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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-11-26

Opportunity really knocks at many a
door"
"Then why don't more of us succeed
better ?"
"The trouble is that opportunity wants
us to 60 to work"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08
Port Deposit

Rev. F. F. Carpenter, former pas
tor, will preach at Colora ME-. Church
Sunday, August 8, at both morning
and evening services. This is to be
re-opening day of the Colora Church,
which has recently had quite a num-
Der of repairs.
Mrs. T. A. H. O'Brien and Miss An
ME O'Brien, who have been spending
June and July at their cottage in Re
hoboth, have returned to their home.
Mr.. Leon Anthony, of New York, is
spending his vacation with Miss Lii
liam Davis.
Mr.. Arthur Beaver entertained the
Ushers' Union and some of his other
friends at his home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Jane Tombstone spent last
Friday in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Mccullough,
of Baltimore, visited relatives in town
this week.
Messrs. Edwin Dorcus, George
Jones, Misses Clara Brown, Myrtle
Dorcus and Mrs. E. Z. Dorcus autoed
to Atlantic City last Saturday and
spent Sunday at the Richmond Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Ewing and Miss
Muriel Ewing have returned from
quite pleasant stay at Asbury Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Jones, of Pitts
burgh, and Miss Ella Moore, of Phila-
delphia, are visiting Mrs. George Van
mort.
Miss Jean Hagerty is spending
some time with friends at Mt. Taber,
New York.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08
North East

Leslie Camp-meeing closed Monday
night. The gate receipts Sunday
amounted to one hundred and thirty
eight dollars.
Mr.. Clarence Brickley, of Iowa, has
been visiting his cousin, Mrs. Curtis
Williams.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Clark, of Washington, is
visiting her father, S. ]. Reeder.
The baseball teams admirers were
rather disguised with the teams blow
up in the ninth inning. If the boys
would do more practicing we would
probably see better playing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Tyson have
returned home from visit with rela-
tives at Mechanics Valley.
Mrs. Cornelia Scarborough and
granddaughter are with relatives in
town.
We are glad to see our pastor, Mr..
Adams, able to be out again.
Miss Emily Shippers is enjoying the
ocean breezes.
The Red Mems Band as we'll as a
number of the young folks of the town
attended the carnival at Leeds on
Wednesday evening.
Miss Idle McNamee, one of our
enterprising business people, is enjoy
ing vacation.
Colored camp is in full swing. Their
stirring songs can be heard nightly.
The excursion to Atlantic City was
not very well patronized by people in
this vicinity. My 8 tickets were sold
at North East.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08

A comparison of these figures shows
that the smallest amount has been
spent in the second District, S460.67,
and the largest amount in the Sixth,
S294S.04.
In the light of the law which pro-
vides each Commissioner District shall
be limited to one-third of the total
road fund, it is interesting to make
the following comparison First
Commissioner District (Mr. Watts
comprising the First, Second and
Ninth Districts, has spent $24OS.06;
the Second Commissioner District
(Mr. Blake's), comprising the Third,
Fourth and Fifth districts, has spent
S3503.S7; the Third Commissioner Dis
trict (Mr. Jackson's), comprising the
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts,
has spent $5061.10.
This, however, does not mean that
the Third Commissioners District,
while spending almost as much as the
others put together, has overspent its
legal apportionment from the levy for
road work. Each Commissioners Dis
trict is entitled under the law to one
third of the total road fund or about
$4,000. No one Of the Commission
ers Districts has spent anything like
its allotment, and attention is called
to this fact in the interest Of the Cit
zens and taxpayers who are clamoring
for the fixing of the roads" over
which they have to travel. 1t is al
ways pleasure to commend a care
full and economical spirit in the con-
duct of public business. At the same
time it is we'll to remember that taxes
are laid and raised for the purpose of
furnishing needful and proper public
service. The County Commissioners
do well to carefully guard against the
waste of public money on road work,
but they should remember at the same
time that the dirt roads are the ones
used by the vast majority of the peo-
pie, should be kept in as decent repair
as our county finances will allow, and
should be put in repair during the
Spring and early Summer-never late
In the season.
Our County Commissioners are do
ing well to set their faces like steel
against all waste of public funds. At
the same time, let them not overlook
the Importance of caring for the pub
lie welfare by proper maintenance of
the public highways.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08

Mr.. ]. H. Brown, of Sunbury, Pa,
spent this week with Mr.. William
Stebbing.
Miss Frances Hagerty is the guest
of Miss Rosalie Jones in Long Island.
Messrs. James and Harcourt Hag-
erty and William Norris are at the
Britmore Hotel in Asbury Park, N. j.
Mr.. James e. Butchenhart and Miss
Haddie Butchenhart spent several
days this week with relatives at
Woodlawn, Baltimore county.
Miss Helen F. Harvard of Balti-
more, spent Sunday at her home.
Mrs. George Buck and Harry Buck
spent several days with Baltimore
friends last week.
Mr.. John M. Creswell has recently
purchased Ford truck. Messrs. Wal
ton Campbell and Rumsey Smithson
have purchased five-passenger Ford
cars.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cain are en-
joying Atlantic City.
Misses R. Estella Butchenhart and
Bessie M. Taylor spent over Sunday
with Rev. and Mrs. F. +. Carpenter,
in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Stebbing,
Misses Blanche Stebbing and Blanche
Lawton spent last Sunday with Mrs.
Wilson in Principle.
Miss Emma Viola Gather is spend
ing some time with Miss Flora Lewis
in Cadiz, Ohio.
Mrs. c. C. Knauss, of Philadelphia,
spent last week with her daughter,
Mrs. c. l. Benson.
Mrs. Cyrenus Creswell, Miss Jane
Creswell and Keen Creswell are visit
ing relatives in Philadelphia and
Chester.
Dr. and Mrs. Nevin Hendrix, of Bal
timore, spent last Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Grant.
The ladies of the Seventh District
Auxiliary of the Elkton Hospital will
hold bake Saturday, August Is.
Mr.. and MIS-. J. Atkinson, Of Fred
erick, visited relatives in town last
week.
Messrs. j. H. Pugh and ]. Price
were Baltimore visitors this week.
They attended a special meeting of
the P o. S. of A.
Miss Helen Staf'er, of Walkersville,
is the guest of Miss Myrtle Dorcus.
Mrs. Walter Buck and son George,
are guests of Mrs. Jenkins in Rising
Sun.
Miss Madeline Prosser, of Chester,
Pa, was the guest of Miss Caroline
Smithson last week.
Miss Myrtle Dorcus entertained the
A. D. X. Club at her home last Thurs
day evening.
Prof. G. Thompson Williams, who
has been abroad since June, has re-
turned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Brumfeld
and sons, of Media, Pa, are guests of
Mrs. A. j. Holm.
Saturday, August s, will be an all
day Farmers celebration, held at
Tome Institute. Hon. A. P. Sandles,
of Ohio, DR.. H. ]. Patterson. of Mary
land Agricultural College, are anon
some of the speakers for the day. A
dairy lunch will be served.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08
COUNTY ROAD SITUATION

In reply to numerous questions that
have come to us as to the situation of
the road work in the county, we can
only say that the people of the various
localities doubtless know better than
we do just what work has been done OF
not done on the roads. The law pro-
vides that each Commissioners Dis
trict shall be limited in expenditure
on the roads of the same to One-third
of the total road fund arising from
levy of not more than 80 cents on the
500, etc.
An examination of the bills passed
for road work, by the County Commits
sioners since Janpary LIST, shows that
a total of S10,972 has been spent in
the entire county for general road
work and that the expenditure of this
S1O,972 has been in the various dis
tricts as follows:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08

Baltimore, Nd, July %, 1914
Perryville Water Company,
Perryville, Nd.
Gentlemen :-EXamination has been
made by an engineer of the State
Board of Health of the source from
which water is taken by the Perryville
Water Company to furnish the inhabl-
tants of the town of Perryville with
supply for drinking purposes. 1t has
been found that the water is in con-
dition which is dangerous to the con-
sumers, and it, therefore, must be sub
jected, at once, to treatment which
will render it safe. You are directed
hereby to make provision for INSTALL
ing temporary plant for disinfecting
this water and to have it in operation
by August 10, 1914 The examina-
ton further shows that the water is
in condition, at times due to muddi-
ness, which makes it unfit for drinking
purposes, and some further treatment,
to remove this Objectionable condition,
will be necessary. You are further di-
rected, therefore, to provide on or be-
fore February |, 1915, the proper puri-
fication plant that will remove all dis
ease germs and render the water clean
and wholesome.
By Order of the State Board of Health
(Signed)-JOHN S. FULTON, MD.
Secretary of the State Board of
Health.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08
THE deepest sympathy will go

THE deepest sympathy will go out
to President Wilson in this, his great,
hour of bereavement. Burdened by
the cares of State, he is now bowed
down to earth by the sorest loss that
comes to mantle loss of one who
has been to him for years very part
of himself. At such time, We bury
all differences, and invoke upon this
strong man stricken those consola-
tions of God which are not small.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-08-08
PerryviIle Water Again

Perryville, Nd, Aug. 7, 1914.
Mr.. Williams,
Elkton, Maryland.
Dear Sir:-As a number of people
in Perryville and vicinity have made
so many inquiries as to the water
supply | enclose the following letter
received from the State Board of
Health. 1t will explain itself.
Yours very truly,
L. G.. TAYLOR.
The citizen., 1914-02-13
The Board of Charities and Cor
rections Reappoint Themselves.

T6CblOuS AO6dPPOlAb 1A0LlSclNoS.
On Tuesday last, February 10th, the
Board of Charities and Corrections,
whose term had expired, met and reor-
ganized.
The action of the self appointed board
caused some amazement, and their ac-
ton in holding their positns is very
much criticised. They reapponted Mr..
Gregg as Superintendent OF Montevue
Hospital. and his wife, Mrs. Lilly Gregg,
as Matron, as we'll as all of the other
officials
Opinions as to the law has been freely
given by the attorneys representing the
two boards. and the incident will most
| likely adjusted by the court at the re-
quest of the Board Of County Commits
sioners
The Act OF 1898 provides for the APP
pointmhnt of a Board of Charities and
Corrections for term of two years, to
hold Office from the second Monday in
February, and until their successors
are appointed and qualified"
The language last quoted gives the
County Commissioners the discretion to
make appointments either on the second
Monday in February or at any reasona-
bic time thereafter. 1t is stated there
fore, that the Commissioners were within
| the law in failing to appoint new Board
OF Charities and Correction on the 9th of
| February, which was the second Monday
in the month, especially in view of the
fact that bill to abolish the board en-
tirely was in a fair way TO be passed.
Other authorities hold that the Ian
guage of the tenth clause of Chapter S
of the Acts of 1898, ''they shall within
one month after their appointment and
qualification, appoint some suitable per-
son to be overSeer of the almshouse,
restricts the making OF the Montevue ap-
poihtments to Board Of Charities and
Correction that has been appointed
within the meaning OF the law. 1t is
claimed that this does not mean "self-
| appointed
The attorneys for the Board of Chari-
ties aud Correction hold that to abolish
that body will mean loss to the county
Of $40, 6o6.S2, representing the sum oftwo
appropriations. one for SO, 6e6S2 and an
other for Io,ooo-the latter under
statute re-enacted only a few days ago.
Their contention is based on the language
Of the appropriation acts which makes
these appropriations payable only to the
| Commissioners of Charities and Correc
ton OF Frederick county. II these Com
missioners are abolished, they claim, this
appropriation would be payable to no
| one
On the other hand tits contended that
the Commissioners of Charities and
Corrections are named in this act only as
agents for the Montevue institution, and
that if that agency is abolished, and the
same. power is given TO the Board of
County Commissioners. then the County
Commissioners will be entitled to receive
the appropriation. At any rate, it is de-
clared, that nothing more than an
amendment of that appropriation act
would be required
The citizen., 1914-02-13

If you, my reader, are happy, it is not
because you have fine house to live in.
a handsome hat to wear, an elegant dress
to appear in, and a splendid equipage.
And you are unhappy. if so, not because
your house is plain, your attire mean
and YOU must evermore go atoot. Not
in these mere externals does happiness
consist A man may have everything
that heart can wish for, and yet exclaim
with Solomon: "All is vanity and veXa-
ton of spirit Or he may. like Saint
Paul, having nothing yet possess all
things" We do not mean to say that
commodious, well furnished house is not
desirable, that suitable and abundant
clorhing is not to be sought, or that the
elegancies of life may not promote ones
enjoyments, but we do say that if the
root of the matter is not in ones heart,
if he is not in himself essentially cheer
ful, contented man. these surroundings
will not make him so. He will become
accustomed to them, and regard them as
a matter of course, like the air that we
breathe. the rain and the sunshine; but
we have Solomons word for it, that one
never becomes ACCUSTOMED in any but
the best sense to contented mind. 1t
is. says the royal epicure, continual
feast.
The citizen., 1914-02-13
New Market News.

The Loyat Temperance Legion met at
the home of Mrs. Frank Hammond on
Friday night.
The Christian Union League met on
Thursday night, February 5th, in the
Methodist Protestant Church. After an
interesting meeting an election OF officers
for the ensuing year was held
Two playlets, entitled, "No Cure, No
Pay" and The White Shawl" was
given by some Of the young ladies OF the
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, as
sisted by Professor Day of the High
School, Mr. Meredith and Mr. Charles
Walker, Jr., on Saturday night in the
Town Hall, for the benefit of the rectory.
They had full house, and it was sue
cess in every particular.
DR.. !. w. Downev of Baltimore,
spent Sunday with his mother.
Mr. Banks Barthoow, of Baltimore,
spent the past week with friends in this
place.
Mr. Roscoe Wood and family of
Barnesville, spent the latter part Of the
week as the guests of his uncle, Hon. M.
P. Wood.
The Misses Jenkins, Miss Elizabeth
Willis, Miss Hilda Wood. Professor
Day and Mr.. Meredith went on motor
ing trip to Westminster on Sunday.
Mr. Lawrence Downey, of Frederick,
has been at his parental home several
days on the sick list
Mr. Harold Kennard. Of Washington
City. spent the past week with his father.
Mrs. c. L. Kennard went to Baltimore
on Saturday to see her father, who is
very i'll at this writing.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Norris, the widow of
DR.. Caleb Norris, who died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Robert s. Corse,
in Baltimore. was buried on Monday in
the cemetery here. Her sons. DIR. VIM.
l.. Norris and Dr. Denton Norris, and
her daughters. Miss Sallie l.. Norris,
Mrs. Annie Feelemyer, Mrs. Robert S.
Corse. and many others from Baltimore
attended the funeral.
The citizen., 1914-02-13

Domestic skeletons are usually forme,
of the bones of contention.
The citizen., 1914-02-13
WASN'T ENTITLED TO MEDAL
President of Anti-Cruelty Society
Made Decision Positively Brutal
In Its Frankness.

Mrs. Waldorf Astor at the port of
New York declared the other day that
she never wore aigrettes or the feath-
ers of song birds, or the plumes Of
anything that flies. Yet she was wear
ing sables at the time; her boots were
of calfskin; her gloves were kid, and
she would go to the Ritz-Carlton for
luncheon and swallow tiny, living oys-
ters, afterward eating young trout,
outlets of lamb, grilled quail. and so
forth and so on. Oh, consistency"
The speaker was DR.. L. G. Wither-
spoon, the San Francisco dietician
He continued:
Man is cruel toward the animals.
There is no denying it. And hence
Mrs. Waldorf Astor is rather foolish
to prate of her kindness as regards
aigrettes when, on her behalf, we
slaughter daily birds and sheep, sables
and seals, fish and kids.
"Yes, as the world is constituted
any talk of kindness toward animals
strikes me as absurd-reminds me, in
fact, of the Anti-Cruelty Society OF
Nola Chucky.
"a man with big club appeared at
the annual convention of this society
and demanded the annual medal, or
first prize.
"'What Kindness the president
asked him, what kindness have you
shown, my man, toward the lower
animals that entities you to our
medal?'
"Wal. yer honor said the man, =
spared the life of bar. l might a
killed him with this here club. But
let him off
where was this bear?" the presi
dent asked. Where was he, and what
had he done to your
He'd killed my wife, the man re-
piled.
"'Ho, ho!' cried the president. And
you demand our gold medal? My
friend, you've been sufficiently re.
warded already"
The citizen., 1914-02-13
THE GREAT EvENr or DEATH.

Men seldom think of the great event
of death until the shadow falls across
their own path, hiding forever from their
eyes the traces of the loved ones whose
living smiles were the very sunlight of
their existence Death is the great antag-
onist of life, and the cold thought of the
tomb is the skeleton of all feasts We do
not want TO go through the dark valley,
although the passages may lead to para
disc; and, with Charles Lamb, we do not
want to lie down i'll muddy graves, even
with kings and princes for our beG fell
lows.
But the fiat of nature is inexorable.
There is no appeal of reIie from the
great law which dooms us to dust. We
flourish and we fade away as the
leaves of the forest. and the flower that
blooms and withers in day, has not a
Trailer hold upon life than the mightiest
monarch that ever shook the earth with
his footsteps. Generations OF men APP
pear and vanish as the grass, and the
flowers, and the countless multitude that
throngs the world today, will. tomorrow,
disappear at the footsteps on the shore.
In the beautiful drama of Ion, the in
stinct of Immortality. so eloquently ut
tered by the death devoted Greek, finds
a deep response in every thoughtful soul.
When about to yield his young existence
as sacrifice to fate, his beloved Gle
mantle asks if they shall not meet
again to which he replies; Il have asked
that dreadful question of the hills that
look eternal-of the clear streams that
flows forever-ot the stars among whose
field of azure my raised spirit hath often
walked in glory. All were dumb. But
while gaze upon thy living face, feel
that there is something in the love that
mantles through its beauty can not
wholly perish. We shall meet again
Clemanthe?'
The citizen., 1914-02-13
Liberty Items.

Miss Julia Fritz has returned from an
extended visit to friends in Frederick.
Mr.. Leo Smith, the wireless expert of
Nantucket fame, was made full fiedged
Knight Of Columbus on Saturday and
Sunday last, at Frederick and Hanover.
Hon. Frank r. Sappington was in
Frederick on Saturday last.
The services in Saint Peters Roman
Catholic Church, on Sunday February
Sth, were held at a. m. and 6.3o p. nj
Father Cavanaugh officiated.
Mr.. Frank 0. Smith has returned from
a business trip to West Virginia.
Mr.. Maurice Starr, the cashier of the
new Liberty Bank. was in New York on
business few days ago.
Miss Annie Yingling has been confined
to her home with tonsiiIs.
Mrs. NJ. F. Starr and little son were
visitors at Union Bridge during the past
whek.
Mr.. Roland Simpson has been engaged
in filling the ice houses in this section.
DIR. Thomas Myers and Mr.. c. F.
Smith attended the degree work of the
Knights Of Columbus in Frederick on
Saturday last.
The citizen., 1914-02-13
OPENED UP WESTERN CANADA
First Governor of the Hudson's
Bay Company.

Six years from this month will mark
the tercentenary of the birth of Prince
Rupert, the great English military of.
ficer whose name is forever associated
with western Canada by reason of the
fact that he was one of the organ
izers and the first governor of the
Hudson's Bay company. The terri
tories Of the company, now the west
en- provinces of the dominion, were
long called Rupert's land in honor of
the prince. Rupert was the third son
of Frederick V. of Bohemia and Eliz-
abeth, sister of Charles l. of England.
He was noted for his reckless bravery
in battle, which he first displayed on
the continent. He then went to Eng
land to assist his uncle, Charles L.,
and in 1913 was made admiral of the
English fleet. After the restoration he
was made lord high admiral and fought
against the Dutch. His later years
were largely devoted to scientific study
and to the affairs of the Hudson's Bay
company. Charles II. granted a char
ter to Rupert and II other mobiles and
gentlemen, incorporated them as the
Governor and company of adventur-
ers Of England trading into Hudson's
bay" The part played by this COM
pany in the development of the west
constitutes one of the many romantic
chapters in the history of the North
American continent.
The citizen., 1914-02-13
THE OTHER WORLD.

There is dignity in going away alone
which we call dying-that wrapping of
the mantle of Immortality about us; that
putting aside with a pale hand the azure
curtains that are drawn around the era
die of a world: that venturing away from
home for the first time in our lives, for
we are dead, and seeing foreign coun-
tries not laid down on any maps that we
have read about. There must be lovely
lands some where starward. for none ever
return who go thither, and we very much
doubt if any would if they could.
The citizen., 1914-02-13
Loy's News.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jessie Fox were visitors
to Thurmont one day the past week.
Mr.. John 7. Fogle, of Woodsboro,
spent day with his sister, Mrs. Jessie
Fox and family. of near Loys' Station.
Misses Ruth and Letha Fox spent Sun
day evening very pleasantly with Mrs.
George w. Hoffman and family Of this
place.
Mr.. Harvey NJ. Pittenger spent Monday
of this week in Frederick City on busi-
ness.
Miss P. Belva Robinson returned home
after spending a week with her aunt,
Mrs. Emma Devilbiss, and family, of
Keysville.
The citizen., 1914-02-13
Mortgage Tax Discussed.

The Frederick County Farmers Asso.
citation on Saturday. February 9TH, with
much spirit discussed the repeal of the
tax on mortgages and judgments, and
finally after very close vote declared
that the tax should be repealed. Ad
dresses against the repeal were made by
Messrs. Vim. !. Grove, l.. F. Kefauver,
lanes H. Gambrll, Jr, and G. c. Wine.
brener. Mr.. G. A. I. Snoufer led the
forces for the repeal.