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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-06
AN OLD-THME LULLABY.


On by the stairs they merrily climb
Three little white gowns ut sleepy-tlme,
Big brother Benny and baby Grace. II
And funny wee-bcy with the happy face;
And mamma sings rs they mount the staiP.
These cranky words to queer old air
GO to bed sleepy7head, a4t 4..-,. ....
And sleep for money to buy cow :"
Said Benny, Such humbug never heard
And don't believe it a single word.
Ii slept all night, and sept all day.
Do you think I'd be any richer. say"
The e-boy nodded his curly head.
Mamma, sing it alden !" the baby said.
Go to bed sleepy-head,
And sleep for money to buy a cow"
Said Benny, who made such silly sengq
1t tells story !; it must be wrong"
:" 1t can't TELL Benny, l only know,
1t was sung to me long years ago.
By your aud Scotch granny, sweet and dear,
When / was us small us baby here.
So goto bed sleepy-head
And sleep for money to buy a cow"
eff grandma said it, it must be true
But l don't believe it, now say, ito you?
And tell me. mamma I'd like to know,
When she sent you 10 bed. did you always go p
Yes, always Went. us you must now"
Said the funny wee-boy, Then where's YOU
cow %
sob go to bed sleepy-head.
The COW jumped over the moon, they said"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-06
A DIAMOND SAW.

The DeutscAe Lndust'io Zcitung remarks
that, in consequence OF boring
appliances having been successfully
constructed with cutting-surfaces of
black diamond, this material has now
been adapted to a saw for stone. An
Alsatian factory has commenced the
manufacture of this saw, which is put
in motion by steam engine of two
horse power. The quantity and quality
of the work produced are said to be
very satisfactory, and the saw is con-
sidered to be applicable to all kinds of
stone.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-06
Aunt Betsy's Present.

"Well, must say, I think it is hor-
ribly mean of your Aunt Betsy, Estella
After making such favolite of you all
your life, and having you with her ever
since you were mere baby, she might
have sent you something worth having
on your twenty first birthday. especially
as she knows how poor we are since
your fathers DEATH" said my mother,
sharply.
''You had better take it rs hint for
the future, and not build any more
castles ON what Aunt Betsy is likely to
do for you, remarked my sister Lena.
Walter, my brother, added with a
provoking grimace: ....-
"I+ere endeth my sister Stella's great
expectations. ;"
" You need not make such unpleasant
remarks" I answered, pettishly. I'm
sending me the portrait of her old sweet
heart poor auntie has given me her
greatest treasure, and she, no doubt,
thinks shall value it as much as she
does.
"Well, it may come in useful, after
all, for if. as / expect, you never get Il
sweetheart you can imagine he was
yours, when you are sour old maid
like Aunt Betsy, said Lena, who prided
herself not little ON being engaged at
eighteen, while I, at twenty-one, had
never had an offer, not even the ghost
OF lover.
had lived with Aunt Betsy down in
her quiet country home i'll the south of
Cornwall until my fathers death two
years before, when coming up to Lon
don for his funeral I found my mother
left in such Strengthened circumstances
that felt it my duty to stay and earn
what money Icould to help her; thereby,
however, l incurred Aunt Betsys anger.
Surely" she wrote, "your brother
and sister can help your mother; you
have no need to leave me lonely in my
old age, after have had all the trouble
of you as child" etc.
would willingly have returned, for
close London lodging was not at all to
my taste after my aunt's large, airy
country house, but my mother seemed
to lean ON me, and SO dreaded my leav-
ing her, that had not the heart to go.
Aunt Betsy neither came nor wrote,
and had quite resigned myself to the
idea thai was hopalessly onher black
books when the above related event
took place.
Now l knew that was forgiven.
In her early youth, Aunt Betsy, then
the beautiful Elizabeth Marston, my
fathers only sister, had been engaged
to the son and heir of q wealthy London
banker.
He had been sent abroad, on business
for his father, just before they were to
have been married, and through the
jealous treachery of another man who
madly loved her, and wished to supplant
his rival, the engagement had been
suddenly broken off by him.
He then remained abroad, and Aunt
Betsy never heard from him again.
just before he left England he had
presented her with q beautiful little
miniature of himself set in gold and
diamonds, and this she had kept,
together with her maiden name-no
other lover ever induced her to change
it.
As girl, had often seen and rever-
emily admired the pretty souvenir, and
I had taken all girls keen interest in
the love-story attached to it. Aunt had
always told me it was to be mine, and
now felt certain, with this treasure in
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-06

painting of his father which hangs in
our drawing-room, from which the
miniature was copied. Li1t}
We are very happy. and when my
brother Walter comes home, rs we
exp ct him to do with his young bride,
next Christmas, we shall have wonder
full story to tell him of the same present
he and Lena thought so little of.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-06
DUICLk RICE.

AVA As1%1@s
The finest rice is known % Dutch
rices and GENES from Amsterdam. It ia
grown in Java and rlillcd and polished
IN Amsterdam by some peculiar process
which American nillers are very anxious
to learn. The Dutch rice" hos more
peri ct grains, a better lustre, and is
less broken than rice milled in this
country. Many attempts have been
made to learn the Dutch process, but
they guard it with jealous care and
allow no one in their mills. It is sus-
pected that they use oil, as the rice
when confined in bag for some time,
gives the cloth soft, greasy feeling.
Recently the State Department sent
out circular to consular officers
requesting information concerning the
preparation of rice. The Consuls had
no better luck than other people. They
recently reported that the manufacture
ers dec 'ined to divulge the secret, say
ing that it was of the utmost value for
them to preserve it, and that they would
no; furnish the method to their own
Government. The Dutch rice is worth
one, quarter of cent more per pound
tilan other rice. simply because of its
fine appearance; but when cooked it is
no better than other rice.
American millers are secretive about
their own processes of milling, and
decline to allow strangers to go through
their works. There is only one mill IN
New York City, that of Champion
Brothers, at Monroe and Jefferson
streets
The grain comes from the threshing
mill rs rough rice or paddy, and requires
grinding to free it from the hulls. It
is first screened to get rid of the sand,
and is then passed between pair of
heavy stones. five feet across, to remove
the outer husk. Thence it goes into
large wooden mortars, the ironshod
pestles of which weigh $50 to $50 pounds
each, and is pounded for two hours,
when it is ready for screening. Some
mills clean the rice Ivy means of wire
cards, without pounding Finally the
rice is screened into -four. broken rice,
mddling rice and prime rice. The
prime rice passes into the polishing or
brushing screen, which is vertical
cylinder, laid mp and down with shreds
of she 'pskin, and made to revolve
within wire screen. This cleans off the
flour and gives polish to the grains
The best rice produced in this country
is grown in South Carolina. The Chin
csc consume Il great deal of rice in this
city, and are said to use only the best
quality. The majority of New York
families serve boiled rice ns sort of q
paste, with the grains all merged
together. In the South where it's cook
ing is properly understood, it is served
with every grain clean and distinct. It
IS eaten there us a vegetable with pepper
-snd salt, while North it is regarded as
dessert, and eaten with sugar or molas-
SEES. 1t is said that the rice should be
put into sailed water which is boiling
hot. In five minutes the water should
be drained off, and the covered pot left
for twenty minutes longer ON the Goals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-06
stone.

A missionary ont West, Dragging how
we'll he had instructed some Indians in
religion, called up one of them, and
after some questions asked him if he
had not found great comfort last Sun
day after receiving the sacrament.
Yes" replied the redskin, "but I
wish it had been hsSSsly."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-11-06

True friendship increases rs life's end
approaches justas the shadows lcngthen
every degree the sun declines toward
setting.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
How TO Feed PIga.

The Ontario Agricultural College has,
IN Prof. VIM. Brown, an untiring worker
In the course of progress in agriculture.
He has year after year given to the
world the results of practical scientific ex-
perimentsin feeding, breeding and dairy
ing that have been of great value. After
testing the question with large num-
Der of animals and in variety of ways,
he declares that raw peas are fifty per
cent. cheaper than cooked peas, and
cheaper than Indian corn in any form"
Of course the latter point would depend
upon the price of the two commodities.
AS to the best manner of feeding, a
farmer neighbor of mine, who raises one
or two very fat hogs every year, finds
that upon the one-meal-a- day plan he
never fails to secure ~ a large frame,
~ extreme fairness finally, and 90 free
dom from sickness, all of which he hum
orously attributes to az keeping 'em
happy and contented."
His neighbors' pigs fed three or four
times day, are, so he says, "squealing
all the time they amt eatin;" while his
own "get up and eat their one square
meal, and then lie down and sleep most
of the time" One season, raising three
pigs, he made ii. e., exclusive of weight
of the animals when he bought them
,260 pounds of pork in $50 days, an
average of seven pounds, or two and
one-third pounds, each, day. The
asst two months the trio consumed, on
ali average, ten quarts of raw corn meal
a day. The dry meal was turned on top
of fresh water "a pailful or two) in the
trough. Thus only were they watered
and fed. When killed, though not fully
up to the Strasburgh geese, which are
fed for fat livers (for the famous pates
de foie gras so beloved by gourmets)
and which are so accurately diagnosed
by the expert attendant, that only those
are killed to-day that would die an I'M
natural death from 'fiver-complaint" to-
morrow; still the fat disease was fully
up to, in fact, above the average Prai-
RE Farmer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
Australian Marriage Customs.

In recent lecture on Marriage Gus
toms and Relations Among Australian
Aborigines," Sir j. Lubbock, NJ. P,
stated that many tribes were divided in
to families, or gentes, and no man might
marry woman of his own gems. For
instance, among the Mount Gambler,
South Australia, natives every man was
a Kumite or Kroki, every woman
Kumitegor or Kyokigor. No Kumite
might marry Kumitegor, nor Krokia
Krokigor. In many cases the divisions
were more complex, but the general
principle was as stated above. These
divisions often extended through many
tribes and over hundreds of miles. But
while these restrictions were imposed
on marriage, on the other hand, in one
sense, every man was considered as
husband of every woman belonging to
the gems with which he was permitted
to marry, SO that, as Messrs. Fison and
Hewitt forcibly put it, he might have
one thousand miles Of wives. But
though we might call this marriage
and it was a right which in old times
was generally and to certain extent is
still recognized as perfectly legal and
respectable-it did not help us to the
origin of marriage in our sense of the
word. This form of communal mar
rage" as he had proposed to call it,
was no doubt aboriginal and founded
on natural instincts.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
"Blame 1t All Oh Me-"

tfron the DstrOlt Free fress.l
A grand crash-a shower Of flying
splinters bumpl and the
coaches settled back on the rails, and
the passengers picked themselves up
and cried out to each other that there
had been a collision.
So there had, Freight No. II was
pulling in on the side track, but the
day express Numbered down on her
while the long train was yet third of
its length on the main track.
Some one had blundered. Some ones
watch was off time. Some one must be
held responsible for the accident.
Under the overturned locomotive
was the fireman-dead. Near him was
the engineer, pinned down to the fro
zen earth by one of the drivers, and
when he had been relieved doctor,
who was among the passengers, knelt
beside him and said:
Arm broken-leg broken-foot
crushed to pulp. He cannot live.'
Who had Numbered? Who had dis
obeyed orders? The conductors of tue
two trains were comparing watches and
orders, when the engineer beckoned
them.
Il alone am to blamel" he whispered.
Il wasn't due here until 10 10, and it
was just 10 :05 when struck the freight
I was ahead of time-running on her
time"
so it was-so it was" whispered the
two conductors.
~This morning when | left home,T
continued the engineer, "the doctor was
there. Our little Jennie-our 5-year
old-was sick unto death. In her delir-
ium she kept crying out: Don't go,
papa-don't leave little Jennie to dieP
1t was like knife in my heart to leave
her, but go | must. | was leaving the
house when the doctor put his hand on
my shoulder and said: Tom, my boy,
by o'clock tomorrow morning she'll
either be dead or better"
What long day this was 10 mel"
he went on after bit. when 1 pulled
out of the depot tonight, beaded for
home and Jennie, / wanted to fly. l
kept giving her more stean, and l kept
gaining On my time. We aren't due till
7, you know, out wanted to be in at
-ayel an hour before that. When the
thought came to me that Jennie might
be dead when next entered the door I
should have pulled the throttle wide
open if the fireman hadn't grabbed my
arm"
Poor man. they whispered as he
shuddered with pain and seemed to be
exhausted.
"Yes, blame it all on mel" he whis-
pered. NO. II had five minutes more
to get in, and she'd have made it all
right, but | stole her time. And now
and now
He lay so quiet for a moment that the
doctor felt for his heart to see if it still
beat.
"And now-that's her-that's Jennie.
She's beckoniDg-she's callingl Right
down the track-over the high bridge
through the deep cut-I'm coming,
comingw
And men wiped tears from their eyes
and whispered:
He has found his child in deathl''
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31

trying intentiy to read my scribble by
the light of the lamp, seemingly uncon-
sclous of the stopping of the train. In
an other moment the glass descended,
the knife dropped upon the platform,
and on the handle of the door. The
train nearly stopped as jumped out,
shut the door and held the handle firmly.
Poor Raven was then quite engrossed
with what / had written for him. l
called the guard, and secretly and quietly
the porters were assembled over the
platform at the door of the carriage.
Come, Tom, this is Swindonl Let US
have a cup of coffee" / called him
through the window.
In that moment the spell was broken.
[ saw him look for his knife. then rush
to the window at the opposite side, but
we were too quick and too powerful for
him. The guard, two porters and l
jumped into the carriage, and he was
secured.
My best friend, with brilliant future
before him and in the ripe portion of
his life, was raving maniac, and has
remained so-insane from that time
one of many victims to overwork.
1 need scarcely add the case which
Raven had represented to me as calling
him to Exeter was an entire fabrication,
and was invented by him as part of the
scheme which, in his madness, he had
no doubt seriously imagined would be
for the benefit of us both.
That terrible night can never be eff
faced from my memory. and / can never
sufficiently congratulate myself on hay
ing SO fortunately thought of the e1-
pedient which answered SO admirably
Writing for ife."- Boston Globe.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
Working q Road

The practice of working road once
year, and that, too. at time calculat-
ed to do far more harm than good, is
enough to convince any intelligent man
that the system is wrong and should be
abandoned. Our notion is that pub
lie highway should be kept in repair
precisely as railroad is, by compe
tent man, giving it his entire attention
the year around, with suitable force of
hands necessary, to do the work. Such
system would, perhaps, cost little
more at the start, but in few years the
roads would be so perfect as to require
very little attention. Under the present
system more than half the time and
money expended on public roads is worse
than wasted, for instead of being bettered
they are made infinitely worse. The
only successful way, in our opinion, to
have good roads, is to put poll tax on
every able-bodied man, as well as the
necessary property tax, and have it all
paid in cash. Then elect road super
visors for the district for two years,
place them under bonds, give them
fair salary and let them take cha &c of
the roads and keep them in proper
repair if it takes their entire time to do
it, and we will have good roads. This
idea that anybody can be road overseer
Is all bosh. 1t takes man of consider
able ability and energy. and when such
man hires force of hands by the
month or year and stays with them, he
can accomplish something. In short,
our present road system is failure, and
the sooner it is abolished the better
Linneus Bulletin.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
Feeding Staudards.

There is as much skill necessary in
feeding animals as breeding them. To
realize from stock to the fullest extent
the farmer should educate himself to a
knowledge of the value of all kinds of
food for breeding purposes, not only as
to whether such food is bulky, cheap or
highly relished by stock, but its diges-
tibllity and rapidity of conversion into
flesh and bone should be considered.
The sources of flesh, fat and bone in the
animal are the plants upon which it is
fed, and the elements are supplied to
the animal by the plants according to
the proportion contained of that which
is to supply the bodily wants.
Protein in plants is the source from
which is derived the flesh, or lean meat.
It is similar to the flesh itself in many
respects, and furnishes about 35 per
cent. of the dry matter of the lean of an
animal. The carbohydrates include
the woody fibre, starch, sugar and other
substances. The fats are the oils,
which occur in small quantities in some
plants, while the ash, or mineral matter,
supplies the bones and TISSUES. In
order to obtain the best results at the
cheapest cost, foods should be fed that
contain proportion of the elements
best adapted for the purposes required,
the food for mich COWS being unlike,
in composition, that for the steer, or
working horse, for the reason that the
purposes to which her food is to be
devoted is different from the objects de-
sired when feeding other stock. Each
particular grain or forage plant has a
special value of its own and furnishes
a certain proportion of protein, carbon,
etc, that may be estimated, carefully
conducted experiments having unfolded
the facts for the use of farmers. Flint
corn, for instance, contains 10.7 per
cent. of protein, and of this 70 per cent.
is digested. Consequently, if an OK is
fed 100 pounds of flint corn, it receives
10.7 per cent. of protein, of
which 10 per cent. or S.45 pounds, is
digested. The same rule applies to all
other kinds of food used, and, while it is
an impossibiity to regulate exactly the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
A Good Set of Teeth.


A young country dentist had recon-
mended to him as a patient the bishop
of his diocese. His first commission
was for complete set of teeth and a
day was appointed for the prelate to
call and fit them in. 1t was moment
of anxiety, and, indeed, professional i'm
portance to the dentist, as he watched
his lordship examining himself and his
new teeth in the mirror. Imagine his
horror, therefore, when he distinctly
caught an expression of a condemna
tory character ending in @ation" from
his clients lips. II dare say they are a
little uncomfortable, my lord" he muir
INJURED, conciliatingly, @but just at first,
and until you get used to them"
Without doubt he shall perish ever
lastingly," exclaimed the bishop with
vehemence. But, indeed, my lord, if
you will have PATIENCE pleaded the
dentist, Tin weeks time" what
do you mean?" inquired the prelate,
turning round with an apostolic smile.
why should I not have patience?
The teeth fit me beautifully; it is the
first time l have found myself able to
pronounce the Athanasian creed with
distinctness for twenty years."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31
Women Inventors.

Ladies SO rarely distinguish them
selves in the field of invention that it is
at once an easy and a graceful act to
note instances in which they do. One
lady, an Englishwoman, has invented
an ingenious instrument for dividing
straight line accurately into a definite
number of equal parts. Another lady
Nine. Dnlong Tuyssusian-has,
after course of experiments extended
over eighteen years, constructed a ma
chine which cuts plates of metal of con-
siderable thickness according to any
elaborate design or pattern. Her in
yention is well known to French archi-
tects, but it has only lately been intro
duced into this country. Sceptics who
are fond of repeating that "loveiy
woman" never invents anything not
even sewing machine but to re-
pair to the offices of the Employers
Liability Insurance Corporation, in
King William Street, to meet with their
refutation; the metal-cut window blinds
have been put up there for the iuspec-
ton of the curious who may be disposed
to believe or disbelieve IN the inventive
faculty of women Young Ladies'
Journal
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-01-31

quantity of food necessary for feeding
according to standard, yet if the feeding
is done with a knowledge of the charac-
ter of the food used the result can be
obtained with greater certainty than
when no rule governs the matter. 1t
Is well known that the weight of the
animal, its appetite, health, power of
digestion, age and sex are all to be con-
sidered, yet with the light of intelli-
genee to regulate the management, the
farmer will be enabled to observe for
himself and improve his opportunity
whenever possible.
1t Is important, then, that all who are
Interested in stock raising should &C
quire knowledge of the proportionate
amount of the different elements in all
foods. a single article here will give
but little information; but if farmers
can be induced to study the character
of foods and conduct experiments, the
increase in value of stock would be much
greater, while the cost of production
would be correspondingly lessened, as
we'll as saving large quantity of that
which is annually wasted. As the breeds
have been classified, 80 have the foods,
and he who undertakes Improvement of
stock will find that thorough knowl-
edge of the breeds and their characteris-
tics demands in connection knowledge
OF proper management, which means the
realization of the greatest possible
quantity from the least cost.