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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
TENANTED BY WILD HOGS.
A Large Alabama Tract Whore No HUI.
man Being Dwells.

A Large Alabama Tract Whore No HUI
man Being Dwells.
In the northern part of Limestone
county, Ala, is tract of land con-
sisting of more than one thousand
acres, which is not on the map of the
state, nor can it be found in the reg
ister's office of that county. No one
claims it and no taxes have ever been
paid on it, 1t is vast wilderness, in
habited by snakes, deer and razorback
hogs. 1t is a free hunting ground, and
thousands of these hogs are killed
every year, more for sport than for
anything else. The hogs are wild and
cannot be domesticated. Their yield
is said to be enormous. Tom Booth, of
Pulaski, Tenn. secured male and fe-
male and did all in his power to tame
them, but failed. He kept them a
year, and at the end of that time they
were as wild as at first. The more he
fed them the thinner they became.
Within the year they consumed four
hundred bushels of corn and were as
lean as church mice. During that time
the SOW had five litters of pigs, num-
bering two hundred and ten. Mr.
Booth could not tame any of these nor
get them fat enough to make even
soap grease. Finally he gave them to
a negro, who now considers himself
under no obligations to Mr.. Booth.
The flesh of these hogs resembles
horsehesh. 1t is as tough as COON
skin, and large-sized hog of this
species rendered would not make
grease enough to fry skillet of batter
cakes. They go through garden like
a shovel plow, and no vegetable es-
capes them. They can crowd through
a crack that would hardly admit a
mouse, and their sharp noses act as
levers fol garden gates. The Tennes-
scans make great fun of Alabama's
"azorback hogs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

THE GREYHOUND.
Dogs Used for the Chase by English
Sovereigns and Mobiles.

Dogs Used for the Chase by English
Sovereigns and Mobiles.
Greyhounds have existed in very
much the same form as we find them
to-day for more than three thousand
years, as we find them pictured on
Egyptian monuments of that remote
period. The name probably came from
their general color in England when
King Canute decreed that none but
princes and mobiles should keep them.
The color now, in either smooth or
rough coated greyhounds, is very sell
dom grey, but more often fawn, red,
brindled (either red and black mixed
or fawn and blue), or black.
The smooth coated dog is known as
the English greyhound, and the rough
coated as the Scotch deerhound. In
conformation they are very much
the same. They are the fastest run
ners of any of the canine race. On
level ground they can go as fast as a
race horse, and over hilly ground they
can unquestionably beat even the fleet
footed thoroughbred. Formerly the
English dog was used in chasing the
ON oAo As1AAOW uSOAt dlAo ~ 10 lCldUCG
that on one occasion Queen Elizabeth
witnessed the pulling down of sixteen
bucks. The dogs of that day must have
been stronger than those now found in
England. When the master of the
royal buckhounds now has meet in the
royal forests of England it is a sorry
sight. for the deer are themselves more
than half domesticated, and do not
know how to get away.
The greyhound is used, however, in
coursing hares, and it is one of the ma
tional sports of Great Britain. In
Texas and some other parts of America
where jack rabbits abound grew
hounds are kept to chase them. The
English greyhound is beautiful
graceful and aristocratic looking dog.
but the Scotch deerhound is more dig
nified in appearance. These dogs are
trained to hunt game by the eye alone.
They have good noses, however, and if
permitted to do so will also hunt py
scent
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

The most honorable Office in the Ro-
man republic was that of consul
There were always two elected every
year, one each from the patricians and
plebeians. The consul must be at
least forty-three years old and must
have held the Office of quaestor, aedile
praetor. The consuls were the heads
of the republic, discharging all public
functions, such as receiving ambassa-
dors or assembling the senate. Their
insignia were those of a king except a
crown. They were always attended
each by twelve lictors or servants,
bearing the boxes or bundles of
rods with an AK in the center. The lic-
tors, however; proceeded only one at a
time, the lictors of the other following
him. The year was named after them,
and any laws passed at their recon-
mendation also went by their names.
They commanded the armies of the re.
public, and when both were with the
same army they commanded on alter
nate days. Under the emperors the Of
fee became an empty honor, though
surrounded with much greater state,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
NATURAL GRACE.
A Beautiful Quality, But When Assumed
Detrimept,

Beautiful Quality, But When Assumed
Detriment.
Gracefulness, when natural, is a very
pretty accompaniment to youth and
beauty in women, but when it is as
sumed, or rather initiated in an exag.
gerated form by women of mature
years for purposes of coquetry and
Irritation, it becomes most distasteful to
those possessed of any refinement.
Naturally graceful women in this coun-
try are by no means common nowadays.
Indeed, the compression of corsets
and the religiously tight-fitting
tailor-made gown appear almost in
compatible with gracefulness. Grace.
fulness belongs essentially to freedom
and nature, and, as rule, it is easy to
discover when only acquired. Nice
manners are far preferable to acquired
gracefulness, which requires q eontin.
ual effort to keep up Doubtless much
of the grace of the ancient Greek and
Roman women was due to their loose
style of dress, the corset being an un,
known inaiction of later years, How
ever this may be, certain it Is that the
women of to-day do not possess the
graoefulness of Helen of Troy or Cleo
patra. Chicago Post.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
THE VANISHING MOOSE.
Departure of New Y0rk's Game for Parts
Unknown.


Unknown.
A deer, when started by hunter or
driven by hounds, usually returns in
few days to the same hill or mountain
side where he was first found; but
moose, says Madison Grant in the
Century, when once thoroughly
alarmed, will start on a long, swinging
walk, and, taking with him his entire
family, leave for good. 1t is one of the
greatest difficulties-and there are
many-in still-hunting this animal, to
avoid getting him under way, for then
the hunter may as well break camp
and try other fields, since not moose
will be found within miles. They
scent a moccasin track or the smoke Of
fire at an incredible distance. A
fresh trail may be found one day and
arrangements made to follow it at day
break on the morrow. During the
night the moose, returning to his old
haunts, detects the danger-signs, and
all the hunters find in the morning is
trail six or eight hours old leading for
parts unknown in an almost perfectly
straight line. The moose is at that
moment, perhaps, twenty miles off and
still going.
Although moose cannot be driven to
water by hounds like deer, but will
turn savagely to bay, still they will,
not remain in a locality where dogs are
running; so that when the white hunt
ers became numerous in the North
woods. and especially when they intro
duced bounding; the moose simply left
the country and passed either east.
ward to Maine or northward to
Canada.
1t is a well-authenticated but little
known fact that they practically left
in one season. They were numerous
in the Adirondacks, especially in
Browns tract-a large district in what
is now the southwestern part of the
wilderness-until the period between
1859 and 1855 probably near the latter
year,, when they suddenly disap-
pearedo Before this several had been
killed yearly. Scattered ones were
shot later, but 1855 marked their exit
from the annals of New York game,
Years later, four or five were brought
back to Saranae, but would not stay.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
NEED OF THE POET.
The Laws of the Mind Mako Him an 1
portant Factor.

The Laws of the Mind Make Him an Inn
portant Factor.
Tt is impossible for men to live in the
world without poetry of some sort or
other. If they cannot get the best
they will get some substitute for it,
and thus seem to verify Saint Angus
tines slur that it is wine of devils, says
James Russell Lowell in Century.
The mind bound down too closely to
what is practical either becomes inert,
or revenges itself by rushing into the
savage wilderness of "isms." The in
sincerity of our civilizati ton has dis
gusted some persons so much that they
have sought refuge in Indian wigwams
and found refreshment in taking
scalp now and then. Nature insists
above all things upon balance. She
contrives to maintain harmony be-
tween the material and spiritual, nor
allows the cerebrum an expansion at
the cost of the cerebellum. If the
character, for example, run on one side
into religious enthusiasm, it is not un-
likely to develop on the other a coun-
terpoise of worldly prudence. Thus
the Shaker and the Moravian are noted
for thrift, and mystics are not always
the worst managers. Through all
changes of condition and experience
man continues to be citizen of the
world of idea as we'll as the world of
fact, and the tax gatherers of both are
punctual.
There is as much poetry as ever in
the world if we only knew how to find
it out, and as much imagination, per-
haps, only that it takes more prosaic
direction. Every man who meets with
misfortune, who is stripped of material
prosperity, finds that he has a little
outlying mountain farm of imagina-
ton, which did not appear in the
schedule of his effects, on which his
spirits able to keep itself alive, though
he never thought of it while he was
fortunate. Job turns out to be great
poet as soon as his focks and herds are
taken away from him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
UNCERTAINTY.

What gifts has Fate in store for me?
CThe coming year dawns SOON
Shall 1 at Indian summers fire
Forget the flowers Of June?
Press grapes through days of purple haze,
Dream through the autumn moon?
Stir to the speckled quail's clear note
On chill December's noonp
Shall descry through bare black trees
That shape dread and know,
A gaunt gray wolf with hungry eyes
A-skulking through the snow?
All! down breads lane Death sings q song
So strangely sweet and low
He says: "Why hasten on thy path,
give thee peace for woe."
And down Hopes lane Sleep binds wreath
OF poppies wrought with bay;
He gives the pilgrim happy dreams
To speed him on his way;
For Hope, with tempting promises
Through summers golden day,
Fulfills in autumn's fruited store
The presage of the May.
Apast the lanes of Hope and Dread
Where Druid oak trees wait.
Fate spins the thread OF destiny,
Nor pauses soon or late.
Is 1t a strand of rainbow hue
Or black as night grown late?
My heart is but q towards heart
dare not question Fate.
Nancy M. Waddle, in N Y Independent
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
sympathet,o saunds.

A stringed instrument suspended in
favorable position near pianoforte
will sound when tones corresponding
to the open strings are produced ON the
pianoforte. The volume of the answer
ing tone will depend upon atmospheric
conditions, the quality and color of
the persuading tone and the sensitive
ness OF the responding material. There
is familiar anecdote told of famous
tenor, who by singing the tone that
was consonant with that of wine.
glass, could make the glass shiver so
violently that it would fall to pieces.
1t is because of the tonal sympathy
that the cause of harsh, rattling tone
that may suddenly appear in a piano-
forte is detected with difficulty.
Though it may appear to be in the in
strument. it is often far away and may
come from loose globe or pendant on
a chandelier. Even a key in the door
has been known to be the guilty cause.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
Meetings Of County Commissioners

The regular meetings of the County
Commissioners will be held on the
second Tuesday of every month. Col
lectors and others having accounts to
be stated or settled will apply. to the
Clerk during the recess of the Boari
Persons having claims against the
county will please file the same in the
voucher. as no account will be allowed
not properly chargeable to the same.
Rv order. CHAS. H. SMITH, Clerk.
Commissioners Cecil County.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
And He Talked Violently,

In shutting down the lid of his wife's
Saratoga trunk, locking it, and wrap
ping the trunk securely with ropes and
leather straps for the purpose of maxi
ing the structure baggageman-proof,
Mr.. McSwatt had consumed half an
hour.
''Now, Lobelia," he said, after he had
loaded the thing into the express wag-
on and sent it to the railway station,
''you have just three-quarters of an
hour, go to the depot, sand have your
trunk checked. Got your ticket handy?"
1.-The ticket?" replied Mrs. McSwatt.
''That's all safe enough, Billiger. It's
in the trunk. Chicago Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

Builder-Yes, sir, this house has Just
been finished, and is for rent at very
reasonable figures.
Home Seeker-Will you give me a
lease for five years?
Builder-F1ve years? You must be
daft. In half that time it will be
dry enough for me to live in myself
N. Y. Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
Biblical.

The other day was told of little
girl who attended distribution of
prizes given by the society for the pre-,
vention Of cruelty to animals. She
had won, you must know, book as a
reward for writing the best essay on
the subject given. and with the other
successful children was undergoing a
viva voce examination.
''Well, my dear" said the gentleman
who had given away the prizes, ''eaa
you tell me why it is cruel 20 dock
horses tails and tlim dogs ears?"
BECAUSE" answered tho little girl,
what God has Joined together let nc
nan put asunder. Hour.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

What do you call this?" asked OFF,
GER McGobb, as he pulled dangerous
looking bludgeon out of the pocket OF
his prisoner.
''That is called life preserver,' :;
answered the derelict.
can fwat right have you with
life preserver, Oi would like to know?"
Because 1 belong to the floating
population, see?"
But the officer refused to see.-In.
dianapolis journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
From Whence They Come.

Mr.. Snarley-Your sex are natural
born scandal-mongers. l often won
der how you manage to get hold of all
the latest scandals of the day.
The Ladies lin chorus)-Our hus-
bands and brothers bring them home
from the clubs to us.-Puck
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
A nIisdemeanon.

Mr.. Hogan (whose wife has temper)
lwant me wolfe arristed for carryin' a
concealed weapon, yer amer.
His Honor-What's the nature of the
weapon?
Mr.. Hogan-Faix it's blamed Sharp
it's her TONGUE, yer anner!-Judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on th'
second Tuesday ofevery month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring ir
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test. R. f. ia MAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
Very Like.

Jack-Did it ever strike you that
marriage was very similar to house
on fire?
''No. Why?"
Jack-Well, they both arise from
spark, and the result is about as dam
gerous in both cases.-Judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

It's just as easy to try One Minute Cough
Cure as anything else. It's easier TO cure a
severe cold or cough with It. Let your next
purchase for a cough be One Minute Cough
Cure. Better medicine better result; better
try it. DIR. L, r. Kinks Drug Store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
Beginning Practice at Once.

Mr.. Fainte-Miss Rosalie, l under.
stand that you've been attending the
lectures on: "How to Treat Ordinary
Illnesses?"
She-Yes.
He drawing nearer)-Can-can you
tell me what you would do for broken
heart?-Vogue.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
NOTICE

BIZ THE ORPHANS CoURT FOR CECIL COUNTY,
January 9, 1894.
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Ex
ecutors and Guardians that have not stated
an account within year. come forward and
do the same. or show cause to the contrary
or they will be cited up.
Test: R. E. JAMAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
Breaking 1t Gently.

81 regret to say, miss" said the lit,
erary editor of the Daily Bread, "that
your Poem of Passion while not
without decided merit, is hardly suit
able for our columns
''Is it little too long?" inquired the
young woman, anxiously.
''N-no," rejoined the editor. 'It is
little too broad. Chicago Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

''You ought to be very proud of your
wife. She is brilliant tallSer."
You're right there"
"Why, I could listen to her all
night"
Il often do."-Texas Siftings.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

Mr.. Gumpps-That boy will never be
good for anything until he marries.
Mrs. Gumpps-I suppose not.
Mr.. Gumpps-No. He's got to get
over the habit OF hanging around the
house.-N. Y. Weekly
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

Primus-Jargon is like Macaulay.
He loves symmetry, balance and anti
thesis.
Secundus Yes. For instance, his
jokes are always as broad as they are
long.-Brooklyn Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
He Hadn't a Word to Saw.

Dyspepsia specialist Grritably)-But,
madam, you must chew your food.
What were your teeth given you for?
Female patient (calmly)-They were
MT given to me. 1 bought 'em.-Boston
Globe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
Cause and Effect.

Cash with him this morning Is scanty,
For poker last night he would play.
And it's all on account Of his ante,
That he goes to his uncle to-day.
N Y Press
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

~ like this hat" said Isabel.
at makes my face look long and we'll
But when dear father saw the bill
II made his face look longer still"
-IudCA
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

Literally True. -"Your husband
comes home very late, doesn't hep
asked prying woman of her neighbor.
"Oh, no, ma'am, he's always in very
early" was the misleading answer
Detroit Free Press
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

He-What-er-did you think of my
poem in Squibner's Magazine?
She-Oh, lovelyl Why, it was just
too short for anything.-Truth
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
A Hate That WIN Not Die.

Wifey - Have you still unkind
thoughts of that old rival of yoursP
Hubby-Yes. hate him because you
Tilted him.-Brooklyn Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

Parrots cost only about fourteen
cents each to the dealers in South
America
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26

Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion Aad
Biliousness. take
BROWNS IRON RT4TERs.
1t cures quickly. FSg sale by all dealers in
medicine, Get the genuine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-01-26
WILL YOU COME INTO MY PARLoR.

"Come here, my pretty dears,"
mo, thank you. We may be silly,
but we don't intend to lose our heads
entirely Life
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-31
NOW SINKING TO BED ROCK.
Good Prospects For the West Noun
tain Placer Company.

The plant of the West Mountain
Placer Mining company at Bingham is
now in full operation and the work of
sinking the shaft to bed rock is pro-
crossing favorably. When operations
were discontinued some time ago the
shaft was down seventy feet and it is
estimated that not less than sixty feet
more Will have to be penetrated be-
fore the bed rock and the gold bearing
gravel is encountered. Several
months ago the company placed an
order for full complement of ma
chinery and the pumping, hosting and
washing plant is now doing splendid
work.
These placers are being worked in an
extremely novel manner and the indi-
cations are that the company will meet
with all the success that the merits of
the enterprise deserve. The deposit
of gold bearing gravel and sand is to
be worked by means of the shaft which
will be put down to bed rock in order
that the deposit which lies directly
above may be developed. All gold
bearing material will be hoisted to the
surface and there washed according to
the regulation placer methods. For
years the surface placers of Dry Greek,
just above the property of the West
Mountain company, have been profit
ably worked, but little attention being
paid to the lower ground, on account
of the great deposit of earthly matter,
and it is for the purpose Of sinking
through this deposit and encountering
the gold bearing stratum below that
the shaft is being put down. There is
a great amount of water on the prop
erty of the company and the pumps
are kept busy removing it from the
shaft
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-31
SUES HIS FRIEND.
Young Mackaye Wants $4,000 as an
Equivalent For the Loss of His
Wife's Affections.

Young Mackaye wants $oO,OUO as an
Equivalent For the Loss of His
Wffe's Affections.
New York, Aug 3O.-Arthur Loring
Mackaye, a son of the late Steele Mack
aye, theatrical manager and play
wright, has brought action in the su-
perior court to recover $4,000 damages
from his former friend, Paul Latzke,
for the alleged alienation of the affec-
tons of.hiS wife, Flora Louise Mackaye.
Latzke was arrested today upon an
order issued by Judge McAdam, of the
Superior court, at the instance of
Charles Bate. Bail was fixed at 81, GOO,
which was furnished.
This is the second wife of Mackaye,
who is under 80 years Of age. His first
wife was Maud Miller, the only daugh-
ter of Joaquin Miller, "The poet of the
Sierras," where he is still leading the
life of a hermit Maud used to stay at
the house of Steele Mackaye, while she
was in the city. One day young Mack
aye and she ran off and were married.
She had just come from the convent of
the Sacred Heart at Montreal, where
she was educated. She got the impress
sion that young Mackaye was a Pro
testant, had been baptized, When she
learned to the contrary, she wrote to
Mgr. Preston, asking if the marriage
was valid. He said it was not. This
letter caused much comment at the
time. The young woman left Mackaye
soon after the marriage on learning
this. The marriage occurred on Feb
ruary 4, 1885.
On January 6, 1886, she married Lou
don Mccormack, an actor, and theat-
rical manager of Chicago, without a
divorce from Mackaye. Mackaye sub
sequently got divorce from her in this
city because of her relations with Nc
Cormack. Mccormack deserted the
poets daughter in 1885, She played in
LAND of the Midnight Sum- in this
city, last spring. Mackaye married
Flora Louise Cutter in 1889. He had
known Latzke a year before. The two
men lived with their families in the
same house in this city. and on Staten
Island, and were considered the best
of friends. While Mrs. Mackaye was
at Shirley Mass, last June, she wrote
letters telling her husband she no long
er loved him. He became suspicious,
and going to Shirley last June, up
braided her, and he declares she made
a full confession of all her relations
with LatZke.
Mackaye says Latzke spirited his wife
away about six weeks ago. He does
not know where she is.
Mackaye has also sued his wife for
an absolute divorce.