davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28
State Bar To Meet ThurSdau.

The annual convention of the
Maryland State Bar Association,
which will meet at Cape May, NJ,
| Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week, is expected to be the
largest gathering in the history of
the organization. Fully 200 per-
sons are counted upon to attend the
number including the wives and
daughters Of many of the members.
A majority of the local members
will leave Baltimore tomorrow and
will spend the night at the Cape
May Hotel, the convention head
quarters The first session will
open Thursday morning at 10
o'clock, and the meeting will con-
clude Saturday evening with a ban
quet at which Representative j..
Harry Coyington will preside as
POSTMASTER. Those responding to
toastS will include Speaker Champ
Clark, Mr. William Shepherd Bryan,
State Senator Blair Lee, Mr.. Ger
man H. NJ. En- DRY, of the City So
licitor's Office, ana Mr.. Benjamin H
Richmond, of Cumberland, attorney
for the Western Maryland Railway.
Several men of prominence who
are not members of the association
will read papers at the convention.
Among these will be former Cover
nor Samuel w. Pennypacker, of
Pennsylvania; Mr.. Edward q. Keas-
hey, of Newark, N. j., and Mr.. J.
II. RalstOu, Of Washington.
Mr. Keasbey will discuss the re-
cent decisions of the United States
Supreme Court in the Standard Oil
and American Tobacco cases. The
validity of the Employers Liability
act, of New York, will be another
interesting subject.
Among the resolutions to be
passed by the association it is
probable that one will be adopted
indorsing a bill drafted by the COM
mittee on laws, which provides for
an amendment to the Constitution
of Maryland to allow judges in
criminal cases to instruct the juries
in regard to the laws applicable to
the points at issue.
Always DO yuor best, but never
your best friend.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28
CITY GOVERNMENT
BY COMMISSION
Originated In Galveston Eleven
Years Ago,
RESULT OF GREAT FLOOD.
How Ii Rebuilt the Town, Constructed
tho Sea Wall, Restored Credit and
Scored Such a Success That 1t Is
Now Spreading Throughout the Land.
By JAMES A. EDGER TON.


Americans are long suffering under
abuses, but when the limit is reached
they go after the evil without gloves.
Our municipal governments present a
case in point. For generations we
have stood their rottenness. inefticien-
cy, grating and disgrace. Now they
are becoming SO bad we can put up
with them no longer. The result Is
that we are graduating the old sys-
tenn root and branch and substituting
therefor the commission plan of gov
eminent. The old scheme had got
past the meDding point. 1t had be-
come honeycombed with ward and
! partisan politics To ourselves it was
reproach. to other nations a standing
Joke 1t was combination of Tam
sures in st. Louis. San Francisco.
Pittsburg and elsewhere only scratch
ed the surface 1t was time for a
! new deal, and the new deal has come.
Now the cities Of the entire land are
Railing over each other in their haste
to try on the commission system.
Wherever inaugurated it has worked
like a charm. Everybody is happy
over it except the professional politi-
clans and the grafters.
The commission form of government
In America is only trife more than
ten years old. 1t started in 1900 as
result of the Galveston flood. SO stag
gering was the catastrophe that the
old form of government was unable
to meet the crisis. Alderman McMas-
ter proposed that the council resign in
q body and call in business men and
experts to deal with the extraordinary
situation This was done. \ commits
sion Of five was formed. two of them
elected by the people and three APP
pointed by the governor. Afterward
the supreme court decided that the
governor had no right to appoint, and
all the commissioners were elected.
Prior to the hurricane and tidal wave
that so nearly swept her off the map
Galveston had the usual diScOuraging
history of municipal misgovernment.
AS a result she was in debt. her bonds
were below par and her treasury on
the verge of bankruptcy. Under the
commission SYSTEM the city was re-
built, the grade raised several feet, the
streets repaved. a retaining sea wall
constructed. the debt cut down, eX
penditures kept within the revenues,
city employees paid in cash. bonds
brought to a premium. streets kept
cleaner. sanitation improved. saloons
kept out of the residence districts, poll
tics banished from the city hall nullic
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28
Scholarship Examinations.
OFFICE OF SCHOOL BOARD,
Ma limo IlII

Notice is hereby given that competitive
examination of candidates for the following
scholarships will be held at the Seminary
building, Cam bridge, Maryland, on Tuesday
July IL, 1911, viz:
One Free Scholarship Western Maryland
College al w Westminster, Md, for young lady
Six Scholarships at Baltimore State Nor
NAL school, for young ladies.
Two Scholarships to State Normal School
No ., at Frostburg, Md, for young ladies.
One Scholarship at Maryland Institute OF
Art and Design.
The applicants must be over Is years OF
age and fully and thoroughly advanced to
the eighth or higher public school grade.
The School BOARD will receive applications
up to 9 a. m., on July -, 1910.
BY order j. q. MILLS, President
VIM z. Beckwith, Supt. 2t
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28

Always do yuor best, but never
your best friend.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28
Examination Notice.
OFFICE OF SCHOOL BOARD,
cam bridpa- Md June Il. Iql

OFFICE OF SCHOOL BOARD,
Cambridge, Md, June E, 1911.
The examination for white teachers will
begin on Tuesday, July IL, 1910, at the Semi.
nary building, Cambridge, Maryland. All
persons who contemplate teaching next
year must take this examination, unless
otherwise eligible.
BY order of the Board
j. G. MILLS, President.
VIM. +. BecKwith, Superintendent.
Cam bridge papers please copy. Ut.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28

Some people think heaven is
situated somewhere near earth. 9th
ers locate it down in the rathskeIleI
In hitching their wagons to a
star most people look through the
wrong end of the telescope.
Smoe people are hypochondriacs
as to their value in the world which
in reality is below par.
Some people are mere bubbles; on
ly they remain in the air too long.
The people on the toboggan of
joy do not realize it until they
strike bottom.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28

gambling abolished civic spirit avian
encd and Il condition of harmony and
prosperity begun such as Galveston had
never before known. In other words,
the new government did better in the
face of the calamity than the old had
done in times of tranquility. One most
significant fact is that. despite the eX-
penditureS required to rebuild. raise
and protect the city. the tax rate was
kept down lower than that Of any
large city III Texas.
To show the contrast between the
old Galveston government and the
new. public improvements had stopped
under the former ring rule and
public buildings were detcriorating.
finances We're going behind at an aver
age of 100000 every year. city EN-
ployccS including even SchoOlteachers,
were paid i'll scrip. and the bosses. who
We're growing rich. had such grip it
was Impossible to shake them loose.
All that is nov changed The float
in- debt has been retired, sinking
fund started. rubli" Improvements are
going forward bills are paid in cash
when due. ana the political bosses
have become unpleasant memories.
That these and other benefcent re-
suits are Que to the commission sys-
ten Of government is proved by the
fact that other cities adopting the
commission plan have had like ex-
perience.
Under what came to be known as the
Galveston plan each of The commits
siOners took charge of some branch Of
the city government For this he was
responsible to the commission as a
whole and to the people. SO success
full was the system in the city of its
origin that other municipalities in all
parts of the land began to study it
with interest.
To one who does not believe in uni
verSal panaceas and cure-alls the
working out of the commission form
of government is little less than mar
velous. 1t has agrpeahiy surprised
both its friends and enemies. Is it
the long looked for solution of our
municipal government problems? An
unqualified affirmative answer is al
most too good to be true, and it is
too early to go that far, yet the more
one studies what has actually been
accomplished under the new system
the more enthusiastic he grows My
own prediction is that as soon as the
bulk of American cities realize just
what has been achieved in the COM
mission towns there will be such
scramble to make the experiment for
themselves that it will result III Il vir-
tual municipal revolution.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28
Notice to Water Consumers.

GREAT many consumers no doubt thought
" lessly, are using hose from their faucets
Ind otherwise for sprinkling purposes with
ut notifying the company. This is contrary
the rules of the company and cannot be
Emitted. La person desires to use water
4 DprinkIfng purposes they must make a p
lcation to the office for terms. We there
10 give notice to all persons not to dlsobey
rules and regulations.
26-6t CAMBRIDGE WATER co.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-06-28
TOWN TAX NOTICE.

LII persons owing taxes for 1910 are ear
~ nestly requested to settle same at once,
as the commissioners are badly in need of
money.-Milford Phillips, Collector. Jl9-2w
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-29

Mong December 3a at o'clock the doors will opened then the
Simply his don know what's you future But
Of wearing apparel from the Of their heads to the sole of their
else ID ibis part at he world.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
A Famous Vine.

In the Cumberland Lodge portion . the royal gardens at N indsor there is vine, known all over England as tht Cumberland Lodge vine, which is \; shoot of still older vine which grow
 at Hampton Court, but the shoot ha
 far outdistanced its parent in dimell sions and produetiveness In Englant grapes are generally grown undel glass. and the Cumberland Lodge viD, has d great glass structure. 12O fa
 long by 20 wide. all to itself. Growihs with astonishing luxuriance. the vint spreads. itself over a roof area of 2, 40I square feet and bears annually cro, of approximately thousand huc' punches of the finest favoref' ~rapes These grapes are frequent! or the royal table, and the subjee. whosl. presented with basket of them con siders himself highly favored Tn. shoot from which the great vine ha, grown was planted in 1775. a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
The Raiahs of Buktar,

The rajahs of Busta1 are hybrid ajputs, claiming to be d the family of the moon, and have reknell Ill Bus tar for between five and kiX hundred years. The family bears 4le name of Rathputty, and every yeah the raiuh has to sit on the rath at thesfestiva! of the Dusseerah wearing thes iewel; et she goddess Dunteshwarre, the tutelary goddess of the state, which Ire brought from Dantawara temple fdr the pur- pose
 save for the jewels he ta clad only iil wreaths Of fowers," sayS writer :n the Wide World, "and lwhen we saw him he looked very sblemn-al- most ashamed of himself-asIhe Lassed !s
 'Ir connection with this ceremony :Aere used to be brutal custom cf dragging the rath, a huge sort of jug gernaut car weighing many tons. over the bodies of live buffaloes, often only partly killing them
 This horrible practice was stopped by British officials"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
ATTACK LIKE TIGERS.

In fighting to keep the blood pure the white corpuscles attack disease germs like tigers. But often germs multiply so fast the little fighters are overcome. Then see pimples, boils, eczema, salt rheum and sores multiply and strength and appetite fail. This condition demands Electric Bitters to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to expel poisons from the blood. They are the best blood purifier," writes c. T. Budahn, of Tracy, Calf 'I have ever found'' They make rich red blood, strong nerves and build up your health Try them. soc, at all druggists.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
 Cliff of Natural Glass.

A cliff of natural glass can be seen in Yellowstone park. It is half mile long and from 150 to 290 feet high the materialtof which 1t consists being as good glass as that arti6cialiy manu, 4factured. The dense glass which forms the base is from seventy-five to . hundred feet thick. while the upper portion. having suffered and survived many ages of wind and rain. has natu rally worn much thinner Of course the color of the cliff is not that of nat ural glass-transparent and white-bu, is mostly, black. and, in some places mottled and streaked with brownish red and shades of olive green and brown. I Efi
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
Exclusive.

At an evangelistic service at Glasgow the preacher at the end of his addi esS cried, Now. all you good people wh" mean to go to heaven with me. stand upr' With surge of enthusiasm the audience sprang to its feet. all but an old Scotchman in the front row, who sat still The mortified evangelist wrung his hands and. addressing him said, "My good man. my good man. don't you want to go to heaven?"
 Clear and deliberate came the an swer. "Aye. Awm gangin. but no wi a paFsohaliy conducted pairty"-St. James Gazette.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
indispensable,

Three camels presented themselve at the dock where the ark was tied ul whereas but two animals of kin had been called for
 "One of you fellows will have t step aside!" shouted Noah very pel emptorily. !
 But the three ships of the deser smiled knowingly.
 I," said the first of them. "am th camel which shall pass through th eye of needle sooner than rich ma shall enter the Kingdom of heaven"
 "I." said the second. lam the cant which so many people swallow whil -straining at gnat."
 And l." said the third and las -am the camel whose back was hr ken by the last straw
 Whereupon Noah, perceiving tug inosterity could Ill spare any of tht.s and would be lost for illustra tion without them. graciously made an e @eption in their fayor.-Puck
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
THOUGHT
 DEATH NEAR
Queen Esther ROberS0n of Teller ner Feels That Cardui Did Her
 a World of Good.

TeIferner, Tex.--"l will now write to let you know how much good Cardui did for me-" writes Miss Queen Esther Roberson of this town.
 'I suffered from womanly troubles for four years and thought at times would die with pain, but now, since taking Car- Vii, am much better and give Cardu all the praise. will recommend Cardui tc all my lady friends"
 Only the purest vegetable ingredients, O mild and gentle action, are used in the preparation of Cardui, the woman tonic, Cardui contains no mineral poisons, of ether dangerous drugs of any sort, hence we can depend upon its doing you noth- ing but good.
 Its specific, curative action, on the cause of most womanly troubles, is proved by the wonderful results obtained In so many different forms of such troubles, described by the thousands of ladies, who have written to tell what it did for them.
 Headache, backache, sideache, drag ging sensations, irregularity, cramps, nervousness, irritability, tired feeling, in- ability to walk, are all symptoms of something wrong with the womanly organs.
 Take Cardui. It will surely help you.
 N. B.--Wrife to: Ladies' Advisory Dept Chatta- oooga Medicine Co.,. Chattanooga. Tenn. for Special oH6uettons, and 64-page book. Home Treatment 0vReaI" seatiu plain wrapper on request
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
Handy With an Az.

One important feature in connect1on with the conducting of mining opera ucns in Siberia is the aptitude of ths Russian workman for the ax. Wood ts 50 plentiful in the country that min ing timbers may be figured on at : low rate. The current anecdote that a Russian workman will for twenty kopeck piece lay his left hand. with fingers spread, on a board ard with fu}l strength make an ax CT WeeE each finger cannot be youcbnd .tr. brt it Is certainly true that In pick tim5e, in& fin had ground. in erecting build ln&s, log cabins aud all manner oi weHd joining the equal of the Russian pes san cRnnof be found. - I-oD6oG &ElA t,e
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
Kindly Fruits.

The expression in the prayer bo0s "Kindly fruits of the earth" has foi most persons no definite meaning or account of the difference in signin canoe now attached to the word kind ly from that used when the expressto, was first written. The, word Kindly ff that connection meant as nearly as possible "of its ikind." and the expres sion "kindly fruits of the earth meant .the fruits of the earth eact after its kind"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
TH.: ~AEATHEM CHINEE."
And th4 Is- ds Bret Harte Wrote Into
 His Flowing Sleeves.

HIS Flowing Sleeves.
 Every one who knows American poetry is familiar with Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee," written in the ear .y seventies at the time when the feel ing on tie Pacific coast ran high against the mild eyed Celestial and woicins that feeling by portraying the hero, if such term may be applied to, An Sin, as q crafty card cheating villain who outwits the sharps of the California mining camps
 It is not generally known, however. ,hat the poem Is unique in that ii contains an error which the author failed to detect when reading the gal. ley proofs and which survived and still survives all attempts at correc. 1ion. Perhaps it is the only instance in literature where a grossly paten error ill the copy reading of an after. ward famous article, whether prose or poem. has persisted through nu-' merous editions despite all efforts o: author and editor to kill it., s ..sss,sz
 The poem was written while, Bret iIarte was employed on San Fran cisco daily and. to him. was merely [, part of the days work. It tells of Chinec, An Sin, who. with a smile thnt was child1ike and biand.' sat in gaA,e of euchle with Truthful James and Bill Nyc,F a s}'i J6i idD' 51I
 At crucial point of the game the artlcss Chinese plays the winning card. which" says Truthful James. the, narrator of the, catastroplle. "the. same Nye had dealt unto nie!' Where upon Truthful and Nyc proceed to "go for that heathen Chinee.' The damaging evidence disclosed by their rovg'l ard searching investigation is to!l as fro...ows ill the poem as it was 7rintcd--and has been printed ever slnee the initial publication: .,--ss= h his sleeves. whic', we're long. there were e tW'entN-Gaur prrks..s
 Which is coming it strong. ye, state bur. the facts,
 Tn lis fr.a thc busy Bret Harte
 ct. ,.e llDofs go down to the printer, ard t was not uniil some time later that 4lS' recalled having overlooked aT -.or il it. He hurried down to the
 .re $, luts already several hundred co iss I'd been strGck off and were being distributed about the city to the morning subscribers Bret IIarte, at | tachinr no Importance to the fugitive verses. w.ieh had merely oozed ,frolG | his pen the afternoon previous. made no effort al correction then. When. 1 however, the eastern press enthusias- tically copied it and publishers and il.; illustrators rang all iadnner of comic changes init hentried lb E- he correctjphfase. but, wi5 h md ssThe Heathen rhineess. led : in its original form tN> s'z Ar
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
Whx Waste His Breath? :?

Teacher-Now, Tommy. suppose you had two apples and you gave another boy his choice of them You would tell him to take the bigger one,> wouldn't you? Tommy-No. mum Teachers Why? Tommy-Cos 'tworldn,t he ne'' essary.-Suburhan Life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
Fairly Warned.

He-My dear. I qan't afford 10 hu, YOU that hat She s'ill. Eon'd SHvf money if you did. He-IIow sot"' Nh Because I'll just be i'll if don't h"'t it, and you know what doctors hl' arc ..tr, .sI4.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
Hit Both Ways.

.lt ain't no fun bein' kid observ ,.l boy bitterly You always haiiei on te bed when you ain't sleepy all ,it I'D when you are."- Toledo Blade,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
R.ci:lcc-.

M"H"r-I kcar that Charlie is an aw. fE s,,rndtlrif'. Mnriorie-I should sa, ha was.7 He's irving to make two wild oats %row where only one grew before - Puck.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01

It is worth a sthousandA pounds year to>have the habit or looking the bright side of thifgs,- rJohnson
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01

Tlt" man of perfect virtue is eau. .:ouS aad slow of speech -Confucius
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01

ssR SALES YEAR OLD PRsE.
 with almost new buggy a1a har- ness Will be sold at a frgain.
 Old phone 1051. 2 i'n
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
For Rent

FOR RENT-FOR A FEW MONTHS modern five room cottage. Corr .pletely furnished. Apply l9oi Cherry John Iowlar. 3 31 6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01

WANTED A COUPI1E-TO RENT MY
 practically new furnished cottage on car line in good neighborhooo
 and board my wife. Address J. J. care the Graphic. % 6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-01
Wanted.

AGENTS WANTED-FOUR GOOD colored agents. for city work Coin-i missions daily Address H.,
 Quick, general delivery l 6t
Milford chronicle., 1911-02-10
GENERAL MARKETS

PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR firm
winter clear, S365639O; city mills
fancy, S5.50d6.
RYE FLOUR firm, at S49415 PEI
bTT' el.
CORN quiet; No yellow, 52a
0 OATS steady: No. , white, 371k a
3Sc.: lower grades. 36l2c.
POULTRY: Live steldy; hens. l60
16Isc.: old roosters. 10iad1lc. Ore s
ed firm: turkeys, choice, 23c.; choice
fowls. 16tac.; old roOsters, l2c.
BUTTER steady; extra creamery
EGGS firm; selected. 25d2Sc; near
bv dc. western. 24c.
POTATOES firm; 600 65c. bushel