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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1909.
The New Roads And Their Cost.
The question of the cost of the proposed
new State roads is one that is giving the
State Commission a great deal of worry
and careful consideration, it the
desire of the Commission to give the
people of the State ‘‘the most for their
money.” The Baltimore Sun comments
editorially on this phase of the question,
the following being extracts from the
editorial:
“One of the questions which must
shortly be decided by the State Road
Commission, it is said, is the character
and cost of the roads that they will make.
Thia question the commission will prob
ably decide according to the teachings of
'experience and common sense. When a
company is organized to build a railroad
the character of the road to be built is
determined entirely by circumstances.
If the road is designed for a great trunk
line, over which an endless processions
of trains will be run, then no expense is
spared in the construction
But if the road to be built is for local traf
fic merely, and through a sparsely settled
country, the expectation being that only
aotne half a dozen light trains will be run
each way in a whole day, the type of
road which would be built is entirely
different. This same rule will doubtless
be applied by the State Road Commission
in fixing upon Jthe class of highways
to be built.
‘‘lf the value of land is enhanced $5
per acre by a good road, the wealth
of the State is increased $75,000.
But suppose that, instead of bnilding io
miles of a cheaper road, the State builds
five miles only of more costly road—
only acres, instead of 15,000,
would receive a benefit, and the increase
in the wealth of the State at (5 per acre
would be only $42,500.
‘‘The roads constructed by the high
ways division of the State Geological Sur
vey nnder the Shoemaker law are beauti
ful roads, and it would be a splendid
achievement for the State if such roads
• could be bnilt for the entire system. But
the cost of these fine roads makes it out
of the question, for the present at least.
There is no assurance that the State will
is-tue another loan for roads, and this
present loan should be made to go as far
, as possible. The Shoemaker road made
in Baltimore county cost on an average
about $9,000 a mile; those in Allegany,
$10,000; Caroline, about $8,000; Fred
erick, $7,000; Harfqrd, $10,000; Mont
gomery, $7,500, and Worcester, about
$9,000. The average cost in all the
counties has been estimated at $7*500.
These figures are, perhaps, somewhat
higher than they would be under a gen
eral system of improvement, as the roads
selected for improvement under the Shoe
inaker law have ordinarily been bad
roads, with many bridges and culverts.
There are in the State 15,738 miles of
fiublic roads. It is, qi course, desirable
that as many miles as possible be im
proved out of the $5,000,000 loan, for it
may be the last. If the roads are to cost
$3,000 a mile, only 625 miles can be
made. If they are to cost $4,000 a mile,
1,250 miles can be made. The sentiment
of the State seems to be in favor of 1,250
miles of road as good as the Washington
and Frederick counties’ turnpikes, rather
than for only 625 miles of scientific
roads.”
Warfield for President in 1912 !—this is
the jolt the organization democrats of the
State have received, and they are wonder
ing if it really can be true.
At the banquet of the Ohio Society of
Sons of the American Revolution, held in
Cincinnati on Tuesday night, President
Richardson of the Society in a most eulo
gistic speech, referred to ex-Governor
Warfield, of Maryland, who was the
gnest of honor, as a man of the highest
type of democracy and named him for
the democratic nomination for the Presi
dency in 1912.
The list of candidates for conuty offices
grows each week, and the democratic
voter bids fair to have such an array to
choose from by the time of the primaries
as to be in. a quandary who to pick.
With an ever increasing field of candi
dates the vote will doubtless be much
scattered.
The Pennsylvania State Senate voted
to amend the pure food law, makiug
‘‘embalmed meat” legal, as well as pro
viding for other dangerous adulterations.
Over oue hundred grocers are reported to
have lobbied bill. It doesn’t
matter bow many people are poisoned,
just so a little bigger profit can be made
by putting a cheap adulterated article on
the market and charging the same for it
as the pure article. \
Republican Prosperity.
Remember how the people were prom
ised all sorts of prosperity last fall, in the
event of a republican victory, and have
you seen, or beard a great deal about this
prosperity wave since?
Henry Clews, the New York banker,
was one of the strongest supporters of the
republican ticket during the recent cam
paign, and wanted the American people
to elect Taft and Sherman in order that
prosperity might be maintained. He was
anxious for the defeat of the democratic
ticket in order that bard times for the
people generally and low wages for the
laboring man particularly might be
avoided. Yet the following paragraph is
from the Weekly Financial Review,
which is issued by the banking bouse of
[ which Mr. Clews is the head :
“A number of reductions in wages have,
already taken place in the steel trade,
and more are expected. In the copper
industry lower wages are also in force.
The coal trade dispute with labor began
on April 1, the outcome of which will be
awaited with intense interest. It is quite
likely that a month or six weeks will
elapse before a settlement is reached.
How far reaching the lower wages move
ment will become it is impossible to
■ determine, but all rational beings are
convinced that labor can not expect to
entirely escape its share in the general
depression in the inevitable readjust
ment.”
This is hardly the tune that was being
sung by these same republican boomers
during the recent campaign, and what a
howl the corporation papers would be
sending up just now, had the democratic
candidate been elected. There would be
no such weak little plaint as the above
going the rounds. Instead, the denun
ciation being burled at the democrats for
cansing all the depression would fairly
bristle. We were told, too, if the repub
licans were continued in power and the
‘‘interests” not disturbed, no such thing
as depression could occur. Don’t yon
remember? Looks like the voter, or
some one, had been bamboozled
doesn’t it.
Pity Those Who Pay.
In the days just before gunpowder came
into general use, the armorers of Europe
were very busy people. For a hundred
years the coats of mail and plate worn
by knights and men-at-arms had been
getting heavier and heavier. The swords,
lances, maces and battle axes had also
been getting heavier and heavier, until
some of them became of an almost* in
credible weight and size. A heavier cor
selet called lor a heavier axe to crash it;
the heavier axe demanded a new wrinkle
in the construction of corselets. And so
on, until the man at arms, at the latest
period during which complete armor was
used was encased in such a heavy shell
that once nnhorsed and on his back he
was almost as helpless as a beetle, and
was quite at the mercy of any low-born
vassal or vassaline who cared to pry his
visor up with a butcher knife and probe
him on the snbject of ransom.
At the period when armor was heaviest,
it was also most expensive. A really
sportsmanlike tourney meant golden
thousands to the smiths, of whom there
were almost as many in existence then as
there are now. The best armorers began
to buy coiintry homes, eat goose liver pie,
marry their daughters to impecunious
and get their names in What's
Swat. A few suits of really fashionable
armor were worth a jook’s for
each garment had to be tailor-made, so
to speak, to fit the personal peculiarities
of the wearer only the lower classes wore
hand me down armor. Often a single
suit was worth a whole farm, peasants,
pheasants, and other livestock on the
hoof, included.
Are not our military and naval experts
of the present day getting ready to help
history repeat itself? Some one invents a
gun powerful enough to pierce the
heaviest armor plate. - Then some one
conceives the wonderfully brilliant and
original idea of putting on a thicker
armor-plate. Whereupon some one else
invents a more powerful gun. And so on.
The people for whom we feel the most
sympathy, in connection with all this
expensive machinery of warfare that is
building and to be built, are not the ones
who will operate it and face it; for they
have a certain amount of option. The
people who will have to stay alive and do
twice as much- work as they should, and
' pinch their stomachs and freeze their
backs, paying for its construction and
maintenance; the poeple who are com-!
pel led to foot the bills day in and day ;
out in this endless competition between
manufacturer and inventors of man-kill
ing machinery, without any of the ex
citement or uplift of a joined battle to
quicken their blood are the ones to be
pitied.—Don Marquis, iu Uncle Remus’s
—The Home Magazine for April.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
President Taft desires to establish some
form of organization, quasi-official in (
character, to act as a medium between
the railroads of the country and the
federal government, and it is character
istic of him that, before instituting any
radical changes of administration, he
should avail himself of the best legal
talent at bis command to prepare a
thorough analysis of existing conditions
and recommend such changes as are
deemed advisable. The Attorney General,
the Secretaries of the Interior and of
Commerce and Labor, and the Solicitor
General have been confided with the re'
sponsibility of working out the President’s
plan with regard to federal control of the
railroads. The President has called the
attention of this executive committee to
the existence of such quasi-official bodies
abroad and their usefulness in promoting
cooperation between the government and
public service corporations. For instance,
in Great Britain boards of trade prepare
certain data regarding the service render
ed by such corporations and submit re
commendations concerning the reason
ableness of rates, etc. The President has
called the attention of his advisers, also,
to the fact that a single body charged
simultaneously with quasi-judicial and
administrative functions, as is now the
cise with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, is constantlv hampered in its
efforts to ascertain the facts by the an
tagonism which is inevitably engendered
as a result of its being compelled to con
duct prosecutions. the com
mission, for instance, when seeking in
formation from railroads, cannot avoid
arousing the opposition which is the
natural result of the fact that ultimately
they may be compelled to sit in judgment
on the acts of the very men from whom
they ask information. The President
deems it possible that some semi-official
body, such as a national chamber of com
merce or similar organization, might be
able to relieve the Interstate Commerce
Commission of a part of its duties as an
investigating and prosecuting body, and
he considers it essential to divorce the
administrative and judicial functions of
the commission. In short, he thinks it
might be feasible to leave the commis
sion with only judicial functions. The
evils from the present system have been
seriously considered by Mr. Taft, and be
has indicated the trend of bis views on
the subject, bet he desires that the officials
named above shall study the subject care
fully in order that when he comes to write
his annual message he may be in posses
sion of all the facts and in a position to
make practical recommendations if legis
lation is needed.
• *
*
The Philippine tariff bill which the
Presiijent submitted to Congress last
week ts expected to prove of material
value to'the American exporter. Features
of the old Spanish and Cuban tariffs
which were vexatious and annoying to
both exporter and importer, have been
eliminated, and every effort has been put
forth to make the administrative features
simple and in conformity with United
States tariff decisions and the decisions of
the courts
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•
Mr. James J. Hill was a Capitol visitor
last week and he declares that his visit
bad nothing to do with the. tariff, that he
was here-for the sole purpose of arrang
ing for a trip through the United States of
thirty representative Japanese business
men, with a hope that a more definite
knowledge of America and American
business conditions will increase the com
mercial friendship between the two
nations. The business men are expected
to leave Japan in time for the Alaska-
Yukon Exposition, and afterwards will
make an extensive trip in the United
States, and representatives of commercial
bodies from the largjr cities of the north
west will accompany them in this tour.
Mr. Hill consulted with the President re
garding the visit of the foreigners.
**•
The creation of a tariff bureau, pre
sumably as a part of the Treasury Depart
ment, is already a part of the Aldrich
scheme for the administrative portion of
the tariff bill, and it is, therefore, reason
able to suppose that the amendment
offered in the Senate this week by Sen
ator Beveridge to create a tariff com
mission of seven members, etc., will be
adopted, in so far as it is iu accordance
with the views of the chairman of the
Fioance Committee. The disposition of
this committee is to make such a bureau
purely clerical, without authority to take
any steps which would promote tariff
changes or that could be used as a basis
for unfavorable criticism of the action of
Congress. Mr. Beveridge's amendment
provides that the commission shall pro
cure all available information regarding
foreign customs tariffs and prepare such
data in suitable form for the guidance of
the President in the administration of the
maximum and minimum features of the
new tariff act, and this is in accordance
with the views of President Taft.
Free to all subscribers of this paper.
—Every reader of this paper who has
I any trouble with either Stomach or Liver,
i can get a free sample of Rydale’s Stomach
; Tablets or Rydale’s Liver Tablets or both
if needed by writing to Rydale Remedy
Co, Newport News, Va. These two
remedies are not cure alls, one is for
stomach troubles only, the other solely
for liver and bowel troubles. Guaranteed 1
by Eli T. Reynolds.
A Seasonable Number.
In the April number of Uncle
Remus’s—The’ Home Magazine,
Julian H&rris, the editor, continues
' and elaborated his appeal for a po
litical re adjustment in the South,
and conies back at his newspaper
critics with some keen thrusts. The
entrance of the Magazine into the
political field in the March number
created a furore tbronghout the
, entire country because the things
. that were said were in the minds of
so many readers already, although
r no Southern publication had before
. had the boldness to say them. The
editorial entitled “From the Stand
, point of To day and To morrow” is
, sure to cause much comment.
A particularly interesting in
, stallment of Jack Lopdon’s greatest
, story, “Martin Eden,” appears.
, Mr. London has on many former
| occasions indicated his great
strength, but in “Martin Eden”
| this strength is combined with a
’ vein of poetical insight which lifts
the book at once far above the
plane of the common-place novel.
( John Burroughs, “The Sage of
Slabsides,” recently spent a few
l months in the South, and what he
l thinks of this part; of the country
, and—in fact, what he thinks along
naturalistic and literary lines g£u
, erally—make up the text of a most
interesting article by R. J. H. De-
Loach. Mr, Burroughs does not
often indulge himself in remin
iscences, so the extended interview
referred to is of more than usual
interest and is important.
Iu the April magazine there is
published under the title of “Poe
at College,” a most interesting
glimpse of the poet’s student days
at pleasant Charlottesville, written
by James Bernard Lyon.
June Greenlaw contributes an
interesting and valuable feature
entitled “Transforming the Hbme
with the Aid of Color.”
Short fiction for the number con
sists of stories by Don Marquis,
- Frank L. Stanton aud Reina Mel
cher. “The Miracle,” by Miss
Melcher, is one of the cleverest and
most spiritually uplifting of this
author’s artistic studies of child
life.
Mr. Stanton’s sketch, entitled
“Her Just Suspicions” has to do
with prohibition in Georgia. Mr.
Marquis’s story is a tale of an old
man and some literary ghosts.
Verse is -contributed by Anne
McQueen, Agnes Morgan, R. J.
Dean and Don Marquis. Mr.
Deans’s verse deals with the Zot
w’ots, who have returned to the
Children’s Department after an
absence of a mouth. It it illas
trated. in this artist’s characteristic
manner. Other illustrators for the
Dumber are Alice Beach Winter
and Robert Edwards. The cover
design is by Roy L. Williams.
The departments, “The Open
House,” conducted by Mary E
Bryau, and “A Glance in Passing,”
by Don Marquis,are both unusually
up-to date and interesting, r
Kidney and Bladder Diseases
are indicated by one or mord of these
symptoms, Viz : Pains and Weakness in
the back, Lame Back, Dragging sensation
in the Back and Loins, Muddy thick
Uriue, a white deposit brickdust deposit,
Puffness under the Eyes, Bloated appear
ance of the Face, Swelling of Ankles and
Feet, Drowsiness, Loss of Memory,
Dropsy. Blood Poisoning and Rheuma
tism. ..Rydale’s Kidney Remedy is guar
anteed by us to give satisfaction to all
sufferers from Kidney or Bladder dis
orders. Eli T. Reynolds.
Mrs. Fyffe Declined.
Some years ago It was decided by
the navy department that the pres
ence of the wives of the mmtl officers
at the Asiatic station detracted too
much from their official duties. So a
general order was Issued to the fleet
directing that the wives be sent home.
Admiral Fyffe, who was In command
of the fleet, received the order In due
time, and It came back to the navy de
partment Indorsed as follows:
Ist. Indorsement.
Astatic Fleet, Yokohama, Japan.
(I) Respectfully returned to the secre
tary of the navy.
(t) I have delivered this order to Mrs.
Ty fie, and she refuses to go.
(O Further Instructions are revested.
Respectfully,
(Signed) JOSEPH FYFFE.
— Success Magazine.
The Ideal Trunk.
The lady had looked at about twenty
trunks without finding one to her sat
isfaction. At length the salesman sug
gested that If she could give him an
Idea of what she had In mind he
-might be able to suit her.
“I want,” said the lady Impressively,
"a smaller trunk than this, but one
that holds more.”—St. Louis Republic.
Two Old Adages.
There are two old adages, —“Haste
makes waste” and "Make haste slowly,”
that every one should employ when they
undertake to cure a cough in-a few tnin
ntes with preparations containing mor
phine, opium chloroform or other nar- :
cotics. They may stop the cough and
cause sleep quickly, but they also dry up
the secretions and constipate, leaving oft
times a far worse trouble. Rydale’s
j Cough Elixir is guaranteed under the ,
Pure Food and Drugs Law to contain no '
opiates nor harmful drugs of any kind or j
character. Think about it when yon or
'one of the children have a congb. Eli T.
Reynolds. /
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1 BUFFINGTON’S j
||f Great Clothing Exhibit! §j§
WHE best and nobbiest line we have ever
1 shown. Three distinct styles for Spring,
*yL-| named the Unique , the /szca,. and the SjTT?
Pick up Cuff. You can certainly find just
what you want here.
I New Neckwear and all the nobby things rj^£
, of the season now in stock. g?f|
Dress Goods -“■*■
Why pay big prices for Dress Goods rV&Z
when you can procure them in your home *>{s*
town at money saving prices. Ask to see
them when-next in Rising Sun.
Wall Paper — ~
We have an excellent assortment of care
fully selected Wall Paper and Curtains for B%S
Spring demands. You can fix up your hoffifes - rj%£
and make them attractive for little money by
going with the crowd to Buffington’s. rjK££
Queensware —— ■
Not worth while using broken dishes B-tK
when you can purchase^whole dinner set of
ioo pieces or more at the prices we are now B??S*
naming. Toilet Sets at figures that will sur
# prise you. Visit the basement.
Furniture and Carpet Dept.- , Qg?
/SjjH Another lot of that 1-4 wool Ingrain Car- q®
ftps- P et > 35 cents - Bed Room Carpet, colors, all
wool, 29 cents. Large variety of styles all
wool Ingrains, Brussels, Velvets and Axmin
ster. We were fortunate last week in secur- rKi
i n g one more lot of those bargain Brussel B>?w
Rugs, wool fringe, 95 cents each. Granite
Rugs, 2£ cents to SI.OO. Special Moquet
Rugs, our price $1.89. Axminster Rugs,
$2.25, $275, $3.50 and $4.00 More Art B%
Squares this week, Granite, Ingrain, Brussels qKjs
and Axminster, $2.50 to $25 00 each. B^Sf
We are strong in this department. The y
quality of the furniture we carry and the
prices we name must always lead to large
sales. It could not be otherwise where intel- B<?m
ligence guides the buyer. Compare our Bed
Room and Parlor Suits with any you meet
with, it does not matter where; $60.00 per set pyje
downwards to a price that seems hardly jpjy
Matting B'S*
New thing in way of
Squares, 9x12 ft.—assorted patterns. -rjrf
You run no risk in going to Rising Sun, Qtejp
Md., where quality is guaranteed at prices
none need attempt to go below. Investigate, Q/2J>
investigate for yourself and learn the facts -Frjs
upon which this business has been built and
stands secure today.
E. R. BUFFINGTON & SONS.
JJsAN^Crai
OLIVER
9 1 J HE Oliver N 0.40 has
I plowed dean, hon
est furrows around \
*e world. J
The No. 40 Series comprises the Nos. These celebrated plows have
10, 13, 19, 20, El-1, 40 and 40-X, all of , . . ,
■which do equally good work, the only been on the market forty years,
difference being in the size of the .„. , . . .
plows. over a million have been sold.
They are doing splendid work to-day in every civilized land under
the sun. They are "general purpose” plows that can be depended
on to do fine plowing anywhere and are especially good in sandy
and alluvial soils and on hilly ground.
They turn and scour splendidly, are very strongly built and are
the next surest thing to death and taxes.
It is a fact that they aire the most popular plows in the world
and the man who has serious plowing problems to tackle needs a
plow of the No. 40 Series and needs it badly.
, The different numbers of the series turn furrows ranging from
S I A xll to 9x 16 inches. They are made right and left hand, in
wood and steel beam —you are sure to find one that suits you.
There are other things in the Oliver line you ought to see —that’s
always the case.
HAINES & KIRK, Rising Sun, Md.
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ORPHANS’ COURT.
The Stated Meetings of the Orphans'
Court of Cecil county will be held on tb'
second Tuesday of every month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring is
their vouchers a few davs before Court.
Test: THOS. B. MILLER, Register.
NOTICE
By thi Orphans’ Court fob Oxen. County, >
January 1,190*. 1
Ordered, That all/ Administrators, Ex
ecutors and Guardians thathhve not stated
an account within a year, come forward and
do the same, or show cause to the contrarv,
or they will be cited up.
Teat: THOS. B. MILLER, Register.