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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
ABOUT VEGETARIANISM.
roo Much Meat Eaten by Americans.
Especially During the Spring
ana summer,

Experiments with vegetarian dinners
are growing popular among people
| whose income usually makes them in
1t is not so much that they cannot at
ford to pay current prices for meats,
but they resent the recent forced rise
as an outrage. So they reduce their
| butchers bills as an experiment in re-
| taliation in case they wish to carry
the matter to the lightning point.
Families who have tried it report pleas
ant surprises In the heaithfulness and
| appetizing quality of the meals pros
vided without meats. There is talk of
organized abstention from meat rs
boycott on the beef trust. OF course,
any organization of the sort could only
be imperfect, but the feeling has be-
come acute enough to seriously reduce
the business of the retail butchers. If
the public chose they could break the
beef trust in fortnight and put the
meat barons on the edge of bank
ruptcy in month, says the Brooklyn
Eagle.
But entirely aside from that phase
of the matter, abstenation from meat
at this season is healthful. Most
Americans eat far too much meat at all
seasons, and especially during the
spring and summer, when the body
needs less heat and more acids and min.
eral salts. Fresh fruit we always have
abundantly in this market. and fresh
vegetables are beginRing TO be cheaper.
These are better than meat as a spring
diet, and the variety which can be
maintained with fish and eggs will
make any table attractive. If this rise
in prices IS a deliberate effort on the
part of the trust to squeeze consumers
it comes at an unlucisy time for its pro-
motors. Not only can it not produce
serious hardships among persons who
know how to cook. but II may Indirectly
prove a boon by forcing attention npoD
more healthful and agreeable sum.
mer dietary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
WINTER ALPINE CLIMBING.
First Ascent of the WeisshOrn That
Has Been Made in the
Cold Season

An Englishman named Ryan made
the first great ascension in the Alps
this year. He started from Zermatt,
| in the famous valley of that name, on
January 10 with three guides and re-
turned two days later after having
cached the summit of the Weisshorn
$500 feet above sea level, says the New
York Sun.
The Weisshorn is about 20 miles
north of the still more formidable Mat
terhorn. This is the first time that
the ascent of the Weisshorn, one of the
difficult mountains of the Alps, has
been successfully carried out in Win
ter.
No one attempted until within the
last few years to make winter ascents
in the Alps. Climbing in the winter
season, however, has now become a
favorite amusement among some of
the most expert Alpinists, a few of
whom say that they prefer to visit the
Alps in the season when there are no
amateur climbers on the ground.
Mr.. Sella, the famous Italian pho
tographer of Alpine views, has climbed
the Matterhorn in the depth of the
winter. To the expert Alpinist win
ter climbing is not much more difficult
than summer work, for arctic condi-
tions, of course, prevail the year
round.
In the winter, however, there Is
greater liability of being caught in Sc
we're storms and the snow work is
more difficult. For this reason the
type of snowshoes known as Nor
wegian ski are now used a great deal
in the Alps. as they help to obviate
the greatest difficulties Of winter
mountaineering when the snow is
deeper than in the summer months.
Zermatt is the starting point for
many expeditions to the higher Alps
all around this little town. The Weiss
horn is reached by travelling over snow
and glaciers to the northwest Zermatt,
while parties starting from Monte
Rosa travel about the same distance
to the southeast.
Only few weeks after Ryan's sue
ceSsful ascent of the Weisshorn par
ty of four gentlemen and four guides
started from Zermatt to make winter
ascent of Monte Rosa. Two of the par
ty, Wather Flender, of Dusseldorf, Ger
many, and Mr.. Koenig. of Berne, fell
into a crevasse about ITO feet deep and
were instantly killed.
The party were travelling very swift
ly over the snow on ski when the two
victims suddenly disappeared from the
view of their companions. They had
dropped down a crevasse which, wide
as it was, was concealed by treach-
erous layer of snow that was not firm
enough to bear their weight.
The body of young Flender was re-
covered, but that of Koenig was buried
in mass of snow and the six survivors
were not able to dig 1t out. Flender
was an expert mountaineer, who did
most of his climbing without the aid
of the guides. He had a passion for
the Alps and knew this district thor
oughlE
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
Vacation Days.

Vacation time is here and the children
are fairly living oat of doors. There
could be no healthier place for them.
You need only to guard against the &C
cidents incidental to most open air sports
No remedy equals DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve for quickly stopping pain or re-
moving danger of serious consequences.
For cuts, scalds and wounds. 81 used
DeWitt's WITCH Hazel Salve for sores
and bruises" says l.. B. Johnson, Swift,
Tex. 1T is the best remedy on the mar
ket" Sure cure for piles and skin dis
eases. Beware of counterfeits. Eli 7.
Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
THE MALARIA PARASITE.
Passes Through Eight Phases of De.
VelOpment Before 1t Infects
Humanity.

In paper read before the Royal
F! Society and published in the British
Medical Journal, Prof. Ray Lanles-
ter suggests a set of scientific names
for the malaria parasite. That a
complete set is necessary is proved
by the fact that the creature is, so
to speak, eight different animals in
succession before a generation arises
which, like it's ancestor, is able. to
infect humanity with malaria. Here
is a full rendering of the genealogy,
says the London Telegraph.
First there are little needle-shaped
! organisms, which pass into the HUI.
man system through the proboscis
of mosquito. Each of these nee
dies makes for red corpuscle and
1 gets inside. Then it passes into it's
! second phase and becomes more or
less u shapeless mass, which grows
within it's red corpuscle until the
dwelling is destroyed and the in
habitant breaks up into crowd of
spores, and so changes into number
three" These spores enter fresh red
corpuscles, changing as the others
did, on taking up residence, and
breaking up like them after period
of growth. This is repeated for sew
eral generations until the occupant
of the red corpuscle from some I'M
known cause develops on a line and
assumes crescent shape. In this
fourth phase it foats-male and fe-
male for the first time-through the
blood, TO be swallowed by the ma
larial mosquito that preys on man:
| Having duly passed into the insect,
| the sexes become spherical as a fifth
stage, but their children, in the sixth
transformation, are pear-shaped and
grow larger than any of their ances.
tors or descendants. This creature
pushes its way through the wall of
the mosquisto's stomach and changes
into number Z. steadily growing
ball, which eventually increases to
| twenty times its original diamet ter
| This ball becomes more and mors
complex. Within it appear colony
OF cells packed closely together
the eighth metamopphosis-a in
time these pour forth Il crop of the
needle-like organisms with which we
started. They find their way into
the blood of the mosquito, thence
| into the fluid which the insect an
parentiy D9urs into the wound it
makes in Its human victim, and so
| start once more on their marvellous
round. TO the unscientific mind the
one CLEAN of satisfaction in the
story is that the mosquito must suf-
fer as much as the man during the
career of the parasite. For those
who are Interested in scientific NOM
enclature Prof. Ray Lankester's
names may be given. They ara for
the respective stages: % Exotosporc,
(2) Amoebula, (3) Enhaemosphore,
| (4 Crescent (male and female). (5)
Sperm-mother-cell, (6) Vermicule, (7)
Spore cyst. (s) Spore- mother-cell, 70
and y EXostosphors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
A THOUSAND MILLION.
The Number of Minutes That Have
Passed Since the Beginning of
the Christian Era.

NJ. Camille Flammarion, the we'll
known French writer on astronomy,
mentioned at the last meeting of the
French Astronomical society that the
Christian era has just completed it's
first milliard of minutes. Between
January 1 of the year and April IS
of the year 1902, at g.: 10 p. M, he says,
Just 1,000,000,000 minute s have passed,
reports the Baltimore News.
The statement suggests realiza tiop
of the meaning of 1,000,0000a0 in the
abstract, and still more of 1000, OO0, 600
in the concrete form of money. Mr..
John D. Rockefeller's fortune, for in
stance, is generally estimated at about
$20o,0o0,0o6, or, say, 1909 900, 900 francs.
We all recognize that this is an sRor-
nous quantity, but the trouble with
most of us is that single million
seems almost as remote from our pos
sibiiities as thousand million. SO that
the greater SUM DOGS not differentiate
itself sufficiently from the smaller.
Let us see, then, what Mr.. Rockeferr
ler's fortune of 1,000,0O0,000 francs
means. 1t means that if man had
been working. steadily day and night
from the birth of Christ to the pres
ept TING at the COMPENSATION of
franc minute his total earnings
would Just now have reached the
amount Of Mr.. Hocllefeller's pile. 4
franc a minute is very handsome pay.
1t is $12 an hour, or $500 day 4 maH
getting $500 every day, from the be-
ginning of the year to the present
time, and consuming none of his earn
iRgs, would only just how have as much
As Mr.. Rockefeller has. Or, Putting It
In another way. imagine a town con
tanning 800 working people, each earn
ing seven dollars a week. The total
wages earned by the people of this
town, in successive generations all
the way from the time of Christ to
the present day, would not exceed the
amount which one man has managed
to put by ~ the course Of single lifs.
time. Truly, LOCO. 100000 is great
sum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
COUNTING A Boys WORDS.
Children Have Vocabulary That Is
More Extensive Than Is Gem
orally known.

Max Mueller in his Science Of
Language" referred to English la
borers who had not more than 800
words in their vocabulary. The cor
rectness of this statement is disput-
ed by the Popular Science Monthly.
NJ c. and II. Gale of the University
of Minnesota, having made q close
study of the question, report that all
such generalization or estimates are
misleading, and that the average
child 2H years old uses in one day
from 600 to 500 different words.
1t is not burning question, and
most people may not care how many
words child uses in day, but Mrs.
Gale did and she made an actual
count of words used by boy and
girl. The boy, aged 2H years, used
6i different words in day and
made record for the day of $3.50
words. A girl of the same age used
629 different words in day and
made record of 5000 words for the
day.
OF the Isl words used by the boy
$50 were nouns. 1S9 verbs, SO adiec-
tives, ~ adverbs, s interiections, 81
pronouns, 21 propositions, and IA ar
ticles and conjunctions, and of all
the different words IS per cent. were
used in the first five hours of the
day. The full vocabulary of the boy
was 1882 and the girl 1908 words.
Neither used in any one day all the
words at his or her command. The
boy used his own name 1857 times in
one day, while the girl used 81" ''me"
and my" $40 times. One boy. two
years old, used 1o,5O7 words in one
day.
The deductions from these facts
are that a child is as active with it's
tongue as with its legs that child
uses Il larger proportion of verbs
than an adult, that the Everlasting
no" takes precedence of the submits
sive yes, that the child uses short
words because of their serviceable-
ness, but does not hesitate to grap-
pie with and modify long, hard
words, and invents words or i'm
pulse when its needs require. OBJ
servatioH shows that child of four
or five does not use as many words
in a day as child of two, but there
is no record of any one attempting
to count the words of boy of eight
who wants to know"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
Don'tFail to Try This.

Whenever an honest trial is
given to Electric Bitters for any
trouble it is recommended for, a
permanent cure will surely be eff
fected. 1t never fails to tone the
stomach, regulate the kidneys and
bowels, stimulate the liver, invigor-
ate the nerves and purify the blood
It's a wonderful tonic for run down
systems. Electric Bitters positive
ly cures Kidney and Liver Troubles,
Stomach Disorders, Nervousness,
Sleeplessness, rheumatism, Neu-
ralgia, and expels Malaria. Salts
faction guaranteed. Sold by l.. II.
Kirk, druggist. Only so cents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
TO HAVE A TRIM FIGURE.
Have an Inclination Toward
StOutness

The woman inclined to grow stout
should beware of new fashions and
adopt only those that will disguise
her tendency. For instance, tucks as
trimming are to be very much in evil
dence this season, but the stout girl
will have to content herself with those
running up and down, and the same
rule applies to striped goods. In fact,
up-and-down stripes give the slimmest
possible effect, says the American
Queen.
Fluffy neck rufus are unbecoming to
roly-poly figures, and brilliant, snowy
colors. handsome and stylish though
they may be, are only for the slim
Figured foulards or all materials with
a large scroll design and plaids are
only for slim figures; large women
must choose small. neat patterns and
stripes.
If inclined to stoutness. eat stale
bread that is at least day old and
very little fat meat. and do not over
eat. Take as much food only as is
necessary to keep up the health aud
strength, but deny yourself any extra
Indulgence, especially sweets.
Take plenty of outdoor exercise;
walking briskly is the best for keep
ing down fat. Also be very particular
as to carriage and poise. Hold the
abdomen in and head well up. but not
so as to look strained. Practice car
rying light weight on the head. This
is a good exercise for little girls and
may be done as play, to see who can
keep basket or light book on the head
longest. 1t gives superb carriage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
FavOrite Pudding

A simple and delicious pudding that
well deserves its name. ''favorite." is
this: Put pint of milk in a double
boiler or basin set in a larger one of
hot water. When it comes to a scald
stir in four tablespoonfuls of corn
starch dissolved in a little cold milk
and four tablespoonfuls graduated
sugar. Allow it to cook Is or 20 min
utes. Flavor with vanilla or rose; push
back on the range and then fold in the
stiffly beaten whites of four eggs.
Take at once from the fire and pour
into mold. Make soft custard out
of another pint of milk, using the
yolks of four eggs. sugar to sweeten
and fiavoring. When the pudding is
turned out on platter or low glass
dish to serve, pour the custard around
it. The pudding may be nodded IN
cups if preferred Washington Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Booth darlington wrote steadily
for eight years and everything he
wrote was rejected, but he persisted
and succeeded.
Sienlliewicz is said to be demon
of unrest, and from the time he
starts novel until he finishes it he
goes about from place to place
through Europe writing little here
and a little there.
Ernest Won Leyden, one of Ger
many's best-known medical authori-
ties and authors, celebr@ted his sew
entieth birthday on April 20. He has
been one of the leaders in the fight
against cancer and tuberculosis, and
it is largely due to his efforts thai
more than a hundred sanatoria for
consumptives have been built in Ger
many during the last decade.
Congressman Sibley is the victim of
almost total inability to remember
names or faces He is sure of only
two men when he meets them-one
his business partner and the other a
lifelong chum. Curiously enough he
has an excellent memory regarding
the blooded cattle which he breeds.
being able to tell them at sight long
after he has sold them.
The University OF Wales proposes
to confer on George Meredith an
honorary degree. Mr.. Meredith has
successfully evaded multitude of
titular distinctions and has refused
the offer of lord rectorship, but he
loves his wild Wales" and may this
time be tempted. The university au-
thorities hope for a visit from Mr..
Meredith and personal investiture
of the cap and gown.
At the age of 81 the venerable Her.
bert Spencer has at last laid aside the
pen that has exercised such a power
full influence upon the thought of dis
century. In his Forthcoming volume,
Facts and Comments Mr.. Spencer
announces that he has written his
last book. His work of creating d
synthetic philosophy based on the
theory of organic evolution was be-
gun in 1850 and finish ell in 1886, and
now the last chips from his work.
shop are gathered uD. Though he is
everywhere acknowledged to he one
of the great figure of his time he
wears no fancy titles to his name and
has steadfastly rcfus ed to event ac-
cept honorary dcgr .es from colleges,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
1887. TIE sun. 1902.
BALTIMORE, MD.
The Paper of the People, for the People
and with the People.
Honest in Motive.
Fearless in Expression.
Sound in Principle.

While maintaining unimpaired the high STAN
dards OF private life and public policy which it
has upheld unfalteringly for more than sixty -four
years The Sun is also in the front rank of
modern journalism in every factory which enter
INTO the production of a great newspaper.
Its mechanical equipment is complete and
up-to-dae IN every respect, and its facilities and
arrangements for the prompt collection of news
are unsurpassed
Its special correspondents throughout the
united states, as well as Europe, China, South
Africa, the Philippines Porto Rico, Cuba and in
every other part of the world supplement the
efforts of the general agencies by which it is also
served 50 that it is enabled to print all the news
every day i'll the week
among the best in the United States and give
all important events in the legislative and finan-
cial centers of the country.
The Suns market reports and commercial
farmer, the merchant and the broker in touch
with the markets of Baltimore. Norfolk Charles
ton, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and all
other important points in the United States and
other countries.
The Sun is the best type of newspaper, morally
and intellectually. 1t is an educator of the high
est character, constantly stimulting TO noble
Ideals in individual and national life, and it
gives all the news all the time.
The sun is published on Sunday as well as
every other day of the week.
BY mail The Daily SUM- s. year; including
81 90 year. The Weekly Sun, Sl.00 year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
MIRACULOUS FALLS.
Remarkable Experiences in the Line
of Dropping Related by Some
Tall Takers.

They had been speaking of mirac-
ulous falls, long falls, and falls
from big places without serious in
jury. 81 was on a swinging ladder
on the outside of Chicago build
ing few years ago." said one of the
painters in the crowd, according to
the New Orleans TimesDemocrat,
land we were working at the time
on the twelfth story, painting the
frame work of the windows. Down
in the street below the cars looked
like cigar boxes, and the men and
women who rushed to and fro looked
like animated dolls. My partner had
been wondering how it would feel
to go Sizing through the air to the
stone pavement below, and all that
sort of thing, when suddenly | lost
my balance and over the ladder
went. | heard fearful groan come
up from the crowd in the street,
and
And it didn't kill you?" said a lis
tcner.
And my partner" continued the
storyteller, crushed to my end of
the ladder, caught hold of the rope
that was tied around my waist, and
helped me back on the ladder"
well, ! didn't have any string tied
TO me when fell" said another
member of the group, land l was
working on the top story Of Chi
cago skyscraper at the time, and
was so far from the earth that you
couldn't see the street cars, men or
anything smaller than bnilding
without the aid of a microscope. and
when struck was landed in
heap"
''IIow did You escape the under
taker?' asked the quiet listener.
"Well, it was this way: You see,
7 was working on scaffold on the
inside and"
"That reminds me of an expert
ence had some time ago" said still
another member of the group. when,
with three other men, WIS thrown
from Il freight train 80 miles above
the city of New Orleans. and"
speaking of falling" said club
by fellow in the group, "I took n
tumble once from the very apex Of
the tallcst building In Chicago. and
landed right in the middle of the
pavement below. Did it hurt me?
Oh, the jar made my head ache Il lit
tie and I came very near starving
TO death on the way"
"Imaginary, Thomas" quGth the
quiet listener.
Put" continued the chubby man.
chat was not circumstances I fell
through an elevator shaft: one end
of painters ladder broke with mo.
! tumblcd over tho edge Of G0-foot
railroad trcstle and dropped through
the skylight."
"Your idea of reracity seems to
have experienced somewhat of a fan
aslo." said the listener
"Oh, I don't know" said the club
nv man: "you see. experienced
these falls at different times and
different Places"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-07-18
FASHIONS LATEST MANDATES
New Stuffs for Shirt Waists, Up-tO-
Date Hats and other Feminine
Fancies.

Petticoats are getting very elabor-
ate-silks, satins and brocades being
de rigueur and far more popular than
the batistes, lawns and cambrics,
trimmed with lace and embroidery,
with which we have been so long ia
miliar, says the Chicago Daily News.
All manner of curious dangling or
naments are liked for use as gown
trimmings; as we'll as in jewelry eff
fects. Chains, finished with tassels of
gold, silver or pearls, are decidedly
novel and fashionable and many of the
prettiest belts are caught at the front
by means of these odd fastenings.
The new sailor hat has very short
brim and low crown and is very fine
milan straw. Silk bands of rose pink,
apple green or black and white are
on them. Nearly all are white straw
and the colored sailor of a few seasons
ago is rarely seen. For her heavier
shirt waist suits the summer girl will
have hat band, collar and belt match
ing.
There are quantities of scarfpins
from which one may choose, but the
girl who selects one of dull red or yell
low gold will make no mistake. Golf
sticks, ping pong rackets, crops, stir
rups and bits are among the popular
designs intended to strike the fancy
of the sport-loying person. Stones are
less in favor than formerly, though
occasionally one sees a small pave,
marquise or emerald matrix.
Foulard in small designs of all the
stylish shades is new stuff for shirt
waists. Newness in shirt waist fab
RIGS can be found a-plenty, too, in
ducks, plain and figured. in piques.
basket cloths in cotton weaves. cotton
bedford cords, chambrays, silk ging-
hams, dimities. batistes. wash silks,
percales. madras and all the heavier
wash fabrics, pongees and wash taf-
feta. Women are too fond of the shirt
waist to make new fabrics an essential
to their Endorsement of it. vet this
newness is noticab1y plentiful.
Besides the riding stock of white
piqne of silk and linen mixture there
is new lyle which will more than
likely prove successful with those who
have the knack. as well as the liking
for neckwear that ties and fastens
with pin. This is made of straight
pieces of fancy wash pique. having
the ends cut in points and the center
followed out to fit the neck. The en-
tire scarf is edged with half-inch
bias band of the material and when
worn it may be knotted in an Ascot or
simply tied once, with one end pulled
up and pinned on top of the other.