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The midland journal., 1897-10-22
SKIP BETRAYED CONFIDENCE.
Engagement Was a Secret Until the
Dog Told on the Couple.

Engagement Was u Secret Until the
Dog Told on the Couple.
Skip" was really responsible, al
though he didn't quite realize the far
reaching effect of his innocent action.
t'Skip," it should be explained, is the
pampered British pet of the Wrinkle
children, and is one of the haughtiest
Of Oak Parks canine aris*ocracy.
Were he biped he would probably be
staggering about the tennis courts
at Oak Park in duck trousers, with a
monocle screwed into his right eye and
chatting with the suburban beauties
with a most delightful English drawl.
AS becomes fox terrier of exalted
lineage, he is particularly clever and
intelligent, but one of his marked char
acteristics is o. wild and consuming
jealousy. If little Miss Wrinkle be-
slows upon her beloved dolly Mignon
the caresses with which every doll
mother is SO lavish or if Paterfamilias
Wrinkle cuddles the wee Wrinkles in his
arms before bedtime, or should Mrs.
Winkle greet her friends effusively,
Skip" accepts the act as a deliberate
slight and lifts up his voice in Pc
culiar whining bark that is at once a
protest and a supplication.
One night there called at the Wrinkle
cottage two young people in whose
careers the Wrinkles are much inter-
ested. One of them is young profess
sional man who has already we'll es-
tablished himself and the other a
bright North Side girl at whose shrine
many hopeless youths have worshiped
These two had been neighborhood
friends for years, but none of the neigh
borhood gossips had ever been able to
determine what the future of the pair
was to be.
After chat Mrs. Wrinkle stepped
into an adjoining room to hunt up a
sample of a new shirt waist, and Mr.
Wrinkle, in the temporary absence of
the Venus who presides over the
destinies of the Wrinkle kitchen, wan
dered out to the refrigerator to see
what he could find in the way of cold
drink. They were hardly out of the
room before their ears We're startled
by "Skip's" sharp voice raised in jeal-
Gus protest. There could be no mis-
take. When Mr.. and Mrs. Wrinkle re-
turned the young people occupied seats
widely separated, and the face of each
was calm and unruffled. But Mrs. VIM
kle knew what had happened.
Fred" she said, shaking her finger
at the young man, ''why haven't you
told us of your engagement?"
Engagement" asked the young
man, innocently, "to whom?"
"Why, to Edith here"
Miss Edith's big blue eyes grew
larger. A rosy blush crept up to her
temples under her fluffy curls. Both
were about to enter denials.
Don't you dare deny it. Here you
are spooning the minute our backs are
turned. If you must kiss her, wait
next time till Skip is out of the way"
When it dawned on the young peo-
pie that they had been innocently be-
trayed they promptly confessed that
matters had been settled for some
time. but they had been keeping it
secret.
"It was such fun" observed Miss
Edith. Nobody even suspected
Skip you naughty doggy, what made
you tell?"
But Skip" only wagged his stump
of a tail and said never a word.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
WEIGHTY BRIDES.
Girls Fattened for the Matrimonial
Market of TUnis.


Market of Tunis.
Throughout the empire of Morocco
and in Tunis there are villages where
the elder members of the adult popula-
ton follow professionally the pursuit
of fattening young ladies for the matri-
monial market of Barbary, says the
San Francisco Chronicle. The Moors,
like the Turks and most other orientals,
give decided preference to the moon
faced" wives over lean ones and are
more solicitous as to the number of
pounds which their brides weigh than
about the stock of accomplishments
they possess.
A girl is put under the process of fat
tening when she is about 12 years of
age. Her hands are tied behind her and
she is seated on carpet during somany
hours every day while her papa"
stands over her with q matraque, or big
stick, and her mother at times pops into
her mouth a ball of couscoussou or stifr
maize porridge, kneaded up with grease
md just large enough to be swallowed
without the patient choking.
If the unfortunate girl declines to be
stuffed she is compelled,so that ere long
the poor girl resigns herself to the tor
ture, and gulps down the boluses lest
she should be beaten.
In Brazil corpulence is also consid-
cred the essential point of female beau
ty, and the greatest compliment that
can be paid to Brazilian lady is to tell
her that she grows fatter and fairer
every day.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

Owen T, Fishback, the grandfather OF
Judge Peter Swing, of the Hamilton
county ciricut court. During all the
hours of her visit and while writing she
always occupied this plain poplar
chair. After Mrs. Stowe rose to fame
with her book the chair was preserved
and handed down as part of history
from Mrs. Fishback to Mrs. Grant and
Mrs. Swing, then to Miss Miller; from
her to Mrs. G. Anderson, who left the
chair in charge of Mr.. Lou Buerkle, in
whose possession it now remains.
The back Of the chair has become
broken of, and all Of the stats are
broken out of the back. The color of
the chair was black. Mrs. Swing, now
deceased, had many pleasant and inter-
esting accounts to detail of remarks
and conversations held by herself with
the deceased authoress. The chair
is much priced by its present pos
SCISSORS. They relate all the historic
points now connected with this plain
and unassuming old-time piece of fur
uiture.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
TREATMENT OF HIVES.
An Annoying AiIment Which Alicts
Children in Summer.


About this time of year children are
apt to be troubled more OF less with
hives. Usually they are hot menace to
life, but they are great discomfort to
the child and it's mother. All are IA
miliar with this condition so it need
not be described at length. They sud
denly fash out on seemingly healthy
skin and as suddenly disappear. They
are at first of a pinkish red color, soon
changing to deep red. If rubbed they
become surrounded by whitish ring
which has given to them the appropriate
name 'vheals." They are intensely
itchy and almost drive child frantic.
The most urgent indication is TO allay
the irritation; this may be done with
varying degrees of success with various
applications. A favorite remedy is
saturated solution of bicarbonate of
soda-ordinary baking soda. Possibly
y better remedy is pulverized boracic
acid dissolved in glyceripe Or cosmo-
line and lightly rubbed over the surface.
a remedy have used with satisfaction,
though it has very disagreeable odor.
is q solution of carbolic acid, a tea
spoonful to pint of water, the mix
ture to be shaken for Is minutes to get
the acid thoroughly broken up. a good
authority gives these directions for the
relief of this af1iiction. Wash the child
with soda water, then dip the finger in
castor oil and battle each individual
hive, rubbing the oil well into the skin.
The cause Of hives is generally found
in the digestive tract, so the diet and
bowels should be carefully looked to.
One of the saline purgatives should be
given to carry off any undigested mate
rial that may be present, then all rich
and heating foods should be withheld.
The child should be kept as still as
possible to avoid overheating the
blood.-Home Monthly.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

he proud to be public with you; his sake
and your
The pale cheeks the dark shadows under the eyes, general
dropping of the young we FORM what they mean Thev
that her falling that her strength going that
something be done help her through coming trials of
maternity
Build her by of specific pow
Such Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound You can
get it at any druggists
Following publish by request letter young wife-of
her accord she addresses her sug sisters while
from modesy she asks withhold her gives her initials
and street number Chambesbug easily found
personally or by letter.
To Suffering SsersLet your benefit tell
ing what Lydia Pkham Vegetable Compound has done
for am but nineteen and suffered with menstraon
eucoha dizziness burning sensation back
head and of muscles
palms. could sleep we'll unable without pain and
OH how l longed to be well!
One wrote to Mrs Pnkham telling her ALL knowing could
do so in perfect confidence
She wrote lovely letter in reply telling exactly
do After taking nine bottles of the Compound of Liver
Pills and using onehaf package of Sanav WASH can say am
cared am happy and my happiness
Mrs. Pinkham
Why will suffer when help is me- one who
has had experience urge all suffering women especially Young
wives to seek Mrs Pnkhams advce-Mrs. R. S. R. II3 E.
Catherine St, Chambersburg, Pa
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
NOTES OF THE VOGUE,
Latest Notions in the Department of
Dress,

Moire ribbons are, for the moment,
higher in fashion than satin or taffeta
Oyster color is tie very newest
shade, and particularly effective in
heavy satin or faille.
A new summer dress material is
called challie de lustre, ard is, as it's
name indicates, glossy fabric, some
what resembling mohair.
The modish silks for early autumn
wear are in the pretty bayadere stripes,
trying fashion, however, becoming
to none but woaon of the Trilby type.
Narrow baby ribbon is feature on
modish gowns, and is now ruf1led and
used to edge ribbons of greater width.
"a particularly pretty finish for the
long ribbon sash.
The old-fashioued iron grenadine is
again the vogue, superseding the
fiimsy materials which masquerade
under that name, and to which even the
crispest of taffetas fails to give salts
factory body.
Brilliapt-hued plaids are in high IA
vor, and the up-to-date revels in an end
less variety of sailor-hat bands, belts
and neckties, which, worn in sets, give
chic finish to her duck skirt and tall
or-built shirt waist.
A full niche of black at the throat
gives modish finish to the simplest
costume and is a needed touch of pre-
caution these chilly August evenings.
One recently seen in London is of black
chiffon, cascaded te the waist-line and
edged with narrow white ostrich feath-
er trimming.
To avoid that unpleasant swagging
at the bottom of the dress, the newest
silk petticoats are stiffened at the hem
with a whalebone, one ingenious wom-
an, who particularly breads an appear
ance of linrpness placing a second bone
across the front breadth in casingte
inches above the dust flounce.-Chica-
40 Chronicle
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
Cost of Mountain Tunnels.

About 80 years ago the Mont Gents
tunnel, nearly eight miles long, was
constructed at the rate of one kilometer
per year, and each kilometer cost ST.
100000. Nearly ten years later the st,
Gotthard tunnel, 914 miles long, was
constructed at the rate of two xii.
Qmeters year, and cost ssOO,oOo per kill
ometer. The Simplon tunnel, which
when completed will be third to per-
forate the Alps, is to be 1914 miles long,
will advance four kilometers year,
and cost but 5000, 900 per kilometer.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

"They tell me she sings"
"They are wrong. She merely tries
to."-Chicago Post.
Diamonds have been discovered, in
rare instances, in the meteoric stones
which have fallen to the earth.
A floral curiosity is on exhibition in
the Temple Gardens, London. 1t is a
$4,000 orchid from Venezuela. 1t has a
white flower which in shape resembles
sea-gull with outspread wings.
Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Meyer sicken, weaken or gripe.
10 cents.
To keep destructive insects from his
pear trees, Mr.. t. H. o. Stokes, of
Oharlestown, Nd, sprayed the orchard
with Paris green. Turkeys to the num-
ber of $50 were subsequently turned
into the field, they ate the poisoned
clover, and they will not figure at
Thanksgiving dinners.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
A Corn Lullaby,
0 the summer rain in the corn,

IIark to the summer rain in the corn,
Hush to sleep my baby!
AS faint as the call of an elfland horn,
Hush to sleep my ba by!
The winds blow fresh from the rosy west,
The birdie rocks in his little brown nest.
'T'is time for baby to go to rest.
Hush to sleep my babyl
Hark to the crash of the hail in the corn;
Hush to sleep my baby!
1t leaves the stalks all stript and shorn,
Hush to sleep my baby!
The birdie is under the downy breast
OF the mother-bird whose beaten crest
The hail drives hard, by storm winds
pressed,
Hush to sleep my baby!
Hark to the sigh of the wino in the corn,
Hush to sleep my baby!
The storm is dead and the calm is born,
Hush to sleep my baby
Now snuggle up close to mothers breast
And ride away through dreams, in quest
OF the silent, stormess sands of rest,
Hush to sleep my baby!
William R. Dunroy, in Midland Monthly.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
Wistfulness.


When the mercury is waiting
Just at seventy or so,
And you find gladstone respite
From the cruel summers glow,
A regret comes stealing DER you
AS you watch the sunbeams play,
And you sigh in mournful accents:
IF 'twould only stay this way!"
When your purse at last is heavy
With a long-expected sum,
And the right is yours to mingle
With life's pleasures as they come,
You behold the threatening shadow
OF the dreaded "rainy day."
And you count your store and murmur:
IF 'twould only stay this way"
When the world is smiling fondly
And the days like dream-light shine,
And the things you've wished for cluster
Like the fruit upon the vine,
Then you think of bleak November
And the waste, where all was gay.
And again the thought assails you:
IF 'twould only stay this way!'
Washington Star.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
HISTORIC ROCKER.
Uaed by Mrs. Stowe While Working
on "Uncle Toms Cabin"

on ''Uncle Toms Cabin"
Among the many things associated
with the memory of Harriet Beecher
Stowe, of Batavia, O., is the chair oc-
cupied by her while writing the ini-
tial chapter of the historic Uncle
TOMS Cabin" one OF the levers which
raised the movement that finally re-
suited in the late rebellion and ended
with the shackles stricken from 4,000,-
coo bondmen.
Mrs. Stowe came to Batavia first ac-
companied by Rev. Henry Beecher, her
father, as visitor in the home of Judge
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

]. {. Berry, one of the best known cit
izens of Spencer, Mo, testifes that he
cured himself Of the worst kind of piles by
using few boxes of DeWitts Witch
Hazel Salve. He had been troubled with
piles for over thirty years and had used
many different kinds of so.called cures :;
but DeWitt's was the one that did the
work and he will verify this statement if
any one wishes to write to him. Eli T.
Reynolds.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
Everybody Says So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won-
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, hahitual constipation
and bilionsness. Please buy and try box
of G. g. c. to-day; 10, -, 80 cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

~~fAANNN NoaSo'A NIaiN. LII L M iioiNi'''
The health of Nicolini, PATHS hus-
| band. has so much improved that she is
| once again entertaining house parties
1t was feared at one time Nicolini would
| die.
Henry Miller has returned to New
York after a 1i-weeks' bicycle trip
through England and France Ills sea-
son commences the last of September
in a new play.
William e. de Verna, known in the
atrical circles us the king of property
men," has just died at his Long Island
home, aged G5. There was a special ele-
ment of pathos in his death, as it was
his one ambition to live long enough
10 see the production of his great spec
tacle Nature" about to be staged in
New York. He had been working at the
scenery and properties of this for the
last four or five years, and had saved
about $4,000. all of which was invested
in the venture.
Clement Scott. in his criticism of the
English Secret Service" company,
makes some interesting comparisons
81 says that the difference between the
Americans and the English is similar
to that between staccato and sostenuto.
The Americans are sharp and con-
else" he says, land excellent in panto-
mimic art; the English are deliberate,
sustained and logged" and he adds
they pause too long between the sem
tences." He begs them to remember
that Secret Service" is play of action.
which should move like clockwork.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
To Birmingham and Memphis.
THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY OFFERS THI
REST SERVICE

Ask for your ticket via the Southern
Railway. Two daily trains from Broad
Street Statioe. Through sleepers and
fast schedules make it the quickest and
most comfortable route. For further in
formation write to Jno. NJ. Beall, District
Pass. Agt., S2S Chestnut ST., Philada., Pa.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

You can't afford to risk your life by al
lowing a cold to develop into pneumonia
or consumption. Instant relief and GER
tain cure are afforded by One Minute
Cough Cure. Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
Russian Female servants.

Nearly all of the female servants of
Russia have to supply their own mat
tresses, and place them in any conven-
lent corner-usually the kitchen.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
A strange breach of promise suit has

A strange breach of promise suit has
been begun in Anderson. Ind. Frank
Robinson, after having been divorced
from his first wife. married another
lady. The day after the ceremony, his
first wife brought suit for $4,000 for
breach of promise, claiming that Frank
had again woodland won her.
A comical duel was fought by two
New York bill posters, near Washing
ton bridge. They had been covering
cath others bills, and they agreed to
settle the matter with paste brushes.
each starting witha full bucket of paste,
In five minutes they were tlrell sight,
each covered from head to heels with
the sticky stuff.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
raw Beef Sandwiches.

Scrape fine two or three tablespoon
fuls of raw, juicy, tender beef. season
slightly with salt and pepper, spread
on thin slices of bread and putin a
toaster and toast slightly.-American
Queen,
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

"a graduate of your school (examined
with many others), was selected as sec.
retary in this Office Phila.) The attain.
ments evidence your careful training
Read adv. Goldey College and send for
catalogue.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Awav.

II you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever. be made well, strong, magnetic
full OF new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-worler, that makes weak men
Over 100000 cured. Buy No-To-Bac of your
uruggist, under guarantee to cure, 50c or
Sl.00. Booklet and sample mailed free Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what IL was made for.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

You can't cure consumption but you car
avoid 1t and cure every other form O
throat { r lung trouble by the use of One
Minute Cough Cure Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
ALL MEN LOVE BEAUTY.
Mrs. Pinkham CounSelS Young Wives to Keep
Their AttractvenesS-A Letter
From Young Wife.

Seven-eighths of the
men in this world mar
ry a woman because
she is beautiful in their |
eyes.
What a disappoint-
ment then to see the
fair young wife's bea,
fading away before a y
passes over her head!
7 Col cT-1,,1J FL
The midland journal., 1897-10-22

say to every young woman who is about
to be married." Strengthen yourself in
advance, SO that you will not break down
under the new strain on your powers.
Keep your beauty, it is a precious pos
session! Your husband loves your beauty.
The midland journal., 1897-10-22
Lots Like Her.

"They tell me she sings"
"They are wrong. She mel
to."-Chicago Post.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

inevitable and wonderful to beholdl The
air is full of shouting street musicians,
shouting street venders of cheap fancy
suddenly out of black doorway, with
boots and cat calls that resemble nothing
more than the cries of wild animals at
feeding time. The omnibus rattles on,
across this desert OF noise, into sudden
oases OF silence; church in the middle of
deserted square; an inclosed space with
ancient trees; quiet little streets with
figures brushing by, creeping close to the
walls as If to escape notice, in mute
apology for existence. AL this ever
changing panorama passes before u.s.
before we reach the Liverpool station, in
the very heart of the East End, and our
selves made part OF that busting, hurry
ing, staggering, threatening crowd of
human beings.
On foot and out of the big thorough
fares, sudden darkness and silence falls
around us, the great black buildings,
Argus-eyed, loom over us, the flicker
ing lamplight sends our grotesque
shadows ahead of us. Our destina-
tion is a big room over factory for
artificial flowers, where one of the numer-
GUS clubs for working girls has its head
quarters. The rooms are not very light,
and the girls are very slimly represented.
At our approach they retire to the wall,
and apparently try to push through it,
giving each other vigorous shoves and
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
Characteristic Whfchapd Dance Affected an Advocate Of Philanthropy

.NI4ONDON, ENG, March MY friend.
NIX Miss Gray, takes life very seriously.
IS She has not as yet come to that stage
kn her travels when sightseeing is privately
pronounced a bore. She is still eager to
do" everything-not once, but two or
three times. She is quite wonderful. Her
interests are practically unlimited. She
is always ready to go to the Tower or the
Hall of Records or to Nine. Tussaud's or
to Windsor or to picture exhibitions or
to dog shows or teas. She is very thor
ough and is always anxious to have i'm
pressions and to have them quite clearly.
She goes about with her eyes very wide
open, and little frown of anxiety and
earnestness between them. She would
not for the world be confused with those
vulgar tourists who rush about the Conti-
nent and see everything from Amsterdam
to Athens in three weeks.
She has seen everything in London IN
the way of churches and exhibitions OF
pictures and antiquities. Now she has
turned her bright attention to London
Life with very large letter. She is quite
sincere in her disinterested desire TO see it
from every side, at no matter what per-
sopaI sacrifice. The West End she has
exhausted, for, unless you are very
wealthy, or very beautiful, or very indis-
criminate or very fortunate the West End
does not offer very much, even TO attrac-
tive young Americans of an observant
turn of mind. The East End, on the con-
trary, presents a large field to modern
young woman who occupies herself with
economical and social problems. Miss
ALL
about trades and the employer and the
employed. Her sympathies are always
with the workingman, who is to her i'm
agination kind of Adam Bede with a
Nktkney accent; or with the working
Fman, who moves in terrible back
tround of abuse, intemperance and want,
singing the "Song of the Shirt The en-
ployer is kind of save-driver, with
knotted scourge, who rubs his hands and
counts his gold and says "Hal hal" in
accents of disbolical triumph.
1t was, therefore, with suppressed en-
thusiasm that she accepted an invitation
to attend a dance to working girls in
Whitechapel. These dances are given
once a month, under the patronage of
the charitable women of the West End, as
a kind of connection with and relaxation
from the more serious enterta tainments at
Newton House, the wonderful charity
Frederic Harrison has so successfully pro-
NOTED.
Miss Grey spent considerable time and
thoug bit upon her toilet. Would 1T be in
a spirit of envy that these less fortunate
daughters would regard her or in one of
emulatfon2 Would they be inspired by
toilet of exquisite taste? Would they
consider it com mpliment to themselves or
would it simply serve to increase the dis
tance and mark the difference between
themP A compromise was finally decided
upon, and accordingly Miss Grey appeared
on the evening in question in new street