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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

out somebody, and gi' me a hand!
Man overheard! Man overheard! Any
one hear me? Help! Hcip!'
The idiot above chucklcd and repeat
cd the call softly: Man overheard!
Man overboard"
George, my boy" he begged, help
me up. Call the men. No, call Tom;
don't bother Martin. Go forrard and
call Tom; that's q good boy"
Good boy, good boy, good boy" WAS
repeated to him.
'Yes, George, you are. But help me.
I'm your father, George. just learn
ed. Understand? Your father. didn't
know it before; neither did you.
thought you died when you were little,
but you didn't die. And now I'm going
to stand by you, George, if you'll help
me. I'm your father"
"Fadder, fadder, fadder, fadder,"
came back to him. Then, perhaps be-
cause he had just heard rcpetitions of
Martins denunciatory words, he chat
tered: "Diden die-diden dic-diden-
diden die-you devil-you devil, devil,
devil, devil - brute, you brute, you
brute! Look at your work, work, work
look at your work-diden die, diden
die, diden die And it merged into
incoherent drivel.
The man in the water groaned hoarse-
ly; then, with eyes bulging and veins
in his hands, neck and temples stand
ing out like cording, he strained his
muscles and scraped the side with the
edges of his shoe solcs in mighty effort
of strength. Then he slid down, pant
ing hoarsely, and groaned: I'm cramp-
ed. I've got the cramps. Help"
His voice was weak now, and he
saved it, but while he rested, both
hands gripping the rope over his head,
the gibberish above changed to this,
the clear, bell-like voice echoing on the
shore:
My bravo lad he sleeps in his faded coat Of blue.
In lonely grave unknown lies the heart that beat
SO true.
He sank, faint and hungry, among the famished
brave,
And they laid him sad and lonely within his
nameless grave.
90 God, have mercy on my soul!'
muttered the man as the singer ended
the verse. His eyes were closed now,
and while the boy above hummed the
melody softly he repeated to himself
the words of the consul at Callao:
"The wrong we do comes home to us
this side of the grave, and the men we
kill come back to watch us die"
Something brushed him, and he open
was the torso of a man supported by Il
life buoy. The staring eyes looked into
his own. With a gasp and gurgle he
let go Of the rope, and the. two went up
the harbor together.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
OCEAN SAILING MATCHES.
Arrival of Winning Racer In England
Recalls some Interesting
"Reminiscences,

The recent arrival of the Muskoka,
the winner of the race which is re-
ported to have taken place from Port
land, Ore, to the United kingdom,
serves to remind us that the days of
quick sailing are not yet ended, says
the London Shipping World. In the
friendly test of sllill which has just
been concluded the competitors were
the North German Lloyd's cadet
training ship, the Ii. S. Charlotte, the
Glasgow ship Marion Light, and the
Glasgow ship Ardencraig. The win
ner, under the command of Capt.
Grove, made the run from Portland
to Queenstown in 1O1 days 20 hours.
Satisfactory as this latest sailing
record is, it pales before the doings
of some of the oldtime Cracks"
many of which also performed their
speedy voyages with almost clocklike
regularity. The Donald Mckay, the
celebrated ''Black Ball. liner, was not
only the largest clipper in the world,
but was also accounted one of the
fastest sailers ever built. Upon one
occasion she took 1000 troops from
Portsmouth to Mauritius in 70 days,
and her average time for six consecu-
tive voyages from Liverpool to Mel
bourne was SO days, and only once it
exceeded S5 days.
The details of the famous race be-
tween the three China tea clippers in
1866 are too familiar to need mention
ing here, but the fact that speed
of over 16 knots an hour has been
made by a sailing ship may not be so
well known. The British clipper ship
Hurricane during the course of one
of her voyages home from Melbourne
attained this rate of sailing on sew
eral days, her best run being 270
knots in 1872 hours. But it was after
the "siXties," and indeed well on into
the Seventies" wnen some of the
best sailing records were made. And
it is doubtful whether the perform
ance of the Sir Lancelot, when she
covered $4,000 miles in SO days against
the prevailing monsoon, has ever
been equaled; certainly there are no
authentic statements to show that it
has been surpassed. The voyage was
made in 1869, from Foo-Chow-Foo to
London, and her Lest days run was
354 statute miles, while crossing the
Indian ocean, the average for one
week being 800 miles a day. This
was essentially a voyage under adj
verse conditions. Perhaps the fastest
passage between England and China
was that made in 1857, when the cele-
brated American clipper Pride of the
Ocean did the run out from the
Lizard to Hong-Kong in 60 days.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
THE FLOPPER.
Peerless Left Fielder Patsy McGOO'
zle's Sad Fall from His
High Estate.

The eyes of the nation were on Pat
He received a salary that was bigger
than a college presidents and fully
equal to that of French cook. Pat
sy would have been an ideal ball player
if it hadn't been for his unfortunate
propensity to flop. No sooner was he
in one league than he wanted to be in
the other. No sooner did he receive
advance money from one side than he
wanted advance money from both
sides. And so he see-sawed back and
forth and nobody knew where he
would remain over night. And yet
neither side wanted to antagoniZe
Patsy, for he was a great player and
very sensitive, says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
At last one league thought it had
him. He practieed with it, and wore
it's uniform, and finally went on the
field for it in the first great game of
the season.
1t was a remarkable game. First
one side led and then the other. Final
1 W /
Patsy cracked out liner that brought
in two runs and left his side one run
ahead. Then the other side went in,
and one man got his base on balls, and
two men were put out, and then the
fourth batter hammered a tremen-
dous long fly over toward deep center.
But Patsy was there.
Nobody could run like Patsy. He
was down the field and ahead of the
ball and waiting for it.
At that moment fat man with big
diamonds waved red handkerchief
at Patsy. The ball was rapidly de-
scending towards the great fielder's
outstretched paws. The game seemed
cinched. But Patsy had caught the
CLEAN of the red handkerchief. He
spread out his hands, the bah dropped
to the ground with "a dull thud, and
the peerless fielder started on dog
trot for the fat man with the dia-
monds.
"Flopped again!" roared the crowd
in towering disgust, as it scrambled
down from the seats.
But nobody dared to say word to
Patsy, because he was sensitive, as
well as great.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

pretty near killed this crew. You've
hammered and dubbed us to the last
man, and one of us you drove insane
this boy here. Look at him, you brute.
He's your own son. Do you hear?
Your own son-the little boy that we
all thought died of starvation He
didn't die, nor the mother, either, at
the time. She came back to Tompkins-
vile SINCE this brig sailed from New
York, and she died here eight months
ago, She fooled you, The letter 1 got
tells of it. And the boy was a Saliva
tion Army man and shipped in this YES
sci. She told that, but she didn't know
that he was to meet his father and be
driven insane. Look at your work, you
hell hound. Look at your work.
MI, Arbuckle descended quickly. The
ropes and steps We're very slippery,
but this may not have been the reason
Of his hurry. The demented youth
looked down and gibbered. The man in
the boat said nothing. When Martin
cast off the painter, he shipped the
oars and pulled shoreward.
He was not back at midnight He
came at l o'clock. when the flood tide
had gatneTeu rorce and the vessel was
failing up the harbor with the side lad
der on the offshore side He hailed as
he approached, but the anchor watch,
looking down from the pooP rail, did
not answer the order to take the paint
er so he pulled to the steps and essay.
ed to climb them with the painter In
his hand, Rut steps and manropes
We're still icy, He slipped, scrambled,
lost the painter and as the boat float
ed sternward, found himself in the wa
ter, holding on to the end of the after
manrope, with the side ladder tanta-
lizingly close, but not within reach.
The tide was strong and held him
away from the ladder. The water was
icy cold, and his teeth chattered. Ut
tering an angry curse, he pulled him
self up, high as his strength would en-,
able to him, and, with less of his body
immersed, he swung toward the lad
der; but, strong man though he was,
he could not support So much of his
weight and water soaked clothing with
one hand. even to catch the ladder
with the other. With finger nails
scraping the coveted steps, he slid
down the rope and barely held on at
the end. Again and again he tried,
/ only to fatigue himself in failure.
''On deck, therem he called at last,
"George, gi' me a hand here! Geergel
On deck Hear mes Gi' me hand."
George heard, but remained on the
poop rail, silently observing him.
| George" he called, ''come down to
the gangway Stand watch at gang
way now! Hear me? And send me
down bowline-a running bowline!
Understand? Make running bowline
round the after manrope and slip 1t
down to me. Don't you hear me,
George?''
! Had there been more of command in
the tone of his voice George might
have obeycd in a manner. But he
spoke pleadingly.
"On deck, therev' he called again,
raising his voice. "Forrard there! Turn
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

"Got to make sure" he said "Got to
have the idiot on deck, and | can't dis
turb the watches any more. Make 'em
suspicious. I'll wait till 'leven o'clock,
when the skipper feels better"
He waited passing the time as he
could, and when the cabin clock struck
IL went on deck, first fortifying him.
self with glass of whisky. George
and Martin were coming aft, the older
man earnestly explaining the orders to
the younger. Mr.. Arbuckle fully as
earnestly repeated them, enjoining
George to stand watch on the poop
and not to disturb Captain Haskins,
who was feeling better.
"And Pm going ashore" he said to
Martin. "Be back about midnight.
Fore you turn in bring the dingey up
to the gangway."
Martin answered respectfully and
obeyed him, while the smiling idiot
watched the operation. Then Mr.. Ar
buckle descended the side ladder, slack
ing himself carefully down by the man.
ropes. These were two short, fanciful-
ly covered ropes leading from brass
stanchons in the rail, one each side Of
the ladder, to within a foot Of the wa
ter. They were covered with ice and
hard to hold, yet he paused half way
down to repeat the command to 'stand
watch on the poop"
Eyes, SIR" answered the old sailor as
he climbed the rail with a pump brake
in his hand. '"The boy'll do that all
right. But l want to say something
first You're going, George Arbuckle.
You've got your money and discharge,
and this is the last we'll see of you.
know the trick. You're not taking your
clothes, cause you have none worth
taking. Well have to wait three days
fore we get our money, and then we
can't find you. You'll lay low and ship
again to cripple more men. But I've
got this to say-and you chew it over,
too-you just remember that l had the
satisfaction of telling You. Hold on
thcre!' Mr.. Arbuckle had moved his
hands upward, Don't you come up or
you'll go down by the run! I'll brain
you, you devil, it you climb that lad
der! You stay there and listen. You've
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

Dyspeptics cannot be long lived because
to live requires nourishment. Food is not
ed ed stomach % can cannot t It digest food, l. % it must
have assistance. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
dige.t all kinds of food without aid from
the stomach, allowing it to rest and regain
its natural functions. Its elements are eX-
actly the same as the natural digestive
fluids and it simply can't help but do you
good. Eli 7. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
Y r TAYLOR,
NOTICE

By THE ORPHANS COURT FOR CECIL CouNrY.(
January 13, 1900.
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Ex
ecutors and Guardians that have not state /
an account within year. come forward and
do the same, or show cause to the contrary,
or they will be cited up.
Test: &. E. JAMAR. Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
when MRndy's Mad,

She has a disposition sweet,
She labors like a Turk
She keep all things a-lookin' neat
An amt afraid t work;
But something happens now an then
That rifles her t the core,
An one can alters tell 1t when
My Mandy slams the door.
She'll hustle around about the house
A-hummin some old song,
As meek an quiet as a mouse,
When, presto, something's wrong!
I've learned 1t doesn't do T. talk
Talk won't her peace restore
And so l simply walk the chalk,
When Mandy slams the door,
But then l never blame my wife;
I've noticed that the sex
Have saddled on them all through life
The little things that vex;
An I've seen Mandy take things good
At which I'd up an swore,
But put me down a "sawin' wood
When Mandy slams the door,
Albany Times-Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
Wanted the Marrying Code.

Writing from Catcher, Ark, to the
secretary OF state, man says, "Will
you please send me the Kansas code on
marrying?" The Kansas code on mar
rying Is fully expressed in the name of
the town from which this man writes.
kansas Ci'y Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on th
Wc)nd Tuesday ofevery month. Executor
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring ir
their vouchers a few days before Court.
Test. R. E. LAMAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

Cobwigger-A man loves a woman
because he thinks she is an angel.
Merritt-While a woman loves a
man because she knows he isn't
Town Topics.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
She Was Sure.

"What makes you so sure that man
is less than 1852" asked the young
woman.
There isn't the slightest doubt in
the matter" answered Miss Cayenne.
HE keeps Dragging of what he knows
about human nature. e."-Washin
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

A surgical operation is not necessary to
cure piles. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
saves all that expense and never fails.
Beware of counterfeits. Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
4 NIiSft.

THAT engagement of young Mr..
Dollcy and Miss Kittish is broken of. "
what was the cause?"
80, Dolley put his foot in it, as
usual"
"How?"
'HE was trying to pay her a compli-
mcnt and said she'd been looking real
pretty the last few days. detroit
Free Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

She was such stylish, aristocratic-
looking girl that she won admiring
glances from the whole car. 1--WE
Americans" | mused, "do not need
empty titles to make our folk gentle
blood"
Her friend handed her some photo.
graphs.
She examined them critically.
"Them's bully!" she eXclaimed.-
Boston Record.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
Home. Sweet Home.

"Where is your mother, Johnny"
playing golf"
"And your aunt?' I
"She is out on her bicycle" iA
And your sister?"
"She is training for the hockey
match"
'Then I'll see your father, please"
"He can't come down. He is up-
stairs giving the baby bath."-Tit-
Bits.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
Wonderful! Wonderful 4!

Elwood Townsend, Kinks Mills, Penna. says
II had a sore leg for Is years and tried good
my neghbors to try Feldser's Liniment. l used
one bottle and now feel like new man. Iwould
advise everybody to try it. For sale by DR.. L. r.
Kirk, Rising Sun; Sidwell & Griffith, Sylmar
John McCrtry, Nottingham.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
Good Old Days.

Oh, for those good old days gone by
We'd take them back on any terms
When people ate just what they liked,
Without the slightest fear of germs!
-Washington Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
Faithful TO the Last.

The careless cyclist had run down
the boy.
".Are you hurt?" asked the cyclist.
"No-o!" groaned the boy, "but did
you ring?"
''Certainly!"
""rhen is it pitcher of icewater
or Il cocktail?"
~ don't understand"
"Why, Pm ellboy."-Chicago go
Daily News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
A Disadvantage

The man who doth too much complain
Beneath suspicion rests, because
If he kept busy, it is plain,
He'd have no time for picking flaws.
Washington Star
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

Jaggles-What makes you think
they are searching for the unattain-
able?
Waggles-His wife is seeking for
something to remove superfiuous hair,
while he is looking for preparation to
grow hair on a bald head.-Judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
IN DISTAKT PLACES,

There are 1854 banks In Japan, rep
resenting $253,249, 1886.
The population of Buenos Ayres on
January l was S21,293.
Only IL acres in every 100 of Japan's
47,oO0 square miles are under cultiva-
ton,
Sydney, 10,120 miles from London as
the crow flies, is the most distant
large town from England.
Australia, 26 times larger than the
whole of the British Isles, has a popu-
lation smaller than that of London.
The khedive of Egypt is an energetic
fireman and has his palace fitted up
with all the latest fire extinguishers
= He has periodic fire drills for his house
hold and occasionally turns in false
alarm In the small hours.
Owing to competition with Spain,
Italy and northern Africa, where labor
is cheaper, French farmers are aban-
doning the. cultivation of olive groves.
In the department of Marseilles alone
within six months 10000 olive trees
were uprooted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28
wnil from the Race Track.

never have discovered yet
And l am no beginner
Just why, whene'er fail to bet.
l always pick the winner. p
Chicago Evening Post. aSj
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

"a few months ago food which ate for
breakfast would not remain on my stomach
for half an hour. used one bottle of your
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and can now eat my
breakfast and other meals with relish and
my food is thoroughly digested. Nothing
equals Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for stomach
troubles. III. S. Pitts, Arlington, Texas.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you
eat. Eli T. Reydolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-06-28

Eczema, saltrheum, letter. chatting. ivy
poisoning and all skin tortures are quickly
cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
The certain pile cure. Eli T. Reynolds.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-10

or with an eye to the applause of the
mob. Leaving that sort of thing TO
those congenitally fitted for 1t, his un-
varied practice has been TO go straight
ahead along the pathway Of duty.
When Schlev at Cienfuegos in the
crisis of the late war, had been for two
days inactive because he didn't know
whether Cervera was in port or not
and hadn't taken measures to find out,
it was Captain McCalls. steaming up
on the Marblehead, who in a few
minutes solved the mystery by COM
municating with the Cubans on shore.
That one incident gives the key of his
character. When the officers of the
allied forces at Tien Tsin were wrang-
ling among themselves over details of
precedence and ceremony in the pro-
posed relief march to Pckin. II was
Captain McCalla VINO. wearyins of their
ndecision, cut the knot by saying: Il
have no advice to give TO others; but
my minister is in peril and am going
to him" The Seymour expedition, Of
which McCalla led the advance guard,
failed of its purpose, chiefly because
the wranglers had wrangled too long;
but it was McCalla who headed the
hard fighting of 1t, who was shot full
of holes day after day and yet wouldn't
give up, and who received the unique
honor of most fattering mention in
Admiral Seymour's report to the queen.
This siX-foot hunk of a man has a
temper which in earlier days used to
get him into trouble sometimes, and
one time court of inquiry which
had seen him only through the eyes of
peace, gave him a sounding whack
of punishment that threw him way
down the ladder of his profession. 1t
is pleasant to know that the numbers
thus lost have been regained by dint of
brilliant merit displayed in two hem
ispheres under circumstances peculiar
ly trying, and there isn't a man in the
navy from Dewey down who has bet
ter hold upon the esteem of those who
know, than this fearless. go-ahead
human old salt, whose merit and mod
esty match.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-10
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