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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
THE REPORT OF A REVOLVER.
Young Man Who Had n Weapon to
Sell and Sold 1t.

Sell and Sold 1t.
The farmer from Loudoun county
hadn't seen snake for three weeks.
day he was not up on snakes. but he had
story to tell.
Speaking of that Maryland farmer
shat they sold the gold brick to last
month";" he said, with a chuckle of
great superiority, Il guess must
have had one Of them Maryland men
doing some work on my farm about ten
days ago."
DID you pay him off in gold bricks
or wall paper cut in currency size?" in
quired the reporter.
II come mighty near not paying
him off at ALL" he laughed. "He come
walking in On me one day when
needed hand and he didn't look much
like a man that would earn much more
than he got, but l wasn't very partic-
ular. He walked in on my porch
where l was taking a minutes breath
after dinner and begun operations by
asking me if l didn't want to buy a
revolver, and he handed me out one
that was beauty.
WELL says l, after looking over the
gun minute, 4 haven't got any money
what.I'll do. 1 need help, and if you
want to work it out you cam
"'What'l you allow fer worl?' says
he.
Fifty cents day and found says
I, but you've got to sleep in the barn
"'I want five dollars fer the gun,
says he, calculating on it minute,
and that'll be ten days, won't it?'
"'To t-y ty,' says 1.
"Then he took me up and handed me
over the gun and went to work as soon
as he got his dinner.
81 didn't hear a peep from him for
nearly week, and one day in the mid
die of the afternoon he come over
where I was running hay rake.
essay, mister he begun prompt,
'how's this?'
Elbows what?' says 1, having an
idee what was up.
"'This revolver business says he.
"'What about it? says 1.
"'Well,' says he, scratching his head
slow and calculating, it kinder seems
to me that 1 amt gittin' even on that
there specification jist as 1 orter. I've
been a-workin' here fer a week and
you've got the gun and don't seem to
be any nearer gittin' my five dollars
than 1 was at the start. Likes not
may be wrong, mister, but eff you'll
kinder explain and show me jist how
the business stands betwiXt US l reck-
on as how won't be worryin' so much
and kin work harder. 'Tain't 'peared
to me to be jist right since l took you
up that day we made the Bargain
Course" concluded the Loudoun
philanthropist, Il showed him how it
was and give him big laugh and had
fun with him, but I give him back his
gun and lowed him wages and board
for the time he had been working, and
he kept the gun" Washington Star.
Small pill, safe pill, best pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers cure biiousness, CON
stipation, sick headache. Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26

per River and Dawson City, for the
/ animals could easily cross the divide
at Scolai Pass and go by way of the
confluence of the Yukon and White
rivers to the Klondike region. Trading
stations might be built along the route,
and these could be made very useful as
bases of supplies for the argonauts In
deed, it is reported that bid for the
purchase of half the reinueer on the
Government ranch has been made by
a leading trading and transportation
company of New York, and that the
proposal is now under consideration by
the Interior Department. That this has
not been done before seems incredible
for those same reindeer are worth in
Alaska ten times as much as the bes.
of horses, which are practically useless
in that part of the continent.
Our especial" In His Sleigh.
An Alaskan driving pair of reindeer
before a light sleigh would make a pic
turesque spectacle, especially with the
fascinating implements of a placer
miner strapped on behind. The accom-
panying cut has been drawn from a de-
scription of himself furnished by your
special correspondent at Dyea, who has
made similar trip down the broad
valley of the Copper River. 1t shows
him as he says he appeared just after
crossing the Scolai Pass.
To DawsOn's Rescue.
A Seattle dispatch received in New
York few days go says the fore
thought and wisdom of the United
States Government, through it's agent,
DR.. Sheldon Jackson, in introducing
reindeer into Alaska, may be proved
this coming Winter by the use of the
deer in taking supplies from St.
Michaeps to Dawson. When the steam
schooner South Coast left st. Michaels
Agent Crawford, representative of
DR.. Jackson, was there arranging to
send out about Oct. Is the first REIN
deer and sledge party to Circle City
and on to Dawson.
Provisions of all sorts are abundant
at ST. Michael's, and the problem, now
that the close of Yukon navigation is
near at hand, is to get the goods over
the 1880 miles of rocks and moss hum
mocks to the hungry crowds at Klon-
dixie. This will be done if the plans
now arranged can be carried out, and
apparently the obstacles are not in
surmountable. In June last Mr.. Jack
son announced that he was satisfied a
regular reindeer passenger and freight
route was perfectly feasible.
Relays mt Many Stations.
When this Santa Claus sort of
courier system gets into working order
it is planned to keep relays of deer at
various points along the Yukon. They
will be ready for action just as relays
of horses used to help along the stage
coach. The reindeer are very fleet AMI
will pull enormous loads. AS they feel
en- the moss and bunch grass found
everywhere in the Yukon country,
they will be able to keep alive withou:
any other fodder. In Siberia the rein.
deer is all needful. 1t is the natives
railroad and his storehouse. The
Rockefeller of the Tchuckees is the
man with the most reindeer and the
men who establish and maintain
reindeer route to Dawson this Winter.
assisting the efforts of the Govern
ment, are Likely to find a fortune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
THE DREADED CONSUMPTION.
T. A. sLoCUM, M. c., THE GREAT CHEMIST
AND SCIENTIST. WILL SEND FREE, TO
THE AFFLICTED, THREE BOTTLES
OF HIS NEWLY DISCOVERED REM
EDlES TO CURE CONSUMPTION
A L
AND ALL uNGTROUBLES.


Nothing could be fairer, more philan.
thropic or carry more JOY to the afflicted
than the offer of T. A. Slocum, M. c., OF
IS3 Pearl street, New York City.
Confident that he has discovered an alb
solute cure for consumption and all pull.
monary complaints, and to make its great
merits known, he will send, free, three
bottles of medicine, to any reader of The
Midland Journal who is suffering from,
chest, bronchial, throat and lung troubles
or consumption.
Already this new scientific course Of
medicine" has permanently cured thou.
sands of apparently hopeless cases.
The Doctor considers it his religious
duty-a duty which he owes to humanity
to donate his infallible cure.
Offered freely, is enough to commend it
and more so is the perfect confidence oi
the great chemist making the proposition,
He has proved the dreaded consumption
to be cprable disease beyond any doub',
There will be no mistake in sending
the mistake will be in overlooking the
generous invitation. He has on file in his
American and European laboratories ties
timonials of experience from those cured,
in all parts of the world.
Don't delay until it is too late Address
7 A. Slocum M. c, 9S Pine street, New
York. and when writing the Doctor, please
give express and post office address, and
mention reading this article in The Mid.
land Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26

bly, preserving the life of their little son
who, almost from infancy, was troubled
with indigestion and nervous troubles
An attending physician, who was called
advised the parents to give the child
such medicine as seemed best fitted to
such a condition. DIR. Greene's Nervura
blood and nerve remedy was recon-
mended.
The taking of few bottles of DR..
Greene's Nervura effected cure, and.
the little one is healthy to-day, enjoy
ing play with the other children. Mr..
and Mrs. Hallows say they must give
the credit of the cure to DIR. Greene s
Nervura blood and nerve remedy.
What change! The sickly child
transformed into a happy, hearty, TO
bust little one; and by the use of DR..
Greene's Nervura, the great nerve and
blood remedy. This medicine has
proved a blessing to thousands Of BOYS
and girls throughout The world by civ
ing them sound health and vigorous
strength. Children who Use it have
less sickness, better health, better
growth, and longer and more vigorous
lives. 1t is purely vegetable IA harm
less, and parents should give . to every
child who is not in perfect h alth.
cry of the well-known Or. Greene, of 3!
most successful specials. in curing all
and he can be consulted in any case,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
GARDEN IN A BARREL,
4 Flat DvvelIer's Scheme for Growing
Strawberries.

straw Dcrr1cS.
A strawberry patch on wheels! This
is the latest West side novelty in market
gardening, and it is brilliant and
practical success. Its owner has not a
square inch of yard space, yet he raised
enough strawberries at his very door
to supply his own table with this de-
licious fruit, and fewer than seven peo-
pie seldom sit at his board.
The garden consists of a large empty
sugar barrel ON a stout platform fitted
with wheels. The owner then, with an
inch and a quarter augur, circled the
barrel with rows of holes. The dis
lance between the rows was six inches,
and the holes in each row were five
inches apart. The first row of holes
was foot from the bottom of the bar
rel.
Next he made two pilgrimages to the
nearest greenhouse, bringing from the
latter in his wheelbarrow small load
of coarse gravel and sufficient guam
tity of rich, sandy loan.
The gravel was placed in the bottom
of the barrel to q depth of six or eight
inches. Over this was sprinkled a thin
layer of well-rotted fertilizer, and upon
this was placed five inches of the sandy
loan. This process was repeated until
the barrel was filed.
Meantime, as each layer of soil was
built up, the roots of a choice and
thrifty strawberry plant were inserted
into every auger hole and carefully inn
bedded in the loan. The top of the
barrel was also set with as many plants
as the space allowed and the perpen-
dicular strawberry patch on wheels
was finished. Now he finds his chief
satisfaction in the fact that the berries
which dangle from his barrel are of the
finest possible quality.
According to his experience the vines
in his barrel are not only more thrifty
and prolific than any he has seen grow
ing in an ordinary patch, but the free
dom of the fruit from sand and dirt is a
most enjoyable advantage. There is
no wedding or other disagreeable task
to be done in connection with the care
of this barrel garden, and the labor
which it requires is SO slight as to be
pleasure rather than otherwise.-N.
Y. Herald,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26

There is more Catarrh in this section Of
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease, and prescribed local remedies.
and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable
Science has proven catarrh to be a con-
stitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu-
tional cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and tes-
timonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY, Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
A LAWN GAME.
Entertaining Sport for Limited
Space.

space.
A game which requires much skill
and practice in order to win satisfac-
tory score is played with cue, balls and
ring fastened in the ground.
The game is a favorite and one easily
possible, even if the space at ones COM
mand is limited.
A circular space is chalked off of any
dimensions desired In the center of
the circle is revolving ring made of
iron or brass. 1t has shank, and when
it is to be used a large wooden peg is
driven into the ground, with the top
little below the surface, and into it
a hole is bored large enough to receive
the shank of the ring and to let it re-
volve freely. Half the fun of the game
consists in having ring only just large
enough to let the ball pass through,
and the ring must be so neatly poised
as to revolve with a touch. The best
plan for securing this is to have q metal
socket let into the wooden peg. If so,
care must be taken that the socket be
brass, if the ring is iron, and the re-
verse. Both shank and socket should be
kept we'll oiled. The cues have wooden
handles and metal tip, which is ring
shaped and fixed at an angle with the
handle. This formation enables the
ball to be better played than if the cue
and tip were in line. The balls, about
one foot in circumference, are of rubber
and are very hard; each one is painted
with rim around the center of diff
ferent color. Each player has her own
cue and ball.
The object of the game is to pass
the ball through the revolving ring. and
the player scores point every time she
succeeds. There is in this game more
play than at first appears. If, for eX-
ample, player in sending her ball
Through the ring strikes another ball
either before or after, she adds two to
her score. IF a player finds the ring
turned edgewise toward her she can
either place her own ball so as to OBJ
struct the next stroke of the enemy
on by dextrous play at the ring turn
it edgewise to the enemy next in sue
cession. The clever player will strike
a ball belonging to her own team sc
10 ~ Php ~ ihtO postum VI VIII otlihS
away the ball of an opponent who seems
likely to make succesbful stroke.
A really good player will often con.
trive to Yass the ring, even though i!
be almo' )edgeways to her. If the ring
be turned in the least to one side oil
the other she will play at it with a pc
culiar push of her cue and strike it q
little on one side. If this is properly
done and with moderate force the ring
spins round and catches the ball in its
progress. The effect of this sudden
shock is that the ball vibrates back
wards and forwards for moment. and
finally settles on the opposite side.
1t must be borne in mind that the
ball cannot be pushed through the ring
with the cue touching it, neither may
it be thrown through. - American
Queen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
LITTLE MARY MORAY.

not play with usual energy. If so, you
must look out for yoCr child or these
most dreaded complaints will follow.
Give it at once DR.. Grccnes Nervura
blood and nerve remedy, which, from
its perfectly wonderful record in cur
ing children, is the household remedy
in nearly every home in the land. This
greatest of children's remedies is per-
fectly harmless, being made of pure
vegetable medicines, and may be given
to infants or children of any age 1t
will always bring health and strength
to the little ones.
Charles L. McBay, a highly esteemed
police officer, who resides at IA MYRTLE
ST., New Bedford, Mass, says:
About two years ago my little
daughter became run down in health
and suffered from st. Vitus' dance.
Soon after she was Frustrated by rheu-
natism, which severely affected her
lower limbs.
- After trying various remedies with
out obtaining relief, she began taking
DR.. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy, and experienced immediate
benefit. She continued it's use, and
after taking five bottles her rheuma-
tism was practically cured. Her appe-
tite returned, her pains disappeared,
she was again able to walk without
lamcness, her general health was re-
stored, and she was able to attend
school and to play like other children"
: remedy is the prescription and discov-
West 18th ST., NewY orll City, who is the
orms of nervous and chronic complaints,
&c of charge, personally or by letter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
A Peerless Liniment.

AS pain destroyer and cure for
rheumatism, Salvation Oil is the peer
of all liniments. Mr.. VIM. H. Brown,
proprietor of Striebinger House, Cleve-
land, o., writes: II suffered from
rheumatism for twelve years and my
last attack kept me in bed, unable to
walk. 1 used Salvation Oil and soon
was up and about. AS a pain de-
stroyer this llniment has no equal. :"
Salvation Oil is sold everywhere for
25 cents. Try it and be convinced.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
A Truthful Statement.

An excellent and invaluable remedy,
for the cure of cough, cold and hoarse-
ness, is DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
Mr.. Jas. Hadfeld, $50 West St., New
York City, verifies this statement.
He writes ''Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup
Is a most excellent remedy for cough,
cold and hoarseness, and l take great
pleasure in recommending it to all,
who require such valuable household
medicine" DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
is sold everywhere for 25 cents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
Hunting Whales with EIectricity,

A Canadian sea captain has invented
an apparatus with which he thinks
whales can be killed by electric shock,
says the New York Post. A harpoon is
fixed at the end of a long metallic cable.
properly insulated, and which servesin
place of the usual rope. Through this
cable electric current of 10000 volts is to
be sent by means OF dynamo carried
In the Observation-Disclosures Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
Laid 100 Eggs in Half an Hour.

Some ladies of West Palm Beach wit
messed anovelseene recently. They were
on the beach enjoying the breeze, sit
ting up just in the fringe of the scrub,
when out came large loggerhead
turtle. 1t dug hole and then pro-
ceeded to fill it with eggs. Finishing,
the hole was filled over with sand and
made to look exactly like that around
it. A young man of the party turned"
her and secured the eggs. over no. The
whole operation took about half an
hour.-Florida Times-Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
TERROR OF CHILDREN.
Tho Ono Disease Which Every
Intelligent Mother breads.
If Your Child Is Not Well, You Should
Cure 1t Before the Dread Disease
Sets In. DO Not Ignore
First symptoms.

There are no more dreaded diseases
by parents than fits, epilepsy and st.
Vitus' dance.
Cure the child when the first symp-
toms appear. Watch the infant or
child and see if it manifests any ner-
vous symptoms, if it is nervous. rest
less, wakeful, cries out, grits its teeth
or losses about in sleep, has twitching
of muscles, limbs or eyelids, if its
tongue is coated, breath bad, with IT.
regular appetite and bowels. See if il
is pale, puny and does not grow and
develop well, if it tires easily and does
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
Anxious to Please.

Lady (sitting for portraiD - And
make my mouth small, will you-ever
so small? know it is large, really, but
make it quite tiny, will you?
Artist (politely)-Certainly, madam.
If you prefer it, will leave it out alto
pether-Tit-BitS
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
SAVE YOUR CHILD.
Mark How Thin, Pale, Nervous and
Puny the Little Ono Is.
How You Can Make 1t Well and Vigorous.
Words of Wisdom by Well
Known Physician.

Awell-known physician writes q very
interesting article in regard to what to
give children, especially weak, nervous
and rundown children, in order to
make them strong, vigorous and well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hallows, saws
this writer, of Peckham ST., Globe Vii
lage, Fall River, Mass, thank DR..
Greene's Nervura blood and nerve rem
edy for restoring the health and proba-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26

First Tramp-ier say der woman
dat gave yer der grub didn't b'lieve We
stances?
Second Tramp-Dat's what said.
First Tramp-Did she tel! ye so?
Second Tramp-No; she brought mt
knife ter eat der pie wid.-N. y
Truth
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26
HANDLES HORSES WELL

Pretty Young Woman Driver Wins n
Race in Maine.
Here is woman, young and pretty,
who can drive fast horses with all the
airy abandon of Bu,ld Doble or any of his
compatriots. Her name is Miss Leota
Elliott, and she lives in Danforth, Me.
Who would ever suspect the staid and
dignified old Pine Tree state of pro-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26

Small pill, safe pill, best pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers cure biliousness, CON
stipation, sick headache. Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-26

One use to which the Government
reindeer are apt to be put at an early
date is the transportation Of mails all
over Alaska, particularly through the
rich Copper River country, which, it is
predicted, will be the centre of mining
interests after this winter, 1t would
be easy to establish a reindeer mail
service between the mouth of the Cop
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-11-10

It's royalties from the company. In other
words. II the city desires gas to be sold 10
consumers at any time in the next ten
years at 20 cents a thousand feet the con-
sumers get the reduction and the city gets
nothing. The only other consideration ex-
acted in the agreement IL the companys
promise TO expend s15,coo0o during the
term OF the contract in improving the
works
The Public Ledger. which is one OF the
most conservative papers in the country
has been heartily In favor Of the lease on
the ground that 1T would be a better
policy. because a more advantageous one
TO lease the gas works to reliable pri-
vate corporation than TO indefinitely con-
tinue them under a public management
which has demonstrated Its incompctency
10 make them yield an adequate revenue
TO remove them from the corrupting IN
fiuences OF political control, or to supply
gas OF necessary illuminating power
There Is undoubtedly a growing senti-
ment in this country in favor Of munich
pal ownership OF all public utilities ope-
rated under lease to private corporations