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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

Dropping the muzzle of the gun as
If for a low shot, he lined his sights;
with a quick movement he jerked the
weapon forward and pulled the trig-
ger as the bear crossed point where
bullet would wound deeply.
There was soft, feshy thud as
the bullet struck into the vitals; the
bear whirled as if to bite the wound,
and his bind quarters slipped from
the edge of the cliff.
With Herculean scrambling and
scratching, the great brute struggled
to draw himself back to the trail;
the Mexican fired for the spinal
column, the bullet whacked into bone,
and the grizzly, with hoarse cry,
rolled backward into the chasm.
Gotta had all his wits about him
now. He examined Pinto carefully,
decided that help must be obtained
to raise him to his feet in safety,
and set off on the back trail.
But when the path had wound away
from the precipice, he seated him
self under a pine in a peaceful, shad-
ed valley, and suddenly found HIM
self twitching from head to foot and
scared beyond comprehension. And
after Pinto's fox-trot had put many
miles between him and the scene Of
peril, the trenors would occasionally
overtake him. Even now. although
many years are passed, he would not
meet a grizzly on trail that cuts
into the face of bullying precipice
mo, not for all the herds and focks
and fields of Lower California
Youths Companion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
THE ILLINOIS GAME FARM.

While the lawmakers are wrestling
with the problem of how best to pre-
vent further indiscriminate slaughte='
of game, DR.. J. A Wheeler, State
game warden of Illinois, is pointing
out the way to repair the ravages of
the past in some measurable way
that most States have long since
taken to restock streams-by propaga-
ton. Backed by an organization of
100000 cutters, each of whom has paid
one dollar toward the work, Dr.
Wheeler has established the greatest
game farm In the country in Sanga-
mon county, where he is now rails
ing something like 5000 of the most
beautiful varieties of quail, prairie
chickens, cartridges, wild turkeys,
wild geese, dusks and other game
birds. The work, started two years
ago on a small scale because of it's
uncertainties, has proven so success
full that there is no longer any ques-
ton Of its feasibility, and already
delegations from other States are be-
ginning to visit 1t to get pointers for
similar enterprises. Next year DR..
Wheeler expects to enlist the aid of
the farmers of the State on an ex-
tensive scale by sending them pleas
ant eggs to be set under hens, the
young birds to be liberated in adjoin-
ing territory when they are old
enough to take care of themselves.
In this manner, as we'll as by growing
them in much larger numbers in his
preserves, he expects to add greatly
to the game bird population of the
State within few years. 1t is not
unlikely that the Wheeler method
will ultimately prove the way to con-
tinue fair hunting indefnitelY.-ont-
er's Book.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
Rest.

Rest. iFets3
There is little grove beside the
hill -
Where aspens shake and thrill,
With silver stems beneath their
shimmering green
Against the pines dark screen.
And all day long the rain unceasing
leaves,
nipples of light among their tremulous
leaves,
And all day long the moss against
their feet
Tpfted, and starred, and sweet,
Flashes in Pickering splendor with
the crown
OF diamond drops swept down.
Through pillared arches of the forest
aisles,
Sacred untrodden miles,
The voiceless throngs in this Gods
temple dim
Bow to the rains soft hymn;
Walls on whose pile no axe nor ham,
mer wrought
The Master-builder's thought,
Unchiseled font and granite altar
stair
Wait on the wordless prayer.
And overhead against brooding sky
The priestly pine trees high
With lifted hands invoke on vale and
crest
Infinitudes of rest.
Mabel Earle, in The Atlantic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
Prolectiles Now in the Lead.

A new type of projectile, which will
play an important part in future war
fare, and which, according to Sir How.
ard Vincent will pierce any arnos
yet made, has been introduced by the
Hadfield Steel Foundry. This an
nouncement was made by Mr.. R. A.
Hadfeld at the annual meeting of the
company recently at Sheffield. He
mentioned also that the firm had in
troduced a new steel called Era" an
entirely British product. for which
the Admiralty had given them facili-
ties for testing. 1t had proved of ex-
ceptional quality, and was rapidly
coming into use for ship construction.
London Standard.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
aov welohed $40 pounds.

Elmore Sheppard, known through
out the land as big Emo" the heav-
lest boy inthe United States, and only
seventeen years of age, died here to-
day of fatty degeneration of the heart
He weighed $40 pounds, and was gain
ing in weight at the rate of a pound
week, having gained nearly forty
pounds last winter.
The body had to be removed from
trse house before being placed in
rough box, and taken to an under
taking establishment. no door or win
dow in the building being large enough
to permit the body being taken out
of the house in a casket. Two years
ago Emo could no longer ride in
passenger coach. as he was unable
to enter the doors.-Appleton (Wls)
Dispatch to the New York World.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
MODERN APPLIANCES AFFECT
AGRICULTURE.
AFFECT

Judging from the following remarks
the strenuous life has got the rural
population in its grip:
About five years ago the old cook
stove got SO unpopular with women
folk that we simply had to buy one
of those big steel ranges that set us
back $50.
when this great bakery was in
stalled it made some other things in
the kitchen look like three dimes. A
lot of modern steel and tin ware had
to come soon afterward, the old things
wouldn't work on that new range.
Then a neighbor just the other
day telephoned a testimonial about
an oil stove, just the thing for the
kitchen in summer time, so we have
got to bay one.
when the women got the kitchen
work lessened they had more time
for other parts of the house. OF
course one of the daughters in the
family had taken some music les
sons. She butted in and urged the
purchase of piano.
That piano of ours drew a new
centre table into the parlor, then a
new-fangled lamp, and Lord knows
how the endless chain is going to
drag out
Two years ago these busybodies,
these women, took up the bathroom
proposition. Now we have a bath
room with big porcelain tub in It;
but before we got that outfit we had
other rivers to cross; we had to drill
a well, put in a windmill construct
tower, and build reservoir.
Then there was a lot of piping
and plumbing to do. And while we
were atsit we put in lighting plant,
acetylene gas. The windmill got
lazy on still days, on which there
seemed more than wind enough so
we had to buy an engine to do its
work.
Then there was more trouble. This
engine was hard to keep in business
it cleaned up all the work we could
find for it, so we had to get busy
and devise new chores for it.
Why not buy a cream separator
to run with the engine? Why not
buy a feed grinder to work it? Yes,
get tanning mill, new meat chop
per, sheep-sheaTing machine and a
few other tools to work this deyilish
gasoline engine.
Now, efficient farm labor is get
ting scarce, and we are trying to
reduce our requirements for it, so
we purchased some two-row cultiva-
tors. Wanting to get the most out
Of our corn crop we have built silo;
that will call for silage cutter, also
corn binder.
AS hal is short crop we are 60
ing to bale lot of oat and wheat
straw-this will compel us to buy a
baling press. New ideas as to corn
culture have caused us to invest in
surface cuftivators and one-horse har-
rows to use at the last cultivation.
"Of course, we must keep peace in
the family, or, in other words, the
women folk demand an appropriation
for their department every year, and
it is increasing right along. But the
best of it is that the more things
we buy the more money we can make,
and the better we can live, so I
guess We are coming out all right
after all.
"Olr women folk get to town more
than ever before, read more, and
plan more. The men also get out and
mix with one another and with bust
ness men. This broadens us and
makes us want some of the things
city people heretofore have had as
their exclusive possessions. We are
using printed stationery, operate a
typewriter, and have copy press"
AGRICULTURAL Advertising
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
PROFIT IN EGGS.

The cost of keeping hen will be
almost 'as much when she does not
lay as when she is producing eggs,
the storage of fat on the body or to
provide animal heat in winter. 1t is
also possible to feed the hens on
foods which will not provide the con-
stituents of the eggs. The failure
to procure eggs may be because one
essential substance is lacking. An
egg contains everything that enters
into the body of a chick, which con-
tains bones, and hence if the food
does not contain sufficient lime to
form the bones, the eggs cannot be
complete To induce hens to lay,
proper kind. Quantity of food will
have no effect if the food is insult
able. There being certain cost for
keeping hen, it is evident that the
more eggs the larger the profit will
be, because the first cost always must
be Inet-that of sustaining the hen.
A dollar expended for the proper
food is better than fifty cents for food
that is not really needed, as the larg-
er sum will at least result in the
hens being more productive. while
the smaller amount may be coral
loss. Feed for eggs, not for fat, and
do not attempt to be economical by
Withholding foods that are apparently
costly but ssential.-Weekly Wit
ness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
THINNING STRAWBERRIES.


At the recent Ohio fruit growers
meeting W. w. Farnsworth, one of
the largest western fruit growers,
urged severe thinning of strawber-
ries and the suckering of raspberries.
He had wheel cutters on his cultiva.
tors and kept the strawberry row
within narrow limits; then with a
hoe cut down to four inches in width,
had the rows thinned crosswise by
chopping across. The rows looked
pretty ragged, but the process proved,
when the spring growth came, to be
exactly the thing, and the berries
were larger and firmer. OF course 1T
would be better to go over the rows
with a foot-rule and thin the rows
carefully with knife to an exactly
uniform plan, but this could not be
done on a twelve-acre patch. With,
the hoe, a man would do half an acre
day, and it proved satisfactory.
Raspberries were allowed to produce
too many canes. With the root
spreading sorts, he would not have
more than twenty-five stalks to the
rod. Treat the plants which were not
wanted as weeds, not letting them
grow all summer to cut out the next
spring. By keeping all suckers not
wanted hoed up, the strength would
go into the growing canes, and they
would become bushy plants with large
producing capacity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
FEED WHEAT or SELL Ut?


"Mill feed? Yes, it's great thing"
said a farmer who raises cattle.
Have to feed it to my COWS to get
the standard quality of milk. Why
don't feed wheat? At these pricese
No, thank you" and the farmer drove
on toward home, twenty miles north.
west, with ton of mill feed.
He had got up at o'clock that
morning and had started to town with
load of good wheat, about a ton,
thirty-three or thirty-four bushels. The
morning was cool and the air crisp.
When he got to the mill he was pretty
well chilled. He sold his wheat, said
he'd be back for a ton of feed, went
uptown for dinner, got his load of mill
feed and was at home again in time
for supper.
Let's see: Wheat at local -four
mills is 75c. a bushel, sixty. pounds
to the bushel. This makes fat $25
ton. Mill feed sells at $21 to $3.50
a ton, the higher price being for
smaller quantities.
Mr.. Farmer, brings in whole wheat
and gets back husks, so to speak, the
bran, and $3.50 to 81 in cash. That
$3.50 to 81 is his pay for a days
work for himself and his team. He
left with the miller, for that $3.50 to
81 ton, the best and richest part
of the wheat. Why shouldn't his live
stock have the benefit of it? A few
days ago wheat was bringing at the
mills only 73c. bushel. Figure that
out in feed.
On farms in the State not near mill
ing centers wheat is worth CSC. to
zoe. a bushel. Farmers say it pays
to feed zoe. wheat to 81 hogs, and
many are doing it. - Indianapolis
News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03
! POPULAR DRAUGHT HORSE.

The. Clydesdale breed of horses
seems to be constantly growing in
favor with Americans, notwithstand-
ing the introduction into this country
of many Percherons and other horses
for draught According to the report
of the American Clydesdale Associa.
ton, THE Clydesdale is the best type
of an attractive and ser:iceable
draught-horse;" and it is said to be
"a matter for congratulation that
there are more Clydesdale horses born
each year in America than of all 9th
err draught breeds of horses com
bined."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

There is a birth in New York City
each five minutes in the day and
death rate seven minutes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

In 1901 not a single passenger was
killed by train accidents in all the
railways Of the United Kingdom.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

Referring to the get-rich-quick
swindles the New Orleans Picaqune
remarks: sit is this sort of thing
which attracts investors like molasses
draws flies, and they are so eager to
get in early that they don't realize
their situation until they are wholly
and hopelessly stuck in the plausible
Sweets" If swindle is to be sue.
cessful, it must offer some line or
business of which the proposed victim
is absolutely ignorant and promise
him profits that are entirely fabulous
and utterly impossible, and the game
will succeed in fleeing its victims"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

one of the unexpected results OF
anti-railroad legislation, to the Phil
adelphia Record, is the promotion Of
honest politics.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

A Washington horse is declared by
a veracious news report to have first
thrown his rider, injuring him severe
ly, and then rung the bell of the
nearest physician, summoning assist
ance. So sagacioRs an animal, thinks
the Pittsburg Dispatch, should have
reflected that the wisest way would
he to summon the physician first and
then abstain from throwing his mast
er.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

Recent revelations at Paris, in the
consideration of the Baltimore Sun,
will no doubt help to discourage the
tendency of American heiresses ito buy
titles with monkeys on the end of
them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

So Overwhelmingly vast is the total
of merchandise moved on railways in
American that the addition of .O04 OF
cent per ton per mile in the rate
would yield the companies over $74O,-
100000, estimates the New York
American.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

Modern battleships do deadly exc
cution, observes the Pittsburg Press,
particularly among their own crews.
can Ohio man. according to the
Chicago Tribune, latter playing the
piano twenty-five hours became I'M
conscious"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

1t is a fact, declares the New York
Herald, that when the mind is in
tensely occupied minor bodily ailments
cease to trouble us. If the pulpit
held attention as closely as does the
stage there would undoubtedly be less
coughing and less drowsiness In
church.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

The present year, asserts the Lon,
don Globe, sees the tercentenary OF
the introduction of forks into Eng.
land, for it was in 1907 that the now
indispensable articles were introduced
into France and England from Italy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

The Massachusetts, announcement
that the human soul weighs an ounce
must not be misunderstood, warns
the Pittsburg Press. Not everybody's
soul weighs that. It's just the aver
age. There are heavyweight souls.
middle-weights, light-weights, welters
and light and heavy bantams. Ice
trust magnate souls are all light ban
tams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
WADSWORTH PRAISES THE
EMPIRE CITY TRACK

NEW YORK, September flames w.
Wadsworth, chairman Of the state racing
commission, spent a day at the Empire
City track before the meeting closed, per-
sonally inspecting the clubhouse. grand
stand and betting Enclosure under the
stand, and then returned to the stewards
stand. where he had lengthy conversations
with James Russell Solely. counsel for the
club.
Mr. Wordsworth said that the Empire
City track has excellent possibilities. as it
is a fine plant when the Jerome avenue
trolleys are running up to full capacity and
without fear OF loss Of power" said Mr.
Wadsworth, 1.-The course will be easily &C.
cessible to three millions Of people. There
is a great big constituency up this way to
whom racing Is a new sport" he con-
tinued, land with some necessary i'm
p-ovements the course could be the means
Of afford1ng pleasure to many. We never at
any time had a feeling Of hostility to the
Empire City Club, but desired to know If
we had the right to license or refuse q
license to any track. That matter ia to come
before the court of appeals some time this
fall One thing I notice with pleasure.
there is no plunging here"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
YALE FOOT BALL OFFICIALS
PLAN FOR THE SEASON

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, September T.
Three of Yale's foot ball officials are busily
engaged on the plans for the season. Mr.
Camp. e. ]. Thompson, whose position is in
the nature Of graduate manager, and Train
er Mack, who Is constructing a new cinder
path at the Yale Field for the track men
and who is getting the gr!diron in shape
for the advent of the candidates this
month. Mr.. Thompson Is interested in a
new city ordinance. which makes 1t a
severe offense to speculate in foot ball
tickets in the city Of New Haven. This
will clear out the last Of the spectators
this fall, 1t is believed.
Head Coach Knox thinks that the coaches
will have something of task to get enough
f1rst-class backs. as all of the Yale back
field was graduated last year. Indica-
lions now are that when the first of the
Yale foot ball candidates report here Sep
TENDER II the varsity will line up for
signal practice as follows:
Ends, Logan and Alcott; tackles, Capt.
Bigelow and Paige; guards. Goebel and
Andrus; center, Cooney: quarterback. Tad
Jones; halfbacks. Wheaton and Murphy;
fullbacks, Coy and Brides. The scheme Of
playing Brides behind the line is dis
cussed because of the scarcity of back
field material and the fact that he played
guard in the big games last year, Weighing
only ia pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
NO RADICAL CHANGES.
Revision Of the Foot Ball Rules for
the Coming Season.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. September 7.-Wal-
ter Camp. Yale head advisory foot ball
coach. who has been editing the foot ball
rules for this fall. says his task is finished
From the changes in the code 1t Is certain
that the conservatives have carried the
day and that there will be no revolutionary
changes from the rules which were put
into effect last fall. The most important
alteration Is the clause which provides for
a penalty Of fifteen yards for dropped
forward pass If the error Is made on the
first or second down. Last year the ball
went to the other side. Two umpires are
made obligatory to free the game from
the last vistage of roughness. 1t is made
clear that any lineman may carry the ball.
provided he does not leave his place in the
line till the ball is put in play. In the case
of kick out after the safety the oppo-
nents must line up on the thirty-ave instead
of the twenty-five-yard line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
DAVIS IS ANXIOUS
TO ROW SANDS AGAIN

The rowing season is over, and the oars
men and sculers of the city who partci-
pated in the regattas of the year Will no"
pursue pleasure rowing or put their craft
away for the season, though In doing the
latter they certainly miss the ideal weather
for such purposes as September and Oc-
tober are the finest periods for outdoor
sport
MIR Clarence Dunbar Davis of the Poto-
macs, who made his first appearance In an
open regatta on Labor day at the Middle
States has returned home well pleased
with his work. Mr.. Davis won his trial
heat rather handily, and Titus, Varley and
Miller, the crack scullers of the place, re-
garded his chances as good for the final.
He was well up in the bunch toward tho
finish was In second place. when, In go
Ing out to get the benefit OF the current,
which runs through the Harlem like a mill
race Hughes. one of the competing men,
fouled him and the time lost put him conf
pletely out of the race. and allowed Sands,
the German sCuller. to go in and get sec
ond place.
This part Of the race did not suit MI
Davis at all and on returning home he
asked permission of his club to make a
match with Mr.. Sands. and Capt. Mueller
has sent the representative of Emperor
William an invitation TO come here and
meet Mr.. Davis on the Potomac course.
II would be quite notable affair to have
the representative of the German empire
come here to meet Mr.. Davis, as the race
would have the complexion Of an interna-
tioHal contest. Count Won de Musehold a
member OF the PotOmacs, has gone to New
York the bearer OF the invitation. and
hopes to get his friend Sands to come here.
The much-talkcd-of race between the Old
DvminiOns and PotomaCs In junior four
shells at Colonial Beach for Monday last
was not rowed, as the regatta committee
down at the Beach forgot to get the prizes
as they had promised. The match was de-
clared off, much to the disappointment of
both crews
Baltimore Is arranging mammoth
nome coming" day, and in every walk and
sport of life committees are going ahead
making arrangements for demonstration
that promises to surpass their celebration
Of twenty years ago. There is under way
a regatta 10 be managed by the Arundes
and Ariels. but II is not yet decided whether
II will be an open affair or confined to the
two organizations.
Mr.. Clarence HecOx, who so successfully
coached the Virginia Club of Richmond
Va, the past season. has returned home
with the praises Of the Virginians burning
his ears. Capt. Crawford OF the club was
more than pleased with the showing of his
club and especially with the work OF
Mr. Hecox, whom he pronounced the best