davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
STATES OUT OF DEBT.
Illinois Is One of Them, but Municipsll-
ties Have Huge Financial Burdens.

ties Have Huge Financial Burdens.
Five states-Iowa, Vermont, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Illinois-have no
Understanding debt, and there are
six OF seven other states whose bonded
debts are mere bagatelles. Among the
number are New Jersey, Nebraska,
Kentucky and California. In current
news paragraph, which contains the
above information, it is said that sex
elusive of the south the states of the
union are generally free from debt, I"
and that ''the annual interest charge of
all the states collectively is less than
that of single railroad, the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe." To a foreigner,
or anyone else not familiar with the
facts, this would convey the impression
that the Americans bear an extremely
light burden of debt. Such an idea
would be somewhat modified, how
ever, says the Cincinnati Times-Star,
by the knowledge that the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe pays interest on
$500, 100000 or more, the annual inter-
est charge exceeding $25, 1000, 000-al-
most as much as the entire interest
charge of the federal government. It
is true that the state debts outside of
the south are small, yet the aggregate
is far from being a trife. The south
ern states have bonded indebtedness
of $114, 100000 in round numbers. The
total bonded indebtedness of all the
states in 1890 was 1924, 600, 900, on which
the annual interest charge was $1O,-
100000. The total bonded debt of the
states is about one-third of the ma
tional Understanding debt.
The people of this country would
have good reason to consider them
selves espe cially blest in the matter of
taxation for interest on public debts if
they had nothing more to pay than the
interest on the national and state
bonded Indebtedness. 1t is the local
burdens that weigh heavily upon their
shoulders, and, although these debts
may be less onerous than those borne
in other countries, they are not to be
dismissed as matters of no great i'm
portance, as may be done in the case
of state debts. The aggregate of coun-
ty and municipal Indebtedness in 1890
was about 5000, 900, O00-nearly $780,
100000 more than the bonded debt Of
the United States. Of this vast amount
about $s46, 100000 was upon municipal
tiles and $144 100000 upon counties. It
has been frequently said that Ohio
heads the list of the states in the
amount of local Indebtedness. The
census figures of 1890 do not confirm
this assertion. The county and munich
pal Indebtedness of Ohio in the census
year was little more than 500, 600, 900,
of which $50, 900, 900 rested upon munic-
qualities. Pennsylvania had SOL, 0O0,-
600 of local debts, Massachusetts, $780,
100000 and New York $244, 1000, 900. If
the local bonded indebtedness of the
various states was disappearing as
rapidly as is the debt of the United
States, there would be ample cause
for congratulation. But it has been
fast increasing for many years, and in
the proceedings of the legislatures
that recently adjourned there was
nothing to show that the reckless dis
position for heaping up local burdens
has abated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
FACTS ABOUT HAY FEVER.
1t and Kindred Distempers Are Not Pc
culiar to Any One Country.

1t and Kindred Distempers Are Not Pc
culiar to Any One Country.
Hay fever has been more frequently
observed in England than in any other
country, but the apparent greater
prevalence of the affection in this
country as compared with others may
in some measure be probably due, says
a writer on the subject in Hygiene, to
the attention which has been directed
to it by the writings of DR.. Bostock
and others. From different published
accounts it is evident that the disorder
is not at all uncommon in Germany,
Belgium, France and Switzerland, and
cases have also been recorded of hay
fever occurring in Italy, Austria, Rus
STA, Denmark and other European
countries. An analogous affection, at
tributed to the odor of the roses when
in bloom, is by no means uncommon in
some parts of the United States, where
rose trees are cultivated in large num-
bers. 1t is known by the names of
rose cold, rose catarrh, rose fever. 1t
has also been observed in England.
The sense of smell, like the other fac
ulties, is liable to undergo modifica-
ton or intensifcation $50 to speak, at
times. Everyone is aware how pain
fully acute the senses, especially those
of hearing and seeing, become dur
ing exhausting illness and in certain
nervous conditions, and the faculty
of smelling is singularly subject
to variation, both in disease and
health. Numerous observation-disclosures
cases have been recorded of individu-
ais, evidently in the enjoyment of good
health, who have been suddenly affect
ed by the smell of some flower or ami
NAL. Some persons cannot bear the
scent of particular flowers, such as, for
instance, roses and geraniums; and an
anecdote is told of distinguished
general who, although he had gone
through many campaigns with great
bravery, always turned pale and faint
ed at the smell of roses suddenly held
before him. Others, again, are visihly
disturbed and annoyed by the smell of
different animals. DR.. Carpenter re-
lates, in his principles of Human
Physiology" the case of blind gen.
tleman who could always tell by his
sense of smell whenever q cat came
into the room. Hay fever is more fire.
quently observed in rural districts than
in towns and in the suburbs than in
the central parts of large cities, and it
Is also more common in localities
where grass is chiefly grown than
those in which wheat crops are princi-
pally cultivated or which are situated
near to the seacoast. Although hay
fever is generally observed in rural
districts it does not follow, as some
writer's have advanced, that residents
in large towns are altogether exempt
from its attacks. The writer has seen
the affection on many occasions in per-
sons living in London-in Portland |
place, Grosvenor square, Bond street, |
Kensington, Bayswater, Blackfriars, !
Thames street, City road, Houndsditch,
Hackney, Islington and Pimlico, for |
example, 49,. 81. ---.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
THAT BOSTON MAID,


That Boston maid 1 much admire because she
puzzles me.
Profound she is in commonplace as well as
repartee
OF sunset or of promenade, of snowstorm or Of
dew,
Her speech is polysyllable, and thus is ever
new.
We walked together-she and lone evening In
the rain,
And saw rainbow afterward. And yet it were
quite vain
For me to try to translate her. aqueous va
por," ''hue,''
"Prismatic arch coucentric''-these, perhaps,
will give a clew.
Like other maids, she loves ice cream, and soda
water, too;
Bnt in their nomination she is apt to rattle you.
"Congealed CONNECTION is the one and 1 am
not quite sure
Just what she calls the other in her pet nomen-
clature
Though angular in speech, she is pretty girl
to see,
And therefore admire her much, although she
puzzles me-
Propose? dare not; yet of life year or two
would give
To know just how she would frame yes-or yet
negativel
j A. Waldron, in Judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15

Natural science is not only occupied
with great and important problems,
but devotes considerable attention and
thoroughness to very small ones,
Angus Rankin has given two years of
ardent study and research to the prob
lem of dust PARTICLES in the air, and the
result of his examination is that in
mountainous regions six hundred and
ninety-six particles of dust are allotted
to each cubic half-inch of air in one
year. In London one hundred thou
sand particles of dust fall to each cubic
half-inch of air during the same space
of time, and other large cities are not
likely to fare better than this approx.
nation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
PEREeRINE BROWNS TELEGRAM
When i'll cures i'll,
AS it often will,

PEHEGHINE BROWN'S ELEGRAM
When ill cures i'll,
AS it often will,
IT'S not always q homeopathic pill,
But dose, sometimes that will cure or kill
How the fates did frown
On Pcregrine Brown,
The wretchedest man in Meadowtownl
When he went to buy,
The price was high:
When he went to SELL the price went down.
His pipe went out, while his chimney smoked;
His well ran dry, though his hay was soaked
1t wouldn't have been so hard to bear
II his placid wife had borne her share
OF Fortunes tricks in her own domain;
But her butter 'came,' and the kindly rain
Fell only on her serried box
Her pansy beds, and her starry phlox;
Though the chimney smoked, her bread was
light,
Her ranks of milk pans silver bright;
And she always sung the same old song:
'It's all your fault that things go wrongl"
At last one day,
A gate gave way,
And the cows broke loose in wild foray
On his neighbours cornfeld. Hip, hoorayl
If the last straw breaks the cancels back,
'Twere strange, indeed, if so huge pack
Did not break down
Poor Peregrine Brown
From his wife's shrill tongue and his neigh.
bors' ire
He fed; but the omnipresent wire.
That probes the world with its points Of fire,
Pierced to his hiding place. 1t said:
"Peregrine Brown, your child is dead;
Your wife is dying' Home he sped,
Forgetting the ills that he had fed,
Like gnat-stings healed a month ago,
In the terrible woe
That froze his heart like shroud Of snow.
At the well-known farm,
The angry neighbor touched his arm,
AS he growled: "Now pay me for my corn,
That your COWS destroyed" With flash of
scorn
Brown flung him his due. "Now tell me, man,
Does my wife yet liver" The churl began,
With shame flushed cheek, to make reply:
1T had never heard she was like to diel
Who told youY'-A patter Of little feet
Cut short his words. No sound more sweet
Is heard in Heaven With sobs OF joy
The father clasped to his heart his boy.
Though the rain still soaks
His hay and his rye;
Though his chimney smokes,
And his well runs dry;
Though the price is high
When he goes to buy
And is low as his well
When he goes to sell;
Though his ''hired man" will run away
On the very morn of haying day;
Though his cows prefer green corn to hay,
And his wife still sings the same old song:
"lt's all your fault that things go wrong'
Though the fates still frown
Qn minor way)
Yet Peregrlne Brown
Is blitbe and gay
IN fact, as all his neighbors say,
He's the happiest man in Meadowtown
Edward Payson Jackson, in Youths Com.
paniOn.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
A BATTLING TIME.
Given Stick and Picket Fence the BOY
Is Bound to Have 1t.

Given Stick and Picket Fence the BOY
Is Bound to Have 1t,
"Every middle.aged man of sound
memory who was brought up in town"
said Mr.. Gratebar, twill recall the fact
that when he was boy he found great
delight in rafting stick along the
picket fences. This amusement of
childhood, like many others of that
period of life, appears to have been
transmitted from generation to genera
ton without material change. The
strings of spools and the soldier hats
and so on of the children of to-day are
substantially like those of their fore
fathers. But it might seem to some
that this succession is in danger of be-
ing broken. in many suburban towns
and villages there is now no picket
fence. The modern spirit says lawns,
and SO there are many places where
the houses are as if in parks, and where
the younger children might not know
picket fence if they should see one.
have two children, for instance, who
am quite sure have never enjoyed the
felicity of rafting hard stick against
the resounding pickets. 1t might in
deed seem, under such circumstances,
that this is one of the enjoyments OF
childhood which in some families might
be lost altogether; that one could
scarcely expect the children of these
children who have never ratified pickets
to think of it themselves; but 1 cannot
believe this l believe, rather, that if
in their youth the children of these
children should come upon a town
where picket fences still remained they
would pick up tie hardest stick and
go quite naturally and very gleeful-
ly rafting it along the pickets; for
cannot believe nat habit grounded
for centuries in the human race can be
utterly lost by its lapse in single gen.
eration.-N. Y. Sun
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15

Simmons-What are you working on
now, Timmins?
Timmins-I am writing a detective,
story.
Simmons-I thought that field had
been worked to death.
Timmins - But this is realistic
story. The detective does not detect
anything .-Indianapolis Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
EupheInisn.

The Gentleman from Texas-Twiz-.
zles is liar!
The Gentleman from Boston-On ma
ture reflection would you not prefer to
make the intimation that Twizzles is
one-ahem-who has been led to en-
brace the doctrine-er-that fiction
has in it higher end than fact?-Chi-
cago Tribune
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
He Won't BE Eyiled.

Mouldy Mille-By all tn saints, has
yer lost yer mind? Wot you carryin'
that saw fer?
Ragged Robert-It's all right 1 stop
at houses and offer to saw some wood
fer me dinner
you'll be expelled from the Travel
in Gentlemens union.
''No, won't. After dinner tell 'em
| can't WORK till file me saw. They
lend me a file and tell me to go way
off where they won't hear me film.
Most any saloon will give drink fer
q good file. IN. Y Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15

Little Boy-Every time tie my shoe
1aces they slip. wish you'd tie them
in pine knot for me.
Grandpa-What sort of a knot is
that?
Little Boy-I don't know, but I've
heard it's tough.-Good News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
A COPPERHEAD.


Uncle Geoffrey-What's this, hear,
BERTHE, about the engagement between
you and Ethel being broken off? I
thought that was settled thing.
BERTHE Jagged seven) - Yes, Uncle
Godfrey. I have decided to become a
bachelor like you. See what good
time you have, with your horses and
your club, while papa has to buy me
three pairs of shoes month, and has
a wife who nags him besides.-Judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
The Missing Link,

The hand organ has often been voted
nuisance, but never before, probably,
for the reason that it set up too high
standard.
Edith had been to church for the
first time.
''And what did you think of it9'
asked her mother.
81 didn't like the organ very we'll"
'Why not?"
Clause there wasn't any monkey
with it. "-Harvard Lampoon.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
Moldine Public Sentiment.

Wife-John, your hair is coming out
at terrible rate.
Husband-I know 1t, my dear. I
must do something for it at once
Wife, wish you would, John, for
my sake. You know how people will
talk.-Texas Siftings.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15

Little Dot-I guess Mr.. Nexdoor is
awful poor.
Mamma-Why so?
Little Dot-Mrs. NeXdoor told her
little girl that candy would spoil her
teeth.-Good News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
How Was His Hair Parted ?

He-Is my hat on straight?
She-Yes. The idea! Why do you
ask such question?
Helm going out in a canoe, and
don't want to overbalance it.-Vogue.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
Would Make a Lamp Smoke.

''Do make myself plain?" asked the
angular lecturer on woman's rights,
stopping in the middle of her discourse.
"You don't have to, num-" replied a
voice from the rear, ''the Lord done it
for you long ago."-Milwaukee Jour
nal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15

''Did do well?" asked the amateur
Hamlet of the stage manager, after the
play was over.
'Well rather. You got off the stage
alive. "-Brooklyn Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
Willing to Oblige.

Guard - Fraulein, get in quick,
please! The train is just going to
start!
Young Lady-But want to give my
sister kiss.
Guard-Get in, get in; I'll see to that.
-Frauenzeitung.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
Simple.

President Life Insurance Company
Make note to fire the young man who
has charge of sending floral pillows to
the funerals of deceased policy holders.
Secretary-What has he done?
President-Sent one inscribed: ellis
gain is our loss'-Truth
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
Could Serve Him.

Waiter-What will you have?
Guest-I don't know; am hungry
enough to eat horse.
Yes, sir; sirloin or tenderloin, sir?''
Chicago Record. - !
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
The Mule KneM.

Driver-Can't help swearin', mum.
That thar mule knows every time I
swear at him.
Old LADY, noticed he looked sort
o. disgusted.-N. Y. Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15

"A Change -Starvling-"We've got
a French cock at our boarding house
now" Dumpling-"Notice any differ
ence?" Starvling-"Yes; the hash is
served up as soup."-Puck,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15

I1berated.
Although the man she's wed is poor,
Her heart is filled with cheer;
For her plebeian name of Smith
Is changed to We're de We're.
Brooklyn Life,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
The Joy Of Sudden Death.

It is more than twenty years ago since
Bishop WHEREFORE, riding with Earl
Granville to Mr.. Leveson-Gower's seat
in Surrey, where Mr.. Gladstone so often
stays, fell from his horse and was
killed. 1t was said at the time that he
desired sudden death. Singular con-
firmation of this is afforded by story
just told in an obituary notice of the
Rev. George Crabbe Rolfe, for fifty-four
years vicar of HALEY, Oxon. The
writer says: "On one occasion the
Bishop and Mr.. Rolfe were riding to-
gether down a very steep hill in the
parish, the vicar on his old pony, the
bishop, as usual, on his own good
mount. The latter rode down some
what too precipitately for the vicar and
his pony, and Mr.. Rolfe, on catching
his lordship up, twitted him upon his
intrepid horsemanship. To this the
bishop replied that sudden death was
about the happiest thing that could hap
pen man. Pal Mall Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
A Wiltshire LabOrer's Bill of Fare

The cred Van" of the Land Restora-
ton League has been visiting the viii
lagos and hamlets in Wiltshire, Eng
land, during the past few weeks, and
the lecturers have lent a helping hand
to the Willis General and Agricultural
Workers Union. This week the van
has been in West Wits. Speaking at a
meeting in Kingston Deverill the other
evening, the lecturer, Mr.. Riley, said a
iaborer's wife in East Willis had sup
piled him with details of how she man
aged to keep the family on lis week.
Her husband was a cowman, receiving
that sum as wages, and their family
numbered seven-five children, whose
ages ranged from to II. This is how
she spent the lis: Six gallons Of bread
at 60 gallon, As IS; half-gallon of -four
for buildings, 4ad; bib tea, 1Od; Il ID
bacon, Is; l 10 butter and cheese, IS
3d.; 3 ID sugar, I'D; oil, Sd; half-hun-
dred weight of coal, Cd; soda, Id; soap,
3D.; tobacco, Sd; total, los 92d. Nothing
was allowed for clothing or shoes, and
the woman told him that when they
wanted those necessaries they had to
reduce their food supply, or go in debt,
and get out as best they could. Except
at Whitsuntide they never had any
fresh meat. The position Of that family
was that OF hundreds in the county of
Willis, and many had not more than los
L
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
4 Mouse Ran Down Her Throat.

A woman living in the vicinity of Ed
win Crary's drug store recently threw
up from her stomach a full-grOwn
mouse The woman had not been feel
ing well during the morning, and about
II o'clock complained to one of her
neighbors who found her laboring con-
siderably in her efforts TO throw some
thing off her stomach. The neighbor,
however, laid the cause of the trouble
to something else, and when physi-
elan was called the patient was told by
him there was nothing serious the mat
ter. During the evening, however,
some medicine was obtained from
the drug store which acted as an
emetic, and the mouse then made
its appearance. How the mouse could
have gained access to the stomach was
at first a mystery. The woman is a
heavy sleeper, and the only reasonable
explanation is that she fell asleep with
her mouth open and the mouse, bent
on exploring every unknown region
suitable for hiding place, ran down
her throat, producing the next morn
ing the feeling of nausea which caused
the medicine to be sent for. The story
was d1sbelieved at the. drug store till
the dead mouse was taken there and
exhibited to the unbelievers. The
woman has since experienced no bad
effects from the unwelcome visitor
Hartford CO1Jr0nt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-04
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the'needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and ST. bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any So bstitute if offered.