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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
From Coal Mine to Harem.

Here is little romance in real life
which am inclined to think would be
hard to beat. There was q few years
ago very beautiful girl working in the
coal mines of France. Some charitable
person, struck no doubt by the girls
wonderful beauty, found her asituation
in famous dressmaking establish
ment in Paris, where her superior in
telligence soon made her favorite with
the madame" says correspondent of
the Leeds Mercury.
She was at last sent to CONSTANT
nople with some dresses which had been
ordered by the Sultan's mother, and
from that time nothing was heard OF
her for many years. She might, per-
haps. have faded out of their memory
had not relative died and left her
small inheritance. Notices We're then
published asking for her whereabouts.
In answer to these splendid equip
age drew up in front of the Embassy,
and the Sultan's favorite wife stepped
out to declare herself the one-time Flora
Collin. She renowned the legacy in
favor of her kindred, who were still
poor, and, in reply to many inquiries,
she explained that it was the old story
of love at first sight between the Sultan
and the beautiful modiste.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
Not Welcome.

No woman is permitted to land on
the island of Fernando do Noronha,
one of group in the South Atlantic
Ocean belonging to Brazil. 1t is sta
ton for men canvicts from Brazil, and
women are strenuously prohibited from
embarking there.
On what is almost an island. the pen.
insula of Athos, ON the Egean Sea,
in Turkey in Europe, there exists a
monastic republic of six thousand
monks, governed by four presidents,
the senior of whom is called the Man
of Athos."
No female is allowed to enter the
peninsula. The monks live on herbs,
fruits and fish, following the precepts
of st. Basil, They dwell in twenty
large monasteries and in a number of
minor hermitages. The community
enjoys complete autonomy in consider
alton Of q payment to the Sultan of
Turkey Of two Thousand dollars yearly.
Women are not allowed to sit in the
body of the Temple Church of Lon
don, because, many hundred years ago
the seats were reserved for the monk
ISL knights for whom the church was
erected.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
More Protection to Whiskey

The incoming administration is
looking round in advance Tor further
sources of revenue and an extra tax
on whiskey and beer it thinks is
about the pan to "raise the wind"
This is called "taxing luxuries"(?)
What does our esteemed contem-
porary the Voice say to this ? Is
the prohibition party IN favor OF the
liquor tax or ls it opposed to it and
in favor of its repeal ? The Voice
is the oracle of the little party of
large expectations. We are not
aware if it has ever expressed the
sentiments of the party on the gov
ernment liquor tax. For our part
we advocate the unconditional repeal
of this government tax on liquors,
and q graduated income tax to make
up the deficiency in the revenue.
Three hundred millions could be
readily raised by an income tax, and
If there is a possible tax on luxuries
that would be the tax.
Paradoxical as it may seem a
government tax on liquors is a pro
tective law of the business There
is no business so highly protected as
the liquor business, and last year it
paid about one hundred and twenty
million dollars to the government
for that fostering care and protection,
and enjoys gross income, by
virtue of that fostering care, OF
about twelve hundred millions an
nually. The liquor business is q
monopoly in every christian country
in the world, and it is made so for a
purpose That purpose is to de
bauch the masses in order that The
classes may plumber and rule them
with greater ease.
When the United States CON-
menced cultivating millionaires and
trsmps, it laid special tax on
liquor just as the old world govern
meDts do.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
Things Will Continue to Move in
the Same Course.

John M. Pollard writes from
Norton, Ohio, and says money is
very scarce in that section. Debts
crowding. Taxation increasing.
Best wheat ouly Is cents per bushel,
price that yields no profit, except
in exercise, to the farmer and his
family, and that all farm property is
steadily decreasing in value. This
is the steady cry that comes up from
all parts of the country. Now let all
silver coins by Congress be declared
outlaws, and that whoever uses them
shall be fined. That all legal tender
greenbacks be called in and burned.
That gold shall be the only legal
tender for debts and taxes. This
will reduce improved farm lands 10
price down to about two dollars per
acre and result in sweeping all who
haye hired money and given notes
secured by mortgages, from the face
of the field. and end in legal con
fscation of farm property, say at the
iobC Va Az pei SSho q val ~ ouno ! IL
ten years American farmers and
planters will be tramps or hired men
working for new masters.-Pomroy's
Advanced Thought
The above money policy is the
financial policy of the republican
party. The people, the working.
trading. ordinary people of that or
any other party do not mean that
such results shall follow, but the
upper. managing. Plutocratic class
do mean just That. The conditions
above enumerated can lead to no
other result The people have taken
the alarm and focked over to the
democrat party for the time being.
But has that party any policy on
money matters differing from the
above 1t has not. Things will
continue to move steadily 10 that
direction without single break, halt
or interruption.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
A Dangerous Element.

II is of little use to condemn pub
'ic abuses and point out no remedy.
And this is the policy pursued by
the monopoly papers, They cry ont
against trusts. mohopolies and cor
ruption in city government, and it is
noticeable they never offer any rem
edy. but on the contrary attack the
reiormers and reform papers with
virulent abuse when measures are
proposed by them to cure this scan
daluos misgovernment 1t is part
of their treacherous plan to pretend
to be On the side of the people and
against wrong doera, 90 as to allay
suspicion of their motives, and array
the public against the real friends
and defenders OF justice by false rep
resentations and misleading state
ments, while keeping behind the
disguise of abusing trusts, deals,
combines and monopolies. The daily
paper has grown TO be very danger
Gus element in our politics and
morals. Tie reasOn is not difficult
to discover. The exploiting, monOp'
oily class owns them all.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
An Observing Baker,

During war between Austria and
Turkey baker in his cellar kneading
bread noticed slight noise rising and
falling at intervals, which seemed to
come from distant corner of his cellar,
says Youths Companion.
He stopped his work, and tracing the
sounds discovered that they were
caused by few marbles dancing up
and down on the head of little drum
his child had left there.
The majority of persons would have
been satisfied to attribute the motion of
the marbles to the rumbling in the
street, or to the occasional firing of
guns, but this man was an observer.
Surprised at the perfect regularity
with which the marbles jumped from
the drum head, he put his ear to the
ground and noticed distant tapping.
He recalled how as a boy he had
heard from one end of a long log COM
panion scratching with pin upon the
other end. and he judged that the earth
was just such conductor of sounds as
the log had been.
Suddenly it flashed upon him that
what he heard was the sound of pick,
and that the Turks were doing what had
SO long been feared, undermining the
city. The news was carried to the Aus
trian General. examination made, a
counter mine prepared and exploded,
and the Turks put to flight.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
He Was Irreslstible.

One of the many advantages of an ed
ncqtien is displayed in the case of a ne
gro woman who not long ago married a
man of unprepossessing appearance and
anything but an amiable disposition,
says Youths Companion.
She had formerly been servant, and
one of the young ladies of the family
with whom she had lived asked her how
she ever came to marry Pompey.
What in the world did he say to you,
Dinah, she inquired, ito persuade you
to marry him2'
Law sakes, Miss Mary, chile!" ejac-
plated the good natured Dinah, "you
know dat | cpaldn't max no answer to
Pomp when he come a-co'tin' oh me,
cawse Pomp he's edicated, honey, don
you seeG Why, L s'mise dat he got
some OBJ his words out de jogafy, an a
whole possy of 'em out de dictionary,
an so, co'se, Miss Mary, it want no use
OBJ me tryin' to hold out against Pomp!"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
RATS PLAY AT BALL WITH EGGS.
Tossing and Catching Them as They Carry
Them Away.

Tossing and Catching Them as Ihey Carry
Them Away.
do you want to see something
funny ?" said drug clerk to reporter
one evening. OF course, the reporter
was not averse to seeing something in
she humorous line and SO informed the
mixer of pills and powders, says the
Washington Post.
-" Well, if no one comes in for mo-
ment I'll show you, said he, placing
basket of eggs. used in making egg
phosphates, from the top of the soda
fountain to the counter. "Now stand
here aud watch the rats, and the news
man stood where he could get view.
1t took but moments silence, and
then out popped hoary old rat, soon
followed by three more. They seemed
TO understand their part, and climbed
nimbly up box about foot high, used
in covering pipes, and from that to the
tray under the counter where the glasses
are washed. Up on top of another box
they went, and then to the top of the
counter.
The first descended to the floor, the
second remained ON the box, the third
in the tray and the fourth on the high
box. Seeing they were all there the
I'D rat on top walked to the eggs and
picked up one, carrying it with his front
legs, walking on his hind feet like SPUR
rel. He dropped it over and it was
caught by the rat beneath, who in turn
gave it to the one beneath him.
This rat jumped down and rolled the
egg under the soda fountain. In this
manner they carried down six eggs in
exactly one minute, when, thinking the
fun was expensive, the clerk drove them
away.
They will steal them by the dozen if
I'll let them, said the clerk, land we
have to keep them on top Of the foun-
TAIN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
The Chicaro Tribune has nrenared an

The Chicago Tribune has prepared an
array of statistics showing the number
of crimes committed in the United
States during the year 1892. Its record
shows that last year there were 1872
murders against 1905 in 1891, 1890 in
1890 and 1867 in 1889. OF these murder
ers only 1O7 were hanged in the entire
country in 1892 This showing is sad
commentary on our civilization. How
many years will it take us to rival the
criminal record of the worst parts of
the old countries, where oppression,
poverty and famine have brutalized
the people? We are travelling the
road they have gone at a rapid pace.
Glass legislation is the primary cause
of this awful decadence.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
The Way The Money Goes.

D:exel, Morgan & Co. are said to
have sold about 100000 of Ele.
waited Railroad bonds IN Europe last
week, and Speyer & Co. have sold
about 81 100000 Of other bonds
FSnancier.
The interest on these bonds will
all go to Europe IN gold. When a
profitable enterprise is to be prose-
cuted in the United States. the pro-
motors have to go to Europe and
mortgage it to get money to carry it
through, and yet the banking class
and their dupes tell the people there
is ''plenty" q of money in the
country. Then why go away to
borrow =? The question arises here {:
why does the banking class advance
such theory? Because the smaller
the quantity of real money the great
er the quantity of credit money will
have to be made use of py persons
employed in all lines of business.
The banks alone can furnish this
credit money and they collect interest
on every dollar of It. The United
States government is the source from
which almost all of this credit is
derived And the following is the
indirect way in which the banks
secure the grant of this government
credit or endorsement. They pro
cure charter from the government
to do business, and at the same time
they are granted the use of 80 per
cent of the par value of the collateral
security they are required to deposit
with the U. S. Treasurer. This
charter establishes the banks credit
with the public. The notes the bank
receives from the government are
made secure to the people by the
government. Hence the public con
fdence in their government has been
transferred to the bank, and it can
safely loan this hypothecated gov
eminent credit to the amount of 95
per cent, or $95 in credit is loaned to
the people in the industrial pursuits
for every SIS in actual money in cir.
cnlation. You see what a fat thing
the national banks have exploiting
Uncle Sans credit, and why they all
declare there is PLENTY of money.
And so there is-for the banks.
When you hear laborlng man say
:here is enough of money in the
country tell him he's a sucker!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
Good Looks.

Good looks are more than skin deep,
depending upon healthy eoaqitiop Of
all the vital organs. If the liver be 10
active. you have bilious look, if your
stomach be disordered you have dys.
peptic look, and if your kidneys be
affected you have a pinched look.
Secure good health and you will have
good looks. Electric lsitters is the
great Alternative and tonic acts directly
on these vital organs. Cures pimples,
blOtches, boils aud gives a good com
pIexion. Sold at l.. r. Klrk's drug
store, 800. per bottle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13

The Maryland Electoral College
met in the Senate Chamber at
Annapolis, on Monday last and
formally cast the vote of the State
for President and Vice President of
the United States Major W. g
Purnell acted as Secretary to the
College They voted Grover Cleve-
land for President of the United
States for four years from the 4th
of March next, snd for Adali Steven.
son for Vice-President for the same
period.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13

telegraph lines of the country under govern
ment management is the first steps to be
taken in the coming reform, and with these
principles as their platform the Peoples
party goes before the country, appealing to
the earnest, honest, industrial classes TO join
in one common brotherhood, rather than a
political party, for the rescue of their
usurped rights.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
Four Retrieved.

Governor Brown has committed the sen.
tence of four Of the murderers of DR.. Hill
who were to have been hanged on Friday
next, to imprisonment in the pententiary
for life. The names of the reprieved are
HURT, Emery, Benson and Barnard, the
four are the boys who took part in the
murder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13
GENERAL BUTLER DEAD.
The Famous Massachusetts Poll
tician Expires in Washington.

Benjamin F. Butler, Of Massachusetts,,
died at his Washington residence, on New
Jersey avenue, at halfpast one Tuesday
morning.
The country. had few ADLER men than
Benjamin F. Butler in his palmy days. He
was determined and aggressive antagonist,
and received probably more abuse from
party politicians Than any other man of his
time. Henry Clay is the only other man
who received q like measure of abuse from
democrat party politicians.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13

Provide yourself with a bottle of
Ayers Cherry Pectoral, and 80 have
the means at hand for coutending sue
cessfully with a sudden cold. AS an
emergency medicine, it has no equal,
and leading physicians everywhere re-
commend it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13

Many farmers complain they do
not have time to read because they
nave TO work so hard They have to
work $50 hard" because they will
not take time to read. See ?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-13

GoLD-~A yellow metal by which
all debts are incFeased in value and
all other products lowered ;p price.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-16
Language OF the Freas,

1t may be interesting to note the va.
riety of languages employed in the
worlds newspaper press. They are as
follows: Armenian, Arabic, Assamese
Bengali, Bohemian, Burmese, Bulgari.
an, Caranese. Cherokee, Chaldian.
Croatian, Chinese, Czeehish. Danish.
Dutch, English, Estnish, French. Elem.
ISL, FIJI, Finnish, German, Gujarati,
Hebrew, Hindu. Hindustani, Hawaiian.
Hungarian, Greek ancient and mod.
srn), Icelandic. Italian, japanese. Java.
nese, Kafr, Kalmuck, Latin, Lettish.
Magyar, Malay, Malagasi, Maori. Ma.
rathi. Moldavian, Norwegian, Persian.
Portuguese, Polish. Rouman, Russian,
Ruthenian. Slavonic, Servian, Siamese,
Singhalese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swed.
ish, Syriac, Tartar, Tamil, Telugu,
Turkish, Urdu and Welsh.-Albanv Tx.
Dress.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-16
WATCH THE GREENBACK.

The PlutOcracy is Paving the Way for an
Excuse to Call Them in and Retire
Them.
Wall street and the administration
are determined to demonetize silver.
and to quiet the west and south. which
demand more money. propose state
bank issues in lieu thereof. This would
place the country on gold basis. Gold
would be money of settlement-it
would be the tender stipulated in all
cOntracts-and in this coin would all
debtV be liquidated. The state bank
notes cannot be made legal tender
by the power Of issue, hence would not
be the money of account on settlement
day. Inability to obtain gold with
which to liquidate indebtedness. would
force a property scttlement-th sher-
ifs hammer would convey TO Shylock
his pound of flesh. But you say, the
greenbacks, what of them? They are
legal tenders, it is true But stop. In
the early hour. soon after the wildcat
note springs into existence, it will be
said by the subsidized press that we
are finally landed on terra frma, the
country has an abundance of money,
times are good, everybody is prosper
Gus, and that, well, in a word, we do
not need the greenback. Hold. Don't
get excited. The greenback must 60
The powers that be have so decided.
But how will they be removed? Easy
eGough Listen:
The greenbacks are a debt, non-inter.
est bearing, it is true The subsidized
press will suddenly set up 'consiSten.
cy" howl. They will say. substan.
tally: THE government should liqui.
date its indebtedness as rapidly as pos.
sible. The bonds are not yet due, but
the greenbacks can be retired" The
repeal of the prohibitcry tax on state
bank issues means the esta blishment Of
hundreds of these banks all over the
country, and these institutions will is
sue hundreds Of millions of state bank
currency. This means the demonetiz.
alton of silver and the retirement of
the greenbacks.
Gold will then be the only legal
tender. As was the case before the
war, about every ten years will come
the day of general settlement, when
property will change hands, In other
words, then will periodical financial re.
WILSON'S sweep over the land. When
the squall comes the MORTGAGE will
double and treble his wealth, and the
debtor-he can go farther west.-Non-
confOrmist.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-16
An Honest Confession.

A Los Angeles paper approvingly
quotes the estimate that there is S6l3.-
100000 of gold in the United States, of
which S51S,OOO,OOO is in circulation.
Such a quantity is only mythical At
the date Of reports made early in last
March the national banks in the four.
teen reserve cities held total of S113.-
OOO,O 600, and it is probable that not more
than 100000. 900 OF this was in actual
gold, the rest being in the shape of
certificates issued against gold held in
the national treasury and otherwise
counted as as part of the available sup
ply. Allowing for the $4,000, 900 I'M
derstood to be held by the state
banks in New York and estimating lib
orally for what is held By other banks
throughout the country, in safe de-
positories and private boards. It is diff
cult to see how there can be a total of
more than sl5O,OOO,OOO outside Of what
is held by the government FIVE sup
pose this estimate to be too small by as
much as % per cent the necessary con.
clusion is that the aggregate of public
and private holdings, in the national
treasury as well as outside of II, does
not exceed s4OO,OOO,OOO or barely two.
thirds of the amount claimed. Chicago
Tribune.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-16
THAT DOLLARS WORTH.

If a Dozen Goose Eggs Were Legal Tea
der for a Dollar They Would At AL
Times BE Worth Dollar.
The Louisville Courier-Journal con-
tends that it is the market and not the
law that gives to gold its price, or
value, and as an argument in support
of its contention says that if you melt
the gold in a gold dollar it will yet be
worth dollar in its mercantile form.
What gibbering idiots these goldolo-
tors are. Of course the metal would be
worth a dollar, because if presented at
the mint the law would coin it into a
legal tender dollar. A bushel of pota-
toes or a dozen goose eggs would al
ways be worth a dollar under the same
conditions and circumstances.
The annual production of gold APP
proximates five millions of ounces, of
which about three and half million
ounces are used in the arts. Suppose
the nations of the earth should treat
gold as they have treated silver, what
does Mr.. WatterSon imagine 1922
grains of pure gold would be worth in
the markets Of the world?
1t is estimated that the worlds stock
of gold aggregates the sum total of
about two hundred millions of ounces,
including the Asian boards. Suppose
Mr.. Watterson could cause to be melted
up this entire worlds stock of gold
and could procure the repeal of all gold
coinage laws, what does he suppose
gold bullion would then be worth in
The markets of the world? Mr.. Waiter
s. MS Judgment is warped bya blind be-
lief in the metallic delusion.
GEORGE G. WARD.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-06-16
Scotch Screens,

Anovelty is called Scotch screen:
1t is triptych about the size of an or
binary small screen in fine French wal
nut. The center panel is covered with
genuine Scotch plaid and is furnished
forth with the entire paraphernalia o,
the highlander, arranged in picturesque
group. There is the silver thistle for
his cap, the wide betassedled pouch
the clasp for the sash, revolvers WITH
queer little springs to keep them from
slipping from the belt. and the knife.
without which, of course, no offensive
and defensive outfit of the typical Scot
could be considered complete. On the
back Of this unusual piece Of furniture
are interlaeed leather straps for pic
lures Of the clan.-St. Louis Republic.