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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
no be Eat: DRINK Chocolate.

In an obscure but picturesque little
village of far off Germany there is
place called the Chocolate Cure"
where thin people go to become stout.
The patients eat and drink cocoa and
chocolate all the time while they rest,
admire the scenery, gossip and grow
fatter every day. The true secret OF
the great success of the treatment
is the happy way chocolate has OF
fattening just the right places. set
Ting in the hands, the arms, the neck
and the shoulders, making the fair
patient prettier and plumper all the
time. The really effective part OF
this cure may be tried at home by
any persevering woman. and the medi-
cine is so palatable and the method
so simple that there is actually, 1t
seems no reason why all should not
be of just the desired weight 10
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
Home companionship.

Encourage your young sons and
daughters to bring their friends home.
Meet them, talk with them, and let
them know you are interested, and
want them to come. This will mean
little expense, probably, but it need
be a very little expense and the al
ter years will repay you fourfold.
Young girls and young men crave So
ciability-and if the parents do not
provide bright, cheerful home with
the friends to contribute to their
pleasure, they will go outside to find
it. Let your home be the general
meeting place. Encourage your sons
and daughters to introduce their
young friends to you, and discourage
any intimacy with young man or
young woman your sen or daughter
hesitates to introduce into their home.
The Circle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04

harm beyond pulling down strayes
sheep Occasionally, one that has got
to die, anyway"
"The trouble is, though he added,
after a long pause "if I turn her loose
she might think she owns the line,
and claw me to ribbons some dark
night when I'm out here looking up a
short
But presently, as he pondered, his
merry smile came back. He rose
hastily, and closely examined the old
bear. She was still warm, and with
more signs of life than she had shown
before
Bursting into a laugh that threw
the little bears into a defensive
bristle, he hurried to his lunch-basket,
took out the screw-topped can that
had held his coffee, put into it five
or six pebbles, and fastened stout
Irvine to the ring which served as a
handle.
Then turning to the PROSTATE bear
and searching for her stub of a tail,
he remarked, with comic gravity:
"Old lady, I've got all kinds OF re-
spect for a bear who has the nerve
to raise family in these days OF
electricity and. repeating firearms;
and I'm going to give You a start
back into high ranges, where the air
will be better for you and your ba-
bies."
He knotted the free end Of the
string tightly round her tail, cut the
wires that bound her legs, and hastily
departed.
Dan has lived to need the money
he might have obtained for the sale
of the bear family's freedom; but up
to this date he has only one regret,
and that is that the pressure Of busa-
ness did not allow him to remain ana
view from safe distance the start
'tfor the high ranges" For merely
through viewing the extraordinary
tracks that marked her flight, he mas
had many dollars worth of laugnter
over the family of bears ard their
exodus.-Youth's Companion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
What "Hamir" Meant"

Though the Scottish guard of
France had long lost it's national char
acter, it jealousy retained until the
crash of 1889 all its curious old priv
fleges, which, though they led to con-
slant wrangles with other regiments,
had been duly allowed by Louis XIV.
He was actually Obliged to intervene
at his own wedding to compose dis
pute as to the precedence of the Scots
guards and the Cent gentilshommes.
Proud as a Scotchman" was an old
proverb in France, and their success
sors in the bodyguard did their best
to justify it. But the most curious
survival, long after word of Scotch
had been heard in the corps, was the
practice of answering ''hamir" "a cor
ruption for 81 am here') when the
roll was called, which was religious
ly maintained, at all events, down TO
the revolution.-Macmillan's Maya
zine
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
MAKES REAL DIAMONDS.
Partisan Chemist counterfeits in the
CrucibIe Natures Processes.

When the De Beers mines in South
i Africa are misunderstanding 10
the management, in about eleven
years-and other sources of natural
diamonds are also used up, diamond
lovers will still be able to indulge
in the purchase of real gems artificial
ly produced. These have nothing in
, common with the familiar artificial
diamonds. They are produced by a
mechanical process which reproduces
as nearly as possible the conditions
under which diamonds are crystaiiized
in the bowels of the earth.
Prof. Moissan, the eminent Paris
chemist, has been explaining his meth
cd of making real diamonds in his
laboratory He takes absolutely pure
iron, freed from sulphur, silicon and
phosphorus and packs it in carbon
crucible with pure charcoal obtained
from sugar. This is heated in an cleo
trio furnace, the invention of which
alone make possible the production OF
the pure gem.
The furnace heats the crucible
above 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, at
which temperature the iron melts like
wax and saturates itself into the car
bon. The crucible is then lifted out
and plunged into cold water. The
sudden cooling solidifies the outer
skin, while the iron in the centre Is
still liquid.
The process of qualification exerts
tremendous pressure on this central
mass and the result is that the carbon
which was soaked up by the molten
iron is squeezed out again like water
from sponge and crystalizes into
diamonds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
The price Of Mules.

"A slight rise id the price of mules
in the local market is attributed by
the stable superintendent of large
concern Which uses many of these ami
mails in its business to the Cuban rev.
oIution and Uncle Sans resulting
military activity. Anything that re-
suits in brushing up of our army
says this authority. Eat once starts
stringency in the mule market. Most
nations when making warlike prepara-
tons begin by raising money, but
! Uncle Sam, having plenty of that,
goes at once 20 Missouri, where,
speaking broadly, all mules seem to
be raised, and proceeds to load up.
This time, so far as we can learn,
he is buying only five hundred, but ne
is paying from $40 to $160 apiece for
them, which is a good enough price
to bull the market. The mule, 1t IS
hardly necessary to say, is the great
est animal yet made for mans as
sistance, and l dare say it will stand
the climate Of Cuba as well as it did
that of South Africa and every other
place it was ever tried" V~-s~<v-v~IA
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
Love Of Beauty.

We will try to make some small
piece of ground beautiful, peaceful
and fruitful. We will have no IN
tended or unthought-of creatures upon
it. We will have flowers and vegetables
in our gardens, plenty of corn and
grass in our fields. We will have
some music and poetry; the children
shall learn to dance and sing it; per-
haps some of the old people, in time,
may also We will have some art;
and little by little some higher art
and imagination may manifest them
selves among us-nay--even perhaps
an matchmaking and uncovetous wis
dom, as of rude Magi, presenting cups
of gold and frankfncense.
For this love of beauty is an es-
sential part of all healthy human ma
ture, and though it can long coexist
with states of life in many other re-
spects anvirtuous, it is itself wholly
good; the direct adversary of envy,
avarice, mean worldly care, and cruel
ty. The men in whom 1t has been
most strong have always been COM
passionate, and lovers of justice and
the earliest declarers and discoveries
of things conducive to the happiness
of manhind.-John Ruskin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
EIoquence and Success.

Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D., the edi-
tor of the New York Christian Advo-
cate, has said that the best lecture
which he ever heard on the subject
of success in life was delivered By q
man who was an absolute failure In
everything he undertook-except that
lecture. The lecture was a great
success, but the lecturer who deliv-
cred the lecture was failure in ev.
erything he ever undertook. He fail
ed in the ministry. He failed to bring
up his children properly. He failed
to keep out of debt. He failed every
where and in everything except the
lecture on "How to .Succeed'-that
was a, tremendous success. It always
drew full houses and it's author was
always sure of an invitation 70 re-
turn and repeat his wonderful dis
course
It is vastly easier to tell others
how to succeed than it is to a'hieve
success for yourself. Young Mems
Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
ARTIFICIAL VEGETABLES.
Prot. Leduc Produces Them by Chem
icaI Process-Act Like Real
Plants.

The Academy of Sciences, Paris,
recently heard Prof. d'Arsonval de-
scribe artificial vegetables. which ne
exhibited, and which were produced
by the methods of Prof. Leduc OF the
Nantes Medical College. Prof. dAr-
sonval interested his colleagues great
ly, but unfortunately for the lay pub
lie he did not say whether the so
called vegetables are edible.
While they were described as vege'
tables they have nothing of the vege-
table in their makeup, but they be-
have after their production as do the
real vegetables they resemble under
natural conditions. Into the compo'
sition of these products nothing living
enters. Prof. Leduc makes seeds in
pill form, one part of sulphate OF
copper and two parts OF glucose.
These are deposited in bouillon made
of gelatine, to which are added .
per cent. of ferro cyanide OF potas-
stun and little sea salt.
The seed develops sometimes on
the surface of the liquid and some
times in Its depths, giving birth to
plants resembling seaweed and other
marine plants. 1t was announced that
these Artificial plants were not merely
scientific curiosities. Prof. Leduc has
been able to recognize that they have
the same properties as the plants they
resemble, and are influenced similar
Nv by heat and light
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
Oriental Clubs.

The. Oriental is passionately fond
Of club life, and the smaller the de-
gree of personal liberty he enjoys in
ordinary life the more intense is mis-
enjoyment of membership In some
brotherhood. 1t does not make very
much difference what the nature of
the club may be; it is the mere joy OF
club life, irrespective of object or
principle, that appeals to him. Hav.
ing once tasted this joy, he will do
much rather than forego continu-
ance of it. Oriental society is so con
stituted that the family or clan is
the social unit and not the individual.
A man cannot be alone in his punish
ments, for they are also visited in
greater or less degree upon his rela.
tives as we'll He cannot enjoy or
suffer alone. Now, club or society
is much smaller organization than
society as a whole, and the individ
ual forms correspondingly larger
fraction of it. This is an immense
stimulus to self-esteem. The man be
comes somebody This explains why
almost any society, irrespective OF
its object, can instantly gather
numerous and enthusiastic constitu-
ENJOY. Any man with little tact
could go out on the streets of Seoul
and in twenty-four hours establish a
society for the cultivation Of mush'
rooms on matched roofs, with presi-
dent, vice president, secretary, treas
urer and executive committee com
plete and a membership list as long
as piece of string, if not longer
Why? Simply because membership
in "any old society does just lit
tie to lift man out of the hum
drum OF life.-Korea News
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
EnoIish channel TunneIlinq.

The proposal to drive tunnel un-
der the English Channel. to connect
the French and English railway sys-
TENS, is again receiving attention, and
English feeling is supposed, in view
of the good relations at present with
France, to be more favorable to the
project than ever before. The chalk
strata under the Channel are thought
to be easy to penetrate, with mini
mum risk. The distance to be tun-
nelled is "a. 4 miles-a large contract.
In 1883 tunnel seven feet in diam
eter was driven 5,521 feet in eight
and onehalf months on the French
side. This was extended to a length
of 6,O33 feet and to diameter of
IA feet. On the English side tun-
mel was driven 5,905 feet, nine-tenths
of it being under the Channel. The
new proposal is to have twin tubes
20 feet in diameter and so feet apart
for traffic, with an auxiliary smaller
tunnel for drainage and construction
purposes. Baltimore Sum-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
He Had "Two OFFERS"

We hear much of the powerful at
fractions which are keeping the bright
spirits who flash out of college life
from going into the ministry. But
these attractions also interfere with
some of the other occupations. Presi-
dent woodrow Wilson, of Princeton,
had this fact borne in upon him the
other day when he met tall and
handsome graduate who had taken
honors. well, Smith, said DR.. VIII
son, through at last. eh?" Yes,
sir" said the young man, smiling and
blushing. "And now what are you
going to do?" 81 hardly know yet,
sir, l have had two offers 1.-Two?
Wonderful
"Yes, sir. One is from a scientific
society, offering me secretaryship
at IS a week, and the other is from
a baseball magnate, offering me
FIVE year contract to pitch at $4,000
a season. Detroit News Tribune
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
The Roof Tree.

Where it is possible, the home
circle should have its foundation in
a house owned by its occupants. The
occupant of rented house or apart
ment never develops an attachment
to locality, for if things are not just
right he knows he can move at the
end of the month or year. Whereas
il he owns the house it is his priv
ilege and pleasure to see that little
things are made ''just right" and
the sense of ownership is conducive
to home-making in way never ap-
preciated by the renter. The chill
dren will have feeling of proprietor
ship not developed in those who live
in rented houses; they will have a
pride in whatever is done in the way
of improving or embellishing their
home. The home containing young
children should have an attic or I'M
furnished storeroom where the boys
can set I'D a workbench or the girls
a playhouse and feel free to romp and
play unmolested-a place their very
own. In Indictment weather such a
room will prove the need for its ex'
istence and will be a saving of fur
hiture and rugs in the house proper;
for children will play, and they should
not feel restricted in their play.-The
Circle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
Dress suit patchwork Relics.

The clawhammer or evening coat
has many oddities of cut. These odd
tiles were once essentials. There was,
in fact a time when every idiosyn-
Grassy of the clawhammer served
some useful purpose.
The cutaway front of the coat, for
instance, was originally cut away so
that the wearer, when on horseback,
would not be incommoded.
The two buttons at the back were
for fastening up the tails out OF
harms way, each tail having in the
past a buttonhole at its end.
The sleeves, with their false cuffs.
are relics of the days when sleeves
were always turned back, and there
fore were always made with Guns
that unbuttoned.
The collar, with its wide notches.
is a survival of the old collar that
was notched in order that its wearer
could turn it up conveniently in cold
or stormy weather.
The dress coat, in a word. is a
patchwork of relics, relics once es-
sential, but now of no use on EARTH
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
An Extinct Trade.

"Cock-crowers in the past got good
pay" said the antiquary, shut theirs
is an extinct business now.
"Cock-crowers were employed by
the rich in their town houses to crow
the hour. They crowed only the r1s-
ing hour for the most part, but dur
ing Lent they crowd everything
the halves and qaarters-all night
long. 1t was a kind Of penance.
These men we're trained from
childhood to crow. Sometimes in their
childhood an operation was performed
on their throats to give them more
cock-like delivery.
San ancestor of mine on the ma
ternal side was a famous cock-crower
in his days" Minneapolis Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
HOUSEKEEPING IN MEXICO.

An American Woman's Experiences
in the Land Of Manana.
II the American women who COM
plain of the trials and trfbulations OF
housekeeping in the United states
could live in Mexico while tney
would complain no more.
This is very old Spanish town,
tucked I'D against the side OF huge
mountain. The wonderfully beautl-
full, ever changing colors of the sky
the resplendept verdure of the tow
ering mountains, the red tile roo1eo'
pink, white and blue houses are equal
'ly fascinating with the quaint pictur-
esque old churches, with their ever
changing bells.
And these Mexicans certainly do re-
vel in the ear splitting din of bells.
In this town of 5000 persons there
are some thirty bells and when they
are all going, with echoes sounding
from the mountains, one wants to run
and hide.
In the early days of my sojourn
here / was hailed by man with a
basket strapped to his back:
'sDO you wish some nice butter!
SIS it fresh?' l asked, and he re-
Piled in all earnestness
'Si, Sonora, it is OF this year"
And that was in November!
NV washerwoman uses very strong
soap and rubs the cloths on large, nat
stones at the public fountain. the
combined soft water and strong sun
| renda rs all the clothes most beauti
fully white, colored garments as well
as white ones. One may arrive Win
colors quite bright, bat one remains
all clothed in white.
We boil, then filter, our drinking
water. Pending the arrival Of a reg
ular filter, we procured sugar mould,
such as the large cones of sugar are
moulied in, at the haciendas. 1t Ia
a large hollow, cone shaped, clay
affaij through which water VIZ per
colate, and we placed it on flame In
the hallway. where the draught would
keep it cool.
Aftser having boiled and cooled
some water, I filled the cone, and. al
ter due time, l asked our maid tc
bring some filtered water. She van
ished soon to appear with pitcher
of dirk oozy water. exclaimed:
"Why, what ails the water, is 1t
from the filter?"
Isl, 81, I dipped it right out of the
cone and that cone leaks water all
day hong, Sonora. causing me much
bother to be emptying the pitcher and
filing. the cone
But then they do most things back
wand here When they wish to beck
on one to come, they motion one
away.
The natives bring TO our doors
freshly laid eggs, still warm, one al
| a time, at three cents apiece. OF
| course, these are values in Mexican
currency, which is worth half as much
as ours All of the fruits and vege
tables are cheap and plentiful the
wear round in this locality; figs, dates
and peanuts also.
Bit our greatest problem is In the
meH. AS we get no ice. we must
eat freshly slaughtered meat. This
is bugh but cheap. Amy part Of a
| bee costs 20 cents pound, and we
DOM get steaks ard roasts, but any
par the butcher is down to when
we hrrive.
| OR milk is brought in an earthen
lar Night from the COW, and, in spite
of tke presence of a stray spider or
stra| or two, is good milk.-Taxco
| mn ico) correspondence of the Now
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04
kex.Lockinu Bolt.

A key locking bolt designed for
fastening securely ON the outside of
doors of garages, stables, lighthouses.
chicken houses, ETC., is one of the lat
est additions to the hardware catalog.
II consists of a malleable iron cast
ing carrying steel bolt applied In
the usual manner and looking not I'M
like the ordinary bolt. When the bolt
is shot the locking tumblers fall into
a recess in the case where turn OF
the key secures everything against
tampering. A necessary feature OF
the design is that none of the screws,
nv which the fixture is attached, is
exposed when the bolt is locked in po-
sition.
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4 Home sons.

Z turned an 4sAefcac poet pcck,
And found upon the page:'
~StSne walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage"
Yes, that is true, and something more:
You'll find, where'er you roam,
That marble floors and gilded walls
Can never make home.
eut every house where Love abiaes'
And Friendship is a guest
Is surely home, and home, SWEEP
home,
For there the heart can rest.
DIR. Henry van Dyke, in Country
Life in America.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04

mo more difficult task confronts
the corporate manager today" says
The Business Mans Magazine. than
to select and hold trained men for
high grade service" While there are
plenty of men looking for "jobs."
there are also many high class posi-
lions looking for men.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04

1t is claimed that the average pro
duction of farms is less than that OF
20 years ago. This shows that our
system of farming can be improved.
and it also seems unfavorable to the
growing of grain in large areas. The
remedy is smaller farms and better
cultivation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04

Greece, after prisoner has been
fenced to death, he has to wait
years before the execution can
place.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04

pan gets $4,000 recruits Sesrly
per regular army.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-01-04

Dan did not laugh now, for the
baby bears rushed forward, and with
soft, low sounds sought to rouse the
fallen mother. Silently Dan de-
seconded the pole
"Perhaps she'll come out of II" ne
soliloquized, gazing at the PROSTATE
animal and Remembering hopefully
how he himself had been struck
down once at noon, and had come
out of it" when the moon was snin'
ing
sIn case she Does" he continued,
"well arrange to avoid any more OF
these shocking occurrences
Procuring a coil of wire from MS
sack. he gently removed the angry
little bears and bound the mothers
legs firmly together. Then for an
hour or more he worked abstractedly
at the wrecked telephoneline. When
this was repaired to his satisfaction
he sat down on a rock, gazed helpless
lv Mt the now querulous baby bruins
and their limp mother. until with a
sudden desperate burst, he ex
claimed:
@whatll do with these blooming
bears?"
The utilitarian mind would have
been estimating with great satisfac'
ton their market price as circus ex
hibits; but Dan, who was no imam
cier at ALL dismissed this though'
with curt:
-Let 'em live; they seldom ngD'
T. they're let alone. and never do any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-20
IN THE BIRMINGHAM
 REAL ESTATE MARKET

Deeds of conveyance were filed in the office of the probate court yesterday in the following transactions of 5000 and over:
 Mountain Terrace Land company to Mrs. Annie Cobbs Stollenwerck. lot P, Mountain Terrace; consideration. $2700.
 Marguerite c. Bowman to Thomas w. OByrne, an undivided one-third interest in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 30, and the south half of the northwest quarter of section 29, in township F, range 1, west; except ten acres; consideration, $1250.
 Mountain Terrace Land company to Lula H. Moore, lot 10, Mountain Terrace considera ton, 5000.
 A. c. Emory to Charles E. Halls, an undivided one-third interest in the north east quarter, the east half of the south east ql arter, the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter and the east half of the northwest quarter of section 30 town ship IS, range west, and lots in Shade City; consideration, $15O0.
 E. G. Stevens to Birmingham Fire Brick company, lot in block 46, Avon dale; consideration, $1250.
 Mountain Terrace Land company to I;. c. Seibels lot z, Mountain Terrace consideration, $o0O0.
 T. W. Waller to Mary s. Cobbs. lot ? in block S. Central Park; considerable $4OO0.
 J. H. Finch to D. W. Nash 30 acres in section 12, township IT, range 2 west; consideration, $li50.
 .jalle F. Jackson to G. T. Nugent, lot