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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
Long Marches of British Cavalry.

There is much of Of interest to t1efs
generally, but particularly to United
States cavalrymen, IN reports that have
come from South Africa of some of the
long, hard rides made there by the
British. mounted troops. The ac-
counts of some of these rapid forced
marches of cavalry are lacking in de-
tail, but the specific statement is made
that squadron of the Natal Mounted
Rifles recently rode eighty Eve miles
in twelve consecutive hours. The Eng
fish press speaks of rides of sixty miles
by detached cavalry troops which are
complete within the limit of the day
light hours, and these achievements
of the troopers and their mounts are
spoken of as though they were of
frequent occurrence. At first thought
it may not appear that these rides
are particularly remarkable, but the
fact must be taken into consideration
that bodies of troops and not single
individuals are concerned, and where
this is the case the rapidity of the
march must necessarily be gagged by
the rapidity and endurance of the
poorest horse in the outfit. Moreover,
each animal engaged has to carry
weight of man and equipment to an
average amount of $50 pounds. Many
of the horses used by the English
troopers are American bred. and q
natural interest in this country is
added to the rides, for it gives chance
to ''get line" on the endurance of
the American animal under absolutely
strange climate conditions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Our foster nurse OF Nature is re-
pose.-Shakspere.
Peace rules the day where reason
rules the mind.-Collins
Our hours in love have wings; in
absence, crutches. Cooley Cibber.
Wheresoever the search after truth
begins, there life begins. Rus
kin.
Never regret what you can help or
what you can't help. Sir Charles
Trevelyan.
What do we live for, if it is not to
make life less difficult to each other !?
George Eliot.
Be your character what it will, it
will be known; and nobody will take
it upon your word.-Chester6eld.
Character is the stamp on our souls
of the free choice that we have made
through life of good and evil.--Gei-
kie.
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
This is a service of a friend.-Em-
erson.
Whosoever is satisfied with what he
does has reached his eliminating
point; he will progress no more.-F.
W. Robertson.
By flight alone we cannot overcome,
but by patience and true humility we
become stronger than our enemie S.
Thomas Kempis.
There is in man higher than love
of happiness; he can do without hap
piness and instead thereof find bless
edness. Thomas Carlyle.
Our ideals are framed, not according
to the measure of our performances,
but according to the measure of our
thoughts.-A. j. Balfour.
When you find yourselves overpow-
cred, as it were, by melancholy, the
best way is to go out and do some
thing kind to somebody.-John Ke-
BILE.
Though the star should be quenched
in moment forever, it is good that
the star should shine its brightest to
the last. This is the instinct of the
brave and healthy heart that is faith
full to its truest impulses. Phillips
Brooks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
Driving in Russian cities.

In the larger cities of Russia there
is no limit to the speed at which
horse may be driven through the pub
lie streets. The typical harness horse
is the Orloff, a breed founded by
Count Orloff- Chemenski, beinga cross
between the Arabian stallion Sine
tanka and imported mares, principally
English. An average roadster is IL
hands high and weighs 100 pounds,
with heavy name, bushy tail that
reaches nearly to the ground, and
''iron'' limbs that show great muscu
lar development. The favorite color
is gray. Such an animal is driven
through the principal streets of st.
Petersburg at furious pace, that
portion near the centre and beside
the surface car tracks being reserved
for fast driving. During the winter
months teams of two and three abreast
are driven to sleighs at three minute
gait. There is racing all winter, the
courses being flooded at night to pro-
vide three inches of solid ice. Amer
lean pneumatic sulkies, harness,
boots, eating appliances, etc., are IN
general use.-New York Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
peformea With sneea.

There is a deal of humor slowed
away in the carcass of some of the
men who make horse trading and
horse dealing their business. One of
these characters was at the recent
Madison Square Garden sale, and was
descanting yolubly on the merits of
one OF the horses he had consigned
for sale. OF course the trotter had
record" and this horse dealer made
it fast one, some ten seconds faster
than the records would show, as a
matter of fact. There was a susp1-
cious looking lump on one leg of this
marvellous trotter, lump too plain to
be passed over unnoticed.
Hurt received on the cars on the
way here, I suppose" laconically re-
marked the party upon whom the
dealer was trying to impress the ad-
vantage of buying the animal.
"No; won't deceive you," replied
the honest horse dealer. ST never
knew man to make nothin' by de-
ceivin'. I'll tell you the truth. That
lump don't hurt the boss bit. It's
been there since she was foaled, and
it's funny lump, for when she's out
of training it sort O. disappears like,
and when she's right at her best it
shows up ag'in. It's sort of speed
Indicator, you see. I tell you, pard-
ner, you don't often see horse de-
formed with speed, but there's one
that is. New York Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
The Four Ugliest Beasts,

There are four beasts in the world
that can give long odds in the way OF
ngliness to anything else that lives.
One of them is a monkey, a grue-
some-looking animal called the bearded
sakl. This is so utterly grotesque a
beast that it would scarcely be safe to
let child or nervous person see it.
The ugliness is not of an amusing
kind, but of an evil, sinister nature.
The beast has sort of beard and
countenance unlike anything else in
shape and lines. The monkey itself
is not particularly savage, but is SO
hideous that the natives of its coun-
try, South America, say that no beast
of prey, however hungry, will tackle
it, Even hungry jaguar will starve
in a cageful of sakis.
Then there is climbing beast
that is asssqueer inondescript as one
could hope to see. 1t has sharp face
and long, jointed fingers, and is called
the ayeaye, from its cry. This looks
like one of the most appallingly-weird
of all those strange beasts one sees in
Nightmares and cannot get away from;
but, like the sakis, it is of a gentle
disposition. It lives in South Africa.
A full-grown aye.aye looks like a blend
of jackal, pig and monkey.
j Then there is the Tasmanian devil
of the antipodes, which is as savage as
it is ugly, and lastly, species of Asia
tic ground rat..called the bund. Pear
sons Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
searchIight at Fires.

The New York Fire Department
will soon have as part of its equip.
ment q complete electric searchlighi
plant on wheels, which will attend
fires with the other apparatus, and, it
is expected, will perform an important
part in saving life and property. The
searchlight will be used to illuminate
dark parts of the street and aid fire.
men in laying hose, erecting ladders
and also to light up the fronts OF
buildings where people may be in
danger, and to throw light into the
buildings themselves to aid the fire.
men in their work. The apparatus
will resemble fire engine in appear.
ance, and will consist of boiler, a
direct-coupled engine and dynamo
and two searchlights, each with ar
eighteen-inch projecting lens. The
lights can be used either from the
machine itself or carried to any
convenient point, connection being
maintained by means of flexible ca
es.-Electrical Review.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
sHAFTER's CUBAN PULLET.
The Pathetic Story of the Generals Ac.
quirement of Feathed Mascot.

QuiIDmcnt of Feafhed Mascot
In General Skaters quarters at
San Francisco is fine, glossy, "black
Spanish" pullet, which, if it had the
power of speech, could tell thrilling
and pathetic story. Early in July,
1898, when the American army in
Cuba was supplying food to the starv-
ing reconcentrados in Ell Caney, a
terrific storm wrought such havoc to
the roads that it became impossible
to convey further supplies to the
town. General Shafter therefore
issued an order that all who were
able might walk to his camp, six miles
away, and draw rations.
sadest professions that ever, followed
in the wake of war. Ragged, hungry,
weak, emaclated, line of spectres
daily wound its awful length through
swamp and mud and jungle toward
the food.
Lieutenant Brooke and an intepre-
ter were returning to camp from Ell
Caney one day when they saw little
band of the reconcentrados ahead of
them. Behind the men and women
Jagged six-year old boy. He was
evidently sick and weary unto death.
but still he tottered persistently on.
At length, his last ounce of strength
gone, he fell, and lay there in the
mud. unable to rise. His father and
mother glanced back at him stolidly,
and went on. Their own strength
would be hardly sufficient to carry
them to camp, and suffering had
dulled their sensibilities. If he could
not keep up he must die where he
fell.
Lieutenant Brooke dropped from
his horse, picked the little fellow up,
and galloped into camp with him.
There he fed him till he could eat no
more, wrapped him in warm blankets
and left him to the long, dreamless
sleep of exhausted childhood. An old
Cuban woman washed his little cotton
shirt and trousers, and after few
days rest he was sent back to Ell
Caney with a generous supply Of pro-
visions.
Two days later the little fellow,
still weak and pale, again appeared in
camp. Going straight to Lieutenant
Brooke, he took small chicken from
inside his little shirt, and with tears
in his eyes presented it. It was the
only thing he could give him, he, said,
to show his appreciation of the senor's
kindness. He had walked all the
way from E. Caney through the deep
mud, and after he had made his hum
BILE present he walked back.
Lieutenant Brooke took the chicken
tc General Shafter and told its story.
The General tethered it to his tent
pole. When he entered Santiago he
took the bird with him. There her
nightly roost was a gilded chandelier
in the Governors palace. When the
army moved out to camp again the
chicken went too. Later she jour
neyed to Montauk Point thence to
Governors Island, and now she struts
and scratches and cackles contentedly
in San Francisco, living reminder
of deed of mercy, pathetic ac-
acknowledgement of the gratitude with
which at least one little reconcentrado
will always recall las Americanos.-
Youths Companion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
Amateur Bird Char,ners.

One of the prettiest Partisan sights
is that of the bird charmers in the
Tuileries and Luxembourg Gardens.
Every fine afternoon may be seen adj
miring little crowds watching the bird
charmer and his feats, pigeons quietly
pecking crumbs from the crown of his
hat, sparrows flying up to his fingers,
snatching a bit and returning for
second or third. These caterers for
public amusement are amateurs. The
graceful little exhibition is gratuitous,
rewarded only by the confidence OF
feathered friends and the admiration
of the public. 1t is pleasant to see
how easily and amiably French peo-
pie are amused-business men, shop
keepers assistants, soldiers, elegantly
dressed ladies and gentlemen, all
stopping to watch the sight. AS we
know, bull fights have not succeeded
in Paris. The fiery populace of the
capital prefer the bird charmer.
Westminster Gazette.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
Great Authors Pretty co,nplim emit

Speaking of compliments, I once
heard Oliver Wendell Holmes pay a
fair lady pretty one. This fair lady,
accompanied by her pretty daughter,
were members of small party who
called to pay their respects to the
Autocrat. He was upward of eighty
years old at the time, but was as
rigorous and sparkling as he ever had
seen. The pretty lady and her pretty
daughter evidently made a favorable
impression upon him, for he presented
20 each of them his photograph. They
profusely thanked him for the gift and
begged him to place his autograph
under the pictures. He took them,
and as he started to write his name
looked merrily from one fair lady to
the other, and then archly inquired
(which is the mother and which the
daughter?"-New. York Mail and Ex-
uress. 2----------=
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
oldest of Towns.

The oldest township in the country
IS located right here in this county,
in one of therich est sections of Michi-
gan, says Kalamazoo correspondent
Of the Cleveland Press. 1t is called
Charleston, and is populous as well
as wealthy.
Despite the fact that the residents
are generally we'll educated and of a
law abiding disposition there is not a
church editice in the township, nor a
religious organization of any kind.
The inhabitants exchange their farm
products for merchandise, as do other
people. but there is not grocery, dry
goods, drug, hardware or any other
sort of mercantile establishment within
it's confines.
The people never voted the saloon
out of the township, and yet there is
none. Neither can the township boast
of bank, postofice, newspaper or
clergyman.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
QUEER INDIANA FARMS.
land DEVOTED to Providing Rabbits, Cats
and other Animals for Market.

and Other Animals for Market.
At New Harmony, Posey County,
Ind, Herman Eular has fitted up
buildings on ten acres of his land for
the raising of Angora cats. Mr.. Eular
raised 5000 cats last year and found
ready market for them in the East at
$25 apiece. This season the product
will be even larger than last.
One mile from New Harmony is
leech farm. The owner is German,
who emigrated from that section of
the Fatherland where men make
livelihood by raising leeches, which
are very necessary to the medical pro-
fession. He found himself in possess
sion of some swampy land in Indiana
on which he could not raise any crop.
He at once sent to Germany for leeches
and prepared his swampy land for
their reception. He planted them in
moss covered watts and they fourished
and increased in numbers from the
very start. He finds ready sale for
them among the large wholesale drug
firms of Chicago, Detroit, New York,
Philadelphia, st. Louis, New Orleans
and San Francisco. He is meeting
with such success that he is now in
creasing his plant.
Near Wabash, Ind, Nathan Meyer
has sixty acres of land devoted to rab-
bits. The farm is unique one. Mr..
Meyer has this season supplied the
market with ], 000.0 900 rabbits and has
about one hundred and sixty thousand
left for his trade, besides enough bum
MES on hand for breeding purposes to
nearly double the production in 1900.
The meat is delicious and the demand
for it is constantly on the increase.
The pelts or skins find ready sale
among furriers and glove makers,
while the hair is extensively used in
the manufacture of 'crush" hats.
Many of the rabbits become house,
hold pets. The largest consignments
Of rabbits go to big wholesale dealers
in New York and Baltimore.
There are no less than one dozen
skunk farms in Indiana, and all bring
ing in big profits. The animals are
raised for their pelts, that find a
ready market at 81. so to 50 each, and
for the fat, which is s'tried out" and
used for medicinal purposes.
There are also Indiana farms where
rattlesnakes, frogs and weazels are
raised in large numbers.
In st. Joseph County Mark Beeger
has peppermint farm, and there are
many others on the Indiana Michigan
State line presided over by industri-
Gus Poles. All the farms are sue
cessful.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
OUR MAcAsEsE SCOUTS.
Success of the Bstson Plan of Employ
ing Natives in the Philippines.

Success of the Batson Plan of Employ
ing Natives in the Philippines.
Word comes from the Philippines
that the two companies of Macabebe
scouts under Captain Batson are do
ing SO well that it has been decided to
organize full battalion of these ma
tives. The additional two companies
will be very useful in the present
campaign, in tracking the fleeing REM
nants of Aguinaldo's disorganized
army.
When Captain Batson, of the Fourth
Cavalry, organized his regiment of
.'Macabebe scouts" there was much
speculation among army officers as to
whether the venture would prove a
success or whether the Macabebes
would prove, like the American Indian
scouts, unreliable. Many were of the
opinion that the Macabebes would
prove disloyal and that they would
either sell or confiscate their arms
and equipments. As race the Ma
cabebes are enemies to the Tagalogs;
still there are many Macabebes who
have married into Tagalog families
and who, through domestic and COM
mercial association, have forgotten
the race feud and become strong
friends OF the Tagalogs. 1t was feared,
therefore, that some of these men
would join the scouts to secure guns
and ammunition and then desert and
join the insurgents. Many Macabebes
volunteered their services to the
United States long before the present
regiment was organized, and, while it
has been experimental, until recently
the Macabebes have been found both
loyal and brave.
The organization is now recruited
up to 200. There are four companies
of fifty men each. Their uniform
consists of blue linen shirt, khaki
trousers, a straw hat with wide,
blue band and eagle ornament
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
A Quaker CITY Cat story.


The family group were speaking of
cats and their ways, and the peaceful
looking grandmother was asked to say
something.
The old lady smiled, for she is not
often sighted when in the company of
younger people, and consented to tell
story about a kitten she had when
she was child.
4, "You know" she said, ST had a
stepfather, and he liked to see me
working about the house instead of
playing with kitten, so he ordered
me to throw it in the brook which ran
through our meadow.
81 was forced to do it, though I
cried great deal. I threw it in three
times, but the little thing struggled
out each time and finally dragged it
self home after me. Then I pleaded
so much that I was allowed to keep
it.
''From that time on it was kind of
wild, not staying in the house, but
skulking around the barn. When it
was full grown it began to kill our
chickens, so my stepfather said it had
to go. This time he caught it and
tied stone around it and drowned it.
After an hour or two he drew it from
the water and buried it.
''Now comes the part that is stranger
than fiction. Two days after the same
old yellow cat dragged itself up to the
barn. We visited the place we had
buried it and found it had come to
life and rid itself of the stone, in what
way know not, and dug itself out.
1T stayed by the edge edge of eHF-
woods, getting the milk I set out
every now and then, but disapp cared
when winter came. "-Philadelphia
Call.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22

mounted on a dark blue shield OF
felt. They are armed with the Krag-
Jorgensen carbine and wear the regu
lation web belt across the left shoulder
instead of around the waist They
do not wear shoes, preferring then
bare feet, as has always been their
custom. They are very proud OF
their equipment and take great care
of their carbines, which are never Out
of their sight. They show deep re-
spect for their American officers %
respect which closely borders on love
and in return they are treated with
the utmost kindness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
Nla plsh wlth a CORY Hlstory.

Harry o. Hines is the possessor of
a rare piece of pottery, which he OBJ
tanned in Kansas City. The relic is
an Aztec heart dish, probably zoe
years old. 1t was found by a work
man digging sewer trench in the
City of Mexico. The dish, tradition
says, was used by the Aztecs as a re-
ceptacle for the heart of the victim In
the human sacrifice ceremony.-Phil
adelphia Ledger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
kafir Football Team.

The Orange Free State is opposing
England in more fields than one, for
hailing from this State there is now
in England a Kafir football team
which has won for itself golden opin-
ions from lovers of the sport in Eng
land. The team has been invited to
visit Germany and Austria when its
British tour is completed. 1t is most
ly composed of natives of the Basuto
tribe, though two are Hottentots. A
game between this team and our Car
Isle Indians would be drawing card
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
viii Run Into savannah.

1t is announced that, commencing Decem.
Der 10, 1899, the Southern Railway Company
will operate through train service over it,
own line via Columbia, Perry Blackville and
Allendale, S. c.. to and from Savannah, Ga
Commencing that date its through car
service will be operated in connection with
and the Florida East Coast Railway to and
from points on the east coast of Florida, with
direct connections to and from Key West,
Fla; Havana. Cuba, and Nassau. n. p, via
Miami, Fla. in connection with the Florida
East Coast Steamship Line; and in connec-
ton with Plant System south of Savannah
to and from other points in Florida, includ-
ing points on west coast with direct connec-
tons to and from Key West and Havana, via
Tampa, Fla, in connection with Plant Steam
ship Washington Post, Nov. TO- 1899.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by +. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to a teaspoonsui, 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address FL. CHENEY6 Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
AN unfortunate Error.

The prisoner is accused of killing a
deer in the closed season. 1t has
been proved that he killed the deer.
Now he takes the stand in his own
defence.
ST mistook the deer for man." he
protests.
Some think he is swearing falsely
in order to avoid punishment; but it
is impossible to controvert his testi-
mony. Detroit journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22

adaptation of the well-known turn
screw of the early Spaniard, the victim
being tied down in strong seat and
his neck surrounded by stout iron
collar. He is then slowly strangled
to death by the executioner, who, by
means of screw at the back of the
crude mechanism, slowly tightens the
collar on the throat of the unfortu-
nate criminal to whom barbaric justice
is being dealt out.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22
Save the NickeIs.

From saving, comes having. Ask your
grocer how you can save 15c by investing
Sc. He can tell you just how you can ge,
one large 10c package of "Red Cross
starch, one large 1Oc package of 'sHubin
gers Best starch, with the premiums, two
beautiful Shakespeare panels, printed in
twelve beautiful colors, or one Twentieth
Century Girl Calendar, all for Sc. Ask your
grocer for this starch and obtain these
beautiful Christmas presents free.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-12-22

CATER all, remarked the philoso-
pher, ''the armless wonder is better
off than some of us. he grasps, de-
spite his affection, every opportunity
that comes to him, because nothing
ever slips through his fingers. Hay
6er's Bazaar,