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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

II the front parlor is clean girl is
apt to think the whole house is all
right. -z' |'@T ...- '>r1t
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

In communication to the Kansas
City Star correspondent, Lacey"
writes as follows: Africa is not the
place for the American negro. AS yet
we have not heard enough to warrant
our going there. don't think the ne
groes of the United States should sac
riice our fifty years of success here
to start all over in barren, halfciv-
ilized country. Here we have our
own churches. schools and colleges.
Now comes Chief Sam and asks us to
break these up, leave all we have
worked for and 60 back. II Africa
is as rich as Chief Sam suggests it
will not want for others who will seize
its riches"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

Don't expect the world to laugh with
you II you are laughing at the world.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

When poverty comes in at the vii
dow 1t is getaway day for love.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

Amt it funny that Their hens LAY
Their most at time when eggs Is 81
cheap?
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

A New Orleans expert figures that
by becoming a 'suffragist a woman
decreases her chances of marrying so
per cent.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

One idea Of free thinker is . man
who isn't married.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

Fuel oil consumption this year by
the United States navy is estimated at
3O,000,0O0 gallons,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

Speed, clevernessl and ability to
shift from one hold to another gave
Gus Schoenlein of Baltimore, better
known to the followers of wrestling as
Americas, an easy victory over Paul
Martinson, the motorman.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

When George Schwartz, farmer in
Scranton, Pa, cut down an oak tree he
found imbedded in its heart a pine
tree shilling dated 1852. ''
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

AS universal danger signal, a Den
yer firm has designed and copyright
ed signs bearing human hand, across
the palm Of which appear the words
Safety First"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

In London a motor bus proprietor
has to comply with between so and 60
conditions before he can obtain Ii.
cense. IS 7".s
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

1t shore would be a fine thing If this
rest cure business was for them as
really needs it.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09

It takes three seconds for . cable
message to cross the ocean.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-09
WRESTLING

Americas refuses to believe Gotch
has retired. Other wrestlers harbor
similar fears.
The announcement that Youssuf
Mahmout is not dead, but emphatical-
ly alive on his own admission, leads
to the question of what they can get
out of his heroic demise as a press
agent affair.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20

by giving close personal investiga-
ton as to the necessity OF all reuuisi-
tons presented" says the Commits
sioner. II have been able to produce a
saving amounting to s12,26720 ON open
market orders alone. during the first
five months of my administration. The
total saving amounts to $4,000. This
is all the more noteworthy in view of
the fact that the total appropriation for
Vthe Park Department proper Is only
$l,0S7.544.29. being n saving on the total
appropriation Of 2h per cent. cannot
help but call attention to the fact that
IL this proportion OF saving should be
carried out In other and larger depart
ments Of the city. the saving would BIO
most substantial"
Barren spots in tho lawns of the
various parks and Fairgrounds and
along the gullies in Riverside Drive
have been covered with soil obtained
from public and private excavations.
thousands OF yards of dirt and sod being
procured without expense to the city
from the site OF tho Metropolitan Mu-
scum additions. This instances only one
OF the many economics cited by Com
missioner Ward I'm his report to the
Mayor.
For the protection OF tho children
Commissioner Ward made q campaign
against the old practice of park vendors
exposing their candy and other delica-
cies TO flies and dust. He has incor-
porated In all licenses a clause requiring
obedience to city and state health regu-
lations and making revocation the
penalty for disobedience. Commissioner
Ward enlisted the aid Of the Health De-
partment to see that the concessionaires
sell nothing but pure products and has
Just received a report from the Health
Commissioners office that conditions in
the refreshment booths are now salts
factory.
Not only has Commissioner Ward in
creased the city's revenues from the
various park concessions and privileges.
but he has subjected the holders OF soda.
candy and refreshment privileges to
rigid sanitary requirements
Relative to the Improvement in the
matter of park music, the Commissioner
reports:
There has never beeh before In Cen
trail Park such an aggregation of mu-
sCians OF the very highest type as
played there during this summers sea-
SON" The Commissioner states that
Nahan Frankie and Arthur Bergh have
picked their men from the best must
clans in such bodies az Sousa's band and
the orchestra OF the Metropolitan Opera
House. the New York Philharmonic So
ciety and the New York symphony So
ciety. Commissioner Ward also reports
that he has planned to obtain the CO.
operation of the leading singing So
cietles toward inaugurating a series OF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20

Ward planted ll,44i trees and shrubs
and has removed GIG dead and danger
Gus trees from the parks
on taking office the Park Commits
sioner found the trees in the city's
streets required immediate attention. He
learned from the departmental records
that in 1913 New York city had lost 800
more trees than IL had planted due TO
death and disease. Commissioner Ward
has more than restored this loss by new
paintings lie IL now experimenting
with machine which detects injuries
to trees from leaky gas mains or cleo
trlcal contact. This machine was i'm
ported from Berlin. He has also i'm
ported new types of street CRATES for
sidewalk trees which have been used
successfully abroad.
The report states that the park au-
thorites have devoted special attention
To the needs OF mothers and babies,
The number OF benches in the various
parks and along Delaney street park
way and upper Broadway have been in
creased During "baby week all the
park lawns were thrown open to
mothers who had young children.
Commissioner Ward has made a spe-
OF the labor force together so as to en-
able them more thoroughly To work in
the best interests of the Park Depart
ment. He has given particular atten-
tion to defining the duties of each man
and providing him with the kind of
work to which he was best fitted. Steps
have also been taken to provide such
prizes as will arouse spirit of COM
itfnD he tho section fpr0nnnp n -
10 the best kept sections.
The Commissioner has also begun a
campaign for a pension system for the
Park Department. There Is urgent ne
cessity for this In so far as the statistics
show a total labor force OF sos men. of
whom $50 are more than SO years old,
100 are suffering from Affections which
amount TO total disability so far as labor
IL concerned and ia are suffering from
partial disability.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
Pleads for More Parks and PLAY
grounds for New York Public

school principals and bodies of public
spirited citizens, such az settlement as
sociations. neighborhood societies, tax
payers associations. &C., on many oc-
casions In an endeavor to enlist their
cooperation in creating a sense OF re-
sponsibility for the care of parks.
In this connection an interesting COM
ment from the report is quoted below:
Looking over the crowded parks in
Detroit. Chicago and other cities, I have
been struck with the sense Of RESPONSE
bility which the people have for their
parks. For instance. In one park in
Chicago where hundreds of men were
sleeping on the grass during the hot
period in summer the conditions next
morning were such that It required
hardly any attention from the park
authorities. The contrary is true in
New York. where under like conditions
and also wherever crowds congregate
great numbers OF park laborers have to
he entirely diverted from their regular
work for hours in order to do the clean
ing up"
Commissioner Ward relates how
flowers have been taken away in broad
daylight and trees had been pulled up
by their roots and carried out OF the
parks. Even sods have been torn up
for use as missiles in gang fights. Dis
orderly groups, he said had driven the
general public from certain parks. using
them as gathering places to commit
Illegal acts According to this report
conditions have been growing worse
ever since 1893. when the separate force
OF park policemen in the large parks
was abolished and the park system was
obliged to depend upon the regular
police force of the city for protection.
Intensive use OF resources hitherto
neglected and scientific planning have
enabled Commissioner Ward to accom-
plLsh improvements " the parks under
his control.
AS result OF administrative reorgani-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20

very outset and Is still attracting. al
though 1t Is moro than few days old
Park Row was the first thoroughfare
to receive the novelty. On that busy
thoroughfare. which is the direct route
TO the Brooklyn Bridge and the most
important subway station on the under
ground system. there appeared a num-
Der of newsboys with bundles OF papers
under their arms. II is not IN unusual
thing to see newsboys on Park Row;
fare amounted to anything. But these
recent newsboys were out OF the ordi-
nary for the simple reason that instead
OF peddling newspapers printed in Eng
fish they were peddling newspapers
printed in German.
That was not so much of feature
In Itself as the fact that the newsboys
were making their announcements in
German. That was really what was at
tracing attention from thousands Of
passersby who heard the cry Of "Wux-
ira in a foreign language. They could
not imagine what II was all about. How
ever, the boys were not bit backward
in holding up their papers for examina-
ton very much after the style employed
by other newsboys in displaying base
ball extras.
The idea in selling newspapers printed
in German on the streets IL the outcome
OF demand made by Germans and
German American residents and bust
ness men OF the city for newspapers
printed in the language of the father
land Naturally they are vitally inter-
ested in the war and they correctly fig
ure that the German papers will devote
more space TO the German side of the
trouble than the papers printed in Eng
lish will, who must cater to all classes
and nationalities OF readers who desire
nj! sides or the war without Partially
being shown to any particular side.
one thing is obvious. however. Now
that the German papers have blaZed a
iran II VIII NOT be surprising if papers
printed In the language of the other
nationalities involved In the war fol-
low suit. Park Row, Nassau street.
broadway and other downtown streets
and avenues Will assume a cosmopolitan
appearance If newsboys appear on the
streets selling papers printed in Ger
man. French, Russian and other foreign
tongues.
II such a thing comes to pass a per-
son wishing to buy newspaper will
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
Power spray work.
Observation-Disclosures Cabot Ward
Commissioner Cabot Ward in Report to
Mayor Lets Few Cats Out
of the Bag.

the corporation yard at Rivington street
and East River and from Dock Commits
sioner Smith numerous hu,khcad prop
critics, notably those at East Seven
tenth street and West Flfty-second
street. Commissioner Williams of the
Department, of Water Supply, Gas and
Electricity has also turned over to the
Park Department various properties adj
jacent To aqueduct water gates and the
Public Service Commission has willingly
cooperated in granting the Use of sew
eral pieces OF property under its control.
At all these points new Fairgrounds
have now been installed and steps have
also been taken to use the fiat portions
of roofs of armories for recreational
purposes.
Commissioner Ward has asked the
Interstate Commission for the use Of
Palisade Park on Bear Mountain near
Newburgh. lie hopes to arrange with
one OF tho large steamboat companies
for free transportation for baseball and
camping parties believing this will
greatly relieve the pressure of present
r. recreation facilities.
Commissioner Ward has addressed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20

IN IEW YORK Is sadly deficient In
both park and playground
acreage. In Greater New
York only one acre is allowed
t. every 637 persons or "A space of eight
feet square for each Individual. In
Philadelphia there is an acre for every
800 persons and in st. Louis an acre to
every ESQ inhabitants. while in Indianap-
oils, with 100000 inhabitants. there is
moro park acreage than I'm the entire
Borough Of Manhattan. With our con-
eestcd population and every other city
reaching out for more park acreage our
cuty in New York is clear"
The above Statement ~ made by Park
Commissioner Cabot Ward in his report
to the Mayor. which treats OF the ac-
complishments Of the Park Department
in Manhattan and Richmond during the
present administration
Commissioner Ward has detailed the
eNpedients by which he has already
started to secure immediate playground
relief. lie has secured the use of vacant
lots for temporary recreation purposes.
Though the courtesy Of Borough Prosl-
dent Marks he has obtained the use of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20
NEW NEWSBOYs.

# HE European war has developed
a local feature which is attract
Ing widespread attention in the
downtown section OF the city. whore
novelties are daily occurrences and fail
to attract attention for more than a
few hours. However, this feature, which
is directly due 10 the war. attracted
more than ordinary attention from the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-20

have to joe very careful to specify IN
which language he wishes his paper
printed.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-02
DIARY OF FATHER TIME

An Eastern writer, l perceive, is
decrying the fact that women must
give up their own names when they
are married Most women do not OBJ
ject to the change and have accepted
the custom in much the same way as
men look on death and taxes, because
men, for centuries, have made them
do it. But one thing the woman of
today enjoys that women of earlier
years did not, and that is the right to
choose their husbands.
1t was not until the ninth or tenth
centuries that women had any choice
in the selection of husband, where
as now a woman may at least refuse
an applicant and the time. may come
when she will be free to propose to
the man. Then, in the old Anglo
Saxon times, the brides father used
to give his new son-in-law one of the
shoes of the bride, in token of trans
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-02

up two lips by cutting the flesh of his
forearm to the shape of lips, sewing
it in place, and when it had become
joined to the face to cut away the
arm.
This was abandoned for a plan
whereby an incision was made at
each end of the mouth, drawing to-
gether the remaining portions of the
lip and then sewing them together
This has proved successful and has
solved the problems of giving to the
unfortunate patient new lips, with
but slight scars and with only small
enlargement of his mouth.
The building of the nose has been
accomplished by cutting a piece of
cartilage from one of his ribs at the
junction with the breast bone, OBJ
tanning section of the curvature of
a nose form. The flesh between the
eyes was laid open, the cartilage in
serted and pressed against the ex-
posed bone. Stitches in the skin held
this in place, while the new growth
fashioned in the shape desired.
Allen is still swathed in bandages,
but the operation has progressed to
the stage where surgeons declare it
to be an unqualified success.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-02

Baltimore, Md.-Ross Allen has
new nose and a new pair of lips, and
modern surgery has once again DEM
onstrated its superiority to human
accident and misfortune.
Three years ago, in the town of
Whitby, in Canada, he fell across the
plane of lumber mill. His nose and
lips were cut from his head, leaving
but the base of the nose and his teeth
exposed.
When it became certain that he
would live, physicians began a series
of graftings from the skin of friends
who offered to aid in overcoming the
horrible Disagreement which had re-
suited. All these failed
Last November he came to st.
Joseph's Hospital, noted for it's dar-
ing successes in surgical cases. The
first plan OF, the surgeons was to build
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-02

on the banks of Lake Michigan. 1t is
the workers who say to the authori-
ties, DO your worst; we're on the job
to stay We will never stop in this
war until the Mattresses Union has
an agreement with the Henrici Co.
with Mr. Collins name signed to it"
Mabel Wambaugh, the girl whose
shoulder and arm we're swollen and
and infiamed from police handling,
was at the meeting. Her right hand
was swollen, cramped and useless.
SURGEON BUILDS NEW NOSE
AND LIPS FOR MILL VICTIM
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04
Additional Local lettings

Former County Treasurer, William
T. Fryer, is an aspirant for Colora
postoffice.
George D. Kelly, former cashier of
the Peoples National Bank at Mid
dletown, who is charged by the Gov
eminent with making false entries in
the books of the bank and swearing
falsely to statements to the Currency
Department, is now being tried in the
United States District Court at Will
mington.
Service will be held in st. Andrews
Goldsborough Memorial Church, An
dora, tomorrow, Sunday, at p. m.
The Aid Society of Leeds M. P.
Church will meet at the parsonage
next Friday evening, April 10. All are
cordially invited.
Oscar Coates, colored, was on Fri
day morning sentenced by Magistrate
Morgan, of the First district, to two
years in the Maryland House of Cor
rection for carrying concealed deadly
weapons.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04
Notice to Creditors

This is to give notice that the subscribers of
Cecil County, have obtained from the Orphans
Court of said county letters testamentary on the
the personal estate of
JOHN j.. ALEXANDER
late of said county deceased. All persons having
claims against the said deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers
thereof, duly authenticated
or before the 18th day of Sept, 1914,
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit OF said estate All indebted to said estate
are requested 10 make immediate payment to the
subscribers.
Given under our hands and seals this 10Th day
OF March 1914.
LILLIAN V. ALENA NDER,
HARRY T. ALEXANDER,
). CLAUDE SYKES.
Executors of John r. Alexander, deceased.
Test:-Thos. Is. Miller, Register. apr SITS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04

Wishing to thank all my friends for
their kindness and sympathy during
the illness and death of my mother. l
also thank the ones that were so kind
to me at the time my home was burn
ed. They all have my sincere thanks.
Mrs. Frank Burns,
Cherry Hill, Md.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04
Notice to Creditors

This is to give notice that the subscriber of
Cecil county has obtained from the Orphans
Court of said county. letters OF Administration
c. I. a. on the personal estate OF
MARY A. PORTER,
late of said county, deceased. All persons hav-
ing claims against the said deceased are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof duly authenticated
or before the 10th day of Sept, 1914,
they may otherwise, by law, be excluded from
all benefit of said estate, All indebted TO said
estate are requested to make immediate payment
to the subscriber. Given under my hand and
seal this 10Th day OF Mach, 1914.
DELMAR SMITHERS.
Administrator c. (. a. of Mary A. Porter. decd.
Test: THoS. Is. MILLER, Register. apr SITS
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04

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prompt and effective for coughs, colds,
Group, hoarseness, bronchial coughs
and throat troubles. Thomas Verron,
Hancock, Mich, writes: "Foley's Hon
ey and Tar quickly relieves tickling
throat and stops the cough with no
bad after effects" 1t contains no OPT
ates and is pure. That's why it suits
particular people. For sale by all deal
ers. advt*
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04
Cards OF Thanks

We wish to express our sincere
thanks TO the many friends who so
kindly came to our assistance during
the sad occasion of our recent Attic
ton.
Mrs. Sallie J. Fisher and Family.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04
HENRY NJ. MCCULLOUGH, solieitsr.
Ordero Of Publication
Philena J. Houpt VS.. James P. Houpt.
No. 1857 Equity.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil County.
In Equity.


The object Of this suit is to procure a de
cree for divorce vinculo matrimonii Of Phil
ena J. Houpt. the plaintiff, from James J.
Houpt, the defendant.
The bill states -
!. That on or about the gath day OF De-
cember. 1884. the plaintiff was married to her
husband, the said James j. Houpt, with whom
she resided in Cecil county until the month OF
August, 1907.
2. That though the conduct of the plaintiff
towards her husband. the defendant, has al
ways been kind. affectionate and above re-
proach, the said defendant has without just
cause or reason, abandoned and deserted her.
and that such abandonment has continued UNI
interruptedly for ct least three years and is
deliberate and final and the separation Of the
parties beyond any reasonable expectation Of
reconciliation.
g. That there were two children born to
the said parties, to this suit from said mar
riage one of whom died in infancy, and the
other is of adult age.
4. That the defendant resides in the State
of Pennsylvania and is nonresident.
1t is thereupon, this 9th day of March,
1914. ordered by the Circuit Court for Cecil
County in Equity, that the plaintiff, by caus-
ing copy of this order to be inserted in some
newspaper. published in said Cecil county,
once in each of four successive weeks before
the 26th day of April. 1914. give notice to the
said absent defendant of the object and SUBJ
stance Of this bill. warning him to appear in
this Court in person or by solicitor. on or
before the 18th day of May next. to show
cause, if any he has, why decree ought not
to pass prayed.
CECIL KIRK, Clerk.
Trus Copy-Test:
CECIL KIRK. Clerk.
mar 2S-5ts*
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04
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for purifying the blood. Mild, non
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Makes you feel fine. Take no other.
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-04
ORDER NISI
Hannah a. Griffith ct al. vs. Mary {. uaines,
ExeCutrix, I'll al
In the Circuit Court Tor Cecil County.
In Equity, No. SO5S.
AT II O'CLOCK A. NJ.

ordered, this 9Th day Of March, 1911. that the
sale Of property mentioned in these proceedings,
made and reported by Frederick 7. Haines,
Trustee, be ratified and confirmed. unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown on or before
the 9TH day OF May, next provided copy
OF this order be inserted in some newspaper
week for one month before the eth day of April,
next.
The report states the amount of sale TO be
$4,000.
CECIL. KIRK, Clerk.
True copy-Tcst;
mar 7-5t CECIL KIRK. Clerk.