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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
Table Mats.

Every housekeeper appreciates a set
Of serviceable table mats for every day
use, centerpieces for company use, or
# she has palmer ones she makes use
Of every day. Those crocheted out of
No. 8 tidy cotton, or white macreme
wine are durable, especially if cro-
cheted in solid stitch. They can be
boiled and bleached, and for a hot dish
Or one just taken from the oven and
set upon the table-like the dish in
which chicken pie, scalloped oysters or
potatoes, ETC., are served-are a neces-
sary protection both to the tableclotb
md the varnish of the table itself,
even though canton flannel pad is
Used.
The girls are making fWashington
table mats" in this revival of the colo
NAL furnishings-a species of eight
zenith century fancy work. The mats
are made of thick white cord, like
corset lacings, which may be used in
default of any other. The cord is
sewed into circles or disks, little
larger than a half dollar, or even the
size of a silver dollar. These disks
are then sewed together, one being
used for a center and the others sewed
round it, making a circular mat. Use
strong thread and fasten the ends of
the cord securely, and these Washing
ton" mats will last almost forever
They are articles that should sell well
at fancy fairs If properly advertised as
Colonial"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
Race for Life in Il Tunnel.

The story of an unhappy bridegroom,
whose hair grew white in a single
morning, ard that the morning of his
marriage, is reported from Zigrad in
Hungary.
Mitru Popa, born in Teregova, son
of a small farmer, ard affi5nced to a
daughter of a prosperous citizen of Ii
grad, recently started for Zigrad, there
to wed and bring home his bride. The
place can he reached in two hours by
the mountain road. There was, how
ever, short cut; it led through the
railway tunnel with single line Of
rail. Popa laid ear to the ground and
listened. AS there was not the slight
est vibration, he took courage and
ventured into the dark passage. Here,
the report goes on, he had been stumb-
ling along as best he could, when,
after ten minutes passed in the total
darkness, and being, as he judged,
near the center of the tunnel, he heard
the distant rumbling of an approach
ing train.
The noise grew louder behind him
and Popa ran; louder still, and Popa
raced 1t was a via dclorosa, with
the small point of daylight far off
amid the darkness, and if he could win
it then it meant life. safety and bride,
but the thunder of the train grew
ever nearer. Fortunately the gradient
was a steep one, and the express was
called express by courtesy only, and
the race between the man and death
terminated at the tunnels outlet, the
man winning by about his own
length.
The mercifully sluggish "schnell-
zug" passed into the daylight as the
bridegroom fell PROSTATE on the bank.
When he had started he had dark
brown hair; when he arrived at the
brides house it was as white as the
brides veil. The lady, however, ac-
cepted him ON the somewhat dubious
grounds that the hair would come all
light in time, and that the injury was
.Oyered by insurance"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

India is the only country that makes
deaths by the attacks of serpents and
wild beasts a feature of its annual sta
tistics. That it has good reason for
doing so is shown by the impressive
figures of last years mortality, 1873
deaths from snake bites and POI peo-
pie killed by tigers and other wild ami
mails. Although India is one of the
most densely populated countries on
the globe, the increase of human in
habitants does not have the effect of
decreasing the number of wild beasts,
as it does elsewhere, because the re-
ligion of the native5-or a great pro-
portion of them-forb.ds them to take
the life, even of dangerous beasts and
serpents; hence they let these destroy
ers thrive and multiply in the midst
Of their communities. One of the
best works of the British in India is
their reduction of the number of wild
beasts, and especially tigers, as a re-
suit of their passion for hunting big
game.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
ORNAMENTED TABLE TOP.


with white chalk, following the design
with hard point. You could draw
just a portion on thick tracing paper.
and then prick the design with a thick
needle, and so make "pounce" of it.
By rubbing over the design with some
powdered chalk tied up in muslin you
will get an impression on the wood, as
the chalk will pass through the
pricked holes.
Your design would consist of lines,
which you will fasten with the nails,
putting each nail point on the line
and driving the nail straight home
with a we'll directed tap. Your diff
Guilty at first will be to get the nails
to fasten on evenly and to judge the
distance each point should be from the
last nail, though this could be over
come by measuring. A good deal of
the effect would be obtained by using
different sized nails. The center part
of line, for instance, in a leaf might
be of fiVe-eighth inch nails, then three
eighth inch, ending with quarter inch.
Then different patterns would be COM
bined, for there are a great many diff
ferent shapes and sizes in these nails,
varying from small, round headed
nails, at three cents per dozen, to
larger and more ornamental ones at
nine cents.
1t would be worth while buying a
sample set and keeping it by you, so
hat you can design to suit the differ
emit nails. This sort of decoration is
most permanent, as nothing short of
pulling the nails out will destroy it,
rhe design for a tea table top is SO
simple that a child might try it with
success.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
English Housewives and Bread.

1t is one of the strange inconsistent
cies which we are always running
across everywhere that in London
people do not bake their own bread.
English housekeepers have the reputa-
ton OF being much more thorough
than their American sisters, they
have the reputation of being more at
home and looking more after their
homes, yet in the houses of rich and
poor alike the bread comes from the
baker. Every housewife who has
given this subject Of bread buying
consideration, and has done a little
mental arithmetic, knows that bought
bread is much more expensive than
home made. And the bakehouses in
England have the reputation, as have
those in this country, of being not all
of them, in spite of inspection, less
careful as to sanitary conditions than
they might be.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
CAN BE CUT LIKE CHEESE
This is the Nature of the Building Stone
Used in Bermuda.


Used in Bermuda
Nature has made it easy to build
houses in Bermuda. The entire group
of islands is made up of coral rock
SO that every man can have a quarry
in his back yard if he cares to dig
deep enough. This stone when first
cut is soft and white, so that it "cuts
like cheese" like the wood of the
famous 'one-hoss shay" and can be
got out in square blocks with an ordi-
nary handsaw. On exposure to the
air, however, it soon becomes dark and
hard enough to break the teeth out OF
the saw that cuts it so easily from it's
bed.
AS there is no lumber in Bermuda
except that which is brought from
Canada at considerable expense, stone
is used for nearly the entire house
The walls are laid of blocks about
eight inches by six, and two feet in
length. Window stills and door jambs
are also sawed out of stone in the prop
er shape, and even the roof is covered
with stone shingles, which are made
by simply setting block of soft, fresh
stone on edge and saving it into thin
slabs. Both roof and walls have to be
kept whitewashed, or the stone would
crumble away, hard as it finally be-
comes; but with this precaution it
lasts a lorg time. There is an old
coral-stone house on Harrington
Sound which is considerably over two
hundred years old.
Coral islands are formed by the
coral polyps, or insects, which build
up reefs to about the level of the sea
and then die. On the rough surface
of these reefs seaweed clings. The
wind and the waves work together to
grind up their substance and pile it
in heaps of sand, which finally solidi-
fies into the rock which can be cut so
easily.
The freshly broken stone makes ad-
mirable road material. Even the rub
Der tire of bicycle will crush piece
of it fiat, and the rain soon solidifies
it in that shape, so that the whole
roadbed, new stone ard old together,
becomes like a smc 9th track cut in
solid rock.-Philade!phi Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

Ten years ago, when recovering from
an illness, some friend sent her copy
Of Ten Thousand Miles Up the Nile"
This she read with avidity, and while
still confined to her bed she taught
herself hieroglyphics and Egyptian
mythology, after which she read
Egyptian history, literature, fiction.
poetry, essays and Egyptian common
places-in short, everything that has
any bearing whatever on the subject.
The Jersey City library, proud of her
researches, has sent abroad and pro-
cured works for her special use. 1.-THE
Egyptian Ritual of Life and Death"
which is known as "The Book of the
Dead" Mrs. Rowbottom found it al
most impossible to get at the Aston H.
brary in New York, where, because
the book is so rare, an attendant was
detailed to watch at her elbow while
she read it. In Brooklyn the library
authorities charged her for it's persual.
So the Jersey City library sent abroad
for copy of this original literary
treasure.
Mrs. Rowbottom is now translating
a papyrus which is the story of Queen
Hatasu's voyage to the land of Punt.
Queen Hatasu introduced sailing YES
sells, and was altogether progressive.
She was the new woman" of her
time. ENJOYS came to her from all
over the world, and the queen, clever
woman that she was, always went out
to meet such personages dressed in the
national costume of her visitor More
over, she invariably assumed at such
times the peculiar dialect of her guest,
combination of dress and language
which never failed to make her pop
ular.
Queen Hatasu reigned fifty years,
Mrs. Rowbottom says, and she it was,
undoubtedly, who originated the Suez
canal, because when De Lesseps made
his excavations he found her cartouche
on the stones. She sent an expedition
to the land of Punt for myrrh, in ad-
dition to which her ships brought back
pigmies and green monkeys. This
queen was even more advanced than
Elizabeth of England, for her reign
was all for peace and progress in the
arts, particularly in architecture. She
was Pharaoh, and as such her rank
obliged her TO learn architecture.
In this good queens old age her
adopted son, who was her nephew,
found some way Of getting rid of her,
whether by assassination or seclusion,
no one knows.
Women" says Mrs. Rowbottom,
were highly enlightened and very
scholarly in Queen Hatasus day. They
were, too, supreme in their own house
holds. If they desired their husbands
not to enter all they had to do was to
put their little shoes outside the door.
When on the throne Queen Hatasu al
ways wore a sort of bloomers, the
dress of the male Pharaohs, which
was in reality an accordion-plaited
divided skirt, worn under short toga.
This was when Egypt was in It's prime.
The women were finely educated, the
children were never irreverent.
Men settled ten times as much
money on their mothers as upon any
other member of their families, and
the following words are from the court
poet Ptaphotep: Remember thy
mother. Did she not suffer for thee?
And shouldst thou not gladly care for
her now?'"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
NOTED ORIENTALIST.
MRS. ROWBOTToM is THE GREATEST
EGYPTOLOGlST IN AMERICA. >

While Confined to Her Invalid's Bed She
Became Interested in the Researches of
Amelia Edwards-Began a sympathetic
Study and Now Finds Herself Famous.
Mrs. Eunice L. w. Rowbottom Of
Jersey City, is the probable Amelia B..
Edwards, or American Psychologist OF
the future. She has studied diligently
for ten years, has lectured successfully
in different cities and will devote her
time in future to the platform and to
translating papyri and exhaustive
travel and exploration in Egypt.
Mrs. Rowbottom is young and at
tractive woman, devoted mother and
an accomplished housewife. Her
father was a professor of Greek, and
through his influence and association
she became, early in life, an oriental
scholar.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
No Room for Doubt.

Proof, yes overwhelming proof can
be furnished Of the excellent curative
qualities Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Il caught cold which led to a cough
and pain in the chest. (pneumonia?) 1
bought DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
after taking one bottle of it, the cough
began to disappear; when 1 finished
taking the second bottle l was cured,
Gustav Thurmaster, 40 Hickory St.,
Cleveland,O." DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
costs but 25 cents. Take only Bulls.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

An epidemic of inebriety broke out
and prevailed for more than a week
among Hoboken school children. Booty
babes, boisterous boys and madcap
maids teTrorized the town, amazing
parents, dismaying teachers and defy
ing the police. Reformation ensued
suddenly when a constable discovered
and confiscated the cause in a confec-
toners shop. The booze was brandy
in candy. The confectioner was for
hidden to sell liquors to minors any
more and the constable carried away
and consumed the forbidden fruit of
the sugary art; and the constable
walked with a wobble for three days.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

New Jersey is attaining a distinction
that will make her unique. She is
developing rather more than a ten
dency to eminence in Juvenile deprav-
ity. Two boys made a practice OF
stealing rabbits and other small ami
mails for torture. Two boys fought in
a prize ring and one killed the other.
One boy fatally shot a playmate. One
boy fatally shot his sister. One boy
fatally shot his mother. One boy was
found on the street dead drunk Four
boys burglariZed school houses
Two boys burglariZed business house.
Two boys asked a young woman to let
them ride on a blackboard with her
and stole her pocket book while she
sat ON it. All these within month.
Of course it is a mere accident that
there should appear such an epidemic
of crime and misdemeanor among boys
in single state. New York and 9TH
er states have been shocked during the
same period by bad boys of their own.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

A recent report of the inspector OF
asylums for irebriates in England
goes very deeply into an examination
of the causes of drunkenness and de-
claTe5 that the disease is on the in
crease in that country. This is trS,,
the report states, among all classes,
from the very poorest to the wealthy
and aristocratic. OF 447 male inmates
of one asylum AIT were we'll educated,
of whom 101 were university men. So
cial drinking was credited with respon-
sibility for 228 of the cases. Heredity
is considered to be the cause of about
so per cent. of the habitual inebri-
alton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
Wonders Never Cease.

No one need suffer the tortures of
rheumatism, because that modern lini-
ment, Salvation Oil, positively cures it.
~ was a great sufferer from sciatic
rheumatism, and the best of doctors
attended me without relief. l COM
menced using Salvation Oil, and two
bottles helped me wonderfully. 1t
certainly has worked wonders with me.
Mrs. E. J. Phelps, Box %, Enfield,
Conn.," Salvation Oil is for sale by all
dealers for 25 cts. Take no substitute.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
WHY Girls Dislike Homework.

Everywhere the wages of women
engaged in Homework are relative
larger than the salaries earned by
women in branches of business inr
volving no more skill or capacity tn
is required of the domestic assistant,
says Harper's Bazaar. Less of caste
and lack of personal freedom, says the
Bazaar, account for the dislike native
Americans feel toward homework.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

In their search for novelty, French
society people have hit upon Dawn
parties as an amusing form of enter
tainment. Invitations from a country
house at Amboise read THE Baronne
de c. requests the pleasure of your
company to drink cup of coffee and
hear the song of the lark on Saturday
at o'clock in the morning. N. b.
Dancing in the dew"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
The Proper Condiments.

Lamb requires mint sauce; roast
beef is nice with Yorkshire pudding
and shredded horseradish; a goose
needs sausages and apple sauce;
pheasants are tasty with slices of ba-
con; roast mutton is served with red
current jelly; boiled mutton with ca
per sauce; tillet of veal can be gar
nished with thin slices of lemon, balls
of stuffing, or halves of fried pork
sausages.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
ABOUT THE HOUSE
EFFECTS WITH BRASS TACKS.
Decorative Work to be Obtained with
Little Expense.

The use of the brass head tack for
the ornamentation of boxes, stools, ia
bles, screens and chairs is one of the
new "fads" of the handy woman
around the house" Some very pretty
and effective results may be thus OBJ
tanned. In making a design to be car
ried out in brass headed nails, it is
obvious that simple patterns are alone
appropriate, and those having curved
lines are the most to be commended.
You had better draw out your patterns
on thin paper, and then transfer them
to the wood by rubbing over the back
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
Are You Weak1

Weakness manifests itself in tie loss of
ambition and aching bones. The blood is
watery; the tissues are wasting-thc door is
Icing opened for disease. A bottle of Browns
I"on Bitters taken in time will restore your
strength, soothe your nerves, make your
blood rich and red. Do you more good
thon an expensive special course ofmedicine.
Browns Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
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 and vigor, take No-TO- BAG,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
Over G0,CC0 cured. Buy No-To-Bac of your
l.tdggist, under guarantee to cure, 50c or
SlC0. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
Teaching housekeeping.

Lassell Seminary, at Auburndale.
Mass, is about to give practical appli-
cation to its side work in household
science by setting apart a house en-
tirely for the practice of its older pu-
pills in different phases of home-mak-
ing and keeping,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

Caecarcts Candy Catlartic. the most wo'
derful medical discovery of the age. pea
i and refreshing 10 the tasle, act GENT
and pos lively on kidneys. liver and bowel
tl' ansin" the entire system. dispCl cold
cure headaciC, fever. lal final Cohstiuatio
aud hi ionsnc~s. Please bny and try n bo
Of &. &. G. to-day; 10, ~ 20 Gems. Sold an
eranteed to cure by all druggists
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

The organ of sight is more highly
developed in birds than in any other
animal. Naturalists declare that the
kestral is possessed of such wonderful
powers of sight that it is able to see
mouse when it is itself at such a
height in the air that it is invisible
to the naked human eye.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
SPOONS and Wet Foods.

The mandate to 'eat all wet foods
with spoon" receives encouragement
in the number and variety of patterns
that have appeared in this piece OF
fiat ware.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
French Rabbit Industry.

England has three guinea pig farms,
one of which exports 100000 yearly to
France, where they are used at restau-
rants as rabbits, the flavor of the flesh
being identical in the two animals.
The industry is said to be very profit
able
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
A Linen That stifans.

A silk lining is now made which
serves as lining and a stiffening at
the same time, so that it can be used
without any other lining.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
The Fichu Passea.

And now the flchu is supplanted by
the long net scarf that is worn twisted
twice around the throat and ending in
a large bow and flowing ends.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

Mrs. NJ B. Ford, Ruddell's, ILL.,. suf-
fered for eight years from dyspepsia md
chronic constipation and was finally
cured by using DeWitt's Little Early Ris-
ers, the famous little pills for all stomach
and liver troubles Eli T. Reynolds
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

From siO,OOe,OOO to Sic, 900, 900 worth
of burlap is used in this country every
year. 1t comes from Dundee and CAL
cutta, but it will soon be profitably
produced here.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

The most extensive cemetery in the
world is that at Rome, in which over
10000 human beings have been in
tered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14
onesn YIctoria.s Cane.

The black ebony walking stick most
often used by Queen Victoria belonged
to Charles I.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-01-14

In 1880 the approximate wealth Of
the country was $43, 642 900, 900.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-01
BARE. MERCURY ARRIVES.
Extremely Had Weather Encountered
ON the Down Trip.

Tug Resolute arrived early yesterday
morning from Alaskan ports. having in
tow the bark Mercury, which vessel she
toweG north a month previous loaded
with merchandise lumber and live stock,
under charter by f. +. Calne. After
leaving the Sound the trip north was
characterized hv heavy snow storms ana
head winds. which became more frequent
as tho tug advanced toward her destin-
alton. While bgffetlng the elements the
towline parted several times bat this
caused little delay. and the ResoIute ar
rived a, Skagway on February without
scTious mishsp.
While the Mercury was discharging her
cargo az Skagway repairs were made on
the Resoiutes machinery and later she
towed the bark to Dyea where the remain
der Of her cargo was discharged. Tho
tug with her tow sailed from Dyea Feb
ruary r. on the down trip the Resolute
encountered extremely bad weather. but
10 accidents were reported. --e viii
leave again for the north in a few days.
towing the bark Columbia. laden with
lumber and general merchandise.