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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
VOL XVIII RISING sun, CECIL COUNTY, MD, FRIDAY, FEI

the association and the ladies said of it:
"The paper was excellent, but don't you
think its value was much added to by
her manner of reading? 1t was read with
such spirit "
When she came home from the associ-
alton, Helen Clayburn read Tom Ag-
news letter again and cried a little as
she laid it down.
"He cannot become the laughing
stock of men by marrying girl whose
actions place her Enthusiastically in the
ranks of that very undesirable creature,
the new woman Who has been talking
to him, and what have done except
take an interest in what should engage
the attention of every true woman?
Tom, Tom, I love you, but you must
you must come to yourself. "
And she did not answer the letter.
Three weeks passed and Tom Agnew
grew uneasy Why had Helen not writ
ten? He had expected letter from her
before this. He hoped he had said moth
ing which she might construe into de-
sire on his part to break their engage
ment. He had not meant to go so far as
that.
He was at the club one night again,
and in the meantime an election had
taken place.
There were only cigars on this night.
There had been no whist, no cham
pagne.
"It is wonderful what triumph we
have in electing pure and worthy men
to take charge of our school interests,
said Morris Habberton seriously.
"Yes, we," sneered Lewis Mortimer.
"Betsey and l, we killed bear, didn't
we? What are you talking about? 1t
was the women who did it. They work
ed before election and then went up to
the polls ike-ahem-men.
"Well, l have no objection to that. I
don't want to rob them of their credit.
All honor to the women who rid us of
boodlers and incompetents.
"They acted nobly," chimed in old
Hobbs, "but much was due to the splen-
did leadership and wonderful genius for
organization of that Miss Clayburn. She
is indeed great girl. You know her,
Agnew, don't you?'
"Ah, yes, yes, of course" =" stammered
Tom.
"Well, We'll expect you to see that
she is one of the patronesses on ladies'
day.
AS soon as Tom could get out he hur-
ried away, mentally kicking himself for
weak fool.
And he called himself by no milder
name when he found Helen Clayburn at
home half hour later. He explained it
all to her, not for a moment sparing
himself.
81 said that something had happened
to vex you," said Helen, ''but, oh,
Tom, knew you would come to your
senses. But aren't you afraid of me as a
new woman? Just think, Tom, I've
been elected president of the Woman's
Social Purity club and won the annual
medal for the best mullins at the cook
ing school. Isn't that ominous?"
There was a look in her eyes and q
half humorous little tremor in her voice
that made him clasp her in his arms as
he said:
81 don't care if you've been elected
sheriff if you'll just forgive me and
take me back to your heart again. I
don't care how new woman you are,
just so you are mine. "-Chicago News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
SKETCHES BYM. QUAD
It Made Him Tired.


The station agent at Canon City had
a half grown cinnamon bear chained up
to post as pet and curiosity, and
while the train waited there for the east
bound to come along many of the pas
sengers crossed the tracks to gaze at the
living curiosity. Among them was d
girl faced young man with lisp, who
viewed the bear for awhile and then
went back to the agent and asked:
''Thir, thee you have bear over
there"
eyes, sir.
SIS it'll real bearr'
"Of course
"If l should kill him, could tele-
graph to my ma in New York that
had thlain a savage monster of the
west?''
"You could"
"How much to let me thoot at him
thix times?" continued the young man
as he fished up a small revolver.
"Twenty dollars for six Shots, re-
piled the agent. 81 will accept, and
here is your moneth. Now, then, every
body thand back while 1 slay the mon
ster in his tracks.
We moved back, and he advanced to
within ten feet of the bear and opened
fire. The beast stood broadside on, eat
ing some nuts thrown to him, and while
the six shots were being fired he did not
even raise his head. One bullet carried
away bit of his fur, but every one of
the others went over him.
'Have l thlain him?" asked the
young man as he stood with empty
weapon in hand.
"He doesn't appear to be slain," re-
piled the agent. "Want to try six more
at the same price?"
"No, thir, guess not. Twill go and
telegraph to ma thath started outh to
thlay monster of the west, but he re-
fused to be thlain and tired me outh."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
Marble Making.

The example furnished by nature in
the production of marble from chalk by
water, the latter percolating gradually
and steadily through the chalky depos-
its, dissolving the chalk particle by par
ticle and crystallizing it, mountain pres
sure effecting its characteristic solidity,
it is now found may be the basis of ac-
complishing similar results by resort to
chemical processes. Slices of chalk are
for this purpose dipped into a color bath,
staining them with tints that will imi-
tate any kind of marble known, the
same mineral stains answering this end
as are employed in nature. For in
stance, to produce the appearance of the
we'll known and popular verde antique
an oxide of copper application is resort
ed to, and in a similar manner green,
pink, black and other colorings are OBJ
tanned. The slices after this are placed
in another bath, where they are harden
ed and crystallized, coming out to all
intents and purposes real marble. Lon
don Decorators Gazette.
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He Was Waiting.

He sat on log in front of his shanty,
smoking some sort of leaves or weeds in
his homemade pipe, and when I rode
up and saluted him l thought him the
most melancholy individual ever saw.
"Down ON your luck:" 1 queried as I
offered him some smoking tobacco.
"Waal, no." he slowly replied
"Lost my mewl by snake bite t'other
day, but sich things ar to be expected. 3"
"You don't look we'll"
"Guess not I've bin sick fur about
three months, and this is my fust day
out. We must expect sickness, how
ever. !"
"Wife and children well?"
"Wife run away last week, and the
seven young uns ar in thar with chills
and fever. Twas kinder discouraged this
mornin, but I'm feelin quite chirky
now."
81 see you have no crops in," said
as I looked over the rank fields.
"Not crop, and I'm kinder glad on
it. I won't hev no hustlin to do this
fall"
Haven't you any poultry or live
stock?"
"Noap. Had to sell my COW last win
ter, and the coyotes carried off the chick
ems. Had two hogs, but they died of
cholera. Noap, no live stock to worry
about
"This old shanty of yours is ready to
tumble down.
"That's a fact, stranger. She leaks
like an old boot and kin hardly stand
alone. Reckon the fust high wind will
blow her all in a heap.''
Provisions pretty scarce?" persist
ed, seeing he was willing to talk.
"Dunno. All we live on is johnny
cake and corn coffee. Shouldn't Won
der, though, if pervishuns was kinder
skeerce.
"Your nearest neighbor must be all Of
three miles away?"
''Three miles was the highest, but
he's dead. The highest one is now five
miles away"
"And don't you get lonely?"
"Never. "
"But will you tell me what on earth
you are living for?''
81 will, stranger; will, he answer
ed as he got up and threw piece of sod
at barking pup dog. "This 'ere claim
is wuth about $500"
eyes. Z"
"And she's mortgaged for $780,"
eyes -
"And the moneys all gone, and the
mortgage is to be foreclosed next
month.
81 see"
"Waal, I'm living to see the fun
when the fule who lent 5000 ON $500
with of land gifts around yere to fore
close on me and take possession. After
that IN goin out and let snake bite
me aud die.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
The DAILY NEWSPAPER.
Its Development and Its Worth Excellent
ly Set Forth.

Its Development and Its Worth Excellent
ly Set Forth.
The evolution of the daily press into
more than a newspaper is forced by
public expectation and custom. 1t is to
a majority of people, at least on this
continent, the sole library. 1t must satis-
fly wider demand than that Of the man
who merely wants to know if stocks
have risen since yesterday or whether
Senegambia and Bolivia have gone to
war overnight.
Matthew Arnold said, with sus-
picion of tears in his voice, that if he
lived something like 80 years longer
than he expected to, he would probably
be the only man in Great Britain who
would be found reading books. He took
an extreme and rather pessimistic view.
AS a matter Of fact the press has been
largely instrumental in encouraging the
reading of good books, and while it en-
crosses the attention of many millions
of readers to itself the fact of the in
creasing literary output Of the country
and the world refutes the notion that
the public is losing its appetite for mat
ters Of enduring moment. Thoreau, the
apostle of high thought and individual
ism, took no care of the changes that are
recorded and forgotten every day because
he lived apart from men and studied ma
ture. He it was who cried: "Do not read
the times Read the eternities. But he
lived in day when the press was small,
of little influence and servile. In his
own state it supported the demands Of
the shareholders, to his infinite disgust,
and it was first and last mere record
of the days doings.
But the press of this day is more than
a record. 1t is mirror Of the worlds
thoughts and intentions, a critic,
judge, a guide, friend. By many the
news pages are glanced at, and attention
is bestowed on the contents that exhibit
deliberation, research and scholarship.
There is as good writing and as pur-
poseful and helpful writing in the daily
papers today as there was in the maya
zines Of the first half of our century be-
fore. Moreover, it is writing to some
purpose. 1t is not for mere display Of
style, but to accomplish the betterment
of governments, of society, Of institu-
tions and arts, to stimulate effort in
right causes. to encourage industry,
thrift, honor and content. The condition
of the world in our century without the
daily press is unthinkable. Brooklyn
Eagle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21

''Haven't lost any money, have your"
"Yes, sir. I expect I have. Feller
over on Fourteenth street slapped me on
the back and said he used to go to skule
with me and wanted to borry S.. I out
with the money and hain't seen him
sence. Yes, reckon I've lost that five,
but am kickin? Not much! Expected
to lose my hull $97 before I've been
here two days, but I'm ahead of the
game. Feller beat me not over an hour
ago."
"How was that?"
'Poked me in the ribs and said he
used to know my brother Cyrus and
then asked me in to have beer with
him. While was talkin to another man
he slid out, and I had to pay. I don't
mind those things, though. was in a
place up here where they was playin
keerds. Feller asked me to take hand
at poker, and the fust thing I knowed
I'd lost So. They sorter expected I'd
kick, but I didn't. Lands alive. but
what's the use of kickin when you come
down to see New York;"
"But you ought to be more careful Of
yourself, protested.
"Oh, let them have fun with Uncle
Reuben if they wanter," he laughed in
reply. "Feller down here took my spec
tacles off my nose as was readin sign
and walked off with 'em, but didn't
holler nor chase him up. He jest want
ed to have little fun, you see, and I
wasn't goin to tear down line fences
about it. One of them cable kyars on
Broadway knocked me off the track 10th
er day, and more'n dozen fellers want
ed me to lick the conductor and sue the
company. They didn't mean to run me
down. It's jest their way, you know.
I expected to be run over at least four
times before got out of town."
'Well, you take things pretty easy"
"Of course. When I'm to home and
things don't go right, kuss around
some, but I come down here to have
good time, and amt goin to sass and
jaw and kick. Feller over on Sixth av-
enue kicked me three times, but did I
holler and raise a riot? No stree! I
come down here expectin to be tooken
fur some one else and kicked, and jest
kept still till he found out his mistake
and apologized Said he took me fur a
feller who stole his hat.
"Well, have good time," said as
turned to go.
"You bet I willp' he replied as he
waved me farewell. "When fell down
stairs, I busted my suspenders, tore the
back out of my vest and ripped coat
tail loose, but I'm all right-all right
and I'll git sowed up and then hunt
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
DANGER IN EARLY RISING.
A Doctors Theory That tho Habit Helps
to Make People Insane.

A Doctors Theory That the Habit Helps
to Make People Insane.
DR.. Selden Fl. Talcott, the medical
Superintendent of the Middletown State
Insane asylum recently, started the the
ory that nothing conduced SO much to
insanity as early rising.
In proof Of his assertion DR.. Talcott
calls attention to the relative frequency
with which farmers, their wives, sons
and daughters become insane. The cause
of this has hitherto been thought to be
their isolated lives, their hard work and
perhaps the excessive use Of pie and po-
tatoes.
On the other side, it has always
seemed to DR.. Talcott and other eminent
alienists that there must be some other
deep seated cause of insanity among the
farming classes than pie and potatoes.
Farmers have always pure, fresh air in
abundance, which city folk seldom have;
they are less liable to mental and nerv-
GUS strain than city folk and also less
liable to infectious diseases and the bad
effects of alcohol.
Dr.. Talcott's view, after a careful
consideration Of the advantages and dis
advantages of farming life as predis-
posing cause of insanity, is that it is the
excessively early hours of rising which
increase insanity in the rural districts
out of proportion to the urban and SUBJ
urban rate. He thinks growing chill
dren in particular suffer severely from
the "artificial cut off" which is applied
SO rigidly to their lives.
The report Of the state commission in
lunacy shows that during the year end
ing Sept. 80, 1894, $40 farmers, gar
deners and herdsmen were committed in
New York state as lunatics This is
larger number than in any other class
except laborers, of whom there were GOT
commitments.
AS against these large classes there
were only % members of the profess
sional classes committed, including
clergy, military and naval officers, art
lists, authors, civil engineers and survey
ors. There were only 40 men committed
out of the large class of walters, cooks,
servants, miners and seamen. The class
of male teachers, students, housekeep-
ers and nurses gave only 23.-New York
Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
Chinese idea of Fires In Winter.

Although in some parts Of China the
weather during winter is very cold, the
Chinese think English fires very uncivi-
lized-so destructive to furniture and SO
apt to smoke. "Their way of getting
warm is to add jacket over jacket and
skirt over skirt, and when sitting quiet
to embrace little charcoal burner hid
den by the wide sleeves of the tunic. !"
Sometimes this unseen warm friend was
forgotten during Mrs. Stewards class
hours, and there was cry that some
body was On fire. All hands would then
hasten to the rescue, and the fire would
be put out amid much amusement.
Westminster Gazette.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
Sticking to New York.

When the night tramp told me that
he was hungry and had no money to pay
for food or lodging-when he added
that he had walked the streets of New
York day after day and could get no
work-when he grew pathetic and de-
clared his readiness to commit suicide
if things didn't change, halted and
asked:
"Why don't you get out of New
York?'"
"Where'll get to?'
"Go to the country; go over in Jersey.
Any farmer will give you your keep for
what you can do while winter Lasts
"You never tried it, did you?" he
queried.
"No."
"I'm sure of that. have, however,
and I know how it works. land in
Jersey City. There's policeman right
there who looks me over and yells:
"'Wot you a-doin here?'
Lookin fur work.
"'Skip-git-travel, or it's three
months in Jail.
81 gifts along up town." said the
tramp, "and I meets another copper,
and he yells:
"'Wot is this I see before me?'
"sAn unfortunate man a-lookin fur q
job.
'Git-hump-skate! If you amt
out O. town in half an hour, it'll be six
months in the jug.
ST gifts out O. town and into the coun-
try. I sees the cows in the barnyards
and the sheep gambolin in the medders,
and hears the farmer whistlin as he
splits fence rails or chops at the wood
pile. All is lovely, and opens the gate
and walks in, and dog as big as hill
throws me down and chaws me up.
Then woman throws pail of hot wa
ter over me, and farmer comes runnin
with club and yells out:
"'Durn your hide, but what dye
mean?'
"'I'm a-lookin fur work.
"'What work?'
"'Any sort o. work.
"'But thar hain't bin any work in
Jarsey sense 1860, and you orter know
it. Git up'n fly.
"Then 1 goes along about a mile
farther and sees Teller at his gate
smokin his pipe. He hain't- got no
milk O. human kindness in his eye, and
SO I'm passin by when he yells:
"'Wot's the matter with your
"'Nuthin.
"'Wot are you passin along here fur?'
"'A-lookin fur work.
"'Oh, you arel .Waal, I've got it fur
you. Come along O. me-.
Hes a constable, and he takes me
before a court at Elizabeth, and the
jedge looks at me and sez:
"'H'm! I see! Young man, hev you
got thousand dollars in your pocket?'
"'No, sir.
"'Hev you got money in the bank
a farm-own any bonds?'
"'No. sir.
"H'ml Worst case of total deprav-
ity I've seen in five years! So you are
a lookin fur work-hard work?'
"'Yes, sir.
"'Work to sweat the color outer your
suspenders and make your hair curl?'
That's me, sir.
Then I'm overjoyed to know that
kin accommodate You. Prisoner at the
bar, stand up. You amt goin to stand
up to drink, but to a sentence of nine
months in the county Jail at hard workp
"'What fur?'
"'Fur leavin good thing in New
York and lookin fur work in New Jer-
sey Remove the caitiff v'-M. Quad in
Detroit Free Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
A FAMOUS EPITAPH.


Self Exiled Englishman.
There are some interesting epitaphs in
the old gra7eyards in Poughkeepsie, but
probably none of them has been SO wide
ly known and admired as that on the
stone which marks the burial place Of
John Taylor in front of Christ church,
on Academy street. This epitaph has
been widely published on both sides of
the ocean, it is said, and is believed to
have been written by the English poet
William Roscoe and sent over for his
friend Taylor's gravestone. Yet the
stone lies neglected, and the last three
lines of the epitaph have been broken
off, probably during the work preceding
the building of the new church. The
epitaph- was published in Benson ].
Lossing's book on "Vassar College and
Its Founder, and was greatly admired
and frequently quoted by Matthew Vas
sar, Jr., as many of his friends remem-
ber. The inscription and epitaph on the
stone are as follows:
In this spot
was inferred
John Taylor
Attorney at Law
the eldest son
Of Doctor John Taylor
of Bolton lie Moors, England,
who died of the yellow fever
Sept. 11th, 1905.
Aged So years.
Far from his kindred friends and native skies
Here mouldering in the dust poor Taylor lies.
Firm was his mind, and fraught with various
lore
And his mild heart was never cold before.
He lov'd his country, lov'd that spot of earth
Which gave a Hampden, Milton, Bradshaw
birth,
But when that country, dead to all but gain,
Bowed her base neck and hugged the oppress
or's chain
Loathing the abject scene he dropped and sigh
ed,
Crossed the wild waves and here untimely
died.
Stranger what'er thy country creed or hue
Go and like him the moral path pursue;
Go, and for Freedom every peril brave
And nobly scorn to be or hold slave.
The last line is one that has been par
ticularly admired and frequently quoted,
and it is gone from the stone, which is
broken off just after the fourth line
from the end. That this stone should
have been so mutilated seems little short
of vandalism. John Taylor is said to
have come to this country about the
same time that the Vassar family came,
shortly after the close of the American
Revolution, and at a time when the
English government was repressing all
outspoken friends of reform in fear of a
repetition in England of the French reyo-
luton. He was the uncle of Mr.. Hudson
Taylor, and the greatuncle of Mr.. Rob-
ert E. Taylor. His father, DR.. John Tay-
lor, was very prominent man in Eng
land, with many influential friends, one
of whom was the poet Roscoe, who
wrote the epitaph, which reminds one
very much.of some of Goldsmith's best
lines-Poughkeepsie Eagle.
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DEAD.

She died last night: (How deep the SHOWS Of
May
Bloom on the thickets there) See how her
face,
Is blindly turned against the light. (The grace
OF spring comes new-as it was yesterday
And ever shall be.) They have put away
Her hands beneath the sheets. (How green
the place.
See through the leaves white butterflies that
chase
Each other in the sum- Oh, poor dead clay
The mouth is silent and the eyes are blindl
(But how the young leaves in the sun and
shade
Do tremble with the faint, delicious windy
Her life is ended, and her grave is made,
And is this all that death can leave behindp
Good Lord deliver mel l am afraid
New York Tribune.
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Strong In Their Opposition.

"Weak woman I" repeated time sadly.
"Ah, if you could but encounter the op-
position I have to meet from that
sourcer
Occasionally, he confessed, he was
prompted not only to turn back in his
flight, but to abandon it altogether
Detroit Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21

The last time Sarah Bernhardt saw
Alexandra Dumas she congratulated
him Oh the fact that the thousandth per-
formance of "La Dame aux Camelias"
was soon to be given with proper cere-
monies.
"Ah, madam" said the dramatist,
81 am very willing that the event
should be celebrated, but on one condi-
tion-that l be not present. And he
was not
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The Old Familiar Greeting.

At recent seance in this city the
spirit of the wife of well known citi-
zen appeared, and he involuntarily ex.
claimed, 81 haven't got a cent Los
Angeles Express.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21
Relative Suffering.

Mrs. Waggles-Doesn't your husband
suffer dreadfully with rheumatismH
Mrs. Wiggl gles--Yes, but it's nothing
to what the rest of us have to endure
Somerville Journal
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The engines of the Northwestern rail-
way, in Eng gland, are worth e5, 900, 900.
To maintain this value an old engine is
withdrawn every five days and replaced
by new one.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-02-21

At the present time the United States
has 144 garrisoned forts. arsenals or
military posts occupied by its troops. i
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NOTICE
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on thu
second Tuesday ofevery month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring in
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test: r. E. JAMAR, Register
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-12-17
Bad Fire at Altoona.

ALTOONA, Pa, Dec. 15-- Valuable prop
erty in the heart of the business section of
this city was destroyed by fire, entaiiing a
loss of 500, oo0 A boy playing Santa
Claus in one OF the windows Of T. FL. Nor
rows dry goods store, at the corner of
Eleventh avenue and Twelfth street, drop
ped lamp, andin tryinato eztinguish
it set4re to some cotton aNout bis neck
He pulled the cotton garment hastily off
and threw it down upon some decorations
in the window. Instantly the window was
ablaze, and a few minutes later the fire
was sweeping through the store, driving
the clerks out. The flames extended to
Odd Fellows hall, a three story brick build
ing, in which the city postofice is located.
and on tho other side to the Simon build
ing, three story structure owned by Blu
menthal Bros of Lancaster. The walls of
these buildings checked the farther prog
ress of the fire