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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-06-11
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PRICE 25 cents per box. For sale by DIR. l..
r.. Kirk. june7
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-06-11

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Western and Northwestern States and Can
ado, to persons dissatisfied with the severe
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-06-11

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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
Fifty Years Ago.

A stray copy of the Christian AdoOcate
and Journal and Zion's Herald gives q
strange glimpse of the world in 1882. It
is dated August 10. Cholera ragged in
New York, and carried off one hundred
persons a day. A subscriber in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, complains of the postal
authorities, who so detained his papers
that seven copies came to him at once,
for which he was charged 81 lis. 10d.
postage. A little colony had daringly
departed for ''the remote river of Orc
gon," by way of Vera Cruz and Acapulco.
The report or fight in Texas stands un-
her the hea ding "Forcign Intelligence. "
&c paper has sevcra. illusions to "thc
ente rise of modern timcs;" and con
dcnses a report recently published by
Congress con the use of steam carriages
on common roads," A new vehicle is
described, in the use of which accidents
from explosion are impossible; and the
report closes with the statement that
"railroads, except in very peculiar situa-
tions, are behind the age" and the "dc-
cidcd opinios" that "those who embark
capital in constructing them will be great
losers" But the changes indicated are
not all secular. The contributions re-
ceived by the treasurer of the missionary
society during the preceding week were
$53.27(D, and among other articles r.
pared for the edifcation of the devout is
one entitled "To Pious Dealers in Ardent
Spirits. ~ Christian Aarocute.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
POPULAR SCIENCE.

4 butterfly creature supposed to
live at most only two or three days-was
last year kept alive in glass cage in Eng
land for 12l days, its age at confinement
being unknown.
A well-known writer tells of seeing
thousands of small fish migrating across
land from one lagoon to another, in tropl-
cal America. He says they moved as
deliberately and as unconcerncdly as
though they had been accustomed to the
overland route all their lives.
Experience on French railways has
shown that the double puppy is the best
plant at present known for consolidating,
BY the interlacing of its roots, the loose
, soil of an embankment. The usual
grasses and clovers develop slowly, but
the double poppy grows enough in two
weeks to give some protection to the
|, slope, and within three or four months
it's roots, ten or twelve inches long, retain
the earth far more firmly than those of any
grass or grain.
With lens made of rock salt it may
be possible to photograph in the dark
The Photographic Ne0s states that Abney
has succeeded in preparing plates which
are sensitive to the rays lying beyond the
red end of the spectrum-thc dark heat
rays-and with such plates used with a
rock salt lens there should be possibility
of photographing bodies which possess a
high temperature, although that tempera.
ture may be far below that needed to
render them self-luminous.
There can be little doubt thi t the pike
is decidedly an exception to the rule that
fish have little or no intelligence. Even
the size of his brain is worthy ofrespect.
It's proportionate size, as compared to the
rest of the body, is as to 1900; in the
shark, whose intelligence has so often
been vaunted, it is only as 1 to 1850;
while in the funny it is but as to 3,700.
The only thing that dulls the pixies intel
ligence is his greed; but even this may
perhaps only be caused by an over
weening confidence in his own gastric
juices. Like many other voracious ami
mails, to swallow seems to be his only
joy; palate he has little or none.
A new American process for rapidly
drying timber, hides, wool, grain, and
other substances surcharged with mois-
ture, has been attracting considerable at
tention in England. 1t is called the cool
dry air process, and consists in passing
through the chamber containing the mois-
ture-laden material a continuous current
of furnace-dried air having temperature
between eighty and ninety degrees Fab
renheit. The moisture is absorbed by
the air in 80 remarkable manner that
oak logs arc reported to have been fin
ished in nine days, although natural dry
ing would have required three or four
years. The temperature is so moderate
that delicate tibres, fabrics and chemicals
,re not injured.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
Fathers and Mothers, Take Warning

Fathers and Mothers, Take Warning
A few years ago there lived in an in
land town of this province a wealthy
merchant; o benevolent, Christian man,
deacon of the church, and teacher of the
Bible class in the Sabbath school. He
brought up family of healthy, intelli-
gent children; but, as they came Of age,
all showed a strange liking for alcoholic
drinks. Of his three sons, one is dead;
the Others are confirmed drunkards. The
father, discouraged, neglected his bust
ness and failed. One of his daughters
married we'll, but found it impossible to
let the curse alone. She became so be-
sotted as to be the victim of delirium
tremens. Only about three weeks ago, dis
gusted with herself, and probably feeling
one of the attacks coming on she commit
ted suicide by taking large quantity of
laudanum. She left two boys and a
heart broken husband behind her. And
now, fathers and mothers, what was the
cause of this misery? A lady brought up
in the same family tells me it was the
custom to keep beer in the house at all
times, to which the whole family had ac-
cess. The stronger liquors were also kept
for special occasions. The children
helped themselves to the beer and pill
fered the other liquors. She tells me
that she herself acquired so strong taste
for it that she found great difficulty in
breaking off the habit, but being young
er, and thus forewarned, broke the habit
before it was too late. The story is an
actual fact, and points its own moral
Montreal Witness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
THE MISSISSIPPI.
Great Wanderer! Unknown the past
When with strong hand the rod OF Natures

Great Wanderer! Unknown the past
When with strong hand the rod OF Natura
snote
The rock that gave thee birth. At last
The tiny lakelets Of the North o'erfowed
And pascent streamlets blubbling free,
United in one mighty band and swept
With flow majestic to the sea- <t
In Vain Wyoming's Tetons towerl
Their glacial peaks by Titans high upreared
Dissolve, and thy resistless power
Ger peaceful valleys scatters their remains
Or bears them to the Gulf to aid
The coral rear foundations for new lands, ~
With the magnolia's bloom arrayed.
The Ice King only curbs thy might,
Till blazing suns on wings Of Spring
His reign o'erthrow. Then gorges blight
The mighty forests, and before their walls
The works of man ara crushed like shells.
Tumultuous floods their awful vengeance sats
On the show victims of thy dells.
Thy branches like the elm outspread; M
From out the pinelands of the distant North.
From the far Western watershed,
And from the Alleghenies' wilds remote
Incessant tributes flow to thee; -
Nor pause thy currents in the Gulf, but
warmed.
Sween onward to the Arctic sea- &
William Hosea Ballou, in Graphic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
How to Keep Out the Noise.

There are a multitude ofsufferers from
the noise of their ncighborhood who en-
durc what amounts to agony, exciting
their nerves to abnormal action and their
pulse to fever heat, when it would do no
injury to use simple means of obviating
the whole thing. The clangor of ma
chinery, the ringing of bells, the cries
and laughter, the yells and roars Of one
hundred or less children at recess or at
ball playing, the passing of heavy drays
all or any of these, and other things,
are sometimes fatal to the health of the
invalid and to the work of the thinker.
Often it is utterly impossible to move
into region where no heavy drays
pass, no bell ringing is
allowed: and then there
is hardly region to be found not in
vaded by the whistle of the steam en-
ginc, or where boys do not shout at their
games; and even where there are no
cocks to crow, or dogs to bark, or birds
to sing at unseemly hours before
dawn, there is always some other sound
to torture the sensitive ear.
If, now, the sufferer will take bit OF
spermaceti ointment of about the size Of
q pea, tic itup in small square of fine
linen and place it deep in the car, work
inc it round till it takes the shape of the
oritice, leaving the end to hang out, not
murmur pf sound can be heard; the at
mosphere is sweet and serene, the nerves
are quitca rest, all exasperation is sub
dued, and when the noise is over, or the
necessary season of quiet has been had,
the little plug can be removed, the muir
mur of the world allowed to return, and
no harm is done.-Arqonaut.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
.Temncrancc Notes.

Treating upholds the whole liquor ous'
mess robs the children, ruins the man.
DESTROYS his friends, and breaks de-
rotc,] w,fc's heart. Be kind and friendly,
but never treat. Break this cursed GUS
tom.
An international conference has Deen
]ald at Antwerp against the abuse OF
alcoholic drink. Important statements
were made by French, English, and GER
man doctors, who proved that alcohol L
more destructive than cholera or war; Il
federation is to be formed 10 dlIluSc LII
formation on the subject.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
M0XimuS.

I hold tim great who, for loves sake,
Can give with generous, earnest will;
Yet he who takes for loves sweet sake
l think hold more generous still
7 bow before the noble mind
That freely some great wrong forgl7eS;
Yet nobler is tho one forgiven
Who bears that burden well and lives.
It may be hard to gain, and still
To keep lowly, steadfast heart;
Yet he who loses has to fill
A harder and truer part.
Glorious it is to wear the crown
Of deserved and pure success:
He who knows how to fail has won
A crown whose luStre is not less.
Great may be he who can command
And rule with just and tender sway;
Yet is diviner wisdom taught
Better by him who can obey.
Blessed are they who die for God
And earn the martyrs crown OF Light;
Yet he who lives for God may be
A greater conqueror in his sight.
adelaide Proctor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.

Touch 1t Never.
Children, do you see the wine
In the crystal goblet shine2
Be not tempted by its charm.
Children, hate it!
Touch it never,
Fight it ever.
Do you know what causeth woe
Bitter as the heart can know?
IT'S that self-same ruby wine
Which would tempt that soul Of thine.
Children, hate it!
Touch it never,
Fight it ever
Never let it pass your lips,
Never even let the tips
Of your fingers touch the bowl,
Hate it from your inmcst soul
Truly hate it!
.,.. Touch it never,
4 Eight it ever.
Fight it! With Gods help stand fast
Long as life or breath shall last
Heart meet heart, and hand join hand,
Hurl the demon from our land.
Oh, then hate it!
Touch it never,
Fight it ever.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
Rurnine and Cumming,

IL Is Sdlu Qrunhtu WTeLCu, LOItuIeu
by fear that relatives would get his
money, in drunken craze cast $40, 900
of United States bonds into the fire, and
exulted in the non-explosive, but expen-
sive blaze. Too bad too bad! And yet
his burning it was not so bada bumming
it, either to himself or the world. Oh, the
tragedies of drink! What ties of affec-
tion, obligations of duty, pledges, prom
ises, hopes, expectations, are being con-
stantly consumed in the fires of drunken
debauch. What a sad and significant
commentary on poor human nature that
we read with shudder the loss of a
paltry sum of money, and contemplate
with practical Indifference tie ruin for
time and eternity wrought in countless
homes.-Beac0n.
Extent Of the Liquor Traffic in
Europe.
It is not the highest compliment to the
boasted enlightenment of our age that its
ruling and controlling spirit is what the
! Christian World fifty styles ''the Demon
; Drink" We we'll know the inso lent and
arbitrary domination it exer cises over
parties and politics and municipalities In
our own country. In England it mercl-
lcssly overthrew the best administration
Great Britain has had for its presumption
in proposing to help out its treasury by
taxing the drink. And on the Continent
it is spreading its power and strengthen
ing its hold upon the people, whom it
rules with rod of iron. Lord
Granville recently secured from tn e
British consols over the Continent
series of reports in regard to the
extent of the liquor traffic that attracts
the attention of sober and humane peo-
pie. They show that Englishmen arc
the beer drinkers, Frenchmen the wine
bibbers, and Germans the spirit drinkers
of Europe. In Norway and Sweden the
consumption of spirits is growing less.
In Holland Legislation has reduced some
what the number of dram shops, which
in 1878 was one for every ninety inhab-
itants. In Switzerland, however, they
are increasing three times as fast as the
population, and in Austria in q large de-
gree. In Denmark drink is largely in
creasing the number of criminals and
suicides. Belgium, which has not nearly
doubled its population in fifty years, con-
sumes threefold the quantity of spirits,
and has a drink-shop for every dozen
men. North Germany drinks five times
as much spirits as England. What a
fearful exhibit do the civilized nations
show of the deplorable increase of the use
of the greatest foe to their social and ma
terial prosperity y!-lUa1smata Christian
Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10

The Chicago Inter- Ocean says: "The
present Congress will be called upon to
regulate the liquor traffic at the national
capital. There are thirteen hundred sa-
looms in Washington, and they entail a
heavy tax upon the people, while the sa-
looms escape paying any just portion of
it. The liccnse-ra:e should be quadrupled
and onc-half the saloons closed" It
should be the business of Congress not to
'sregulate'' on the "high-license" or any
other plan of liquor-tEaffic in the national
capital, but to ab~lish It.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10

If thou hast not mercy for others, yet
be not cruel unto thySclf. To ruminate
upon evils, to make critical notes upon
injuries, and to be acute in their appre-
tensions, is to add unto our own tor
lures, to feather the arrows of our enc
mics, to lash ourselves with the scorpions
of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no
more; for in jurics long drcamt on take
away all rest; and he sleeps but like
Regulus, who busieth his head about
them.-Sir Thomas Bro,cne.
A lesson comes home to every preacher
and every teacher, in fact recorded by
DR.. Vincent in his "Personal Memories
of General Grant" The first knowledge
the Galena preacher had of his hero
hearer, was when strange face, away
from his home, looked up to him, with
the words: II hear you preach, Mr. Vim
cent, every Sunday. l live in Galcna,
and my name is Grant" Even then the
full import of these words did not enter
the preachers mind. He may have felt
that his field was small one; that his
congregation was not one of command
ing influence. And had he been asked
to pick out the most important member
of his charge, he would not have thought
to name the unprctcnding parishioner,
who greeted him in the hotel office at
Dubuque that Sunday morning. Yet
that was in the winter of 1S59-60, on the
very verge Of those events which lifted
that quiet church goer into a sphere of
worldwide cmincncc. How easy it is
to undervalue our privileges Of influence !
How easy to fail of apprehending the
possibilities of those who are committed
to our charge!.Sunday-Schoo Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10

In New York it is becoming customary
to use umbrellas as shield against the
glare of the electric lights on clcal
nights.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-15
Curbing for Sidewalks.

The ordinance providing for the paving
of sidewalks throughout the city, which
was passed by the Council at its last
proved. Property owners understand that
good sidewalks will add materially to the
value of their property, and, hence, they
will bear the cost of them rather cheer
fully. OF course the ordinance is a popu-
lar one with the people generally. They
are thoroughly tired OF wading through
the sand in the unpaved sections.
A few of those who are affected by the
ordinance think that the city should keep
the sidewalks in repair after they are
laid. 1t is doubtful, however, if the Coun-
Gil will agree to do that. There is one
thing, however, which the Council might
do, and it is no more than it ought to do.
1t should put In curblng wherever new
sidewalks are laid. 1t should do this for
several reasons. 1t is the city's business
to do the curbing. Good curbing would
render more substantial and at the same
time would preserve the pavements. Ii
put down by the city it would be uni.
form. The city will be required
to put in the curbing as soon
as the work of grading and paving
the streets is begun. The curbing that
may be put IN now will answer every pur.
pose that may be required of it when the
streets come to be graded. II the present
temper of the people with respect TO street
paving continues 1t will not be long be
fore great many Of the streets will bt
paved throughout their entire extent. Lei
the Council consider this matter OF the
curling, and it may see its way to adopt
The above suggestion with regard to it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-15
The Police Investigation,

The charges against the police In con-
nection with the murder of Oct. l were
sustained by the investigation. The po-
licemen who had knowledge of the crime
on the night that it was committed ap-
peared to have known what their duty
was, but they certainly were very neglect
full OF it. The tragedy was enacted at
no very great distance from the police bar
racks, but trouble was not taken to CON-
vey information of it there until it was
too late to pursue the murderer with any
hope of success. The policemen who
were informed of the crime do not seem
to have considered that it was a matter
about which it was necessary for them
to concern themselves much.
The Police Committee has all the facts
and the public waits with some interest
to see what it will recommend. If there
are weak spots in the police anywhere it
would be well to take the right steps to
strengthen them. What the people want
is good force, that is as effective in an
emergency and in the line of duty as it is
excellent in appearance when on parade.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-15
PERSONAL.

PROF. e. L. YoUMANs, so long i'll, is gaining
strength and will pass the winter In Florida
THE VETERAN Admiral Luce will COM
mand the naval division in the parade at
the unwilling OF the Bartholdi statue in New
York.
MISS FoRTEsCUE, the English actress, who
has just come across, naively remarks: ~
haven't brought even apug dog with me TO be
talked abont"
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR WRITER'S.
who succeeded Col. MOsby at Hong Kong, ia
seriously III. Mr.. Wlthers returned TO Vir-
ginia some months ago.
SENATOR SAwYER's gift of 100000 to the
town OF Oshkosh, Wis, for the founding OF
free library there has been accepted with
sue h alacrity as to cheer even desponding
hearts.
WALTER HALL, of Boston, now owns Daniel
Webster's Marshtield estate. 1t contains now
some $50 acres and supports fifty cows, five
horses, two yoke of oxen ana several head of
young stock.
j. MCNEIL WHISTLER says that he is COM
ing over to this side Of the world in order to
favor us with his 'Ten O'Clock" talks. lone
cannot continually disappoint continent"
writes this eccentric man OF art.
WALKER BLAINE. according to the Wash
ington papers, will not go TO Chicago to live.
but will take mp permanent residence at
the Capital City before very long. All will be
forgiven Walker If lie will only end this sus-
pense.
DIR. EDWARD EGGLEsToN. who recently re-
turned from London, where he had been hard
at work in the British Museum. prosecuting
his researches in the colonial history OF the
United States, has gone West in the hope OF
benohting his health.
A PROMINENT business man OF Boston saws
that the Beeehers, Henry Ward and Charles,
were schoolm ates of his when they resided in
sheafe street. They were called the best
swimmers at the North End. Henry espo-
cially was almost amphibious. lie used to de-
light in taking "headers" from the iibboom OF
ships. jump OF 80 or 40 feet to the water. He
repeatedly swan TO Charestown and re.
turned, where the tide ran very strong. He
was an athletic, wide-awake young fellow.
REV. w. IL. II. ADIRONDACK MURRAY was
married last Monday evening ana the bride
was a Miss Frances NJ. Rivers, Of Montreal
She is a COMMUNICATE of the Catholic church
and IL was by compromise that the ceremony
was performed by a civil officer The reason
given for having the wedding kept quiet is
that Murray was to lecture at Boston three
evenings last week and be did not desire to
create "A sensation. His divorced wife liz said
TO be practising medicine in New Haven,
| Conn.