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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-02
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ly paid over in all cases, as soon as col
lected.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-02

Customer-How long will it take to
put small patch on this shoe?
Cobbler-About ten minutes, /
guess.
Customer-Then I'll smoke a cigar
while am waiting.
Cobbler (after the first Whit of the
cigar)-I will have it done in about
two minutes, sir-Chicago Tribune.
Forgotten Her Calling.-"Yes, the
doctor ordered him sent to the hospital.
He wasn't getting the right kind of
care at home" Lets see. Whom did
he marry?" His wife was trained
nurse."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-02
They are all by authors of
high reputation and our read-
srs will enjoy the treat.

The stories will be published
from time to time, begin.
ming soon.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-03-02
All in a
Garden Fair
BY Francis Livingston

A delightful short story in
which a peculiar mistake
changes the currents of two
interesting young lives. This
is one of a series of nine
short stories the publication
rights of which we have
purchased.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

park and stood watching the young
men rivaling each other at lifting
machine. They were doing a great deal
of loud talking and laughing, but not
much lifting. One of their number,
however, made fairly good record
which the others could not equal. He
was declared champion. A small crowd
attracted by the noise had collected and
the alleged champion addressed them
challenging any Of their number to step
forward If they thought they had
chance.
George Collins, remembering the days
of his youth, accepted the challenge
and stepped forward into the circle.
Naturally there were shouts of derision
at the gray hairs and the bent form,
but the two men went to work with q
will. At first the old man made lift
or what he thought was one-and the
machine registered 600 pounds. The
youth tried his hand and had difficulty
in reaching 700 pounds. Collins tried
again and made it 800 pounds, which
the young man increased to $50 pounds.
BY that time all was excitement. The
third and last trial was at hand. The
old man gave frightful tug, every
muscle and vein in his neck stood out,
and all the force of his back went into
the work. So the machine when read
registered 1,070 pounds. The alleged
strong youth looked at it with sickly
smile. He tried to better It, but failed
diSmally The old man wns daplor rcd
the champion of the park.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04
SOME or REWARDS TRICKS.
He Sometimes Outwits the Hounds
When Pursued by Them.

He Sometimes Outwits the Hounds
When Pursued by Them.
Not long ago the Washington hunt
Of Valley Forge started young fox
in the North valley hills, and the
hounds were running 1t across the open
fields when the hunters were surprised
to see much larger fox come from
the woods and run diagonally across
the track of the young fox ahead OF
the hounds, and when they struck the
stronger track of the bigger fox they
took it up, young Raynard thereby be-
ing saved from being run down and
killed by the hounds.
Old hunters say they have frequently
witnessed this trick when young foxes
were being closely pressed and in dan
ger of being run down and killed by
the hounds. Another and an even
sharper trick was played by an old fox
some weeks ago while being hotly
chased by hounds. The fox had run
some twenty miles, and while crossing
an open stretch of country was in dam
ger Of being run down and killed In
ming with the hounds close to its heels
was the cellar of an old house, with
a portion of the walls still standing.
The fox made straight for the old Gel
lar, leaped into 1t and made its es-
cape through narrow opening In the
walls. The hounds, supposing the fox
was trapped, dashed into the cellar
pell nell, only to find Reynard gone
and themselves in trap, as the hole
in the wall through which the fox had
escaped was too small to permit them
to get through.
When the hunters rode up they found
the pack in trap, with one OF the
hounds wedged fast in the hole
through which the fox had made It's es-
cape. BY the time the hounds were
gotten out of the cellar the fox was
safe in its ole.-Phlladelphia Times.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04
He Engaged the Boy.

DR.. McTavish of Edinburgh was
something of ventriloquist, and it be-
fell that he wanted a lad to assist in
of strong nerves.
He received several applications, and
when telling lad what the duties
were, in order to test his nerves, he
would say, while pointing to a grin
ming skeleton standing upright in a
corner:
Part of your work would be to feed
the skeleton there, and while you are
here you may as well have Il try to
do So"
A few lads would consent to a trial,
and received a basin of hot cruel and
a spoon.
While they were pouring a hot mass
into the skull the doctor would throw
his voice so as to make it appear to
proceed from the jaws of the bony Gus
toner, and gurgle out:
"Gr-r-r-gr-h-uh! That's hotr'
This was too much, and without ex-
ception the lads dropped the basin and
bolted.
The doctor began to despair of ever
getting suitable helpmate until a
small boy came and was given the
basin and spoon.
After the first spoonful the skeleton
appeared to say:
"Gr-r-r-uh-r-hr! That's hotv
Shoveling in the scalding cruel as
fast as ever, the boy raped the skull
and impatiently retorted:
well, jist blow ont, ye auld bonyv'
The doctor sat down on his chair and
fairly roared. but when the laugh was
over he engaged the lad on the spot
London Tit-Bits.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

IL. Waterloo, 1915. Loss, IA per cent.
13. Woerth, 1870. Loss. II per cent.
IA. SOlferino, 1859 Loss, II per cent.
10. Sadowa, 1866. Loss, u per cent.
The loss in killed and wounded at
the battle of Eilau is placed at 10000
by conservative estimates. In the fig
ures of Gettysburg given in the table,
which are official. the total is little
short of 10000. The first battle be-
longs to the smoothbore and the second
to the rifle barrel era, and the figures
show that as weapons improve casual
ties grow less in percentages. The aver
age was 26 per cent. in the days of the
and pike, 20 per cent. with the
smoothbore and bayonet, about n SINH
lar loss with the rifle barrel and bayo-
net, and in the Franco-Prussian war,
fought with the breechloading rife, the
fell below 16 per cent.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04
German Empero at Work.

The correspondence addressed to the
emperor is enormous, but the bulk of
1t, chiefly petitions, is opened and dealt
with in the civil cabinet, only the let
ters of princely personages and Others
of which the handwriting is recognized
being opened by him personally, says
Good Words. These have to be replied
to either by himself or by secretaries,
according to marginal notes made by
him. and then the cuttings from vari-
Gus newspapers, pasted in folioS, are
laid before him.
Each of the chief ministers of state
and heads of departments of the army
and navy has one or two fixed days Of
the week on which he is received by
the emperor and at these interviews
al business connected with the depart
ment is transacted and his orders TAX
en- on all matters requiring such. Va
rious interviews are also accorded in
the forenoon to officers and others who
have reports to make and thus the day
is filed up till luncheon, meal the
and his elder children, the younger
ones joining the circle afterward. Usu-
ally there are one or two guests and
quite a small suite in attendance at
the midday meal, which is light and
very simple.
The afternoon is taken up with more
work and then the emperor, frequently
accompanied by the empress, rides,
drives or plays tennis for a couple of
hours, returning in time for more work
before dinner, which is at Z in summer
and 8 in winter Work again follows
dinner and precedes an early retire
ment to bed. Such Is the normal pro-
gram of the emperor's day; but, as
may be imagined, it is frequently
broken in upon by military duties and
inspections, by representations, espe-
cially in winter, when numerous re-
ceptions, balls, festivals, concerts and
state dinners take place. and by polit-
ical business.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04
AGED MANS STRENGTH
Although 60 Years Old, He Can Lift a;
Weight OF 1,O7o Pounds.

When one is young and strong" is
natural expression. Youth and
strength are supposed to go together.
But what do you think of an old man,
whose years are represented by two
skies placed side by side, lifting a
weight of 1,070 pounds? Think of it;
over half ton. His name is George
Collins and you can wager he comes
from the West. His home is in Detroit.
All life long he has taken care of his
health. 1t has not entirely been hob
by with him, but he had desire to live
long and that was the surest method he
knew of arriving at his object.
He moved to the city, where his repu-
tation for strength was not known.
Not long ago he went to an amusement
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04
A Very Trifiing Incident.

A clergyman was called upon to per.
form marriage ceremony for couple
in middle life.
Have you ever been married be-
fore?" asked the clergyman of the
bridegroom.
mo, SIR"
"Have you"-to the bride.
"Well, yes, l have" replied the bride
laconically; "but 1t was twenty years
ago, and he was killed in an accident
when we'd been married only week,
so it really amt worth mentloning."-
San Francisco Wave.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

The South African war has demon
Strated some things about up p-to-date
lighting machines. One important fact
drought out is that, for creating eX-
tensive cemeteries and making bloody
history, the old-fashioned fighters. with
their old-fashioned short-range weap-
ons, still hold the championship. Dy-
Mantle bombs and lyddite shells, bullet
Sifting machines and long-range smoke
less powder guns have not feazed the
worlds record for carnage an iota. The
civilized nations stand aghast at the
fall of few score of officers in q single
fight as though it were an unheard of
thing and that science had rendered
warfare too frightfully CORY for it to
be tolerated among human beings.
probably the almost bloodless victories
OF our navy at Manila Bay and Santiago
nave led people to look for enormous
gains on minimum of investment.
These were marvellous exceptions. War
means fighting, and fighting in a war
worthy Of the name means killing on
both sides.
The effectiveness of the long range
weapons used in the South African war
and the mortality which is looked upon
by the laymen as something excessive
attract the notice of military men who
have had actual experience in war.
Under the regime of magazine rifles the
battle usually begins at 1000 or 1,eOO
yards, and may close down to LOO or
1000 yards. At the latter range the fire
is supposed to be very effective. Artil-
lery is, Of course, effective to break I'D
solid lines of infantry, but 1t is impos-
sible to make artillery fire effective
against troops who are covered behind
a height for instance, or by the lay of
the land or by rock and trees.
Gen. Sickles said recently that he
never had much faith in the effective
ness of long-range weapons, for once
you teach troops that they can send a
bullet a mile, 1t takes away their in
trepidity. Napoleon Ill. demoralized
his army by causing the soldiers to
think that the long-range breechloading
chassepot and the mitrailleuse would
defeat the enemy. 1t took all the elan
out of them and made them mere ma
chimes. The Germans, who, by the
way, also had their breechloading, long
range rife, the needle gun, rushed to
close quarters, and the result was dis
astrous to the French.
Civil War Fatalities.
Gen, Nelson A, Miles said, apropos of
the subject Of modern improved weap-
ons and projectiles in relation to battle
field casualties, Losses diminish in
proportion as man-killing devices pro-
gress." This is fact, as shown by fig
ures, and is well known to close stu
dents Of warfare. Take, for instance,
the Federal attack upon the Confeder-
ate stone wall at Fredericksburg in
1862. The experience of the Seventh
New York (Steuben) regiment in that
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

Federal batteries stationed there in
some instances used double charges of
canister at ten PAGES; that means that
the assailants who had the courage to
march up to the muzzles were swept
from the ground by iron hail. At the
battle Of Franklin, Tenn, the slaughter
OF the Confederate columns upon the
ground where the heaviest fighting took
place was frightful in the extreme.
Much of the execution at that fight was
due to cannon fire. The Confederate
army was about 10000 strong and be-
gan the attack on the Federal fortified
position at the close Of a November day.
probably as late as 4:30 p. M, so that
there was not two hours of daylight
for fighting. Only one corps of the
Confederates actually closed in on the
Federal works, and its strength was
probably not over $4,000 men. In the
battle there were 5000 Confederates
killed and wounded, among them thir
teen general officers. The officers who
fell were found close to the Federal
breastworks, in some cases in the ditch
horses while attempting to ride over
the works at the heads of their col
umns. The scenes witnessed at the
battle Of Franklin have seldom been
equaled during the century.
Since the Franco Prussian war there
has not been conflict between armies
equally equipped until the present. In
the battles between Russia and Turkey
the Turks had inferior weapons. Being
fanatical fighters, like the dervishes in
the Sudan, they were slaugh tered by
the breechloaders and dynamite shells
of the foe.
To go back still farther for examples
Of the execution of weapons in war
fare, 1t Is interesting to look at the rec
ords of battles in the seventeenth CEN
tury. In seven great battles of that
era, when the masses carried muskets
and pixies, the average of casualties was
26 per cent, so that each man stood but
about three chances in four of es-
cape. The casualties in the bloodiest
battles run as high as 35 per cent. In
this class belongs the battle of Lutzen.
which proved victory for the Swedes,
but their leader, Gustavus Adolphus,
was killed, and one of his regiments lay
upon the ground in the order in which
the men had stood while fighting. In
the middle of the eighteenth century
the bayonet attached to the musket su-
perseded the pike. There were twenty
three great battles fought with smooth
bore muskets and bayonets from Fon-
tenoy in 1745 to Waterloo in 1915. The
average of casualties for this period of
smoothbore musket and bayonet fight
ing was about 20 per cent.
Losses Decrease.
The following fifteen battles of the
muzzle-loading, bayonet period repre-
sent the martial nations of the world:
l. Eilau, 1907. Loss. 26 per cent
2. Bunker Hill, 1775. Loss, "a per cent.
3. Stone River tMurfreesboroJ, 1862.
Loss, 23Ih per cent.
4. Marengo, 1900. Loss, % per cent.
5. Chickamauga, 1868. Loss, II per
cent.
6. Antietam, 1862. Loss, u per cent.
Z. Leipsic, 1913. Loss, 21 per cent.
8. Gettysburg, 1868. Loss, 20 per cent.
0. Shiloh, 1862. Loss, 20 per cent.
10. Lundy's Lane, 1914. Loss, ~ per
IL. Mars-la-Tour, 1870. Loss, 10 per
cent.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

charge Is typical. The Seventh went
in after other brigades had been re-
pulsed in front of the stone wall so that
it did not receive the fierce outburst Of
Confederate fire, but in twenty minutes
or at the outside thirty minutes, out Of
twenty-five officers in the regiment ten
were killed and eight wounded, and out
Of $50 men 240 were killed and wound
ed. All of these casualties came from
bullets fired from the stone wall. This
loss in officers killed was never exceed
ed put once in the whole civil war, and
that was in the case of the Seventh
New Hampshire at the storming Of
Gcers Of this regiment were killed out
right.
In the attack upon the stone wall the
Seventh Regiment fought with Han
cocks division. This division was
brought in as supporting column to
the initial attack. 1t consisted of eigh-
teen regiments, and there were nineteen
regimental commanders shot down and
disabled in one hour. Others were hit.
but kept the field. In the brigade of
Col. Caldwell, to which the Seventh
Regiment belonged, there were 116 Off
GERS present, slXty-two of whom were
killed or wounded. Gen. Hancock's di-
vision lost 2,O29 killed and wounded out
Of 1884 paper strength; that equals ~
per cent. Caldwells brigade numbered
I l.;
wounded-that is TO say, so per cent.
In a forlorn hope attack upon log
breastworks at Petersburg in 1864 the
First Maine heavy artillery carried S32
men in line and lost 632 killed and
wounded in a rush that kept them un-
der fire not to exceed seven minutes.
At Gettysburg, during crisis. the First
Minnesota was called upon to charge
moving line of Confederates and can
ture its colors, in order to stagger the
assailants, who were marching upon
Federal batteries. The Confederates
held their fire until the daring Yankees
were close up, and 2i5 of the Mime
sotans out of 262 were struck down
upon few square yards of earth, Just
at the point of contact. In the second
battle of Bull Run, 1862 Duryee's zou-
aves stood up in front of a battery
which was being mobbed by Confeder-
ate troops and left 119 dead companions
stretched in regular rows around wheel
ruts and trail prints on the spot where
the guns had stood. The regiment mum.
bered 40 at the beginning of the fight
The heaviest losers at the battle of
Gettysburg were two opposing regi.
ments-the Twenty-fourth Michigan
and the Twenty-siXth North Carolina
They fought in the first days battle al
most man for man in the dueling con-
test which took place in McPhersons
woods. At the end Of the day nothing
remained of either regiment except
their flags and two pitiful squads of
battle-grimed soldiers The Michigans
lost 397 out of 1876. and the North Caro-
linas 6SS out of $50.
The casualties sustained by these
troops were almost entirely from mus
kerry fire. Instances might be cited to
show that, under certain circumstances,
artillery fire was still more deadly dur
ing the civil war. 1t must be taken for
granted that such was the case when
ever solid bodies of troops marched up
to the cannons mouth. In Pcketts
charge, when the assaulting column
closed In on the Federal works, the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04
Potash in Orchard.

Potash is Of great value In an orch
ard. 1t is the backbone of all fertilizers
used by fruit growers. The trees where
1t is used are vigorous and the fruit
large in size, with high color and good
flavor. No manure which does not con-
tain high percentage of potash should
be used In an orchard.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

AS soon as man gets so old he has
no more trouble with heart affairs, his
liver begins to make him grief.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

The individual who climbs to fame
and fortune over the shoulders of 9TH
ers must look down on their hatred.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04

True charity begins before your own
wants are supplied.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-05-04
LOSSES GROW LESS.
SOME LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE
ANGLO-eOER WAR.

AS Effectiveness of Weapons Increases,
Fatalities in Battle Apparently De-
crease-Com parison of Casualties in
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-13
The Nnyy Mnn,a Life.

'I4aymen call our life exciting and
think that we see lot of the world,
said the navy man, "but it's a big mis-
take What do we know of any of the
ports we visit? The pier, other boats
that may happen to be there at the
same time. and the English club OF the
town-that's all we see. And it's all
we know about. After you've touched
at few ports and gone through the
same performance over and over again,
you get mighty tired of It,
"As for our life. what Is 1t but n
perpetual club life? There are a few
professional club demands, but the rest
of our time Is spent in much the same
way that man spends his at his club
lin smoking, reading, In swapping
lies, in making oneself agreeable TO
ones friends who may do him the hon
or OF n visit and in making oneself
agreeable to some other fellow S
friends who may do him the honor
of vlslt-that's the sum of our ex-
istence, and when you think that's 1t
Cor day in aud day out. you cnn but
agree that whole lifetime of 1t might
begin TO pan,
TITS like wearing evening clothes all
the time or spending ones life at the
opera, or always having dessert and
nothing else for dinner. All play and
no work makes Il dull hoy of almost
any, Jack sometimes wonder how
any OF us navy men manage to rise
superior to our opportunities for sink
ing Into stupdltys lowest depths.
Nrw York Sun,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-13
Started His Muse.

cit seems so strange" said the lady
who had returned TO visit the old
scenes again, that yom son Arthur is
poet, When | knew him, | never
suspected that he had an inclination in
that direction, suppose, though, that
You haye seen IL in him from the
first"'
NO" the young mans mother re-
piled; "he never gave any indication of
1t as a boy, His schoolbooks are not,
as one would naturally suppose, scrib'
bled full of rhymes. He did not lisp
In numbers, as we read that other po'
cts did Indeed Arthur was about as
plain and practical II boy as could have
been found anywhere
"rhat's the way he always seemed to
me. When was II discovered that he
had this glftY.
t'Well, the first time we noticed 1t on
him was one day after heavy sign,
which had projected out over the
street. fell MS he was walking along
and struck him on the head. AS soon
us lie regained consciousness he seem
ed to be a poet."-Chlcago Tlmes-Her'
aid
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-07-13
5000
Census will Show That
For the Falls.
Directory Figures Are Considered
Too High.
(special correspondence

tSDtClui
Cuyahoga Falls, July 13.-That the
Burch Directory company of Akron,
estimated the population of Cuyahoga
Falls too high Is now a fact. The
directory people say that they estimate
the population here at 3,017. Although
the census enumerators have completed
their work, they are not permitted to
give out the result. From an authori'
tative source, however, it Is learned
that the estimated population is about
700 too high, which will bring the pop
ulatiou very near 5000.
Th eeast side of Front ST. Is TO be
paved before the west side of the
street will be disturbed. This Contrac-
tors McCourt * Kidder do, as that
traffic will not be impossible. The
Question as to whether or not the water
pipe viii be put down before the pave
ment is being discussed.
Mrs. Harry Grant of Circleville, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Haley, of Stow st.
VIII Orr of Cleveland, has returned
home after visit here.
Miss Name Kelly is visiting in ka-
VIENNA.