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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
$ll, 1885 PAID OVER TWO
BARS IN ONE DAY.
The Enormous Receipts of Theo-
dore Stewards Magnificent
Gin Palaces.

The late Theodore Stewart, pro.
prietor of two of the richest and
mist attractive gin palaces of New
York, made it rule during his life
time to give to his employees, as o
Christmas present, the entire receipts
of his saloons on the day before
Christmas. At his death he left the
saloons to three clerks, on the sole
condition that they would continue
this rule. The employees Day" re.
ceipts have always been enormous
and are constantly on the increase.
In 1887 they amounted to Si1 ,0Ss,05,
and in 1883 to $11 1873 65, to be di-
vided among So employees.
The Stewart saloons are at 8 War.
rem street and 4 and 6 John street.
They ore most elegantly and elab-
orately furnished and decorated.
Paintings worth many thousands OF
dollars adorn the walls. At the War
rem street place there is one painting,
after the Hunt" which cost SIS, 1000.
This saloon is visited daily before
ii a. m. by scores of fashionable
ladies, with their children. The
wants of these gentle customers in
the liquor line are then attended to.
At the John street place is exhib.
tied nugget of pure silver, said to
be the largest ever taken from the
earth. Ir is foot long and half a
foot wide and thick, and the owners
bought it for exhibition purposes
strictly, paying $4,000 for it
Voice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
Hamburg Figs.

Are the sovereign remedy in all
cases where excessive or insufficient
nourishment, sedentary habits, sleep
lessness, travelling or pregnancy pro.
duce tendency to
CONSTIPATION,
That bane of the American people.
A neglect to remedy this condition
may result seriously.
Hamburg figs arc fruit laxative
lozenge, composed of fruits and vege-
tables. Although mild, they are very
effective, and their continued use keeps
the bowels in healthy and natural
condition.
BILIOUSNEsS
Is the result of an inactive Liver, and
its symptoms are manifested by head
ache, furred tongue, loss of appetite
and yellow skin. Hamburg figs are
the only purgative that will effectually
relieve this condition and remove the
impurities that clog the system.
Hamburg figs are harmless if their
use is continued indefinitely, and box
should always be kept in the house.
They are delightful to the taste. Dose,
one fig. Price 25c. box at L. r.
Kinks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
Every Home Should Have It

1t is not always convenient to call
physician for every little ailment.
Having Red Flag on in the house
you have physician always at hand,
it kills Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Burns, Bruises and all Aches and
Pains. Price 25 Cents.
There are few things iI this life o.
which we may be certain, but this ID
one of them, Puritan Cough and Con.
sumption Cure has no equal for
Coughs. Colds and Consumption
Price 25 Cents.
At Gurdon G.. SilPs Drug Store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
Consumption Surely Cured.

10 The EDIToR-Please inform your
readers that have positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of
your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and post Office
address. Respectfully,
7. A. SLOCUM, NJ. O., 18l Pearlst., N. X.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
ew Hampshire Constitutions

New Hampshire Constitutional
convention adjourned on the 18th
after voting to submit to the people,
on the coming second Tuesday in
March, an amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale Of liquor.
The legislature of Pennsylvania
will submit similar amendment In
that state.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
srRAwBerpeE & CLoru1rR's Mo

STRAwBRIDGE & CLoTHIER' Mon
THLY, for January, 1889, is at hand
from the publishers. This periodical
takes the pace of the Quarterly issu.
ed by this firm during the past seven
years. The new publication differs
from the old chiefly in its title; both
being maya zines OF fashion and lite.
nature of interest to women. The
first number contains illustrated cur
rent; fashions for ladies, misses aud
children; short stories; Kitchen news;
home art matters; poems; and a
piece of music. The dry goods price
current for the month of January,
that supplements the magazine, will
be a useful directory for subscribers
who wish to order by mail. The
subscription price of this fashion
monthly is one dollar year; single
specimen is sent for ten cents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
The Whiskey Question in Pennsyl-
vania.

The politicians are everywhere
loath to give up whiskey. 1t is their
right bower and ace in their shuttle
and cut game of politics. Just now
they are worked up" in Pennsyl> a.
MIA in face of the impending crisis
of Prohibition and whiskey. High
license appears to be their sovereign
remedy for continuing the saloon,
and movement is on foot to amend
what is called the present High
License Law of that State, "with the
hope,' as the Oxford Press very
properly says, "that if made more
stringent in its provisions it will
suit the views of many half way tenn
perance people" On Monday Sen.
ator Cooper disclosed to members of
of the House at Harrisburg some
proposed amendments of this law
which include the following PROPOSE
lions: To limit the number of sa-
looms to one for every 500 persons
in any city or county; to charge
license fee of $500 in all cities, four
fifth of the money to go into the
City Treasury, and the remainder to
the State; and to charge $500 in all
ooroughs and $3.50 in all townships,
the division of the money between
the localities and the State to be the
same as in the cities 1t is also pro
vided that oil licenses shall be
granted uniformly, dating from May,
and also that all minors are to be
prohibited from participating in the
sale or delivery of liquor.
When it is feared by the polite
ians that the High License deception
is becoming too transparent to the
public, the saloon party offer to com
promise on the restriction plan of
one saloon to 500 persons-that is,
one saloon to be supported by every
100 families. What would be
thought of a proposition to distribute
grocery stores in this way? And the
further temptation is held out to the
cupidity of old "skinfint' in the
distribution of the license fund, and
to the scary mothers the old promise
that minors" shall not be allowed
to participate in tae sale or delivery
of the stuff. In place of these make.
shifts, why not point out one. at
least. benefit this trade is to the pub
lie? Can't do it Not a single ben
eft to the public in the whole trade
amounting to nearly a thousand
millions annually, can be found if
searched from top to bottom. The
prohibatory amendment question
will come up in the Maryland legis-
lature next winter. Let the people
of this State make ready for the
question BY selecting candidates for
the legislature with this in view
More than half the counties have
prohibition laws, and the State
ought to have a prohibatOry consti,
tuition.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
The Liquor Tax.

The following date is taken from the
books of the Internal Revenue collec-
tors. Amount collected ON distilled
liquors in 1887 was. =. .$65, 1929 1921 II.
On fermented liquors. :. .$2l ,922, 1S7 40
$S7, ISL sos, 20.
In 1883 the amount collected on dis
titled liquors was. ...... 500 800, 166, Al .
On fermented do. ...... .$23, 1924, 2lS, 48.
$92, $50, 1884. SO
An increase in one year of$4 1913 $751;
60
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-01-25
MIDLAND
$500 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
NOTICE TO suBscRIBERsl

By examln1ng the Date on the paper in
connection with their name, subscribers
will always readily ascertain to what time
their subscription is paid. All subscripo
s st qSe d end Of JAN. $50 the present
month, and should be renewed before the
close Of the month.
Subscribers who do not receive their
paper regular will please notify us.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
About Mind-Cure.

An article in late Issue of the
Popular Science Monthly upon the
'struth about the mind-cure" con-
tains the following very reasonable
and sensible remarks:
"Now, in view of what has been
done in curing disease by the aid
of mental influence, the public has
a right to demand that our physi-,
clans shall give US the benefit OF
this healing agency. Mental infu-
ence is pleasant and inexpensive
medicine it cures in some cases
where drugs fail, and it shortens
the term of sickness and lightens
it's pain in many other cases fur
thermore, it has no injurious effects.
But the mind-cure should be taken
out of the hands Of the unframed
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
A Letter Carriers Prescription.

A st. Louis letter-carrier says
there is no reason why man
should remain thin or have cold
feet and corns. Il was that way
myself once, but as a cure our old
negro cook told me to wear fan
mel or woolen waistband, that is to
say, cover my body from chest to
hip with flannel or woolen next to
the skin, besides the regular winter
or summer clothing, and keep the
band on all the year round. | tried
it some years ago, and at first | saw
no change in my size or waist meas
urement, but suddenly l noticed |
could not button the waistband and
l moved the buttons. Before three
months passed I moved the buttons
four times" The extra covering
causes great internal heat, which is
carried over the body by the blood
and aids digestion. The remedy
for cold feet is to scrub them in
cold water every night before going
to bed for sixty days. There will
be no further trouble.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
A Slight Miscalculation.

"John," said a wife who was sup
posed to be on her death-bed, sin
case of my death think a man OF
your temperament and domestic
nature, aside from the good OF the
children, ought to marry again"
"Do you think SO, my dear?'
II certainly do, after a reasona-
BILE length Of time"
swell, now, do you know, my
dear, that relieves my mind OF a
great burden. The little widow
Jenkins has acted rather demure
toward me ever since you were taken
sick. She is not the woman that
you are, of course, a strong-minded, l,
intelligent woman of character, but
she is plump and pretty, and l am
sure she would make me very de-
sirable wife"
The next day Mrs. John was able
to sit up, the following day she
went downstairs, and on the third
day she was planning for new
dress.-N. Y. Sun.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
What Causes Wrinkles.

The following paragraph would
seem to do away with the old theory
that wrinkles are produced by wor-
rying: SIT is customary to say that
wrinkles come from worrying, but
the truth is that most of them come
from laughing" says weil-known
physician. "To know how to laugh
is lust as important as to know
when to do it. If you laugh with
the sides of your face the skin VIII
work loose in time, and wrinkles
will form in exact accordance with
the kind of a laugh you have. The
man who always wears a smlrk VIII
have a series of semi-circular wrln-
kles covering his cheeks. When q
gambler who has been accustomed
to suppressing his feelings laughs,
a deep line forms on each side OF
his nose and runs to the upper cor
ner of his mouth. In time this line
extends to the chin and assumes
the shape of half-moon. A cadav-
orous person, with a wax-llke SKIN
is very apt to have two broadly
marked wrinkles, one running up
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
For God and Home and Native Land. y
THE Monthly Gospel Meeting OF

THE Monthly Gospel Meeting Of
the w. c. 7. u, held in Union
Church last Sunday night, was at
tended by an intelligent audience
to hear Rev. T. NJ. Smith, of Belle
vue, lecture upon the subject of In
temperance. After the usual re-
ligious exercises and an anthem
finely rendered by the choir, the
President, Mrs. w. H. Brodhead,
gracefully introduced the lecturer
to the audience. He began his dis
course by saying that he would
handle his subject without gloves,
so the audience was somewhat pre-
pared to hear plain statements Of
facts-the unvarnished truth, which
the lecturer deemed necessary to
awaken the people to a full realiza-
ton of all the evils and horrors re-
sulting from the use of strong drink.
Some sad and touching pictures
were portrayed by the lecturer in a
most dramatic style, of wreck, de-
spair, delirium and death, the Sc
quel of a drunkard's life! The
whole lecture was a forcible and
eloquent one, and pronounced by
the majority of intelligent people
to be the best and most impressive
lecture ever before delivered in
Ketchum. Some few facts were
mentioned by the lecturer that had
a tendency to offend the sense of
propriety of a few who were pres
ent. It is not generally considered
out good taste for public speaker
to give illustrations and state un-
vanished facts, even if itdoes bring
a blush to the modest cheek. Those
things are necessary in the temper
ance cause to crystalline a good
influence upon the minds Of the
people. John B. Cough, one of
America s most gifted temperance
lecturers, never hesitated to state
plain truths to the moral, highly
cultivated people of the country
who were among his audiences.
At the close of Mr.. Smiths adj
dress some fine music was rendered
by the choir-Mrs. George M. Snow,
Mrs. Stole and Mr.. Robert Warren.
After liberal collection was taken
up, the meeting closed by singing
the temperance Doxology.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
To Young Men.

Character is to the employee what
wealth is to the employer; it is his
capital, his stock in trade, and upon
its marketable value depends his
success or failure.
There is, although we are sorry
to be obliged to admit it, a sad lack
of that real genuineness of charac-
ter that marks the successful life
exhibited by the young men of to-
day. Some of the very best work
men in any and every business that
is furnishing them with means of
support have so far neglected to
look upon their character as a thing
of any value, that they have given
it away, or, what is still worse,
thrown it away, and too often, not
satisfied with thus having disposed
of their own, they proceed to assist
in running that of others.
A man is never so we'll able to
realize the fact that there is value
to good character, as when out OF
a position, he applies here and there
only to meet with the same answer
at every place, and he is very often
mdae painfully aware of the reason
for the refusal, for no man can we'll
hide his character, even from a
stranger, and especially from EN- :
ployers, who from necessity become
accustomed to judge a man from
his personal appearance.-Ex.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
ATTACKED BY WEkSElS.
A Battle Waged by these Fierce Little
Animals Against Three Men.

PINE MILL, Pa, April 19.-George
Gray, an employe Of Farmer Bull,
near this place, went out in one of
the farmers fields on Friday after
noon to haul away some stone piles
that had been lying in the field
since last fall. He had thrown on
the drag but a few stones from one
of the piles when weasel jumped
out of the pile. Gray kicked at the
animal as it was passing him, and
the fierce little brute turned on the
man and sprang for his throat. Its
teeth closed on Gray's flannel shirt
at his chest. In tearing the weasel
loose it set its teeth on Gray's arm,
tearing the flesh down for three
inches. The taste of blood seemed
to increase the fury of the weasel,
and Gray had all he could do to
keep it from springing on his throat.
He at last succeeded in stunning
the weasel by kick, and was about
to hurry to the house to have his
wounds dressed when six other
weasels, one after the other, trooped
from the stone pile and made
combined attack on Gray. They
swarmed upon him, biting and tear
ing his flesh on the legs, arms and
body. Fearful for his life Gray
turned and fled, followed by the
weasels, which chased him clear to
the house, over half a mile away,
inficting still further wounds with
their sharp teeth.
Gray's shouts for help brought
a son of his employer and another
man out of barn where they were
threshing, and the two ran to Gray's
aid. Even these reinforcements did
not daunt the weasels, and before
they were routed, which was not un-
til three of them were killed, they
had inflicted many ugly wounds on
their foes; and the men were COW
cred with blood from head to foot.
Gray has been confined to his bed
ever since. It is we'll known that
weasels will fight to the death when
cornered, or will attack a sleeping
person, but for them to fight three
men in an open field, assuming the
aggressive at the start, is something
unheard of before in this region of
hunters and trappers.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
Farmer ellis Fishing Dog.

TUscoLA ILL.,, May 6.-Shilo Gill,
one of Douglass county's best and
most prosperous farmers, lives on
the banks of the Embarrac. Mr..
Gill has dog, to which he is greatly
attached, which exhibits almost as
much intelligence as human be-
ing, and is of great service on the
farm.
The other day Shilo was strolling
along the banks of the stream with
his favorite dog Barney when he
came to rifle, in which several
large fish were foundering in their
efforts to pass up to reach deeper
water.
The bodies of several Of the larger
ones were particularly above water.
Barney dashed in and in an instant
had dragged one to land, and his
master took possession of his catch.
Again the intelligent dog returned
to the rifle and another fish was
landed, and this operation was con-
tinued until Shilo found that his
"string" contained thirteen as fine
fish as any one would ask for.
Every morning and evening the
fish attempted to pass the rifle and
at these times Gill and old Barney
are on hand to get supply of fish,
and both enjoy the sport hugely.
The dog was struck by the fins OF a
large catfish the other evening,
since which time he is q little chary
of tackling that species.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
A Lightly Clad Somnambulist Visits
His Sweetheart.

A young man, whom we will call
Tom Jeffreys, by way of illustration,
was very much infatuated with a
young lady who lived on the public
road, three miles from his home,
near Interlachen. Everybody who
has travelled that part of the coun-
try knows that the neighborhood is
thickly settled and for miles you
go without getting out of sight Of
some ones house.
One night, about 8 o'clock, JEFF
fries retired early. It was bright
moonlight. In his sleep he got up
out of his bed, and in his night
clothes walked undisturbed to the
house of his lady love. AS is gen.
orally the case in this country, stair
ways run up to the second floor on
the outside of the buildings, and
this one in particular leads from
the ground to the young lady's
room door. Young Jeffreys walked
up those stairs and sat down uncon-
sciously near the lady's door. How
long he remained there he does not
know, but when he finally awoke
his head was resting on his knees,
and it was 10 o'clock.
Imagine his surprise. There, at
his affianced's home, in his night
clothes, three miles from home. AS
easily as possible he crept down the
stairway. He could hear the old
man down in the field attending to
his horses and cattle. Everything
was still. The people in the house
were quietly chatting. An open
space of about twenty feet separated
the kitchen from the main building.
The young man went around to the
corner of the house and saw the
young lady and her mother going
to and fro in discharge of household
duties. He couldn't speak to them
because he wasn't dressed that
way. His trouble was to get back
home without being discovered or
noticed.
When he was quietly stealing his
way out of the yard into the road
two ferocious dogs awoke from their
slumbers, and with grinning teeth
took after the flying night shirt
which was making it's way to the
thicket on the side of the road.
The animals overlook the object,
and what part of the white garment
they did not tear off the briars and
the brush did, and that young man
found himself in a most unpleasant
fix with half his skirts torn off.
The night was cold and he felt it.
On getting into the thicket he got
out of the way of the dogs, but
for two hours he was vending his
way home, and dodging passers-by
in the public road and shivering
like leaf in the Arctic regions
Palatka Fla. Enterprise.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25
WHAT Is SOCIETY

Discussion as to the number of
people who are Tin society" in this
city would be more ineligible if it
were accompanied by a definition
as to what society is meant.
When Mr.. McAllister limited the
number, off-hand, to 400, he had in
mind, as he has since explained,
those persons only who give large
and elegant entertainments to peo-
pie of wealth and recognized social
position like themselves. And when
lately an acknowledged arbiter of
fashion sent out 1900 cards of in
vitation to her first reception, it
was promptly explained that this
did not mean that all these people
were sin society" Many of them
were had-beens, some of them were
would In other words, loss
or shrinkage of fortune has left
many of the "old families" out of
the social swim. They may be as
refined, as elegant, as accomplished
as ever, and as fit personally to
grace any banquet hall or drawing
room; but they no longer ''enter-
tain," and so they are only on the
outer edge of the society that gives
itself up to entertaining and being
entertained.
The would-bes are aspirants.
They either have not had their mo-
ney long enough, or their pile is
not sufficiently large enough to ad-
NIT them to the inner circle. And
so their social letters of credit are
paid only in the great clearing
house of receptions" or by the
liquidating device of afternoon
teas"
The truth is that society in this
country is represented by a wide
expanse of concentric circles. The
small, common center represents
"the Four Hundred" Entrance to
it-or at least retention in it-de-
pends upon money. 1t is the car
istocracy of the dollar" But dol
lars are not enough. It is rather
vulgar to make fortune ones self.
A rich grandfather is necessary, or
better yet, great-grandfather. He
may have been a peddler or a small
shopkeeper-it doesn't matter. Mo-
ney long Sin the family" gains a
special virtue. Just why it is smore
respectable to inherit money than
to honestly earn it does not appear,
but so it is.
Yet the Four Hundred should
not consider that they monopolize
society" The circles of the Four
Thousand and the Forty Thousand
have their society, too-and very
good and enjoyable one it is; more
distinctively American than the
smaller set, and often quite as re-
fined and cultivated. There is
great deal of sociability in this glo-
rious Republic of equal citizens -
N. Y. World.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-25

and irresponsible visionaries and
the imposters who practice it, or it
will add terrible amount of suffer-
ing and death to what it has already
caused. These enthusiasts, carried
away by their seeming successes in
a few cases, insist that the mind
cure is the only treatment that is
worth anything in all diseases and
for all persons. They know too
little about the nature of disease to
recognize symptoms which indicate
the fitness Of this agency, too little
of science in general to realize that
a means suitable to remove one con-
dition may be entirely inadequate or
unsuitable to counteract another. :"