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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
To-day the schools of the county
close for three months.

close Tor three months.
Leslie has a new band which was
organized last week consisting of
Is instruments.
The Principle forge is under
going some repairs. Those pom
derous hammers soon hammer them
selves out of trim.
Next Monday is Memorial Day
when the graves of the soldiers will
be strewn with flowers by their
surviving comrades.
The promise of a heavy wheat
crop is exceedingly fine in this
county if the rains are not too
bountiful. The wheat will soon be
in blossom when it needs dry
weather.
Joseph McMullen lost fine young
horse Wednesday of last week. The
team was at the mill at Porter's
Bridge where the driver had left
them minute when they started
and upset the wagon i'll turning.
One of the horses was thrown on
his back and instantly killed. The
conclusion ruptured blood vessel
near the heart.
Abel Davis, veteran of the war,
died at his home in North East on
Wednesday, May 10Th. He served
in the 18th Md. Regiment. Mr..
Davis was member of Wingate
Post G. A. r. also of Independent
Council, O. U. A. M. he was
buried Sunday afternoon. Inter
ment was made in the Grand Army
lot in the M. E. cemetery.
The county commissioners COM
pleted the work of review last week
and the books are being made out
for the annual assessment. Under
the gold standard the wealth of the
county has decreased several mil
lions and debts and mortgages have
increased as much and probably
something more which is consum-
ing the peoples substance like
burning candle at both ends, and
yet the poor sufferers, in large
numbers voted last fall for con-
tinuance of the same destructive
system.
States Attorney Evans is making
war to the knife on Elkton speak
easies. Last week one of the
keepers was arrested and sent to
jail in default of $500 bail which he
wasn't able to raise. These fellows
who are sent to jail and boarded at
the public expense ought to be
made earn their board. Oscar
Wilde was sent to prison and had to
work on a tread mill. There
should be tread mill attached to
every Jail and compel the criminals
to earn their keep by breaking
stones by tread power.
The Cecil Wheelman of Rising
Sun met on Tuesday eve and
formed a permanent organization.
The officers elected were III. L.
Worthington, Pres. and Capt; II.
S. Keilnoltz, Vice Pres. and Lieut.;
J. A. Hartenstine, Sec. Treas.
The next run will be on Sunday,
May 30, to Cecilton, and return.
The object Of the Cecil Wheel
men is to promote the general in
terests of cycling. To ascertain,
defend and protect the rights of
wheelmen to facilitate touring, to
secure Improvement in the condition
of the public roads and highways
and such other objects as may be
consistent with a well regulated
cycle club.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
Strawberry Festivals.

We are now in the height of the
season of the strawberry festival,
when every church, every Sunday
school and other church attachment
society does homage to the straw
berry, and if it were the fashion
a-days to canonize things it
would doubtless be st. Strawberry,
with a forty days season of feasting
declared in honor of the first and
most luscious of the berries to well
come the season of fruits and re-
joicing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
w. T. Warburton Esq. Among the
Bucolic Class.

The following notice appears in
last weeks Wing among the news
paragraphs:
W. T. Warburton received this
week from Naples Stock Farm,
Binghamton, New York, (William
Rood, proprietor), the highly bred
Holstein bull "Sir Clothilde Colan-
thus" His sire is "Jewel Eclios
Sir Henry Colanthus," and his dam
"Nannie Bleekers Clothilde." Mr..
Warburton purchased him for his
"Oaklandn herd of Holsteins.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.

If you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, bemade well, strong, magnetic,
full of new life aud vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder=worker,. that makes weak men
Over 00,0O0 cured, Buy No-To-Bac of your
druggist under guarantee to cure, 50c or
Sl.00. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
PUBLIC SALE.
OF
Personal Property.
81 TLIRDAY, JUNE 5kh, 1897.


The subscriber being compelled to discontinue
housekeeping will sell at his residence near West
Nottingham Presbyterian Church, on the road
leading from Colora to Pennington, Nd, the
following: ! HORSE, Q years, good worker.
MICH COW. 2 fine SH0ATs, 20 good laying
HENS, WAGONS-Top Spindle Wagon, 3-spring
Milk Wagon, old Wagons, Cutter Sleigh, 2
Wheelbarrows. one new. Miscellaneous-Cutt
box, feed chests, set good carriage harness. car
penter tools consisting of saws, planes, augers,
chisels, brace and bits, squares, work benches,
2 Vices. Grindstone, lot shoemaker's tools and
bench. lot lumber and posts, cross-cut saw, 3
mauls and wedges, forks, shovels, scythes
HOUSEHOLD GOODS good Stoves. 5 Bed
steads, bureaus wardrobes, beds, bed clothing,
ingram and rag carpet, settee, lounge, bookcase,
corner cupboard, tables, windsor and cane
seated chairs washstands. towel racks, looking
glasses, washbowls and pitchers, dishes, tubs,
buckets, boxes, barrels, and many other articles
not mentioned. This will be a positive sale and
no undertaking. credit of months will be
given on sums over SO: sums of SO and under,
cash. Sale to commence at O'Clock p NJ, when
terms will be made known by
JOHN A. REYBURN.
Hindman, Auct. m2S-2t
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28

Try sack of Woollens' Jack Frost
-four. Get it at Sycamore Mills or at B.
P. Nichols.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
For Rent.

HOTEL and STORE HOUSE, at Conowingo
DWELLING and STORE HOUSE combined,
at Colora;
Large DWELLING HOUSE, near Colora, now
occupied by S. I. Hindman.
Apply to r. r. CROTHERS, NJ. D.,
jStf Colora, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
DRESSMAKING.

The undersigned, having taken thorough
course of instruction desires to announce to the
public that she is prepared to conduct DRESS
MAKING by the celebrated FLESHER SYSTEM and
will be pleased to receive the patronage of those
needing work of this description Perfect fit
guaranteed Work promptly executed.
ETHEL X. HARTENSTINE,
a303m Rising Sun, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
For Sale.

HARM OF 1917 ACRES, IN 18th DISTRICT,
IL Cecil Co. formerly belonging to ohm Long,
deceased. Apply to II. II. HAINES, Rising sun,
Md, or l.. NJ. HAINES Elkton, Md. AUS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28

The cost of the new assessment is
about $4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-28
Hindman, Auc

MTANTED-FAITHFUL MEN OR WOMEN
w to travel for responsible established house
in Maryland. Salary $50 and expenses. Position
permanent Reference. Enclose selt-addressed
stamped envelope The National, Star Insurance
Bldg, Chicago Ill. ole
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
WOULDN'T TAKE A RIG RONIts ron
HIS TICKET To THE
YUKON.
STEAMER EXCELSIOR SAILS
Unable 10 CARRY HALF OF THOSE
EAGER TO REACH THE
KLONDYKE.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ACTIVE
Customs Posts to BE Established i'm
the Gold Country md Police
Force Increased,

SAN FRANCISCO, July %. - The
steamer Excelsior, chartered by the
Alaska Commercial company, left
mission street at p. M, sailing direct
for st. Michaels This is the last OF
the company's fleet which will connect
with the Yukon river steamers this
season. For hours before the departure
OF the steamer the wharf was thronged
with people. Three times the original
price was offered for tickets One pas
senger changed his mind after receiv-
ing an offer of $500 for the PASTE
board for which he originally paid but
$50. Over 1000 people gathered upon
the wharf to bid farewell to their III
passengers for the Klondyke.
Local capitalists, who are endeavor-
ing TO secure options on mining claims
IN the Klondyke country, are not meet
ing with much success among the min
ers now here. The men seem to real
lze they have a good thing in what
tHsv nave and are not disposed TO
submit to modern forms of conveyance
even though not forced to sell until
the value of the property is investi-
gated
Two sisters, of the Order of st. Anne.
have offered their services for ten
years labor in the frozen north, and
nave been accepted by the superior
or their community. They have ar
rived in San Francisco, on their way
north, and were to have sailed for ST.
Mlchaeis on the steamer Excelsior.
but, as it was considered that the yes
sci would be crowded with passengers.
the officials of the Alaska Commercial
company advised them to wait over for
the sailing Of the Bertha, either Sat
urday or Monday next. The two who
go to the north are Sister Mary, of the
Cross, formerly Miss Peterson. She
mas been recently engaged in educa-
tlonal work at Holyoke, Mass Her
companion is Sister Mary Magdalene,
or the Sacred Heart, who was Miss
Goulet native of Quebec.
Fred White, controller Of mounted
police. issued orders today for the dis
patch Of eighty additional police to the
Yukon country. Twenty-Five will start
almost at once, and the balance in
oetachments as soon as they can be
properly equipped. Care is being taker.
TO select the best possible men, not
merely men of soundest health and
hlgh physical vigor, but handy men,
who are familiar with boats, portaging.
camping, etc. Regarding the collection
or royalties on the gold output. the
ADVICE of the government officers in
the district is being asked. Minister
OF the Interior Sifton, admits that a
general equitable collection will be diff
fcult, but says he hopes to arrive at a
satisfactory system.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
HELPING MINNEAPOLIS OUT.


we understand that the st. Paul
Cycle Path association is contemplate
ing seriously an application to the
Minneapolis city council for permission
to put In passabIe condition the cycle
path from the Marshall avenue bridge
Will be done, and that. If Minneapolis
has no enterprise or money enough to
set In order few score feet of track.
she will allow ST. Paul to do 1t for her.
1t Is perfectly astounding thing that
the only roadway suitable for wheels
between these two cities should have
been left in the condition that it is
all season. The st. Paul end Of it is
perfect. Lake street out to Calhoun
is usually good riding. The cycle path
at the Lake street end of the bridge
Is tolerable, with the exception of one
or two places where 1t has been wash
ed out and where there is a stretch of
solid red clay. This clay bed is the worst
possible riding in any weather. A slight
sprinkling of moisture makes it abso-
lutely no thoroughfare to the wheel
While even in dry weather to traverse
1t is like riding over a pile Of good
sized potatoes
1t would not take two days work
or 800 to put this path in frst-class
shape, and make good wheeling all the
way from the center of one city to the
center of the other. Yet Minneapolis
Wheelmen have been Indifferent: and,
although huhdreds pass over the route
daily and thousands on Sunday, they
have endured the horrible discomfort
of this path Now that we have put
all OF our own roads in good shape,
1t is only the neighborly thing to do
to go over and help Minneapolis out;
and we trust that when the petition of
the ST Paul cycle path association is
presented it ovill meet with thankful
reception from the people, who do not
care to take the Slight trouble and ex-
pense for the. sake of the common COM
fort of riders Of the wheel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
CANADA IS ACTIVE.
Customs Posts to Be Established in
the KlOndyke Region.

OTTAWA, Ont, July 2S.-At the
meeting of the ministers last evening,
Minister Patterson was authorized to
SEND two more customs officers to the
Alaskan boundary, by the Islander.
which sails for the north tomorrow.
The men were taken from the Victoria
custom house and will be ACCOMPANIED
by a couple of provincial police. They
will open stations as out-ports of Vic
terra, beyond the head of Lynn canal
which is in disputed territory and at
present in the United States possess
sions, and at Lake Tagish. There is
a collector at Fort Cudahy, only fifty
miles from Dawson City, and these ar
rangements backed up by a strong
force of police are considered ample for
the protection of revenue just now.
1t is reported that a pack trail ex-
lists for twenty of the eighty miles
which will separate the coast from the
first post to be established at 60 degrees
of latitude, in undisputed British ter
r1tory. If so, narrow gauge railway
can be built where there is a pack
t tran: The mounted police force will
be increased from twenty to 100
Thomas Fawcett will be continued as
gold commissioner. and the regulations
already adopted amended
A strong customs and police post
will be established just north Of the
brftISn CoIumpla boundary beyond tho
mead OF the Lynn canal. Estimates will
also be obtained of the cost of building
a wagon road and of a narrow gauge
railway to this post in the mountains
a distance of seventy to eighty miles.
about forty of which Is over noun
ta1ns. If possible telegraph line will
be constructed over the mountains from.
the head OF the Lynn canal to the first
post. The consent of the authorities
of the United States will be asked in
diplomatic correspondence to a modus
vivendt, under which Canada will have
the right Of way over. the disputed
territory from Lynn canal to the first
mounted police post. No difficulty Is
anticipated in securing the right o.
way through the little place of dis
puted territory the road and telegraph
line would have to cross to reach the
head of Lynn canal, although that ter
rltory is now in the United States.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29

in at times since the contest began.
The greatest number Of votes cast for
any candidate did not exceed 1000.
not enough to change the standing
of the candidates for whom they were
cast. Accordingly the Great Northern's
representative, George J. Danz, still
leads the contest of the men, having
over $4,000 votes to his credit, while
Manheimer's candidate, l.. X Newman
is second with nearly 10000 votes The
Milton Dairy representative, Ned Cum
mings gained about 700 votes on the
Northern Pacific's candidate, Henry
A. Eckman, who is next to Mr.. Newman
John T. Kelly, of Michaud Brothers.
added siXtytwo to his vote. There
were some other scattering ballots cast
In the contest of the women the vote
was not very heavy and was about
equally distributed among the four
leading candidates. Harriet Finn,
Schuneman & Evans candidate, is still
leading with nearly 5000 votes to the
good. Habighorst's candidate, Theresa
Guthunz, is still second, and the
Omaha's candidate, Maud Gould, and
Birdie Benner, of the Golden Rule,
third and fourth respectively with
only a few hundred votes separating
them. The other candidates are grad
ually increasing their vote. Every
thing has been running so quietly for
two days that it may be the calm
before the storm. Any candidate is
apt to break lose and jump to the
front or up among the leaders at any
time
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29

women and children. The British pow
er in India, too, is incomparahly great
er than at the time of the mutiny. Her
posts are fortified and there Is q
mighty force of native troops. nearly
all of which can now be depended upon
absolutely. The Sikhs and Rajpoots
are magnificent fighters, and their 10y
atty is to the crown. Any uprising
that might be contemplated must be
limited to the wilder tribes and the ig-
norant mobs of city or village, and
would be put down speedily and ruth
lessly. Great Britain has need to keep
a sharp eye upon her Indian empire,
and to repress the first outbreaks of
disorder with the severe exercise tof her
utmost strength. Now she is adequate
to the task and warned by past expe-
rience that delay or hesitation Is dan
gerous. There will doubtless be con-
tinued disturbance and sporadic out
breaks in India while the distresSful
conditions growing out of crop failure
and disease remain. There will not,
because there never can, be another
mutiny.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29

sticks to the Significance of It's first
use and applies it to those who are so
unfortunate as to have opinions that
differ from those incubated in the mas
sive brain that presides over the Sun.
1t occurs to us that this Is clear
case of "Satan rebuking SIM" of pot
calling the kettle black" A mugwump
is one who exercises his right Of indi-
vidual judgment in matters political.
He regards parties as instruments Tor
his use, not himself an instrument Tor
party use. He belongs" to no party; all
use now of one and now of another,
as the use of the one or the other Will
best serve his notions Of public well
fare Naturally he Is not liked by
those who belong" to parties and do
cilely follow them in their devious
courses. Such followed the Republican
panty when having set the slave free,
1t turned with natural impulse to the
task of setting trade free, only to re-
verse itself and forge and rivet shaclkles
on its limbs. Such followed the Dem
ocratic party in it's several excursions
into un-Democratic regions. Those who
refused to go because 1t involved
surrender Of convictions based upon
principles held inviolable were sneered
at as regarding themselves better
than their party" They were the
-thous," and, later, were
designated by the more resonant word
mugwump.
Applying this analysis of mugwump-
cry to the Sun, Mr.. Dana is something
Of mugwump himself. For years he
has been in opposition to his party's
movement in the direction Of free
trade, the real object lying just behind
its tariff for revenue only pretension.
He gradually developed into a staunch
protectionist, and has recently declar-
ed himself in hearty accord with that
Republican policy and has been duly
baptized into that sect by the rite of
sprinkling. his prior immersion hav-
ing made a sousing needless now. But
he takes his mugwumpishness with
him. While he makes open profession
Of belief which his new associates
have so far kept in suppression, while
expressing it in acts, and declares that
commercial trusts are the highest and
best development of our modern civili-
cation, he denounces their apathy to-
wards Cuba with vituperation scarce
ly less bitter than that which he pour
ed upon the Cleveland administration.
And still the Sun hurls it's contemptu-
GUS epithet at all with whom it differs,
in apparent unconsciousness that it
was the first, has been the most in
sistent and is the very latest incarna-
ton Of mugwumpery.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
AN UNCONSCIOUS MUGwUMp.

The course pursued by the mugwump news
papers, of New York more particularly. is
now stubbornly and spitefully in opposition
to the unanimous conservative sentiment M
this community, though that is the senti-
ment to which they have assumed to aDpeaI
specifically.-New York Sun.
That is but one of the repeated in
stances in which the Sun expresses it's
contempt for mugwumps and mug
Wump papers. With it contempt
reaches its limit of expression in that
word. To it to term man or paper
mugwump is to pronounce "anathema
Maran atha." In the Suns editorial
rooms, if man is an enemy of society
an anarchist, free trader, a Demo-
crat, civil service reformer, an ad-
mirer of ex-President Cleveland. an
ntijingoist, anything, in short. that
disagrees with the notions of things
held sacrosanct in the mind Of its ven-
cradle editor, then that man is a mug
wump. The comprehensive term in
cludes everybody and everything not
approved by Mr.. Dana. Although it
was early discovered that the word
used first as one of contempt, supposed
to signify something d1sgraceful, was
an Indian word. signifying a big chief
and, therefore, implying honor, and al
though those to whom it was first ap-
piled accepted the appellation as one
OF distinction, still the tenacious Dana
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29

Why doesn't the senate appoint commit
tee of experts to ascertain the exact cost of
making armour plate? That would be better
than wasting so much time in discussing
the matter upon insufficient information =
Minneapolis Tribune.
If the editor Of our contemporary will rub
up his memory or, falling that exercise, will
consult the issue of the Congressional Record
for March IL, 1897 he will find a supplement
to it of 177 pages devoted entirely to the
report of Secretary Herbert Of his investga-
ton into the cost Of making armor plate, in
accordance with the provision of a senate
amendment to the naval appropriation bill
approved June TO- 1896. We commend the re-
port to his reading as containing the ire
futable proof of one of the most scandalous
steals among all the dreary list of congress
sional jobs, and, incidentally. will accept
in advance his thanks for the information
here given him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
TO THE KLONDYKE FIELDS.
Outline of the Two Routes to That
Place.

When the first talk Of the now sensational
gold fields at Klondyke heard the trans
continental lines bestirred themselves for bet
ter information regarding the new country
than was at hand. The Northern Pacific pas
senger department has been arranging for
accurate information on this subject, and yes
terday issued pamphlet which purports to
give all information needful for the deter
mined prospector. Starting off, the person
who furnishes the information, says: There
two established routes into the Klondyke
country. One Is via the ocean to st. Michaels
thence via river steamer up the Yuokn to
thence via river steamer up the Yukon to
from st. Michaels to Klondyke, 1000 miles.
Facilities on the Yukon consist Of two stern
wheel steamers belonging to the Alaska Com
mercial company, and the steamers p. B..
Weare, ]. j. Healy, of the North American
Transportation and Trading company and a
third boat, the c. H. Hamilton. of the latter
company. The Yukon is shallow in places.
and it is impracticable to operate steamers
having a draft CT more than four and one
half feet.
The other route, and the one which VIII be
principally travelled, Is from Dyea over the
trail via Chilkoot pass to Lake Linderman
thence through the chain of lakes which you
will see on any Alaska map. into the Lewis
river, and down the Yukon to the Klondyke
The route via Dyea is by steamer from
Seattle, running direct from Dyea, where
they pack over Chilkoot pass to Lake Under
man. at which place they build boats, usually
twenty-five to twenty -four feet long and four
and one-half to five feet wide, which are
taken through the lakes, while the provisions
one a mile and half and noe about three
fourths of mile, while the boat is taken
through the small streams. The distance via
this latter route Is as follows:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-29
NOT A FACT.

TO the Editor Of the Globe.
Is 1t a fact that only a Protestant is eligible
TO the presidency of the United States?
..'- "A Subscriber.
Heron Lake, Mimi, July 27, 1897.
1t is not fact. The first amendment
to the constitution of the United States
settled this question absolutely and
forever, and reads as follows:
Congress shall make no law respect
ing the establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
This prohibition upon congress SIM
ply carries out the spirit Of the entire
constitution, which aims to establish
absolute and complete religious liberty,
and refuses to recognize any distinction
of any kind growing out of religious
opinion. So far is the constitution from
distinguishing between sects and de-
nominations that it does not even any,
where recognize the existence of Chris
tianity. The president of the United
States might be a Mohammedan or an
ardent Buddhist, If it so pleased him.