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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

way the joyousness of the morning
seemed dimmed, and if the birds in
the maple trees above her sang as
gafly as ever she did not hear them.
She was thinking Of the tumbled old
gray head bending over the broken
plant.
In the school room the girls were
gathered in a corner discussing a plan
which Margery herself had set on
foot. the buying of palm for their
Sunday school teacher by the six
girls of the class. to be presented on
Easter morning. Several of the girls
had brought money and tenderea 1t
to Margery. whom they called chair
man of the committee. To their sur
prise she refused to take it, urging
her friend. May Gardner. to take it
in her place.
But why don't you take 1t, Mar
gerry? You started the plan" Mar
gerry was silent for moment trying
to gather courage to face the girls
surprise and displeasure.
Because" she said at last, not
very bravely. Il can't give anything
toward the palm. and it wouldn't be
fair for me to choose it,
The girls were silent for moment.
Then one of them said, meaningly:
tits queer way to do, think, to
talk up a plan and get people inter
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

| to obtain the Pope's blessing. They
return on Easter eve to welcome the
| resurrection, bringing with them the
gay-hued eggs for good children.
In Hungary. in every cottage whose
roof shelters a manageable girl are
to be seen on Easter morning
branches of pine decorated with bows
of ribbon. They have been brought
there over night by young men re-
turning from the fields. The peasant
lover, accompanied by several
friends, enters the house carrying a
pail. and says to the owner:
Il have heard that there Is a flower
in your garden, and crave your per-
mission to water it,"
The father replies: 81 thank you
for the honor you have done me in
visiting my roof. l have a flower.
but 1t grows without being watered."
To see lamb out of window on
Easter morning IL a good omen. ac-
cording to the belief. of many pas
to.aI people, especially If the lamb be
headed in the direction of the house.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

{ reflection in the water. human optics
would very quickly see the staid old
Orb of Day perform some most re-
markable antics.
In limitation Of the sun, supposed
to rise on Easter Monday in TIRES
leaps, the curious custom of lifting in
the chair still exists in some parts of
| England and Ireland. The men lift
the women on Easter Monday, the
women on Easter Tuesday return the
compliment, the victim being lifted
three times and then kissed. y
In Bulgaria young men and women
meet on Easter Monday, congregat-
ing IN the churchyard attired in holt
day dress, and indulge in social
games. If, during these games, girl
allows her handkerchief to be taken
away by a young man, this is signal
of proposal and acceptance.
| In the Austrian Tyrol Eastern
FRANKS like the first of April jokes
are the rule. Hospitality is universal
at this time, and nobody asking for
i shelter and food is refused.
| A Hungarian Easter custom is the
Kalaka; it is custom with some
thing beside either foolish supersti-
ton or perverted church legends be-
hind it. The farmers of certain
district get together and give one OF
their number-the poorest man in the
| place-a days work. After the day
of communistic labor is over, there is
supper and dance.
| Nowhere is Easter more widely
celebrated than in Russia, and mo-
where is the egg SO much in evidence
on that day as there. No man starts
out on Easter Sunday in the country
districts without a supply of eggs.
After the morning service is over
priests and laymen click eggs togeth-
er, as diners touch glasses in a toast,
as a ceremony of kindly feeling.
1t is the Russian usage that no
lady, however lofty of birth, may re-
fuse to kiss the humblest petitioner
if the request is preceded by the
proffer of an Easter egg. This is
commonly compromised, however, by
the payment of a small coin on the
ladyis part.
Midnight mass is said in churches
of the Greek faith, and just on the
stroke of twelve loud knocking COM
mences at the door and is repeated
several times. On the door being
opened the priests and their choir
hurry in, crying to the worshipers, in
imitation of those of old who brought
the news of the first resurrection to
the disciples, Christ is risen!" It
requires but minute to change the
scene from the gloom of the half
| lighted church to one ablaze with
many lighted tapers.
In Germany, not the hen, but the
hare, is responsible for Easter eggs.
The houses in which good children
live are visited at night by white
hare, who hides numbers Of beauti-
fully colored eggs in hooks and cor
ners for the children to find with
much merry-making on the morrow.
A belief in some countries is that the
bells (which are silent during Pas
sion Week) have journeyed to Rome
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21
AN EASTER
" IDEA OF =
.MARGERY's..

Margery Lennox ran down the
steps Of the piazza, buttoning her
jacket as she went. Patsy, her little
fox terrier. hearing the bang of the
front door, rushed around the corner
OF the house to join his little mis-
tress, and together they ran to the
corner of the avenue.
Nov, Patsy, dear, you must go
back. You ought to be thankful that
you can go back, instead of having
to sit in a stuffy old schoolroom all
morning, when it's SO beautiful out
doors. Go, that's good doggie!"
And Patsy turned back obediently. If
q little reluctantly. and. was soon
dashing about the wet lawn with one
of Margerys old rubbers for a play
fellow.
Margery went skipping on to
school rejoicing in the enticing beau
ty of the April morning. 1t seemed
to her that the grass and the burst
ing leafbuds on the shrubbery fairly
laughed as she passed them. and as
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

lsks woman for an egg on Easter,
md is refused. he may take off her
shoes and keep them until she pays a
penalty. If it Is a man who refuses
he egg to a woman, SIZE snatches
away his cap and holds it for re-
iemption by a money forfeit.
The appearance of symbolic East
srn king was until lately frequent in
England and Continental Europe.
He rode gaily, attired, with scepter
in his hand and a crown on his head,
20 The local church.
The association of the church and
the egg is still maintained in some
Of the remote provinces of France.
where to this day the priest makes
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

and, and I have thought of another
way to spend mine.'
The girl who had spoken first turn
ed away. Miss Andrews will be
fattered when she hears that" she
said. Once more the tears started
in Margery's eyes. The bell rang and
the group broke up. but May waited
to give her friend sympathetic
squeeze and to whisper: Never
mind, Margery, I know you're all
right"
On the way to school in the after
noon Margery ventured into the alley
and peeped through the half-open
door of the shanty. The old woman
lay asleep on cot. On the floor be-
side her was half emptied bottle,
and ON the window sill stood the poor
| geranium tied with piece of string
to a stick to keep it upright. The
stem had been carefully bandaged.
but the leaves had wilted and hung
limp and dying.
The school children had become
familiar with the sight of Mrs. Laney
intoxicated and belligerent, but it is
doubtful if they had ever thought of
her as Margery saw her now, a
friendless old woman, her poor old
body worn with long years of hard,
| incessant labor and her mind weak
ened by sorrow and loss and most
of all by the liquor she had taken to
make her forget her hard lot. AS
Margery went to school her spirits
rose. She was saying to herself:
I'm glad thought of it, The worst
was telling the fiirls and that's over.
Now, I am going to enjoy the rest"
| Mrs. Laney was still asleep on
Easter morning when Margery peek
ed through the little window, but she
had not thought it necessary to lock
the door, and, opening it softly, the
little girl set inside beautiful white
hyacinth in prettily decorated pot
Then she closed the door and ran.
What the old woman did when, on
waking, she saw the lovely plant Mar
gerry never knew, but she was quite
satisfied that her sacrifice had not
been in vain, when next morning she
discovered. Mrs. Laney seated in her
doorway holding the pot in her lap
and every now and then bending her
rough gray head to inhale its frag-
rance.
When at last the waxen bells be-
gan to fade the old plant mysterious
ly disappeared, and in its place the
bewildered woman found another
Just as fresh and fragrant, but this
time pink. Again the pink one faded
and a purple flower took its place.
until the colors were exhausted, and
Margery was substituting flourish
ing geranium in place of the last one.
when she was startled to hear shriil
voice behind her call out: Thanks
to heaven, I'VE found ye at last! And
to think the only friend l have do be
one O. thin school childer be cursin'
this many year!"
The geranium thrived, but Mrs.
Laney did not, and before another
Easter came round her hard life was
over. To her little friend she had
confided her horror of being buried
by the town, and, after consulting
with her mother, Margery was able
to promise her that she need not
dread a paupers funeral.
When Miss Andrews Easter pres
ent was under discussion that year
Margery made haste to hand her
share over to the chairman saying,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

Tor the robbins and bluebirds. they
were actually hilarious in their joy
that spring had come. The people
she met seemed unusually pleasant
docking until she came to where Gen.
.tral alley met the street. Just as she
reached it three boys rushed out, al
most colliding with her as they ran,
and looking over their shoulders as
If they expected some one were fol-
lowing. Margery checked herself to
avoid them and then looked in the d.
rection from which they had come.
They've been teasing old Mrs.
.Laney." she thought, and sure
enough, the old woman stood in her
door shaking her fist at the receding
boys. While Margery paused the
dirty, disheveled old creature stopped
and picked up battered tin can In
which a sickly geranium had been
growing. With trembling fingers she
tried to straighten the plant. and it
fell over the edge OF the pail again,
and Margery could see that the main
stem had been broken on near the
rcot Than she went on. but some
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

ested and then back out when it
comes to paying your share"
Margery blushed and the quick an
CRY tears came into her eyes. May
Gardner slipped her arm around her
friends waist, which gave her cour-
age to answer: TT does look that
way. know. but we agreed to spend
only our own money for the palm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21

The cost of the British expedition
into Thibet was $4.063.750. all Of
which India will have to bear.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
It Must Be Bettered. Brooklyn Eagle.

Lynchings are always deplorable, no
 matter what the aggressions Of the
 victim against society may have been
 But in the South they are less an ex-
 pression of hate for immortality than
 of discontent with court methods. If
 1t were certain that murderer whose
 guilt had been clearly proven would
 be promptly and surely punished. there
 would be no hangings and burnings
 and shootings by the mob. The recent
 lynching in Texas proves this clearly
 enough. A negro who committed an
 assault on a white woman, hardly a
 month ago, was tried. convicted and sentenced. The populace was satisfied. The trial had occurred expeditiously, there was no doubt as to the commis- sion of the crime, and 1t was believed
 that the moral effect of the sentence on other tempted and hesitant sinners would be salutary.
 But after all was over 8 Quibbling demand was made for another trial on the ground of some int"rmality in tho first No allegation of ,inocence was set up; 1t was a trick to set aside the
 law. The demand was granted. There upon the populace broke into the jail, removed the culprit and suspended his body to a bridge. This was a punish ment of the negro. but 1t was also an indictment of the court that, instead of standing as a defense to the people. was lending itself to the defense of an enemy of the people. What would happen if we had a Texas minded pop
 ulation here, where proven criminals are immune from punishment, not for 6 month. but for years. and often for life? There Is no need to shake the head of wisdom over this circumstance, and lament that court practice cannot
 be bettered. It can be bettered. and must be.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK.
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago. August 12.-Semi-official denial of serious damage to the Russian wheat crop caused weakness in wheat here today. Clear weather In the United States empha- sized the depression. September closed IN 10 lower; corn %c lower, oats Sc lower and provisions unchanged.
 The wheat market was weak from the start. With no news of character to inspire active demand prices gradually S2N as9Hc. Pit traders and commission houses were liberal sellers on a cableEram from English crop statistician stating that according to a semi-offcial report the condition of the Russian winter wheat crop Is generally above the average. The do mestic situation was considered favorable to the bears. September went to S1Ac Late in the session prices rallied slightly on covering by shorts. but the market closed weak with September at SIX @S1%c
 An official forecast of showers throughout the midle West was the cause of selling of corn. Commission houses sold December anu May, and cash interests sold September. The market closed weak at the lowest point of the day. September opened un- changed to Ac lower at SAX Q54&c, sold
 Bearish sentiment predominated in oats. The principal weakening factors were lib eral receipts. Cash houses were the chief sellers The market closed at about the low est point September opened unchanged to e lower at 2she to 26%@26%c. sold off to 26c and closed at 26926hc.
 Provisions were trtfle easier In sympathy with grain. September pork closed un- changed at S1l. l.21h; lard a shade lower at S7 TIA @7.sO; and ribs unchanged At NS.57K.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
MARKET FOR FUTURES
COTTON MARKET OPENED AT DECLINl
 OF FIGHT POINTS.
e in Westcrn belt ChecEine Balss, While Cabies Prevented
 Fresh Buying.

ket opened at . decline of s4s points in response to lower cables. Trading was ouiet continued dry weather in tho western belt checking sales, while the cables pre- vented fresh buying for long account, with the result that evening up for over Sunday was the chief trading feature and prices fiuctuated within a couple of points of the opening figures.
 Receipts of cotton at the ports today last week and S74 last year. Receipts for the week are estimated at 50, 900 bales. against 6s.143 last week and 14,032 last year. New Orleans receipts today l.s77 bales. against i4s last year. Houston re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
WALL STREET REVIEW
DISPOSITION TO SELL MANIFESTED ON
 THE STREET.
Movement Enc0untered Good Resistanc' sf Decline an6 Was Followed by Ef- fective Recovery, hut Close
 WaA Regular.

New York August 12.--The disposition to sell and take profits which was manifest in the late trading of yesterday on the stock market resulted.
 The movement encountered good resist ance at the decline and was followed by an effective recovery but the realizing was renewed in the late dealings and made the close irregular. Some of the high priced railroad stocks which had made sky rocket movements during the week fared rather badly in the realising process. although their wide declines were not great compared with the preceding upshoots
 The selling seemed to he prompted by some uneasiness over the complexion of the bank statement, judging by the repur- chases which set in after the appearance of the document
 NEW YORK STOCK LIST.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
Annual Beer Consumption.

The statistics of beer consumption. which are available for only seven countries, show a total consumption of 5.6O4. 900, 900 gallons annually. In 1904 Germany consumed 1.7SS,OOO, 900. the United Kingdom. 501,OO0,000; the United States. 1.494.O00. 900; Austria. 4s2,OO0,O ,O0O; France, 2s9,OO0.OO0; Hun gary. sS.25O, 1000, and Italy. 6,75o,oo0.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
Interior Movement.

Houston-Easy. 10 s-lsc; net receipts. g. s57; gross; 2,se7; shipments, 1.ss7; sales. Aueusta-.Firm. lo%c; net receipts. 4s; gross. 42 shipments. 124; sales. 136; stock. 7,427.
 Memphis-steady. lO%c; net receipts, es; gross. 223; shipments. 1so: sales. 300; stock, II, ,s07.
 St Louis-Easy. 1o%c; net receipts. 25o: gross. 4s2; shipments 7so;, stock. IT. Cincinnati Net receipts 5S: gross. 53; shipments. a stock. i1.075.
 St. Louis irrn, 10hc Total today: Net receipts. 2,785 gross.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

New Orleans. August ls. = Spot cotton quiet with light offerings. Sales 125 bales Quotations unchanged
 Futures opened eq7 points down on lower Liverpool, which Is reported to have been manipulated by the New York bear clique. New York was also lower Receipts at all ports were only 1000 bales; the bulls say this shows that the farmers are not anxious to get rid of any more cotton at present prices. In the trading October opened at 10 55c, sold down to 10 soc. up to .5sc and finally eased off to 10. .53c. The market closed steady with net losses of S612 points.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
NEW YORK DRY GOODs.

New York. August l2-Country dry goods Johbers and retailers today bought heavy trade is still quiet, but the domestic trade Is taking spot linen freely. Statesmen left today for the road. First orders placed with importers show advances in size of from 25 10 30 per cent over the contracts placed this time last year. Several manu- lecturers announce advance in prices of about s per cent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
NEW YORK COTTON ruTUREs.
DAILY COTTON MARKET.
 Port M0vaunaut

Galveston- Quiet, 10 9-lse; net receipts. 2s9S; gross. 2.s93: sales 72; stock, 74,66S: shipments. coastwise. 225. New orieans1Easy. 1o%e;r net receipts. 5s7: shipments. coastwise, b15.
 Mobiie-Nominal. 1oAc; net receipts. TT: gross, 7T; stock 3.ss4.
 Snvannah-ouiet, l0hc; net receipts. 1.- l54; gross 1.i54: sales. 729; stock, 2s, ,54s; shipments coastwise, 1.11e. gross, 13: stock, 3593.
 wilmington = Nominal; net receipts, 2s; gross. B: stock, ISIS.
 Norfolk--oulet. i0Ec: net receipts, 4ao; gross. 42o; sales. as: stock. 17.b4a: ship ments, coastwise, 1.19S.
 Baltimore Nominal lo&c; stock. S.as7
 New York-Quiet. 10. ssc; gross receipts, 1,s42; sales. 20; stock. 14s,s77
 Philadeiphia--ouiet. 10. soc; stock. 4S7s: shipments, to Great Britain. 52s; to conti- nent. 5o
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
Total Movement.

Total today at all ports. net e,s6s: ship ments. to Great Britain, 895; to France, 50 to continent, 157; stock. S62.1si.
 Consolidated, at all ports. net 6, 36s; ship ments to Great Britain. Ss5; to continent. 80; to Japan, 157.
 Total since Sept. l. at all ports. net 10.- oss,271: shipments. to Great Britain, S.ss4.- 337; to France. s46.sfs: to continent, 3,22s,- 610: to Japan. 312.7l7; to Mexico, 29,332.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
r Indicates trace of precipitation.

Temperatures nearly stationary. except a rise Of 12 degrees in day readings in Mem
 nhie district; rains in all districts. except Little Rock, being heavy in southern DOT. tinns of Louisiana and Mississippi and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
TOH
 PestIferous Plants.

Another pest with an interesting history Is the wild hemp (cannibis sativa,) which has made its appearance and Is spreading with alarming rapid
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
NAVAL STORES.

Savannah, August 12. - Turpentine firm s0hc; receipts. sso; shipments. 422: sales 7S6.
 Rosin firm: receipts. 1858: shipments, g. ss7: sales. 2.2s:: Quote: A. B, c. ss;se le: T. 2 10; t s4:ii2sn; k ss 1s: N N
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
DAILY COTTON MARKET
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON.

New Orleans. August l2. Cotton easy: sales 126: receipts, 1.667; stock. 70.5s7.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

wilmington = Spirits turpentine nothing doing: receipts. 53.
 Rosin nothing doing; receipts. g. Tar firm. $2. %; receipts, 63
 Crude turpentine firm. $2 50. 4.0o and A. 25: receipts IFS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

North Carolina md heavy in southern TOT lions of Louisiana end Misslsslppi; fght showers have also fallen in portions Of the middle West and Lake region. though far weather now prevails in central, Lake. southwestern and western districts: tenn perature changes average slight. with ha- rometer highest over the south Atlantic coast and lowest over the upper Plateau re zion.
 COTTON REGION BULLETIN.
 For the 24 hours ending a. m- I5th meridian time.
 MONTGOMERY, Ala. August IF. 1905.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

THE WEATHER.
 --N Daily Local Weather Report and Rivss
 Bulletin. U. c. Department of Agriculture. Weather Bureau Local Observations
 (Central time) MONTGOMERY. Ala. August IF. 1905.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
N7W ORLEANS COTTON FUTURES. New Orleans. August 12. - Cotton futures
LIVERPOOL COTTON FUTURES.

Liverpool. August 12. - Cotton futures opened quiet and closed steady. American middling, 6. O. c.:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13

Charleston-Turpentine and rosin nothing AAtH
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
1em SIS 1sI i: GGss Ps Ps elSy-s elSy-ss

Maximum temperature for day, ss des' Average temperature for day. Is deg
 Normai temper ature for day. sl deg. Accumulated deficiency since Jan l. 191 deg. .,. .s. flaw Tp,ai rainfall since Jan. 1, a2.ss inch.s. ~ River Bulletin. Observations at 6 c. m.. 76th M. eimep
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-11-10
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Continued from Page 81

credit and capacity to testify correctly
in the particular case, a different rule
applies. That rule is we'll stated in
Fincher VS.. State, IS Ala. 215, as fol-
lows: "Of the several modes $of as
sailing the credibility of witness, the
one most usually resorted to-, is a
cross examination as to his relation
ship to the parties, his interest in the
pending suit, his hostility to the prison
er, if it be a prosecution for criminal
offense, his motives, and whatever may
fairly be presumed to bias him in
favor of the party at whose instance
he Is testifying, and against the ad-
verse party. These are matters col
lateral to the main issue of facts which
is to be determined; and while the
general rule is, that the answers of a
witness to collateral questions cannot
be contradicted by the party cross
examining, an exception obtains in
reference to questions of this char
acter, which are directed, not against
his general credit, but against his
credit, and capacity to testify accur-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-11-10


prehensive term, and may consist Of
one or more rooms in a building; or It
may be an entire building; or, as in
this case, more than one building
within the same place used together
for the convenient conduct OF the pro-
hibited purpose. It is in substance
plainly charged that the frame shanty
or building was adjacent to the "Lit-
tie Kindred and within the curtilage
of the latter, thereby implying that
the shanty was in the same enclosure
and was part of the same place or
tenement. And it is expressly alleged,
in effect, that both structures were
used together and constituted a single
nuisance. The term ''shanty or build
ing" plainly refers to a single struc-
ture to which either descriptive word
is applicable. We think the informa-
ton describes single nuisance with
ample certainty. Commonwealth VS..
Patterson, 153 Mass. s.
Judgment affirmed. All concur.