The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-23

and twenty five in the tribe. Ihey
have several large vans, living
rooms on wheels and numerous
other wheeled vehicles, sixty horses,
and dogs of every breed from the
mastiff to the pug. Also fowls of
choice breeds and everything that
goes to make gypsy happy. It's
a wonder that the rowing thousands
who are travelling up and down the
country don't copy after these
nOmads and form brotherhOods.
The Temperance Executive Com
mittee held its closing up meeting
at Elkton last week, and resolved
to continue the organization. This
committee was organized for the
purpose of conducting the anti
license campaign, and the eminent
success of its labors encourages the
continuance of the organization.
If established ON an enlarged and
more comprehensive plan the
organization could be made of great
use in controlling, to a large extent,
the class of persons who shall fill
future offices by the voters of this
county.
On December 1 next the new law
regulating the tenure of office and
the salary of the county commits
sioners of Cecil county will go into
effect. The law provides that the
commissioners shall receive $500
each annually which shall be in
lieu of all other compensation, per
diem or mileage. Under the present
law the commissioners have received
pay amounting to over $1,000 in
year by charging per diem when
engaged in the business of the
county. The term of office is also
reduced by two years, making the
term four years.-Star.
Every office ought to be salaried
Office and the "fee' business
abolished. And another change
ought to be made and will have to
be made before the people come to
their own and that is the introduce
ton of the referendum system, or
referring to the voters for final
decision all acts before they become
operative. If approved by them
they become laws if rejected they
fall. This system is applied to
'Iocal option" license laws and
should be applied to other laws as
in Switzerland where all the best
reforms in government were intro
duced by this system. 1t destroys
boossism and ring rule effectually
under the referendum the corrupt
caucus and lobby die, and it is the
only system that has ever made any
head way against the whiskey
power.
A liver pad fakir drove into
Rising Sun last Wednesday after
noon in handsome landau carriage
drawn by a pair of fine horses. He
stopped in front of the hotel and
after donning a college gown and
mortar board cap proceeded to bus
mess by producing a deck of cards
from which he delivered the regu-
lar stereotyped sermon which is
printed in all comic almanacs. He
concluded the card talk by offering
to change each card into 81 bill,
but before doing so wished to get
rid of little surplus cash and an
nounced his method of doing so. 1t
was to sell a box of corn salve for
% cents and afterwards return the
qnarter and five cents additional.
Several persons invested and re-
ceived box of salve and 80 cents.
The next step was to dispose of a
so cent cure-all and return 60 cents
to the purchaser. At this stage of
the game he was about 81 80 out of
pocket. The liberal handed "doc-
tor" then brought forth his double
back action automatic-s elf-a d ust-
ing liver pad which was about the
size of small buckwheat cake. and
launched forth into a harangue,
double charged with materia- medica
technique, and wound up by offer
ing the pad to afflicted humanity
for 81. 90, the original price being
$500. AS a further inducement
he promised to return big value for
the investment. The crowd was a
bit shy but he finally disposed of
about twelve pads, each purchaser
expecting to get his dollar back
with an additional quarter, as every
time dollar went into the hat he
dropped in an additional quarter.
After all the "afflicted' had been
supplied the "doctOrn lined them
mp in company front and made each
man swear he had purchased the
pad for its reputed value and not
for the present inducement. Then
he distributed among them a lot OF
balm of some sort, closed his kit,
and ordered the driver to proceed,
while he laid back ON the seat, lit a
, cigar and waved an adieu to the
sold crowd. On an investment OF
81 80 he had cleared $1,000.
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