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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-27
An Entertaining Mock Auction.

BY introducing mock auction, a
hostess can provide an evenings pleas
ant entertainment for her guests. 1t
must be understood that no money is
called for, the hostess providing each
guest from fifty to one hundred white
beans. which are supposed to represent
a dollar, and all the bidding is done
with them. twill be necessary to pro-
vide beforehand the articles to be sold,
which should each heWrapped in paper,
or so disguised that no one may know
what els bidding for. The auction is
much more interesting and the bidding
more spirited if each package is found
to contain some little thing of tritling
value, although some should be of an
amusing character. | attended one, a
short time ago, where the daughter of
our hostess was quite an artist; Il num-
Der OF the parcels were found to con-
tain tritling sketches made by her. So
the bidding became quite exciting, each
one hoping to get some specimens of
her handiWork. A sign might be dis
played in some prominent place say
ing: "No mutilated beans received"
AS everybody generally gets some little
souvenir, all are satisfied and usual
ly we'll pleased with their evenings
amusement
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-27
He Was Looking for Promotion.

81 was in the Washington oil field a
few days ago." said a gentleman to-day,
and on my return had to wait nearly
a half hour for train and l amused
myself by taking in the sights around
the station. A lady evangelist was
there getting in her work in first-class
order until she came up to a neatly
dressed young man, who. noticed, had
been very intently perusing the col
umns of lions Watch Tower. "My
young friend, are you Waterman on
lions walls?" asked the lady. The
young man blushed to the roots of his
hair and said: "No. am, | am only
night Waterman in Cannonsburg, but
| am locking for promotion SOON"
The crowd fairly shouted with laughter
and the lady joined in.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-27

Do you hesitate on which side you wish
to be enrolled? l was met to-day with
the threat that such sentiments as are
expressed in that resolution would de-
feat me as dele gate to the State Cen
venticn and "pin me to the WALL" Let
me assure you | have no desire to go
to the Convention IS delegate, and |
would rather be deieatt d and 90 down
with the principle embodied in that
resolution, than to be elected, if to he
elected [ must derend on the support
of the worst elements of society. |
appeal to your sense of honor; to your
pride as honest Democrats; to your
manhood to turn out from the old po.
litical ruts; be found no longer bring
ing up the rear and carrying the trail
of the banner after the battle has been
won by others but gra p the standard
AMI show yourself in the front ranks Of
great and growing public sentiment"
Tile Voice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-27

The Kenneth Adrance tells an
amusing story about pugnacions
turkey cock which got into the barn
where a new carriage was standing.
and saw himself reflected in t! e
bright panel of the vehicle. This he
regarded as challenge which he lost
no time in accepting. He spread him.
self out and SO did the other cock.
He luff1ed up his neck and the enemy
did the same. Then a charge was
m ade and big strip of varnish was
peeled from the back of the carriage.
But the strange turkey was still there
as defiant as ever, and his opponent
made new dash at him. This com
bat was kept up TIL the noise OF the
combatant was he trd when the goo
bier and his photograph were separat
ed, but not till the varnsh was pretty
we'll battered and disfgured on the
back of the carriage
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-27

The polite child is the latest thing in
the juvenile world. She was strolling
around the neighbOrhood on tour of
observation. when she came across a col
ored man sitting on doorstep. She
stood with her finger in her mouth
watching him. Finally she said:
"You're a colored man. amt you?"
"You're very polite, little girl" he
said. Yes. am colored man."
40, yes, I'm very polite. call every
niger l see a colored 80"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-27
Away With Unwholesome Fiction.

There never was more unwholeSomc
idea than that every human passion is
to be written about. There are many
things which cannot be written about
without doing almost unmitigated mis-
chief. 1t is not the moral put in at
the tag-end of the BOOK, and which no.
body reads, which shows it's moral ten
dency. 1t is not only the way in which
subject is handled which does harm
or good. 1t is the subjects that are
handled. The fact that nation pro-
duceS and reads novels written on foul
subjects is fearful test of it's state of
mind, and no amount of moral writing
on foul subjects will cure it. The only
possible salvation for it is to draw its
attention elsewhere. 1t must be edu-
Gated to something better. When the
circulating libraries of England made
their protest last year against the So
called realistic school novel they were
not only acting in perfect accord with
the vast majority of their subscribers,
but were preserving that tradition of
the English novel which was started by
Richardson and Sir Walter Scott, and
has made the novel what it is, both in
England and America. If any one were
to tell us that he thinks the realistic
school more manly than that of Sir
Walter we should rate his unconscious
criticism of himself as of considerably
higher value than his criticism of lit
erature.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-27

Learning, like money, may be of so
base coin as to be utterly void of use;
or, if sterling, may require good manage
ment to make it serve the purpose of
sense of happiness.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
A Historic Fiddle.

From the Lewiston JOurnal
 ''Here's a fddle," said an Auburn man Saturday, "that reckon has about as sin gular history as most of the traditional vii olins nowadays. The violin referred to was an old settler, all marked up with deep scratches, and looked as if it had seen pret ty hard service in it's day. s'This violin, " said the fiddle man, Sis the property of an old army man, who fought on the Union side i'd the late war of the rebellion. The man lives way down in eastern Maine. He has sent the fiddle to his brother in Auburn to have some repairs made on it. The story of how he came into possession of this vio- lin is romantic. One day during little skirmish with few rebel cavalry, in which fight he was engaged, his party was driven by the Johnnys into deserted planter s house for refuge. in rummaging about the house our Maine soldier ran across this fd- dle. He said not a word to anybody. but put the instrument into tight box and hid it in a thick growth of bushes near the reb- el house. That very night he was captured and held for long time as a prisoner by the rebels. Five years later this gentleman was travelling in the South, and purely out of cu- riosity he went to the same spot where he had been besieged by the rebels, and there found the fiddle hid away in the bushes in the exact spot where he had placed it five years previous" The instl ument is appa- rently over hundred years old and is valu- able
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
TURKISH PoLYGAFIY.
How Plurality of Wives Affects HSe
 EnFn

How a Plurality of Wives Affects FSe-
 lIgiOus Devotion.
 Teufc Pasha, the Turkish minister, in 8 conversation about harems with 8 reporter of the New York Mail and Express said: "A husband keeps his wife or wives in his house rule, or in separate establishments. The Mohammedan religion permits only four wives, and those under certain conditions regulated by the Khoranic laws. If the first wife objects the husband cannot bring a second wife under the same roof; indeed, he cannot marry another at all unless he is am ply able to keep separate establishment. The law gives the wife the right to have her husband dragged before the courts if he vio lates that rule, and he is dealt with accord ingly. Plural wives not universal among the Turks. I haven't a single friend in Constantinople, and have good many, who has more than one wife. am told that in Asiatic Turkey the custom of plural wives among the peasantry is very common. The first wife, who works in the field with her husband, urges him to marry a second, a third, and frequently fourth wife, in order to have more assistance in tilling the farm These women too are great company to each other and help to tighten the common daily burdens.
 'sIt is the belief among the Mohammedans that if early prayers said forty mornings in succession at the mosque, before anyone else arrives, the person so doing shall have good luck and prosperity. There was poor man in Constantiuople who was the picture of bad luck and improvidence. He conclu- ded to attempt the mascot feat. Every morning early he repaired to the great mosque of St. Sophia and invariably found some one ahead of him, thus breaking the charm. One morning, as usual, he discov- cred the earlier devotee, and as he proved to be the same one all the time he thus spoke: My friend, I am poor and need good luck. For many mornings 1 have come hither to pray each time earlier than before. Give me chance, tell me how you get here earlier than I every day To which the early devo tee replied:s I have two wives. When l awake in the morning one brings me my slippers, the other my ahlution bowl, and by these wives attending to my wants together am enabled to be off earlier for prayers than if had only one wife The poor man re- solved to profit by the advice. He got him another wife and in a few days discovered the real secret of the early devotee, viz: the war between the two women made very ear ly morning prayers at the mosque bless ing"
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
POINTS.

An intelligent bull always charges a a red flag. There are some really good points in a bull.-Buffalo Commercial. My question puzzles you," said pro lessor to pupil. ''Not at all," was the bright reply, ''it is the answer that is the sticl1er."
 ''The doctor said he'd put me on my feet it?" ''He did, indeed. I had to sell my horse and buggy to foot his bill."-Tsxas Siftings
 Just because the commander of the Eng fish Galatea is one Lieutenant Henn, our yachtsmen must not imagine that they are ing to have any scratch races with her. Boston Post.
 Six hundred American girls are studying music in Milan American girls are always considerate. It isn't every girl who would 1 go so far from home to bang piano.-Yon- l kers Statesman.
 What restful time it will be when the Knights of Labor," the ''salesladies," and the fellows that 'tsever their connections | fade out of the newspapers.-Boston Com
 mercial Bulletin.
 Mamma-s'Why, Nellie, how pale you 1 looki Have you been sickl'' Nellie Gust re- turned from an unusually complicated sup
 per)-"Yes; but I unswaliowed myself, and l Pm better. Life.
 1 :'Did you mail that letter gave you thif
 morning, dears" tYes, no; what if I did
 I shouldn't wonder, come to think, why, te 1 be sure, certainly, of course. What have you got for dinner?"-New York Journal. ''I understand your engagement with Miss 1 Fauntleroy is broken off," ''Yes, we had a l spat the other evening at the garden gate l and parted for good :'E'' Too bad, but did you
 not throw her parting kissa" 70, yes; but | she muffed it.'-Merchant Traveller. A young lady attending one of the subur-
 ban high schools recently handed in com l position on IA Winter Day" She had reached that age when the large words had a l special fascination, as the teacher thought l when she read the following sentence in the young lady's composition: ''On account ot the intense cold we wrapped our phisiogno l mius in large mantles and were comfortable. J Boston Traveller.
 1 The rights of women have their limita l tions, and man has right to demand room l in his own home where he can step in and
 sit down without knocking down fourteen | dozen tidies and eleventeen different kinds of fancy chairs, good for everything but to l sit on, and pumping his brains out against | 8 solid wall frontage of crockery and brass ware which is pretty in it's place but ridic | ulous when out of place. 'fSimplihcation 1 clubs" are talked of whose object shall be
 the Simplifying of house furnishing and | home decorations. s."-Danieisonvills Conn. | Transcrip pt.
 | He lectured on unions and labor, And wildly he brandished his fist; He told them to take gun ard sabre And go for the capitalist. 1 He told them they never need eumber | Their thoughts with respect for the law; | He said he was one of their number | But all that he worked was his jaw
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24

the chief officers and executive committee of the Knights of Labor With him it was rule or ruin. Many believe Martin Irons has been the secret paid emissary of Jay Gould to wreck the Knights of Labor and that he is still in Gould's employ" This is ridicu- lous charge. but Martin has laid himself open to almost any attack.
 Women will probably in time be permitted to practice law in every State in the Union, but the bars tho pun intended) are not to be let down all at once. The recent decision against Miss Stoneman, of Albany, was based on the ground that there not law enough to allow her to practice in the courts of New York. Said the judge: It would be possible, starting with the postu- lstes that citizenship implies eligibility to office, and that the extension of eligibility to males is not the denial of it to females, to reach the conclusion that, since females are Such reasoning is spacious, but unsound, and fails to take notice of the fact that in this respect change in our laws does not, without special legislative actiens follow 6 change in public opinion, if, indeed, as we are quite willing to be convinced, public opinion has changed. Our conclusion is that under the existing law in this State the ap- plication must be denied.
 It now looks as if the willy and hitherto invincible De Lesseps had met his Waterloo. On May 1, 1885, the obligations of the Pana- ma Canal company were $153, ,e3s, 900, in c1uding bonded debt of $123, 73s, TOO. These obligations had yielded s111, ,375, ,0O0 and the annual interest charge had. already be- come SC, ,000, ,000. Nearly all of this money had been spent. Not long afterward the failure to get permission to issue lottery loan caused the company to call upon share holders for S14, 750 900 more, raising the amount of obligations to $167, ,988, coo. It is difficult to how the proposed lottery scheme can be carried out in the face of M. Rousseau's report. The negotiation of lot tery loan of s1eO, ,OOO, 900 would raise existing obligations to $as7, ,oSS, ,OO0 and the annual interest charge to s1O,OOO,OOO. And it seems to be fact that there is little to show for the vast amount of money that has already been spent. It looks if there would be an unfinished canal for sale cheap before many years.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
Monday, May .24. 1886.
THE MALARIA OF BUSINESS

NA A AA AHAA Or nO@1NE ESDs
 It is not possible that the work of the na- tional labor bureau, however intelligently and carefully it may be done, will do much towards preventing industrial depressions and their unpleasant results Still, it is in : teresting to study the facts connected with them.
 In the first annual report of the bureau, which has just been issued, there is much that is we'll worth attention There is an elaborate classification of the commercial crises and depressions from 1887 to 1886 in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and the United States. The general con- clusion reached is that the depressions of the past in the manufacturing group of nations have been nearly or quite contemperaneous in their occurrence. These Impressions have been most severe in Great Britain, and then follow the United States, Germany, France and Belgium in the order named. The great severity experienced by Great Britain, so far as the obtained facts justify any assertion as to causes, is owing to the unusual liability of that country to a succession of bad agricul- tural seasons, to it's vicious land system which concentrates ownership in a few hands, to large over-production in ths lead ing manufactures. and to the practical insol- venoy of the minor money-borrowing states of Europe and America, which, having ob- tained large loans from England, have de- faulted in the payment of interest and prin- cipaI alike.
 The present depression, which has con- Mnued since 1882 in all countries but Great Britain, and in that country since 1883, the bureau finds hard to explain. In the United States it's agents, in searching for informa- tion as to the origin of the prolonged stagna- tion, have discovered not less than 179 al- legged causes, and men most experienced in the chief lines of business suggest 137 req sons why depressions have occurred in the various countries involved. In all the coun. tries lover production seems to prevail with out regard to the system of commerce that exists in either"
 Having done it's best to tell us what the trouble is the bureau turns it's attention to remedies for application in this country. Among the remedies proposed are the re- striction of land grants to corporations, the restriction, under wise discrimination, of i'm migration, the enactment of laws to stoI speculation, tho maintenance of a sound cur rency, the contraction of the credit system, the readjustment of the tariff on 8 basis of the cost of production, and more complete organization of capitalists and laborers, re- spectively.
 On the whole, industrial depression seems to be about as obscure matter as "ma- laria." There is a great opportunity for somebody to present satisfactory explana- ton of either.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
EHirslxaaL NDrES.

'Liberty is the right to do what the laws allow,'' says Montesquieu. The anarchists think it is the right to abolish all laws.
 The Springfield Union pointedly remarks that boycotting has now been condemned by the courts of three States and by the fair minded people of thirty eight.
 The State census of Massachusetts, recent ly taken, reveals some interesting facts. For instance, it is observable from an examina- tion of the tables relating to sex that when there has been decrease in total population it is the males that seem to have suffered; when there is an increase the females must be credited with the major part of the gain; so that in the State 139, ,501 males and 151,- FPS females have been added to the popula- tion in ten years.
 A Bordeaux journal thus describes the din her usually provided for workmen in that city: A large plate of vegetable soup, cost cents; large piece of bread, 2 cents; large plate of red haricot beans, cost 3 cents; half plate of roast veal (the quantity being am- pie for an ordinary man), cost cents; 8 plate of rice. one cent, and half bottle of win ordinaire, cost cents; so it will be seen fair dinner is provided, with half bottle of wine included, for 15 cents.
 Some people in England are interested in
 the work of the Audubon society. A woman correspondent of Truth writes: Are you not
 glad to see that some of the daily papers are again pleading the cause of the poor little birds that are killed to be worn in bonnets and hatsa I am delighted; or, rather, l should be so if I thought it would have
 much effect. Has it ever occurred to you
 that in buying bonnet woman may reveal much of the bent of her thoughtsa For in- stance, in the matter of small dead birds. | Tie soarser-6bred deck themselves with the little feathered corpses as joyously as North American brave hangs scalps on his girdle. Martin Irons has met the usual fate or
 those who attempt to deal with matters
 which are too great for them. He has failed
 and is now cursed by those when he has
 misled The editor of labor paper Is re- ported as giving him the following setting
 out: "From the very first Martin Irons stood in rebellious attitude to MT. Powderly; his
 official life was menace to the authority, the collective wisdom and the discreet counsel of
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
IN A DENTISTS CHAIR.
Visions Which Appeared to a Ms
 Filled With Laushfng Gas.

Visions Which Appeared to a Man
 Filled With Laughing Gas.
 GRev. J. Hyatt Smith in Brooklyn Magazine1
 took my seat in the chair. I have seen the guillotine once used in France in the revolution have looked upon the :'block" in London Tower. But that chair, with the long row of bright steel knives and forceps in every conceivable shape lying the table in ready reach, had about it more distinct and terrible declaration of suffering; for with the guillotine and block there was the thought of a minutes pain and all was over But here was array of all the ingenious devices for protracted agony-large pin cers, mediums sized pincers, little pincers; and then multitude of sharp pointed in struments for all the refinement of pain. was in the chair, helpless, speeches. vic- tim, for the doctor, with an assistant, brought huge black bag and instantly pushed into my mouth large tube terribly suggestive of gag. "Hold his nosei" ex- claimed the doctor, and the assistant held tight the victims nose. 'Now," said the doctor, ''draw in as long breath as you can and breath out as little as possible
 With all my breathing world pent up in that black bag, no nose for any practical l purpose, two strong men over me with the
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
CASES TREATED BY DIR. Fl. N. BROWN.

DIG. IL. IN. oICo '" IN. : Case No. 1-DRoPsY, with kidney and
 uterine diseases of several years standing,
 CURED in three months.
 Case No. 2.-Blindness, treated five months
 by physicians and oeulists with relief,
 CURED in one month. Case No. 3.-Headache, constantly for
 over year-many trials with no relief
 CURED in one month. Case No. 4-Catarrh, long standing, CURED in three months. Case No. 5.-Prostration of the Nervous Forces CURED in two months. A large number of cases of long standing
 diseases peculiar to women cured in few weeks or months without the barbaric use of | the speculum and caustics. ''Pessaries' and
 ''rings" removed and patients cured. All forms of chronic diseases with the
 same results by the new system. | 98 Olive Street. CONSULTATION FREE. | HOURS, 10 2. m. to 12 m., to and to p.m
Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
RATCHELORS CELEsRATEp HAIR DYE
RAW HANDS,
Fostering, Watcry and Raw from fhe Finger Tips tO Wrist
 Cured by Caticura.

TN the spring of 1884 eruption appeared on the | backs of my hands I supposed was poisoned by ivy. My hands continued to grow worse until the fall when consulted medical advice and used many remedies to no purpose. Instead of getting better they rapidly grew worse, being mass of watery, fostering, flesh, very offensive and noying. Whenever part would heal up it would be subject to the most violent itching and immedi- ately break out worse than before. Little watery spots then appeared on my finger joints, and fes- tering would spread over large surface. IH this condition began the of the Cuticura Reme- dies In one weeks time my hands almost well and in a short time entirely cured
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