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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
THE HORSE TO BREED.

The breeder ought to have a GER
tain and distinct type of horse in
mind before starting to breed, and
his constant aim should be to produce
only the very best of its kind. I'm
less his aim and ambition be high
the probability is that he will never
produce anything valuable. He should
select the breed or breeds that he
thinks are best adapted to his con-
ditions and circumstances, and that
when raised and marketed will net
him the most money. Assuming that
he decides to raise draft horses-and
they are much the safest for the aver
age farmer-he ought to aim at pro-
Gucing horses that will weigh at
maturity not less than 1900 or LOO
pounds. But size, of course, is not
everything. The horse must be pro-
portionately made; he must be Of the
best quality and stamina, sound, have
good legs and feet, good walking and
trotting Automatically Witness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Rescue Chamber In Mines.

The rescue chamber is a safety
provision of some of the large Aus
trian mines. 1t is strongly timber
ed retreat, and its single entrance
has. a door that can be made tight
against air and water by means of
rubber fittings. It has three cylin-
ders of oxygen, sufficient to enable
80 men to breathe three days. In
halation gear is at hand for par
ties leaving the chamber for re-
connaissance or signaling, and can
ned food, medicine and first-aid ap-
pliances are also kept in the place.
The standard room will accommo-
date "a men for a reasonable time
for rescue.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
The Reason.

F. A. Busse, Chicago's new mayor,
had been complimented by a report
er on the direct, terse quality of a
statement he had given out.
II am believer in brevity," said
Mr.. Busse, smiling. 1.-The fewer
er and more striking is that things
effect.
"Once knew man who hated
the Swiss.
Why, Jake I said to him one
day, you astound me. You hate
the Swiss, yet here you are mar
ried to Swiss wife,
Yes said Jake, that's the rea-
son. Washington Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
MISS HULDA kUGHLER

There is a beauty and attractive
ness in health which is far greater
than mere regularity of feature.
A sickly, irritable, and complaining
woman always carries cloud of
depression with her; she is not only
unhappy herself but is a damper to
all JOY and happiness when with her
family and friends.
It is the bright, healthy, vivacious
woman who always charms and carries
sunshine wherever she goes.
If woman finds that her energies
are tagging and that everything tires
her; if her feminine system fails to
perform it's allotted duties, there is
nervousness, sleeplessness, faintness,
backache, headache. bearing down
pains. and Irregularities, causing
constant misery and melancholia,
she should remember that Lydia e.
Plnkham's Vegetable Compound
made from native roots and herbs will
dispel all these troubles. By correct
ing the cause of the trouble it cures
where other treatment may have
failed.
Miss Elizabeth Wynn, Of No. 205
9Th Avenue, New York City, writes
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
'For months suffered with dreadful
headaches, pain in the back and severe
hemorrhages. / was weak and out of sorts
all the time. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable
COMPOUND helped me when all other medi
cine had failed 1t seemed to be just what
needed and quickly restored my health"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
AWFUL EFFECT OF ECZEMA
Covered With Yellow Sores-Grcw
Worse-Parents Discouraged
Cuticura Drove Sores Away.

'Our little girl, one year and half old,
was taken with eczema or that was what
the doctor said it was. We took her 10
three doctors, but by this time she was
nothing but yellow, greenish sore. One
morning we discovered little yellow PIN
pie on one of her eyes. Doctor no. 3 said
that we had better take her to some eye
specialist, since it was an ulcer. So we
went to Oswego TO doctor No. 4, and he
said the eyesight WAS gone. We were near
ly discouraged, but | thought we would try
the Cuticura Treatment, SO / purchased a
set of Cuticura Remedies, which cost me
81. and in three days our daughter. VINO
had been sick about eight months, showed
great improvement, aud in one week all
sores had disappeared. OF course it could
not restore the eyesight, but if we had used
Cuticura in time, we are confident it would
have saved the eye. Mrs. Frank Abbott,
4. +. ID. No. o. Fulton, Oswego Co., n. Y,
August II, 1906"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
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CORN GROWING SCIENTIFICALLY
Corn growing is an art that has not
yet been learned by all farmers, al
though some of them have been work
ing at it all their lives.
Professor p. G. Holden, the Iowa ex-
pert, says poor seed is the cause OF
poor stands.
81 have gone into and carefully stud
ted over 5 1000 corn field, and have test
ed over 5000 samples of seed corn
sent me from all over Iowa. The cause
of a poor stand of corn is poor seed.
IN one field at Coon Rapids, Iowa,
where the farmer said he had no need
to hear me talk corn, found seven
teen hills missing out of 100 hills;
thirty-nine hills that had only one
stalk, and 20 per cent. of the stalks
were barren He had planted corn
of so per cent. vitality
Years ago l taught a country school
in which the pupils tested the seed
Tor every farmer in the district. Ii l
were allowed to give but one order to
the farmers of the State, it would be
to test six kernels from every ear OF
seed corn this next spring before they
are planted; throw out the bad ears,
and throw out the weak ears.
"a good many people think they can
cell when corn will grow and when
It will mot without testing it. Humid
reds of young men from all over Iowa
come ito the college at Ames for the
two weeks short course. One year,
/ let each member of large class
take forty ears to examine and study
for two days, and see If he could tell
which would grow and which wouiu
not.
"They did not know that had set
a little trap for them by mixing UP
good ears and bad ears OF weak vital
ity. all of which / had tested in p
germinator ten days previously. When
their Judgment of each ear was COM
pared with my record of it's test, SIT
was seen that they had ali made mis-
takes.
when we were through, asked II
there was amy one of them who
thought he could pick out corn that
was safe to plant without testing 1t,
and not a single hand went up over
the audience. You may often tell by
examination when kernel Us dead.
but you cannot tell when it is weak
or low in vitality without the germi-
mating test
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Warning To The Dean.

/, Repairs were taking place at an
English cathedral, and the dean,
very pompous clergyman, came in
to see how the workmen were get
ting on One of the men, carpen-
ter, took no notice of him, and the
dean, who thought that the man
should have lifted his cap respect
fully, said:
DO you know, sir, that I am dean
of this cathedral"
Are you, really" said the work
man. Pretty good job, too, should
think. Take care you don't lose ii"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
MEAT OR CEREALS
A Question of Interest to All Careful
Persons.

Arguments on food are interest
ing. Many persons adopt a vegetar-
ian diet on the ground that they do
not like to feel that life has been
taken to feed them, nor do they
fancy the thought of eating dead
meat.
On the other hand, too great con-
sumption of partly cooked, starchy
oats and wheat or white bread,
pastry, ETC., produces serious bowel
troubles, because the bowel digestive
organs, (where starch is digested),
are overtaxed and the food ferments,
producing gas, and microbes gener-
ate in the decayed food, frequently
bringing on peritonitis and appendi-
citis.
Starchy food is absolutely essen
tial to the human body. Its best
form is shown in the food Grape
Nuts" where the starch is changed
into form of sugar during the pro-
cess of its manufacture. In this
way, the required food is presented
TO the system in pre-digested form
and is Immediately made into blood
and tissue, without taxing the diges-
tive organs.
A remarkable result in nourish-
ment is obtained; the person using
Grape-Nuts gains quickly in physical
and mental strength. Why in mem
tai? Because the food contains del
icate particles of Phosphate of Pot
ash obtained from the grains, and
this unites with the albumen of all
food and the combination is what
f>t~re uses to rebuild worn out cells
in the brain. This is a scientific fact
that can be easily proven by ten
days use of Grape-Nuts. "There'sl
Reason" Read "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
PLANT WILD FLOWERS.

The attractiveness of the house
lawn can readily be enhanced by the
planting of wild woods flowers and
plants in the shady and protected cor
ners. Many of them are quite as
beautiful as the highly domesticated
and cultivated ones are. One of the
most satisfactory of the larger wild
growths is the wild crab apple tree.
A more beautiful and fragrant ac-
QUESTION to the lawn can not be had
when this tree is in full bloom.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
CONFINEMENT AND LIBERTY.

Confinement is not injurious to
poultry provided the hens are kept
at work. If at liberty and well fed,
the fowls will not roam and search
for food but cluster around the feed
ing place. When in confinement they
will exercise all the privileges Of
hens at liberty if the farmer will not
feed them so as to pander to their
appetites. There is no reason why
fowls should not be kept in good lay
ing condition enclosed with fences,
provided their wants are satisfied.
The great bane of the poultry indus
try is that of overlooking. Food will
not produce eggs unless all other con-
ditions are favorable, and these con-
ditions must be made, which can be
done just as well when fowls are in
confinement as when they have run
over the fields. 1t is simply matter
of exercise.-Weekly Witness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
hlectrlclty From aves.

At Young's Pier, Atlantic City, q
new wave motor is lighting a portion
of the pier. 1t is the first really sue
cessful contrivance of the kind in
use. 1t is a big float or buoy and so
arranged that the motion of the
swells will work it, no matter at
what angle the waves run. The
motor drives a compassionate en-
CINE, which fills large tanks. The
tanks in turn feed compassionate
motor, which drives the dynamo that
furnishes the current for the light
ing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Live Stock.

-Cattle-Market STEADY;
common to prime steers. $4.75 q
7.S5; cows. 1925 @5.75; heifers,
$4,000 $50: bulls, $3.15 q 5.25;
calves, 7.75; stockers and
feeders, $1,000 500,
Hogs-Market steady; good to
prime heavy, $5.S0@5.90; medium
to good heavy, $5.70@5.S5; butch
err weights. $500 sos; good to
prime mixed, 1915 q 5.S5; light mix
ed, 500; packing, 5000
5.75; pigs, $500 600; selected,
$1,000 $40; bulk of sales, $5.70@
$50.
Sheep - Market steady; sheep,
$3.75 q 900: yearlings, $500 @ $50;
lambs. 1918 q 7.75.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
THIS AND THAT.

The birth rate in Germany is six
a 1000 higher than in England.
The Russian secret service en-
ploys more than 5000 women. Sew
'eral of them draw $4,000 a year.
For the last three months the
tropical islands of Jamaica. sur
rounded by a warm sea, where the
evaporization is great, has suffered
from a drought as severe as any
which visit the inland deserts, far
away from any large body Of water.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Queer Wicks.

Sam, negro servant of Harris
burg family, is very ambitious to ap-
pear well informed on all subjects
His master had installed electric
lights throughout the house and was
explaining the workings of the fluid to
Sam as follows:
you see, the whole thing comes
from the dynamo and goes into the
wires and then into the lights. Now,
do you understand"
Eyes, sah," said Sam. " understand
all bout dem dylamos and other
things, but what l wants to know is
how do the kerosene squirt throo dem
wicks?"-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Genius.

But in the fullness of time there
appeared the super-leopard.
II can change my Spots" quoth
he, with supreme faith in himself
His relatives and friends were
Mortified.
"Hush,'' they whispered. 1.-THE
world will think you are dotty."
Being genius is by no means the
easy thing some imagine it.-New
York World.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

Rank, knights of
Pythias, Third Bat
TALON, Second Reg
i'm e mt, Missouri
Brigade, says: II
am pleased to en-
dorse the use of
Doan's Kidney
Pills, a medicine of
great merit. Hav-
ing had Dersonal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

experience with many kidney medf-
cines, I am in position to know
whereof I speak and am pleased to
add my endorsement and to recon-
mend their use."
Sold by all dealers. SO cents box.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Advantages OF Modern Invention.

Maid-Please, mum, the baby has
gone and turned the jug of cream
all over my best dress
Mistress = Never mind, Bridget,
we can use the condensed milk
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
yery small, are never harmed

1t is a handsome, innocent, bird, well
deserving protection, despite it's sharp
claws and hooked beak, and no one
who has had a chance to admire it's
rich blending of slate, white and ruff
GUS coloring, barred and polkadotted
with black. will wish harm to this
efficient mouser.-Richmond Times
nemopraf
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Not For Publication.

Convict 777-What are you going
to do with that poem you wrote,
Bill?
Convict 999-I'm going to sub
init it to the prison editor I'm hop
ing he'll throw me out.-Ally Slop-
er's Half-Holiday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Wholesale Markets.

Baltimore.-Wheat- desirable
grades of Southern were in good de-
mand, and prices were nc. higher
on graded lots Sales on cargoes
new on grade at 81 nc. for special
red; 85h for special steamer No.
p red; SAN for stock steamer No.
2 red; 1914 for special bin rejected;
I76k for stock selected, and " for
rejected to go through the drier.
Small bag lots, by sample, sold at
i68 to S9c. The market for Western
opened steady; spot and July,
i91hc. No. 2 red Western, 94k;
August, 911s; September, SO.
Corn-Cob corn is quite firm on
choice grades of yellow, which are
quotable at $3.50 per brl. in car
lots. Western opened steady; spot
and July, 591sc.; August, 59%;
September, CO.'S. Trading was quiet
and after the opening prices soft
ened, and the midday call the tone
was weak, with spot and July quot
ed at 59c.; August, 595s; Septem
Der, 59%.
Oats-The market rules quiet and
easy; receipts ample for the light
demand. We quote: White-No. g.
51M @52c.; No. 8, 50@51; No. 4.
48@481s. Mixed-No. 2, 4S%@
49Ac.; No. 8, 48@481a; No. 4, Al
,@47M,
Cheese market steady. Jobbina
prices, 14A @14k.
/, Eggs-Market steady under light
receipts and fair jobbing demand
We quote, per dozen, loss off: Mary
land, Pennsylvania and nearby firsts,
I17c.; Western f1rsts, II; West Vir'
ginia firsts, 1914; Southern firsts
lie; guinea. 500.
Live Poultry-Market unchanged
Demand fair for choice stock. We
quote as follows: Chickens-Old
hens, heavy, per h., 15c.; do. do.
small, Is; do. old ROSTERS, each
rs O. 80; do, spring, large, per lb.
'21@ 22c.; do, do, small, do, zoe
New York. - Wheat - Spot firm;
No. red, 975sc., elevator; No. 2
red, 98B, f. o. b., afloat; No. ]
Northern Duluth, ILL., IL, f. o. b.,
afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 1O1, f. o
b., afloat
Corn-Spot easy; No. 2, 61c., ele.
vator, and 60%, f. o. b., af1oat; No
white, SIX, and No. 2 yellow,
81, f. o. b., afioat.
Oats-Spot steady; mixed, ESQ
80 lbs, 4914; natural white, 500
S3 lbs, 81 @ So; clipped, SO Gao lbs.
51@541s. Hay quiet.
Butter strong; receipts. 5,421
packages; street prices, extra cream
cry, 26h @27c.; official prices,
creamery, common to extra, 20@26;
Western factory, common to firsts,
18@211a. Cheese firm, unchanged;
receipts, 2,436 boxes Eggs firm,
unchanged; receipts. 12,06S cases.
Poultry-Alive less active; prices;
prices unchanged; dressed firm;
Western chickens, 20 q 24c.; turkeys,
10@15; fowls, 12@15.
Philadelphia Wheat-No. 2 red,
In export elevator, 90h oslo; No.
red. Western do, 917s @92; No.
/ Northern do, $1,000 1.10; No. 2
Northern do, $1.07@1.O8. Corn
steady; No. 2, in export elevator,
59@591ac. Oats firm, bat quiet;
No. white natural, 61@51hc.
Bran steady, but quiet; winter, in
bulk, $1,000 20 2.50; spring, in
sacks. $22.00@ 22.50.
Butter firm; good demand; extra
Western creamery, official price,
251ac.; street price. 261s; extra
nearby prints, %.
Eggs firm; good demand; Penn
sylvania and other nearby firsts, free
cases, 18c., at mark; Pennsylvania
and other nearby current receipts,
in returnable cases, lie. at mark;
Western firsts. free cases, 1Sc., at
mark.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
The Better Part.

Frau Lehman was saying some
awful things about you yesterday"
well, did you stick up for me?"
"Oh, no. / wanted to hear it all,
SO that / could tell you about it
afterward. Fliegende Batter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
TO DOCK LAMBS

A good way to dock lambs is to
tie cord tightly around the tail and
then clip off with a pair of sharp
pruning shears. Leave the tail about
an inch long. Cover the end of the
wound with a little carbolated vase.
line and remove the cord at night.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
The Lightning Rod.

The lightning rod was invented
by Benjamin Franklin in 1852, to
arrest the electricity of the thun-
der. When the information of the
discovery reached Rabbi Saul Katie
nellenbogen, OF wilma, he said that
the theory was not new, because it
was already known in Talmudic
times, and he showed a passage in
the Tosefta (third century, where it
says that ION Sabbath it is permit
ted to place an iron near the hen
merry to safeguard the fowls from
thunder and lightning strikes" The
Talmud vouches that there is moth
ing superstitious about this belief"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

The milk pans are quickly cleaned
and rid of all greasy "feel" when
washed in borax and water in the fol-
lowing proportions-one tablespoon
full of borax to quart of water.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Mrs. Plnkham's Invitation to Momeaa'

Women suffering from any forna
of female weakness are invited t.
promptly communicate with Mrs.
Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. From the
symptoms given, the trouble may be
located and the quickest and suresS
way of recovery advised. Out of hes
vast volume of.experience in treating
female ills Mrs. Pinkham probably
has the very knowledge that will
help your case. Her advice is free
and always helpful.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
FNED FOR sow AND PIGS.

A correspondent of the Indiana
Farmer says he does not believe in
feeding Stops to sows with sucking
pig. He prefers to make corn the
main ration.
We know it DIS the practice of some
breeders to feed sows very literally
on corn, just as soon as the clover
pastures are ready. The theory is that
there is enough green stuff to counter
balance any evil that might come
from feeding corn. This is a matter
which must be left largely to the judg-
ment of the breeder. Some soWs
which have been accustomed to dry
grain all winter do not take readily
to Stops, and are apt to get out OF
condition. In cases of this kind 1t is
well ito feed Stops sparingly and make
che change gradually. The same cor
respondent says he wants his pigs to
eat dry corn just as quickly as pos
Sible, and he cuts out most of the
Stops while the pigs are sucking.
The writer believes in feeding good
Stops. Use shorts and a little oil meal
will be good. Make fresh Stops every
day, and under no circumstances al
low the barrels to become sour. Real
~ the finest bunch of pigs the writer
ever raised were handled in this way:
The sows narrowed during March and
April During the first ten days the
sows and pigs were confined in In
dividual pens, with pfenty of sunshine
cd 3xxJTa- nf
each, twice day, and half bushel OF
rich slops. After ten days sows and
pigs were turned out in blue grass
and clover pasture being housed every
aight Runs were made for the pigs
and soaked corn and barley were fed.
When the pigs were five or six weeks
old short Stops were fed, the quantity
increased gradually until the pigs
we're weaned. 1t is no trick at all to
make 300,pound hogs at ten months,
with that feed.
SPARROW HAWK OUR FRIEND.
While the name hawk too often
brings to mind only slaughtered poul-
try, careful investigation shows that
most of the hawks are decidedly
friends of the farmer. Though the
long-tailed hawks, Cooper's, the Sharp
skinned and the Goshawk aptly styled
the "brigands of the family" are not
to be favored, the short-tailed species,
even if some of them do invade the
poultry yard occasionally, destroy so
many noxious insects and rodents as
to many times amend for the few mis-
demeanors.
The smallest, nandsomest and one
of the most useful is the sparrow hawk
which, besides killing many insects
and furry pests, makes havoc with
the bully among little birds, the Eng
iish sparrow. Whether the latter is
beneficial or injurious, its quarrel
some nature seems to demand that
some check be given to protect our
native youngsters. And the sparrow
hawk does this with great efficiency.
In summer it poises over a meadow
or pasture, sustaining itself by rapid
vibrations of the wings and tail,
watching for a stray grasshopper or
cricket which it is not slow to spy.
In localities infested with locusts,
It also does incalcuable aid. In win
ter it may come to the barn or straw
stack; but it is mice, not chickens, |
which it seeks. The latter, unless
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

We meet some people with pleasure
and part from them with genuine
satisfaction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

1t takes a cir, to pretend she thinks
you are saying yoHr catech.ssl when
you are kissing her.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
A FRANK STATEMENT.
From Prominent Fraternal Man OF
Rolla, Missouri.

Justice of the Peace A. M. Light,
of RolIa, Mo-, Major, Uniformed
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-

Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
"For months was Ill with an Internal
trouble. / suffered terrible agony, waG
nervous, irritable, and sick all the time.
took different medicines without benefit
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
was recommended and within six months
was completely restored to health and {
want to recommend it to every SUFFERING
woman"
Women who are troubled with
painful or irregular functions, baclE
ache, bloating Tor aatulence), displac@
ments, Inflammation or liberation
that bearing down feeling, dizziness
indigestion, or nervous prostratio4
may be restored to perfect health anS
strength by taking Lydia E. Pinlss
hams Vegetable Compound,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

FITS, st. vitus' Dance Nervous Diseases per-
manently cured by DR.. Klines Great Nerve
Restorer 50 trial bottle and treatise free.
DIR. 81. R. Kline, Id, 1881 Arch St., Phila, Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26
MISS ELIZABETH WYNN

Miss Hulda Kughler, of No, 25s,
West 18th Street, New York City.
writes:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

1t is unlucky to meet thirteen O
your creditors on Friday.