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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06
TALES AND ENDS.
BITTEN FOR THE MIDLAND JOURNAL.
BY ALLEN PAYNE.

WRITTEN FOR THE MIDLAND JOURNAL.
If life is a chain of circumstances and you wish
to start life all over again, you must begin By
Strengthening out the kinks
Ifyou have men in your employ whom you
think that even a sledge hammer won't drive
Just try little fair treatment if only the size o.
tack hammer.
In padding their own canoe,
There are folks who have met with more
Success with one oar,
Than others have with two.
The public will accept salt for sugar about a:
quick as they will deal with a vinsgarfaced
merchant.
If "a divorced couple become reconciled well
that .'alters the case"
You may have troubles by the score but remem-
Der there are others who have 10 to your l.
Men struck with an idea often feel its effects
Retaliation now days consists of returning evil
for good.
Good qualities are often made known by the
store keepers cash book.
To have shower OF success you must apply
fair treatment in business
Women have been the makingof some men but
that doesn't account for the stitch in ones side
When man gets pinched for money thing:
often appear black and blue.
There are things that look to be all wool andla
yard wide. but you'll often find the material toe
f1imsy to come out of the wash.
When man has the rocks it often makes the
heart of stone.
Anyhow the professional snorer goes to SLEEP
over it.
To the victor belongs the spoils but even he
may strike an unknown acquaintance with q
buzzard.
Getting crossed in love often makes some men
wish for their back
The regulations of some backbiters well
known that the more and meaner the things they
say of other people just advertises the good
qualities
All men are created equal-minus the silver
spoon.
Man may have pull but the traces oft times
break.
Men will dodge an issue who are unable tt
dodge q rolling pin.
The-door of success may be wide open but few
men are pushed in.
Inere are innings tHdl sOtuetiLHeSS tiCh III hioh
craw that make him feel like using club
When man strikes the keynote of rascaity al
he is good for s the lookup.
There are lots of things you have done that yor
think you'd do different if you could live your life
over again, but it's dollars to doughnuts YOU'D
bite on some other kind of bait.
Some men begin by taking "one" By and by
tho officer takes one.
Pity the young man who starts out to dig fol
himself and digs his own grave.
The success OF some mems lives appears to be
all in the debtor column
When man wears striped suit as guest o.
che state he considers that i'll luck has struck hin
in streaks.
man may put his shoulder to the spoEes bu
forget to remove the stones from under the wheel
Some folks never get down to hard work IN
less there is something up.
After you are dead and gone they may have
more respect for your dog than your wishes.
The housewife puts rum in the sauce to flavor
and give it a color The husband then begins te
get a red nose for dessert
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06
Twenty Year Battle.

81 was a loser in twenty year
battle with chronic piles and ma'ig-
nant sores, until I tried Buoklen's
Arnica Salve; which turned the
tide, by curing both, till not trace
remains" writes A. M. Bruce,
of Farmville, Va. Best for old
Ulcers, Cuts, Burns and Wounds.
Zoe at E. T. Reynolds drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06

The estimate of the lower Della
ware output places the gross re-
ceipt from the strawberry business
this season at 5000, 900, although
this does not include the berries
shipped from the smaller stations
or by steamboat from the bay shore
towns.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06

Jesse L. Robinson, of Har-
ford, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Warfeld one of the Com
mission for improving the condi-
ton of the Adult Blind in the
State. The Commission was Gre
ated under an Act passed at the
last session of the Legislature.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06
Marriage Licenses.

Robert Griffith and Elizabeth
Duncan, both of Pennsylvania.
Charles j. Duise, of Elkton, and
Florence E. Harris, CT Perryville.
CoLoRED-Arthur Larue, and
Rachel Allison, both of Port
Deposit.
Daniel j. Hammond, of Rising
Sun, and Cornelia b. White, of
Sylmar.
James Fl. Green, of Virginia,
and Mamie G. Brown, of Calvert.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06
A Hard Lot

of trouble to contend with, spring
from a torpid liver and blockaded
bowels, unless you awaken them TO
their proper action with DR.. Kings
New Life Pills.. the pleasant and
most effective cure for Constipation.
They prevent Appendicitis and
tone up the system. 25c at Z. T..
Reynolds drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06
Do Not Neglect Your Bowels:

Many serious diseases arise from neglect
of the bowels Chamberlain Stomach
aud Liver Tablets are a pleasant and
agreeable laxative. They invigorate the
liver and regulate the bowels. For sale
by E. T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06

Hecks' Hotel, in Havre de Grace,
has been sold to Morris w. Dick
inson, of West Grove, Pa, who
will shortly remove to that place
and conduct the business.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06

Lille V. Bagley has been ap.
pointed postmistress at Bagley,
Hartford county, to succeed Z. V.
Bagley, deceased.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-06

Want to Know the Reason Why.
Costique-It's funny that some peo-
pie are never satisfied to know g thing
is so and so, but must ask the why and
wherefore. Sappy - Yes. I wonder
why it Is
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Personal.

Charles Day, an old settler of Troy,
Wis, died, aged seventy-six years.
Mai. Gen. James w. Forsyth, retired,
who served in the Civil war with dis
tinction, was stricken with apoplexy
and died at Columbus, Ohio.
Martin L. Newell, formerly state
senator and once assistant attorney
general of Illinois, died at Springfield,
Ill, of paralysis, sixty-eight years old.
Edward James Saunderson, Union
list member of parliament for Armagh
north, who had been critically i'll OF
pneumonia at Castle Saunderson, died
at Armagh, Ireland. He was fifty-n1ne
years old.
Mrs. Catherine Troutman Maynard
died at Seattle, Wash. She was the
oldest pioneer of that city, had lived
III the state fifty-six years, was married
seventy-four years ago and was past
ninety years of age.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
REDS SHOUT KILL THE POLICE
EMMA GOLDMAN AND NINE OTHER
ANARCHISTS ARE ARRESTED
IN NEW YORK.

New York, Oct 31.-Emma Goldman
and nine other persons were arrested
at an anarchistic meeting last night.
The police pushed their way through
the crowd toward the speakers stand
and arrested Julius Edelson, who was
speaking. AS they did SO there were,
shouts of Down with the police!"
Kill the police! They are worse than
the Russian police"
The other arrests followed quickly
Edelson was charged with melting to
riot and the others with disorderly
conduct.
According to the police, Edelson. in
his speech, declared among other
things: ''No matter how much Czol
gosz has been damned for his good
work, we know that he was a great
man. He was a true hero. American
laws are all made for bluffing. The
people of America are worse bluffed
than those of Russia"
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03

Running at a speed estimated at
fifty miles an hour, the fast train
known as the Cleveland flyer was
side-swiped by the caboose of freight
train at Pittsburg. Five trainmen were
injured.
Seized with an epileptic fit while he
was STOPPING to feed his hogs, Elmer
Elderly, a farmer near Sioux City,
Iowa, fell face downward in a hall
Foot of mud in the pig pen and was
smothered to death.
An engine on an extra freight train
Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
east-bound, exploded near Morton
Grove, ILL.,, killing Fireman j. Dough
erty and injuring Engineer I. klump
and Brakeman w. L. Grass.
BY an explosion in the mine OF the
Cambria Steel company at JohnstoWn,
Pa, seven men are dead and two pain
fully burned. The explosion is thought
to have been caused by the ignition OF
gas in setting off blast.
In a freight wreck at Kenton, Ohio,
two men were killed and two seriously
hurt. A fast freight drawn by two en-
gines crashed into cut Of cars stand
ing on the main track. The engine and
many cars we're wrecked and hun
dreds Of sheep were killed.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Criminal,

A verdict imposing the death pen
atty on Thomas Brady, white man.
for a criminal assault upon sixteen
year-old girl, was returned at Alex
andria, La, by the jury which tried
him.
William Dutton, widely known cir
Gus rider, was assaulted at Cincinnati
and probably fatally injured. His as
sailants, who apparently sought to rob
him, have not been captured Dutton
was one of the first American riders
to exhibit before the khediye Of Egypt
and the czar of Russia.
Because she was respondent over a
love affair, Mary Eplett of Sauf Ste.
Marie took a dose of laudanum with
suicidal intent, but will probably re-
cover She was in love with man
who married another woman, and this
is said to be the third time she has
attempted to kill herself.
The body of a man tied in a cotton
sack was found in the river at Paw
paw, I. T. The sack was bound with
wire, to which had been fastened a
piece of railroad iron, evidently in
tended for a sinker. The back of the
mans head had been crushed in, and
he apparently had been dead several
days.
j. S. Espy, d. e. Horrigan, William
Herb, T. T. Kirk, Addison Boren, w.
A. Merritt, Henry Nichols and Edward
Kerr, officers and directors Of the de-
funct State Bank of Pittsburg, Were
found guilty of Irregularities in con-
nection with the failure of the bank
by jury in the criminal court. The
charge was receiving deposits, know
ing the bank was insolNent.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
WILD SCRAMBLE FOR LAND
"SoONERS" GET MOST VALUABLE
CLAIMS ON WALKER LAKE
RESERVATION

Thorne, New, Oct. 31.-With the
firing of a mighty blast of dynamite
from the top of Grant Peak, the hlgn-
est point in the adjacent mountains
the Walker Lake Indian reservation
was opened at noon yesterday. At the
given signal hundreds of searchers Tor
gold hurried helter-skelter over the
boundary lines, and a spectacular race
of automobiles, race horses and vehl-
Giles was on. So great was the rush
across the desert from the line near
est Hawthorne that a number OF per-
sons narrowly escaped being trampled
over, and in numerous instances in
juries were reported.
Those who had waited for the sig
nal from the top of Mount Grant be-
fore rushing into the reservation
found that all the most valuable
claims had been taken up by men who
had rushed in the night before, contra
ry to law.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
WEALTHY WIDOWS
ARE SW|NDLED
AGGREGATION OF CHARGES ARE
PILED UP AGAINST CHICAGO
MAN.
HUNDRED THOUSAND IN ALL
ONE ST. LOUIS WIDOW SAID TO
HAVE BEEN FLEEcED OF
$4,000.

Chicago, Oct. 31-Wealthy widows
have been swindled out of more than
100000, the police say, by S. Rosen-
field, who was arrested yesterday.
Detectives met considerable difficulty
in making the arrest, owing to the
opposition of the family.
Rosenfield admitted getting large
sums of money from women, the po-
lice say, but denied that his scheme
was a swindle.
According to the police, Rosenfield
posed as a wealthy broker and real
estate man, and had little difficulty in
inducing persons of means to invest
in his schemes. 1t is said more than
$4,000 was obtained from one woman
i'm Cincinnati in "book venture" The
police were told that woman in st.
Louis intrusted $4,000 to Rosenfield
less than three months ago.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
CUBAN REBELS
TAKE THE FIELD
THREATEN UPRISING BUT ARE IN
DucED TO DIsBAND BY AMER
ICANS.
MACON SAVES $1OO,OOOA YEAR
GOVERNOR DlSMiSSES UNNECES-
SARY EMPLOYEES OF HOUSES
OF CONGRESS.

Havana, Oct. 31.-Maj Theodore p.
Kane, commander Of the marines sta
toned at Cienfuegos. has sent in re-
port to the effect that on Oct. q he
was informed that a serious uprising
was on foot. He at once posted strong
guards at the entrances to the city,
with orders not TO permit armed per-
sens to pass in or out. He then went
accommodating, and in the town of
Caunac he found Col Toledo at the
head Of a mounted body of 100 eX-in-
surgents. Toledo said he had organ
lied for the purpose of resisting a
threatened attack by the Moderates.
Band Is Dispersed.
Mai. Kane explained that these fears
were not we'll founded and advised Col
Toledo to disband his men and send
them back to their homes. This ad.
vice was followed.
A similar gathering near Sancti
Spiritus also was dispersed. From
Matanzas come further complaints OF
the threatening attitude of bands of
armed negroes in that vicinity, but no
overt acts have been committed. Gov.
Magoon has issued a decree which
discharges all employees of the senate
and house of representatives with the
exception of ten men for each house.
This move will effect a saving Of $780,
600 a wear
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Casualty List.

The freighter Hastings burned off
South Norwalk, Conn. The crew was
saved.
Mrs. Guadalupe Vigily Bares and
her two children were drowned in the
Rio Grande river near Santa Fee dur
ing the recent blizzard.
Two men were killed five miles east
of Anaconda, Mont, by runaway car
OF ore They are Rosario Lavucci and
Basil Hoyt. Lavucci was torn to
pieces.
'The Pittsburg Special jumped the
tracks near Allegheny, Pa. The en-
CINE slipped down to the Ohio river.
At least four persons, all trainmen,
were seriously injured.
Carbolic acid, taken in mistake for
cough medicine, is responsible for the
death of Hazel King, the seventeen
year-old daughter of Charles L. King
of independence, Iowa.
A sail ferryboat, plying between
Beaufort and Ladies' Island, S. c.,
swamped during a storm with six men
and four women, all negroes, on board.
Three women were drowned.
Three or more persons were killed
and a dozen injured when an incoming
passenger train collided with an out
bound car on the Toledo & Indiana
traction line at Toledo, Ohio.
An excursion train returning from
Cleveland to Columbus collided, head
on, with a freight train. The engineer
and fireman on the passenger train
were killed. None of the passengers
were hurt.
Eight Employees were injured, one
of them perhaps fatally, when a trac-
ton car left the rails on steep grade
near Chagrin Falls, Ohio, at curve.
The motorman could not control the
speed of the car.
Clifford Belden of Dubuque was
killed, and Herman Weicker of Mil
waukee fatally injured at Spechts Fer
ry, Iowa They were employed by the
Milwaukee railroad and went to sleep
under a box car, which was moved by
an engine. Beldens legs were severed
from his body.
Two wrecks are reported on the
Mexican Central railroad below Lare-
do, Mex, and several people were
hurt. A passenger and freight train
were both wrecked by bulls getting on
the track Traffic was delayed for sew.
eral hours.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
From the Capital.

Gen, Elliott, commander Of the ma
rine corps, says an immediate increase.
in the corps is necessary TO SUSTAIN
the efficiency of the service.
The supreme court of the united
States to-day refused to assume Jurls-
diction in the contempt case OF Mayor
Rose of Kansas City, Kan, leaving the
$1,000 in effect.
It was announced at the state de-
partment that Herbert G. Squlres OF
New York had been selected to be
American minister at Panama to sue
coed Charles E. Magoon.
Fort Omaha, Neb., is to be the scene
of MANY interesting balloon expert
ments during the next few months.
French manufacturers have shipped TO
the signal corps of the army new
spherical silk balloon, which will be
thoroughly tested at the Nebraska
post.
Statistics prepared by the geograph-
fcaI survey of the natural gas industry
show that in the calendar year l9O3
the value of natural gas produced and
sold exceeded that of any previous
year by $3,O66,O99. The total value
of the gas produced and sold was SILL
562,S55.
President Roosevelt was mustered
in as an honorary member of the Asso-
cfate member of the Associate Socie-
ty of Farnsworth post, G. A. r., OF
Mount Vernon, n. Y. The ceremony
took place IN the cabinet room OF the
executive offices and was conducted by
Gen. Horace Porter.
President Roosevelt has deter
mined to prevent the further employ
ment in governmental service Of hus-
band and wife belonging to one family.
Either one may remain, but the other
must retire. The president has re-
quested the ivil service commission
to furnish him list of all the cases
in which both husband and wife are
employed in any of the executive de.
partments here.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
WILD SCRAMBLE FOR LAND.
"Sooners" Get Most Valuable Claims
on Walker Lake Reservation.


Findlay, Ohio, Oct. SIN probate
court here yesterday, Judge Banker
oyerruled the motion filed by the at
torneys of the Standard Oil company
for new trial and imposed fine OF
$4,000 and costs of the prosecution in
the recent suit against the Standard
held here. On motion of the defense
the court ordered that the defendant
company be allowed forty days in
which to prepare and file it's bill of
exceptions in the case, and on motion
Of the Standards attorneys the
sentenced imposed was ordered
suspended for sixty days for the pur-
pose of fling a petition on error in
this case 1t was also ordered that
the criminal information pending
against John D. Rockefeller. the Buck
eye Pire Line company and the Man
haitian Oil company be confined until
the next term of court.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
From Other Shores.

BaniarOs tribesmen have seized the
town of Arzilla, twenty-five miles
south of Tangier, and assumed the
governorship.
Reports issued by the government
show that the damages sustained by
the crops from the recent cyclones in
Cuba are not as great as has been sup
posed.
Another circular from the so-called
revolutionary committee is being cir
culated in Mexico City. 1t bears a
New Orleans date, but was mailed in
Mobile, Ala. 1t declares that Presi-
dent Cabrera of Guatemala is &
marked man and will shortly be assas-
sinated.
A dispatch received in London FROM
Vladivostok by Lloyds agency says the
Russian wooden coasting steamer
Warjagin struck a floating mine and
foundered on Oct 20. Some of he~
passengers and crew were saved, but
$50 persons were drowned. Another
message received by news agency
says ZOU passengers peTlSHeu on DOdTu
the Warjagin, only one being saved.
A special from Tucson, Ariz., says
that a well known citizen Of that place.
whose name is withheld, has returned
from Noga1es, where he was authorita-
lively informed that Salcide and all
the other revolutionists recently de-
ported from Arizona were taken to
Hermosillo and summarily executed,
notwithstanding official statements to
the contrary.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Blacks Eenin Mar.

Brook Haven, Mass, Oct. 31.-As a
result of the production of "The Clans
man" and threats that KulIluX Khan
was beirg organized to drive negroes
from the community, the blacks have
formed themselves into band of
white caps and already have started a
series OF depredations against the
whites
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Otherwise.

French manufacturers have shipped
to the army signal corps new spheri-
cal silk balloon, which will be thor
oughly tested at Fort Omaha, Neb A
hydrogen plant will be built there.
Maj. E. F. Taggart Of divorce fame,
who is now serving in the Philippines,
is critically i'll at a military hospital
there. He is suffering with dysentery,
and his recovery is said to be doubt
full.
An heroic statue of Gen. William
Henry Gibson, famous colonel of the
Forty-ninth Ohio volunteers, and wide
ly known as Republican campaign
orator. was unveiled at Tifin, Ohio, by
his grandsons.
The Dunbar Furnace company, the
Semat-Solvay Coke works and the
New Haven & Dunbar railway at
Connelsville, Pa, announce an in
crease in wages of 10 cents q day for
all laborers, affecting 1000 men.
Mrs. Fannie Eberson, wife of A. A.
Eberson, testified in Judge Withrow's
court in st. Louis that her husband
had a playful habit of pelting her with
$50 and 500 bills, which he rolled in
to compact wads and used as mis-
siles. This was during their happy
married life, before Mrs. Eberson filed
suit for divorce.
The American Antiquarian society
elected Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale
its president, to succeed the late
Stephen Salisbury of Worcester. A
tribute was paid by Dr. Hale to Capt.
Roald Anundsen, who rediscovered
the Northwest passage.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
FIND MISSING MANS BODY.
Has Four Bullet Holes in 1t and Ar
rests Are Made.

Helena, Mont, Oct. 31.-The mys-
terry surrounding the disappearance
four months ago Of O. ID. Clearwater
has been partially cleared up by the
finding of his dead body under some
brush with four bullet holes in it.
Nels Hall is under arrest, and five
others, some of whom also are arrest
ed are suspected of being implicated
in what appears to have been delib-
crate murder.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
MINNEAPOLIS LACKS HOTELS.
Mill City May Not Get Methodist
OuadrenniaI.

Minneapolis, Oct. 31-Minneapolis
is lacking in hotel accommodations,
according to the judgment of COM
mittee that is now inspecting the Mill
City to determine it's fitness as meet
ing place for the general quadrennial
conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, to be held in May, 1908.
Except in the matter Of hotels the Wis
iting committee appeared favorably
impressed with Minneapolis, but it is
feared that on that one point the re-
port will be unfavorable.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
PICKED UP IN SMALL BOAT.

Crew of Wrecked Schooner Has Peril.
Gus Experience on Lake Huron.
Port Huron, Mich, Oct. 31.-Capt.
Youngs Of Port Huron, his wife and
three sons, comprising the crew of
the schooner West Side of Cleveland,
were picked up in a small boat on
Lake Huron yesterday by the steamer
Frank Peavey. The West Side foun-
dered off Thunder Bay island in Sat
urday nights story, and the crew had
perilous experience until sighted
yesterday by the Peavey.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Hanaed hy Suspenders.

Eagle River, Wis, Oct 31.-Frank
Matteson committed suicide in the
county jail by hanging himself with
his suspenders. He was confined on
a charge that he had attempted to muir
der his wife
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Closes the City's Schools.

Black River Falls, Wis, Oct. 81
The health officer ordered the city
schools all closed here until further
notice, owing to diphtheria There
have been four cases among the pupils
lately, three of which proved fatal.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
Feud Factions Are Aiming.

Hayking, KY, Oct. 31.-The Brown
fedd factions are arming themselves
and another outbreak is expected at
any moment. The feud was started a
week ago, when members of the band
clashed in battle.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
To Try Forty Negroes.

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 31...A special
term of court has been ordered to be-
gin to-day for the trial of the forty ne.
groes charged with the murder OF a
policeman during the September riots
here
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
FALL INTO SHERIFF'S HANDS.
TWO Men Charged With Stealing
Teams in North Dakota.

Minot, N. D., Oct 31.-Frank Scales
and John Gordon were brought to Mi
not by Sheriff Lee on the charge of
stealth. two teams at Glenburn. The
men were arrested at Lytleton, Can.
After disposing of one team, it is al
legged, they returned to North Dakota
and disappeared with another. They
had just closed deal for the transfer
of the second team when Sheriff Lee
arrived.