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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
SAVE THE CLIPPINGS.

An easy method of providing green
food for the poultry in winter is to
save the lawn clippings. Usually there
is mixture of clover in this grass
and it is greatly relished by fowl. If
cured in the shade so much the bet.
ter for the color, but light wetting
when used in winter will give it a
fresh, inviting appearance. There are
simple inventions for securing the
grass, sometimes a bag being trailed
along, it's opening having been Sc.
cured with hoop. A very simple and
satisfactory affair may be made from
an old blanket or a bit of old carper
about the size of flattened out bran
bag-say two feet long and as many
wide. Three feet long is better if
the man at the handle is not long
strider and liable to step upon it.
Tack one end to piece of lath and
rig wire hooks or rings at the two cor
ners to attach the contrivance to the
machine. Drop the rings over the
little nubs back of the roller and the
outfit is complete. This will carry
half bushel Of clippings and the man.
ipulater will be surprised to note how
rapidly his pile will enlarge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
Good Morninn.


Day dawns, and bids the blushfng sky
Good morning."
The fiute-voiced birds take up the
cry:
Good morning."
And nearer home, beneath the caves,
Che gnarled old naples tender leaves
Shat shivered in the midnight rain,
Now whisper at my windoW-pane:
Good morning."
The genial sun peeps DER the hill
And laughs across my window sill.
Eyes culver under sleepy lids
This is the King himself who bids
Good morning!"
I rise and ope the window wide.
The sun-kissed breezes charge and
ride
Straight through the breach in mer-
ry rout,
And scale the walls and fairly shout:
Good morning."
They make me captive to the King,
They pluck at me and bid me sing
Their pecan to the Golden Day,
Whose conquering slogan is their gay
Good morning."
They frolic here, they scamper there,
They clutch the singing birds in air.
On all the world their music beats
Until the captive world repeats:
Good morning."
Heart calls to heart. The surly wight,
Who scorned his neighbor yester'
night,
With smiling visage stops to greet
That neghbor in the busy street:
Good morning."
o Joyous day! o smile of God,
To hearten all who toll and plod,
We hail thee, Conqueror and King!
We hug our golden chains and sing:
Good morning."
Catholic Standard and Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
GOOD soILING CROP.

"Succotash" is one of the most tooth.
some products of the garden when
properly made. If the soiling crop
named after this table luxury is as
palatable to stock it is sure to grow
in popular favor among farmers.
Farming names corn, oats and peas
mixed and sown by an ordinary grain
drill at the usual depth. With any
sort of a chance this combination may
be grown large enough to feed in 60
to 20 days, and sown now will come
handy when early feed is getting
short.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
CABBAGE WORMS.

These pests are more numerous
than usual this season and all sorts
of applications are tried to rid the
plants of them. A correspondent OF
Wallace's Farmer recommends con-
centrated lye for cabbage worms. She
fills her sprinkler with water from the
well and adds about four times as
much I've as would be used in gal
Ion of wash water. Stir well, then
sprinkle your cabbages with it. One
dose generally does the work for all
summer. She has never had to put
it on more than twice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
A CLIMBING PLANT FOR THE
FARM.

The ampelopsis veitchii, or Japan
ivy, known in this country as the Bos-
ton ivy, is one of the best climbing or
creeping vines we have for the farm.
1t belongs to the same family as the
Virginia creeper or American ivy, but
Is not so gross growing in habit or
form. The foliage is not unlike that
of the American ivy, but in smaller
form and is much higher in color,
even when mature. 1t grows rapidly,
throwing out, at frequent intervals,
small feet or tendirls having a sticky
substance attached by which it fas-
tens itself to any rough object-wood,
stone or brick-and clings tenacious
~. 1t is a beautiful vine to set at
the foot of a dead tree from which
the branches have been removed, and
is equally beautiful grown over the
Sides of brick or stone buildAxs 81 a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
More or Less Walking.

When his careful examination OF
his new patient was at last COM
pleted, the specialist looked for a mo-
ment in silence at the tall, stSoping
figure opposite his own.
you need more exercise" he said,
with his most impressive manner. .
''You must walk, walk, man. Throw
back your shoulders, fill out your
chest, expand tina lungs, and walkl"
"Um-m!" said the tall man, dryly.
do you know, 1 am the father Of six
week-old twins, and have the care
of them at night, as their mother Is
very delicate. l get some exercise In
that way, but 1 cant expand my
lungs as much as you'd like, pos
sibly."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
HOMEMADE KEROSENE EMULr
SION

The amateur can make this very
easily. Take of hard soap half
pound and dissolve in one gallon OF
boiling water; then add two gallons
of kerosene and churn thoroughly for
ten minutes. The efficiency of the
preparation depends upon thorough
mixing. This stock mixture is diluted
four times for scale or up to twenty
times for lice. The stronger dilution
will have one gallon of kerosene to
six and half of water Where the wa
ter is very hard, use one gallon of seur
milk to two gallons of kerosene
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
LIFE OF FRUIT TREES PRO-
LONGED.

American consuls to Germany, in
recent reports, advise this Govern
ment of some very important discov-
cries relating to horticulture. Thus
far, results have demonstrated their
value They refer to. experiments
tested for the purpose of prolonging
the life of fruit trees. A solution OF
the sulphate of iron is used, and this
was at first injected under the bark.
of the tree so as to cause it to go
into the sap flow or circulation. Sub
sequently it was found best to inject
the fluid through an opening of the
bark at the neck of the roots. Analy-
sis of the tree sap has shown that
the iron fluid penetrates deep in the
ground, flowing through the roots and
the new branches or new wood to the
very top of the tree, though, singular
enough, examination shows that the
fluid does not enter the old wood OF
the tree. The whole process is for
the purpose of reinvigorating and
thus prolonging the life and increas-
ing fruitage of the trees, and is much
the same as that Of anemia of the
grapevine for the same object.
These scientists are now conduct
ing further experiments looking to-
ward the use of a fluid to be injected
into fruit trees for the purpose OF de-
stroying the bacteria which causes
pear blight and fungus diseases which
kill trees, thus with some fluid to cir
culate in the sap flow to at least neu-
tralize the effect of the bacteria to
which these diseases are traced.
These tests proceed on the basis OF
knowledge of both the causes of de-
cay and death, much as medical
science proceed in the matter of hui
man disease, viz: first finding the
cause of decay.
In the instances relating to fruit
trees, as in human ailment, a certain
species of bacteria has been found to
be the cause, and to reach it they are
injecting into the circulation the kind
of fluid that will arrest the ravages
of these bacteria.-Indianapo News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
THE ADAMS ACT.

Every individual who has a few
fruit trees, or raises a little garden
stuff owes a debt of gratitude to the
agricultural experiment stations of the
various States 1t would require the
space of large volume merely to spec
ify the little practical points on
which information has been furnish
ed regarding the management of all
kinds of farm animals, poultry and
bees, raising vegetables, fruits and
ornamentals, control Of insects and
diseases, ETC. The Adams act, re-
Gently passed by Congress, provides
for the gradual increase of the appro.
priation for these institutions, so that
ultimately they will each receive $780,
900 instead of $4,000 per year as at
present The money obtained under
the Adams act is to be available for
use in special Investigations of agri'
cultural problems.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
VALUE OF TOADs.

Professor Hodge, of Clark Univer-
sity, has estimated the value of toads
to the farmer at SIS apiece because
they destroy cutworms. There is
regular market for toads in England,
however, at 25 cents apiece.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
MARKETING POULTRY.

Dressed poultry should not be pack
ed for transportation until entirely
cold. 1t should then be laid in clean
straw, breast down, keeping wings
and legs close to the body. See that
there is no discoloration of the skin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

stone wall. 1t Is practically HARDY
but not evergreen. In the fall the TO-
liage takes on all the varied autumn
hues of the maple leaf. The plants
are moderate in price, grow rapidly,
and in few years add much beauty
to the farm grounds.-Indianapolis
News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

Five hundred persons saved from
drowning in forty-eight years was the
record achievement of Christian Lam
ger, Danish boatman, who has just
died at Harboe, Jutland, aged eighty
three.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

Now that the eagle is declared to be
practically extinct in the United
States, why not have the great Amer
icaA hen supplant that bird as ma
tional emblem, suggests the Atlanta
Constitution.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

According to the Wall Street Jour.
nal the individual who insists upon
doing as he pleases, regardless of the
rights of others or the laws of the
land is an anarchist. The only ex-
ception is: Any rich man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

collapses as an amateur balloon.-At-
lanta Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

The Louisville Herald says: Don't
is very good word used at the right
time and in the right place, but the
right time and right place for its use
are not to be found every moment,
Education by negation is never as
happy or as successful as education
by affirmation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

The leech has three jaws, each fit
~ with eighty to ninety teeth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

The meat trust is finding out that
veal chickens come home to roost.-
Atlanta Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

Tea carriers of China carry tea in
bars, each weighing twenty pounds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

with the countries of Latin America
will be whatever our people see fit
to make them, maintains the New
York Sun. The United States can
win and hold their friendship and
their esteem; and can also win and
hold their trade, now worth 100000.
900 year, and destined soon to pass
the billion dollar mark
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

Observes the New York World: Ap-
parently the fan follows the flag. The
baseball interest in Hawaii can hardly
be second to that in Wappinger's
Falls, near the Hudson In that great
ly favored village on a recent Sun.
day the demand for carriages in
which to follow the home team to
Fishkill caused vehicular famine and
led to the postponement of funeral
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21
The Cat that
Killed Care
q! CARROLL WATSON RANKIN.

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21

The Albany Journal declares an
archism is not yet menace to our
institutions, but it is time to take the
necessary steps effectually to prevent
the possibility of it's ever becoming
menace. If more men of prominence
will take up the subject fol public
discussion, it should not be long be
fore the Congress would feel Itself
impelled to enact law which would
be in all respects reasonable and con
sistent with American principles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-21


very fierce cat!"
"Oh, Henry isn't fierce when he's
dry" returned Mrs. Roswell. "He's
remarkably sweet-tempered. But we're
so afraid water will alter his DISPOSE
ton that we've worried for three
weeks over the problem of washing
him."
I'll come over at ten tomorrow,
promised Miss Ball, ''to take a look
at him. Have a foot-bath and some
good common soap and plenty of hot
water ready in a warm room. If he
looks at all promising, I'll tub him."
The assembled Roswells, fairly shiv-
ering with excitement, stood in a
circle in the kitchen the next morning
while Miss Ball tested the water in
the foot-bath with her thermometer.
Then she gently disengaged Henry
from Elizabeths ANGLES, and lifted him
into the tub.
Grandma Keith backed into the pam
try, Aunt Georgiana fed hastily up
the back stairs, and the others
shrank against the wainScoating, to
make ample room for the flying leap
Of frantic, dripping, revengeful cat.
But there was no leap. Instead,
Henry deeply grateful for such an I'M
usual amount of attention, sat up and
purred while Miss Ball rubbed every
scrap of him with soap except his
contented eyes. Then she rinsed him
with gentle showers of clean warm
water, and Henry, sitting knee-deep
in the pleasant iood, purre5 louder
than ever.
"And to think" said Dorothea. who
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18

That one planteth and another reap
eth has been strikingly illustrated in
the successful voyage which Capt.
Road Amundsen and his eight men
have made through the Northwest pass
age, for he has only followed the route
known to exist by reason of the dis
coveries of Sir John Franklin, in 1S47.
But Notwithstanding the fact that
Amundsen has not made an original
discovery, his feat in taking the first
vessel through the channel from Baf-
fin bay to Behring straits is none the
less remarkable, for it took boldness to
conceive and courage to attempt, and
good luck born of persistent watchful
effort to accomplish what for the past
800 years the most strenuous efforts of
arctic explorers has failed to do.
In addition to his bringing his
stanch little ship, the Gjoa-a sloop of
At tons, 20 feet long, 20 foot beam and
propelled by small petroleum engine
safely through, he has made impor-
tant observations which it is believed
will, when they are all figured out and
the proper deductions made, settle the
location of the magnetic pole. A mag
netic pole is a point where the freely
suspended needle shows dip of 80 de-
grees. An observation station was es-
tblished by Capt. Amundsen at King
Williams land, latitude, So degrees
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18

burne, at Sydney, at Clarendon, New
Castle, Brisbane-everywhe it was the
same. and the gold rolled in.
They went to New Zealand, and, trav-
cling along the coast from Palmerston
through Christchurch, Timaru, Nelson,
over to Wellington, on the North island,
they added to the menagerie.
Shipwrecked by Typhoon.
Early in December they were ready.
They loaded the tents, and the animals,
and all, aboard the Lilly and started for
Melbourne. The typhoon struck on De-
cember Is in the morning, and for over
three days the little vessel, under bare
poles, fled before it. The men, exhaust
ed and worn from working the pumps,
fell fainting. Three times they tried to
turn and ride in the face of the storm,
but could not. They were driven north
ward, always northward-lost, hopeless
and dying.
And during it all Liela helped the
men, and when they fell from exhaus-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18

ed time, using stones /. tGlS-: riles. one
stone to each day, she had fright. No
rain had fallen for weeks, and the little
pond began to go dry. Day after day
she watched it dwindle away. Finally,
it was a tiny pool of muddy, unpalatable
water, and she retired that night in de-
spair, and during the night rain poured
and filled the pond again. The fruit
from the palm trees, species of edible
root, some delicate seaweed that she
found, oysters, a species of shrimp, and
fish constituted her main diet, although
at rare intervals she caught a gull, and
once she caught a small green parrot.
Hope still lived. She believed that
some day she would be saved. Her only
hardship was loneliness, and she talked,
or sang to herself to keep her mind busy,
and she climbed to the top of the trees
and sat there gazing out across the sea.
She was in tree top on the afternoon
she was rescued. She was sitting gaz-
ing southwark toward the familiar
speck day-dreaming of her beautiful
France, and wondering whether she ever
would see it again. She had been there
for hours, when suddenly she gasped
and almost fell out of the tree top. She
heard voices.
A moment later, with cry that star
tied the sailors, she slid and jumped
down the tree, and rushing towards
them across the sand. laughed and cried
and laughed again, begging them to
speak to her. One of the sailors spoke
French. He told her they were from
the trading schooner Cyprus, and would
take her aboard.
Then the strange, sun drowned, grass
CARRIED beauty fell still laughing, fell
fainting upon the sand, and before she
recovered she and her little store Of
tools she had made, were safe on board
the vessel, bound for Noumea, New Cal
edonia. and. eventually France, where
the happy family was reunited
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18
FACTS you SHOULD KNOW
Some Vouched For by London Punch
That Are New and In
teresting.

Fishmongers never advertise sales
of old and soiled stock.
Nearly all the inhabitants of the
Great Sahara are total abstainers.
When a guinea pig attempts to bite
it's tail it is suffering from hydro
phobia.
Picked onions were introduced into
England by the Crusaders.
The early Babylonians were unac-
quainted with the use of the tele-
phone.
1t is not generally known that by
subtracting the number of wet days
in year from 365 you can ascertain
approximately the number of fine days.
Motorists are said to enjoy more
fine days" than any other class of the
community.
Fur is best removed from the inside
Of kettle with razor.
Columbus discovered America to-
wards the end of the fifteenth century
and was properly punished by long
term of Imprisonment.
There is no phrase in the Thibetan
language which will exactly express
the English term 'nonconformist con-
science"
No trace of any system of fire insur-
ance has been discovered amongst the
prehistoric relics of the cave men.
In Spitzbergen frozen beer is sold
by the yard and bona fide travellers al
ways provide themselves with substan-
tial beer walking sticks to support
themselves on the homeward journey
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18
COFFIN SUIT FATAL TO TEN
Men Who Engage in Fight Over
Property Given to Undertaken
Struck Down Mysteriously.

Galveston, Tex-Death from a
strange malady which physicians say
they have never before seen or heard
of has overtaken ten men who were
connected with the suit over a piece
of property given to an undertaken by
widow in payment for her hus-
bands coffin. The belief is wide
spread in this vicinity that the deaths
are a judgment from heaven. So terri
flying have been the manifestations of
what is believed to be divine wrath
that even the county officials refuse to
have anything more to do with the
case, which probably never will be
adjudicated, at least in the present
generation.
The case is that of George e. Smith
against John Daley. Both men died
soon after suit was brought of the
strange disease which specialists were
unable to diagnose or treat. Then
Thomas. Brick, the district clerk who
filed the suit, fell a victim to the same
mysterious avenger.
Three lawyers participated in the
W1LOW . COuu sui, DIS IL Is Cdl1Su-
Clegg Stewart, Forester Rose and Will
liam T. Austin. Within a few days all
three became ill and died of the pecul-
lar disease for which no remedy could
be found. Then Judge William H.
Stewart, who tried the case and who
but few days before had rendered a
decision in the case and granted new
trial, fell a victim, and in a short time
expired.
Alexander Bartlingcock and c. A.
Sias were employed to survey the
land in preparation for the new trial.
Scarcely had they completed their
task when they fell ill and died.
j. F. Simons, the district clerk,
laughed at the fears of the supersti-
tious, and made preparations for the
new trial. A few days later he died.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18

had persisted when the little French
bark Lilly sank on December IS, 1908.
They had parted when the little vessel,
after a brave fight with the typhoo1,
lurched and sank. They had seen her
lifted on wave, with life-preserver
clasped about her, and they had fought
with the sailors in the boat for chance
to save their daughter. She had caught
one glimpse Of them as she was buried
under huge roller and the boat was
lifted above her, and then they parted.
Nearly four days later the boat had
reached one of the Belep islands, off
New Caledonia and after a day or two
of rest and preparation had crossed to
the larger island and reached safety.
An Acrobatic Family.
The Ponquet family-father, mother
and daughter-were acrobats and ami
NAL trainers, and Ponquet, the father,
had for many years been the leader of a
little circus sometimes with a dozen or
more men in his employ, sometimes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18
Girl Lives on Desert Island in the Indian
Ocean for Fifteen Months.
IS SHIPWRECKED BY A TERRIBLE TYPHOON
Pet Lion Her Sole Living Compartments Finally
Forced to Hill Animal to Save Own Life-At
Last Rescued by a Passing Vessel
and Returned Parents.

beautiful-beautiful as more than one
young man thought who saw her at the
little country fairs in Breton.
But the Ponquets were poor. They
made but little money at the fairs, and
they talked often of America or of Aus
tralia, so at the end Of one season they
decided to cast their fortunes in new
world. There was a sad leave-taking
with the son, who soon was to become
a priest, and they sailed away to Austria
liza.
That year Liela was 13 years old. Her
beauty, her grace and daring attracted
attention to the grimy, sordid little tray
cling circus, and prosperity came to the
family Ponquet began to think that
his fortune was made. He had dreams
of being the proprietor Of great cir
Gus, with hundreds of men and wom-
en-, with great gilded wagons. At Mel
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-18

The story of Robinson Crusoe and
his remarkable adventures is familiar
TO almost every man, woman and child
To prove the old saying that truth is
stranger than fiction this interesting
tale has been enacted by a handsome
young French girl, and if anything her
experiences were more remarkable.
Cast away on an almost desert island
in the middle of the Indian ocean,
thrown on her own resources, Liela
POnquet, pretty young trapeze per-
former, now about Is years of age,
lived for Ii months before she was
picked up by passing vessel and
finally sent back to her home in
France.
When she arrived at Marseilles she
was reunited with her father and
mother who for nearly two years she
had believed dead and who believed she