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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
THE LATEST NOVELTIES.

A metal clothes pin recently patented
consists of piece of spring wire bent
double, with the double part formed
into two parallel triangles, which are
attached to each other at one corner to
grip the line when pressed over it.
Pens which stick in their holders can
be easily extracted without soling the
fingers by Il new device which has two
Jaws to grip the pen, operated by two
handled levers, thus affording a better
hold for the hands than the pen itself.
To keep eggs from breaking in a
crate and assist in their sale, a new
crate has a series of frames with spring
wire fingers to hold each egg, the
frames being removable from the crate
so they can be hung up for show pur-
poses.
One of the latest combinations for
women's use consists of purse mount
ed on a buckle which can be used to
fasten the belt, the purse forming the
ornamental front of the buckle, which
also has hook for holding the strings
of parcels.
TOT hunters USE d He-W uecOy OF Dllllt
is made of a jointed framework, which
can be put together and covered with
cloth to represent a COW, the interior
being fitted with gun racks, pockets,
etc, and the head dropping down to
open the door.
To raise the axles on wagons to re-
move the wheels for oiling, new
wagon jack, which will fit any
wagon, has a sliding block set in
frame with chain to attach it to the
lifting bar, the bar being raised to its
full height and the block pulled up I'M
til it strikes the axle, when a link in
the chain is fastened to a hook on the
bar, which is then drawn downward to
raise the axle.
A recently patented bicycle gear just
purchased by leading matchmaking
firm has a metal casing to cover the
gear which is formed of bevel gear and
straight gear wheels slidably mounted
on the crank shaft and meshing into q
double gear wheel on the driving shaft
which runs to the rear wheel through
the frame at one side, the sliding wheel
on the crank shaft being used to change
the gear by having the bevel face of the
wheel of different circumference from
the straight face,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
LINEN FOR THE HOUSE.

There is no neater finish for sheets
than the hemstitched edge which di-
vides favor with buttonholed scallops.
All-white embroidery on colored
denim sofa pillows is appropriate. Bat
tenburg, Honiton and linen laces are in
favor for table and bed linen.
1t is said that if tablespoonful of
black pepper is placed in water in
which gray or buff linen is washed it
will keep the color intact.
A design should be suited to the room
for which it is intended as well as the
article. Portieres and bedspreads
should be embroidered in arabesgues,
scrolls and bold, conventionalized de-
signs that give greater effect of rich
ness and dignity than would flowers
and birds.
Embroidered initials for tablecloths
are usually two inches in height and are
placed close to one corner. On napkins
they are not half so large. On sheets
initials are placed just below the middle
of the top hem; on oblong pillow-cases
above the hem on the middle of the
open end and in the center of square
sims
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
THE WORK-A-DAY WORLD.
Paris has $4,000 artists.


Japan has 1000 newspapers.
There are 100000 miners.
Japan has 100000 unionists.
Dublin has 600 union lockers.
Hamburg has $4,000 union lockers.
Cincinnati is to have labor temple.
Switzerland has 205 cooperative So
cieties.
indianapolis hasn't a non-union
stone-mason.
Congressman De Graffenreid was
once a brakeman.
Cape Town, Africa, carpenters work
eight hours per day.
Carpenters in 426 cities and towns in
the United States and Canada enjoy the
uine-hour day.
Signalmen and shutters employed
by railroad in Scotland wish shorter
hours and higher wages. The wages
asked for are from 25 shillings to 30
shillings, with rate and quarter for over
time.
In the Transvaal republic in South
Africa, wages of mechanics and miners
vary from three to four per day, while
bread is sold at about six cents per
pound; milk, "a cents per quart; po-
tatoes, five to ten cents per pound;
bacon, 80 cents; beef, 16 cents.
The Belfast employers have volun-
tarily (as "Jubilee" mementD re-
duced the weeks work to SO hours per
week, instead of 81 hours. Dublin
printers are thinking that they could
also do with q similar working week,
and will shortly demand this con-
ceSSion
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
FACTS AND FIGURES ABROAD.

Quebec. with a population of 10000
has six daily newspapers, four of which
are in the French language.
a Chinese paper estimates that the
victims of the plague in Foochow this
year will not fall far short of 10000.
The imperial library at Vienna and
the emperor's family library have been
consolidated, partly to save expense.
partly for greater convenience of re-
search.
Last January the city of Lausanne,
Switzerland, took charge of the local
gas works. 1t was expected that there
would be a profit of $4,000 francs the
first five months. but the sum was as
large as 100000 francs. The private
consumers at the same time got better
and cheaper gas.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
steam heated fat would drive any Eg-
kimo or Thlingit to suicide.

kimo or Thlingit to suicide.
Truancy Is Encouraged.
So when their children, after much
persuasion by missionaries or Govern
ment teachers, are finally persuaded to
go to school, the parents are miserable,
and prophesy darkly the unhappy end
of their iconoclastic offspring. Despite
the most positive promises, they do
their best to keep the little ones at
home as much as possible. Truancy
is encouraged more or less actively by
the parents of nearly every native
child, while the creoles and other mixed
breeds prefer to send their children to
the numerous parochial schools estab-
lished by the Russian Church.
The Russian clergy are just as inim-
Catholic Church as they are to those of
all Protestant denominations, and
they regard even the lay teachers d.
rectly in the employ of the United
States Government with extreme sus-
picion. They violently oppose the in
PRODUCTION of American educational
methods, and tell the creoles, Indians
and Eskimos that the missionaries and
Government teachers are designing
persons whose ultimate aim is to alien
ate the children from their parents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12

Never before in medical annals has any
medicine received such widespread praise and
endorsement from physicians, druggists and
all classes of the people as is bestowed upon
the great curer of disease DIR. Greene's Merry
ura blood and nerve remedy. It purifies and
nyigorates the blood, making pure, rich, red
blood, and it is therefore the grandest of blood
medicines. 1t gives life, strength, energy,
power and yigor to the brain and nerves. and
hence is the greatest nerve tonic, brain invig-
GRANT and nerve restorative ever before known
in the worlds history. 1t banishes headache,
backache, neuralgia, rheumatism, and has thus
demonstrated itself to be the surest and quick
est pain reliever in existence. 1t c,"rs stomach,
liver, kidney and female complaints with a
positive certainty which is unequaled and I'M
rivaled, and which has caused weak. nervous,
tired out, sleepless, run down and debIitated
sufferers everywhere to recognize DIR. Greene's
Nervura blood and nerve remedy as indeed
the King of Medicines.
DR.. Greene's Nervura is the best medicine
possible to take because it cures the people-it
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
UNCLE SANS new babies.
lie IS GOOD TO HIS LITTLE ONES
IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST.

Alaska Is Favored Above All Other
Parts of the United States in the
Matter of Schools, for the Terri
tOriaI Commissioner of Educa-
ton Has Ample Authority to
Build New Schools Long Before
They Are Absolutely Needed and
to Substitute Missions for the Pur-
poses of Imparting English Edu-
cation and intoxicating American
Ideas-POwePful Opposition from
the Russian Church-GOod work
OF Other Christian Sects.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12

is the giver of health and strength-it makes
the sick we'll.
Here is the advice to use DIR. Greenes Ner-
vura from Rev. d. C.. Easton of Concord, N.
H., Chaplain of the New Hampshire State
Prison, and Past Chaplain G. A. h. Depart
ments of n. II. and r. l., who is the most
prominent clergyman and Christian worker in
New England. He says:
CDR. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy has been used i'll my family with sat
isfactory results. l am now using it myself
and have also personal friends who have been
cured by it and assert that it is q priceless
boon for suffering humanity"
Use DR.. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy now and get well. DIR. Greene's Ca
thartic Pills are the perfect pills for bilious
ness and constipation. DR.. Greene, 81 West 18th
ST., New York City, the most successful ply
sican in curing disease, can be consulted free,
in person or by letter. There is no charge
whatever for consultation, examination or adj
vice, and the price of the medicines is so low as
to place u positive cure within reach OF all.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-11-12
Especially
SITKA. Alaska, Oct. II.


Via SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. %.
Those accustomed to think of Alaska
as an out-of- the-way territory inhab-
tied only by illiterate whites and still
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York. May 1.-The close of the
weeks trading was marked by the same
condition of apathy and almost of stagna-
ton which has characterized the market
all through the week. This was accen-
tuated by the fact that to-day was
holiday on the London exchange and by
the definite announcement from Boston
that the shipment of gold to Europe on
Tuesday by a house there would be in
creased to 81 100000.
The market was left freely in the
hands of professional traders and was
without feature of general interest. The
prevailing dullness was accompanied by
the heaviness of interest, and prices sag
ged even on the limited offerings of
shares A few individual properties were
subject to special unfavorable Influences
and the general market showed itself sen
sitive to the sympathetic effect of these.
though the fluctuations were within mar
row compass. The average decline for
the day was something over q. The
grangers were rather heavier than the
general list, the decline in the group in
the case of Northwest extending to a.
The cOalers were pretty well held out
side of New Jersey Central and Read
ing, the former losing 5s net after an
initial rise of "A. Tobacco fell only
u in face of the announcement of the
withdrawal from the director of a prom
inent interest. The largest losses were
in the specialties, a point each for Ten
nessee Coal and Iron and Brooklyn I'm
ion Gas, the former on reports of pros
pective labor troubles. Western Union
declined further u to 1878 and Sugar
lost Is. The only gains in the list were
i'll Leather preferred, on covering, Pull
man, Lackwanna and Consolidated Gas,
each of which rose half. The market
closed unsettled and irregular.
The COalers in stocks and bonds have
been occupied all the week almost eX-
clusively with the gold export move
ment, which has set in, and have mani
tested considerable uneasiness at the pro-
portions assumed by the shipments. The
gold movement has proved a puzzle to
the best authorities, and the inability
to account for it satisfactorily has been
rs much the cause of the stagnation in
stock dealing as any positive apprehen-
sions of its effects. Last Saturday, the
opinion was quite general that no ex-
ports of gold would be made until the
then prevailing rate of exchange, which
was $4.SSA for short sterling, should rise
above that figure, yet to-day with de-
mand sterling only just steady at 4.S7H
or ~ cents below the profitable point
agreed upon by the exchange houses,
shipment of $1,O00,000 additional gold
is announced from Boston to be made by
next Tuesdays steamer.
The doubt as to gid shipments being in
response to the exhaustion of our credit
balance abroad grows out of the extra
ordinary heavy excess of our merchan
disc exports over imports for the nine
months of the fiscal year, an excess ag-
gregating 323,OO0,O00. Those who ar
que that the balance of credits has turn
ed against us assert that this excess of eX-
ports must be largely discounted on ac
count of under-valuations of imports to
evade customs duties.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
TO EUROPE THIS SUMMER.

Two charming SELECT tours to EU.
ROPE this summer THE ''ITALIAN
PARTY leaves New York July 9th; the
SWISS PARTY" leaves July 7th,
visiting the MOST NOTED SCENES
and CITIES of the WORLD. The
tickets include EVERY NECESSARY
EXPENSE of the trip, and an EX-
PERIENCED CONDUCTOR will ac-
company each party under the manage
ment of well known tourist firm Of
THOMAS, COOK & SON, London and
New York. EXPENSES VERY Low
everything FIRST-CLASS. Never a
BETTER OPPORTUNITY offered for
visiting EUROPE with so much COM
FORT and PLEASURE and so LIT
TIE EXPENSE. WRITE AT ONCE
for illustrated itinerary and FULL
PARTICULARS as to MEMBER
SHIP in either party to EUGENE G.
HARRELL, RALEIGH, N. c., cores
pendent for THOMAS COOK & SON.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
THE WEATHER DUNG APRIL.
The Mean Temperature 60 Degrees and
Precipitation 4.66 inches.

The Mean Temperature 60 Degrees and
Precipitation 4.66 inches.
1.-The mean temperature in Raleigh for
the month of April was 60 degrees, which
is Just about normal.
The highest temperature was ST on the
2Jth, the lowest was 30 on the 2nd, giving
Il range of "a degrees.
Mean humidity for the month was I'll
per cent The total precipitation for the
month was 4.66. The largest amount i'll
any "a consecutive hours was I'll on
the Sth and 9th.
There were II clear days, 10 partly
cloudy and & cloudy. Rain occurred on
II days.
The prevailing wind direction was
South. The highest velocity of the wind
was 26 miles an hour. southwest.
Killing frcsts occurred on the md and
DIST: thunder-storms on the Sth and 9th
There were very few exceptional fea
lures during the month except the kill
ing tosts which occurred rather late
i'm the season. The month, on the whole
was very favorable for farm work and
growth of the crops.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02

straight Democratic ticket # you do not
want the Fusionists to bankrupt the city
rs they have bankrupted the State.
Devote part of the day Monday to
saving the city from the rule of those
who would stop it's progress for selfish
ends If the city were invaded, every
good man would defend it. To turn it
over to Jim Young Il Company as will be
done if the Brindle-tails win will be to
make Il mistake that may prove worse
than an invasion.
Good Citizens: All together for good
and rebuke to Brindle-
tails and Self-seekers!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

For the benefit of l.. Oh. Branch
Camp of Confederate Veterans. Edison's
last and most wonderful invention, The
Magniscope" showing living pictures,
will be exhibited Monday and Tuesday,
May 10th and 18th. During intermis-
sions, war scenes will be shown, with a
stereopticon and explained by Major
General Thomas l.. Rosser, of the Army
of Northern Virginia. y quartette of
home talent will also sing during the per-
formance a few popular hymns and bal
lads, each verse Illustrated by pictures.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02

firm: strained Sl.25: good strained a36;
receipts 1875 barrels.
81 casks.
SAVANNAH, Ga, May 1.-spirits turron-
tine firm at 25&. Sales 800 casks: ~, I. ITS
b. Z. d. 81. AZ: K. sl.45: + Sl.50; G,;Sh, a. 80,
l, M.70; X. Sl75; NJ. $3.50: N, $40 mlru y
glass SOS; water white So 20.
CHAHLEsTos 5. O., May 1-Turconrine
quiet at rs.
rosin firm: sales -; A, b, c, d, sl.90 T.. | 81:
+, T40, G., 81 Al, II, Sl.55. |, sl85, ks q,
Size, N, 81 o. window glass S2.I5, water bite
S25.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK, May 1.-Money on call
cent closed at 1k0lk per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper 3h(al4 per cent. Sterling ex-
change sterdy, with actual business in bank
ers' bills at S7ka4S74 for demand and III co4
for sixty days. Posted rates 4.s7 and
4S84 Commercial bills, 4s5k Mexican dol
lars 48 3l9 -. Silver certificates Bar
silver GIN. Government bond weak. State
bonds dull. Railroad bonds easier
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
"A MUSICAL FARMER"
Dir. ID. Reid parker's New Version of
His Great Alliance Song.

DR.. -. Reid Parker. one of the most
successful physician teacher, lecturer.
farmer. and lastly, but not least, com
poser and song writer, is now engaged il
holding Farmers Institutes He was
elected ''Institute Holder'-an entirely
new otfice--by the new Commissioners
of Agriculture.
The Doctor became suddenly famous
some years ago as music teacher to the
Alliance of the State He is the author
Of the celebrated campaign song, Good
by old party. good bye" which was sung
with great applause at Alliance gather
ings.
The Doctor has i'll preparation an en-
tirely new song, which will be set to
music and which will be sung at the
Farmers Institutes. The composition will
contain some two hundred stanzas, but
for want of space l can only give four
of them. The entire composition will be
published. however, in full music form,
words and music, and will be distributed
free to all fusion farmers. Here are the
words:
Good by my old farm, good by,
At last I've got a piece Of pie:
Twelve hundred per annum, you bet
While you in the sun do sweat
Goodbye, my old farm, good bye
Il can afford to teach you to sing.
While money in my pocket does ring
III pledge to do you no harm,
While | teach you all how to farm
Good by, my old farm, goodbye.
mo good is a Democrat farmer
Compared to an Alliance warmer;
For your good | shall talk,
And make all Democrats walk.
Goodbye, my old farm, goodbye.
'Gold-bug, tater-bug, humbug and all.
| had to swallow during the Squat,
| know well that you are unrestful
But it's well, since | am successful.
Goodbye, my old farm, goodbye.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
WANTED.

To buy in North Carolina general stock
merchandise and lease on store house.
Write fully. State average yearly cash
sales. amount of stock, how long bought,
rent per year, best discount for cash.
Stock over three thousand not wanted.
Address at once, d." Box 80, Nathalis,
Halifax county, Virginia.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
LOCAL STOCK MARK EFT,
GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Chicago, May 1.-Rain in California
and favorable weather, present and pros
pective spring wheat seeding, together
with an absence of export demand were
the influences under which it declined
rs for July to-day. Other markets fol-
lowed the same course, corn declining *
cent, oats about the same mad provisions
21bG110 cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
SUFFER
WHEN
ReIiefis Within Reach?

KITTREJL, y. C., March q, 1897.
MRS. PERSON:
hereby tender you my testimony to the
real worth of your remedy. i suffered with
an ailment peculiar to our sex, until by ac-
cident, began to take your remedy. have
taken four bottles, and am to-day in good
fully testify to all it did for me.
Yours truly,
MRS. X. ID. HOLMES.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
LIV ERPOOL

LIVERPOOL, May 1.-4:00 p. M.-Spot cot
ton, moderate business, prices firm; Ameri
can middling AZ
Sales of the day were 1900 bales, of which
500 were for speculation and export, and in
cluded 1890 American: receipts 5000 bales,
all american.
Futures opened steady, with a moderate
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
f. b. CUTHBERT e co.
NE" WORN
NEW ORLEANI

Spot cotton closed quiet: middlinR up
lands X. middlinR gult8: sales 431 bales.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
OTHER MARK ETS

OTHER MARKETS
galveston firm, ~, 1,76s bales.
norfolk, firm, IN, S24 bales
Baltimore, nomina TX, - bales.
Boston, steady, ~, 43l ba'es.
Wilmington, firm 79s, bales.
Philadelphia, quiet, 8, 80 bales.
savannah, firm. 7-l8, 145 bales
New Orleans, firm, 7 9l6, 1874 bales
Mobile. nOmnol, 79s, TO bales
Memphis, quiet and firm, ~, 1910 bales.
augusta, steady, TN, 251bales.
Charleston, firm, tn, 702 bales.
incinnati, firm, Ia, " bales.
Louisville, firm. IN. - bales.
st. Louis, firm, TX, $40 tales.
Houston, steady, IN, $40 bales.
RALEIGH COTTON MARKET.
RALEIGH, N. c., May
strict good middling.. Recommendation 4
Good middling ..........................7 k07&
strict m1ddnng. ......-.... ...,.... tx
Middliug .......,. .,........... ........7%(G7x
Receipts 25 bales.
Market firm.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02

Flour steady wheat. No. spring ia "a
~; no: spring nominal; No. red oss , e.
No 2white f o b 224 (dG234 -: No. white f o b
0a2 Rye, No. 2, 33A. Il rev. No nom
inal; No. o 1904; No 4, 70 b 20. Flax
seed, No. 4, 7'&77s. Prime timothy seed
per 100 lbs, "a 10at i24 short rib. sides
uoose) "a 55a4 So d. y-aaItec shoulders too1eU
% a5h; .shOrt ci.s' s'des boxed 5td5b
SL19.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-17
MRS. 8. VI. HANNA.

Asheville ~ c. April 16.-Mrs S. VI. Hanna,
mother OF United States Senator NJ A. Hanna. Of
Ohio died at the Kenilworth Inn. Biltmore at 4
o'clock this morning. from pneumonia. She had
been i'm Asheve only few days. visiting the
Kindergarten. in which she much interested
and her death was totally unexpected. Mrs. Hanna
came to Kenilworth Inn several weeks ago. accom-
panied by her daughter. Miss Hanna senator
Hanna has been summoned from Washington, ana
Is expected TO reach here as soon as possible Inc
body OF Mrs Hanna will be taken 10 Cleveland
Ohio tomorrow afternoon
Cleveland. Ohio. April 1.-THE death Of Mrs.
Hama at Asheve gave great shock to her
large circle of acquaintances in this city, as she
had recently started for home apparently much i'm
proved in health and only delaying her re-
turn to recover from slight attack of bronchitis.
Mrs. Hanna was eighty-four years old She leaves
three sons and as many daughters The daugh-
formerly Miss Seville Hanna. and Mrs. Jones,
formerly Mrs. George Chaplin. The sons are Sem
tor NJ. A. Hanna. and Fl. NJ. and L. c. Hanna.
Mrs Hanna will be buried beside the grave OF her
husband. The funeral services VIII be held at ner
late home. No 1856 Prospect-st
Ever since her husbands DEATH which occurred
some years ago Mrs. Hanna had lived alone in
the large Hanna mansion in this city, with only
her daughter Lillian 10 keep her company. Last
fall Mrs Hanna concluded that Southern trip
would greatly benefit her, and, with Miss Lillian,
the last few days she had been at Asheville. and
while there bout week ago. contracted a severe
cold which first developed into bronchitis and then
into pneumonia