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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

You cannot find anything
equal to good Scotch Gingham Irish Lawn light Sat-
teen to during campmeeting. We have fine line
can be found select FROM and the prices right
Also line of White Goods, Laces, Hamburgs, sc.
Blue Serges and Cloths for those who desire something
weightier in the way of dress
fine line of Ladies' and Misses Oxford Ties worthy of
special mention.
Still another invoice of those Chenele Table Stand
Covers, at the same figures.
Mems Dress and Working Shirts in abundance
EDW. n. WORTHINCTON.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

Mr.. J. c. Boswell, one of the best
known ana most respected citizens OF
Brownwood, Texas, suffered with diar-
rh@a for long time and tried many
different remedies without benefit,
until Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
piarrh@a Remedy was used; that re-
lieved him at once. For sale by E. T.
Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

Bank failures, and stoppages for
three months, private or state and
national from May l to July p
amounted to Sol. There have been
probably fifty others since the above
date,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04
Bucklen's Arnica SaIve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever,
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect salts
faction, or money refunded, price 25c.
per box. for sale by L. R. Kirk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

NO bad results from taking Hills
Chloride of Gold Tablets, while the
cure is permanent. Drunkenness,
Tobacco and Opium habit positively
cured,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

Don't you know to have perfect
health you must have pure blood, and
the best way to have pure blood is to
take Hoods Sarsaparilla, the best blood
purifier and strength builder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

~ Fine card printing and com~
meroial JOB work done at the Md
LAND Office at moderate prices. The
best of work guaranteed
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04
- PRnWwS ZOE BiTreaS

fires Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala'
ria, NERVOUSNESS, and General Debility. Physl'
clans recommend it. All dealers sell it. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

Hoods Pills may be hand by mail
for $50. Of G. I. HOOD 4 Co., Lowell,
Mass.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04
We WANT YOU

to act as our agent. We furnish an expensive
outfit and all you need free. 1t costs nothing to
try the business. We will treat you well, and
help YOU to earn ten times ordinary wages Both
sexeeo of all ages can live at home and work in
spare time, or all the time. Any one any where
can earn great deal of money. Many have made
Two Hundred Dollars a Month. No class of
people in the world making so much money
without capital as those at work for us. Business
pleasant, strictly honorable and pays better than
any other offered to agents. You have q clear
field, with no competition. We equip you with
everything, and supply printed directions for
beginners which, if obeyed faithfully, will bring
more money than will any other business I'm.
prove your prospects Why not? You can do SO
easily and surely at work for US. Reasonable
industry only necessary for absolute success
Pamphlet circular giving every particular is sent
free to all. Delay not in sending for it.
GEORGE STINSON & CO.,
Box No. 4SS, Portland, Me.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04


Henry watson for work cqmplete
S2,650; all material to finish the
same 1896 per cubic yard; for the
work and all material except the
stone $t.55 per cubic yard.
Mcdowell & Barrett, for Material
and work complete 1925 per cubic
yard; for all labor and material to
complete the work except the stone
50 % per cubic yard,
Patterson & Jackson, for work and
material complete 50 $50.
BACON HILL BRIDGE.
Henry Watson, work complete
$13 rs per cubic yard.
Mcdowell & Barrett, work CON-
plete $1l per cubic yard.
PATTERSON i jackson, york and
msterial complete 81 1925.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-08-04

t. CANFIELD JENKINS, Secy.
July 2lst, 1898.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

In the town records OF the city Of Boston
there is curious passage which records
how q schooimaster was examined and
what happened The manner in which the
visit Of inspection is recorded makes one
incline to the view that the unlucky school
master may not have had fair play, although
II he was really inefficient he may be said
10 have been judged by his peers.
In the record for the 22d Of May, i722, II
IL set forth that.
"Coll Pen Townsend, Jeramiah Allen
Esqr, & John Edwards together with the
Select men, Vissitted the wrghtlng School
1t the Southerly End OF Boston on Thirs-
day the cath apll i722. and Examined the
Scholars under mr. Ames Anglers tuition az
to their proficiency In Reading writing
Scyphering a. the masters ability OF teach
ing Il lnstructing youth his rules &
methods therefore And are of Opinion That
It will be no Service to the Town to Con.
tinue, mr. anger In that Employ"
Whercupon Il was voted that the said
Mr. Ames Anger should not continue
master of the "Said South School"
1t is true that nothing Is said of the
methods Of spelling inculcated at the
'wrighting School" and II Is also possible
that u clerk rather than the committee was
responsible for the errors of the record; but
there is certainly something absurd In the
passage AS It stands. ~ Youths Companion.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

MIR. froude tells story of how a native
Maori chief, Tekoi, managed to turn the
tables upon his missionary teacher. The
chief had been frequently warned by him
against the evil of indulgence in lire
water" a day came, however, when the
missionary, IN danger of catching cold, felt
constrained to fortify himself with a glass
of whisky toddy. At the moment he was
about to raise the tempting fluid to his
lips dusky figure appeared, and, LAYING
MS hnger on the glass, said "Stop. liltl,4
father! Ii you drink firewater Won will
lose your health; You will lose your char
acter. Perhaps you will lose your life
Nay, little father, you will lose-but thai
shall not be. Your immortal soul is more.
precious than mine. The drink will hurt
me less than it will hurt you. To save
your SOU l VIII drink it myself" Which
he did forthwith.-San Francisco Aron.
naut
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18
Rules About Dieting.

1t Is scarcely necessary to go deeply into
the subject OF diet The first essential is
70 restrict the quantity of food TO the
actual needs OF the system A ravenoua
appetite can generally be conquered in
three or four days. During this interval a
person turning over new leaf feels
quite weak and dispirited, but he braces
up with surprising rapidity, and soon won
ders that he ever made a glutton of him
self He who diets should make up his
mind before he sits down just how much
he will eat, and on the instant that he has
finished his rations no should leave the
dining room "iIe who besitates Is lost"
II the corpulent subject took no more
food than he ought, he might eat almost
anything At the same time he would do
better 10 deny himself sweets and starchy
foods, cakes, pies, pastry and the like The
quantity of bread should be restricted; one
or two slices OF dry toast is quite sufficient
for u meal Potatoes are very fattening,
and, therefore. had best be excluded from
the diet, II milk Is used the quantity
should be small As for meats. those which
are lean should be preferred. Soups, for
obvious reasons, are objectiouable.-Bo
ton Herald
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

All of the school histories and popular
text books give us to understand that on
April 10, IT'S, at Lexington, Mass, the
first blood of the American war of indie
pendence was shed. Within the last few
years historians, who have been giving the
matter much attention, claim Westmin-
ster, Vt, as the scene of the first tragedy
in that memorable conflict and one Will
lam French as the victim. Vermont at
that time was part of New York. The
people of the Vermont district were badly
worked up over the royalist question and
had decided not to allow the regular SEES
sion of the kings court to be held in West
minister that spring.
Accordingly, when the court officers
were sent they were accompanied by body
of royal troops. The people were exasper-
ated, and assembled in the court house to
resist. When the court officials and troops
arrived orders were gwen for the people to
vacate the room. This they refused to do,
when the troops of George III crossed the
grounds and fired into the little band of
patriots, "wounding some" the accounts
say, "and instantly killing William French,
who was shot clean through the head with
a musket ball"
French was buried in the churchyard at
Westminster, and Il stone with the follow
ing inscription was erected to his memory:
"In memory of William French, Who
Was Shot at Westminster March ye 18th,
IT'S, by the hand of the Cruel Ministerial
tools of George We Sd at the Court House, at
II O'Clock at Night, in the 90 year of his
Age. st. Louis Republic.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

After the famine of lS47 lace making was
revived in Ireland. Limerick, the most
successful Irish lace, is not really a lace at
all. 1t is tambour work upon net and
muslin.
The Irish point, so called, is the ancient
cut work, being made in quite the same
way.
Net was first made by machinery in l76s
The machine was an adaptation of the
stocking loom to lace making, and was
cumbrous and not very effective In 1906
John Heathcote, u farmers son, evolved
from consciousness and experience the first
machine to make true bobbinet with per.
feet six sided holes. 1t brought a great
hue and cry about his ears from lace work.
ers, who fancied they saw themselves thus
reduced to beggary
The Luddites broke into the factory
where the machines were first set up and
made scrap iron and kindling wood OF
them. The only result was to drive the
new manufacture to other and safer quar-.
ters. For long the secret of the machines
construction was most jealously guarded
by English manufacturers Not satisfied
with letters patent they kept up coast
patrol to make sure that nobody took
model or drawings to France.
AT last, though, they were outwitted. A
discharged workman, who had the plan of
1t in his mind, managed to get safe over
sea and build machine in France. New
York Herald.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

Rightly used, kindly treated, given the
same good care MS "A horse the mule has
always shown himself kind, good tenn
pered, willing, doeile and intelligent.
Moreover, while he has none of the horses
graceful, sympathetic ways of showing
affection and responding to appreciation
the mule is capable of genuine devotion To
a kind master Both the horse and the ass
have atfectionate dispositions, and the only
reason the mule does not evinee such is be-
cause nothing calls it out. Jack is not
demonstrative, but he does respond visibly
to kind treatment.
He makes, moreover an easy paced, care
full kindly riding animal when well treat
ed. Taken altogether he is n useful. intel
lisent, much enduring, little appreciated
brute, whose melancholy position is that
OF a dog with bad name-his good quail
ties rarely mentioned, while his bad ones
are credited at their full value. San Fran
cisco Call
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

was astonished a year or two ago at an
exhibition of Gould's versatility, which
was also tribute to his thoroughness. A
party of us, bankers and Wall street men.
went out to Gould's country seat at Irving.
ton-on-the-H Hudson. 1t is beautiful place.
as most people know, and Mr. Gould took
US about before dinner to see the lions.
Among other things he showed us the bo-
tanical collection which he had made. II
contains, believe, the principal plants of
almost every country in the world-some
growing out of doors, others in the hot
houses. But that was not all.
Mr.. Gould himself, as we wandered
among the flowers and leaves, told the two
gentlemen who were lucky enough to be
beside him most of the time the name.
character and life history of every plant
they CHANGED to notice or he stopped to
point out. His acquaintance with botany
went far beyond the text books. 1t spoke
OF personal observation and painstakinp
analysis 1t opened my eyes more than
anything Wall street had shown me to the
positive genius of the man.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18
The California Miner of 40.

The early miner has never been truly
painted. | protest against the fiippant
style and eccentric rhetoric of those writers
who have made him a terror, or who, seiz
ing upon n sporadic case of extreme oddity.
some brawlng wretch, have given a carl
cature to the world as the typical miner
The SO called literature that treats of the
golden era is too extravaganza in this direc
ton, In all my personal experience in
mining camps from lS49 to 1854 there was
not a case of bloodshed robbery, theft or
actual violence doubt il a more orderly
society was ever known. How could it be
otherwiseS The pioneers were young, ar
dent, interrupted, most OF them well edu.
Gated and from the best families in the
east.
The early miner was ambitious, ener.
getic and enterprising. No undertaking
was too great to daunt him. The pluck
and resources exhibited by him in attempt.
ing mighty projects with nothing but his
courage and his brawny arms to carry them
out was phenomenal. His generosity was
profuse and his sympathy active, knowing
no distinction of race. His sentiment that
justice Is sacred was never dulled. His
services were at command to settle differ
ences peaceably, or with pistol in hand to
right grievous wrong to a stranger. His
capacity for self government has never
been surpassed OF glorious epoch. he
was OF glorious race. G. Waite in
CenturV
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18
A story of Mei..on,er,, VANITY

To make himself look more manly and
robust, Meissonier frequently incased his
diminutive legs in huge cavalry boots, lie
prinked daily before the mirror, aud was
never weary OF comparing himself with
other small men, to show that he was real
ly not so very little. To the end he con
fded in his friends the pangs he ever suf
fered on account of his small size, Occa
sionally, but only occasionally, did Mes
sonier find the desired consolation he
sought from his acquaintance. One after
noon, as the sculptor Dubois entered his
studio, Meissonier exclaimed joyfully;
"What do you think The corn doctor was
just here, and what do you suppose he
saysi A six foot grenadier cannot get any
bigger corns than mine. San Francisco
Arponaut
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

FATHER oF4THE KING. wolves. Their gov
eminent is an absolute despotism, tenn
pered a little by assassination. A father
has The power of life and death over his
children; each local ruler has the same
power over his subjects, and the king has
it over all. The women Of the kings
household manage by intrigue, and rival
parties try conclusions by assassination.
The latest event to excite the kingdom was
an attempt to blow up the kings father,
Prince Ta-won-kun. Three cases of gun
powder weighing fourteen pounds each,
were placed and one exploded in his palace.
which, being light frame affair, went to
splnters, but he crawled out Of the ruins
unhurt.
This act is ascribed to the Mings, the
powerful family to which the queen be-
longs. They had for some time ruled the
country, but the kings father proved too
talented for them. He is quite clever
old gentleman, according to Mr.. II. Saw
age Lander, the artist, one Of the very few
foreigners allowed to travel through the
country. Only a few years ago the Coreans
had a bad habit of numbering such foreign
ers as fell into their hands by shipwreck or
otherwise, which brought on trouble with
the United States, China and Japan.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

The natives of the Sandwich Islands con-
sidered thunder as being Mauna Loa's echo
from the clouds. This curious notion has
crystallized ii weather proverb which is
now current among many of the white
residents OF the islands--viz, at will rain
today; Mauna Loa shakes the cloudsn In
this connection 1t may be remarked that
the early Scandinavian settlers OF Iceland
believed that there was some mysterious
and supernatural connections between the
roarings of Hecla and the "angry mutter-
ings of Jove." In England many Of the
peasantry still plant the house leek-"Jupi-
ter's beard"--on their house roofs as pre-
ventive against thunder, lightning and evil
spirits. a custom which reminds one of
Charlemagne's edict, at haheat quisque
supra domum suam Jovis barbam"
Another widespread superstition, and
one that has been noted among the tribes
and nations from China to England, and
from Cape llatteras to the Golden Cote
tells us that ii the "olaps" or reports of
thunder come in even numbers the storm
will be of short duration and very mild
But, on the other hand, If they come in
uneven numbers, especially II the reports
be series Of five, nine or thirteen distinct
claps, much loss Of life and property will
result. st. Louis Republic
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

One familiar English word of ours
"Hurrah"-says Sara Orne Jewett in her
interesting work on the Normaus, is said
to date from Rolls reign. "Rou," the
Frenchmen called our Rolf and there was
a law that If a man was in danger himself,
or caught his enemy doing any damage, he
could raise the cry "Ha Roul" and so in.
woke justice in Duke Rolt's name. At the
sound of the cry everybody was bound on
the instant to give chase To the offender,
and whoever failed to respond to the cry OF
"Ha RouW must pay a heavy fiue to Roll
himself. Thus began the old English fash
ion of hue and cry" as we'll MS our custom
of shouting "Hurrahp' when we are pleased
and excited
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

Nj. Perez, discerning student of chill
uren, has carefully recorded the life HE.
tories and early trials of two pet kittens
ana found constant occasion to draw analn.
giles between the kittens and infants, Rn,L
sho" at parallel stages of development the
appearance of the same faculties, often in
striklngly similar forms. Just AS infant.
learn TO distinguish between men and
moiien' between persons differently
dressed between old and young, kindred
ana stranger, so an Intelligent dog learnS
70 distinguish between visitors and beg.
gars, between strangers and friends of tba
family between those who will fondle him
and those who will not - III
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18
Punishment for Stealing in rany,sr

A New Yorker who has spent some years
at Tangier, the quaint old seaport of Mo
rocco and who returned to find the news.
papers more than ordinarily full of the
misdoings of bank and trust company of
fcials, thinks it is fortunate for the offend.
ers that they did not operate in that Afri.
can town. They don't mince matters over
there" he says, ''for a man who loses sight
of the distinction between his own proper.
ty and some one else's. When thief is
caught in the most trivial offense he is told
to hold up both hands. Then they ask
him which hand he would like to keen.
When he has made his choice they cut off
the other. This naturally creates a preiu.
dice against kleptomania in its various
forms, ! don't quite know what tbey
would do with a bank officer who got his
clutch on million, but guess they would
save the hand with its contents and throw
the rest Of him to the sharksn
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18
a eARBARous CIVILIZATION.
Popular Amusements In Roman Lond
We're Cruel and Inhuman.

Popular Amusements In Roman London
We're Cruel and Inhuman.
OF the character OF these entertainments
we have frequent representations on the
British cups and vases. They were too
often frightful copies of the worst fashions
of Rome. The bull fight, with its bestiarius.
or matador, Is seen painted on the common
pottery; 1t IL still preserved In the national
amusements Of Spain Cock fights were
also popular everywhere, and game cocks
with dangerous spurs have left their bones
among the ruins. Athletic sports and
chariot races were no doubt as well at
tended In Britain as at Rome or Constan-
tinople. But the amphitheaters, with
their hideous contests Of men with wild
beasts or with each other, seem to have fol
lowed the Roman colonist wherever he
wandered.
They are found along the wall OF Har
drian, In the cities Of the west, at Glouces
ter and Chester, and no doubt the amphi-
theater OF London will at some time be
exhumed or some traces found OF its Ill
omened site The amusements OF nation
indicate its character and It's fate. The
nation that sinks into cruel sensuality in
ita most popular recreations Is certain to
fall to decay. Progressive development to
ward humanity and refinement can alone
give q lasting strength to political institu-
tions, and Roman Britain persisted by its
own hand
The barbarous thirst for inhuman spec
tacles Is seen everywhere Ia the Roman re.
mains. On the cups and vases that adorned
the family table the favorite ornament
seems to have been taken from the sports
Of the arena. The bestiarius, or matador.
b seen engaged In fearful struggle with
the savage bull; the gladiator pursues his
deadly aim. These designs, which must
have educated the mind OF childhood and
been familiar to the masses OF the people,
could only have served 10 prepare them for
revolution and merciless disorder. II IL
not the ballads so much NJ the amusements
OF people that a wise legislator would
care to direct.
The ampbitheaters OF Colchester, Sill
chester, Caerleon, Marlborough and many
other cities were OF stone, like those OF
Rome, and we're OF considerable extent,
A thsater OF large size has been found at
st. Adams, but as yet we know too little
Of the Roman cities to determine how
many boosted their places Of public amuse.
ment We can only infer that no large
town was without its amphitheater The
tale told on the Roman pottery seems con
elusive. The Romano British were accus-
toned from childhood to delight In scenes
OF cruelty aud human woe, Eugene Law
romeo in Harper's.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-18

A German cobbler. who was reputed to
be one Of the LATEST and most worthless
men in Leadville. dug hole in his yard
and sailed 1t with ore, aud, showing the
pit to the representatives of n company. be
was able to sell out for g., 500. During the
carouse which followed be boasted publicly
Of the way in which he had fooled the
capitalists, but before the purchasers OF
his property heard OF these remarks they
had sunk the shaft four feet deeper and
had struck one OF the richest veins of car
Donate In Lesdville The cobbler, on learn
ing what had happened, danced about the
edge Of the pit and swore that he had been
swindled. The mine yielded about 81, 0o0..
O0u-pittsburg Dispatch.