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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Unidentified For a Statesman.

1t is said that woman remembers a
man whom she has known we'll as lit
tie boy always as the little boy and nev-
er can think of him as grown up. This
saying seems to be borne out to a certain
extent at least by an amusing story told
in connection with the appointment of
M. Edouard Lockroy as minister Of ma
rine in France.
When M. Lockroy was a small boy,
his father lived in house in the street
in Paris which now bears the name Rue
Washington. His home was in the fifth
story of this building, and it appears
that he had certain habits which render
ed him Objectionable to some Of the 9TH
er residents Of the building, particularly
to the concierge, or woman who looked
out for the door. He found, for instance,
a more expeditions way of coming down
from the fifth floor than by the stairs.
This excellent woman is still living.
When she heard that Edouard Lockroy
had become q minister, she threw up
her hands in astonishment and ex-
claimed:
"What That little Edouard Lockroy |!
And to think of his always sliding down
from the fifth story of the palace of the
Elysee on the balusters !''-Youth's
Companion,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
From a Financial Point of View.

81 beg your PARDON said the man
with the slightly bald head who sat in
a parquet seat near one of the boxes in q
down town theater the other evening.
81 beg your pardon" he repeated, "but
would you mind looking at the figures
ON this check and telling me what they
are? I'm a little nearsighted. -
The youngest member of the noisy box
party, an amiable looking youth with
highly plastered hair, suspended his
conversation with the interesting blond
in the green dress moment, leaned
over the front of the box, and in answer
to the questioner, who had risen to his
feet and was smilingly holding out for
his inspection the check end of a ticket.
he said;
tCertainly, sir. The figures are
$3.50"
"Well," rejoined the questioner,
"that's exactly what paid TO hear this
play tonight, and I'm going to get the
worth OF my money, or I'll lift my
voice right now and raise a fuss and
make scene. You'll oblige me by tell
ing the rest of them
He was not disturbed again during
the evening. Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Unique Pianos.

"All manner of articles in place of
wood have been used in the manufac-
ture of pianos, says one of the great
est English piano makers. perhaps the
most successful of these is paper. Of
which many pianos of exquisite tone
and appearance have been made. The
Duke of Devonshire has one of the finest
specimens of the paper piano, this being
of French make, and decorated most Or
nately with pictures by French artists.
The duke gave 500 guineas for this,
mainly, no doubt, on account of the Or
namentation. 1 suppose you know that
pianos for very hot and very cold CHI
mates-all instruments for export, in
faet-have to be specially made, and in
this direction all manner of experiments
have been tried Among others, sort
Of cellulose, one factor in which is ac-
tually common molasses, from which
sugar is made, is employed, aud COM
position made from the chemical treat
ment of gutta pereha and leather pulp
has been tried. Ivory pianos are by no
means uncommon, and the dowager
Countess of Dudley has a magnificent
carved specimen. Pianos Of ivory are, /
might say, made every year in numbers.
but chiefly for Indian princes and rich
Spanish Americans. Many pianos Of
solid silver have been made; indeed,
one was only recently completed by "a
London firm for the nizam Of Haidara.
bad, and piano cases have at various
times been made of bronze, species Of
aluminium, glass. porcelain and in COM
bination mother of pearl. ."-Exchanga
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
HOW INDIANS MEASURE TIME.
They Fix Their Dates by Sleeps and Moons
and Winters.

They Fix Their Dates by Sleeps and Moona
and Winters.
Our Indians measure time solely by
days, by sleeps, by moons and by win
ters The Indian has no name for any
subdivision of time less than day.
When he desires to indicate a shorter
period, he points to the heavens, and
measuring off space says, SIT was as
long as it would take the sun to go from
there to there A day is from daylight
to darkness, "sleep," or night, from
dark to daylight. He has no name for
any day, nor has he any subdivision of
time corresponding to our week. A
moon commences with the first streak
of the crescent in the west and lasts un-
til the next one appears, but the days of
the moon are neither numbered nor
named. s'ierom Wintep to Winter'' is
the nearest approach he has to our term,
The year commences with the first fall
of snow. An Indian will tell you he Is
SO many winters old, but having no
months or days he never has birthday.
The Indians who formerly inhabited
the southern part of Texas, where there
is no snowfall, are said to have fixed the
commencement OF the year at the first
"norther," furious and chilling wind
that sweeps from the north and is of fre-
quent occurrence during the winter
months
No year has any name or number fix
ing a sequence or point of reference, but
each band will designate year by its
most prominent occurrence, as a fight
with hostiles, death of a chief, preva-
lence of disease, abundance Or scarcity
of food, or failing anything marvellous
or striking by the name of the stream on
which was located the winter camp.
But these are mere remembrances, and
excellent as is the Indians memory
they, after few years, fade into a
tumble of disconnected facts without
sequence or usefulness. s.-Cincinnati En-
uuirar
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
DOG AND STUFFED TIGER.

A Little Incident From New York City'a
Varied Street Life.
''In a Broadway show window" said
stroller, "there is a particularly big
and handsome tiger, stuffed, that have
often looked at in passing. saw in
front of this store the other day man
who had with him tremendously big,
shaggy dog. The man looked at the
tiger, and stopped and tried to draw the
dogs attention to it. But the dog didn't
look that way, and, in fact, he didn't
stop. He slowed down, just as one man
might have done for another who had
stopped for moment to look in win
dow or to speak to friend, and when
he had moved ahead a few steps in that
way, not finding himself overtaken, he
did just as man might have done again.
He swung round with the same meas
ured tread and came back to the win
dow. Then the master, with faint
smile, again invited the big dog to look
at the tiger, but instead Of doing that
the big dog looked up into his masters
face and wagged his tail, and the mas
ter looked down and smiled at his dog
then the man started on down Broad
way, with the big dog wagging his tail,
walking along beside him. +
''But while the big dog had shown no
desire to look at the tiger, had, in fact,
shown rather an aversion to looking at
it, it did not appear that this aversion
came in any degree whatever from fear.
The perfect self possession and the deep
and unbroken good humor of the dog
were unmistakable; apparently he sim
ply didn't care for tigers and didn't
want to look at this one, but it did seem
that if it had been possible for the tiger
to come to life and step down from the
window and around and out through the
door ON to the sidewalk then the big dog
would not have walked away that there
would then have been there on the side-
walk the loftiest scrap that Broadway
ever saw, with the chances-wen, the
chances were in favor of the dog. New
York Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Meaning of the Word .omaha." i"

The name "Omaha" bears testimony
to the long journey of the people, and
reveals some of the causes which brought
about this breaking up into distinct
tribes. 1t is composed of two words,
which signify "going against the cur
rent" or up the stream. The 0mahas
were the people who went up the
stream, while the Quapaws, their near
of kin, went, as their name reveals,
with the current, or down tho stream,
The traditions of both these peoples say
that the parting occurred during hunt
ing expedition, each division finally set
Ting in the lands whittier they had
wandered apart. This epoehal hunt
must have been centuries ago, for the
Quapaws bore their descriptive name in
1910, being mentioned in the Portu-
guese narrative of De Soto's expedition
as then living on the Arkansas river,
where they dwelt until 1889, when they
ceded their long occupied lands to the
United States. Alice C. Fletcher in
Century.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
A Story of Charles o'conor.

At the closing of the st. Nicholas ho-
tel in 1884, in answer to question by
the writer how he succeeded in saving
the life of Colonel Loring in the MEM
orable trial for murder committed at
that hotel, Charles O'Conor gave the
following account:
After the trial had proceeded for some
time the court was informed by the jury
that one of their number was relative
of the prisoner. The court adjourned
trial for consultation on a question SO
serious. Mr.. O'Conor, as prisoner s coun-
sci, consented to the withdrawal of the
juror and stipulated TO proceed With II
jurors. The point was doubted, but ON
consent of the district attorney the trial
proceeded with / / jurors. The only wit
ness to the killing was the bootblack,
who testified that on some disturbance
being made by Graham in throwing out
his boots the prisoner angrily came
from his room and, an alteration ensu-
ing, with his sword cane stabbed Graham
and worked about the weapon when iH
his body, and witness shortly informed
prisoner that Graham was dead.
"What did he say when you told him
thisi"
Answer-Na.
O'Conor-Is that the answer of one
who intended TO kill? Is it not the an
swer you would make if informed a
friend you had just seen was dead?
Seeing the jury somewhat impressed
by this view and the change appearing
in their faces, he SO pressed the point
that they found verdict of manslaugh-
ter. The court imposed the heaviest pen-
alty-imprisonment for seven years. -
W. Watson in North American Review.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
HIS IDEA OF A SHARK.
The Boy Had Read About the Fish and
Jotted His Ideas Down.

Jotted His Ideas Down.
An examiner of lads under 16 for the
civil service commission gave for ques-
tion, Describe the habits of fish" Z" Here
is literal transcript of one out Of a
batch of some hundreds of answers:
"The shark is about 30 feet long and
has five rows of teeth when the shark is
going to catch its pray it turns ON its
side. The sharks are found in Indiad,
where they are very numerous in At
RIGA, etc. The way they catch sharks is
lowering a piece of meat on sharp
hook (and sailors will do it for amuse-
ment), and the shark is very hungry al
ways, that he will grab at the meat and
find himself caught.
Son of his foes are the sord fish it
will 60 and run its sword through it's
stummick.
"When the shark has been floating
about ON the water for some time it gets
lot of small fish in it's mouth and they
will go and lay on the beach and let
small birds come in their mouth and
pick them off and will not heart them.
The shark can live in water and ON land.
Going from England to Indiad, you will
see sharks in the nile, they will follow
ships for many miles on purpose to get
some meat, and then perhaps not get
any. They are different kinds of sharks,
the Black shark, Etc.
"The shark is very curious animal,
it can lay it's teeth down when not
catching any food
"Once upon time there was ship
going to america, and on board some
slaves the slaves were pack so close to-
gether that they could not live. and the
captin of the ship yous't to let some
come upon deck, and many of the slaves
yous't to jump overheard, and be eat
with sharks, so the captin determined to
stop it if lie could. So one day black
slave woman was just in the acted to
jump overheard when the captin caught
her, and had had as many slaves as he
could get upon deck. And then he had a
rope fastened around her vast, and low
cred her overheard, wen a shark came
and bitt a half off her off, and then the
captin had the other half pulled up and
sown to the slaves ON deck, and then
said to them that he would do any one
of them the same way if the jumped
overheard. "-London Chur ch Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
GIRLS VALUE PURITY IN MEN.
The Exceptions, Who Wed Men of the
World, Always Repent of 1t.

w Or1U, Always h0PeAC Ok AOs
A Young man writes to Edward W.
Box inquiring why SO many girls seem
to prefer the company of young fellows
of slightly plotted character-men who
have seen the world-and in many cases
marry them, in face of the fact that
their past lives are known to them. In
The Ladies' Home Journal Mr.. Box, its
editor, makes this reply: "Girls-that
is, the right kind of girls-do not prefer
the company of young men of this sort.
Doubtless, you have come across in
stances where this rule has been other
wise; SO have I. But it is all in the
seeming, and not in the reality. Depend
upon one thing-girls have as high an
estimate of purity in man as men have
of purity in woman.
''There are, Of course, cases to the
contrary, but these are few. Where girls
marry men who are known to have led
what is called worldly life, it is
more generally due to misunderstand-
ing of facts or to ignorance than people
imagine. There is a type of girl who
finds peculiar satisfaction in the con-
quest of man who has seen the world
and then comes to her as the one woman
of all her sex who can make him happy
This sometimes pleases her vanity and
love of conquest, but she is not many
years older before she discovers that she
has satisfied those feelings at a very
high cost.
'There is another type Of girl who
rather fancies a man who is what is
called fast But that sort of girl is
painfully ignorant of what is meant by
that word as applied to man. If she
were not, she would be very apt to
change the adjective to vulgar. And
as she natures she finds this out. 1t is
only young men of upright lives who
can hope to win the favor and love Of
girls of high motives, the girls who
make the best wives. If, at times, girls
seem to favor young men of another
kind, the glamour is simply transitory.
1t is rare, very rare, that girls better
instincts do not lead her to the higher
grade of yonng men. An upright life
never fails of reward, and of the highest
reward, from the hand Of woman"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Butchery In War.

In one of Du Guesclin's victories SO
many English were taken captive that
even the humblest soldier among the
French had one or more prisoners. The
yictors, however, fell to quarreling, and
i'll feeling becoming rife in the French
army in consequence of these quarrels
over the prisoners Du Guesclin ordered
all the captives to be butchered, and the
brutal order was carried out.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28

Mrs. Matchmaker wonder you do
not make up to Miss Singleton. She's a
splendid girl, bargain for any man
who gets her.
Tom Alley-Did you ever notice that
a bargain is almost always disappoint-
ing when you get it home?-Boston
Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Stirred I'm,

"Our whole neighborhood has been
stirred up" said the regular reader.
The editor of the country weekly seiz-
ed his pen.
"Tell me all about it," he said.
"What we want is the news. What
stirred it up?"
Flowing, J." said the farmer. Pear
sons Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Not His Name,

Ayoung man Went into store to buy
fountain pen. The girl in charge of
the counter supplied him with sheet
of paper, bottle of ink and several
pens, and in trying them one after an
other he covered the sheet with the
words tempus fugit (time fiesl, the girl
looking on with q kindly interest,
''4f you buy one and it doesn't suit
you, Mr.. Fugit," she remarked, "you
can bring it back and change it. -
Pacific
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
The Laws of Nature.

The laws of nature are just, but terri
BILE. There is no weak mercy in them.
Cause and consequence are inseparable
and inevitable. The elements have no
forbearance. The fire burns, the water
browns, the air consumes, the earth
buries. And perhaps it would be we'll
for our race if the punishment of crimes
against the laws of man were as ineyita-
BILE as the punishment of crimes against
the laws of nature-were man as unerr-
ing in his judgments as nature Long
fellow,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
The Professional Woman,

Margaret Sangster, writing of women
as Office workers, says, "The daily wear
and tear of nerves, temper and clothing
of obligatory Office attendance cannot be
adequately stated or paid for in dollars
and cents, and therefore woman must
love her profession over and above finan-
eial gains and pursue it for its own sake
if she would find in it the rewards of a
chosen career. :" We
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28

On entering room where many
guests are assembled go at once and
speak to your hostess before addressing
friends who are invited guests. The first
and last salutation should be to those
who offer you hospitality.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
What Cross Examination Can Do

Magistrate-Your namee ri
Bashful Maiden-Anna Lang. +
"Religion?'' -s.A
"Protestant.
eager" ~
No answer, :
when Were your parents marriedf"
SIN 1863. " !
"When was the first christeningp"
SIN 1864. F"
"How many brothers and sisters have
your" --s,ss !
Give
"Are you the oldest?"
"Yes. -
"Then you are 81 years of age"
"Yes. (Sotto voce) have given my
age away. am surprised. ''-Dorfbar-
bier.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Just as He Supposed.

'Has anybody here corkscrew?''
spoke up sharp nosed old gentleman
in the sleeping car.
'I have" was the response from
nearly every seat.
"Just as thought, shouted the old
gentleman. "And now who will be the
first to sign the temperance pledge?"-
Providence Visitor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28

Consider how much more you often
suffer from your anger and grief than
from those very things for which you
are angry and grieyed. Marcus Anto-
minus.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
THE MYSTERY OF A YEAR.

A little while, year agone,
l knew her for romping child,
A dimple and glance that shone
With idle mischief when she smiled
Today she passed me in the press,
And, turning with quick surprise,
wondered at her stateliness, 4. !
/ wondered at her altered eyes.
To me the street was just the same, y
The people and the city's stir,
But life had kindled into flame,
And all the world was changed for her.
watched her in the crowded ways,
A noble form, a queenly head,
With all the woman in her gaze,
The conscious woman in her tread.
"A. Lampman in Youths Companion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Why He Feared,

"No," she said, "father does not like
you"
"But he seemed very friendly last
night"
''You played poker with him9"
eyes"
"Well, he says that he cannot con-
scientiously intrust my future to man
who bets only one white chip ON three
deuces. Washington Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28

By act of congress, the enlisted
strength of our army, in time Of peace.
Is never to exceed 1000 men.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
Ruined.

"You are tagged out. You must give
up all headwork. "
"Why, that spells ruin! I'm hair
dresser. lie Petit Provencal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28

IN O0NcHA PASS.

IN OONCHA PASS. -
Wind of the west, EAH@
Wind of the western plains, RNt4
Wind Of the gray girt hills, HT7l
Wind of the winding trails aAl Z
Blow pure, blow soft, blow sweet y I
Across the land / love.
Soft is the wind of the west, ,M,
And cool and drenched sI$esyt
In odprs lily sweet, GitXfX
And soaked in wild perfume ZSsf1y
That drips '<STJs
From dew drenched lips Fo9AM1
Of roses as they sway II MI'
To and fro ~ ,JykEJl
In the soft embrace NJ nv
OF the passionate n. p IA
Wind of the west. + 4 ~
Wind of the west,
Wind of the wailing harps,
OF grass and grain,
Wind of odors subtly blent
Within the occident.
Wind of the wanton plains,
Wind of the winged clouds,
Wind of the grassy sea,
Blow pure, blow soft, blow sweet
Across the Concha pass,
And kiss the wild blooms
On her grave.
John N. Hilliard in indianapolis Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28

Modern inks date from 1898, at which
time researches of DR.. Lewis and Riban-
court in the chemistry of ink began.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28

Pride. that never failing vice of fools,I
Pope. ~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-28
TERRORIZED BY DEER
A MOB OF THEM CAPTURE A HOUSE
AND SMASH THINGS.

A Sportsman's Account of the Annoyance
Caused by Canadian Game Laws-If You
Want Peace While Hunting In Canada
Provide a Stuffed Gray Wolf.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE EFFECTS OF THE GOLD STAND
ARD; or Bimetallists' Catechism. BY
w. H. Smith. Paper, 2O2 PIP. % cents
Chicago Charles ii. Kerr Co.
An argument against the appreciat-
ing gold dollar, and a plea for the
restoration of the double standard
Of the constitution. This is a book to
be Stunned by all sound money" men
who think that soundness is safely
measured by gold alone, and WHO there
fore don't want to run against embar-
RAISING facts teaching that monomet-
allism of any kind is a curse rather
than a blessing.
Il II II
THE EARTH NOT CREATED: Fallacy
of All Cosmic Theories. By ID. X. Ten
ney. Paper. 81 PIP, 10 cents. Chicago.
Charles II. Kerr & Co.
The burden of Mr.. Tenny's discourse
is that the earth and all the orbs of
heaven always were as they are now,
and. a Driori, always will be the same.
This hypothesis is elaborated with
much courage.
AMERICAN LIBERTY. BY Robert H..
Nickers. Paper. with portrait, % PIP, d,
cents. Chicago: Charles II. Kerr Il
Co.
The central theme of this poem is the
Bolivar. and its 1876 sOnorous Spenserian
stanzas are devoted to extolling his
fame and apostrophizing liberty. The
opening stanZa sounds the key note and
Is a fair specimen OF the authors lyric
style:
Fair blow the breeze that moves each ris-
iCg wave
OF aspiration for the true and free.
Smooth lie the path of the escaping slave.
Sacred the soil tha nurtures liberty!
Each crowning triumph manly souls ad-
mre.
Here brother nations strive in unity,
Bleeding devotion rising ever higher
Until in common doom expressions vaunis
expisr.
While This is far removed from
poetry. it represents Il measure of pa
tient word-building sufficient to enlist
our sympathetic interest.
u u II
ALDEN'S LIVING TOPICS CYCLOPE.-
Ola: A Record of Recent Events and
of the Worlds Progress i'm All Depart
ments of knowledge. Cloth, IL mo. 2cQ
up. 80 cents. New York: John Il. AL
den
The purpose of this publication is to
bring all cyclopedias and other standard
reference books up to date. 1t is really
an alphabetical summary of current
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-07
lie and Retail City and Suburban Representative Busin
Cowles. W. c.. 1907 N. Main.

Cowles. W. G.. 1907 ". Main.
MATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
Rogers, A. f., 2i5 Lackawanna.
BOOTS AND SHOES
Goodman's Shoe Store, 432 Lsckawanna.
FURNITURE.
Barbour's Home Credit House, i25 I.acka
CARPETS AND WALL PAPER.
Inglis, j. Scott, 4i9 Lackawanna
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Osterhout. N. p. 40 w. Market
Jordan. James, Olyphant.
Barthold, u. j., Olyphant.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Shook, s. NJ. Olyphant.
PAINTS AND WALL PAPER.
winke, ]. c., 3l5 Penn.
TEA. COFFEE AND SPICE
Grand Union Tea Co., 1903 8. Main.