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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20

One of mans chief enjoyments in love
affair is that he has found some one at last
who believes everything he says.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20
R1OO Ncward TOO.

The readers Of this paper will be plcas.d
disease that science has been able to cure
IN All Its stages, and that IL Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is the only positive
Catarrh being a constitutional disease, rs-
CURES a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and mucous Sur
faces OF the system. thereby destroying
the foundation Of the disease and giving
tho patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have 80 much
faith IN It's curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any care
that 1t fails to cure. Send for list OF tts-
timonials.
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pen,t Tthaeeo spit Or Smoke Your Llfe AwaY

Rowan jelly is one of the Indispensable
adjuncts to game in Scotland.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20

Mrs. Ninsioyy'a Soothing Syrup
lorchIren tee'hing, softens thc ums reduces irfanl
nation, aiiays pain, wind coiic Is bottle
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20
nnuaEazs Eaglaz "a d g%ga zEHGEuEaas

Only the truth which the soul nppro
pirates, gives life Phillip; Brooks
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20

For caulihower said the vegetable must
lie first thoroughly cooked.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20

When bilious OF. costiye, eat Cascaret
candy cathartie, cure guaranteed. l0c, pc
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20

r. J. CHENEY & co, Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-11-20

Telegraph operators in Germany receive
SOL a week; in Italy, $500
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
SUN FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1896 Nc

long years-and at 23, too-you must
confess it's lottery. So he waited in
no small tremor Of doubt and misgiv-
ing. What terrible thing if he had to
tie himself for life, out of pure chival-
ry and to prevent disappointing her, to
tangled mass of fluffy brown hair,
with nothing else in particular on earth
to recommend it
When man thinks like that, you may
be tolerably sure his affections have
somehow declined a trife from their
youthful ardor.
However, Phil put the best face upon
it, like a gentleman, and waited with
outer calm at his up country station. He
waited week; then, rejecting that he
must meet his bride at Bombay, he ap-
piled for month S leave, in the time
honored way, ION urgent private bust
ness. % His excellency was pleased to
grant the request, and Phil Gilman
went down to Bombay accordingly,
much trembling in soul, to meet his
Aggie.
Of course he couldn go to the house
of the friend with whom Aggie was to
stop in the short interval between her
arrival and her marriage, so he put up
with another acquaintance Of official
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NO. II.

She said it with friendly smile that
was the warmest Of welcomes. Phil
tumbled up stairs as best he could, and
opened his portmanteau. He was good
looking fellow, with a most manly mus
tache, and I'm bound to admit he took
more pains over his dressing that even
ing than was strictly necessary or in
deed desirable in Aggie's interest. He
endued himself with care in his best
afternoon coat and his newest imported
European tie, and he surveyed himself
approvingly in the glass before he de-
scended with slow steps to the drawing
ROOM I'm sure don't know what an
engaged young man could mean by tax
ing SO much pains over his personal ap-
pearance; he could certainly have taken
no more if it was AgSie herself, not a
strange young lady, who awaited him
in the drawing room.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES

The Ever Failing, Never Ending Search
For Such Mechanical Contrivances.
Closely allied to the periodically re-
curing claims for the production of per-
petual motion are the class of exhibi-
tions which have been profitable to their
inventors by organizing companies
through active promoters, upon evil
dence, for instance, that few drops Of
water can produce ,>essure of 10000
pounds per Sc 7rr .nch, as though this
was tantaTss joths performance of a
useful amATSi work.
Again, the IS the line of pseudo ex-
perimentatlon, based upon the oft re
peated assertion that harmony of sound
can set up such motion as to produce
large mechanical effects, such as the
rotation of machines, or act with ex-
plosiye power in guns. All such devices
may properly be considered as perpetual
motion machines, for in such cases the
power manifested is much greater than
that required for it's initiation, and it
must follow that the machine, after
supplying itself with such initiatory
excitement, will have much surplus en-
ergy left over for useful purposes, if the
facts are as stated. In fact, such surplus
energy has been looked for by the pro-
moters, but has not yet so far revealed
itself as to render feasible the construc-
tion of machines of practical use and
commercial value.
The means to carry on exhibitions Of
such reputed inventions are obtained
from widely scattered sources. Gener-
ally those who have furnished the capi-
tai are not interested in the exposure Of
the frauds or do not realize that advan-
tage is being taken of their credulity,
while those who are not pecuniarily in
terested are afforded no opportunity to
prove the correctness Of their assump-
tion as to the fraudulent nature of the
display. The floating of such schemes is
much too easy, as the ordinary tendency
Of the human mind is to freely believe
that remarkable results may be obtained
from modern scientific methods. This
faith leads many to venture at least
small investments, in the hope that
large returns will be realized, and I fear
this tendency will continue to exist as
long as faith without reason is domi-
nant in many minds. ds.-Professor Cole
man Sellers in Casters Magazine.
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His Palmy Days. Are Gone.

The juggling fakir, having been driv-
en- from more lucrative schemes, has
been reduced to very common level
One Of the class who was recognized as
having worn diamonds five years ago,
and who was known as one Of the most
skillful shell workers in the country,
was the center of an eager group of boys
in the rear Of a big store at dinner hour
Saturday. He was seedy and run down,
and a wreck of his former days, indicat-
ing that the shell swindle is too we'll
known nowadays to be successfully
worked.
He had basket in front of him, con-
tanning number of small paper bags
In one hand he held pretty gold ring,
and this he pretended to put into one Of
the bags. Then he shook the pile up.
''Pick it out for a cent, boysl'' he
cried many times.
"It's in that one" cried one. "There
1t is" shouted another, and so the boys
vigorously guessed, but they didn't pro-
duce the pennies.
When the observer left, the decayed
thimhle rigger was still monotonously
and despairingly calling out:
"Pick it out for cent, boys! There's
no deception, and the lucky boy gets
gold ring worth $50. Pick ii out for
cent !"-Philadelphia CALI
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If you knew
How O few
Brooch and Chatelaine.

The day of the brooch and chatelaine
for watches is over. The watch chain
again asserts itself. Watches no longer
swing from enameled flowers or jew
eled bars. Instead they are hidden
away in a watch pocket, and a black
silk cord or narrow ribbon is their
main support. Old fashioned broad gold
watch chains are not yet the vogue, but
as time goes on they probably will be.
At present silk cords in black and dark
shades are considered the proper thing.
Summer girls, however, are substitut-
ing for the gold watch chain a narrow
satin ribbon which matches in color the
gown with which it is worn. A few ex-
ceedingly fine gold chains are seen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
CRISSCROSS LOVE.
By GRANT ALLEN.
Copyright, 1895, by Grant Allen.
CHAPTER T.


They were simply heartbroken. Yes,
l repeat it, heartbroken. No diamond
cement that ever was made sufficed to
repair the injured organs. For when
Philip Gilman left London to go out to
India he cried his eyes red over his sad
farewolls to Aggie Oswald. They two
were in love with one another-madly
in love-as boys and girls will be, with
that unalterable affection which endures
for eternity-or, to be more precisely
mathematical, for six months at least,
on an average computation. Philip had
been placed third in the India civil
competition, and the boundless pro-
spective wealth which that position
promises Tin deprecated rupees) he pro-
ceeded forthwith to lay at the feet of
pretty little Aggie. And no wonder he
did SO, for she was as airy. fairy little
butterfly as ever fitted through ball
room among admiring lads of one and
twenty. Everybody who saw her fell
victim at once to that fluffy brown hair
and that arch littlo smile of hers No
Oxford undergraduate was ever known
to resist that tripping tongue; no subal-
tern at Aldershot was ever known to
withstand the winning grace of those
pinky white cheeks and those cherry
red lips of Aggie Oswald's.
But Philip Gilman was the hero who
bore off the prize. What wonder, when
he could make love to her in Tamil and
Telugu almost as fluently as in Eng
lish itself? Not that Aggie understood
one word of either Of those learned
tongues-a little bad French bounded
the tale of her linguistic accomplish
ments-but the glamour of them shone
through to her from his thoughtful
brown eyes, which spoke a language
universally understood. He was a clev-
er fellow, Philip, and an earnest one
into the bargain, and if he thought him
self desperately in love with the pretty
fluffy hair and the laughing mouth
why, many good man has made the
same sort of mistake at one and twenty.
We were one and twenty ourselves once,
you and /, though it's long time
since, and were the girls we then
thought we could never be happy with
out the same as those with whom we
finally decided upon passing mundane
existence together? trow not, if rec
ollect it Alright; our hearts got broken
and very decently mended again-some
half dozen times before we were 30.
Well, the night before Philip left
London he spent at the Oswalds', as in
duty bound, and even that sternest of
chaperons, little Aggie's mamma, un-
der those special circumstances, left
them alone in the drawing room for
couple of hours of agonized leave taking.
Philip was particularly certain as to
their plans for the future.
81 shall save up every anna, Aggie,
he said-he spoke of annas familiarly,
instead of speaking of farthings. in or
der to give o tonch of local color and
to prove his minute acquaintance with
that India he had never yet saen="l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
QUEER FINANCIAL METHODS.
How the Daily Routine of Banking Is Con
Quoted In MarseilIes.

How the Daily Routine of Banking Is Con-
Quoted In Marseilles.
We had to make our way through a
crowd occupying large room or small
hall in which business was conducted.
This hall was filled with people, some
of whom were there to look after their
own or other people, affairs, and others
of whom had obviously dropped in for a
casual chat, Almost all We're smoking
cigarettes, an amusement which they
shared with good many of the bank
clerks. When we had got through this
crowd, my friend and host presented his
check at guichet. The man behind the
guichet gave him metal disk stamped
with q number, Armed with this, my
friend made his way to another guichet,
behind which stood not clerk, but an
ordinary porter wearing the livery of
the bank. This porter had his hands
full of similar metal disks. After a
weary waiting he called out the number
say, S02-on my friends disk,
Then my friend advanced, identifying
his check by another number obtained
at the first guichet, and then received
his money, not in the currency or form
which he wished for, but in such shape
as the porter had ut hand to dispense
from the authorities above him. Then,
some of the notes being only locally ne
gotiable, my friend had to go to a third
guichet to see if they could be changed
into negotiable notes. On occasions this
is impossible, and the unfortunate
holder of the check has either to leave
part of the money he has come for until
a favorable opportunity or accept what
he can get on the chance of paying it
away or getting it changed or both with
some of his tradespeople. Beyond this
there is no clearing house system, Each
bank makes charge for eashing a check
on another bank, and these charges
practically swallow up the tiny amount
Of interest nominally allowed on con-
slant balance. And this is how the daily
routine of banking is conducted in the
first bank of Marsei Hes. -Longman's
Magazine.
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''Fiee OF Si1 ledfs" she eT1eGi
shall save up every anna, Aggie, till
I'm able to send home for you to come
out and marry me, and when I've got
enough to do it you'll fly across the sea
to me like a swallow flying home
won't you, my darlingTi
Aggie laid the fluffy head very trust
ingly on the future viceroy's shoulder
she knew he would never stop till he
was at least yicersy.
"Of course I'll come to yoa, dearest"
she answered. 81 shall count every
minute of the time till you send for
me. But will it be very, very long, do
you think? How soon do yoq suppose
you be i'll position to marry, Philip
Phil stroked his struggling mustache
(you could see IL distinctly with pow
erful pocket lens) and assumed an air
of adult and manly wisdom.
"Oh, not so very long, Aggie," he
replied quite airily, five or six years
at the outside, expect. ] mean to get
ON and to save every anna"
Not for worlds would he have eo4=
sented to state the fact on such night
as that in mere commonplace pennies.
Aggie's cherry red mouth pursed it.
self up into something very like pret-
ty little pout-only much more alluring.
Give or six years! p she cried, alarm
ed "That an awfully long time, Phil
I wish it wasn't so long. ! can't bear
to do without you.
"But you can wait for me, darling"
Phil cried, with a loving look into
those liquid hazel eyes. "You can wait
for me, can't you? Only five or sly
years! And I would wait an eternity
for you."
may observe In passing he was very
much in love with her.
"Oh, yes, can wait for you," Ag-
gle answered, drying her eyes the twen-
tieth time, "a hundred years if neces-
sary. I never can love anybody else in
the world but you. 1t isn't that SO
much. It's the time while I'm waiting
You DON'T know how dreadful it is f6r
ne to have to do one day without youp'
And so, with many genuine tears,
and many loving protestatioas-~ail true
as steel at the time-that evening wore
away, and Phil took his departure.
Next morning he left by the overland
mail, via Brindisi. Aggie saw him of,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
CHAPTER III.

While he waited for his answer at his
up country station Phil Gilman himself
had half hoped Aggie might by this time
see things in the same light as he did she
might perhaps be willing to release him
from an engagement which had ceased
to be reality to either of them. No
doubt she, too, had changed great deal
meanwhile, and there Phil was quite
right; Aggie had deepened and broad
eHed from a girl into woman. She
was no longer the mere light hearted,
fluffy headed coquette, leading butter
fly existence in Bayswater bathrooms
Pretty and rosy checked and cherry
Tipped as of yere. she had developed
meanwhile three ADDITIONAL featnres-a
mind and awilI and a decided CON-
science,
These very acquisitions, however, fur
ther strengthened as they were by her
mothers exhortations, led Aggie to sac
rifice herself, q modern Iphigenia, on
the altar of duty, and to write Phil Gill
man letter in return, all rsplete with
ardent expressions Of delight and con-
stancy. twas letter to thrill lovers
heart with joy. Phil Gilman read it
with very modified rapture. Not that
he was quite sure Ae wasn't in love
with Aggie even now. Till he saw her
how could he sayS He might be, and he
mightn't He had been in love with
the Aggie he had left behind; he would
perhaps be in love with the Aggie who
was coming out to him. But after five
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
women's Wages.

The New York Sun says that during
the last two years there has been a
steady decrease in the wages of women,
and it seems likely to gofurther. There
are several causes for the decrease. For
one thing, men are now entering en-
ployments which formerly belonged ex-
clusively to women. These men are
mostly Poles, Hungarians and Italians,
who will work for the smallest of
wages. Foreign women are also COM
ing in and accepting wages which
American women cannot think of tax
ing. Employers resort to various meth
ods for forcing down wages. During
the holidays they take on cheap help,
and when the rush is over keep the new
girls and drop the old employees. Many
women are said to be working for from
80 to go cents per day, and the army of
unemployed is steadily increasing.-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03

A pretty "catch- for the
sewing room can be made by hang
ing bag of bright cretonne in q
camp stool from which the seat has
been removed. The bag is gathered
some distance from the top to make
a frill that stands above the frame.
and at either side are large bows
of satin ribbon.
A progressive luncheon or dinner
is a little innovation introduced in
the program of winter entertain
ments. At the end of each course
a change is made from one table to
another, and good conversational
list is in as great demand at such q
dinner as the good card player in
progressive whist.
Mock MINCE PIE.-One cupful
of seeded raisins, chopped, one
small cupful of rolled crackers, one
cupful each of water, cider, mo-
lasses and sugar, one egg, one table
spoonful of butter, and teaspoon
ful each of cinnamon, cloves and
nntmeg; scald all up together be-
fore using.
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dissolved in tears, at Charing Cross sta
tion, and was left behind sobbing. Fol
many nights after she cried herself ta
sleep. You may laugh at her if you like
you who hold the young palpitating
human heart fit object for your gentle
middle aged sarcasm-as for me, can
not. At 18, which was then exactly Ag-
gle Oswald's age, the loss of lover,
gone to India for six years, is serious
matter. There are those of us in the
forties who feel these things still. Let
a girl in her teens have our sincerest
sympathy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
A Good Plan.

The Rock Island railroad has adopted
an excellent plan to test the honesty Of its
conductors. They were informed that
spoilers would no longer be employed
on the road, and that the money thus
saved would be applied to an increase
in the wages of the conductors. The
plan is said to be working to the entire
satisfaction of both the company and
those directly affected. Philadelphia
Ledger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
Defense of a Purse Thief.

A delightful defense was rendered re-
Gently to charge of stealing a purse
from lady's pocket "The prisoner
pleaded that he was tempted by the
purse protruding, F." which justified him,
he seemed to think, in intruding.-
Westminster Gazette.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
The Imnarishahla Fool.

It is curious fact that the supply Of
foolish people never gives out, although
they are dying Of their folly every day.
Hartford Courant.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03

Avoid pneumonia, diphtheria
and typhoid fever, by keeping the
blood pure, the appetite good and
the bodily health vigorous by the
use of Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03
LITTLE DANES AND MEN.

We must all remember when
We were little danes and men,
When each sorrow tugged away with all its
might }
At our little hearts and eyes
Till the air was full of sighs
And the brightest day was turned to darkest
night.
How we'd weep,
How we'd creep -
To our little beds to sleep, 4;
With wet lashes ON flushed faces; even tnen 4
Not a soul would ever know
Half our agony, and SO
We should sympathize with little danes and
men.
We must all remember when
We were little danes and men
When we meet the little ones from day to day.
A kind word is just as cheap,
And it sinks to depths as deep
AS the harsh one you were sending down their
way.
If you knew J
How few
Gracious acts and words from you
We're planted in their souls, to blossom when
Golden days of childhood seem !
To be shadows of dream,
You would love and cherish little danes and
men.
New England Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-01-03

Hoods pills have won high
praise for their prompt and efficient
yet easy action.
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WANTED;-SeveFal trustworthy gentlemen or
ladies' TO travel in Maryland foI established
reliable house. Salary $3.50 and expenses. Steady
position. Enclose reference and selfaddressed
stamped envelope The Dominion Company, srd
Floor, Omaha Bldg, Chicago, Ill.
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NOTICE
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on the
second Tuesday of every 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 Opelousas courier., 1896-02-15
WINTER CARE OF COWS.
Feed Them Well and Give Them Plenty OF
Clean bedding.

Feed Them Well and Give Them Plenty OF
Clean bedding.
TO get the most milk from the COWS
it is essential that they be ~keptconlfort-
able. A warn stable means a saving OF
nearly one-ha1f in feed and larger guam
tity of milk than double the feed given
in an open stable.
when exposed 10 cold and storm il
takes almost the entire ration to make
enough a%ueFfal heat to keep them from
freezirg. See that ali openings or
cracks in the stable Or shedsare closed.
In the average farm stable there is
little occasion to provide for ventila-
ton. Enough fresh air will come in
without arranging to let it in.
Supply plenty of clean dry bedding.
a, filthy stall oyerbalances the COM
forts OF q WARM stable mud good feed.
There is little occasion for the COWS to
take exercise during the winter, esq
pecially if in taking it they are exposed
to cold or storms. In fact. when the
watering can be done conveniently in
the stable, there is no occasion forturn.
ing the COWS out during the winter.
Feed them well with a good variety,
giving their feed at regular hours.
Give all the pure, fresh water they ca't
drink. Keep their quarters clean and
then if the ration is of amilk-producing
kind the COWS may be kept giving milk
all through the winter.
1t is.the COWS that give a good flow OF
milk through the winter that are the
most profitable.-St. Louis Republic.