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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
A Dismaylng Biz Of Family history

The desire to know about ones an
cestors, which exists in a greater or less
degree in every one, has become SO
strongly developed in certain man that
from being a hobby it has almost be-
come mania. His name is rather an
uncommon one, and whenever he sees it
in print, he at once writes to the pos-
SCISSOR of it to inquire for details of the
family history. Thus he is in corre-
spondence with people all over the
country on the subject, and he even
makes long journeys to trace branches
of the family tree.
The progenitors of the family cameSto
Connecticut nearly two centuries ago,
but tie head of one of the branches was
apparently lost sight of, although some
of his descendants were long afterward
heard of out West. To supply the miss
ing link in the genealogical chain, the
man who is so anxious to learn about
his forefathers recently went to Boston,
hoping to discover in the libraries there
some of the information he was after.
He secured big history of Boston and
sure enough found his surname in the
index.
With a feverish haste lie turned back
to the page indicated, where he learned
that tse ancestor of whom he knew so
little had early in the last century been
compelled to leave Boston because he
had been exhibiting two dancing bears in
the street The researcher dropped the
volume and fled, and his interest in his
genoa. ogical studies has never since
been what it once was.-[New York
Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
Forbidden to Enter

so many servants are Indifferent to
their duties that it y pleasant to hear of
one who obeys instructions faithfully
and to the letter. A lady who lives in
one of the suburbs of Boston has such a
servant Her husband had been away
Eirom home for several weeks, and the
servant " as engaged during his absence.
H, returned one day unexpectedly,
aud it was on this occasion that the
new servants fl sense of duty mani
tested itself SO decidedly.
The lady went out after dinner, leav-
ing the ser. ant alone in the house, and
SAID to her on departing, Now. Sarah.
please remember that we never buy any
thing of agents or reddlers, or of any
one at the door, and do not, on any ac-
count. let strangers come into the
hou e.
- will not, maam," replied Sarah
f.mls.
An hour later the front door bell rang.
Sa.ah went to the door. There stood
s.ran ger, grip bag in hand.
Nodding carelessly to the servant he
wa, about to enter, when Sarah braced
Ii rse.f ticmly in the doorway, and said,
"G bacAl"
Why. girl. " he said. in surprise and
in,.i aation. "what do you meant"
"Wnat do you mean. by .tryin' to poke
yourself into folks houses? Oh, you
needn't glare at me like thatl ! amt
aieerd OF yet /. :
Too angry and too much amazed to
offer any explanation, the gentleman
said sternly, "stand aside and let me
pass!"
An umbrella and cane rack stood in
the hall b the CIR s side. and, seizing
heavy cane, she brandshed it bravely,
saying as she did SO:
You try to come in here if you darel
amt If .erd of YET"
G luscious of the ludicrous and uudig-
nfied appearance he presented, stand.
ing on his own doorstep with servant
girl brandishing cane over his head,
the master of the house, for he it was,
deciled to capituiate.
Where is your mistress 2" he asked.
~She amt to home, and she said for
me not to let nobody in while she was
gone. and amt goin' to. rel lied the
gi doggedly.
But, n y good girl" replied the gem
tleman, his sense of humor overcoming
his anger. Il am Mr.. H. the hus-
band of your mistress. Now may I
come in, please ?" :.
Not at all alb shed by this informa-
tion, the 6 ri stepped aside, saying. in a
tone of comical condescension, "Well,
if you're hi y. s'pose you can come in. !"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
A Blind Drum, m,ner.

There is one of the best tobacco
drummers in the country, remarked a
gentleman the other afternoon as an
elderly looking man, with a long gray
beard, in company with a young
woman passed up Wyandotte street.
The gentleman walked arm in arm with
his companion, an | no one would have
noticed anything peculiar about him
until he came to crossing, and then
his companion spoke to him. his step
faltered, his foot was put out as if
afrai to advance. his eyes were turned
straight ahead, and never sought The
ground They were sigltless The
man was Mr.. James Harrison, of r CHI
mond, Va, and the woman mas his
daughter. Mr.. Harrison travels for a
plug tobacco + Glory, a d is garled
as one IF the est drun.mers onr the
road. For more than 30 years he has
made the rounds with two daughters.
First one of t enl grew UP from girl to
woman and was married. The second
one then took her place, and has since
been his constant companion. She
goes about with him from store to store,
helps him with his samples at the train
and the hotels, attends to ticket. aid
baggage-in short, does everything chat
a tender loving woman could do for the
blind. She is his eyes. Tie two are
known in every city in the country. -
Kansas City Times.
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Exohanee or Coins.

Two young ladies from the country
were walking recently someM here near
the Strand when. happening to lose
their bearing, they asked gentlemanly
looking person to direct them to P.cca-'
dilly. u am going that way. rejoined
the scamp, @and should be pleased to
'show you But he had not proceeded
far in the wrong direction when he
complained of thirst ACould the young
ladies oblige me with trhe?' One of
the two in moment of nervousness
gave him sixpence, but even this did
not satisfy him. II have been i'll all
the winter, he went on, "and am be-
hind with my rent; can you let me have
half crown?" The other young lady
thought it her turn now. II have half
a crown in my pocket. she said. "and
if you will give me back that six
pence" He held it out; the young
lady took it, placed. it in her purse,
looked at the fellow for an instant, and
quietly alked away.-[Court Circular.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
Ready yyith AM Answer.

One of the elders of the Second Bap-
tist church, in a certain Southern city, is
strongly opposed to the use of tobacco,
and never fails to score any of the
church members that lie finds indulging
in what he considers a sinful habit
Meeting an aged brother the other lay,
with a very strong smelling old clay
pipe in his mouth, he accosted him:
"Brudder Thomas. does you believe
dat nothin' unc.ean kin enter de King
dom?"
II does, brudder "
"Den you kin neber enter. for your
bref smells worser nor slaughter
house.
dat may be, brudder, but when /
goes to Hebben 'spects to leave my
bref behind me.
And the aged man passed on, peace.
fully smoking, while the elder gaz-d
after him in dazed way that was pain-
full to see.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
ESTABLISHED 1879
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Special attention is paid to Fertilizers and
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Reports Of Representative Farmers Clubs
are a notable feature of Its issues.
It's Home Department is filled with
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for the ladies' of the farm household.
The most competent, successful and ex
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No Farmer in the Atlantic S.aes. from
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
Bashful Eaters.

There is no end of the strange notions
cherished by some people, Men who in
all other respects are coarse and vulgar
almost beyond endurance will sometimes
be so squeamish in one or two minor par
ticulars that it is constant trial of pa
tience to live with them. An English
traveller in Abyssinia, for example, draws
the following picture of his sutferings at
meal-tine:
In this country it is considered unbe-
coming for persons to eat in public-as
at picnic. for instance, or in a tavern.
When at home, the people take their
meals within fence, so as not to be over.
looked; and when on a journey several
of the attendants are made to hold up a
clolh before them, with their backs
turned to those who are eating.
When no servants are available, ,tha
members of the party sit around the
dishes, throw cloth over their heads,
and proceed to eat as if afraid that soma
one was about to snatch the. food out Of
their hands.
My companions and had frequently
to submit to this custom. No sooner did
our escort see us seated on one side of the
road than they directed some of the
people to extend their loose robes in
order TO screen US from passers-by, and
those who performed the task were al
ways careful to turn their faces away
from us.
As most Of the garments thus. opened
out for our seclusion. had not been
washed for months, if they hadever been.
the readers imagination may be left to
conceive the odor which surrounded MS
on these occasions. Buteven If they had
been washed only the day before. the
smell of the rancid butter with which the
natives besmear their heads would have
sufficed to render any such curtain al
most intolerable. -. -. -. /.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
HISTORICAL NOTES.

The use Of firearms in England was
introduced as early as the reign Of
Edward III Q3271.
Windmills were not known in Eng
land at the conquest. but were intro
d ced in less than century afterward.
A trade with Norway is known to
have been carried on by the Scotch in
the beginning of the thirteenth cen-
tury.
The coast of Connecticut was first ex-
plored by one of the early Dutch navi-
gators. Adrian Block, who, in 1914, was
the first European to sail through He'll
G.lte.
The rincipal legislative acts in the
reign of Henry III, of England, are his
confirmation Of The Great Charter, and
of the Charter of the Forest. There are
also some additional laws of this king
yet extant which much polished the
common law.
Gloves appear to have been very rare
among the Anglo-Sa xons. Among the
representations OF male figures they are
never met with. but from law of
Ethelred the Unready it may be inferred
that at the close of the tenth or the be-
ginning of the eleventh century they
were great rarities, five pairs forming
considerable part Of the duty paid by
society of German merchants for
the protection of their trade.
Tie Boston port bill, a law passed by
England, to close the port of Boston,
went into effect June l. 1774. The day
was observed in Hartford, Conn, as a
day of lunlic mourning. The town
house was hung in black, copy of the
bill was posted on it, and the bells were
toilet all day. Even SO far off as Vir-
ginia the house of burgesses attended
a solemn religious service on the oc-
casion. and heard patriotic sermon
from the chaplain.
The two colonies formed by colonists
W % came out under Governor John
Winthrop, the Plymouth and Mas
SAC .usetts Bay, We're for many years
indel endent OF one another, but the
Plymouth colony. though the older of
the two, grew far more slowly than the
other, and was at last united with it in
1902 under tie name of Massachusetts,
the name being taken from one of the
tribes Of Indians inliabiting the soil.
The meaning of the word is said to be
"Blue Hills.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
Mrs. Beeoher on Marriage.

: Mrs. He ry Ward Beecher says in the
Ladies' Home Journal: II have seen
much of life and in almost all of its
wonderfully changing aspects, and am
convinced that the joys and sorrows,
the crosses and the crowns in married
life are about equally divided between
hlis and and tile wife. I am confident
t at nothing will right all the wrongs
and bring order out of the confusion
arising from the many disturbing ques-
tions that are constantly arising, as the
shelter of the true home, ruled over by
husband and wife in all loving confidence
and unitedIy,"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
FOUGHT WITH A PANTHER.
The Terror Of westchester's Woods Has
Been Killed at Last


Been Killed at Last.
An imm nse panthe II, which has been
prowling about Westchester county. be-
tween Bedford village and Katonah,
during the past mont.,, has been killed
at last. Tie animal has terrorized the
people over large extent Of country.
Children refused to go to school alone,
and had to be escorted to and from their
homes by adults. Even the latter did
not feel altogether secure. and when-
ever the trees rustled they thought the
panther was near Some even declared
that they had seen the dreaded animal
glaring at them through the bushes.
Not day passed in which some
farmer did not miss part of his live
stock. The farmers boy would sally
forth in the morning to give the occu-
pants of the pig pen their breakfast, only
to discover, by the bloody fragments scat
tered around that the pant her had paid
them visit. Many Aochs of sheep
were greatly reduced in size, and the
fat geese, turkeys, and chickens which
mysteriously disappeared were almost
innumerable.
The brute did not, however, seem to
have been satisfied with such small
game. for in several instances he att
tackled full grown cattle, during the
night, and next morning the owner
would be dismayed at finding their
mangled carcasses in the field. Sew
eral persons, hearing unusual noises
around their barns or poultry houses
during the night, have crcpt out, gun in
hand, after the marauder. and in one or
two cases obtained glimpse of the
panther as he glided noiselessly away in
the darkness.
This condition of affairs was become
ing well nigh intolerable. and several
parties of hunters endeavored to capture
tile decimator of their herds. Their in
tended victim, however. knew the
woods better than they did, and always
managed to elude them. It remained
for farmer George Green to settle the
matter.
He was taking stroll around his
farm when he espied large, strange
looking animal tearing at the carcass Of
a heifer a short.distance off. 1t as one
of Mr. Green's heifers, which the beast
had just killed. The farmer, remembers
ing that he owned five large mastiffs,
lost no time i'll calling item to the scene.
The panther lett his feast on seeing
them approach and headed for the
woods. The dogs pursued. and after q
long chase cornered their prey. Thus
brought to bay, the big beast showed
his teeth and faced his pursuers. The
entire pack of dogs rushed upon him.
They had not calculated. however, on
their opponents immense fighting
powers.
The struggle that ensued was terrible
one. Tie panther inflicted some terrible
wounds ON his foes and before he gave
up the mangled liodies of two of them
were stretched on the ground. He was
greatly weakened, however. by the teeth
of the dogs. He managed. however. to
get away to the woods, with the blood
dripping both from pursuer and pur-
sued. The panther was chased to the
estate of John Jay. where it took refuge.
While the d0ss kept watch Mr. Green
procured his gun and taking careful
aim he shot the panther dead. On be-
ing weighed subsequently, it was iolnd
to tip the scales at 375 pounds -[New
York Star.
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She chung to HIM. and sobbed in
hear. breaking sorrow.
promise me, Harry" she pleaded,
shat your last thought shall be Of mel"
Il promise, darIingl" replied the
strong man brokenly as he strained her
to his bosom, and mingled his tears
with hers. II will die as becomes a
brave man, but my last thought shall
be of my own little Bessiel"
One convulsive embrace, one last
kiss, and he tore away from the faint
ing girl, and rushed from the house.
II was on his way to play in the rush
line at z me of football.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
Few Books. but Good .Onaa.

In the distant days wlIen was boy,
books-at any rate, among lis schoolboys
in. secluded Mona-were not easily pro-
durable. We possessed but few our
selves, had never heard of circulating
libraries, and saw-only one weekly news
paper, if we saw any at ALL Perhaps
the modern schoolboy. who reads half
dozen newspapers, WHO is often familiar,
to boot, with all the sporting ne aspapers
and all the society" newspapers, and
ali the literary and religious Journals g.
and who, besides swimming every day
in these turbid waters of popular Jour-
nalism, may surfeit and satiate himself
with scrdps, and tidbits. and shilling
shnckers, and novels with green and
yellow backs, and sensational literature
of every possible description. may be in
clined to regard us with pity as very
benighted beings. think, ON tile con-
trary, that we were distinct gamers by
not being buried under mountain loads
Of nonentity end rubbish. We could
get hold of Sir Walter Seott's novels,
and Fenimore, Cooper's and Captain
Malryait's, and had read them all and
discussed their characters among our
selves -[Ganon Farrar. in the Forum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09

One of our exchanges prints story
of small boy who had implicit conf
dence in Santa Claus, and was eagerly
looking forward to Christmas.
One morning, shortly before the happy
hold ay, his mother found him in the
parlor, where the fire had gone out,
with his mouth at the open door of the
stove.
"Pleathe, Thanta Clauth, hewas say
ing. "bring me titled, a pair of big
wubber BOOTH. thome candy, a thlate,
and mamma new dweth.
aWhy, Tommy. said his mother,
sSanta Claus can not afford to bringyou
all those things. You should not ask
for so much. 1t is selfish.
Tommy's face clouded for a minute;
then it grew bright with an idea, and
returning to the stove, he called up the
chimney:
sPleathe, Thanta Clauth, you needn't
mind the dwethi"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09
RISING SUN CECIL COUNTY, Md FRIDAY, JAM
IN rHE wiNrER WOODS

Ugh flung at noon, In chill and sombre state.
lie naked woods uplift their mighty arms,
ilent and grim. to meet the ravening hate
With which the winter scourges wastes and
farms,
And chiils and nips and blows. insatiate.
high-fiung and grey, athwart the frozen
lands,
wind-caverned, stark. the winter forest
stands.
Here have wandered all a frosted day,
in faery dream of sheeted ice and snow;
Great raftered branches stretching, messed
and grey,
Ice hidden pools and drifted SHOWS below.
With formless winds that creep from far
Steal in and moan across the fading light.
while with great stride glooms in the lonely
night.
The lofty naples shake their tops and sigh.
The snow-mossed beeches stir their boards Of
leaves,
Still clinging from the autumn long gons by.
And all the woodland dark the night receives,
Into its snowy-cayerned sanctity
he shadows darken, lower slants the sun.
Bright beams the moon when scarce the day
is done.
With one red gleam the sun has vanished
down.
Cver Tie Icy forests bearded rim.
Low Groom the winds, blaeker the shadows
frown.
Across the eerie twilight, far and dim.
Comes a faint CLEAN from out the twinkling
town.
Steals in the night. the grey wood bends and
signs.
Pale glints the moon in frosty reveries.
Keen grows the air from frosts that creep
anear,
Nights icy hosts that all the grey woods
thrill. sIa
Far o. erhead the stars grow sharp and clear.
ice-rending sounds the tingling silence fill
From the far river cold in marshes arear.
Across white floors shadowy phantom flows
From wind-swayed boughs and smoke of drift
L ing SHOWS.
Then back I turn me homeward. wading
drifts
In eddied hollows, skirting icy pools;
dreaming red hearthlogs through he frosty
rf.s,
While DER my path the moon throws icy
y gules,
Where overhead the forests gloom uplits
Its shadowy bars against the gllnting light
The awfui silence Of the arctic night.
-[N illiam " ilfrtd Campbell.
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SCOTTISH NURSERY SONGS.
Their Wealth OF wit and wisdoI
Awaken Echoes In Many Hearts.

Their Wealth OF wit and Wisdom
Awaken Echoes In Many Hearts.
The great, all rervading theme of the
Scottish nursery songs is love for the
BARN, says the Scottish american As a
general rule, the ords are put in the
mouth of the mother, and, naturally. her
little one is the sweetest, prettiest. best
natured, best behaved, and. in every re-
spect the most wonderful wean the or d
ever saw. If the toddler has faults, the
mothers love looks upon them as virtues,
and even naughty little pranks and
thoughtless miscliiefs are passed over
with a kind word.
Mothers bairnie. mothers dawtie.
" ee, wee steering, stumping tottie,
Bonnie dreamer, guileless glee."
Here is wee chap who we suppose in
reality was q tumbling, fighting. mud
building. greetin' noisy ettercap. and
yet in his mothers eyes he is perfect
paragon of all the virtues:
Cur Tammy's just as sweet BARN.
As ane could wish to see.
The smile aye plays around his lips
lille blythely blinks his ee
He never whimpers, greets nor girns.
Even for a broken tae,
But rims and gets 1t buckled up
Syne out again to play.
It is said that the late DR.. Eadie's
motherdescribed him as just the oppo-
site of the hero of the above lines-@a
causeway saint and hoose dell, mo-
body else would have dared to say SO to
her.
In these sweet songs the laddies do
not come in for all the praise, as the
girls seem to be just as precious to the
mothers as the boys:
Her cen outshine the violet
Wat WI the morning dew
In her bright face the graces meet,
Nae rosebud ere was half sac sweet,
Wee Peggie's kiss O. fondness
Delights bath auld and young;
And charming are the cooling notes
That warble from her tongue.
But such la sic as this is almost too
good. Here is another that somehow
comes nearer to our hearts:
Wee jouky daidles,
Toddlin' out and in;
Oh, but sues cutie,
Maxim sic dinl
Aye sac fou O. mischief,
An minds nae wnat 1sae;
My verra heart gangs loup, loup,
Fifty times day.
Wee jouky daidles,
For a. ye gle me pain,
Ye're aye my darling; tottle yet
My ain wee wean!
An gin Pm spared to ither days
Oh, may they come to passl
I'LL sre my bonne bairnie
Draw, Draw lass.
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Got the InformatIon.

Mrs. Hayfork-Anything for me7
Rlral PostmaSter-I don't see nothin'.
: Mrs. Hay yfork-I was expectin' a let
ter er postal card from Aunt Sally
Spriggs, tellin' what day she was
comm.
Eural Postmaster calling to his wife)
Did ye see postal from Mrs Hay
forks Aunt Sally. telIin' what day she
as comm?
His Wife-Y !; hes comm Thurs
day. Brooklyn Llle
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l3uckien's ArnicA save

The best salve - the wrtid ivi
bruises, sores ulcers, -ai, rheum. fc,s
sores, teller, chapped hands, chilb!ain'
corus aud all sk'p ereption-. and POSI-
lively cures plies "r " pay requi ed.
Il Is i've periec, satIs-
fac io4 d price z5e
per bO> u sal ;. : n nirk.
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The Sultan of Turkey has written a
new comedy drama in the French Ian
guage, and hopes to have it accepted in
Paris It deals with the subj ot Of "The
Dsh's House. from a Mohammedan
standpoink
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09

Mrs Langtry. says: "a woman Of the
deadest while skin, with light blue eyes
and pale blonde hair, becomes q poem
when she dons yellow gown. It de-
pends entirely upon the manner in which
she dQps il
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-01-09

Brown-So you could never under7
sta. d woman2
= Cobwigger-Ee. Before marriage
occupi Il my time in making niys
out worse tl.aa was; now it takes
every minute Of my time to II AXE
self out better than ] auA -IEpoch,
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by maii -pecIalsy AMI pruhclencs g.ar
iced. First class references. FERN, ~.
crate. Send ior particulars.
". j. PEOPLES,
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