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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
French statesman Averse to Pomp

French Statesman Averse to- Pomp
Camille Pelletan. the French minis.
ter Of marine, is noted as typical DO
hemian. He has spent good part OF
his life in the Latin quarter. and even
now, though compelled to live in the
magnificent place of marine. he fire.
1uently entertains his bohemian
friends. Another noted bohemian in
he French government is Tissier
president of the cabinet. Pelletar
and Tissier were chums at college
and are close friends now.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
x-Rays Remove Smallpox Scars.

1t is alleged that applications OF
the X-rays will remove the marks left
IN the skin by smallpox. Not only
are we told that experiments have
been successful with patients just re-
covering, but there is also reason to
believe that pitting of many years
standing may be removed. The old
scars of burns and tuberculosis ar
also removed by the X-rays.-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
prescott Was : 4Mother,s soy.

Prescott was not only well born
but happily born. His heredity was
nicely fitted to his problem of life.
From his mother Governor Wolcott
thought he derived his "unfailing
spirits" In Pierce's Life Of Sumner
there is record Of conversation
at dinner, where Webster, Ticknor.
Sumner and Prescott were present.
among others. The talk turned on the
question, what most vitality shaped
mems character and activities. Some
said one thing. some another. "Mr.
Prescott declared that mothers in
fiuence was the most potent" He
was living witness. All the &C
counts which Ticknor piously gather.
ed from Salem contemporaries agree
that the boy William had his bright
vivicity from his mother.-Rollo Og
den, in the March Atlantic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

In German cities merchants are not
allowed to put up selling out" signs
unless they are honest. In Mainz a
fne of 500 marks Is inflicted for every
ransgression of this law. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

Gotham's Former Mayors. .:
New, York has seven surviving ex-
nayors-Gilroy, Ely, Grant, Van
Wyck, Cooper. Edison. and Low.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
Not Circulated Fast Enouob,

Not Circulated Fast Enough.
"She's not to be trusted" said the
gossip.
why not?'
II told her all about the scandal,
and she promised not to mention II.
and she didn't"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
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A@T ES5A<ESd
R:Yyl6bS Ard CONfyfNtS&
ggsI y

The campaign will be on in dead
earnest in few days, and the man
behind the gun will have to divide
time with the man behind the jaw.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

The statement is made by travellers
that Japan has not nearly so many
poor people as the United States. But
then, Japan has not SO many multi
millionaires.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

Bishop Potter says he learned while
in California that San Francisco wa;
the front door of the United States
and New York the back door. 1t IL
still customary, however, for all goods
to be delivered in the rear.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

Lydia Vegetable Compound the one sure rem
period
safety
she must well being thas
against sickness and suffering.
LydsE Ptnkhs
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

A New York physician says fathers
should encourage their boys to play
baseball. Any boy that needs en-
couragement in that direction is hard
ly worth the trouble.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

hard, but the doctor thought different and
prescribed tonics, which l took by tho
Quart without relief. Reading one day In
the paper Of Mrs. Pinkham's great cures.
and finding the symptoms described an
swercd mine, decided would give Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound q
trial. did not say word to the doctor ;
/ bought it myself, and took it according
to directions regularly for two months
and I found that I gradually improved,
and that all pains left me, and ! was my
old self once more. - LILLE E. SINCLAIR
II E. 22d St., Chicago Ill"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

] Young women may avoid much sick J
ness and pain, says Miss Alma Pratt, if
they will only have faith in the use of
Lydia E. Pi,lzham's Vegetable Compound.
"DEAR Mrs PNKHAM:-I feel duty tell all young
how much Lydia Pnkhas wonderful Vegetable Compound has
completely unable
did not for kind of society but now feel like
and gained pounds of flesh in three months
recommend all young
ness"-MIss ALMA PRATT, Holly Mich.
FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO YOUNG GIRLS
young girls life earnestly invited to
write Mrs Pinkham for adv1ce she has guided way
given, address is Mass.
the letters she receiving from girls Mrs
altogether
limit Of their nowadays in public schools and
studies girl
physical collapse follows and
recovered
A Young Chicago Girl Saved from Despair.
for the help and BEN
Of Pnkhams
table COMPOUND / about seventeen
o1dT ddopv to IOSAm nv
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

AS they have it figured out now. We
have to have big navy to protect
those more or less troublesome colo
NAL possession that we would not have
had if we had not had a big navy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
Libbie Hart Dead.

A letter from MISS Helen f..
Van Glove, b ingS the sad intelli.
gence that Miss Elizabeth w.
Hart, more famiiarly known to
her acq Iaintanc"s as Aunt Lib
by" died at her home in that city
on Sunday morning, August
2Sth.
Miss Hart had been IN usual
health and death seems to have
stolenaway her spirit so gently as
not to disturb a single muscle; for
when she did not make her ap-
pearance at the usual time in the
morning, and Mrs. Van Cleve
went to her bedside, there was
nothing save the chilled brow to
Indicate that she was not enjoy:
ing peaceful sleep.
Miss Hart was a daughter of
Adam Hart and was probably
born at Gem in this county while
her parents resided in that place
about 1925.
A few years later, her father
removed with his family to Hart.
ford City, Indiana.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
More Riots.

Disturbances of strikers are
not nearly as grave as an indlvid-
ual disorder of the system. Over
work, loss of sleep, nervous ten
sion will be followed by utter col
lapse, unless a reliable remedy is
lm mediately employed. There :
nothing so efficient to cure dis
orders of the liver or kidneys as
Electric Bitters. It's a wonder
full tonic, and effective nervine and
the greatest all around medicine
for run down systems. 1t dis
pels nervousness, rheumatism
and neuralgia and expels malaria
germs. Only SOC, and satisfac-
ton guaranteed at TrouI's Drug
Store.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Everyth thing is in name when
it comes to Witch Hazel Salve
E. q. Dewitt & Co. of Chicago,
discovered some years ago how
to make salve from Witch Haz
el that is specific for piles. Fol
blind, bleeding, itching and pro
truding piles, eczema, cuts, burns,
bruises and all skin diseases,
DeWitt's Salve has no equal
This has given rise to numerous
worthless counterfelts. Ask toi
DeWltt's-the genuine. Sold al
Trout's drug store.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
Burnt Cabins.

Mrs. G. w. McIlray, who has
been visiting her parents, returned
to her home in Penn Valley, Pa. q,
last Saturday.
Uncle Jake Miller spent a few
days with his daughter, Mrs.
Trimmer, in Cumberland county.
He also attended the Changers
Picnic last week.
MissDaisySkinner, of Lancaster,
spent last Tuesday night with Dora
johnson.
w. M. Comerer is on the sick
list.
Mrs. l.. q. Kelley spent last
Saturday at Fannettsburg.
Mrs. John King, of near this
place, met with a bad accident, by
getting potash in her eye.
Geddes Kelly left last Monday
for St. Louis.
Gracy Naugle and family are
visiting relatives at Altoona and
Huntingdon.
Sam'l Bowman and daughter
made a business trip to McCon-
nellsburg last Thursday.
Nevin Montgomery, of Shade
Gap, was pleasant caller in our
town last Saturday evening.
Ed. Welch returned to his home
last Saturday evening from Mt.
Union.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
FOKT LirILETON.

Miss Anna Buckley mas return
ed home from vislL through Tile
Western States.
Samuel RAMSEY Of Tyrone, IL
vlslLlng friends ia Llls place.
Miss Carolyn Charlton, Emma
Lyle, aid friends attended inree
Springs camp last Sunday.
Miss Carrie B. Hill lett Monday
for the Cumberland Valley. SLate
Norma al ShippensDurg.
Blaine HalsLon mad the mlsfor-
tune vi shooting his foot Very
badly but Is geJLing along well.
Miss Sue Orth and brOLner
Will returned home atLer vislLln5
their sister, Mrs. HeeLer at Inre.
Springs.
The folks seemee 10. enjoy Lhe
coon band that was In our town
Friday aud Saturday evening"
"Our girls will be here to.mor-
row night" Come.
H<Nv vsYxAN U<NNyH~ NAV
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
Pleasant Grove.

The farmers are busy getting
ready for seeding.
Edward Clevenger, who went to
Everett, has returned home.
Pearl Hill spent Sunday with
Blanche and Jennie Truax.
Preaching service at Pleasant
Grove Wednesday night was well
attended.
Among those who attended the
dedication at Damascus were Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Layton and David
Garland and family.
Oscar Garland met with II se.
we're accident the other day. He
was chopping squirrel out of ii
tree when the axe flew off the han
die and struck him on the head.
Rev. A. G.. b. Powers was visit
ing friends in this vicinity the
past week.
Mrs. H. X. Hill and little -"
Oscar were guests of Joe Gar
lands on Sunday.
Belle Smith spent Sunday wlIil
Mae and Ethel Peck.
Ralph May,of Sipes Mill, seem
to have some attraction down along
the mountain. Ralph says he likes
to hunt coons in daytime but thai
they are so much easier caught al
night.
Allen b. Smith is all smiles: !,
is boy.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-07
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
OF Local and General Interest, Gathered
at Home or Clipped from our
' Exchanges.
CONDENSED FOR HURRIED READERS

CUNDENoED TON HoNN'LD NLhDLNs
Buy Dold Ha ms, Bacon and
Shoulders at the Irwin Store.
Miss Rhoda Lake of Philadel
phia, is the guest of her friend
Miss Myrtle Stouteagle this
week.
WANTED Good cook and
housemaid or houseman. Good
wages to right party. Address
MRS. r. M. NELSON,
Cham bersburg, Pa.
Prof. Harry Gress and family
returned Wednesday to Jumon-
vile, Pa, where Prof. Gress is
principal of the Soldiers Orphans
School
Go to
g. E. Starr, at Three Springs,
and buy the Regular Mlfflinburg
Spring Wagon at $500. Fertil-
izer at $12.75.
j. G. Kirk, Mark Lodge, Char.
lie Stunkard and Harry Lam ber,
son are here this week busy as
nailers painting Hon. S. w. Kirk s
new buildings and repalntlng
some of the old work.
Avoid serious results of kidney
or bladder disorder by taking
Foley's Kidney Cure. Sold at
Trout's drug store.
w. Don Morton and friend Juan
Santan Ygartua of Porto Rico,
who have been spending their
vacation at the formers home, re.
turned to 9. V S. N. S., Ship
pensburg, on Monday.
Foley's Kidney Cure make the
diseased kidneys sound so they
will eliminate the poisons from
the blood. Sold at Trout'S drug
store.
Downle's show drew big
crowd of people to town Monday,
and as far as we have heard it was
pronounced a good show. Our
business relations with ihe man
agement were entirely satisfact-
ory.
The committe TO tlll' vacancies
in the Republican ticket met
last Saturday and placed the
name of Leslie w. Seylar, land
lord Of the Cooper House., on the
ticket as candidate for the leg
lslature. The District Attorney
ship is still vacant.
Now that the game and fish
wardens seem to be every where
present and are making arrests
and having heavy fines imposed
upon vlOlators Of the laws IN most
remote as well as in more public
places it would be well for the pot
hunters and fishermen to stay
within the bounds Of the law.
A country editor wrote a nice
little puff for leading miliiner,
in which he was glad to see her
stocking up" Meeting the
scribe on the street she soaked
him with a parasol and threaten
ed to tell his wife. The unsoph-
isticated editor has never been
able 70 find out what was wrong
with his item.
WHAT'S IN A NAMEp
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-23
MINOR EVENTSOF THE WEEK
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Secretary Hay is confined to his homo
by a slight recurrence of the grip.
Agnes French, the white maid who
recently stole a quantity of jeWelry
from the apartments of Postmaster
General Payne. was sentenced TO SIX
years in the penitentiary.
The Senate Committee on Pensions
authorized a favorable report on the
Pension Appropriation bill, with an
amendment increasing to S100 month
the pensions of veterans who are to-
tally blind as the result Of service in
the Civil War.
NJ. Bunau-Varilla, the Minister from
Panama, has cabled his resignation
as such to the President of that Repub-
lie.
The Navy Department has received
a cable message from Admiral Evans
saying he will sail for home about
March 26 on the battleship Kentucky.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow, who has been ill with grip
for several weeks, is improving slow
ly, and will soon go to Old Point Com
fort to recuperate.
The Isle Of Pines treaty having been
negotiated to run for nine months, and
the time having expired, the conven-
ton is declared to be dead, having
lapsed by limitation.
1t is reported that the Ameers
boundary pillars on the Afghan-Turk-
istan border have been destroyed by
Russian agency.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-23
DOMESTIC.

Two postal clerks on northbound
train. two miles north of Meridian.
Miss, were shot and killed by negro
during an attempt to rob the train.
George s. Brainerd, President Of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank. of
Montgomery. Mimi, was sentenced to
five years Imprisonment for receiving
deposits when his bank was insolvent.
Attacked by a jaguar during a per.
formance, Harry Welles, a Bostock
trainer. was nearly killed at Philadel-
phia, Pa. He was urging the animals
to leave the cage and in the narrow
passageway to the stage one Of the
jaguars sprang at him.
Jealous of Mrs. Ben Ramsey. at
Terre Haute, Ind, Jerry Dugan killed
her and her two children, then sought
a policeman, confessed and gave him
self up.
Fifteen workmen were killed by the
collapse of a scaffold in the dome Of
the new postoffice building, at Chica-
60. Ill.
Maine Socialists, at Bath, nominated
Captain William ?. Rogers, OF Free
port, for Governor.
Five Cinnamon were burned to death
in fire which destroyed laundry at
San Francisco, Cal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-23
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

The battleship Wisconsin. now AZ
Manila, in the Philippines, has beaten
the worlds record with thirteen-inch
guns. its expert gunners having made
nine bulls eyes out Of ten shots fired
within ten minutes.
The First Presbyterian Hospital at
! Porto Rico was opened at San Juan
with appropriate ceremonies. The hos
pital cost $4,000, which was raised in
New York. :"
The Supreme Court Of Porto Rico
has sustained the decision of the lower
court, which sentenced to death Pedro
Diaz. for shooting a man during the
election riots at Humacao in August.
1902.
Postmaster Harry Earl Biscee. Of
the United States battleship Oregon,
now at Manila, in the Philippines, has
been ordered under arrest by Rear Ad-
miral Evans Tor an alleged Irregular
ity in his accounts.
Five cases Of diphtheria are reported
on board the United States ship Mo-
nongahela, at San Juan, Porto Rico.
Surgeon-General Wyman, Of the
United States Marine Hospital ser
vice, at Honolulu, has invited DR..
Charles B. Cooper, of the Board of
Health. of Hawaii. to become chair
man of a committee to undertake an
exhaustive investigation. and study Of
leprosy.
A parade was held at San Juan re-
Gently by the American Federation of
Labor in honor of Sam Gompers, the
President of that organization. who has
come to Porto Rico in the interests of
the Federation.
Major Scott has returned to Manila
from a successful pursuit and punish
ment of the Vigan mutineers, and the
promptness with which the affair was
handled has caused widespread satis-
faction.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-23
NOTED CHARACTER DEAD
Noah Raby Claimed He Was oldes!
Man in the World.
He Lived to Be Within One Month Of
One Hundred and Thirty-siS Years
His Father Was an Indian.

New Brunswick, n. J.-Noah Rabv
is dead. Just before he entered the
Piscataway poorhouse Noah estab-
lished his age at 100. His proofs as
to the date of his birth were not such
as would be accepted by a court; but
they satisfied him and all who listened
to him. He has lived within one month
of thirty-six years since then. and his
death will be entered on the county
records as having occurred in his 136th
gear.
Although totally blind, shriyoled and
shrunken. and with hardly any life
within few months ago, when he lost
all recollection Of the past and appar-
emily was merely able to humble to
himself.
"Uncle Noah" when he told the
story of his life to visitors, gave the
Gates County Court House, at Eaton
town. n. c., as his birthplace. and said
his father was an Indian and his
mother q white woman. He never at
tended school. He learned to read a
little, but never to write.
When he was seven years old he was
apprenticed to farmer and stayed
with him until he was twenty-one.
Then he became a hired man on the
farm of "Widow" Penelope Parker in
his home county. Later he was en-
ployed by her step-daughter, Miss
Sarah Parker.
"I fell in love with Miss Sarah" he
would say. :'but I thought she would
not have me, and so left her farm
and went to sea for awhile. When I
came back she had married her over
seer. She asked me why I went and
when told her she said ought to be
ashamed of myself for having such
faint heart"
Noah's birthdays were the occasion
for great celebrations. Visitors would
come to the poor farm by the score
from miles around. For the last ten
or twelve years Of his life he slept
sitting in an old rocking chair, because
he was afraid that by lying down he
might have a rush Of blood to his
head and succumb that way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-23
RUSSIA SHOWS REGRET
Charge Against the Commander o.
the Vicksburg Unfounded.
Denial OF the Story That He Refused t<
Aid In Rescue Of Kus3ian Sailors
at Chemulpo Accepted.

washington, D. C.-Oficials Of the
Government received with satisfaction
news that the Russian Government
has expressed its regret over the
wrongful accusation that Commander
Marshall Of the United States guns
boat Vicksburg had declined to. offer
assistance to the crew Of the Russian
cruiser Variag after the battle at Che
mulpo. This slander has been the
basis for bitter attacks upon the
United States in the Russian press,
and the Administration felt that some
statement should come from the Rus
sian Government to counteract the er-
roneous impression created in that
country. y
The almost total ignorance Of the
American Governments general policy
displayed in Russia hasrbeen cause OF
astonishment to the Administration.
Every silly rumor seeming to show
that this Government is not preserving
neutrality is swallowed with avidity.
and statements that have some founda-
tion in fact are distorted.
An alliance between the United
States and Japan is found In reports
that an American cable is to- go@from
the Philippines to Japanese territory.
and the st. Petersburg editorial writer's
spare neither ink nor energy in anath-
ematizing this country upon the basis
of the most palpable canards.
The charges that the United States
Government is giving either material
or moral support to Japan or has in.
any way violated its declaration OF
neutrality are absolutely false. z. z.
There has been no single action BY
this Government since Russia and
Japan became open enemies that Ncan
properly be construed as a cause f0r!
suspicion or dissatisfaction In st;
Petersburg. In II
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-23
MACHEN FOUND GUILTY
Postoffce Conspirators Convicted on
Twelve Counts
Maximum Penalty, $4,000 Fine and
imprisonment For Two Years
On Each Count.

washington, D. C.-The jury in the
Machen-Gronf-L -Lorenz conspiracy trial,
after being out nine hours. returned q
verdict of guilty as indicted against
former Superintendent Machen, of the
free delivery division of the Postofice
Department; George E. Lorenz, the
perfumery manufacturer. of Toledo,
Ohio. and Samuel A. and Diller B.
Gror, of Washington, inventors and
manufacturers of the Croft patent let.
ter box fastener.
The Indictment was under Section
5540 Of the Revised Statutes and con-
tanned twelve counts. Conviction was
mad on all Of them. The defendants
were confident of acquittal. and were
dumbfounded at the verdict. Counsel
for the defense Immediately gave no.
tlce OF motion for a new trial and
requested stay of execution. Later
the bonds Of the defendants were re-
newed, pending appeal, and they were
released on $4,000 bail. The maximum
penalty is $4,000 fine and imprison.
ment for two years on each count.
Postmaster General Payne and the
other officers of the Postoffice Depart
ment, who were active in the scandal
investigation. recently closed. were in
formed Of the result and expressed
themselves as pleased that justice had
been done.
Machen. Mr.. and Mrs. Lorenz and
the Croft brothers were indicted on
twelve counts alleging conspiracy to
defraud the Government in connec-
tion with the purchase of Croft fasten-
ers. 1t was alleged that the Groffs of.
fered George e. Lorenz. who was
known to be personal and business
Intimate Of Machen, then superintend-
ent Of the free delivery division,
half interest in the Croft fastener for
his services in securing its introduce
ton.
It. was brought out on the trial that
Lorena never did anything toward
pushing the sale of the fasteners, hav-
ing been told by Machen that the de-
vice had already been adopted by the
postal service and would be introduced
as rapidly as possible. Lorenz re-
ceived 40 per cent. Of all money re.
ceived from the Government by the
Groffs. one-half Of which he turned
over to Machen. Checks and drafts
showing the various payments by the
Government to the .Groffs, by the
Groffs to Lorenz. and by Lorenz to
Machen, were offered in evidence by
the Government
The defense admitted the "circle Of
money but contended that Lorenz
had an interest in the Croft fastener,
and that all payments by Lorenz to
Machen were on account of debt Of
$4,000 contracted years ago. The
conspiracy had been in operation since
1885.