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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09

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thur Dids, elm bieiiaer Sirser, 1T auf
bic antlass bes @atitnmOrOes perbaFtet
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rem an, ouB er unO isine 6rau, aus
bem S9lafe aufsspeft, in leidtem
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men gu eHtflieben iudten. Die 2eide
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dung ersab, pOais betleioet.
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re9elmGBisen Gertebr swiIden Stctorla
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9totb Dem Yerberben.
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burd Sabrlaiii9feit bcs Otafdiuilten
perurlu9t. Der cine Ser stbfluBs2afen
i'm Rai9lnenraum Oiien selalen bate,
worauf Der 9anlpfer ii9 idnea nit
Waiier fiQte.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09
Sapan nnn China.

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3elt in Bort artbur burd dincfide
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id]e ber r@entralsNeps" BON Saiz
Chang mslOst, oaB bic iupaniide 3werte
Irmee seltcrn nud bartem Sample
Yings&om rnb ben SaTen pom Hep=
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09


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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09
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9t.nnt man Oas miierabl. Gsfabl, nell
DIES man empfinO.t, luenn iit Der oiabOz
llide She'll oes S0r2ers. Der iid Ota9en
nsnnt, plOslid bemerfbar su MAIDEN be-
sinnt. Selbit niat bel siuei 0pspeps
tifcrn 3:iseu ii9 81. slsiden uOrberri9rns
BEN SDmptOme, bod unabhansig oa.
bon, iuie iie aud irnmer auitretsn mag,
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Sadte Die S6uIo,
limb Gins iit einmal iid,r, buB gtiemanD
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09
S6wa6e 3 lNlimme Nusen
Die Sebfraft tpmroe it, WittIeioen=
id)aft eeaoeen, mar oaber nid1t
int Stanoc, TIT ole Sbule
stt 9ctcn.

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bauts wiccer Gas &prperipffem auf.
pSor siueI Sabreu lit nleIue tieiIe Sod
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hafteteu Nugeu. SD SoQ eineH Der beiten
Ner;ten in Der Stabt mdhreuo uugefGhr el>
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09
GNe aD % q Us
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rein Ye9etobilil4.

9onFomm.u e,Idlmaftos, elegant ii5srBoq,u. purs
9ir,n, rtgurcH, plrlsreE, rstHtgen uHo tTd'--ceH,
Nabpau'5 ellleu fuI octluHg nucr SsihroeroeH oes
atuatns ocI glnaepelos Ger yhercH, oeT Slde, nerS
po.r sroate,li,H. irDHoIdleH 9cH5t5, Scrtigo,
unperbaulldiel:, 0lmUIIboloeH.
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Srreguldritdtrn Der Scbcr.
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bouuuos CrJanc seIGttIsnotH Sumptnme: EsrltopTs
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yoNtlon aetori, Sebfraft. YuHtte ooer stH Sdl.ler
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h,I GugeH. dweIStH IN Der ScItt, Der Srait, ben
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G5.iuI.
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betreIeu.
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09

scbran6t. Gr rpire
bic mascnfGure fprs
risiren. f66eIiebe
SAFE entfernen, Scrs
ffppfuns perbineern,
Sie Sereauuns beiprs
eern une sleid,;eitis
Nam hpifrdosn
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09

GaB Die 2eber ipieoer thre reaulGre
Sbatiafeit aiifnimmt uno fdmnt=
Ithe forpcrtid)e Sci6meroen uer=
idituin0cn.
rScit mebr als brei 5abren lit id an 3nsp,pite in
ihrer ibIimmiten SeitdIt. SD foniultirte mehrere
&erste, bob toHnt,n mir oiecIbeR teiHc c bringcn.
3ul.st periudte ip es init Simmo1s Siusr esuiator.
Der mid IN frser Seit mleecr berlteltc gr lit zine
CUTE Diehsin. 5d1 foHHte MID ohne bieicl6e nitt
mebr suTrisoen eebeH." = Sames u. Rpanr, BbiIaz
oeIpbia, ia.
EN Seoes Sadet @8s
trdst een z Gfenpel in rotbcr Jarbe auf eem
umic)las.
e. g. 3eiIta s. Co., philadelphia, pa.
(5)
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09
Aus unlfrsr afltriatn 2. 4MOrgens
Ausaabr.
S.s @attinmurbcs beiGulbigt.

Der MOrOer iOn Ous Serf6erunssselO se-
miiuidlt habeu,
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09
@s ift bo6ptGtig, baB jeOe SamiIie
einen SnrratB nDn
O& HeaOt1 ReIief
DsfhmsrOrn nn0 Sbmer,fn.

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BON etHer bis gnauIi3 UiiHutaH. Ridt cine
Stunbe nab asi.H bieier auieise braudlt iracnb
ci,uonh ESdlr- eTarr lu rrhuIbeu
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09
,syv Gin ccufid,er SioufrSruff.

Berlin, 5. Mars. - Isl: NIT Se@
itinmthelt perlautst, werben lid) Die
0isfonios8ei.Qidaft unb Die Norobeuis
idc Sanf BON 0amburs unte- lesisrstn
9iamcn utrlhmelasu-
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1895-03-09

Der Augrifi aui Den oeutideu 0ampier
pMarcOmanuia" uube ytew'SrleaHs,
Ga.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
Mirrors In Folklore.

In the pleasant regions of folklore the
mirror holds fairly prominent place.
To break one is considered an unlucky
affair, notion which is one of the most
prevalent and persistent of modern su-
perstition. In many parts of England
seven years of trouble is considered the
penalty for such an accident, but the
still more serious Scottish people regard
it as sign that member of the fam
lily will soon die.
In the south of England it is looked
upon as bad omen for bride OH her
wedding morning to take last peep at
the glass before starting for church, and
the struggle between superstition and
vanity is no doubt very keen. The
Swedish girls are afraid to look in the
glass after dark, or by artificial light,
lest they should forfeit the good opinion
of the other sex. Most people still ap-
pear to regard it as bad omen to see
the new moon for the first time through
q window pane or reflected in a mirror.
In some districts the practice of Gov
ering the looking glass or removing it
in the presence of death still exists. The
reason for this is not very obvious,
though Mr.. Barring Gould says there is
a popular notion that, if person looks
into mirror in the chamber of death,
he will see the corpse looking over his
shoulder. Such superstitions seem to
suggest near approach to the print
tive modes of thought of the men who
found mirrors in stones and glasses in
the running brook. Jour-
nal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
He Got the Sugar.

The following anecdote of tame
monkey, to whom was given a corked
bottle with lump of sugar inside, in
dicates that the animal, though unable
to invent, could initiate. A phrenologist
would say that the monkey had "per-
ception," but not "causality." How to
get at the sugar was problem that babe
fair to drive him crazy.
Sometimes in an impulse of disgust
he would throw the bottle out of his
reach and then be distracted until it
was given back to him. At other times
he would sit with countenance Of in
tense detection, contemplating the bot
tied sugar, and then, as if pulling him.
self together for another effort at solu-
ton, would sternly take up the problem
afresh and gaze into the bottle.
He would tilt it one way and try to
drink the sugar out Of the neck, and
then suddenly reversing it, try to catch
it as it fell out at the bottom.
Under the impression that he could
capture the sugar by surprise, he kept
rasping his teeth against the glass in fu-
tile bites, and warming to the pursuit of
the revolving lump used to tie himself
into regular knots round the bottle.
Fits of the most ludicrous melancholy
would alternate with spasms of delight
as new idea seemed to suggest itself,
followed by fresh series of expert
ments.
Nothing availed, however, until one
day light was shed upon the problem
by jar containing bananas falling from
the table with crash and the fruit roll
ing about in all directions. His monkey
ship contemplated the catastrophe and
reasoned upon it.
Lifting the bottle high in his paws, he
brought it down upon the floor with
tremendous noise, smashing the glass
into fragments, after which he calmly
transferred the sugar to his mouth and
munched it with much satisfaction.
Youths COMPANION
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
Such Is Life,

Yesterday a lady in Broadway cable
car addressed me, and everybody listened
and was amused. She was young and
pretty and well dressed. AS we rolled
down Union square cab passed the car.
My neighbor craned her neck, and point
ing her finger at the cab remarked to
me, That's Judge Hilton in that cab. {"
Every one in the car looked at the occu-
pant of the cab. Then she took me into
her confidence and retailed such facts
about the judge as have been printed
from time to time in the papers,
AS the car tore around the Broadway
curve her attention was diverted, and
she hadn't done scolding about the speed
and the curves when we passed Broad
way shop window ON which was an
nounced in white enamel letters, "Col-
lars and Cuffs Laundried - "If they
don't correct that misspelled word
soon, she exclaimed, 81 shall scream. -
Everybody turned and looked at the
freak in photography. Then man who
was watching the woman from the rear
platform came in and tapped her on the
shoulder, and she arose and followed
him. AS she passed out the men opposite
smiled, and one said to his companion,
"Crazy as loom" But how could they
tell? All she said was true. -New York
World
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
THE WOOD DUCKS FIRST SWIM.
How the Mother Gets the Little Ones
From the Nest to the Water,

How the Mother Gets the Little Ones
From the Nest to the Water.
A few miles from my home there is
lake that has for years been the abiding
place of a colony of wood ducks I have
spent hours along the shores watching
these prettiest of water fowls. The wood
duck has one popularity not possessed
by other members of the duck family
it builds it's home high up in the cavity
of some decayed limb, usually one that
juts out over the water.
The eggs, from seven to IS in num-
Der, are creamy white in color. House
keeping is begun in May, and the young
are ready to leave the nest early in June.
was curious to know how the little
ducks reach the water from their lofty
homes. I had often seen them, when
hardly clear of their shell, swimming
about with their mother and felt con-
WINGED that they never could have left
home unaided.
One bright June morning fortune IA
vored me. I had rowed along the lake
shore to pay visit to houseful of
noisy red wing blackbirds. My boat was
lying motionless among the tall cat
tails that fringed the shores of the lake.
Suddenly heard loud splash behind
water short distance away, just shak-
ing the spray from her wings, female
wood duck and near her two tiny yellow
balls, so small that they resembled wa
ter lilies floating on the surface
The old bird took wing, lowered and
circled above her babies for few min
utes and then flew to cavity in q tall
tree, a short distance away. In short
time the male bird, arrayed in the hand
soonest of plumage, joined his mate
Then for a few minutes I could hear
soft cooling noise, which reminded me of
husband and wife discussing some i'm
portant point relative to the welfare of
their children.
The cooling soon stopped and the moth
er duck appeared in the doorway of her
home. Then she dropped toward the wa
ter at slight angle. AS her breast
struck the surface she Immediately
dived, and where her body had been
was surprised to see two little ducklings
swimming about as unconcerned as
though they had been travelling in the
water for years.
The routine of flying to the nest was
repeated four times in rapid succession,
and each time it resulted in an addition
of two to the family in the water, which
kept growing until it numbered H.
Then the mother duck swan out in the
lake, followed by her brood, while the
male bird brought up the rear of the
procession, acting, no doubt, as guard
and protector.-C. S. Shick in Phila-
delphia Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY, friday JUNE 1895.

There were the pictures of the Aorlatlc
shore upon which the lady's love had
rested. The dusk and beautiful eyes
seemed to follow mine own as l gazed
upon the canvas Without doubt the
presence still pervades the room that
you have left Virtue (or vice. "has gone
out of you" Like an angels wing that
must move onward into the sun sweep,
or the edges of mist that unroll a mias-
ma. There was the Lutte of those long
ing days of womanhood, SO very still,
its strings broken. Like the cords of
that tortured heart, wondered. The
narrow window panes-great heavensl
AS / glanced through them, way off
there across the width of salt meadow,
the great moon was rising, looming up,
red as the foam beneath the fading sea,
awful as that eye of a window gazing
across the dumb distances l remember
I the mayors words: SIT was on a
light when the earth was still under
the new made shroud, and the moon
looked in, that the footsteps walked.
Soon that light would move across the
land, pallid, awful, pervasive. 1t would
reach and touch the players grave on
the lonely expanse. To what purpose
would it touch? Would the two, the
white and the winter shroud, move on
together?
1t was in this room that the footsteps
walked. Under oath the mayor had
affirmed it; under oath the servants of
the household had affirmed it. 1t had
been no subjective hallucination, the
result of one disordered mind, no func-
tional disturbance of the brain. They
had all heard that walk l thought l
would move up stairs.
I must go up that staircase. Itreached
into the dark, but as had determined
to sleep in the dormer window room I
must go up that staircase. Should I
meet something coming down? l struck
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14

my own right hand write them. Iswear
that l am stating but the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth.
So help me God"
There then followed the same minute
account of the footsteps which the host
of the Leeuwenhart had seen, the first
of the documents written by the mayor
and attested to by all his household
There followed the description of that
night when the moon looked in. Why
did glance up with vague chill creep
ing upon me from every corner and ev-
cry crevioe of the room at that eyeball
gaze in the dormer window? l hurried
Oh to the next page:
''It was on night of moon, one
month afterward, the 10th of Octo-
ber''-
Great heavens, the cold sweat broke
upon my forehead I had hit upon the
very day. 1t was the 18th of October,
100 years to the minute from that mid
night and that moon
81 heard the footsteps walk, ma
jestic now, awful, claiming-and to-
ward them swung the shrek that
will in one moment more swing my
soul forward to meet it. I gained the
dormer window room with one leap
through the dark and saw her, saw her
in phases of the light swing from the
roof beam. She is in that room. have
seen her. dare not look upon that
again. The footsteps have come again
tonight to claim me-. She is with those
footsteps. She is in that room. 1 go to
expiate my crime with my own hand on
my own rooftree. shall be with them
in that room in a moment Have
mercy, God"-
| sprang, knew what was beyond.
By God S mercy the flicker of my lamp
held. | am conscious that my heartbeats
were many more than the normal num-
Der of beats to the minute. Beyond me,
around mo, within me, was nothing but
that awful eyeball gaze whittier than
the foam that creeps at midnight on the
shrouded sea. The light held another
white within its circle. / saw 1t. saw
al outlined filmy hand across the sheen.
saw
With the hurl of Hercules sprang
two stories below-clear down through
the window upon my right. was in
the open night; in the cool and the
dew, with only the infinite voice of sea,
having left behind me my sketchbook,
lamp and nightcap.
am not ashamed of it. The mail of
a Hamlet chartered, the hand of Ham,
let shook on the platform of Elsinore
THE END.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
Useful Recipes.

PLAIN SAUCE.-One- half cup of
butter, one and one-half cups of
sugar rubbed to a cream. Add
two well beaten eggs, and just be-
fore serving, add enough boiling
water to make a thick cream.
Flavor with vanilla.
APRICOT SOUFFLE.-Put one pint
of bread in one, half pint of milk
over the fire and stir until boiling
hot. Press twelve pieces of apricots
or peaches through a colander, stir
into the bread and milk. Add a
teaspoonful of lemon juice, two
tablespoonfuls of sugar and the
slow beaten whites of four eggs.
Put this mixture into creased
custard cups, stand the cups in a
baking pan of hot water and cook
in a moderately quick oven for
twenty minutes, and serve with a
liquid pudding sauce.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
Marriage of the Dead.

A strange custom prevails among a
certain tribe in the Caucasus. When a
single young man dies, some one who
has carried to the grave manageable
daughter in the course of the year calls
upon the bereaved parents and says:
"Your son is sure to want a wife.
I'll give you my daughter, and you
shall deliver to me the marriage portion
in return.
A friendly offer of this description is
never rejected, and the two parties
soon come to terms as to the amount of
the dowry, which varies according to
the advantages possessed by the girl in
her lifetime. Cases have been known
where the young mans father has given
as much as 80 cows to secure dead
wife for his dead son.-Buch fur ALE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14
"COin" and ShyTOck.

The little work "Coin's Financial
SCHOOL, is giving Shylock more
uneasiness than any other one cause.
A debate was held in Chicago
recently between William FL.
Harvey, the author of "Coin's
Financial School" and j. Lawrence
Laughlin, professor of political
economy in the University of
Chicago, the favorite authority of
President Cleveland.
The following extract from Pro-
fessor Laughlin's closing remark
contains the gist of his argument.
GAS free coinage of silver would
invitably result in a fall of wages,
its first effect would be to diminish
the purchasing power of all wages.
The man who gets $500 or $1,000
year as a fixed rate of wages or
salary, will find he can buy just
half as much as now.
care we willing to sacrifice the
interests of the laboring classes to
the demands of certain owners of
silver mines who are trying to hood
wink the people with the cry of
more money!"
The professor lets the cat out,
that what the gold bug orators and
newspapers mean by "wages of
laboring men," are fixed salaries
and not "wages" in the common
phrase of the people. The re-
monetization of silver would
advance the price of products of
labor and make a greater demand
for labor and necessarily tend to
raise the wages of that class who
work as manual laborers but the
wages Salary of such as the Pro-
fessor would not advance, and this
is what troubles them. Their
lament over the ''laboring classes"
is a play of words, meaning the
salaried class, the interest drawers
and coupon clipper" no others.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-06-14

The cold slUcdt broke upon my forehead,
a light, a pygmy spark against that
great, awful moon looking in through
the windows. All the narrow mullioned
panes had caught it now, and it was
line of white stars. That was the room
of the curse. That was the room of the
ringing yells as the mugs were lifted
and the girl whirled up where she had
waited, still pointing out to the central
staircase with lean and pallid finger.
The long moonbeam reached out across
the floor and seemed to point me up. I
believe | would have given my prospect
i've Royal academician distinction at
that moment to have heard even to the
bark of a dog. The curse crawled around
the room and made the new night hide
Gus.
The looming shadows of pivotal
events project themselves across the
levels of our present. l felt what would
happen within an hour in that house.
The moonlight moving OH had reached
the staircase. 1t stood out an awful sill
houette against the glow. The flame of
my lamp was a feeble streak of yellow
on the first two steps. What was be.
You'd? l felt what was beyond, and yet
/ put my foot OH that first step, and
then ON the second, the third, the fourth.
] believe ] waited on the fifth and lis
tened. 1t was at this winding that the
presence had passed With stout good
conscience in my breast, was | not safe?
Safe from what? Was / arguing with
force that filed distances, that held
the here and the there, against which
the limitations of life were powerless as
paper of tissue texture i'll the grasp of
a gladiator? The sixth, and then the
seventh atep-but the air was getting
very heavy-the eighth, and l went on
quickly. was on the landing where
the dormer window room opened.
There was no door to it, no curtain.
The great round moon was now eyeball
and gaze in that lidless window. 1t
fastened me with a terrific spell. l
would not go into that room till the
midnight palled,
turned into an adjacent apartment,
still holding my lamp high and feeling
thankfully in my pocket for unnumber-
ed matches. The future shadows of
pivotal events project themselves across
our present walked directly up to q
desk that stood open, on which were
scattered, strewn about, pages upon
pages of manuscript, closely written
pages, yellowed by years, blurred with
dust, streaked by insect crawl across
them. What insect crawl, good heav-
ensl From whence? The slow worm
twisted across the leaves and wrote
horrible hieroglyph. l caught the eye
ball window gazing at me. / stamped
upon the pages for moment, then lift
ed them and tore their meaning out.
They were still legible. felt they were
the key to the conclusion. Placing the
lamp in safe position, myself also in
safe position commanding that incur
tanned doorway, ready at any moment
to spring, with difficulty made out the
following, still keeping my eye from
glance to glance on that doorway. /
could not have told you why, but 1 was
impelled to do so.
The faded leaves told the following:
81, the mayor of the town of H,
! do hereby note down these facts, with