict with
Welsh juries. Lord Russell of Kill
lowen would appear to have been
more fortunate than some of his
brethren on the bench, for his last
utterance as judge was in COM
mendation of the intelligence and in
dependence of Welsh juries. At the
close of the business on the North
Wales circuit in August last year he
referred to the uncomplimentary
things which had sometimes been
said of Welsh jurymen, and remarked
that his own experience justified him
in saying that he could not desire
more intelligent juries than those
who had lately assisted him in the
administration of justice. A verdict
was returned at Carnarvon with
which he did not agree, but Lord Rus
sell did not assume that the jury was
necessarily wrong. II myself" he
said, SHOULD have arrived at differ
ent conclusion, but the circumstances
were of very extraordinary charac-
ter, and I think that it was quite
possible for intelligent, independent
men to arrive at the conclusion which
the jury arrived at."-London Globe.
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- j" 80 A'fs'''''t' 81: ~ ' .INsEI Fzfs
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Pays the Penalty,

Game to the last, Andrew Taper ex
plated his crime on the gallows at
Chaska the morning of the 18th. The
drop fell at 1888 a. M, and IA minutes
later the condemned man was pro-
nounced dead. His neck was broken
by the fall.
During the evening Taper was con-
stantly attended by spiritual advisers.
he expressed the belief that his Maker
had forgiven him, and that his soul
had been saved. He expressed sorrow
for his deed and frequently wept. He
prayed and sang, and to his minister
said he was prepared to meet his God.
Tapper's appetite was not good at sup
per time. He ate sparingly of beef
steak, two slices of bread and a cup of
coffee. He told his attendants he
would meet his fate like a man and he
kept his word
Many visiting sheriffs arrived on the
evening trains to witness the execution.
The crime for which Andrew Taper
was hanged was the killing of Rosa
Mixa at Chaska, Mimi, on June /, 1901,
both being employed at the same ho-
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American road was surveyed by COM
petent engineers, and that is now
known as the "Old York road" be-
cause it connects New York and Phil
adelphia. Thus you see that the revo-
lutiondry war was fought by armies
which Travelled heller SHELTER without
good roads and sometimes with only
Indian trails from point to point. How
they ever managed to keep their regi-
ments and brigades in alignment is
puzzle to modern military minds. And
not only the revolutionary war, but the
war of 1912 was fought by armies sim
ilar'v handicapped by crude and prim-
1--we means of transportation.
Railroad building to-day is not so ex-
pensive as good road making was in
those days, when money was scarce
and property of infinitely less value.
1t was great undertaking to build the
Old York road, and wa intensely inter-
esting to the people of that generation,
as was the building of railroads across
the prairies known as ''the great Amer
lean DESERT" and over the painless
Rocky mountains 40 years ago and less.
The history of roads, including rail-
roads, is the history of civilization.
This is true of the whole world, Is it
is in our country.
As an example of how our colonial
leaders were slowly feeling their way
on this subject, here is an extract from
a letter written November 80, 1855, by
George Washington to Gov. Patrick
Henry of Virginia.:
do you rot think. my dear sir, that tho
credit, the saving and convenience Of this
country all require that our great roads
leading from one place to another should
be Strengthened. shortened and established
by law, and the power in the county courts
to alter then, be withdrawn? To me these
things seem Indtspensably necessary. and
it is my opinion that they will take place
in time"
Does it not seem strange that the
great Washington knew so little of
good roads? He was rea ching out into
the dark, for he knew not exactly what.
He entertained the opinion that the
making of good roads twill take place
IN time" H. was right; but it was a
very long time after he had studied
the subject and many years after te
was dead, for he had been in his grave
ten years when the Old York road
was taken >>lnder serious considers
ton. :szs - 49, = III
The people in the states where no
:oad tax is paid by the farmers, who
work out" their share on the roads,
will be interested in the following
option Of Washington in the same
letter: Repairs by contract would be
less burthensome. Ia this case the
contractor would meet with no favor;
svvry man e the district would give
Information ofneglects; whereas neg
ligence under the present system ist
s .dinlsa g - the only people Who
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roads and levees. The Cumberland road
received annual appropria tons until
1922, when President Monroe inter.
posed veto. In 1880, on similar
grounds, President Jackson vetoed an
act authorizing government SUBJ
scription to stock in turnpike com.
pany.
On the Fourth of July, 1923, ground
was broken for the beginning of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the cere.
mony being performed under the direc-
ton of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
the then only surviving signer of the
declaration of independence. This
beginning of railroad construction by
the estate sovereignty" people as an
argument against appropriations for
turnpikes. They said that railroads
would soon supersede turnpikes. any.
way. They were wrong, but they had
their way.
States and counties and cities then
began local construction of roads.
Thousands of miles of plank roads
were built. They were popular roads
for time, particularly in the prairie
states; but the planks soon rotted
away, and the Plank roads ceased to
exist. Few people living remember
them. Then came the corduroy roads.
Over one of these from Cleveland to
Sandusky, in 1912, Charles Dickens
travelled, and his description of the
journey is one of the most entertaining
and amusing of hi voluminous writ
ings.
From 1854 to 1860 81 GOO, 900 were
appropriated for military roads -
principally in western territories. In
this manner the friends of good roads
circumvented the estate sovereigntv''
opponents of government appropria-
tions for good roads. But this SUBJ
ject is becoming national once more.
although more than half of the states
are working under good road laws.
What the congress will do in the mat
ter cannot be anticipated, but the de-
partment of agriculture has ample evil
dence from all over the country that
the people are looking for ational ac-
tlon' SMITH D. FRY.
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GERONIMO'S DAUGHTER.
Cn1ld OF the Old Chief Becomes a
Heroine and Wins a White
Husband

Into the family of Geronimo, the
old chief of the Apache, there comes
thrilling story of romance, love and
matrimony, in which his daughter
Lola, the RED Rose of the Forest"
and an educated young Texan of
wealth, figure as star performers.
says Lawton (Okla.) special to the
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Houston A. Ward, who has won the
redskin belle, halls from San Antonio.
Tex, and is the son of an old-time
mustang king" of the Rio Grande
country. Young Ward was educated
at Champagne, ILL.,, inherited for
tune and divided his time between
the rough life of ranchero and the
pleasures of polite society.
When last years drought made the
grass on his native range too short
for the profitable subsistence of his
herds, he was compelled to seek graz
ing elsewhere. That apparent strike
of misfortune brought him into the
Kiowa-Comanche country, near Fort
Sill, where the old Apache chief is de-
teAACu SaS PA4SOucI u war.
One evening Ward was enjoying q
nap under a friendly tree at his COW
camp, when he was awakened by the
laundering sound of multitude of
approaching hoofs. His herd had
stampeded and he was sleeping in
their path. A defenseless man might
as well try to face tornado as at
tempt to stand before panic-stricken
cattle. At this crisis of his life, in
the face of imminent destruction, the
''Red Rose of the Forest came upon
him and became his rescuer. His own
horse had strayed away and his only
hope was to mount with the Indian
girl and try to escape. The two beat
death in the race.
In that narrow escape from the
fury of the maddened herd and in the
onward sweep of that wild ride across
the plains was born the story of their
love. With death fairly tramping
upon the heels of their swift-running
steed, they outrode Sheridan and Paul
Revere. In that hour of peril the
educated "cow-puncher" lost his
heart and wooed the Apache maiden.
The wedding will take place in very
short time.
Old Birth Ceremony of Spain.
The recent birth of a son to the
princess of Asturias, sister of the
little King Alfonso of Spain and heir
presumptive to the throne, has re-
vived curious old ceremony of the
Spanish court. When the baby prince
was born the prime minister, the
presidents of the congress and the
senate, the high functionaries of the
court, and the commander of the
Royal Halberdiers, to whom is in
trusted the guarding of the royal
family in the palace, were summoned
to the antechamber of the princess,
where they waited in full uniform.
The chief doctor then dressed the
baby, and placing him on an immense
silver salver took him to the father,
who was also waiting in the ante
chamber, to whom he said: "Sir, it
is an infante'' "a prince). The IA
ther then took the salver in his hands
and, after kissing the baby, bowed to
those present and showed them the
new prince, who will be christened
A1fonso.-N. Y. Sun.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-26
Similar, But Different.

Wife-Why, John, I'm astonished
that you should spend 81 for hat!
Husband-Huh! That's nothing.
You paid $12 for yours. # n" ~ i.
) Wife-Indeed, I didn't do anything
OF the kind. 4 had the bill sent to you.
Chicago Daily News. 81 X
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A Sian at Tradition.

Dorothy-What did you and your.
mother-in-law fall out about, Kitty?
Kitty-Oh, she never liked me after
she heard me say that no husband Of
mine should ever wear homemade
Ghirts,- Detroit Free PresA !.