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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
When This Old Hat Was New.

When a man once contracts the habit
of wearing a high silk hat, nothing will
ever break him of it. His bank account
may, as it were, deteriorate, and his
other clothes grow little shabby and
drop a season or two behind the style,
but he will still cling to the silk hat. In
deed, the hat itself may drop back to the
year-before-last shape, and give the
wearer a strange, Rip Van Winkle-like
appearance, yet he will not descend to
any other sort of head covering. But
this is the exception-usually he will
continue to wear silk hat and keep up
to the latest style as well, whatever the
consequences may be.
Time was that when man bought
silk hat he felt certain of it's remaining
in style several months at least, but this
time is past. You buy the latest thing
today and tomorrow you find that the
best dressed men are wearing something
quite different: the hat you proudly wear
to the theatre may be all out of style to
come home with. The young man who
has not yet contracted the stove pipe hat
habit should be warned. Where silk hat
styles originate is mystery. Some
man, remarkable for his versatility,
must be kept very busy somewhere de-
signing the new shapes. What manner
of man he is, no one knows. Even his
name is unknown. He may live in
Paris, or London, or New York-no one
knows which.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
Costly Guns.

"What delicious water! It's the sweet
est water ever tasted. declare, shall
come up here for drink every day DUR
ing my vacation" The young man who
spoke had come from San Francisco to
the Sierras for a fortnight. He had been
drinking from mountain spring among
the red woods, mile from the cabin
where he was camping. He had knelt
on the ground and his mouth had been
down to the water.
AS he spoke, he rose, brushing the
drops from his face. His companion,
an old mountaineer, replied, "Suits your
taste, does it? Well, now, the sweetest
water l ever tasted was when was
down to Frisco ten years ago. You know
that fountain in the square with the iron
cup chained to it? used to go down
there every day while was in the city
to take drink from that fountain"
Reservoir water and lead pipes!" ex-
claimed the city man, land public cup
rusty, too!''
The old mountaineer chuckled mo-
ment before replying, 81 reckon you've
forgotten it cost me several days time
and $40 in carfare to git where l could
git taste from that rusty free cup, just
the same as it cost you to git up here
and stick your nose into that spring in
the ground.
81 tell you what. young mister, it's the
trouble it costs to git things that sweeten
their taste, every time. youths Com
panion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
Too Much Study Bad.

DR.. o. Sprague Paine, has made spe.
cialty of studying the brain. This is
what he said:
Men very often die from overwork,
especially brain workers. Many men
work day and night and study day and
night almost, and so overtax their brains
that they become mentally and physical
ly incapable of performing their proper
work, and eventually break down alto
gether under the mental strain. These
then have to rest, and great care has to
be taken in order that they may fully
regain their health. In many cases they
have broken down SO completely that as
long as they live they are mere wrecks
of their former selves. and in many cases
they fail to recover at all. A great many
are troubled with sleeplessness and fail
to pay any attention to this, thinking
that it is nothing at all. This is really
very serious and dangerous condition to
be in. Persons who can't sleep can't rest
properly. Eventually the brain will
wear out. 1t is absolutely impossible to
keep well without sleep. Men must
have sleep or suffer for it, and the first
organ of the body that will suffer will be
the brain. Unless the brain is properly
rested the patient will break down and
perhaps become insane.-New York Mail
and Express.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
A Narrow Escape.

"It was terribly narrow escape" said
the mild faced man, and his voice trem-
bled as he recalled the awful experience.
st came about in this way. l had
washed my hands, but on looking around
there was no towel to wipe them on.
However, knew there was a towel in
the next room; but, horror! my hands
were SO wet and soapy that l couldn't
turn the door knob. 1t was a irving
moment. Why, might have starved ia
death, shut up there as l was, had not
Bill been with me. Bill saved my life
and shall never forget it. How did it
happen? Why, you see, Bill hadn't
washed-he never does-and he took
hold of the handle and turned it without
difficulty. Bill is more than ever con-
vinced that washing is an unnecessary
luxury. Boston Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
The Colored Soldier,

The colored brother in the regular
army sticks to his colors in way that
calls forth the praise of his officers.
While 81 per cent of the men of the light
batteries desert, only 2 per cent. of the
colored soldiers abandoned their duty.
The Twenty-fourth infantry, colored, has
the champion record of only per cent.
This same regiment few years ago
made the best target score. The colored
soldiers have for popular officers the same
attachment the colored people used to
show towards kind masters in slavery
days. To handle them to the best advan-
tage an officer must be their guide, phi
losopher and friend; then no soldier will
stand by him better. The brunettes have
the reputation on the frontier of being
"tough citizens" but very hardy SOL
diers.-Boston Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
A Japanese Mystery,

A gentleman now in Tallahassee who
has Travelled all over the world says he
saw one little trick the Japanese had
which he was very anxious to understand.
He saw gardener who had a plot of
ground some twenty yards square which
was laid out after the plans of farm of
hundreds of acres. There were trees of
all kinds, but by some secret process they
were dwarfed to the height of a few
inches and kept at that any length of
time. People bought the trees as novel
ties, but they Immediately commenced
to grow. The gardener refused to divulge
his secret, saying if he did SO he would
be beheaded. Stratagem also failed to
discover it, and the Japanese are yet the
only people who can make trees mature
in miniature. re.-Floridian.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
The Mouth Bowl.

The English "nasty" is the only word
that exactly fits the new mouth bowl
How such an abomination ever recon-
mended itself for one instant to people
of refined tastes l. cannot conceive. !
have been taking notes on its adaptabili-
ty to decent use. The first person whom
saw make a trial of it was dainty
young debutante. She was very young,
very sweet and very shy, and she only
essayed the feat because she thought she
must.
She took one tiny sip of the scented
water and gave it modest little swish
behind her pink lips. Then the critical
instant arrived. Could she, should She
Why, it was nothing more or less than
splitting! Her sweet face grew very pink,
she gave one little gulp, and swallowed
the mouthful. The next attempt was
made by polished young fellow, who
was equal even to SO trying an emer-
gency. But with all his deftness was
reminded of Chinese laundryman in
the active practice of his profession.
Let us not even go on with the protest.
The very idea is nauseating to sensitive
mind.-Woman About Town in New
York Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
Drew the Line at Breath.

Yesterday afternoon an aged and
somewhat infirm specimen of humanity
called at The Telegraph Office and SOL
icited the liberty of writing a note,
which was accorded him. He was given
a seat at the editors desk. and, although
pens and ink were in view, he asked for
a pencil, which was handed him. Paper
was his next desire, and this was also
supplied. Carefully wetting the end of
the pencil and adjusting the paper in
front of him, he ran his fingers through
the tangled labyrinth of iron-gray hair
that fringed his not over-clean brow.
and, with far away look in his eyes,
he wrote what might have been will
His note written, he turned and blandly
asked for an envelope, land if yo0
would kindly let me have stamp with
it,
A newspaper man can stand almost
anything, and he got the envelope and
stamp. Carefully inserting the note in
the envelope and addressing it, he again
turned and requested that it might be
dropped in the postoffice, as ne wished
to catch a train. This was all right.
He belongs in Stonington, and all he
said was agreed to. A pipe and tobacco
lay on the desk, and as he arose from
the chair he detected the tobacco. TAX
ing from his pocket a rusty pipe. he
asked if he couldn't have some tobacco
and few matches. This was "piling it
on pretty thick, but with the usual
agreeable and obliging temper charac-
teristic of The Telegraph employees, he
was told he might have some tobacco and
matches, but he couldn't possibly be sup
piled with breath-that, unfortunately,
he'd have to get outside-and he did,
New London Conn., Telegraph.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
A Formidable xYeanon.

Extreme low water in the Mississippi
recently unearthed an historical relic at
the ferry landing at Columbus, KY, in
the shape of huge, old fashioned col
umbiad, which did duty during the late
war in the hands of the Confederates.
Those familiar with the history of the
formidable weapon state that it played a
conspicuous part in the battle of Bel
mont, Mo-, in the fall of 1861. and that
from its lofty perch on the bluffs above
Columbus it sent many huge shell
screaming across the river into Grants
army, and that it had more to do with
keeping the gunboats at bay than all
others at the fort. The gun is the only
remaining relic of the Confederate forti-
fications erected at Columbus, KY, thir.
ty years ago.-Chicago Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
The Word jew.

A gentleman writing to The Jewish
Exponent, of Philadelphia, says: "Sev-
eral years ago commenced writing for
the daily papers, making speciality of
Jewish news. For several weeks, when
one of the copy-readers would handle
my copy for the first time, would be
called to the front and warned not to
use the word Jew, as some of our lead
ing Jewish residents had frequently
taken the paper to task for using the
word, viewing its usage as an intended
slur, and this was said to a paper whose
advertising columns TEEN with the
names of representative Jewish mer-
chants"
The readers of The Tidings will OBJ
serve that this paper does not hesitate to
use the word Jew whenever occasion de-
mands. In fact, the word is infinitely
preferable to that of Hebrew, and i'm
plies great deal more. The word Jew
has come to be regarded as referring to
religion, and the word Hebrew to Ian
guage.
Those Jews who object to reference to
them as Jews are sorry lot and deserve
sympathy.-Rochester Jewish Hdings -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10

The Ashiret Assyrians are wild and un-
tutored in their habits and customs.
Their Christianity consists in little more
than passionate clinging to faith they
do not comprehend, and which from this
very fact is powerless to influence their
morals. Not only are there no schools
among them, but their clergy are incapa-
BILE of instructing their fiocks in the rudi-
ments of religion; some of them are quite
unable to conduct a service, others can
repeat the important parts by heart,
while few can read the ancient manu-
scripts, which are still in daily use
throughout the country because there are
no printed books.
1t is comparatively rare to find priest
who can both read and write with facil-
ity; all other learning is absolutely want
ing. Only during the winter months,
when the snow blocks the entrances to
the mountains, when all agriculture is at
a standstill and Kurdish attacks become
impossible, could these Ashirets give
their minds to education.
The Rev. w. H. Browne, of the Arch
bishop of Canterbury's mission, has been
able to make very small beginning in
this direction. During the rest of the
year the people till their ground and
pasture their focks armed to the teeth,
ready to repel the attacks of which they
live in constant dread. Indeed, the Ash
iret Assyrians are in the position of
beleaguered garrison in siege which is
never raised; an unending succession of
assaults and sorties leaves them neither
time nor inclination to think of more
peaceful matters.
Their whole conversation is limited to
three subjects-guns, the Kurds and the
harvest. On one occasion during my
journey through the Ashiret valleys in
1885, after vainly trying to interest a
chief in conversation, it occurred to me
that a description of the Maxim gun
might arouse him. The mans face bright
ened at the relation of the marvellous
powers of the weapon, and when had
finished he said: "Ah, if we only had
gun like that we should not fear the
Kurds! No man could make such gun;
it must have been invented by the angelsr'
The Contemporary Review.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
THERE is NO DEATH.

There is no deathi The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heavens jeweled crown
They shine forevermore.
There Is no DEATH The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer shower
To golden grain or mellow fruit
Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
To feed the hungry moss they bear:
The forest leaves drink daily life
From out the viewless air
There is no deathi The leaves may fall
The flowers fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May
There Is no deathi An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best beloved things away
And then we call them dead"
He leaves our heart all desolate;
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers
Transplanted into bliss they nov
Adorn immortal bowers
The bird like voice. whose joyous tones
Made glad this scene of sin and strife.
Sings now her everlasting song
Amid the Tree of Life.
And when he sees smile too bright
Or heart too pure for faint of vice,
He bears to it that world of light
To dwell in Paradise
Born into that undying life,
They leave us but to come again;
With joy we welcome them-the same,
Except in sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear, immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is Life-there are no Dead.
Unidentified.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10

Conclusions arrived at in relation to
storm formations show that theories thus
far advanced are extremely unsubstan-
tial, and that above all things positive
information of the processes going on in
the upper strata is necessary; that the
dependence of the generation of storms
on temperature distribution in a vertical
direction appears open to doubt, and
that, reasoning from the behavior of
thunder storms, it seems possible that
some electrical action not thoroughly un-
derstood supplies tho force which keeps
up their energy.-New York Telegram.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
Thought Some of Advertising.

An old man, firm believer in the eff
cacy of advertising, came into this office
the other day and wanted to advertise a
lost mitten for a month. He said the
mittens cost so cents when new, and he
had worn them only three years. When
informed that the outlay would be much
more than the missing article could be
worth, he went off in an undecided state
of mind, resolved, however, to have one
more good look for the mitten before he
trusted its destinies to printers ink
Pittsfield (Me.) Advertiser.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
Great interest is manifested in Loc,

Great interest is manifested in Lock
port over the Campbell air ship, now
building, in which an aeronaut intends
to sail over Niagara Falls. By "over
the falls" it must not be understood that
the great ship is to sail down with the
current and make. the great plunge Of
15S feet over the cataract; for, on the
contrary, it is intended to sail high in the
air above the Niagara Falls and river.
The exact date of the trip has not yet
been set,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10

= A Brooklyn girl, who is an heiress, but
whose property is in care of a trust COM
pany, applied to the president for money
with which to buy a sealskin sacque.
He refused on the ground that it was a
luxury. The girl then applied to the su-
preme court through lawyer for per-
mission, and it was granted, and in less
than two hours the young lady was wear
ing the best one she could fnd.--Detroit
Free Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
THE SPINNING WHEEL.

Iwould could a. wooing go,
Quick would fare unto the hall
Where Bessie, with her cheeks aglow,
HUNS with the wheel against the wall;
And down before the feet I'd kneel
OF Bessie at her spinning wheel
The sunlight CLEANS the hills athwart
To color roses, wheat and wine;
So down the valleys of my heart
Do bonnie Bessie's blue eyes shine.
They shine on me until reel
Like her own restless spinning wheel.
Fair Bessie with the golden hair,
Sweet Bessie with the deep blue eyes,
Is twisting for my heart a snare
Each time the slender spindle flies.
A snare for me which shall feel,
Caught by the fate which turns the wheel
And so must a-wooing go,
And quick betake me to the hall
Where ivy creeps and roses blow,
And Sol filings kisses o'er the wall,
And at the dainty feet must kneel
OF Bessie at her spinning wheel.
Atlanta Constitution
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
The Editors Mistake.

"Do you ever receive contributions
written on both sides Of the paperT"
asked a gentleman, entering a newspa-
per Office. mo, sir; never" emphat-
ically replied the editor. 'All right;
was going to indorse this check to your
order, but don't want you to break your
rules" Then he went out leaving the
editor in deep green study.-Yonkers
Statesman.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
Paradoxical.

Ethel-Oh, papa, why did you invite
that undertaken here?
Papa-Whom do you refer to, my
dear?
Ethel-That solemn looking man talk
ing with mamma.
Papa-Why, that's Squibs, the pro-
fessional humorst.-Epoch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
What He Was Doing.

Mrs. Cumso-Fathers holding an in
quest, you say, Johnny. What in the
world do you mean?
Johnny-Yes; he's holding an ink
quest. He says he can't find the bottle
aliywhere.-Yenowine's News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10

A monument to Samuel Slater is to be
unveiled at Pawtucket on July 12, 1890,
the centennial anniversary of the first
operation of cotton spinning machinery
in America, of which machinery Mr..
Slater was the maker.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
Proof.

"That's great mine. Itell you there's
money in it,"
"How do you know there Isl"
"Well, put fifty thousand i'll it my
self."-Harper's Bazaar,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-10
TO MOTHERS.

Every babe should have a bottle of DIR. FAIR
NEY'S TEETHING SYRUP Perfectly safe,. No
opium or Morphia mixture. Will relieve Collie
Gripping in the Bowels and promote Difficult Teeth
ing Prepared by DRS., d FAHRNEY y SON,
Hagerstown, Md. Druggists sell it; 25 cents.
Trial bottle sent by mail 10 cents. feb
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-05

In this peculiar building on Wall
street is located the plant of the United
States Assay Office, branch of the Gov
ernment the importance of which cannot
be overestimated. 1t is the Mecca of all
the tourists and sightseers who visit the
metropolis, and its workings are matters
of the keenest interest to every govern
ment of civilized people on the face of
the earth. Its tests, when officially an
nounced, stand in all parts of the world
without challenge, and in the domain
of business, wherein the precious metals
hold much sway, its word is incontro-
vertible.
But if the famous old house is curious
outside, its various departments within
are still more so. Superintendent Ma
son, who has been in charge of the
office almost since its inception, Is the
authority for the statement that no pho
tographs have ever been taken within its
walls. True, magazine articles have
been written about it, but the illustra-
tions used therein were simply sketches
taken here and there of some particular
objects upon which men were at work.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-05

such they may be called, have been al
lowed time to cool they are taken to the
top of the building, in the rear, where
the boiling vats are located. They are
great cauldrons of copper, set in masonry,
and contain perhaps, forty or fifty gal
Ions of solution of sulphuric acid. The
metal shavings are placed in these boil
ing cauldrons in proper quantity and
boiled for long time. Then the de-
coction, which is of bright blush h-green,
is syphoned off to watts on the floor below,
where it is put through another and an-
other boiling until it has been thoroughly
cooked seven times. Then it is decanted
off into other receptacles lined with cop
per and having suspended across them
bars of sheet copper. The copper col
lects the sulphur from the bath and pre-
cipitates the gold while the silver, still
in solution, is carried off to other vats.
It is put through number of chemical
processes until it is finally precipitated,
and the solution in which it last was is
decanted off. The gold precipitate looks
like coarse dirty building sand, and if a
pile of it were dumped in The street in
front of the Assay Office it might lie there
for month before any one, other than
mineral expert, would think of touching
it. And if the silver precipitate were
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-05
fro BE Continued

INTERESTING statistics gathered by o
prominent English physician indicate
that consumption is very greatly pro-
NOTED by damp soil, and its presence
has been abated, even to the extent OF
40 per cent, where suitable drainage
has been introduced. Researches OF
other physicians, including the we'll
known DR.. Bowditch, Of Massachu-
sets confirm this conclusion and de-
termine that the amount Of moisture
IN the soil is fair criterion of the pro-
portion of consumption among the
residents. Local causes are becoming
more and more dis1egarded, and the
infectious nature of consumption is
receiving increased attention from
AhYsicians.