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SYNOPSIS.
Lieutenant Holton is detached from his
command in the navy at the outset of the
tipahlsh-American war and assigned to
.important secret service duty.
CHAPTER 11.
The Girl and the Walter.
At seven o’clock, in immaculate eve
ning attire, Holton set out from his
club and sallied forth to the Willard.
After studying the menu lovingly, and
having devised a dinner suitable to
- the palate of one who had followed the
'lure of Epicurus in Vienna, Paris, and
}l .on don, he turned from the card and
flighting a cigarette and sipping a cock
itall, he gazed about the room.
At one table he saw the French am
bassador and a company of his Gallic
Near by young Pembroke, of
the British embassy, was dining a girl
•Holton had met. - To his left sp.t a
dark-skinned, sleek-appearing man
with close-cropped VanSyke beard. He
had been pointed out to Holton in
Paris as a man who had plans of Ger
man forts at Kiel for sale. The young
officer wondered what he was doing
here.
Altogether the atmosphere, Holton
decided, was just as it should be, just
as the capital of a country should act
when the government stands on the
brink of -international war.
Holton had just dispatched his first
oyster when his attention was attract
ed by a musical little laugh to a table
about twenty feet away from him. A
girl, slightly above the medium height,
with slender resilient figure, was stand
ing with her back to him, talking to
her escort, a well-built man of fifty
odd, with iron-gray hair and beard,
and the dark feature:* of the Latin.
She was a beauty. Holton, connois
seur of femininity though he was, ad
mitted that without hesitation. Her
hair was not the ceal-black hair of her
race, but a shining, golden deep
brown, which lay upon her head in
thick, waving convolutions. Her eyes
were blue-gray, set off by long, dark
lashes, and fine brows, which ran with
delicate arches to the straight, finely
modeled nose. Her lips were colored
by nature, pure coral, and her teeth
••flashed as she spoke.
“It's absurd, father, for you to mind.
1 can wait here as well as anywhere
else —although I shan’t promise not
■*" j ’turtai&Jtv d-'nin/g"*. - • .
The father shrugged.
“Well,” he said at length, "it is
quite necessary, Ranee, and I shan’t
be gone long, but if you mind I'll take
you back to the hotel.”
“Not at all, not all,” she protested.
“It's so bright and interesting here,
and you'll return soon, anyway. No,
go on, father, and I’ll eat” —she smiled
radiantly—“very slowly until you re
turn.”
Her cheeks had flushed with ani
mation, and the purity of her coloring,
as well as the whiteness of her skin,
convinced Holton that if her father
were Spanish, or Cuban, or something
Latin, the girl unquestionably was the
'daughter of an Anglo-Saxon mother.
With a gesture that amounted al
most to she had tossed
A gold mesh hand-bag on the table,
and now as she glanced over the card
it was quite concealed from her view.
Holton returned to his oysters, not,
however, neglecting occasional glances
at the radiant creature who had been
left, as he inwardly phrased it,
and dry by her father.
“1 should think,' he murmured, "that
he’d be afraid someone would steal
her. I—l, by George! I’d like to, you
know.”
Which thought thrilled him out of
all proportion to the amount of good
sense it contained. It was at about
this point that Holton’s gaze fell upon
the waiter attending the young woman.
He was one of those interesting per
sons to be seen occasionally in great
restaurants who seem to be above
their calling. There was a hidden
something, passing phases of facial ex
pression, a certain movement of the
shoulders, and above all, a firm-footed
but light tread, all of which seemed to
Holton to indicate a man misplaced.
He felt certain of this a moment
later, when the girl again lifted the ,
menu and the waiter stepped to the j
corner of the table, upon which the'
gold bag lay. With a quick snakelike !
movement his hand shot out and seized ;
the bag. Then, hardly lifting his fin- j
gers from the table, he snapped his j
wrist upward and the bag flew under
JOHN MUIR’S STUDY MACHINE!
________
Naturalist Tells of Wonderful Inven- j
tion for Which He Has Not Yet
Taken Out a Patent.
"Nevertheless I still indulged my j
love of mechanical invention," writes j
John Muir in his volume, “Story of My j
Boyhood and Youth.” “I invented a |
desk in which the books I had to |
study were arranged in order at the
beginning of each term. I also made a
bed which set me on my feet every
morning at the hour determined on,
and in dark winter mornings just as
the bed set me on the floor it lighted
the lamp. Then, after the minutes al
lowed for dressing had elapsed, a
click was heard, and the first book
to be studied was pushed up from a
rack below the top of the desk, thrown
open, and allow'ed to remain there the
number of minutes required. Then
the machinery closed the book and al
lowed it to drop back into its stall,
then moved the rack forward and
threw up the next in order, and so on,
’ all the day being divided according to
the times of recitation, and time re
the lapel of his jacket, which had been
held open to receive it by the other
hand. Another instant and he was in
front of the girl receiving her order
with the utmost sang froid.
Holton wasted no time in thought.
Quickly springing up he approached
the young woman’s table, and nodding
to her as to an old acquaintance, he
placed his hand lightly upon the wait
er’s arm. >■
"Wait a moment," said Holton pleas
antly.
The girl in the meantime had been
staring at the young officer in wide
eyed wonderment.
“What —what does this mean?” she
asked finally.
“Your bag,” said Holton quietly,
“was on this table, was it not?”
The girl leaned forward with a gasp.
“Why—why, yes,” she said. “Why—
it’s gone.” She looked up at Holton
with startled eyes. “It’s gone,” she re
peated, her voice beginning to rise.
Holton smiled reassuringly and nod
ded.
"Please don’t be alarmed,” he said,
“It is all right.” He turned to the
waiter. “This man evidently regarded
your bag as among the debris to be
cleared from the table. Rather stupid,
of course, but then, if he were not
stupid he wouldn’t be a waiter, you
know.”
"What do you mean, sir!” exclaimed
the man, flushing.
Holton laughed and tightened his
grip on the waiter’s arm.
"Come, come,” he said. “Take that
bag out of your coat and put it on the
table or I’ll make a spread-eagle of
you.”
“Give me my bag,” said the girl, her
eyes flashing.
Without a word the waiter reached
his hand inside his jacket, and bring
ing forth the missing article, laid it on
the table.
“There,” he said, “I thought someone
had left it and I was going to take it
to the desk.”
“Rats,” commented Holton. “Do you
wish him arrested?” he added, glanc
ing at the girl.
The young woman thought a mo
ment and then shook her head.
"No, thank you, I think not,” she
said. “I should hate to appear in pro
ceedings, and after all, no harm has
been done. It may be he was sincere
in removing the bag.”
Vilton -ropjaj-de/3.. 1 •hr ■- , qnflj
saw that sYSSfeally believed In the
Holton Tightened His Grip on the
Waiter’s Arm.
man’s guilt, but was averse to carrying
the matter'further.
“All right,” he Isaid, releasing his
grip upon the waiter’s arm. “Now,
then, you go and attend to your duties
—and be sure you don’t put any poison
in this young lady’s food.”
The waiter turned away with an evil
scowl, and Holton bowed and was
about to go to his table, when the girl
smiled at him radiantly.
“1 have not thanked you yet for
your kindness,” she said.
“Oh, it was nothing at all,” responded
■ iloiton.
“But it was,” she insisted. “That
bag is very dear to me, and, besides,
! it contains things I should hate to
: lose. lam Sorry that my father is not
| here to thank you, and yet in another
| way I am glad. He would scold me
for being awfully careless."
" j
j quired and allotted to each study.
“Besides this, I thought it would be
! a fine thing in the summer time, when
| the sun rose early, to dispense with
j the clock-controlled bed machinery,
j and make use of sunbeams instead,
i This I did simply by taking a lens out
| of my small spy glass, fixing it on a
: frame on the sill of my bedroom win
dow, and pointing it toi the sunrise;
I the sunbeams focussed on a thread,
j burned it through, allowing the bed
machinery to put me on my feet.
“When I wished to arise at any
given time after sunrise, I had only j
to turn the pivoted frame that held j
the lens the requisite number of de- |
grees or minutes. Thus I took Emer
son’s advice and hitched my djimp
ing wagon bed to a star.”
Science and the Milkman. *
Housekeeper—“ What makes you so
late with the milk these mornings?”
Milkman —“Well, you see, mum, the
pure-food law don’t allow us more
than 25,000,000 bacteria to the gallon,
an’ you wouldn't believe how long it
takes to count the Uttle devils.”—Lip
pincott’s.
i She was speaking in perfect Eng
r lish, with just the faintest accent,
l "Perhaps so,” granted Holton. Then
r he took the bit in Jils teeth. “My name
is Appleton,” he said; “Pm a lieuten
. ant in the army.”
• “And I,” she said, “am Miss La Tos
! sa. I think I —at least, I remember
• seeing you at one of the White House
- receptions.”
“I remember having seen you,” lied
' Holton, “but I wa3 trying to recall the
place. I think we were introduced. La
1 Tossa,” he mused.
“Oh, come, Mr. Applegate—”
“Appleton,” corrected Holton.
J “Thank you, Mr. Appleton; let us
have done with beating about the bush.
■ You have rendered me a great favor
tonight, and that is quite sufficient.
■ But you do not remember me, and so
please do not try to make me think
1 you do.”
“All right,” said Holton, “I won’t.
But—but you will not think me pre
' suming if I said I should like to—here
after.”
’ “I should like to have you know me,”
1 she said simply.
The unexpected nature of this re
! mark quite unhorsed the young 'officer,
’ and for a second no words came to his
’ tongue.
1 “Thank you,” he said lamely.
She regarded him in smiling silence.
' “But I’m afraid,” she said then, “that
your knowledge will be limited to this
1 evening. I wish, really wish, it would
be otherwise.” She sighed. “It would
• be so nice to be like other girls. But
; father and I are birds of passage, here
one day, there the next. I shall be so
glad to be home once more.”
“Home?” Holton looked at her in-
quiringly.
“Yes, my home is near Santiago. We
are outside Cuabltas.”
“Oh! Holton flushed for some rea
son or other.
“Good-by, Mr. Appleton,” she said.
“I am grateful to you—l am thankful.
You have been very good. But now
you must go, really.”
“May I not call?” asked Holton. “I
recognize the informality of our meet
ing, and I do not wish you to think
me forward, but I really—”
"I thank you, Mr. Appleton,” she
said; “but, no—these things cannot
! be.”
There was a note of finality in her
| voice and a trace of pathos, both of
• which Holton 'caught'." ' '
“Of course, Miss La Tossa, l shall do
as you say. But I am sorry.” He
i paused. “And will you please remem
, her this: If you ever need assistance
in any way, and I am within reach,
will you call upon me?”
i “I thank you,” she replied. “You are
most kind. I shall remember what you
have said.” <*'
Holton drew a card-case from his
pocket.
"When I told you my name was Ap
pleton,” he said, “I acted upon impulse,
but intended no insult. My real name
and my address afe contained here,”
and he placed a card in front of her.
The girl glanced at the bit of paste
board, and then started. She looked
up at Holton with a frightened ex
pression.
“Lieutenant Holton.” she said. “Why,
I thought—”
She paused.
“You thought?" prompted Holton.
“I—l thought—” She paused again,
then her expression changed, and she
smiled at him. “I thought you said
your name was Appleton.”
“As I explained, I did tell you that,”
said Holton. “It was an Impulse, and
! no harm was intended. Now you have
my real name.”
, The girl shook her head slowly.
“You must not do that again.”
. “What —give the wrong name? I
never shall,” and Holton spoke fervent
; ly.
, “No —the right name.” She fixed
him with her serious eyes. “Appleton
l is a very fine name,” she said; “it
j sounds just as well as your own —Hol-
I ton. Yes, I think it has a more at
tractive sound—to a Spaniard. When
• you say Appleton—why, then —then it
iis better so sometimes. Now, Mr. Ap
1J pleton, again I thank you. I shall re
1, member all you have done and all you
; have said. And now you must go.”
, The officer bowed, a trifle stiffly, for
i her manner had undergone something
; of a change. He withdrew to his own
• table, and went through his various
i courses in a perfunctory manner. His
: mind was wholly upon that beautiful
i
POOR GIRAFFE LOVED TURTLE
Animal’s Suicide in Jardin des Plantes
Explained to Satisfaction of
Commissary.
It is a sad, sad story and the de
tails will never be known—how the
giraffe at the Jardin des Plantes, the
Paris zoo, v committed suicide.
This giraffe, who held the record
in her class for height, was neuras
thenic. The attendants noticed the
other day that she looked troubled.
' She stood In her fronf yard waving
! her long neck from side to side, her.
j eyes in the clouds. Then she dashed
' her head against the side of her
house, causing concussion of the
brain.
The commissary of police was noti
fied of her death and he opened an
inquest. What were the reasons for
suicide? She was of high standing,
four and a half meters. She was not
• involved in the troubles of married
life, for the simple reason that she
was not married. Perhaps, however,
she was in love.
When the commissary came to this
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD.
girl and the strange natare of their In
terview.
While Holton was engaged in
thought Miss La Tossa’s waiter, as
though to make up for his misconduct,
proved a most excellent servitor. He
seemed, in fact, to take especial pride
In attending to the service with all the
skill at his command, with the result
that the girl, who was in large degree
an epicure, rewarded him with a pleas
ant smile.
Her father joined her at coffee, and
it was then, while waiting for an or
der, that this strange waiter penciled
the following telegram upon a pad
which he carried in his pocket:
“Holton at Willard. Scorpion evi
dently not going to Key West. Failed
with girl. But, all working well."
This went to Key West. The waiter
returned to the dining-room, and spent
all his spare time standing within ear
shot of the table at which Miss La
Tossa and her father were seated.
The two were guests at the hotel.
Just before they arose the father
said something which brought the
waiter rigid. He listened for the re
ply, and then with a broad smile he
hurried to the serving-table for finger
bowls, as demanded by a fussy gentle
man at a table in front of him.
As for Holton, he was smoking a
long cigar and, gazing thoughtfully at
the ceiling, trying to determine where
he had seen the face of that waiter be
fore,
* * • * • * •
When Holton entered the ballroom
of the Willard the orchestra from be
hind its shelter of palms was sending
/ yi
„ ,V -Cv;of
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Trying to Determine Where He Had
Seen the Face Before.
forth the stirring notes of Sousa’a
“Stars and Stripes,” whose popularity
was then at the apex, and the floor
was filled with whirling couples. A
few minutes late, all other thoughts
flashed from his mind as the girl he
had met In the restaurant passed in at
the door on the arm of her father. She
was smiling animatedly, and was at
once surrounded by a group of young
men, mainly foreigners, all clamoring
for one qr rnore Aancps.
“By George!” ejaculated Holton un
der his breath. “I’m for that young
lady without any doubt at all.”
Twice he started to move toward
her, only to be anticipated by some
equally ardent young gallant, and it
was not until the music of a waltz had
ceased and her partner had begun to
cast his eyes about the room for the
woman whose name appeared next on
his card that Holton saw his oppor
tunity. Stepping quickly across the
floor, he confronted her with a bow,
seeing which the partner bowed in
turn and disappeared.
“Mr. Apple—Mr. Holton!” she ex
claimed. “What a surprise!”
“Not an unpleasant one, I hope,”
smiled Holton in reply.
“Of course not,” she answered, plac
ing her card in the officer’ outstretch
ed hand.
“Thank you.” Holton glaneed quick
ly down the list of names. “I see the
twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth
dances are not taken. May I have
them?”
“All?” She arched her eyebrows,
but smiled, as if pleased.
“Certainly, all,” said the young man
emphatically, “and as many more as
you can spare.”
She regarded him smilingly.
“What, a queer person you are!”
Holton was about to reply when a
man in diplomatic British uniform ap
proached, bowed stiffly, and bore the
girl away. She looked back at Holton
over her shoulder.
“Adios!” she called.
(TO BE CONTINUED.) '
Servant Girl Educator.
The truth is, we never think of edu
cation in connection with babyhood,
the term being in our minds inex
tricably confused with schoolhouses
and books. When we do honestly ad
mit the plain fact that a child is be
ing educated in every waking hour by
the condition in which he is placed
and the persons who are with him,
we shall be readier to see the need of
a higher class of educators than serv
ant girls.—Concerning Children.
question- he felt sure he was on the
right track. From the keepers he
learned in fact that the giraffe some
time previously had fallen in love
with a turtle, but the latter showed
almost stony indifference to her ad
vances. She tried to make eyes at
the turtle, but he seemingly paid no
attention to her. The turtle seemed
to think there was an inseparable dis
tance between them. The inquest
was ended and it only remained for
the commissary to notify the family
of the deceased.
Building in Constant Motion.
There are many in New York who
regard the Flatiron building not only
from the standpoint of a curiosity, but
from that of beauty, as the eighth
wonder of the world. In the top
stories of this building the pendulum
of office clocks sways so far over that
it cannot come back of itself, only
when aided by the return movement o!
the great structure. Ink is spilled
from the wells with this ceaseless
movement, for, like the prow of a
ship, the “Flatiron” sways and giveE
with the elements.
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
The Hagerstown Fanciers’ Associa
tion will hold its winter poultry show
the last week in November.
The Republicans of Queen Anne’s
county met at Centreville selected,
fSruce C. Sparks, chairman of the
Board of Election Supervisors, as sec
retary.
Crushed beneath a falling horse,
Eliason Legg, the 12-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. C. Legg, is lying
at his home in Centreville in a critical
condition.
Dr. Chyde B. Stouffer, of Hagerstown,
has been appointed by the board of
regents as campers’ physician at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Mich.
The large frame barn on the farm
of Mrs. David Rubeck, tenanted by
Newton Knavel, located near Dry Run,
was destroyed by Are just as the wheat
crop had been thrashed.
Plans have been drawn and the con
tract will be awarded in a short time
for rebuilding the Summit Bridge
Methodist Church, which was destroy
ed by lightning a few weeks ago.
Ralph B. Wyand, of Hagerstown, one
of the first honor graduates of the
Washington County Male High School,
class of 1912, has been appointed
teacher of the commercial course of
the High School at Middletown.
The large barn and carriage house
on the farm of Harry W. Milburn,
south of Elkton, was struck by light
ning and destroyed together with a
large quantity of hay, farming utensils,
carriages, etc.
The new Republican State Central
Committee for Washington county,
organized by selecting County Tax Col
lector Abner B. Bingham, of Weverton,
a former Bull Moose leader, as chair
man, succeeding ex-State Senator
Thompson A. Brown, who retired.
Capt. George L. Fisher, for many
years commanding Company B, First
Maryland Regiment, now train caller
at the Cumberland Valley Railroad
,depot, Hagerstown, was thrown from
a moving passenger train at the depot
and severely injured, sustaining a
sprained ankle.
Dr. P. S. Madigan, of Washington,
has been appointed resident physician
of the Allegany Hospital of the Sisters
of Charity. He is a graduate of
Georgetown University Medical School
and has been assistant resident sur
geon at Providence Ho oral, Wash
ington.
The barn on the farm of Joseph
Gray, near Garrotts Mills, was burned,
entailing a loss of about $3,000. One
horse, 300 bushels of wheat, the hay
crop, feed, several hogs, harness and
farming machinery were also destroy
ed. The dwelling house, nearby,
caught fire and was damaged.
Lloyd Stouffer, of Security, who was
struck several days ago by a train at
Ann Arbor, Mich., sustaining a frac
.tured right arm and lacerations about
the head and contusion of the body,
was brought to Hagerstown and taken
to the home of his sister, Mrs. Cleve
land Gossner.
Charles and Ralph Kefauver, aged 16
and 12 years, respectively, of Eakles
Mills, were arrested on the charge of
breaking into the residence of Mrs.
Mary E. Wyand and carrying off a
double-barreled gun, a camera and a
wrist bag, containing several Balti
more and Ohio Railroad tickets.
The Rupp Manufacturing Company
was incorporated at Hagerstown -with
a capitalization of $20,000, divided into
200 SIOO shares, by Robert M. Rupp,
Orin F. Baltzley and Edgar S. Darner,
to manufacture automatic hand milk
bottle capping machines and other ma
chinery and tools.
The official vote of the Democratic
primaries in Cecil county shows no
change from the unofficial figures ex
cept in the vote for sheriff. John A.
Morgan, of Elkton, anti-organization
candidate, has one plurality over
Richard K. Barnes, of Charlestown,
organization candidate. The vote be
ing: Morgan, 1,043; Barnes, 1,042, and
Algard, 49.
The large livery of the Union Mining
Company, Mount Savage, was destroy
ed by fire. The livery was operated
by Patrick Welsh, who saved his live
stock. Adjoining the barn is the
magazine of the Union Mining Com
pany in which a large quantity of pow
der and dynamite was stored. The ex
plosives were removed.
At the annual meeting of the
Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company,
Hagerstown, William H. Armstrong
was re-elected president. W. M.
Rouzer was elected vice-president;
Harry K. Recher, secretary; E. A.
-Spangler, treasurer;/G. E. Garver, J.
E. Powles, David M. Hurley, John
Fiery, Capt. George L. Fisher, execu
tive committee; George E. Mayhew,
chief director; George M. Rouzer and
Robert E. Rowe, assistant directors.
The lives of several passengers were
saved by the prompt action of Motor
man David Walker when a car ran
Into an open switch on the Hagerstown
and Frederick railway, near Funks
town, and collided with a freight
motor. /
Two fires, both believed to have
been of incendiary origin, entailing a
loss of more than $6,000 in property
and live stock, occurred on the farms
of County Tax Collector Robert W.
Medford and Alonzo Wright, of Fed
eralshurg.
ANNAPOLIS NEWS
GOVERNOR PARDONS ONE.
' Orders Case Of W. T. Housman, Of
Baltimore, Advertised.
Annapolis.—Governor Goldsborough
held a session of the pardon court at
the Executive offices in Annapolis and
granted a pardon in one case, ordered
, the petition in two others advertised
for final hearing at an early date; gave
audience to a number of persons
seeking clemency in behalf of impris
oned relatives or friends, and con
sidered other cases that have been on
the docket for the last several weeks.
The man given his freedom is Harry
B. Smith, of Frederick county, who
was convicted in September, 1910, of
burning a barn, and sentenced to fiva
; years in the penitentiary. His term
would have expired September 26,
1915. The pardon was recommended
by the Prisoners’ Aid Association.
The Governor advertised for final
hearing the cases of William T. Hous
man, convicted in January, 1913, in
Baltimore, of larceny, and sentenced
to one year in the city jail, and Charles
Neville, convicted in Washington
county, in February, 1913, of larceny
and sentenced to 15 months in the
House of Correction.
LIEUT. McNEILL TO ST. JOHN’S
Succeeds Lieutenant Cheston As Mili
tary Instructor.
Annapolis.—News has been receiv
ed dn Annapolis that the War Depart
ment has detailed Lieut. Cliauncey St.
C. McNeill, Fifteenth Cavalry, to be
professor of military science and
tactics and. commandant of cadets at
■St. John’s College. Lieutenant McNeill
will assume the duty shortly, it is ex
pected. The college opens for the 1
scholastic term this week. Lieutenant
McNeill,will succeed Lieutenant D. M.
Cheston, who has been ordered to join
his regiment. Lieutenant Cheston is a
native of Anne Arundel county. Lieu
tenant McNeill was formerly a mid
shipman at the Naval Academy. He
resigned from that institutfon in 1909
when a second classman in order to
enter the army.
TO FIX BOUNDARY LINE.
Joint Legislative Committee Leaves To
Meet Virginia Committee.
Annapolis.-—A joint 'committee of
the Senate and House of Delegates of
Maryland left Annapolis on the steam
er McLane, of the state fishery force,
for the Potomac River, where it will
meet a similar committee of the Vir
ginia legislature to confer over joint
legislation to fix the boundary line be
tween the two states in that river. The
Maryland committeemen are Senators
Benson, Wilkinson and Freyer. Dele
gates Phillips, Dawkins, Hancock and
Hargate. Capt. S. S. Yates, of the
Revenue Service, and Engineer Swep
son Earle, of the Shellfish Commission,
accompanied the party.
IS NOW AN ENSIGN.
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Midshipman Woodside Passes a
Special Physical Examination.
Annapolis.—As he had been success
ful in passing a special physical ex
■ animation allowed him by the Navy
Department, a diploma of graduation
from the Naval Academy was handed
to Elmer L. Woodside, of Missouri,
and he will rank as an ensign from
this date. His diploma was withheld
last June on account of certain physi
cal disabilities.
Two Academy Guides Appointed.
Annapolis.—Carl Brauns, for a num
ber of years one of the. assistant cus
todians of State buildings here, and
Joseph Russell, of Eastport, Annapolis,
have been appointed to the corps of
watchmen guides at the Naval .Acad
emy. The appointments were made as
a result of a competitive examination
held in July. There were 12 ap'
plicants. They succeed David A.
White and Henri Robin, who recently
resigned.
Governor At Ocean . City. >
Annapolis.—Governor Goldsborough
spent the week-end at Ocean City, Md„
where he and his family haye been
summering. It will be the last week
end trip to Maryland’s ocean resort,
as the Governor has planned to return
to Annapolis this week with Mrs.
Goldsborough and the children and re
open Government House for the fall
and winter.
WEALTHY FARMER KILLED.
Diller W. Mews’ Life Crushed Out
While Threshing.
Elkton. —Diller W. Mews,, a wealthy
farmer residing three miles east of
town, was killed almost instantly
while operating a threshing outfit on
the Baker farm, in the Second district.
In leaning over the large fly wheel
while it was running to adjust one of
the valves in some manner he lost his
balance and was caught between the
big wheel and the boiler, crushing his
body. He died while being brought to
Union Hospital here.
Found Dead On Public Road.
Elkton.—Coroner William P. Dean,
of this town, was summoned to Row
landville to investigate the death of
George Barnett, whose body was found
lying on the public road near Row
landville. Coroner Dean gave a
certificate of death from heart dis
ease. Barnett had been to Baltimore,
and was stricken while on his way
back home. He was 78 years of age,
and is survived by one son and a
daughter.
The following appointments of
teachers in Cecil county have b.een ap
proved by the School Commissioners:
Maida A. Bryson, Mabel A. Tome and
Anna Logan, Rising Sun district; Flor
ence W. Wilson, North East district;
Elva H. Brown, Fair Hill district, and
Emma Muster, Elkton district.
Rev. C. W. Hutsler, pastor of the
United Brethren Church at Williams
port, will resign his charge. It is
thought he will be appointed pastor of
the Second United Brethren Church
at Martinsburg, W. Va.
NEED TARIFF BOARD
Proper Revision Must Be Work of
Experts..
President Taft’s Idea Is Now Approved
by All Who Have Considered the
Work of the Present Democratic
_ Administration.
It is one of the extraordinary facts
that a great tariff bill, with its hun
dreds of pages and its thousands of
items, affecting every detail of busi
ness and ultimately reachng every
thing used by the individual, is a com
plete mystery to more than nine-tenths
of the people. It is thrown together in
haste by men who are not economists
or scientists and fit is not read even
by half the members of congress.
But the misplaced commas and the
wrong spelling and ‘ the other errors
are just the. sort of trifles that might
make an enormous difference when it
all becomes the law of the land. An
error even more serious runs through
the measure. It is the letting in free
of certain manufactured products
when duty is imposed on the raw ma
terials from which the manufactured
products are made. This is the glaring
inconsistency of the measure.
Every day the fact is more apparent
that the business of tariff making
should be put in the hands of experts.
Under the Taft administration a tariff
board was created to gather correct in
formation on the subject. The Demo
crats killed this board by failing to
provide funds for its continuance. In
the making of the present bill the
Democratic leaders have repeatedly
confessed to the inadequacy of the in
formation on which they had to pro
ceed. Tire results are shown in the
1 bill. It is full of common errors and of
absurd contradictions, and the long de
lay is due to the making of correc
tions.
Beauties of the Recall.
Out in California the recall ma
chinery has,' been set in motion to re
move a woman superintendent of
schools from the office she has held
for II years. The county board of
education, of which she' is ex-officio
secretary, revoked the teacher’s cer
tificate of a high school principal
charged with immoral conduct, where
upon he and his friends appear to have
secured the needed signatures to a re
call petition.
Presumably the woman was capable
and conscientious or she would not
have been kept in office so long. Prob
ably the principal was in fault or the
county board would not have deprived
him of ••his school. In any event, re
venge would seem to be the motive,
since to recall her will not reinstate
him, and if he had a case that would
endure the light of day he could ap
peal for justice to the courts.
Happily we of this state are spared
as yet this grotesque political device
which would be more often used to
club honesty .out of office than to re
tire an unworthy incumbent. What a
engaged in now if the Sulzer case
-were to be decided by popular vote.
Tammany would he a relentless unit
to cast him out; partisans hostile to
the organization would be fierce to
keep him in; the yellow journals would
scream, stumpers would shout them
selves hoarse and opposition rooters
would brand them as infamous ma
ligners, and not one citizen in 10,009
would vote with such personal knowl
edge of the evidence as made him cer
tain that he was voting right.—Ro
chester Post-Express.
Inconsistent Policies.
In respect to tariff revision the pres
ent administration is much in favor
of wider and freer foreign trade. It
stands for lower duties and more im
ports. It means to cultivate interna
tional business. -
But in regard to protecting Ameri
can interests in foreign countries the
attitude of the president and his ad
visers is entirely different. In mat
ters which concern the safety of
Americans and their property in other
lands, the administration is discour
aging to the activities and enterprises
of its citizens, outside of their own
country.
The stand taken by President Wil
son Is a to citizens of the
United States that if they engage m
any business in a foreign country, no
matter w T hat treaty guarantees seem
to shelter them, they injist take care
of themselves in time of danger.
They are practically notified that their
government will do little to guard
them and less to discourage similar
attacks upon other Americans, under
like circumstances.
Stand of Louisiana Senators.
A Democratic paper says the Louis
iana senators are “rapidly reaction
ary.” But as they represent the sen
timent of the state they are on better
ground than those who advise them
to ignore the wishes of constituents
and accept the caucus gag.
Policy Has Been Proved Right.
We have become the wonder Of the
world under the system of protection.
That the people of the United States
realize what it is that has made us
great has been shown repeatedly at
elections whenever the issue has been
clean cut between free trade and pro
tection. Protection has been found a
bird of “ill-omen” only when heedless
politicians have tampered with It. Free
trade has been tried before, but pro
tection has always come back, with
distressing results for the party that
dethroned it
Are You Your Own Judge?
A man cannot speak but he judges
himself with his will or against his
will he draws his portrait to the eye
of his companions by every word. Ev
ery opinion reacts on him who ut
ters it —Emerson.
To Avoid Rust
To avoid using hooks and eyes that
will rust, test them with a magnet
If they can be drawn by the magnet
they contain steel and should not be
used on anything that requires laun
dering.