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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
\ MILL LEVY FOR PARKS.

In making up the budget for next
year the city commissioners have a
golden opportunity to provide for the
development of the parks in "A way
that will be commensurate with the
needs of Topeka in this particular. A
tax levy of a full mill solely for park
purpose will do the trick Such a
levy is permissible under the statue
of recent enactment concerning cities
OF the first class. Commissioner Stotts,
who is in charge of the park depart
ment, is favorable to the plan. So
are many of the public-spirited citi-
Gems who are devoting much of their
time and some of their means to MAX
ing the parks more worth while.
The expenditure of $4,000 a year
on the park system-this is approx
mately the sum that would be avail
able under a mill evy-is none too
much for a city of the size of Topeka.
This is especially true just now when
the development of most of the parks
here, towards the proportions that
they should assume, has practically
just been undertaken. Much money
is going to be needed next year for
the new East side park, that was re-
Gently authorized. To best fulfill its
functions, this park must be more
than a mere plot of ground with a
grove on it where people can stroll
and rest. 1t must also be a big play
ground for the children and such
grown-ups as care to indulge in any
of variety of sports that can be stag
ed in a city park. There must be
paths and seats, and possibly road
ways. The park tract must be beauti-
fled and made as attractive as pos
sible in every way. These things will
cost money, and the people of the
whole city should be willing to foot
the bills.
And if only a half mill levy is made
for the parks for next year, which
was the size of the levy for this year,
it will not be possible to develop the
East side park as it should be unless
all the other parks are neglected.
Surely it would be a poor policy to
slight any of the parks during next
year or any year thereafter, now that
such a fine start has been made in
their development by Commissioner
Stotts. Under his administration, two
of the parks, the City park and Gar
field park, have been turned into big
recreation centers that are paying
rather handsome returns to the city.
It is unusual, to say the least, that the
city is getting any money returns at
all from any of the parks, for the
rule generally is as far as a city and
it's parks are concerned, that it is a
case of money always going out and
nothing coming in.
Topeka, with the new East side
park, has the nucleus for a magnifi-
cent park system. Now is the time
to develop it as it should be. mill
levy a year for the next few years
will provide the necessary means. 1t
will be the best investment that To-
pekans could possibly make. Let the
capital city of Kansas once get the
reputation, which is within its grasp,
of being the park city of the great
central west, and it will have attained
an advertisement of unreasonable
value. 1t is up to every one in To-
peka to become a booster for the
parks and to let the city commission
ers know that they will not be criti-
cized for making a mill levy for park
PURPOSES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

give the necessary stability to his dirt
gible. that was responsible for the fiz-
zle of his effort to sail across the At
lantic. Melvin Vaniman, the success
SCR of Wellman in this enterprise, per-
fected another safety device for his
air vessel that resulted in its wreck
and the death of Vaniman and his
crew of four men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

subsca Shcrg Of tho state Journal
AWAY from homo during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
zach day 60 any address sE the rate Oh
ten cents q week or Thirty cents
month Thy m8n only. Address
changed ag often as desired. Wh1le
out OF town the State journal VIII De
10 vou like a ldatly letter from homo.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Press.1

[F'rom the New YORK Press-J
There's no sense in giving up to despair
on a pleasure trip. for it has an ending.
Making your own money is an ordinary
business; getting other peoples is a fine
art.
The only way for two people in a fam
ily quarrel to settle it is for one of them
to die.
Fools try to teach their wives how to
keep their bank balances straight; wise
men praise their wives biscuits.
Sense about 80 things out of 100 wit
never keep anybody from being a fcoI
about that other one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
Of pursuits.

Will there ever be any rest for the
people on this mundane sphere? The
national conventions are things of the
mast the fight at Las Vegas has gone
down into history, the revolutionists in
Cuba and Mexico have succumbed &c
the hot weather or something else, ano
congress appears to be getting ready TO
adjourn. But now somebody has
started a discussion as to the proper
dimensions of bathing suits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

Boys will be boys. And it is to be
hoped that this is the explanation for
the act of some of the members OF
the Philadelphia National League team
In doctoring a ball so that Marty
O'Toole, the famous spit-ball pitcher
of the Pittsburg team, became af11ict-
ed with a blistered mouth. Any other
reason would be a disgrace to the ma
tional game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

What if Kansas is one Of the hottest
regions in the country nowadays? This
is as it should be- Kansas has many
acres of corn that are in fine condition
and it needs this hot weather to make
a bumper crop. So just keep a-smil-
ing regardless of the heat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

hobo convention to have been held
in the east failed to materialize be-
cause none of the hoboes turned up.
After what occurred at Baltimore and
Chicago, a national convention look.
like real work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

UNIQUE, indeed, among verdicts is the
one that has been put out by the Brit
fsh Board of Trade concerning the IT,
tanic disaster. 1t finds that speed was
responsible for the sinking of the III
tanic but nobody was responsible for
&1o
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

There probably won't be anything
like a shortage of harvest hands in
Kansas next year. The activities of
the Kansas wheat-growers this year
in offering the use of automobiles and
the society of pretty girls as induce
ments to get men to join them in the
wheat fleIs, are certain to make wheat
harvesting in Kansas the most popular
Of rurS11its
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

While Professor Wilson has let 1t be
known to Harper's Weekly that he does
not wish its active support, Colonel
George Harvey, it's editor, and the or
dginal Wilson man, is generous enough
to predict that Mr.. Wilson will be the
next president of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

He was a wise man who characteriz-
ed the United States senate as ''the
most august deliberative body in the
world" 1t took the senate more than
two years to dispose of the Loriner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

One of Little Rocks citizens died
recently because. by mistake, he drank
some carbolic acid instead of Arkansas
whisky. But he probably didn't know
the difference until he reached the
shining shore ~e-9r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

Kaiser Wilhelm will soon have few
more troubles OF his own. 1t is re-
ported that the lady suffragists OF
Berlin are about to enter upon a win
dow-smashing campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

Those many Denverites who have
made a proud boast of the fact that
water is seldom used in that town
except as a Chaser must have been
more than peeved at the cloudburst
which was recently thrust upon them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

The royalists who are invading Por-
tugal and the Italian troops that are
conquering Tripon seem to be running
q close race for the bottom of the
percentage column.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

An authority in the premises claims
that the country needs more goats.
True enough; the Baltimore convention
greatly Iessened the visible supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

Safety appliances for air craft ap-
near TO be such in name only. It was
the famous .'eqilibrator'' of Walter
Wejlman's design. which was going to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Il q member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news Or
ganfzaeion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news f. received IN The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
KANSAS cOMMENT
HOUsE-FLY VS. RED-RTrC

One of the characteristics of the
present-day campaign for the preven-
ton OF disease is the homely, practical
way in which facts are being placed
before the public. The little house-hy
for instance, has been for years the
subject OF household poetry and has
been referred to as the harmless and
innocent companion of man. The bed
bug, on the contrary, has been looked
upon with speechless aversion. He has
no social standing. Even the mention
of his name has not been considered
good form in our best circles, while the
least suspicion of a speaking acquainI-
ance with him has been regarded with
horror. DR.. Cyrus Thompson, in IN
article on Files and Filth" says:
Now as matter of unprejudiced fact.
barring the sting of the bite and the
door of the encounter the beg-bug is a
much more eligible companion than the
house-fiy, whether of bed or of board.
But If bed-bugs, comparatively cleanlv
of habit, crawled all over our plates.
table and food just as the house-fies
crawl, fresh from the foulest filth of
every pestilential kind, who could eat
or even sit at the table for a moment?
am not making a plea for the eleva-
ton of the social status of my noctur-
Eal friend, but 1 am declaring that mis-
deeds are not nearly so evil and de-
struct1ve as those of the house-fy"
The bed-bud has been, for generations.
the abomination Of the housewife, ami
the object of her unrelenting warfare
once convince American women that
the fly is more dangerous and loath-
some than the bed-bug, and the raw
ages of this typhoid-breeder and filth
distributor will be over.-Pratt Union
THE MYTHS OF HISTORY.
So the Liberty BelT' never rung
out the first notes announcing Ameri-
can independence In the ewes of
historian Jackson the old bell is mere
ly piece of junk. And he proceeds
to smash the time honored tradition
and to defame a shrine at which
millions of Americans have rever-
enced. We may expect almost any,
thing In this practical age. Let no
one be surprised to find some learned
historian soon proclaiming that there
was never continental congress,
that the declaration of Independence
was never adopted; that Washington
was as much of a myth as one his
torical writer has attempted to prove
Napoleon to be. There are still and
probably there always will be with us
a set of mortals who would ferret out
fame by preaching that the earth is
hat.-WorceSter Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16
by THE WAY
BIT HARVEY PARsoNA

he stood. After a week of profound de-
liberation, the askee made answer, but
neglected to add that he stood also
upon the Brink.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

TT was MY fight and MY victory,
says r. R. anent the canning of Hon.
Lorimer. But, up to a late hour this
afternoon, T. r. had neglected to claim
also the credit for having defeated
Hon Ronanarte at Waterloo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-16

He-Shan we bunny? She-No; let's Just
sit down and hug.-Harvard Lampoon.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16
To Publish County Bills Monthly

AN ACT to require the County Commits
sioners of Cecil County to make out
and publish monthly a full and COM
plete statement of all county expen-
ditures.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the County
Commissioners of Cecf county be and
t.ey are hereby required, in addition to
the annual statement of county eXpendi
lures required to be made out and pub
lished by Section II of Article % of the
Code of Public General Laws, to make
out az the end of each month, com
plete, perfect and detailed statement of
all county expendituI es for the month
just passed, specifying therein each par
ticu'ar item of expense, and for what
and to whom paid, and to cause the same
to be published in at least two news
papers published in Cecil county, pro-
vided that the annual statement, above
referred to. shall only be required to
contain a brief summary of the items re-
quired to be published by the provisions
of this Act.
Section 2. And be it further enacted
that this Act shall take effect from the
date of its passage.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16

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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16

James w. Yerkes. OF Calvert, his cousin,
will continue the business Of Mr.. Chand-
Ter, who will remain with the new firm.
Rev. L. e. Barrett, DID, of Chester
town, will preach in the Elkton M. E.
Church tomorrow morning at 1890 o'clock
ilev. Dr.. Arthur 3. kinsolving, Rec
tor of st. PaMl.s Church, Baltimore,
preached in Trinity Church, Elkton, on
Tuesday evening. Rev. Hubert w. Wells,
Rector of st. Andrew Church, Whining
ton, will preach next Tuesday evening
Service will be held on Friday evening at
7.30 and on other days at AIS p. m. All
are cordially invited to attend the SER
vices.
Jonn Adams has purchased Cameron
Ca ier's general store at Calvert.
AS noted In last weeks real estate
| transfers the Marley Mills, near Childs,
| has passed from the c.. s. Garrett Sons
Company to the Marley Nils Company,
| formed by Philadelphia and Wilmington
capitalists.
Owing to the Chautauqua meeting,
which Is to be held Tuesday evening,
March 49, the regular meeting of the
Third District Teachers Reading Circle
will be postponed until the following
| Tuesday, March rs.
High water in the Big Elk, following
| the early rains of the week, washed
L
| it was raised, from the small bridge
south of the creek to the foot of Cres-
| well Hill, in last August and Septem-
| Der. Much Of the material was washed
| upon the meadow on the west or down
the stream, and the concrete drains were
! barred The road was closed to travel
| Ola Bidwell, concertviolinist and read
| err under the direction of the Elkton
Music Club, will appear in Elktnn Opera
h. use on Friday evening, March %. Tick
| els 20 and 30 GEMS heServed seats al j.
| Frank Fra er Drug Store. Miss Bid
we'll IS a noted and versatile entertainer.
Three cars of a fast freight on the
Columbia & Port Deposit road which left
the tracks in deep i-Id narrow cut, be-
tween Haines' station and Peach Bottom
| last Friday morning, blocked tramc ror
a time and passenger trains were run to
the scene of the trouble from Perryville
and Columbia, till the line was cleared.
Three young negroes, two of whom
Clinton Cole and Richard Ryan, were
arrested, stole $50 from the money drawer
| of Henry Toy, Chinese laundryman, In
Middletown, after crawling through 6
rear window of his shop, on Saturday
evening He was robbed in a similar
way about three weeks ago.
Five thousand people make good sized
town, yet more than this number are
employed at STRAWBR1DGE & CLOTH
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16
THE BALTIMORE NEWS WANTS
TO KNOW

THE Baltimore News has been striving
and very properly striving, for several
months to make SOMEBODY understand
that it must be SOMEBODY'S business
to bring Murray Vandiver to book for his
contemptuous defiance of the Corrupt
Practices Act. We ventured to suggest
to the News that they put the matter up
to the Governor. While intimating its
intention of / 'rsuing that course at
some future time, the News wants to
know why newspaper should have ito
prod and prod AMI prod Officials whose
business it Is to enforce the law, to in
duce them to do something they are
commanded to do by their oath of Officer
Why? Well, simply because no good citi-
zen can possess his soul in patience,
when important statues are fiagrantly
violated, while supine officials sleep on
their duty. Why should Murray Vandi-
yer defy the law OF Thu State and go I'M
scathed? Would Sam Slick get off SO
easily? If you want to know where SOC
ial unrest, popular discomfort, bitter
criticisms by the populace-if you want
to know where these things come from,
THERE is where; in the disgusting evil
dences that there is oft times exasper-
ating discrimination in the enforcement
of the law. 1t is that sort of thing that
breeds anarchy.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16
LOCAL JOTTINGS

Robert B. Russell, of the Liberty Grove
section, fell from wagon, one day this
week, and his arm was broken
Clinton Porter, colored youth was
kicked above the right eye on Monday by
young mule which he was embarrassing
on the Holloway farm, near Newark, and
was knocked down, remaining senseless
for time.
George W. Oldham, of the Cecilton sec
ton, died yesterday at Union Hospital,
Elkton, where he underwent an operation
on Monday. His remains will be taken to
his home today.
Howard Smiuh succeeds C. H. Mort as
of the Gilpins Falls Company.
A box social will. be held in Carter's
Hall, Elk Mills, by lanes of the Latter
Day Saints congregation this Saturday
evening. Ice cream will be on sale.
Everybody welcome.
Joseph T. Richards, Jr., of Colora, on
Wednesday succeeded W. d. Hines, re-
signed, as County Roads Engineer.
Albert G. Reynolds, highly esteemed
resident of the Eighth district, died
at MS home near Rock Springs on March
Z, of omach trouble. His wife, three
sons, his morher and three sisters sur
vive him His funeral was held on Sat
urday, with services conducted by, Rev.
Samuel Pc k.
Mrs. Alfred Houck died OF heart trou-
BILE, at her home in Havre de Grace, on
Wednesday Her husband and two daugh-
els survive her.
Mr.. Louis Vane and Miss Emma Lea
gor, supplied with a Queen Anne's mar
riage license, reused Rev. DR.. L. E. Bar
rett from his slumbers in Chestertown
about midnight on Sunday. DR.. Barrett,
after a g ance at the all important do
cument, rose to the occasion and sug-
gested the Queen Anne side Of the Ches-
ter river bridge as the scene of the cere-
mony, which was performed by the light
of the watchman's lantern.
Mrs. Addie Pierce, wife of George W.
Pierce, formerly of the Rising Sun Sec
ton, died on March 7, at her home near
Penn Hill, aged 50 years. She was a
daughter of Josiah Reynolds, and is sur
vived by her husband and five children
The Chandler warehouse, planning mil
stock and fixtures in Oxford has beer
sold to A. j. Mackey, of Blake, who with
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16
UPHOLDS ROAD ENGINEER LAW

THE House bill, repeating the Road
Engineer Law for this county, was kill
ed in the Senate by Mr.. Crothers; SO that
there can be no change in the present
system for the ensuing two years at any
rate. We do not know what motives
actuated Senator Crothers in killing this
bill, but we do know that his action has
not represented the wishes of his con-
stituents, the people of this county. In
the House, Messrs. Warburton Smith
and Clendenin united in favorably re-
porting the bill and securing its passage,
because they reali ed that the people of
the county, without respect to party
lines, were demanding the repeal of the
law. We presume Senator Crothers I'M
derstands that by his action he has
knowingly defied public sentiment in this
county and is prepared to take the con-
sequences.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16

IER'S in Philadelphia. In addition to
the immense business Of our Retail store
thousands OF good merchants all over the
country sell SrRAWBRIDGE 4 CLOTH
IER Suits, Coats, Skirts, Linens, Uphol-I
stery Materials, Underwear, Hosiery and
Dress Fabrics. We prefer that you buy
OF pour local dealer II he carries our
goods and he should n he handles mer-
chandise Of quality and distinction. II
you cannot obtain the lines You wish In
your own town, write hor a free copy Of
ready. Address Strawbridge & Clothier,
Philadelphia mar 1872
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16
DRY ORDERS
ro0fc onN DID,
Fire Tax Notice

As Secretary and Treasurer Of the Farmers &
Mechanics Mutual Insurance Association of Cecil
County, Nd. hereby give notice that under
date of March 9, 1912, an assessment of IS cents
on the 500, on a per cent basis, all higher
rates in proportion. was ordered by the Board or
Directors of sad Association TO meet losses OF
M. 4. England w. H. Warrington, H. A. Min
ner, ]. w. Taylor and Garrett Lockerman. and
other small fires and expenses thereof. to be
finally due and payable on or before May 9, 1912.
IF any person shall refuse OF neglect to pay
shall not be protected by the Association until
said tax is paid"
Z. d. CARHART,
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-03-16
Ready-to-We ear Garments

For years we have specialized on ready-to-
wear garments and have become recognized as
headquarters for the largest assortments and the
newest most correct and exc usive styles. This
season our efforts enable to put before orr Gus
toners most superior line for women, misses,
girls and children. Suits SIS 90 each to $500
each.
Dresses in the new Chiffon Taffeta, Chiffon
Cloths, Crepe Meteor, Cotton Wolfe, Linen,
Batiste, Serge and Ratine. These dresses are
most unusual in style and modest in price.
Top Goats in most novel models, at $I2.oo
each and upwards
Large showing of Suits Coats. Dresses and
Skirts in cream wool Serges Whipcords and
Bedford Cord.
Separate Skirts at IS 90 each and upwards
Waists of Linen, Wolfe, Batiste, Crepe, Chit
fon Tafeta and Chiffon Cloth
We have just added line of the better sorts
of Childrens Dresses in sizes from years old up
These garments we'll worth seeing as they
are so different.