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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
4 New Race of Cats.

At the vegetarian jubilee in London
recently some remarkable exhibits
were made. One was vegetarian cat,
a sleek and handsome pussy, who, hav-
ing been brought up in a vegetarian
family, had learned to love only veg
etable food, and had forgotten the fe-
line taste for mouse flesh. Mice of the
plumpest and most tempting appear
ance could run across the floor with
perfect impunity in the presence of this
vegetarian tabby. She just winked
sleepily at them and gave contemp-
tuous curl of her anti-carnivorous tail.
A new race of cats is thus brought
into sight-the reformed feline who
will not eat or kill mice. But the new
vegetarian breed of cats will never be-
come popular with the ladies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
Signals on Street Cars.

The trolley car has been utilized for
all sorts of local announcements, with
excellent results, especially in small
communities, doing in it's way much of
the work that the old bell crier was
supposed to exist for. On rainy days,
according to the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat, village car will often save the
school children a useless tramp by
carrying placard with the inscription,
mo school to-day" and in some plac-
es the local weather bureau now noti-
fies the road of prospective meteoro-
logical changes, and the cars, as they
go out of the car barn, mount the ap-
propriate signal in the shape of a flag,
flying between the trolley pole and the
car. People can thus tell by a glance
at the passing car whether to carry an
umbrella or not, and what sort of an
overcoat to put on.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
DlSGRACED BY SPENT BALLS
Queer Notion Which Was Obtained
Among Rebellion SOIdiers.


During the civil war men said the
hardest wounds to bear were those
from spent balls. For some reason it
was counted disreputable to be hit by
a spent ball or a splinter from a rock,
and many men worried along under
the most painful wounds without go
ing to the hospital, or without even
consulting the surgeon. Some of these
fellows carry the marks to-day, and
say nothing about them. In speak
ing of this, the Major tells the follow
ing story:
THE official report of the capture
of Lookout Mountain" said the Major,
STATED that Gen. Walter C. Whitaker
was wounded, but that he didn't leave
the field. That is all true, but it is
only half the story. Whitaker was
one of the most impetuous, driving
officers in the army. He was pushing
things in great shape in front when
he was struck by a rifle ball. He be-
came deathly sick, and it was supposed
at first that he was fatally wounded.
The surgeons and some of his asso-
ciate officers gathered about him,
anxious and nervous. A surgeon
opened the Generals coat and vest
looking for the wound, which seemed
to be in the vicinity of the stomach.
He found between the vest and the
underclothing a rifle ball that had not
broken the skin.
He said quietly, "A spent ball.
The General opened his eyes and look
ed up wrathful and indignant. What's
that? What's that? Somebody hit
me with spent ball? 1 won't stand
it! Bring me my horse!' And, fair
ly throwing aside all the people about
him, he sprang to his feet, climbed on
his horse, and with his clothing in dis
array and his hat banged on his head
started for the front, swearing at the
man who had hit him with a spent
hall"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
Definition not by Webster.

Tangent-A gent who runs tan
yard.
, Dust-Mud with the juice squeezed
out.
Irony-The caustic wit of the laun-
dry.
Jaw-bone-The original bone of con-
tention.
Conchologist-Am man who opens oys-
ers in the market.
Vanity-A magic glass that makes a
hromo look like an oil painting.
Bananarchist-A person who scatters
,anana skins around promiscuously.
Conservatism-The halfway place
where antagonists meet and talk and
ettle nothing.
Dr.-The meaning depends altogeth-
r upon whether it is placed before or
'fter a mans name.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
Ugliest Animal in the World.

The ugliest animal in the whole
world is at present sojourning in the
london Zoo. He is a mandril.
The mandril is West African bab-
]on. He has only Il stump where the
est of his monkey relatives have long,
lowing tails. On each side of the
nuzzle he has long swellings, which
id to the hideousness of his appear
ee.
RE mandril's looks are not more
nan his temper. He is a formid-
antagonist. Among his peculiar
es is a marked liking for all sorts
liquors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
MEAN MAN BEATEN,
Dinner for the Carpet Bag Proved q
Losing Game.

Dinher Tor the Carpet Bag Proved q
Losing Game.
On the cars day or two since,
coming to B, was stalwart man,
going to New York to buy goods. He
was not what might be called a stingy
or close man, but he was man who.
when there was cent due him that
swindling might deprive him of would
sacrifice $50 to save the copper.
He had started in the morning with
out any breakfast, and when E.
hove in sight he gathered himself up
for general skirmish for any and all
kinds of provisions. He had a carpet
bag with him, and going into the din
ing room at E., he deposited his
carpet bag on one chair, while he
took another at it's side.
He was lost for about ten minutes:
perfectly oblivious to everything, save
, that he had blessed consciousness of
something very rapidly and agreeably
replenishing his inward man.
About this time the landlord came
round, CALCULATED:
Dollar, sir!"
"A dollar!" responded the eater, "a
dollar! l thought you only charged
so cents a meal for one? Isn't that
so?"
That's true" answered Meanness,
but l count your carpet-bag one,
since it occupies a seat
Now the table was far from being
crowded, and the gentleman expos
tulated; but the landlord insisted, and
the dollar was reluctantly brought
forth, paid over, and the receiver pass
ed on.
Our victim deliberately rose, and,
opening his carpet-bag to the full ex-
tent of its wide mouth, addressed it
as follows:
"Carpet-bag, it seems you are an in
dividual, human individual-since
you eat-at least I've paid for your
eating. and now you must eat!"
Upon this he seized everything eata-
Bile, that was carriable, within reach
nuts, raisins, apples, cakes and crust
ples-and, amid the roars of the by
standers, the delight of his brother
passengers and the discontinue of the
landlord, phlegmatically went out and
took his seat in the cars. He said he
had secured provisions enough to last
him to New York, after a bountiful
S. ply had been served out in the cars
There was at least S. worth in the
bag, upon which the landlord realized
nothing in the way of profit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
scotland's Strange Birds.

From the small island of St, Kilda.
off Scotland, 10000 young gannets and
an immense number of eggs are annu-
ally collected, and although this bird
lays only one egg per annum and is
four years in obtaining its maturity
its numbers do not diminish. Obvi-
ously such birds must reach a great
age or they would long ago have been
eXterminated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
UNENViABLE.

Where ignorance is bliss, no doubt
'Tis folly to be wise;
And yet, how oft men look about
And truly sympathize
With folk who feel that they're au fait;
Especially one-to wit,
The man-you meet him every day
Whose halo doesn't fit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
Russia's New RAILWAY.

The proposed Russian railway from
Merry to the Afghan frontier will be be-
gin this mouth. Its length will be
about 200 miles, ard the cost is set
down at 100000 rubles. The line will
not only connect the Afghan frontier
with the Caspian sea, but also with
the whole of the network of railways
which it has been Russia's ambition to
brild
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

What made Kladderfieisch in such
hurry to get out OF Germany"
He happened to bear a close re-
'emblance in personal appearance to
he Emperor William"
There was no harm in that"
mo, but there came a boil on the
I'd of his nose one day, and he was
aid of being arrested for leze-ma-
v"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

According to a German publication, a
chemist of that country has prepared a
fluid that has the power when injected
into the tissue of plant near its roots.
of anaesthetizing the plant not de-
stroying it, but temporarily suspend
ing its vitality.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

Watts-It woG be easy enough to
lave Sunday ba: eball if the manage
nent only would go about it in the
light way.
Potts-I presrIle you have a scheme
already perfected
Watts To be sire. All they need
do is to put in side entrance and
keep the front gtt, closed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away

If you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic,
full of new life aud vigor, take No-To-B Bac,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
druggist, under guarantee to cure, Soc or
Sl00. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

1t is great leap from the old fashioned
doses of blue-mass and nauseous physics
to the pleasant little pills known as De-
Wits Little Early Risers. They cure
constipation, sick headache and bilious
ness. E. T. REYNOLDS,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

Trains leave Oxford for Philadelphia at 8 25
Q. m. and on p. Market train leaves
Rowlandville Tuesdays and Fridays at S.52
Liberty Grove. 9.0I; Colora. lie; Rising Sum- 9.26
sylmar. 9a3; Nottingham, 0 40; oxford. 1000 a. III
arriving at South st 2.53 p. m.
sunday train leaves oxford at 90 arriving in
Phiiade iphia at 9.2l a. NJ: and clio. arriving in
Philadelphia at .. p. m.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
The Cheerful Idiot

What do you think of the beet
sugar business?" asked the shoe clerk
boarder. Think it will supersede the
other kind?"
Cane sugar." replied the Cheerful
Idiot. will never ne beat"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

1t is proposed to establish State
Commercial High School in Magdeburg,
Prussia, for the technical education of
the merchant classes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

the sparroV'hawk is swooping
"a its prey IL cleaves space at
+ s. aed Of $50 mics an hour.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
NOTICE
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings. of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on the
second Tuesday every month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring in
their vouchers a few days before Court.
Test: r. E. JAMAR. Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

Thirty-hve years make a generation.
That is how long Adolph Fisher, ofZanes-
vile, O., suffered from piles. He was
cured by using three boxes of DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. E. 7. Reynolds
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06
Queen VictOria's Fire Extinguisher
Whenever Queen Victoria goAs

abroad she always has a couple of fire
extinguishers sent out in advance and
fitted up in the house she is to reside
in.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-05-06

One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what it was made for.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
Persecution In Tex,s.

I. P. Gore is a blind orator, the sill
yer tongued speaker Of Texas His mu-
steal voice has peculiar charms upon
the rostrum as his slightless eyes are
turned toward the upturned faces of {.
listening throngA He is by long odds
the most charming speaker in Texas,
and Texas politicians .endeazored to
Diacken his name and reputation by
charging himwith seduction Mr.. Gore
has at last secured a hearing and is tri-,
umphantly acquitted-the jury not
leaving their seats to render the verdict.
It is horrible to think that men must
pass through such a hell Of persecution
for truths sake. The politicians Of
Texas L'' may now kill Mr. Gore. His voice
while he lives will make life burden to
MS defamers. % Omaha 1Jonconfocmist
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
Senior Don Korker Exasperated.

EkXASDeI8C60s
It is exasperating to watch the beau
tiful~web the money power is weaving
about the nations of the earth It seems
almost impossible to circumvent its
scheme, and we have little hope of ever
living long enough to see it's estab-
lishment destroyed peaceably. Today
we are babblipg about the "getting to.
gether of the English speaking races. )"
When We get together, then what? It
means that the powers that be will be
in absolute control and will be able to
direct the policies of nations despite the
protests of the people. To begin with,
this whole unpleasantness with Spain
grew out Of greed and avarice, not on
our part, though it now begins to crop
out a little. Spain borrowed from the
money power until it could borrow no
more, then a war grew out of it's efforts
to force Cuba to pay more money to the
mother country than it was able to pay
and live itself. Then came scenes of
cruelty and Americas intervention.
While this was going on the money
power unloaded a good share of it's
Spanish investments upon French and
Austrian sympathizers. Even though it
had failed in doing this it would have
been ahead just the same, for the inter-
tst it has collected from Spain during
the past 40 years represents the original
investment with many millions of profit
added. denver Road.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
Fruits Of Ronda

twenty seven years ago the citizens
OF st. Clair county, NO., voted $780,
600 in bonds for railroad, and the
bonds were given to the Tebo and Me-
osha Hallway company, a company
which existed only on paper. They sold
the bonds to eastern capitalists, and the
road was never built. The $3.50, 900 in
bonds has grown to $1,564, 800 by the
accommodating interest. This amount
the courts have tried to collect, and the
people refuse to pay it. Four years ago
the United States judge had the county
judges placed in Jail for contempt be-
cause they refused to pay the bill. The
judges spent Is months in Jail, until
their term Of Office expired. Last month
the same procedure took place, and three
judges Thomas Gill, Thomas hewitt
and Robert Lyons-are in the Kansas
City Jail for contempt. =
Ihls is a rare example of judges
standing by the people. hewitt and
Lyons are candidates for reelection, and
the county should give them rousing
vote. "A compromise is proposed by the
county OF the par value of 1921, 900, but
the corporation demands $24O, 600. The
United States judge can place the whole
county in contempt and take control Of
the affair and pay the bogus railroad
thieves the full amount. IF this we re
done, it might serve as good illustra-
ton OF the rottenness of the courts and
bond system. It is high time the Pop.,-
list party take the initiative in purify
Ing the courts, and here in Nebraska is
one of the best examples Of machine,
court. One year it will make point OF
law constitutional if it will give the
offices to the Republicans, and the next
year it will make it unconstitutional il
it will give the Offices to the Repub-
hcans. In short, it is Republican
court.-Omaha Nonconformist.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
Cooperation Demonstrated.

The citizens of western Texas and
bordering territory are building rail.
road of their own. So far not cent in
cash has been expended for labor. The
farmers are toilihg from early morning
until sunset. laying tracks and making
the roadbed The merchants, who ex-
poet to reap very material benefits from
the road when completed, contribute
their share toward its construction by
donations Of goods. When the road is
finished. the co-operators can snap their
I fingers at the vast railway combination
which has for years oppressed them.
Wall Feet, which at first ridiculed the
project and treated it with general con-
tempt lis now bitterly opposed to It.
The attorney for the Pierpont Morgan
roads will apply for injunctions under
the interstate commeroe law. New
Time ,s52
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
WHO PAYS THE TAXES?
eome Up to- Date Points on an Old and
- Well Worn Subject. <-

Some Up to- Date Points on an Old and
Well Worn Subject. r.
II seems like thrashing over old
straw to discuss this point, but the plu-
tocrasic press is SO persistent in lying
about it and SO brazen in their assump-
tions concerning it that reiteration Of
contradictory evidence becomes ueces-
sity.
A notable case is the Chicago Trib-
une's objections to the purchase of
school supplies with public funds on
the ground that property holders now
pay more than their share of the taxes
for the education of poor children.
The man who pays rent on a house
pays the taxes. If he didn't pay them
and a profit to the landlord also, the
property would be let go as unprofta-
BILE. Vacant towns prove this
Owners of property will quit paying
taxes unless they are getting rent or are
holding it with the expectation of profit
through rent or sale. What a pity that
landlords who claim chat they pay the
taxes cannot have vacant houses as pay
tor their impudent assumption. That
would teach them to quit lying. The
owner of house pays tax on it when
he occupies 1.-THE tenant pays taxes
when he pays rent.
The Times Herald gave publicity to
an equally despicable falsehood. It said
that the people did not pay the soldiers
pensions-that they were paid by the
import tax. Opposed to this is the sim
pie fact that the consumer pays the i'm
port tax and pays all rents and other
expenses and profits added.
My grocer pays the added price for
sugar because & the import duty, and
when l buy it pay him the i'm port tax,
added to his usual profit, becar 9 he had
to pay it to the importer. Otherwise he
or the importer would lose money by
handling sugar. Marshall Field didn t
make his money by paying import
duties and never getting them back.
Ask him. Now that have bought the
sugar and paid the import tax my only
chance to save paying that tax is to sell
the sugar. If eat it, must consume
the import tax along with the other
cost Of the sugar. Each man pays tax
on what he consumes and uses, and no
more. Property which pays profit
must pay the tax first.
Capital used for profit is taxgath-
erer. The consumer is the taxpayer. It
may not be out Of place to observe that
the tax on sugar is direct penalty on
parents for raising children.
The laboring people should not be de-
ceived or cajoled or bullied out of their
right to rule.
What must be thought of wise news
paper men who will presume upon the
Ignorance or modesty of the people and
try to work injustice by wholesale
lying?
Just now there is great deal of talk
about how the Spanish plutocrats lie to
the people and deceive them about mat
ters of public interest. Do The Tribune
and Times-Herald and other plutocratio
papers of their ilk hope to deceive the
people Of America?-Allen Henry Smith
in Chicago Express.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
TeleEr.phs and Telephones In Japan

AOAC61~pAo 10U 4SAepuV008 IN OSP80s
The telegraph system Of Japan, which
is controlled by the government, COM
prises 10, 900 miles Of land lines and 1888
of submarine cables, besides the cable to
Formosa, which is 500 miles in length.
There are /, 1879 telegraph offices in the
Kingdom, and the operators are mostly
young men, except in the country,
where girls are often employed. Theex.
tent Of the telegraph business can be in.
1erred from the fact that the numberSof
messages sent in q year exceeds %, $780,.
600, while the traffic with foreign coun-
tries reaches 100, 900 messages The
telephone business is growing very rap
idly in Japan, but has been handicap
ped BY inability to secure instruments
the demand far exceeding the supply.
The instruments are owned and operated
by the government. The first exchange
was opened in 800. In 1896 there were
$40 milesof lines and 5. asa subscribers.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10


their magni6ed butcher shops; Marshall
Field who now conducts the greatest
dry goods business in the world; the
Arbuckles, with their great coffee bust
ness; the Havemeyers, dominant spirits
of the Sugar trust, began with but slen-
der capital earned by their own exer-
tions Their success and the form in
which they have embodied it make
repetition Of their achievement impossi-
BILE. Enormous capital scarcely suffces
now to do what they did without CAPT.
fal. Not even the village butcher can
live if the Armours say nay, nor the.
grocer trade profitably in sugar or coffee.
except by permission of the trusts.
The man with $500 looking about;
him for chance to invest it in bust
ness enterprise and work with it, in
'creasing it by his own skill and indus
try, finds every avenue closed by mo-
nopoly or held by aggregations of CAPT
tai too great for him to attack. So he
,olings to his clerkship, invests his saw
|ings where they will bring him the
magnificent income Of .$15 a year, and
lis called upon to exult in the great pros
Iperity Of which his investment is the ir-
REPUTABLE evidence. 81. i: (, .ss.za
81 No people in the world have,so eager
i ~ taken up the bonds Of their govern
ment as the French peasantry. But in
France the peasant remains peasant
into the third and fourth eneration,
| herds in cabins scarce fit for swine, goes
| ill clad, illiterate and. unread and re.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-10
We Are Not Free.

q people cursed with money power
{ q sufficient strength to-control th, gov
ernment are not and cannot be free.
There can be no social or poll ica.l lib
erty g long % this republic is contr olled
by greed and avarice. Therefore the
American people will never again. Sc
nee until they are financially indepe nd
National 1ntelhg enoer: & ga,