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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06

hold-over Commissioner is from the
Second and the law provides that only
one Commissioner shall serve from
that group. One Commissioner must
be nominated from the Fourth, Filth
or Ninth district Gas second group
and one from the Sixth, Seventh OF
Eighth districts Gas third group In
considering the possibility of candi-
dates for County Commissioner, it is
just as wei to remember these re-
quiremenrs OF the new law governing
the matter
3. a third matter OF moment is the
resubmission OF the Acknowledgement
question in the form OF the Digg's
Amendment A great many people are
under the impression that this subject
was put to sleep forever by the guber-
material veto at the close of the last
Legislature. Such is not the case
The amendment goes on the ticket this
ial, Tor adoption or defeat at the polls.
1t is not pleasant to contemplate the
necessity OF rhreshing out this old
subject al over again. but it must be
done.
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MR.. TAFT NOT THE PARTY

CONGRESSMAN Saunders, OF Vir-
ginia. said in the House last week.
This Canadian reciprocity agreement
is neither a Democratic concept nor
the outcome OF a Democratic confer
ence, but is the favorite child OF Re
publican executive. Ii this agreement
is an attack upon the citadel OF protec-
ton, it is an attack conceived and de-
livered by the leader OF the Republi-
can party. Go further and charge that
the titular head o. your organization
is a traitor to the chief tenet OF your
party faith II this agreement is free
trade it is Repub lean free trade ior
the President approves it and insists
that his party followers shall indorse
his attitude. Unhappy followers! APP
prove his policies and you discredit
yourselves! Discredit his policies and
you discredr the leader"
The simple and obvious rep'y to such
banter is that the President is not the
Republican party, that the party is
more likely TO disapprove its "titu.a
head" than it is to discredit its time
honored policy. Mr.. Tat has mud
died things to be sure but he is not
going to muddle his party. 1t knows
what it has stood for; stands Tor today
and will stand Tor when Mr.. TAFT is
gone and forgotten The Republican
partys sp' endd contribution to he in
dustrial development OF these U. S.
may be interrupted, but cannon be de-
ieated by the errat;cism OF sing.e in
dividual, however good and great and
however high his official position. Men
may come and men may go, but poll
cies, principles, go on forever.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06

Porr Deposit last FRIDAY evening, at
Rising Sun, on Saturday morning, at
Co'ora, in the afternoon and Hopewell
IN the evening. He preached at Hope
wei on SUNDAY morning and in Rising
Sun in the evening.
Water H. Weber was elected
Mayor OF Havre de Grace on Monday
by 1874 votes to I57 for I. Milton Car
roll W. N. Coale, George H. Hughes,
Enoch NJ Smith and F. W. McEwing
were elected Counclmen. H. c. Law
der and Conrad Kalb held over
-Governo, Crothers and Chairman
John NJ Tucker, of the Good Roads
Commission took an aut trip over the
sections OF State road built or building
in Har.ord and Cecil The Governor
professed his pleasure with the work
done in Hartford.
Following are the subjects OF es-
says ythe graduating class OF Calvert
High School:-"Money Madness"
Robert Crothers; "Uncrowned Kings,
Ruth Murray; THE Founders OF HUI
man Civilization Frank Mckinney;
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Character VS.. Reputation" Edna May
berry; THE Influence OF Wealth."
Paul Eng and "Self-Made Men, Mar
garet Cameron
Rev. Ro'and Cotton Smith, Rec
tor OF St. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church, Washington, D. c., will preach
the sermon to the graduates OF Tome
School for Boys, Port Deposit, on
Sunday, June H. Class Day exercises
wi lie held on Monday morning, June
II, and in the afternoon the commence
ment exercises will be hsld. The adj
dress to TIE graduates viii be deliver
ed by Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs,
of Harvard University.
Lindsay M. Sylvester, of Maryland
Agricultural College, and Carl Twigg,
OF Western Maryland, won first and
second honors in the oratorical contest
with St. Johns and Washington Col
leges, last Friday night. Each OF the
winners was awarded a gold medal.
-Midd,etown has prospects of rhe
location o. broom factory, and Lewis
Topkis, OF Wilmington, may start a
shirt factory there, il The Board OF
Trade offers sufficient inducements.
A large Franklin touring car and
Franklin auto truck passed through
town on Tuesday evening, bound ior
Baltimore via Perryville The truck
was loaded with signsposts atsBalrimorei
to mark the route posted by the Auto
mobile Club OF Maryland from thar
city to the Delaware Glc, via Bel Air,
Conowingo and the Telegraph Road,
and from Glasgow to Elkton, and
Perryvile and thence by the cd Post
Road TO Baltimore
John McCloskey, OF Philadelphia,
while visiting his cottage, near Ford's
Landing, was thrown off horse on
Sunday and Sustained a compound
fracture OF the shoulder
Edgar p Young, a former we'll
known resident of Chesapeake City,
now OF Monte air. N J.. who was visit
ing Thomas Ford in Back Creek Neck
had his arm broken near the shoulder,
while crankng an automobile on We'd
nesday.
The gross receipts from the Rising
Sun base ball teams festival held last
week were $IS8oo. Miss Mildred
Clayton col ected $55.43 and won the
gold watch Tickets for the drawing
vie ded $47. J. D.. Conrad won the
BARRE o. flour. Walter Gather the lap
robe, R. W. Long the silk umbrella
and Ro and Kyle the pair of shoes.
Charles Godfrey, of Elkton, en-
poyed in one of the fibre plants at
Newark had his arm badly crushed
while at work on Thursday. He was
brought to Union Hospital.
Ninety tickets were sold at Elkron
station yesterday morning TO local
patrons OF Ringing Bros. Shows at
Wilmington.
Clement N. 'Dodd former we.l-
known contractor and bui der OF Mid
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THE WORST OF CRIMES

EFT us hope the proper authori-
IL ties viii leave no step untaken
that may lead to the discovery
OF the party or parties who perpetrat-
ed the crime, the story OF which is
recounted on another page The deed
was not the deed OF brute-a brute
could hardly be SC brutal Nothing
more shocking to every instinct OF
nature-human or less than human
can be conceived than the deed done
by the fiend who laid that little one in
the woods to die To die, while its
piteous pleadings, its baby cry ior hep
and comfort and warmth and life and
love could reach no ear bur the ear OF
the ALLOWING Father, whose wondrous
Providence brought the timely deliver
ance. The de'iverance came by what
one man will call an accident, what an
other man will call God; but il did not
come through any intent or provi
sun ~ tiiooS WIZ PSiPStiatS lHS
crime. THEY left The lite one to
die, wanted it to die. meant it to die
with its helpless little cry to be heard
OF no human deliverer, only to ring i'll
the soul OF the criminal through al eter-
nifty as a ghast'y, wailing, maddening
knell OF condemnation that shall never
cease by day or night, but shall tor
ture that sou. beyond the power OF al
human courts or stature laws Yet
this must in no wise alternate the duty
which rests upon those courts and laws.
This crime with which they are now
concerned is hendish beyond normal
conception. Society must not think OF
il lightly, must nor treat it Indifferent
". Men and women should talk OF it
Iii they talk OF it at az with blazing
eyes The proper officers should seek
is perpetrator, not only with sense
OF Official duty, but with the burning
Indignation OF men-as we believe they
will 1t may be that the same allwise
Providence who ed unexpected steps
% the little ones deliverance. will lead
the ministers OF justice to those who
cit i; in the wood to die
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WHERE RESTS THE BLAME?
II VICE within the last few weeks
i Mary anders have had occa
sion To wonder whether il

WIFE WITHIN the last lew weeks
i Mary 'anders have had occa-
sion to wonder whether its
Governor has been Improperly snub-
bed in connection with distinguished
functions, or whether he has been him
self neglectful OF The dignity and obi
cations of his office. When President
TAFT and other distinguished officials
came TO Annapolis to participate in
the ceremonies connected with the I'M
yelling OF the so'hiersf monument
Marylanders were amazed that the
Governor OF the State was not pres
ent at such a junction within our own
b~rders. This week in Baltimore The
third great Peace Conference has been
in session. On Wednesday a great
meeting at the Lyric was addressed by
President TAFT. Andrew Carnegie and
other most distinguished visitors from
this and other lands. But the Cover
nor OF Maryland was again conspicu-
ously absent Il Governor Crothe RS
has been unlimited to these functions,
the State has been indecently snubbed
in the person OF its Chief Executive.
Ii Governor Crolhers has been invited
and yet JAILED to attend the State has
been mortified by the action OF its
Chief Executive. There are matters
and events which transcend the limits
Of politica. feeling and no matter how
the managers OF these events may feel
toward Governor Crothers, or how the
Governor may fee! toward their des-
tinguished guests, the State has right
to know why it is not properly repre-
SIn.ed by its Chief Executive at affairs
within our borders which call for such
representation.
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SOME ELECTION MATTERS THAT
ARE misunderstood

NOV that the warmer weather is
! starting to sap in local po.iti-
cal timber, il is just as well per-
haps to call early attention to one or
two facts which do not seem to DC
generally understood
1. In the first place, al nominations
this year must be made by direct pr-
mary and the primaries must be joint
primaries, in which both parties must
participate, Even the Gubernatorial
nomination must be made by the pr:
mary method, as the delegates to the
State Convention Tor nominating
Governor are instructed for whom
they are to vote at the primary cleo
ton. As much as we disbeleve in any
such useless procedure. it is just as
wei for The people to understand that
it is the procedure by which all nomi-
nations must be made under the pres
ent primary law.
?. A second matter which does not
seem to be generally understood is
that nominations to fl the two COM
ing vacancies in the County Commits
sioners office must be from prescrib-
ed territory. According to the new law
no nomination can be made from the
First, Second or Third districts as the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06

population and whatever affects that
one-third OF the population must affect
the other two-thirds. You cannon in
jure the agricultural interests, you
cannot cut in TWO the farmers pur-
chasing capacity, without bringing in
furious results to every other kind OF
industry When the ability OF one
third to purchase the products OF the
other two.thirds is impaired, there
must inevitably be hating and slack
ening in all industrial conditions and
that means hard times"
And yet blind leaders OF the blind"
political theorists or political pirates
will press governmental policy as to
trade conditions. which means panic
and bankruptcy, not onlv for those en-
gagged in agriculture, but Tor many,
many thousands beside.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06
LOCAL JOTTINGS

Peach. pear and apple trees in the
Dover section doomed % days later
this year than las year. Governor
Pennewill says he learns that pc lches
were hurt more or less by cold wea
Their in Sussex county, 1t little dam
age was done in Kenr ana New Castle
Among the appointments made at
the Union American NJ. F. Conference
at Philadelphia were Rev. Andrew Pur-
nell to Chesapeake City and Rev.
Charles H Lewis to Christiana and
Iron Hill.
District Superintendent Hoffecker
conducted quarterly conferences at
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06
MAY WEEK

Time to put on new clothes;
9th and Market is the place
to get them for Men and
Boys, Young Men and Little
Boys.
New Grey Cheviot Suits
for Men and Young Men at
$40, $I2 SIS and up to $25.
Regular, slim and stout sizes
Fancy Blues and Self
Stripes for Young Men, in
sizes "a to 38 chest at $f2 to
$25. 8
The new Browns in Chew
lots and Worsteds at SIS, $40
and $25. Special cuts with
the long coats that the Young
Fellows like.
Our big new line of Blue
Serges in and ready, IS to
SIS, in Mems sizes. $12 to
SIS in Young Mems SIP cal
cuts at SIS TO SIS in silk
lined Suits. Full line spec
ial sizes, stouts, shorts, Sims
and extra sizes up to 4S chest
Young Men should see the
line of extra cut extreme
styles in silk Tired Suits in
all the new cloths at SIS to
$40 and S25, sizes "a to 80
chest.
s s:::s:' MULLINS s s.s.
Best Shoes
WILMINGTON
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06
LET US SEE

y INCE the election OF last Noven-
Der. when Our Democratic
friends succeeded in carrying the
House al Representatives by a very
large majority, the farm price mot the
consumers cost but the farm price OF
agricultural products has decreased
more than IS per cent But the effecr
OF this decline viii, not rest upon the
farmer alone. He will bear it primar-
lily, but he will nor suffer alone No
man lives unto himself, socially or
economically. The farmers OF these
u. S constitute one-third OF its entire
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06

dlefown, died il rhIIpd<Ir hI1 s. Iaea.
made Il Midd!efown yesierd1y
The remains IF Norman NoM!and,
former wei known resident a Port
Depos.r, who died q Washington ~.
c. last week. aged s. years, were inr
tered in Hopewe.1 Cemetery On Tues
y ] Marker has sod his rs acre
farm at Ginn's Corner, near IoWns-
end. to John r ottenfusser, Of Alberta,
Canada, for 5000
Work on the Rising Sum Calvert
section OF State road was to close this
week, owing, il is understood, to the
exhaustion Of Ceciss share Of the years
appropriation.
-R. M Burstan, Of Middletown,
has qualified lor leadership at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis.
A festival vii be held on the
school grounds at Charlestown next
Friday evening. May r. Proceeds
for benefit Of schoo, library. Music by
Principle Band
The lower section OF Hollings-
worths woods, just north OF town, was
set on fire on Thursday, probably by
boys smoking careless.y.
Leeds public school will ho.d a
festival on its grounds next Wednes-
day evening II stormy on Thursday
evening.
THE Cecil Circuit Court has grant,
ed divorce to Mrs. Alice S. Carroll
from her husband, Jeremiah Carroll.
Mrs. Eliza N. Harper has filed
bill in the Cecil Circuit Court for III
vorce rom her husband, R. ]. W. Har-
ner
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-05-06
THE lightning bug is brilliant thing

he Hghtnlng Dug IS DrlIIant lHlnS
But i, hasn't any mind,
1t stumbles through existence
With its head'i ghr on behind
WE do not offer the above as a
sample OF the best that can be found
in poetry; it is simply suggestive
quotation that insists on popping into
our mind every time we think OF the
brilliant way the State Road Commits
sion has conducted its operations in
this county
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UNCLE JOE Cannon says

The proposed Reciprocity agree
ment should be labelled the publish
ers pact whereby agricultural products
are traded off for the publishers pro-
fits" And that is where all the ciamor
comes rom for this agreement-it's a
newspaper crusade.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-17
SALARIES SLASHED
 BY COUNCIL
POLICY OF ECONOMY AND RE. TRENCHMENT BEING PUR-
 SUED FROM START.

In pursuance of their determina- ion 70 reduce the city's expenses for the forthcoming year the mem .crs Cf the city council voted on friday night to cut the salaries of III the city employees, and resolu- ion was adop ed which places the salaries at a figure which will mean | saving to the city of more than i.eo9 in the next 12 months The heaviest cUJ, one of $75 per month, "1s made ill the salary of the city attorney while the city clerk. city physician and pdlrOlmau were cut down $50 per m nth.
 The offices of the city clerk, mag istrate, tax assessor and deputy tax collector are combined under one head. The salary VI. be, until Oc- .ober l. $240, and after that time to he expiration of the term it will be $250.
 The following table shows the present salaries to be paid for the ther offices and the reduction in each case from the salary paid last year:
The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-17
J. ). SOLLEk INQUIRED FOR

As will be seen from an adver- tisement appearing on another page of this issue Mrs. Ida Sollek, of Cincinnati, O., is inquiring in regard to the whereabouts of her son, Jos eph D. Sollek. The young man wrote on May 19, 1910. to the effect that he would sail few days later from Seattle to Nome. Frequent letters to that city and to other parts of Alaska have failed to elicit any tidings of him.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-17
.DOINCS IN DISTRICT COURT

The case of the United States vs. J. H. Henry, the editor Of the Hot Springs Echo, was tried on Monday, and when all of the evidence for the prosecution had been rendered the court, on motion of the counsel for the defendant, instructed the jury to return verdict of Not Guilty" Henry was indicted on a charge of having endeavored to pro, cure and incite witness to commit the crime of perjury, the specific charge being that he tried to induce Benjamin Drury, an agent of the Northern Commercial company, at Hot Springs, to testify before the court in the Alice Taylor case that he had never sold liquor to the Taylor woman at Tofty. Mr Drury gave his testimony and the records of the commissioners court at Hot Springs were introduced and then the defense moved for the instructed verdict, which request was granted by the court. The jury trying the case consisted of A. McDougal. F. Shoemaker, II. J. Johnson, J. J. tilbin, Carlo Jacket, P J. Berry, William Haldane, Charles Nelson, T. A. Johnson and W. B. Barb
 The witness. Mabel Bishop, being unable to appear on Tuesday in the case of the United States vs. Mabel Bishop, an adjournment was taken 10 a later date. The woman is suf- fering from a nervous breakdown.
 The defendant in the case of Will jam Bruce vs. John McMahon, a suit tried by the commissioner at Chatan.ka, filed an appeal from the decision on Thursday. The suit was originally started by Bruce to re, cover the sum of svo6S0, which he claimed was due him from the de. fendant for work he did for him with teams and for wood and hay sold. Judgment for the plaintiff was awarded in the sum of $639.50 with interests and costs.
 A petition in bankruptcy was filed on Thursday by Hugh McKinnon as an individual and as a member of the co-partnership of c. F. Nc, Gilvray, Dougal McPherson and F. J. Cotter, this firm formerly operat. ing on the Owl association claim on | Engineer creek. The schedule shows debts of s3,5S350 incurred for labor wood and supplies, With no assets An order was on Friday issued al lowing Thomas Morgan and John Litsey to join in the receivership in the case of John l.. White vs. John l.. Tobin. April 29 was set as the date of filing of an answer by the defendant and by the receiver.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-17
ALMOST FATAL FRI.
 AT CHENA
GLOBE HOTEL AT MILLTOWf WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED
 LAST MONDAY.

i Early on Monday morning th, Globe hotel at Cinema was totall destroyed by fire, with nearly all il contents, property loss of abou ] $500, resulting to Mir. and Mrs. ! J. Burger it's owners. In addition Mrs. Burger, John Raap and G. T. Boulter, the superintendent of Ind an schools and Charlie McDermo.f the town marshal were seriou r. burn ed Mrs. Burger was at once put c the train and brought to St. Ma
 thew's hospital, and is now coin nicely, as Is also, MT. BOulter, wh later was taken to the same insti-u tion. MT. Raap was badly burne about the face and cheeks and lip and is still suffering considerably Mrs. Burger had nearly all of tn, hair burned from her head while he arms, hands and face also suffere severely. Mir McDermott, who Tel dered much assistance, was painful ly burned on the side of his face
 The building was three.stor, structure, situated al the upper en, of Front street and it original | cost 5000. It was purchased l..
 
 Mir. Boulter was staying at tho hotel, having a room on the seconr floor. He had left a call for o'clock and at that time when Nlr Burger called him, there was IT. sign of anything wrong, A shcr time after this Mrs. Burger hear, something fall, but thought it wa ice loosened up from the roof anC paid no further attention to it. t little later Burger went upstair again to call Boulter, as the gues had gone to sleep again, and CT the first landing he noticed that the ceiling in two rooms, occupied b. BOulter were on fire. Shouting Fire" and awakening Boulter tho hotel proprietor rushed downstair again to save what he could O his belongings. Boulter kicked ou the window pane, cutting his foo in doing so, and jumped to the snow below. His hair was nearl all burned from LIS mead and hs received numerous small burns be sides.
 With the help of John Raap tn Burgers recovered from the burn Ing DulluluS tHeSl, NdSUStdHt and a drawer containing their paper and. also, most of their money, bu' the flames spread so rapidly that they had no more than five minu, e in which to do the work While Mrs. Burger was in the kitchen she stumbled and fell. Before she could rise section of the burning cloth and paper from the ceiling fell on her and set fire to her clothing. She started for the door, but fell again and was rescued by her husband, who rolled her in the snow and ex- tinguished the flames.
 By the aid of the townspeople the fire was prevented from spread ing further, and a cabin used for storing provisions and ether supplies was saved after it appeared certain 1t would be destroyed.