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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
GIRLS BLOW THEIR HAIR.
New Fad from which Young Women
of America Are Growing
Strong Chinned.

A prevalent fashion of the day is en-
dangering the small chinned facial
type of the American woman, and pos
sibly also The peace of American men
of tomorrow if there is any truth in
the belief that appearance and charac-
ter are independent. The peril lies in
the habit the girls have of constantly
blowing the sunburst locks Of their
pompadours up off their foreheads, says
the Chicago Tribune.
There is rumor that the manner
ism started in the young women's SEM
inaries, where no man was by to reg
lister his protest. In support of this
it has been declared by one eye wit
ness of dining-room scene at Phila-
delphia boarding school that undoubt-
eddy the trick. at once so airy and so
dissipating, sprang into breath first in
the Quaker city.
This person declares that in the
early springtime she saw hundred
girls protruding their lower lips sever
al times during dinner, rolling their
eyes -pettishly,- daintily, CO.
quetushly, carelessly, according to the
temperament of the individual-tak-
ing aim at the offending fringe which
overhung their eyebrows, and blowing
at the mark with skill that varied. with
their respective avoirdupois. Since
then these hundred girls have scat
tered over the states of the union, car
rying with them this practice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
LONG DISTANCE BELLIES.
New Distinction for the Summer
Girls Who Are Called Often
by Telephone.

1t is familiar statement that Wom-
en- who go to the country for the
sum mer seem to find more delight in
their trips to town than their sojourn
at the summer resort. The frequency
with which they come into town de-
Ponds on their ingenuity in inventing
some pressing necessity for seeing the
dressmaker, the dentist or the doc
tor. 1t is usually the dentist who
serves them best as an excuse, for he
may be made the pretext for visit
to town at any time, says the New
York Sun.
The superiority of the girl who goes
oftenest to town over her associates
in the hotel is always noticeable She
shares temporarily the continued tri-
umph of the engaged girl, who. as
everybody knows, is looked upon by
the other young women as worthy of
envy in the highest degree.
Next to the girl who is engaged and
the girl who goes oftenest to town
the girl who is most frequently called
up on the telephone is regarded as a
favorite of fortune. To be called up
on the long-distance phone from New
York must mean something serious,
summer boarders say. 1t is expensive
enough to imply that the engagement
is almost ready to announce.
To be called UP once a week on the
phone will fill the other young women
at the hotel with excitement. while to
be called up daily fills the hearts of
all the others with chagrin, not exclud-
ing the engaged one and the one that
goes oftenest to town.
1t is only by these vicarious methods
that girls may be bellies in the sum-
mer hotels to-day. The number of men
in these places Is SO small and most
of them are so young that actual SUI
periority among the girls struggling
for their attentions is hollow victory.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Property Transfers.

James Fl. Foard and wife tc
John Lawrence and Albert E.
Stephenson, 6 acres near Baldwin, s,
in the Fourth district, $500.
Anna w. Miller, executrix, to
Ella M. Mahoney, property near
Union Church, $3.50.
Sarah E. Chichester to Fri G.
Wherry, lot at Pleasant Hill, 500.
George r. Tyson to John G.
First, interest in tract of land in
Seventh district, $500.
L. Marshall Haines, Assignee,
to Addie Pussy and Howard
Pussy, Coale property of 10 acres
in Sixth district, $500.
Harry B. Arrison and others to
Sarah L. Merry, interest in Merry
property on West Main street, Elk
ton, $1,000.
J. Harry Poist to Henry Watson.
property near Akin, in Seventh
district, $500.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
1nsurnnce Policy as Pass.

A story has reached the state depart
ment at Washington of novel use to
which life insurance policy was re-
Gently put by an American travelling in
Russia. The citizen in question had
neglected to provide himself with
passport and when he arrived at the bor-
ders of the cars domains he was held
up by an official with a demand for his
passport. For an instant the American
was /stumped, but he quickly rose to the
emergency. Diving into his inside peck
ct he pulled out his life insurance pol
icy and handed it to the Russian. The
latter gravely looked the paper over,
carefully scrutinizing the imposing
looking seal and the array of sigma
lures. With satisfied air he handed
back the paper and the American passed
an
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
SELECT RED-sKINNED WIVES.
American Army Officers Who Have
Linked Their Lives with
Those of Squaws.

1t is announced from Fort Leaven-
worth that the government is taking no.
tice of army officers who married Fill
lpino girls after the loose fashion of the
islands and then abandoned them. The
particular case is one In which young
officer became engaged to a Leaven-
worth girl 1t was known that this Off
Ger had lived with a Filipino girl near
Manila after some sort of a marriage
ceremony. The Leavenworth girl is
said to have no objections to the facts
in the case and will marry her lover
when he gets divorce from his Filipino
wife, states the Kansas City Journal.
However, there Is nothing particularly
new in the revelations with respect to
"morganatic" marriages by United
States army officers. Before the civil
war 1t was almost the customary thing
for officers stationed in Oregon or WASH
ington Territory to consort with Indian
girls. At Tacoma or Seattle the visitor
often has pointed out to him half-breeds
who bear the names of some of the most
distinguished of civil war generals and
who are known to be the sons or daugh-
tiers of these officers. tits explained that
when these officers were young lieu-
tenants they were stationed In the wilds
of the northeast far from the society
of women of their own kind; that they
needed housekeepers: that it was the
custom of the region for white men to
consort with Indian maidens; that. ac-
cording to Indian standards, there wns
nothing wrong about it and that from
every standpoint it was advantageous
to the girl taken for a tenn porary wife.
At the little town of Puyallup. ten
miles from Tacoma. there are two fine
looking men who bear the name of a gen.
eral who for a. long time was at the head
of the quartermaster's department Of the
United States army. These men are the
sons of the general He married their
mother, Puyallup Indian. when he was
a lieutenant and stationed at the Puy-
allup Indian agency long before tho civil
war. In later years be married an
American woman in the far east and
reared family But he did not aban
don his family on the Pacific coast. His
sons were taken cast and put through
one of the leading colleges. He frequent
Iy visited them and openly acknowl
edged them. On one occasion, at least,
he was accom- panied hv his American
wife, who seemed to know tho circum-
stances and to have accept ed them philo-
sophically. His Indian wife lived for
some years after he had married his
American spouse. though he never Wis
tied her. But old-+imars about Tacoma
will tell the visitor how he made her
old age comfortable while caring AS
father should for the sons of their mar
riage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
FIRST MAKER OF STEEL.
Oneer Who Died at Alton, N. Y,
Twenty Years Ago.

A contract made by Cornelius Ather-
ton, the pioneer steel manufacturer in
the United States, and bearing date of
I772, was found recently among the eff
fects of Cornelius Atherton, Jr., who
died about 20 years ago at Alton, N Y.
w. M Anterior, of Chicago, a descend
ant, found the document, reports the
New York Tribune. By the terms of
the contract Mr.. Anterior agreed ''to
learn and instruct James and Ezra Reed
in the art of making STEEL" The con-
tract bore the signature of Thomas Bar
low, of Kent, Litchfield county, Conn.,,
who drew up the document, and that Of
the witness, Thomas Delano, great-uncle
of Columbus Delano, secretary of the
interior in President Grants cabinet.
Mr.. Barlow was brother of Joel Bar
low, United States minister to France
under President Madison.
When the Reeds signed the contract
with Mr. Atherton. about 1872 years ago,
the colonies were entirely dependent
upon England and Germany for their
supply of steel How Cornelius Ather-
of steel making is not known, but that
he was the first steel manufacturer in
this country has not been successfully
disputed.
Mr.. Atherton was born in Cambridge,
Mass, in 1876. He became connected
with the Dover iron works in 1853, and
six years later, with John and Samuel
Adams and John Hancock, the manufac-
ture of firearms and cutlery was begun
in Boston. The works were burned,
supposedly by British soldiers, and soon
after Mr.. Atherton went to Pennsyl-
vania, and was one of the founders of
Scranton. 1t was then called Slocum
Hollow. Mr.. Atherton died at Alton
on December 4. 1909. and a son was killed
at the Wyoming (Pa,) massacre.
James and Ezra Reed owned the Do
yer iron works in which Mr. Atherton
acted as manager for about five years,
The old contract Is highly priced by
Mr.. Atherton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
BEAR GOES TO SCHOOL.
Attracted by Lunches of Pupils He
Becomes n Regular and Well
coined Visitor.

Constant contact with humanity has
so tanned the Adirondack bear that his
western brother would not recognize
him One, whose habitation the New
York Sun has placed at Sanders Mill,
on the Mad river, actually goes to
school. He may still be uncertain in
literature and vague in spelling, but
ne is rapidly learning gentle manners.
He came slouching out of the woods
one day and advanced directly on the
district schoolhouse. Some of the
children had eaten their luncheon on
the grass in front of the building. The
bear stopped and licked up the crumbs
and scattered remnants of the repast,
and then stuck his head in at the
schoolhouse door.
The children and the school-teacher
screamed, and the big fellow was so
frightened that he took to his lumber
ing heels. The next day, however, he
came to the schoolhouse the same
hour, and ate the crumbs and crusts
as before. He looked at the school
house door, but did not venture there.
After he had eaten every morsel he
went slowly back to the woods.
His visits soon became of daily reg
ularity, and as it was evident that he
came with no evil intent, the teacher,
and now and then a pupil, took to
tossing him an apple or bit of lunch
con. From that to feeding him out of
their hands was an easy step, until
now the bear has almost quartered
himself in that school district, and
lunches regularly with the Sanders
Mill school children and their teacher
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
The Oldest Tree.

The cypress Of Soma, in Lombardy,
is said to be the Oldest tree in the
world of which there is authentic
record. 1t is supposed to have been
planted in the year Of the birth of
Christ, but the Able Belize tells us
that there is chronicle at Milan
which speaks of it as a grown tree
in the time of Julius Caesar. A rival
to this is the eucalyptus. or gum tree,
near the foot of Mount Wellington, in
Tasmania, which is $50 feet high and
fully 30 feet in diameter. A gigantic
trunk in the province of Oaxaca, in
Mexico, measures 200 feet in circum-
ference at its base, and according to
an average rate of growth it's age
would exceed 5000 years. Cypress
trees in parts of America are very long
lived. By counting the concentric rings
where they have been sawn through
it has been estimated that 1000 years
is no uncommon period of growth in
California. Ceylon and elsewhere, and
some British oaks and yews are of ex-
IRENE old age.-Detroit Free Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Abe Buzzard in the Tolls.

"Abe" Buzzard, the former
famous Welsh mountain outlaw, is
again in the tolls, having been
arrested and lodged in Berks
county, Pa, Jail on the charge of
wholesale chicken stealing. The
detectives allege that Buzzard has
been carrying on his poultry opera
tions for more than year, stealing
between 100 and $50 chickens
every week. His arrest revives re-.
collections of himself and his
four brothers, who held at bay
the population of Lancaster county,
making swoops from their haunts
in the Welsh Mountains some years
ago.
Abe Buzzard is 55 years Of age,
30 of which have been spent behind
prison bars. Some years ago
"Abe" reformed, professed CONVEX
sion and started on an evangelizing
tour through the counties where he
had carried on horse stealing for
years. He held number of his
religious services in the woods near
Nottingham, Chester county. He,
however, tired of his new mode of
life, fell frcm grace and was soon
behind the bars again on the charge
of horse stealing while holding his
campmeetings.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Not A Sick Day Since.

81 was taken severely sick with
kidney trouble. l tried all sorts OF
medicines, none of which relieved
me. One day saw an adj. of your
Electric Bitters and determined to
try that. After taking few doses
l felt relieved, and soon thereafter
was entirely cured, and have not
seen a sick day since. Neighbors
of mine have been cured of Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia, Liver and Kid.
ney troubles and General Debility"
This is what b. f. Bass, of Ere
mont, N. c., writes. Only SOC, at
Eli T. Reynolds drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Enrlx suuirreI sconrre..

Accounts of early writer's show that
squirrels must formerly have been
amazingly numerous. Golman says that
the gray coat was a fearful scourge to
the colonial farmers and that Penn
sylvania paid $4,000 in bounties for
their scalps in 1749 alone This meant
the destruction of $4,000 within a
comparatively small district In the
early days of western settlement regu-
lar hunts were organized by the in
habitants, who would range the woods
in two companies from morning till
night. wing as to which band should
bring home the greatest number of
trophies. The quantities thus killed
are almost incredible now.-Boston
Budget.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Disastrous Wrecks.

Carelessness is responsible for
many railway wrecks and the same
causes are making human wrecks
of sufferers from Throat and Lung
troubles. But since the advent OF
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con
sumption, Coughs and Colds, even
the worst cases can be cured, and
hopeless resignation is no longer
necessary. Mrs. Lois Cragg of
Dorchester, Mass, is one of many
whose life was saved by DR.. Kings
New Discovery. This great rem
edy is guaranteed for all Throat
and Lung diseases by Eli t. Rey-
nolds, druggist. Price soc, and
S1.00 Trial bottles free.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20

The p, B. & w. railroad has
issued sl0,OOO,OOO of first mort
gage A per cent 20 year gold bonds,
the proceeds from the sale of which
will be used to pay for extensive
improvements along the line
and at Washington. These i'm
provements include new machine
shops and roundhouse, a new
bridge, double track, across the
Susquehanna river, and the proper
ton to be paid by this company
for the building of the fine new
Union Depot in Washington.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Lightning,s aueer Prank.

In the state of Maine lightning has
been playing pranks in way to star
tie the inhabitants. Two miles above
Norridgewock, in clearing on the
west bank of the river, stood a tall
pine, from limb of which some years
ago a student of the Eaton school
hanged himself. When the woodsmen
came that way afterward they cut
down all the other pines, but spared
the suicide tree, as it has been known.
One night bolt of lightning stripped
from the tree every branch except that
from which the student hanged him.
self, and which is identified by notch
cut where the rope was fastened. A
little way off the lightning cut deep
and narrow channel through the CEN
ter of a great fiat rock on the river
bank, as neatly as stone cutters could
have done 1t.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
THE SNOWY vENETIANS.
Plensure-LovinE People Are Gaudy
i'm Their Tastes and Sacrifice
Comfort to Display.

The Venetian people of to-day are
coarse and gaudy in their tastes, pleas
ure-loving, admiring display. even cur
failing their meager diet in order to OBJ
tain some fondly desired article of
snowy attire, says London newspaper.
The food of the present-day Venetian
is of nature that does not appeal to the
effete western palate, 1t consists large
ly in fried cells, fish, polenta Ga species of
yellow Indian meaD cake, broth made
from scrap meat refused by the sausage
makers, roast pumpkins and chestnuts.
"A specially coveted delicacy is made of
clotted poultry blood, fried with slices
of onion.
The aristocrats sip their coffee and
absorb their ices in the cafes on the
plaza of St Mark, which is really huge
open-air drawing room for every one in
the city. Coffee drinking goes on all
day, from early morn till dewy eve and
there is no time during the "a hours
when the acrid odors of the roasting
berry does not penetrate the reluctant
hose of the tourist.
SioNOAOi WIZ hdO NlolJCu ILLS
Interesting spot has seen the famous
lion of st. Mark, who once more reposes
at his former distinguished altitude on
pillar in front of the church of that
name. AS all the world knows, the lion
is the particular symbol of ST. Mark the
Evangelist, patron of Venice. The We
netian lion has knowing countenance
as becomes his high estate, and rests one
paw on an open copy of the Holy Book.
When Napoleon II. during his conquest
of Italy visited Venice he removed many
of her most valued antiquities and relics
to Paris, among them the lion After
the fall of the empire these spoils were
restored to their rightful owners, but
unfortunately during his travels the
lion had relaxed his grasp on the Book,
which was lost. A new copy was at
once supplied him, and now only an ex-
pert can detect the difference. st.
Marks lion, constant companion of the
Evangelist, and the Gospels are sup
posed to be contemporaneous, fact
which caused a celebrated wit to inquire
whether the recent copy now resting
under the lions paw was not the latest
revised edition,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Doesn't Respect Old Age.

It's shameful when youth fails
to show proper respect for old
age, but just the contrary in the
case of DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They cut off maladies no matter
how severe and irrespective of age.
Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Fever, Con-
stipation all yield to this perfect
Pill. 25c, at Eli t. Reynolds
Drug Store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
A Runaway Bicycle,

Terminated with an ugly cut on
the leg of j. r. Orner, Franklin
Grove, Ill. 1t developed stub.
born ulcer unyielding to doctors
and remedies four years. Then
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured.
It's just as good for Burns, Scalds,
Skin Eruptions and Piles. 25c, at
Eli T. Reynolds Drug Store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
Only American Exhibit.

The only American exhibit at the
Osaka (Japan) exposition is that of
Oregon, whose legislature voted "a 900
for the purpose. Canada voted $40 900
and Austria $4,000 to aid exhibitors.
and Germany>is very we'll represented
in all lines. A syndicate of japanese
with cash capital of
$4,000 has purchased the Oregon ex.
hibit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
The independence of the Isthmu

The independence of the Isthmus
of Panama was proclaimed last
week. Tuesday a large and en-
thusiastic crowd of all political
parties assembled and marched to
the headquarters of the Govern
ment troops, where Generals Tovar
and Amaya were imprisoned in
the name of the Republic of Pana
ma. The battalion of Colombian
troops at Panama favors the
movement.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-11-20
The Best Only.

Sideshow Manager Ito his partner)-
Well have to fire that glass-eater He's
gettin' too darn tony q
His Partner-How's dat?
Manager-Well. he won't eat nuthin'
but cut glass now.-N. o. Times
Democrat
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-01-31
ABOUT OUR fRIENDs.
Personal aention Of Prominent People.
How they are and Where they are.

Miss Oracle Howell Of Ellington
was at the Wallace House yesterday.
ID. @. Ramsey and wife OF Weston
! have been here recently.
A. j. Barker of Ridgedale was 10
town on business Friday.
r. s. Blades OF Elizabeth City, N.
G., has been here for few days past.
Mr.. John Murphy returned this
afternoon TO Sheridan after being In
town for several days on business.
Director James "a, Stewart has been
in Charleston attending the various
meetings Of agricnlturist this week
Miss Eta Willis has gone to
Bridgeport where she was called by
the illness OF her 81 ster who has fever.
DR.. W. NJ. Sivey is in Philadelphia
in attendance on meeting CT a
coal company of which he is direc-
tor.
Miss Anna Hennen has been quite
sick for several days. Her sister, Mrs.
Smith of Wheeling has been here
while she has been lex.
Prof. IL. A. Armstrong has been
called from Harvard University by the
serious Illness of his wife. He is at
her bedside in Grafton now. Mrs
Armstrong is very i'll and grave fears
are entertained that she will, not re-
cover.
Gilbert John is still confined to the
house on account of severe scalds
which he received some time ago.
A few days ago the operation Of skin
grating was performed on him and he
is getting along very nicely. 1t will
be couple of months before he is en-
tirely we'll however.
Fred e. Dean who has the contract
for grading for the street car line has
been forced to lay off number of his
men on account of the mud and
weather. A number of slides have
taken place in the Fourth ward on the
grading which has already been done
and all the men have been laid of.
They will start again Just as soon as
the weather settles. Good progress
has been made on the work
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-01-31
MID WINTER EXCURSION TO
WASHINGTON.
Very Low Rates, Baltimore Il Ohio
II. r.

In accordance with its usual Gus
tom, the Baltemore & Ohio r r. will
on January % and February 10, 1903,
run Two Popular Mid winter Excur-
sions to Washington at very low rates
for the round trip, allowing ten days
return limit on tickets, including
date of sale.
Excellent train service, standard
coaches, Pullman parlor and sleeping
cars
These delightful excursions afford
splendid opportunities to visit the
National Capital during the session of
Congress For tickets, time OF trains
and full information call on or ad-
dress A. ID. Griffith, Agent b. s. O..
r. r.
A most complete and fully illustra-
ted Guide to Washington may be pur-
chased from Agents B. & o. r. r. at
ten cents per copy.