Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-12-19
rHE PRINTERS POORLY PAID.


For instances receipts from the dog
tax are only s522 when il All the com
mon ours were taxed the receipts
would be several thousand dollars.
Other items worthy OF note are at
torny's fee is 500. for auditing &C.
counts $500. while the printing is only
sl2s a. and advertising So295 Haul
ing alone. on the other hand is Si039 80
and costs Of appeal cases S402S
Just here it may be said the County
School Commissioners set the Price
on the printing and publishing Of this
auditors account IN the local papers.
We viii give so-and-so. says the
school Board. and the press DONATES
TO the School Commissioners the good
round sum OF SEQ. The advertising Of
this auditors account amounts to Sl30
at legal rates. which are S1.00 per
square. or 100 squares. We ask is this
just or fair to the paper. especially
when auditor is paid $500 for auditing
and the printer one-6fth that sum.
Money may get a man into trouble,
but IL is also useful in getting him out.
Unless you have something to 90
with il confidence won't help so very
much.
The ability to believe anything one
wants to has advantages and disadvan-
tages.
Before beginning to stamp out an
evil the reformer shouldn't forget to
wipe off his feet.
"A man never fully appreciates his
club till he gets married and has a
home OF his own.
kicking about the weather is just as
useless as trying to make a determined
woman change her mind.
Do you know of anything more
wearisome than TO hear loafer tell
about how badly he needs rest2
Salespeople who can get through the
Christmas season with an unrufiled
temper deserve the highest praise.
In the states where women vote. the
man whose boys have all been girls
will be the subject Of little more
solicitude on the part of the politicians
hereafter.
Woman just back from Paris ex-
presses regret that her husband does
not like the gay capital This is prob
ably mistake founded on his remark
that Paris is no place for man to
take his wife for holiday.
We'd like to know the guy who
put Nap in Annapolis. 1t has
stayed there mighty long time. and
its most time to wake up to the reali-
zation Of what the town needs; energy.
wakefulness and progressive spirit
Remember that every cent expended
for Red Cross Christmas seal is a
cent devoted to the welfare of humani-
ty through the crusade against tuber-
culosis. Every additional cent is a
proportionary greater help. Can you
afford to miss the opportunity?
J. Pierpont Morgan controls twenty
hve billions of dollars. Such enormous
wealth to be controlled BY one man is
calamity to the nation. After a
while he will own the earth and every
body on it and it may be rooted over
and called Morgantown or Morganville. |
President.el Wilson did not care
to make the trip to the Panama canal
at this time After March he will be
the one to place warships at the dis
posal Of folks. He has his own way Of
doing things and the people viii end /
that fact to be true before be occupies
the presidential chair very long.
Help 70 make your own Christmas
happy by carrying cheer into the hearts
and homes Of those less fortunate than
sou. For insta1ce help the Guild Of /
Mercy carry cheer to the County Alnas
House where there are many old and
afflicted ones without friends. A little
gift to them at Christmas makes these
poor. dependents feel that they are not
entirely cut off from the outside world,
and the county who shelters and feeds
them cannot give them gifts and little
luxuries at Christmas time. The Guild Il
of Mercy gives its Christmas day to
carrying into these lives some cheer
and brightness. VIII you who are bet
ter off give some little thing toward
this Christmas cheer at the County
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