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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-08
Cost1iest of All Fish.

The fish was no bigger than a silver
dollar. Its color was bright gold, and
it had a beautiful bushy golden tail.
''That," said the pet stock dealer. sis
tie finest aquarium fish in the world,
Chinese brush tailed goldfish. 1t is
handsome healthy and long lived. A
good brush tailed goldfish he conclud-
ed, costs $3.50 or $500, and some fine
specimens have sold for as much as
$500 apiece
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-08
Worked Like A Charm

Mr.. D. N. Walker, editor of that
spicy journal, the Enterprise,
Louisa, Va, says: 81 ran nail in
my foot last week and at once APP
piled Bucklen's Arnica Salve. No
Inflammation followed: the salve
simply healed the wound Heals
every sore, burn and skin disease.
Guaranteed by Eli T. Reynolds,
Druggist. Zoe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-08

The editors of the United States bonn
barded Congress with petitions asking
that the proposed increased postal rates
and new regulations be turned down
With the paper trust squeezing them or
one side, and the government raising
rates at the behest of the express CON-
panies) on the other, things are not quite
as cheerful for publishers as they nigh,
be, notwithstanding the high tide OF
prosperity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-08

After the government has spent mil
lion dollars investigating the graft and
crime of the packers, and has proven it,
cases, have you heard of one of the
packers being punished
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-08

At the suggestion of President Roose
welt artists are working on new designs
for the gold coins of the United States.
1t is provided by law that the designs O.
coins may not be changed more than
once in twenty-five years. The lates'
modification in our gold pieces came il
1866.
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27

So many school children have been
found with defective eyesight that the
school committees of several cities
have considered furnishing eyeglasses
free. It is question how far govern.
ment should go in supplying citizens
with the necessary things Of life.
Most American parents will prefer to
',pay the oculist In many cities are
free dispensaries where poor children
can be treated and receive free pre-
scriptions for glasses. Parents should
De warned against incompetent ocu-
lists who take advantage of the re-
ports Of the boards of education on
the matter Of eyesight in the schools,
and try to get business for themselves
by exaggerated warnings to the par
ents Of school children threatened
with blindness"
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
Earthuuake shocks were felt in

Earthquake shocks were felt in four
continents in the six days between
April IA and 10. They began with de.
structive shocks in Mexico by which
three towns were ruined. Then Spain,
Russian Transcaucasia and CONSTANT.
nople felt the tremors, and there were
shocks at Manila and Charleston, and
volcanic eruptions accompanied by
earthquakes manifested themselves il
Chile. 1t is interesting to note, says
Youths Companion, that these shocks,
with the exception Of the one at
Charleston, occurred in the recognized
earthquake belts, one of which encir.
cles the Pacific ocean, and the other
goes about the earth by way of Mexi.
co. the West Indies, Spain, Italy the
Caucasus, northern India, the Philip
pines and tho Pacific islands.
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
Many Were Bribed,

San Francisco.-Mrs. Anna L. Lon.
ergan. wife of the supervisor, ]. J.
Lonergan. was witness for the prose-
cution in the Louis Glass bribery trial
She corroborated the testimony of her
husband that he accepted $4,000 from
T. V. Halsey of the Pacific States Tele-
phone Company to vote against the
granting of rival franchise to the
Home Telephone Compsny. She said
her husband brought the money home
In bills and gave 1t to her.
Supervisor M. w. Coffey testified
that he accepted bribe of $4,000
from Halsey under the conditions
stated, but he denied that the vote was
thereby influenced. Supervisor F. P
Nichols testified to accepting a bribe
from Halsey. Former Supervisor An.
drew NJ. Wilson admitted receiving
money from Halsey and others to in.
fiuence his official actions. w. w.
Eaton. treasurer of the Pacific States
Telephone COMPANY, was the first and
last witness Of the day.
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
Miscellaneous,

Prof. Heilprin, the noted scientist
of Yale, is dead in New York.
President Diaz of Mexico has or
dered that United States Minister
Thompson's Decoration day address
be read in all the public schools of
the country.
William A. Paxton, pioneer and
millionaire business man of Omaha.
dropped dead at his home in that city
Fifty men are reported to have been
suffocated as the result of fire in
a sulphur mine in Gargenti, Sicily.
Admiral John P McLear, retired
of the British navy. recently dropped
dead on hotel veranda at Niagara
Falls.
The Italian minister Of public in
struction has sent large contribu-
tion to Ouida, the authoress, who is
penniless in that country.
The first act of the new emperor of
Korea was to order punishment for
Korean delegation to The Hague.
Judge Landis, in the federal court
at Chicago, has refused the request
of the attorneys for John d. Rookie
feller for the withdrawal of the sub
poena recently issued for their client
The strike of the garbage drivers
in New York has caused vast piles
of refuse to collect in the tenement
district endangering the health OF the
people.
Numerous counterfeit $40 silver GER
tificates have reached the treasury de
Mrs. Elizabeth Agassiz, widow Of
Louis Agassiz. the famous scientist, is
dead in Boston aged s. years.
A wind, hail and rain storm de-
stroyed Is residences and injured 25
people at Williston, N D..
Trustees of the supreme tent Of the
Macabees have decided to establish
new medical department at Kan
sas City.
Henry Scutcheon near Nuncia. Mich
killed his invalid son, wife and father
in-law with an axe and was himself
shot dead by neighbor.
The government is making an in
spection of Pacific steamships with
view to using them for transports
should the occasion require.
The abdication edict Of the Korean
emperor has been promulgated at
Seoul.
A freight train collided with an ex-
cursion train on the Pere Marquette
railroad near Detroit. Mich. and 30
person were killed and about 100 in
jured.
King Victor Emmanuel intends to
visit England accompanied by an Ital-
ian fleet.
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
Coeduc alton,

All institutions which have been es.
tablished by the state for higher edu-
ration should provide for the educa-
ton of both men and women, and it is
decided gain to have this work done
by one institution rather than by two
and there Is no serious objection to
the education of men and women in
the same institution that has been es-
tablished for both, says Cyrus Nor
thrup, president of the University of
Minnesota, in Golfers. The boys and
girls grow up together in the same
family; they go together to the same
graded school; they go together to the
same high school,; they go together to
the university, and coeducation in the
university does not seem to any OF
them any more strange or unnatural
than coeducation in the lower schools
has seemed strange. So far as the in
fluence of the men upon the women,
or the women upon the men, is con.
cerned, am quite certain that the
are made more gentlemanly, and the
women, while having all the frankness
and freedom of the home life and the
school life, never lose the refinement
which belongs to them as women.
have no sympathy whatever with the
what shall l call it?-sentimentality
which seeks to segregate the women
and shut them in by themselves In
the work of education.
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
THE GLENWOOD POST
A. J. Dickson, Editor and Prop.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO.
The Mikado as a Poet.

Great as is the position won for
himself by Mut=u Hito in the litera,
ture of his country, it must be
avowed that his poetry, from the
point Of view of the west, is second
rate, says Current Literature. In the
original it is comparable only, afilrm
native critics, with perfume from the
trees. A striking feature of what
DR.. James A. B. Scherer-high author
ity on the subject-terms these Lilli.
putian odes is, he thinks, their "ellip-
teal terseness of style" Hence, Mutsu
Hito's poetry lacks quantity, accent,
tone, rhyme, and all the incidents to
prosody. His majesty's stanzas are
made up of five and seven syllable
lines alternating, unless some patri-
otic frenzy agitates his muse. His
genius is grave in the ode, gay in the
stanza, enabling him to perform with
out adventitious aid all the functions
of the court poet Thus, when a lady
in the diplomatic circle was returning
to her native land, and received in
consequence the unprecedented honor
OF visit from the empress, royal
stanza embellished the parting. The
gray goose" ran the verse, is flying
westward" The departing lady's
white hair was symbolized by that
bird to which Japanese artists are so
partial, the goose itself being en-
blematic in the native poetical mind
OF feminine loveliness in its most raw
fishing aspects. The Japanese pretti
ness of the thing is quite sacrificed in
our rugged phraseology. Mutsu Hito's
poetical fame is, therefore, strictly ma.
tiouak
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27

psychic epilepsy" has succeeded
brain storm as medical term. A New
York physician has Just been cleared
OF the charge Of brutally assaulting a
man and woman on the street on the
plea that he had been subject to at
ytacks of psychic epilepsy from child
hood. and that on recovery he had no
knowledge Of what had occurred. Just
how the ailment differs from ordinary
epilepsy is not made clear, but 1t will
undoubtedly prove to be q convenient
malady in criminal procedure.
The Glenwood post., 1907-07-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space tor the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Personal.

James Wilson, colored of Cincinnati
died of fright following an exciting
chase and his arrest for shooting a
white man.
Prof. Percival director of the Lowell
observatory has announced the sue
cessful photographing of the double
canal of Mars.
Karl Hau the law professor of
Washington accused of killing his
motherin-law in Baden, Baden, has
been found guilty and condemned to
death
Paymaster Major Eugene Coffin
has had his arm amputated, the re-
suit of infection from handling money
paying troops.
The professional swimmer Wolfe
made an attempt to swim the English
channel but only succeeded in swim
ming 81 miles.
w. ]. Weaver, a pioneer resident of
Fort Scott, Ark, is dead,
1t is stated at Princeton that eX-
President Cleveland has not recover
ed from his recent illness as rapidly
as expected.
A retiring board appointed to eX-
anime Lieutenant Colonel Charles G.
Ayres has reported his physical condi-
ton such as to unfit him for active
duty.
Senator Stone, of Missouri. and
Representative Towne. of New York,
have arrived in Manila, on a tour OF
the Philippines.
Mrs. Katherine Felske, aged 1O4,
said to have been the Oldest person
in Nebraska, died recently at her
home in Grand Island.
President Jesse, OF the University
of Missouri, has decided to temper
arily withdraw from the institution in
an effort to regain his health.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
in the Northwest inspecting the gov
ernment forest reserves.
Midshipman James F. Cruise, of
Omaha. who was hurt in the explo-
sion on the battleship Georgia, has
died of his injuries
Churchill j. White, 50 years Of age,
for many years cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce at Kansas
City, is dead.
John F. Stevens, formerlYs chief
engineer of the Panama canM, has
been appointed a vice president of
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad company with offices
in New Haven.
Mrs Russell Sage has given $3.50
600 for the relief of the respectable,
aged. INDECENT females in the city OF
New York.
Hector Henri Mallot, the French
novelist. is dead at aPris. He was
born in 1880.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10
CHAPTER ~.
IN TWO CAMPS.

In tho headquarters OF the Civic
League sat Give standsh. With him
were the committee chosen to con-
duct his campaign. Karl Ansel,
lean, hard headed New England giant
their chairman, and incidentally, CAM
palgn managers was going laboriously
over list of counties, towns and wis
lagos. corroboratng certain notes hef
made form time to time, by referring
to n big colored map of the Mountain
state.
I've checked OFF the places that
arc directly under the thumb of the
c. q. &. X.." Ansel was explaining az
the rest of the group leaned over to
watch the course of his pencil along
the map I'm afraid they are as hope
lessly in Conover's grip as Granite It.
nelf It's in the rural districts, and
in the towns that aren't dependent on
the main line. that we must find on.
strength. It's an uphill fight at best,
with"
"Wltn million and half people
who are paying enormous taxes for
which they receive scant value, who
have thrust on them legislature and
other officials they are forced to elect
at the Rosss order!" finished stand
ish surely, It's an uphill fight that's
we'll worth while, If we can wake men
to q sense of their own slavery ard
the frauds they are forced to conniva
at. And that's what We're going to
do'
The. move experienced. II less en-
thusiastic, Ansel scratched his chin
doubtfully,
''rhe paople, as mass. are slow
u : Z II
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10

you want some reading matter. Prince.
here's paper with a list Of ehe liners
that sail for Yerrup next week. Moth
Ing personal intended, you know Good
by"
Tut, papa" began Blanche. who,
like d'AntH, has listened 10 this exor-
dunn with far less natural resent
ment than might have been looked
for. rs
"rhatll be all, said" repeated Con.
over you win your point. Clear out!
I'm busy
The princess knew Caleb too wen to
press the victory further She tear
fully left the room d'Antri following
in her. wake. At the door the latter
paused, his long white fingers toying
with his silky beard.
+ Sir he said, "you may be assured
that shall never forget your generosl-
ty, even though 1t is couched in such
unusual language. You shall never re-
to adorn the best society and"
No." grunted Conover. mot the Best.
only the Highest. And it's no concern
Of yours, either way. Goodbye"
AS the titled couple Withdrew, Anicc
Lanier came In.
mfr. Shevln. Mr.. Bourkc and most
of the others you sent for have come'
she reported. Shall l send them up?'
Yes" said Conover DULY, send 'em
along. It'll be good talk to real
human beings again. Say, Miss Lanier''
--as the girl started to obey his order
did you ever write out that measly
Interview OF mine for the Star. en-
dorsing those new Views of Roosevelt's
on race-snicide. ard saying something
about childless home being a curse to
- 5
"Yes. was just going to mail 1t.
Shall--?'
We'll, don't! Tear 1t up. There's no
sense In man being funny at his
owns expense"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10
Copyright 1907, by Albert Payson
Terbune. All rights reserved)
SYNOPSIS OF
FIRST lNST'ALMENT.

S1NOfS1S UF 1t
FIRST INsTALMENT.
Caleb Conovcr is chief railroad
magnate and political boss OF the
Mountain State. He began life as
a tenement child, and by sheer
force Of Will and brutal sort OF
genius for dominating men has be-
come multimilllonaire and un-
disputed dictator OF the States po-
litical destinics.
Through all his rise he has re-
NAMED vulgar and unacceptable to
polish. Having unlimited wealth
ciety with this end in view he
has during his early successes mar
,'ied a member of one of the most
distinguished families IN the Com
monwealth. He has also built
of the most fashionable thorough
frares of the Granite capital city.
These moves failing to establish
him socially, he gives his only son,
Gerald, the best possible advan-
tages and rejoices when the young
man wins ingress to certain set
prince named DAntri. The story
opens with great reception at
the Mausolcum in honor of tho
wedding. Caleb. by cxerting va
rious forms of pressure, has Sc
cured the unwilling presence OF
some of GRANTEES social leaders for
the function.
Among the guests is his wife's
nephew, Give Standish, young
ous fight against the. political cor
ruption of Conover's boss rule.
Give has been mentioned for Gov
ernor Of the State by the Civic
League, of which he is president.
lie is in love with Anice Lnnier,
former sweetheart Of his. who
now is Conover's private secretary.
Conover greatly admircs Anice, but
she always adopted toward him an
air Of reserve that h ecannot faith
ON Or dispel. At this reception
Caleb, having drunk. 100 much
champagne, announces his own cam
acquiring such an office to force so
ciety to recognize him. Next
morning he summons his hench-
men to discuss the coming cam
paign. Pending their arrival. Ger
aid seeks out his father and con-
fesses to a secret marriage with
at such check to his social hopes
for his son and himself Caleb for
bids the lad, under penalty OF d.
inheritance, to return to New York,
wnrk ~ Gero,d ' snbn,its ~ MI a vns ~
M lie Caleb regret having given
81 an order. No sooner has Ger
AID left the room than Blanche and
!yAntfi enter me latter with
s so - ea ~, SAYS ne mas
cate s,,,,;o pt'A ~ >7a'ep VI d ueli'
..1
.,1 49,, " ~ W soui ID pors
IaaI, 80 a,,, 10 ~ H. , lsse,'ns a se'itl
~ 'uoA " pt'i'l a. ms nos. prusq iehesS
), an,r spt -, ~ =" ieie'e'ee - you
.M1 - 49,, . c.,,
:. - ~ , ",ie't querieu Sulep ioohih
- .ne piiue ~ eilousll III seurch
ssn'p, ~, u some Sloieh', uhsuspecte
'''n a. ' IVY,
-, ,"us' .''s"As my uo"ts, eNPiaihc
t,,a ~, WIN soi,le lllipal'etce. ~
49,, ;, soo N''o"' VI tne So''''
''e IN.
W. on NY palt u the cohtiheh
/. W. s''ueh' Anu ive peeh Pret1
! !. az over IL from frisco 10 Cue
pee, us new one on mo
IN europe SAID Blanche, tappln
ner 1901, ana gazing apologetlcnlly q
ller handsome husband, IT Is customar
las ! thought everybody knew-fo
Eirls to bring their husbands MAJ
fiase portion. How much are YOU &c
ing TO settle on me-
HOW much Wllat? Money? YOu'y
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-08
THAT RATE FIGHT APPROPRIATION

An intention to cast dscredt upon the attorney and
others who have contested the county commissioners
right to appropriate $4,000 for the fair freight rate
fight has developed in certain quarters.
The Press is just anxious to Spokane's claims
for justice from the railroads established any interest
an this city. is glad to give time and space any
gument or showing that will tend to strengthen Spo-
kane's position. That this position is just cannot be
contradcted.
But The Press takes the ground that fight cannot
be successfully waged illegally appropriated
search of the statutes fails to reveal any authority for
the county appropriation made in this instance Safe
guards thrown around the Of public money will not
permit 1t If the law it reads and is interpreted by IN
terested attorneys means what it says.
While every citizen in the county is interested in
Successful outcome of the fight for fair rates. the county
corporation cannot be reasonably included to the
tent of tapping the treasury for to prosecute the
The first interest to benefit by favorable ruling
and its enforcement is that composed of mercantile
dealers. They the chief beneicaries The benefits
to to the taxpayers and especially the farmer
who pays heavy proportion Of taxes, is abstract
proposition His profit must filter through the advant-
ages gained for shipping interests That he will benefit
by the is not denied That the money he pays for
the support of county government be diverted for
purpose clearly without the intent of the law
impossible of proof.
The real argument against opposing the appropria-
ton is that it is mot policy This theory cannot be
supported in relation to plain proposition of law and
civic economy.
1t is presumed that the ''not policy" idea actuated
both the county commissioners and prosecuting attorney
in authorizing the appropriation
On that ground the attorney who blocked the
rangemen deserves credit from the public in general,
though he acted solely in the interest of client
The surest way to cripple this rate fight is to involve
it in tangle of legal complications. Railroads and
coast interests arrayed in opposition anxious for just
such opportunity.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-08

Beatrice now enjoys. Unfortunate
ly the name of the crown princess
has been mixed up in a succession
of scandals, and, whether rightly
or wrongly, she is generally re-
garded as a woman of somewhat
Eighty tendencies. The reputation
of the other sister, the Grand
Duchess Melita, is still more UNI
desirable. Melita was divorced by
her first husband, the reigning
grand duke of Hesse, for reasons
which are hardly suitable for public
explanation. The number of her
lovers were legion. subsequently
her name was coupled with that of
the Grand Duke Cyril of Russia,
until their marriage recently took
place, in opposition to the wishes
of all Cyril's imperial Russian rela-
tives.
The record created by her two
elder sisters has frightened away
the royal young men, who would
otherwise have been eager COM
petitors for Princess Beatrice's
hand.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-08
A PRINCESS NOBODY WILL MARRY

BERLIN, Jan. S.-Princess Bea-
trice, of SAKE Coburg Gotha, is not
only the most beautiful but also
the unhappiest princess in Europe
She is now % years of age and in
the full blossom of youthful
charms. She is not only beautiful,
but vivacious, of a sweet DISPOSE
ton and Of an unblemished reputa-
ton.
She Is conversationalist of
unique fascination, linguist with
perfect command of seven lam
guages, painter of merit, and a
poet of literary distinction.
King Edward of England is her
uncle, the German emperor is her
first cousin, as is the car of Rus
STA.
In spite of her personal charms
and her close connection with the
three mightiest monarchs in Eu-
rope, she cannot find a husband.
The obstacle which debars her
from matrimonial happiness is the
undesirable reputation which her
two elder sisters, the crown
princess of Roumania and Grand
Duchess Melita of Russia, have
gained. The crown princess of
Roumania occupied in former years
the position of being the most beau.
tiful royal woman, which Princess
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-01-08
GOLD MEDALS ARE NOT GOLD


BUTTE, Mont, Jan. S.-W. c..
Newton of Bozeman, who was
awarded first prize at the st. Louis
Worlds Fair on barley, wheat and
oats complains that the medal he
received few days ago from the
prize committee does not contain an
atom of gold.
Although the medal was marked
"gold medal" and bore the inscrip-
ton that it was struck at the Phil
adelphia mint, Newton declares that
it is much too light to be gold.
Newton is pround of the medal,
but is DESTROYS of knowing where
and how the gold was changed, into
copper and zinc.