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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
A Monument to Cooks,

1t is proposed to erect what is
termed monument commemorative
of the culinary glories of France in the
center of the great markets of Paris.
A committee of city men, headed by a
noted restaurateur, has been formed
for this purpose. The memorial is to
be a large fountain ornamented by me-
dalliOns of celebrated gastronomic au-
thOrities-Careme, who wrote on the
culinary art; Brillat-Savarin, author of
la Physiologie du Gout," in which oc-
ours the famous phrase, ''L'homme
d'esprit seul salt manger;" Grimod de
la Reyniere and two other food experts
of the past. Around the fountain there
are to be sculptured figures of fish
wives, oyster women, poultry and pig
meat vendors, salad sellers and cham
pion market porters, all forts de La
halle"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17

thinkin' as how he had lost his mind
or somethin', when what does he do
but spring up all of sudden and fling
his two arms straight into the air as if
they'd bin skyrockets, let 'em down,
throw 'em out sidewise, flop 'em against
his sides till you could almost hear his
ribs crack, a-repeatin' this performance
and a-keepin' of it up till he looked for
all the world like that windmill on
Sam Johnston's farm when he sets it
agoin' and the wind is at its heartiest
a-whirlin' of it round.
"'For the Lawd's sake, Jonathanp l
cries. / couldn't keep in no longer for
the life of me, thinkin' as he'd lost his
mind. What be you a-doin'?'
with that he turns round at me
gravelike and says: 'Nothin'. ma; only
I'm takin' up physical. cultcher,' addin'
solemn and impressive, I'm goin' to
make myself perfect man."
She broke off the thread with a Jerk.
took ball Of cotton from the basket.
whirled another long thread off it.
thrust it through the needle and once
more darned.
Maybe you think didn't get good
'and tired of hearin' as how he was
goln' to make himself perfect man."
she asserted presently. "a perfect
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
WIT AND WISDOM.

Keep hammering away and success
will come your way.-Chicago Daily
News.
The power to do great things gen.
orally arises from the willingness to
do small things.-Whipple.
Good Excuse.-"He married her be-
.ause she was such a brilliant con-
servationalist." yes! know; but"
"Oh, he got divorce from her for the
same reason."-Smart Set.
Some men," said Uncle Eben, "axes
roh advice an assistance an den thinks
you ought to be grateful to 'em foh
helpin' you kill time."-Washington
Etar.
Genus Crotchets-"Say,
Racer, settle an argument, will you?"
Racer-"Anything to oblige. What's
the question:" Crotchets-"Is that
new machine of yours an automobile
or steam roller?''-N. Y. Sun.
Patience-'Do you think the Ameri-
can girls run after the titled foreigners
who come over here?" Patrice-"No,
the titled foreigners run after the
girls, and the bill collectors run after
the titled foreigners" - Yonkers
Statesman.
Under the Collar.-"Whew!" ex-
claimed the good-natured boarder,
blowing his steaning coffee. 81 tell
you, there's nothing heats you up like
a cup of hot coffee" "Huh!" grunted
the cranky boarder, there's nothing
makes me so hot as cup of cold cof-
fee. e."-Philadelphia Press.
After His Fencing Lesson.-'T have
been taking my fencing lesson" said
the strenuous senator, as he touched
with some pride various plasters and
bandages. His colleague gave breath
of relief. 81 am glad" he remarked,
earnestly, "that it was a mere common
fencing lesson. From your appearance
judged that you had been taking
notwithstanding lesson .''-Brooklyn
Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
PROTECTING THE BIRDS.
England Is Far Ahead of America in
Preventing Ravages on the
SOngsters.

The protection of birds has been
carried so far in England that fruit
growers and farmers are complaining
bitterly of the ravages of thrushes,
blackbirds and bullfnches. These
winged beauties work great mischief
in gardens and orchards, says the New
York Tribune.
American readers of British books
recall with pleasure vivid descriptions
of the diversion of shooting young
rocks in the early spring with short
range, small7bore rifles, and of the
succulence of the young rook pies
cooked by experts. But it now appears
that the English rocks have not been
thinned out with sufficient thorough
ness, and these birds do harm to va
rious farm crops.
East of the Mississippi in most of the
states north of the Potomac and the
Ohio the protection of birds of every
kind has been much underdone. We
have no rocks or ravens here, but it is
certain we don't protect our winged
friends as we ought to protect them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
7 HE
Pc r f FECT
M A n
BY Zoe Anderson
Norris
Copyright, 1909, by Zoe anderson Norris (
seaeae@s1o9ee1o99109o@04(

ssE3 S that you, Liza" queried Mrs.
Simpson, rousing from her nap
III in the armchair by the window.
Come in and shet the door.
There's Il terrible draft somewhere,
and I'm sort of 'fraid of rheumatism.
1t comes on about this time of the
year, and once it grips you there's no
gettin' rid of it.
Take that rockin' chair over there.
Comfortable, is it? II faint there's
another just back of it. Come to con-
dole with me bout losin' Jonathan,
eh?"
Not exactly condole," corrected Liza
apologetically. "'Tain't like as if he
was dead now, is it?"
mighty near it," nodded Mrs. Simp-
son; mighty near it. When only
son goes off and gets married. his moth
er's lost him pretty much the same as
if he'd died and bin buried, and that's
true as gospel"
Liza broke the pause, which began
to show symptoms of lasting.
"How did it happen?" questioned
she.
Mrs. Simpson, raising her head, look
ed at her over her glasses.
'It all come" declared she sharply,
'sof that physical cultcher foolishness
what Jonathan got so wrapped up in
last spring he want, to say, fittin' for
nothin' else in the world, seemed like.
That's how it come"
Liza moved up Il peg.
"How was that" she questioned fur
ther. 1--WE heard say as how physical
of the world. Susan. Surely 1t couldn't
"a bin that what made him commit
matrimony, could it?"
That" snapped Mrs. Simpson, "and
nothin' else"
There was a second pause, during
which Liza endeavorod to the best of
her ability to digest the substance of
this theory.
In the meantime, taking stocking
from the basket at her feet, Mrs. Simp-
son had thrust !; ball into it, grasped it
firmly at the EIe and commenced to
darn.
you see, it was like this" she began
by and by. Jonathan, he found a
magazine one day or somebody gave it
to him - things like that spread the
same us smallpox; you never know
just how-and that magazine was all
about this here physical cultcher some
people is goin' mad over. He set down
Then he looked at me sort of vacant
like, and from the Expression Of his
eyes | knew somethin' unusual was
goin' to happen. He hardly took time
to finish the last page when off he slips
to his room, and I, followin' him
stealthy, peeps in and spies him sprawl
ed on the floor tryin' to raise himself
up on his hands and toes and let him
self down ag'in. / starts back s'prised,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
Tour To The Pacific Coast.

Onaccount of the National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic at San Francisco
CAL, August II to %, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company offers personally tour to
the Pacific Coast at remarkably low rates.
Tour will leave New York, Philadelphia Balti-
more, Washington and other points on the Penn
sylvana Railroad east of Pittsburg Thursday
August 6, by special train of the highest grade
Pullman equipment. An entire day will be spent
at the Grand Canyon OF Arizona two days at Los
Angeles and visits of half day more at Pasa-
dena, Santa Barbara, Del Monte, and San Jose.
Three days will be spent in San Francisco during
the Encampment day will be spent in Port
land on the return trip, and complete tour of
the y Yellowstone Park, covering six days, return
ing directly to destination via Billings and Chi
cago, and arriving Washington, Baltimore, Phila-
delphia, and New York August 81.
Round-trip rate, covering all expenses for %
days, except three days spent in San Franciso,
S2l5; two in one berth, 500 each
Round trip rate covering all expenses to Los
Angeles, including transportation, meals in dining
car, and visits to Grand Canyon and Pasadena,
and transportation only through California and
returning to the east by October 5 via any direct
route, including authorized stop-overs Sll5; two
in one berth, sos each. Returning via Portland
Sll additional will be charged.
Rates from Pittsburg will be five dollars less in
each case.
For full information apply to Ticket Agents, or
Geo. w. Boyd, General Passenger Agent Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
AGED WAR VETERANS.
Some European Soldiers Who Have
Lived to Upwards of a
Century.

1t is not always true that war
shortens life. The sole survivor of
the Greek war of independence, who
was brought to the notice of King
George the other day, is said to be
105 years old, and the last survivors
of our wars have often reached a
much greater age, says the London
Chronicle. Sir Joseph Fayrer, one
of the kings physicians, has spoken
to a man who fought in the battle of
Buxar, which took place in 1864.
William Gillespie, who saved the col
ors at Preston Pans, and is on the
roll of Chelsea pensioners, died in
Dumfries at 102, and the last survivor
of the capture of Gibraltar lived to
be lis. Thomas Wimms, who died in
1871, near Tuam, in Ireland, had
fought in the battle of Londonderry
in 1901, and Phoebe Hessel, the Anna
zon, who received a bayonet wound
at Fontenoy in 1745, lived to be 1OS,
receiving pension from the private
purse of George ". until her death
A veteran of Culloden drew a pension
for 60 years, and died aged 1O6, and
a man, whose horse was shot under
him, at Edgehill, in 1642, died, "a
years later, aged 113. There Is now
no survivor of Waterloo, but Nine.
Givron, of Viesville, Hainault, saw
the ground drenched with blood, and
Napoleon riding ''as If in dream"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
A Sergical Operation

is always dangerous-do not submit to
the surgeons knife until you have tried
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. 1t will
cure when everything else fails-it has
lone this in thousands of cases. Here is
one OF them: suffered from bleeding
and protrudiug piles for twenty years.
Was treated by different specialists and
used many remedies, but obtained no re-
lief until I used DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve. Two boxes of this salve cured me
eighteen months ago and l have not had
a touch of the piles since.--H, A. Tisdale,
Summertou, S. c. For Blind, Bleeding,
Itching and Protrudiug Piles no remedy
equals DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
Eli 7. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
Where Richelieu Is Buried.

Although stern edict has gone
forth to no longer bottle up the new
wine of science and letters in the old
receptacle of Richelieu, even official
iconoclasts have spared the familiar
dome which covers the great cardi-
nails tomb. The new Sorbonne, how
ever elaborate, would hardly be the
Sorbonne at all without Richelieu's
splendid chapel as its heart. Students
and professors no longer have to
bow before the altar, and no Sor-
bonne doctors fill the pulpit, but
who so chooses can enter and either
find a service, or at least view the
beautiful sarcophagus beneath which
lies the dust of the great Armand
Jean du Plessis himself, in the midst
of the institution he builded anew.
lavishing the millions of his private
fortune thereon, and even mortgag-
ing the estate of his heirs. Above
the tomb has in recent years been
suspended his carefully preserved
cardinals hat, while the head itself,
savagely severed when the tomb was
violated in 1898, has also been mirac-
ulously recovered and replaced on
the embalmed remains. Even the
tomb itself was carted away and kept
for many years at the museum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
HERD OF BUFFALO IN CANADA.
Thirty-Three of the Rare Animals
Are Carefully Preserved at
Winnipeg.

There are SO buffaloes in the dominion
herd at the Banff National park in Win
nipeg. All are in splendid condition,
says the Bangor Commercial. There
arc IA full-grown bulls and the old
patriarch is 30 years of age. He was
the first animal to be owned by Lord
Strathcona at Silver Heights, where all
west came from.
This animal is of hist oric Importance.
Very soon he will be shot and then he
will be mounted. He has been might
fighter and has retained the leadership
of the herd throughout many years
until two years ago when he met his
waterloo. Old as he was his immense
bulk and strength enabled him to kill
one antagonist and to nearly dispose
Of another. Had it not been that he
broke his horn on a rock the issue
would probably have been different.
The bull which now rules the herd
is one imported from Silver Heights
and which defeated all the other bulls
one by one. A herd of such dimensions
rs that is a sight which, since the time
when the buffalo roamed in countless
herds over the prairies, has rarely
greeted the eyes of white man. The
enterprise of the officials who have had
the buffalo in charge for their efforts
to preserve this tangible link of those
days before the great west felt the
tanning hand of the white settler upon
his name is to be commended by all who
feel an interest In the life which oc-
cupied our great solitudes before his
tory began for us.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
HUMOROUS.

Higgelty-"Poor chap! he's walking
on his uppers." Piggelty-"Dear, dear!
Can't even call his sole his wn!"-Har.
ward Lampoon.
Percy-"Miss Sweetly, do you think
you could be happy with a man like
me?' Miss Sweetly-"Well, perhaps
II he wasn't too much like you'll
Comic Cuts.
Pertinent Inqniry.-Biggs (smok.
ing)-"This is something like cigar.
old man." Diggs ((getting a whiff)-
Yes, er-something like. What is
it, anyway?"-Chicago Daily News.
whats Jinks a-doin' of now?"
"Settin' still an growlin' at the world"
What for?' "Well, the world won't
rise up an make living for him.
Atlanta Constitution.
Jonathan-"I say, Britisher, can you
spell horse?" Englishman-"' 'Orse?
Why, certainly. 1t honly takes a
haitch and no and har andra hess
and he to spell 'orse. kansas City
Journal.
"Why, there isn't enough room in
this fiat to swing a cat" said the man.
contemptuously. "That needn't both.
er you," promptly replied the janitor.
Eve don't allow cats ere."-Philadel
phia Press.
Would Seem so.-Gunner-"I am go.
ing to look in the front of this maga.
zine for the best pictures of the day"
Guyer-"Oh, you should look in the
back. The best magazine artists are
illustrating advertisements these
days" Chicago Daily News.
Johnny-"Is there any difference,
pa, between sleeplessness and insom.
MAP" Pa-"Yes, indeed, Johnny,
great deal of difference. Anybody can
be sleepless, but it is only persons who
have money and a place in society
who suffer from insomnia. ."-Poston
Transcript
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17

wasn't? 4 want your blessin' on our
union, ma he winds up. Won't you
give it to meT
"And what could do but give it to
him, him bein' the only child I've got
in the world and the pride of my
heart?
'And now I s'pose since she's took
him into partnership in that physical
cultcher school of her'n they're swing
in rods and jumpin' ropes and turn
in handsprings together, a-makin' of
themselves the most perfect pair of
creatures the sun ever shone on. Max
in money out of it at the same time,
strange to say. The fools amt all
dead yet up there in New York, and
people pay to be taught how to breathe
different from the way nature intend
ed 'em to breathe and to stand on their
heads when the good Lawd expected
when he made 'em to see 'em stand on
their feet. Sendin' it like dutiful chill
dren to me, some of it, to pay hired
man to take Jonathan's place on the
farm and NOW the hay and chop the
wood III the wood pile'-
YES" urged Liza as she paused
with a curious catch of the breath and
tear in her eye.
Mrs. Simpson, folding her hands,
looked wistfully out over the hills
where the grass waved gently, warm
ed by soft rays of slanting late sun
shine and blinked back the tear.
''But a hired man can't take Jona-
than's place in my heart" she finished,
"and what's the use of havin' son
what's a perfect man If you've lost
him?"
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RISING SUN, CECIL COUNTY, MD. FRIDAY, H. 1908


nan! It's all right, Liza, and amt
sayin' nothin' ag'in it, for them old
Roman people what didn't have moth
in else at all to do to go about bathin'
and bieathin' and exercisin', a-turnin'
of themselves into perfect men, but
with everything on the farm goin' to
the dogs it was different"
The thread broke again. This time,
contrary to all established rules of
darning, she knotted it.
"Umph! And extravagant! When
he'd bought about everything he could
buy in this here town he sent to New
York for more poles and bars and
straps and trapezes to litter up the
house with. And that want all. Pret-
ty soon here come letters-one every
mornin'. Jonathan, if you please, tax
in lessons in physical cultcher from
somebody or other there in New York
what had run out of everything else
to do and gone to teachin' people how
to make idiots of themselves.
'"Then, if you could "a seen this
house. Directions pasted up every
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17

vas that shocked she left immediate,
Sam JOhnston's wife to tell her about
it, and the next time l went to the So
ciabe in the basement of the church
everybody SHE'D off from me same's if
I'd had the plague.
'There want no improvement in
Jonathan as time went on. If 1 come
In and asked him to chop a little of the
wood what was risin' high as the roof
of the wood shed found him cavortin'
l0ury1 over the carpet like some four
legged animal doin' his exercises or
turnin' himself wrong side out and all
but standin' on his head or takin'
breatlls, a-holdin' of his mouth shet so
long at time, keepin' 'em in, you'd
"a thought to look as him he'd bust.
He's amiable, as 1 said. He'd right
himself and smile and say, Yes, 1 will,
ma but the pile of wood never got no
smaller that l or anybody else could
see, not by the eighth of an inch.
''Then one mornin l found a letter on
his table full of little pictures of men
III liiC oOl VI oullS Wud
Jonathan wore in every position under
the sun eXceptin' the position men oc-
cupy when they NOW hay or chop wood
in wood sheds, and it was from a girl.
a light broke on me.
Jonathan says l, sharplike, be this
young woman teacher you've bin
takin' your physical cultcher lessons
from all this time?
Jonathan kind of hung his head and
answers, Yes, ma, it be-
''Then l gave him up for good"
Mrs. Simpson took the darning ball
out and laid the stocking across her
knee, smoothing it thoughtfully with
fingers that trembled little.
''The rest of the story is easy finish
cd" resumed she, "'Twa'n't long be,
fore Jonathan lie come to me and says:
Ma, I'm goin' up to New York for
spell. There are some new things l
want to learn about this physical
cultcher.' addin', his head down ag in,
My teacher, she tells me I've made
no wonder, with the practice he'd had
-'she wants to see me- addin' ag'in in
an olfhand way, She'll give me lessons
for nothin' if I'll come, she Writes.'
"Tain't no use arguin' with an on
ly son. The best thing to do is to let
him have his way in the beginnin'.
He'll have it before he's through every
time. So l answers back, We'll, Jona-
than, the crops is about ruined now,
the fences is all down and the saw is
rusty from not cuttin' the wood in that
wood pile what's riz SO high it's about
to burst the roof of the shed, so /
s'pose you might as well go and finish
up with this makin' a perfect man of
yourself.' Then says, tryin' not to be
more bitter than 1 oughter be by rights,
Il hope you'll succeed
''He stayed a week, two, three, and
l had a letter from him statin' the
news. Ma he writes I'm to be mar
ried tomorrow mornin' to my physical
cultcher teacher, Miss Anna Smythe'
Coin on explainin': She's the most
beautiful and perfect woman in the
world Did you ever see bride what
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
Some t hing Doing.

Deacon Bones - heah somebody
done broke into Mistah Browns chick
ing coop last night.
Nose Jackson-I hope yo' don't spect
me, deacon?
Deacon Bones-I won't say I does,
an won't say I doesn't, but I invites
mahself to eat dinnah wifi yo' to-day,
jes' de same.-N. Y. journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
Now He Is Good,

An obedient husband up in Franklin
county, Maine, was objecting to doing
certain work about the house, and he
quoted Scripture to his wife, showing
that the household duties should prop
erly be assigned to the woman. The
good wife replied by reading to her as
tonished liege III Kings, xxi, 13: 81 will
wipe out Jerusalem as a man wipeth a
dish, wiping it and turning it upside
down." That husband has wiped the
dishes ever since.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
What He EscaDed.

YES" sighed the lovelorn youth,
"she gave me the marble heart
"Well, it might have been WORSE"
suggested his friend.
How could it?" queried the dis
carded one.
"She might have married you," re-
piled the consoler, "and made you
eat her marble cake" e."-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
Just About Bed Time

take Little Early Riser-it will cure
constipation, biliousness and liver trou-
bles. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are
different from other pills. They do not
grippe and break down the mucous men,
branes of the stomach, liver and bowels,
but cure by gently arousing the secretions
and giving strength to these organs.
Eli 7. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings Of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on th
second Tuesday OF every month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring il
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test: R. E. JAMAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
r TAYLOR,
NOTICE

BY THE ORPHANS COURT FOR CECIL COUNTY
January a. 1902. !
ORDERED, That all Administrators, E1
ecutors and Guardians that have not state
an account within year, come forward an
do the same. or show cause to the contrary
or they will be cited up.
Test: R. E. JAMAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
He Raised the Figure.

Miss Maintenance suppose you've
heard of my engagement to Mr..
jerks?
Her Friend-Yes, and I confess I
was surprised. You told me once
that you wouldn't marry him for
10000.
Miss Mainchance-I know, dear, but
I discovered later that he had fifty
thousand Bits,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
Pedigrees to Order

"Where are you goin' with Fido,
Freddie?"
"I'm goin' to take him down to the
store and buy him pedigree like Bill
ly Smiths dogs got" Chicago Amer
lean.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17

Having in the course of his SO years
of life buried 26 wives, a farmer of
Buziens, in France, has just married
27th. Nor is the lady raw beginner
at the game. She has buried is hus-
| bands
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17

Trains leave Oxford for Philadelphia at 90
A. M and 2 Is o. m. Marke: train leaves
Rowlandville, Tuesdays and Fridays at $50;
Liberty Grove. SS5: Colora. s.44; Rising sun $50.
Sylmar BOG; Noting cham, Is; oxford, 1000 M,
arriving at West Philadelphia, $50 p.
Sunday train leaves oxford at 6.55 arriving in
Philadelphia at 9.l2 a. m: aud 6.GO, arriving in
Philadelphia at 7 so p m Saturday only, 9.2b p IN
W. W. ATTERBURY, J.R. WOOD.
Ges'I. Manager. Gen. Pdssr agent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-07-17
WIN
DHILADELPHIA. BA TO. &

WASHINGTON K. K
CENTRAL DIVISION
On and after May Path, 1903, trains will rnu
follows:
LEAVE GOING SOUTH.