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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-08-14
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Copyright, 1903, by Mortimer o. Wilcox

| strangers he affected polite and lofty
Indifference, his notion of good man.
ners. We explained that we wanted
particulars about the man who thought
he could swim Niagara.
"Well," replied Curley, "he's a feller
named Jake Westerman, Dutchman.
| He kind of hangs on to the edge of
| our push, an he's sort of queer fell
Ter, always doin things that others
you know, an jumpin' off'n elevators.
| Well, one day he had some kind Of job
| down at Niagara falls, an when it was
done he went over an looked at the
place an asked questions about logs
that had went over, an Graham's bar
rel an so forth. He's been down there
lots of times since to poke around,
whenever he had the car fare, an they
say that he'll set down over Table
rock an watch the water an think for
hours. He's a sort of queer feller.
He don't never say much, but I've
heard him say that with some kind of
a rig, barrel or somethin', he'd try it
as sure as beans"
"Now, you listen to me-" said Skit-
ters impressively. "I've found the rig.
l want you to get that fellow, and |
want you to bring him over to Black
Rock-here's the address-tomorrow at
2 p. m. I'll be there, and Wen look at
the machine together, and then we'll
go down to Niagara falls and look over
the ground. You come along, too, -
added Skitters graciously to me. Its
thing worth seeing"
But soon other matters intervened
and Skitters and | We're late to that
rendezvous. When We reached the
house at Black Rock. Bowers and his
mysterious friend had come and gazed
and gone. They had seen the invention
and left word that we could find them
down at the falls. Gills, the inventor
was a shambling, shy old man Of about
sixty, with somewhat of a cranky
CLEAN in his weak eyes. He led the
way mysteriously around the house,
past the repair shop and to a little
wood shed in the rear. There he pulled
aside a canvas, and we looked upon
his masterpiece, the labor of his love.
1t will be easily understood that !
cannot at the present time attempt to
describe this apparatus very closely.
Everybody knows that it is some kind
of pneumatic suit, but in reality Gills'
much discussed invention looks rather
like huge cigar, and is an intricate
contrivance of rubber and steel springs.
A certain freedom and power of move
ment are allowed to the limbs, which
close in upon a trunk of great rigidity,
and the headpiece looks not unlike a
divers helmet. Ignorant as l am of
such things, it seemed to me even then
that person incased in this might en-
dure tremendous buffeting and fright
full shocks and possibly keep the breath
of life awhile amid whirling chaos.
The inventor was speaking and look
ing at us with childish, shy pride.
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CUrtey approached ana touched him.
eve rolled it off'n the roof of the
house." said he, with boy in it, and
it didn't never hurt him."
THAT is pretty Ingenious" said to
Skitters as we came away, "hut to drop
over Niagara falls in-do you think it
would ever work."
Looks as though it might, anyway"
he musingly replied, "and that would
do just as WELL" from which ! guessed
that he had his own ideas.
Then we two got upon car and rode
down past Tonawanda and the omen
country beyond. Presently we caught
sight of the river above Lasalle, with
its waters moving onward quietly to
their doom, a little restlessly perhaps,
but as Skitters had said, "Who would
ever guess?" My companion viewed
this scene with complacency, and lis
tened to a dissertation from his lips on
the utility of Niagara.
"Seems as though somebody would
have thought of it before" he ended.
II wonder no one hasn't, and l
shouldn't wonder bit if they'd be do
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Not What He Wanted to Say.

Miss Clara observation-disclosures,
this is Mr.. Tutter. want to introduce
him to you. Do you know that he was
under the impression that 1 was the
only daughter, and have just been
telling him that L have two sisters.
Mrs. Winterbloom--Oh, yes. You
must meet Maud and Estelle, Mr.. Tut
ter. They are both of them older than
Clara there.
Young Tutter (wishing to say the
right thing)-I didn't suppose it possi-
BILE, Mrs. Winterbloom, that you could
have any daughters older than Miss
Clara.-Tit-Bits,
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ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on th'
second Tuesday of fevery month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring in
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test: E. E. JAMAR, Register
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A Victim of Good Looks.

Judge-You deny persistently that
you committed the act, and yet the de-
scription fits you exactly; beautiful
face, youthful appearance, pretty lit.
tie foot,
Woman Defendant-Judge, confess
all-Iit-Bits.
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Mrs. Bacon-The stories man tells
a woman before marriage are called
love, 1 believe?
Mrs. Egbert-Yes; exactly.
"And after marriage you don't call
them love, do you?"
"No; fiction. n."-Yonkers Statesman.
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Not Like Tobacco,

Jim-Jimpson declares that he is
going to quit using tobacco.
Jam-I never knew that he used to-
bacco at all. You see, I've attempted
to smoke some of the cigars that he
Smokes.-Baltimo Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-08-14

Miss Oldgirl (who writes)-I am
thinking of writing a love story
founded on my own experience.
Miss Maybudd dear me!
Couldn't you bring it to a happier
ending?-Judge.
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A True Wife.

Uncle-I can hardly believe that,
my boy. All your wife's instincts are
so sweetly feminine.
Nephew-That's what. Between our
selves, uncle, the feminine instinct is,
to domineer.-Brooklyn Life.
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Unthinking Freshman,

There once was a freshman named Green
ing,
Who fell down four flights without mean
ing;
The janitor swore as he struck the ground
floor:
" Twill take all the afternoon cleaning!'
Columbia lester
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Mills-I haven't million dollars,
but 1 do believe that every man should
do as he would be done by.
Sills-That's just the reason the
other fellow has got your million.-N.
Y. Herald.
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His First Golf Game.

"How do you like the game, Mr..
Putter?"
"Oh, it's all right, suppose; only
it seems a pity to walk so far for so
little exercise. Chicago American.
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The Sense of Propriety.

''Why do you call that railway you
have been selling stock for the Me-
ridian road?"
Because" answered the elusive
financier, 1T is an imaginary line."-
Washington Star.
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NOTICE

By TIE ORPHANS COURT FOR CECIL COUNTY,
January IA, 1902
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Ex,
ecutors and Guardians that have not stated
an account within year, come forward and
do the same, or show cause to the contrary
or they will be cited up.
Test: &. E. LAMAR, Register
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SQuaring Himself.

She-Your dog was trying to bite
me, sir!
He (touching his hat)-Yes, mad
am; he has sweet tooth.-Yonkers
Statesman
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Next Improve m ent.

Dame Nature ought to follow now
The scientific train, ,N;st..,<
And not omit, beforeit falls,
To sterilize the rain. -
Puck. 49,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-08-14

Trains leave Oxford for Philadelphia at 90
a. m. and 2 l3 p. m. Market train leaves
Rowandvile, Tuesdays and Fridays at $780,
Liberty Grove. SS5; Colora. s.ii; Rising Sun. $685.
Sylmar, 9.06; Nottingham is; Oxford. 1000 a.. M
arriving at West Philadelphia. 2.30 p. M
Sunday train leaves Oxford at G.55 arriving in
Philadelphia at 9l2 a. m; and $50. arriving in
Phiadelphia at 7.59 p. MI Saturday only, 925 p M
W. W. ATTERBURY, J.R. WOOD,
GeNI. AGEager. Gen. Pass'T Agent.
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LEAVE GOING SOUTH.
STATIONS


Additional trains leave Broad st. fer Oxford ll.l2
a. IN, $50 and 10 p. M; Sunday only, 7.55a. m.
7.0l m; Saturday only, l1.43 p. m.
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CHAPTER II.

A RRIVED at the city, 1 hurried
~ across to the other bank, where
~ 1 knew that Skitters and his
nartY would be found
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Y Tow great events depend on
~ trivialities! A chain of cir
cumstances in themselves in
n n significant brOupht 1S tOpeth-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31

Naples, August 2S.-The correspondent
of the Associated Press has just return
ed from spending night on Mount We
suvius. with the special permission of the
authorities to pass the prescribed limits.
The scene was terrifying but magnif-
cent Enormous masses of liquid fire
flowed almost to the correspondents feet,
forming great mounds. Occasionally a
mass of burning ma teria became detach-
cd from the pyramid and rolled down the
side of the mountain the fast cooling
lava in its turn detachng other masses,
until the whole became stationary at the
bottom. The main stream of molten lava
flowed down the volcano until stopped by
and filled up the valleys, the old and new
masses meeting with such force as to
cause loud detonations which shook the
earth
Today the eruption continues and the
volume of lava is acquiring vast pro-
portions. Decorations inside the volcano
have caused the prediction that a more
violent eruption may be anticipated
With tremendous detonationS heard for
miles around a new assure opened at >
o'clock this evening in the cone of We
suvius, and from the new gap came pour
Ing out tons of burning lava, which flow
ed in the direction of the village of Otta-
iano. The stream, however, encountered
the deposit of lava from the previous
eruption and did no harm. There is said
to be no danger to the village.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31
HILLSIDE BROADCAST pl OWING VS..
RIGHT-HAND BROADCAST pi- OWING

ANY farmer will tell YOU that any right
hand turn pillow will turn the son down
hill better than 1t will turn it up hill
Also it will turn under vegetation better,
will cut wider and deeper furrow In
short. it will do a much better job.
Why is it, then that the great ma
iority of farmers will use right-hand
turn pillow and throw half OF their lana
down hill and do it right. and throw the
other half up hill and half do it? There
are but two reasons one is daddy" done
1t that way, and put them in the old
rut. and they have not decided to get out.
The other is they have not got hold
OF the proper pillow to throw it all down
hill
All thoughtful farmers have got their
land terraced which is the most essential
and important thing to be done on the
farm if they wish to improve it, Where
ii is terraced TO turn it. right-hand
broadcast half of it is thrown down to
the lower terrace ana half Of it Is thrown
to the upper terrace, which leaves the
last furrow in the middle of the terra ces
and Quilted down into the clay. and it
will be the poorest part of the land. Also
in right-hand turning the team will tread
the plowcd land at each corner by turn
ing around.
Hillside. broadcast turning where the
land is properly terraced is simply per-
fectiop All the soil is turned down hill,
vegetation is better covered, the team
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31

7 does not turn on the plowed land and
the last furrow Will be next to the upper
terrace which Will raise the land at the
lower terrace and lower it at the upper
terrace
In few times blowing the land viii
be level from one terrace to the other
This is the true meaning Of the word
terrace
To keep your team from turning on
the upper terrace when hill-siding. first
lay off G-foot turn-Tow below the ter
race and pillow out the short corners, then
ploW with .he turn-row When a farm
or believes in broadcast turning. if ne
Will get tho proper pillow and hillside his
land by the above rule he VIII be pleased
with the job.
From experience ana observation we
can safely advise If You wish to keep
your land absolutely from washing and
to get the work well done and in short
time. lay Off your land on a level with
good double turner two feet apart
and when the subsoil gets in condition
run one subson furrow in the bottom of
each of the large burrows In our hum
bic Judgment tEis is the only successful
practical and cheap way to prenare land
deep to hold the winter rains ana keen the
land from washing
r MALLORY
Atlanta Ga
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31
ALABAMA S0L0NS
TO GATHER.
Session Will LAST Only Twenty-Five
Days-More Than Enough Bus
mess on Calendar Now To
Occupy Legislators
Full Time.

Montgomery. Ala August 29.-(Special)
Everything is now in readiness for the
meeting of the legislature, which CON
venes on Tuesday. September /.
The senate recess committee. which has
been in session almost all the time dur
ing the rec0s. have completed several
bills which will be presented to the lesis-
lature for passage. The committee is stil'
at work and Will continue preparing pills
until the Legislature convenes.
There are now 100 bills. Including five
special orders. on the house calendar
The house would have its hands fun it
il only acted upon these bills. but it is
almost certain that there will be over
1o0 local bills Introduced. 1t can readily
be seen that many bills will net even be
brought up tor passage, as the house Will
have more than il can very we'll dis
pose OF.
The senate is not so crowded as the
house in the number of bills on the cal
endar, but 1t is expected tnat many bnts
oI q local nature viii be introduced.
III IS learned that several ollIS OF a
general character viii be introduced
that viii BRING surprise with their IN
PRODUCTION.
The Ionowing general bills are to be
presented To the legislature: 10 pronibli
sunday baseball; primary election old.
municipal corpora iun; state bank exam
lnauonsi STOCK law ana general 0ispeu-
sary bill.
1T VIII be necessary, in view of the
large number of bills already on the cal
endar, tor the two houses to immedia to-
ly get to work and to hold sessions morn
ing, afternoon and night. if these bills are
TO be acted upon.
Hon. a. NJ. Tunstau is speaker of the
house. Frank ~ Julian is clerk: VIII
Herbert assistant clerk. and W. w. Bran
don reading clerk.
senator Goldsby, of Mobile. is president
pro tenn Of the senate. Gilmore Garrett
secretary, and w @. Kyle assistant sec
rotary.
A bill that viii at this time attract
considerable attention is the bill to be
presented by 4. j. Hill. representative
from Montgomery county, to create a
board of Arbitration to settle the differ
ences between capital and labor in this
state. The bill gives the governor the
authority to appoint a commission. which
shall consist of three members.
The members Of the two houses are
already arriving. and by Monday nearly
all will be here ready for work.
There is hard work before the legis-
lature, considering the short time in
which it Is to be in session. There will
be only twenty-five working days
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31
VESUWUS ACTIVE
AGAIN.

Naples August 26-The people of n pies
and the environs witnessed a remarkable
spectacle at noon today. One thousand
feet below the central cone of Nesuvius
the volcano opened like a huge mouth.
out of which beched a fierce stream Of
lazy, which ran down the side Of the
mountain and at first seemed to menace
the observatory This building however.
Is protected In the direction of the stream
by a mound of lava 200 feet high, which
was thrown out during the eruption Of
1895 and 1900.
The eruption occurred without any
warning whatever. There was no earth
quake. defamation or rain of ashes. moth
Ing but a clear stream of lava and red
hot stones. which were thrown to q
height of 700 feet producing an extremely
beautiful effect seen from Naples The
stream of lava. which is IS feet broad,
at IL o'clock tonight had covered a dis
the direction Of the observatory, which
Is no longer menaceG. The only danger Is
for the electric tramway up the volcano.
which, however, has thus far not been
touched. The eruption already seems 10
be decreasing and it Is supposed that no
damage will result from it,
The spectators far enough away not to
be frightened stood cntranced at the
spectacle but those nearer to the vol
cano were seized oy q panic when the
eruption began.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31
PROF. JOHNSON WRITES
OF SOME FARM PROBLEMS

A n interesting address to the young
~ white boys on the farms of the
4 state has been issued to the press by
Professor ]. M. Johnson. Of the College
of Agriculture at the University of Geor-
gia. He writes:
THE greatest need of the farmer of
today as well as of tomorrow is knowl-
edge of his work. There are more than
223 900 farms in the state of Georgia. If
the average time a farmer occupies
farm and continues to cultivate 1t Is
twenty-five years there must be at least
5000 new or young farmers starting in
the work each year in order that the
total number may not decrease.
Young men who are ia begin farming
next year, do you know as much about
soils and crops and about farm animals,
their care and mana gement as you want
to, as you think will be helpful to you?
Do you know where the roots of the
corn plant grow in greater abundance
while the plant is young and just getting
a foothold and ready to do something?
and again where they are when the plant
is approa ching maturity and is making
it's greatest demands upon the soil? DO
YOU know why the cultivator may run
deep at one time and not so at another?
Do YOU know what the soil contains that
will add to the plants growth and how
the plant is going to get that materlai
from the soil? Do YOU know what in
fuence different methods of cultivation
will have upon the amount of food d
certain soil can give to the plant?
do you know how to make all your
home supplies at home and have some
been planned with the object OF giving
Won instruction in the very things that
thing to sell to your town neighbor who
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31

does not know these things? DO you
know h v to get happiness. contentment,
peace nd prosperity from the soil ant
on the farm?
If you can answer all the foregoing
questions and hundreds of others OF
similar purport in the affirmative you
should hasten to the farm and get things
in order for next years work.
III you cannot give an af1lrma tive an
swer to these questions YOU had better
begin to study over them now. Solve
those questions if you can to your own
satisfa ction. But If they are too perplex-
ing for you make use of some one who
gives his time and attention to just such
puzzles. The great point is to get these
questions solved, get information, get
knowledge of the principles which insure
success in your lifes work.
THE young man who will master his
subject, adapt himself to his conditions
and learn about the little things of ma
ture surrounding him is going to make a
/ success of his work whether he be placed
in a shop or upon a farm. He will be Il
credit and an honor to his state.
why not then, young farmer. get an
education in agriculture and for agricul-
ture? Decide this matter right now, and
get to work about it.
1.-The United States government is in
terested in this matter. 1t wants to help
you. j. is helping YOU through the Uni
versity Agricultural college at Athens.
The doors are open. the courses have
will help You when YOU go back to the
farm.
"A course in the college will open up a
new world to you. 1t will broaden your
range of vision. 1t will bring brightness
and cheer into your life. 1t will pay you
i'm dollars and cents, and it will pay you
in Happiness and contentment.
y. NJ. JOHNSON,
college of Agriculture University of
Georgia"
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INDIAN SCANDAL TO BE
PROBFD BY HITCHCOCK

who by Offering their wares in exchange
can secure the most favorable terms
from them and the understanding IS
quite general that when control OF a
piece of land is once secured by means
Of leasing. it will be held by some means
until it can be purchased at The lcssees
own figures. The secretary Is even I'M
der the present leasing law finding
means to protect the Indians.
The surplus lands belonging TO the In
dams in the territory are worth many
millions and Secretary Hitchcock and his
advisers understand now great tempta-
lion they are to designing men. The ter
ritory is through a garden spot and
farmers are going into It in great num-
hers 1t l. estimated that there are now
fully half a million Whlte people IN Inc
tnrr'torv among whom many combina
lions have been made to control the CTS
posal OF the lands
Office Holders Involved.
The secretary himself discovered that
= number Of officehoders. many Of them
outside of his own department, were
Stockholders and officers in these com
hines and he Immediately made known
his disapproval of this system Former
Revenue Collector Cobb, on finding an
opportunity to secure an interest in
combination OF this character, wrote to
the department and asked for IN opinion
as to the proprety of his accepting sucn
an interest. lie was told that the de-
p4rtment did not consider membership IN
one of these companies compatible with
the holding OF Il government position, ANA
Mr.. Cobb promptly resigned his ofhclal
place 10 enter on a business career, Inc
advice contained in this ietter 10 MI
cobb indicates the secretary's position
with reference to all sUch cases. lie
Goes not believe that a man holding an
office under the government, the duties