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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

completed the laying of the large
mains.
The man with the early hoe has
stopped to consider.
A frame dwelling house, Oh Mob
Hill owned by the Davis Coal &
Coke Co., and occupied by John
Parker engineer on the Dinkey rail-
road, was burned to the ground
with all its contents early last Sun
day morning. The fire is thought
to be of incendiary origin as Mr..
Parker left home the evening be-
fore to visit his mother, who makes
her home with a married daughter
in Cumberland. Mr.. Parker first
heard of his loss late Tuesday af-
ternoon.
The county road between this
place and Luke hill, on the Allie
gdny side, is still quite impossible.
A huge landslide, east of the Bux-
ton mine, has deposited layer of
soft, sticky clay on the road, about
20 to so feet wide and 3 feet deep,
that renders travel by horseback
or vehicle extremely dangerous.
Those patrons who have business
over the road are loud in their
complaints and denunciation Of the
action of the road supervisors in
not removing the obstacle and
opening the highway. Some have
threatened to call the attention
of the grand iurv to the condition
of affairs and see what relief can
be obtained from that body.
The latest news from Mr.. John
Raley, who reported to the Roa-
noke management two weeks ago
for practice preparatory to the
opening of the regular base ball
season, is highly satisfying to his
many friends and admirers in this
place. John has set fast pace for
the Virginia boys and the Roa-
noke's are giving him the warmest
kind of welcome. The Roanoke
Times in this week 5 issue prints a
good picture of the clever first
baseman in his characteristic pose,
with a very complimentary notice.
Miss Fannie Elliot, a student of
St. Mary's Seminary, St. Mary's,
Md, has been compelled to relin-
quish her studies and return home,
on account ofill health and falling
eyesight.
The Elks about town are getting
their "chops' ready for the shad
bake at Piedmont on the 18th.
Mr.. Daniel Raley has reported
to the management Of the Union
town base ball team.
Eston Watson, a miner working
IN the Marsteller split vein was
painfully injured on last Tuesday
morning by fallof bone and slate.
Rev. George Cecil, who had
been in attendance at the NJ. Z.
Conference, at Cumberland is
spending few days in town and
vicinity visiting the friends and
acquaintance of a former pastor
ate. He conducted services in the
church on Wednesday evening.
Boarding house keeper at
the mill of Mason Bros, located near
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

That fine coat! How soon it
was stripped off Joseph was just
as good and great without it. It
is character, not clothes, that wins.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

age imitation. Reuben's kindly
feeling toward his rival is commen-
dable; but perhaps if he had cour-
ageously withstood his brothers, it
would have been a case where one
consciously in the right would
have put nine, consciously in the
wrong, to flight.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

a further hint of Joseph's char
acter is found in the descriptive
phrase, "A child Of the old ones. "
He had an old head on young
shoulders; preferred the company
Of his elders; spent much time. no
doubt, with his grandfather Isaac.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

Misunderstanding house keeper at
the mill of Mason Bros, located near
Bittinger, Md. Address Mason Bros,
Swanton, Nd. st.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18
BETTY'S
ENGAGEMENT.
By Leslie Holmes.
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By Leslie Holmes.


. . : -
Betty rode i'm the elevator nearly
every day. Allen johnson ran the c,r-
vator every day and knew all about
Betty.
In fact, he was pretty sure that any
girl who got OF regularly at the sixth
floor and turned to tie right was bound
for the room whose door carried this
legend:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

As in his father, so in him, there
may have sprung up the ambition
to inherit the primogenitureship;
unlike his father, however, he took
no unworthy means to help Provi-
dence secure the desired end.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

Nm SiiN human al SlC al II 4Oot
but
God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform"
Analysis and Key.
I. Evil of polygamy illustrated in
Jacobs family.
Pandemonium.
2, Jacob busy getting a fortune
sons neglected-result.
8. Joseph on background of polyg-
amous household.
Son of Jacobs better days.
Soonest removed from pagan
environment.
Chastened by mothers death.
4. Character of Joseph standing re-
buke to his brothers.
Nursed their jealousy.
5. Opportunity afforded byJoseph s
visit to camp.
Expulsive power of new
vice.
Murder VS.. avarice.
Joseph sold a slave.
6. Defeat in appearance only.
The Teachers Lantern.
This fascinating story is thin
veil through which the most ours
DRY reader must catch a glimpse of
the character and work of Jesus.
A greater Father sends His great
er Son. 1t is an GRAND of love and
mercy. He brings bread and wine,
enblems of his own sacrifice and
oblation. He comes to His own,
but His own received Him not.
He is sold at the price of slave,
He is shockingly Inundated;
smitten and Knocked; stripped of
his robe; put to slaves death; en-
tombed; but now He appears upon
throne of glory to give redemp-
ton to alas many as will believe
upon His name. Thus is Joseph
one of the most striking types of
Jesus.
Joseph's rescue would have been
the greatest possible misfortune.
For himself: to have been reared
in Canaan by his fond father would
have made a Lilliputian of him.
For his nation; Egypt was to be
their schoolhouse, and Joseph 5
captivity was the means Of bring
ing them there. This does not
discount the brothers crime. Cod
made their wrath to praise him,
and the excess Of it. which would
have murdered the heir of the
promises, he restrained.
a reverse. so it seemed when
the heir-apparent to Israels throne
became a slave. But whether an
event is a reverse or not depends
upon what God means by it, and
the use man makes of it. If
Joseph had become man Halter,
and spent his time bewailing his
confessedly hard lot, his going a
slave to Egypt would have been a
reverse. On the contrary, he
triumphed over untoward circum-
stances. By his industry and fdel-
ity he made himself indispensa-
bic to Potiphar, the keeper,
and finally to Pharaoh himself.
\ little span the triumph of evil
covers at best. The malignant
brothers are in fine feather over
making away with the object of
their enmity. They are glad they
will see the face of the dreamer
and reporter" no more. But in
a score of years they are fulfilling
the dream, and bowing timorously
before his biz & throne. The
wicked sprc7d themselves like the
bay, but sa4denly they are not.
Malice is lmpotent when it rears
itself against Providence.
That fine coat! How soon it
was stripped off Joseph was just
as good and great without it. 1t
a.. Il,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-18

The primogenitureship passed
from the first son by Leah to the
first son by Rachel. To attest the
fact, Jacob put an uncommon and
lovely robe of state upon the heir
apparent. With the zeal of re-
former, the embryo priest and
ruler at once reported to his father
the uncomely acts of his brothers,
only with view to having them
amended. He was aggrieved that
the fair name of the holy nation
should be furnished by such sins.
He felt that the very perpetuity of
the tribe, and all the oracles of
God committed to it, were i'm
periled.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
MADE HOGS PAY.

A hog grower says he had twenty
five pigs, and kept careful account OF
what they cost him at the time he sold
them. He says he began to fit them
for market June LIST, and from that
date to July list half bushel of ground
oats were consumed daily; from July
1 to September 10, one and one-half
bushels. and from the latter date to
November 20, when sold, four one-half
bushels of ear corn were fed daily.
This made 120 bushels of oats and
315 bushels of corn, the entire amount
of grain fed Oats were selling for soc
and corn for 25c per bushel, the cost
of grain consumed was approximately
$115. Adding to this Sc for pasturage
and S25 as the cost of the lot up to
the time feeding was begun, we should
have approximately $140 as the entire
cost of production.
The average weight when sold was
$40 pounds, selling price $40 per
cwt.-making, about $9.S5 apiece, or
S24O for the entire lot. This leaves
a net profit of about 500, or the in
come on the investment was over GO
per ccat.-Indicna Farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
Lives Magic Thread.

Sitting alone, wove a dream,
Down where the blue waves play,
And my shuttle few busily in and
out
Till the web with color was gay.
wove the sunshine in golden strands,
The roses, with necklets Of dew,
While broidered it over with gorge
Gus tints
And flowers of exquisite hue.
I caught up the song that the linnet
sang
And the pearls that the waves were
flinging,
Weaving them into a beautiful hymn
With the tune that the brook was
singing.
The opal tints of the azure sky
wove in a ribbon rare,
Looping it over the radiant blooms
Like a band on a maiden's hair
My shuttle flashed in and out of the
wool
Till the pattern grew wonderfully
bright,
Yet the seams were ragged-unfnish-
ed-and rough,
While the shadows crept into the
light.
Then 1 caught CLINT of love in the
mesh
And wove it into my dreams,
When 10! like butterfy's wings it
spread,
Till it covered the ragged seams.
-Ager Lockhart Hughes, in the Bos-
ton Transcript.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07

less with cultivation Everything ex.
cept corn planted in the corn field is
a weed and We have enough weeds
without planting pumpkins. On al
most every farm there is some feed
lot or corral or some other small
tract of very rich ground which can
be broken UP and planted any time
before the first of June in pumpkins,
and an acre of this kind of land will
produce more pumpkins than ten
acres planted in the corn field.
Plant four or five seeds in the hill
and eight feet apart in the row, the
rows being eight feet apart. Keep
down the weeds until the pumpkins
begin to vine. If time were taken
to cut the ends of the vines after suff1-
cient pumpkins are well set to make
a crop and thus prevent the strength
of the vine going to more pumpkins
which would be killed by frost, it
would very much improve the quality
and the yield. Try it if you have an
acre of this kind of land, very rich,
somewhere handy, and you will be
surprised at the productive capacity
Of that acre.-Wallace's Farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07

Mary looked to the left of her, and in
front Of her, and behind her, until
finally her eyes condescended to dwell
upon Mrs. Scott.
MRS. Parr," said Mrs. Scott, II
want you to understand distinctly, dis
tinctly, please, that when said last
week that there was very little style
in Fremont, 1 never for one moment
meant to include you in that state
ment. And won't you come over and
have lunch with me?"
'Mrs. Scott" said Mary, 81 wil.''
She did, too, and stayed so late that
afternoon that she had not been back
in her own house long before John
came, saying mournfully:
1--WE got the banjo"
John said Mary, give changed
my mind, and we just won't give that
musicale"
John gave a great sigh of relief.
"And, john" continued Mary, 'if
you really don't like to wear that hat
and ="
John gave another great sigh of
relief.
"And you might pay off the man.
John. He's finished"
Ten minutes later colored gentle.
man walked toward the purlieus OF
Fremont, full Of a consuming dignity,
attired in silk hat and CATERS and
carrying in one hand a cane and in
tho other banjo
And as for John, he strobe toward
the dining-room with his mind dwell
ing on his late feasts, and cried:
well, Mary, and what have you
got for dinner tonight?"
HASH said Mary.-Youth's Com
panion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
PLANT A PUMPKIN PATCH.

If all the pumpkin seeds in the
world were in the hands of single
scotsman and he would use printers
ink freely, making no e2travagant
claims, but giving the actual facts, he
could sell it at fabulous prices. The
seed, however, is found on almost ev-
cry farm. It will pay every farmer to
plant pumpkins. They will furnish
him an excellent hog feed and COW
feed in the fall. They can be raised
very cheaply and fed easily.
We doubt, however. whether the
common method of growing them in
the corn field is THE best one. The
pumpkin is too great lover of sun
shine to do it's best in the shade OF
heavy crop of corn. If planted at
the same time with the corn, or even
week later, it interferes more or
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
SHELTER FOR STOCK.

Dry cold does not injure farm stock
as much as rain does, and animals
that have the shelter of open sheds
or straw, stacks Withstand dry zero
weather very WELL
The worst place in the world for
breeding ewes is the stock field, and
we have seldom, if ever, seen strong,
healthy lot of lambs from ewes that
have been allowed stalk field range,
The same is true of brood mares due
to foal in the spring A few bushels
of oats, or few bags of bran fed the
mares for a few months will insure
strong, healthy foals that will grow
Justify from the start.-Richmond
Times Despatch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
BaItimore's Changed Color.

Since the fire the color of Baltimore
has changed.
1t used to be town of red bricks,
and TO an observer standing at the
top of the Washington monument it
appeared distinctly ruddy. But in the
buildings erected since the fire the
old style red bricks have been used
but little. Most facades are yellow
or gray or white or salmon pink. The
result is that the city looks lighter
and brighter.
But what the smoke and dust of
ten years will do to this clay bril-
lance remains to be seen.-Baltimore
Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
Cost of Flowers.

An approximation of the money
spent each year in America for. cul
tiyatcd flowers is 310O,OO0,OOO This
is an amount equal to the value of
all the realty property in the State
of oregon, to one-fifth the value of
all coal mined last year, to one-fourth
the surplus in the national banks,
and almost equal to the net earnings
by these banks. 1t is nearly twice
enough to cover the bonded debt of
all the New England States com.
bined. New Workers spend more for
flowers and elaborate floral designs
than any other of Americas lavish
buyers, and their florists CLEAN an
annual harvest of O0,000.-Phila.
delphia Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
CURING FORGING IN COLTS.

Forging, especially in colts, is a
most difficult trouble to overcome, says
the Horse Breeder, and can only be
obviated by careful experimenting.
Have his feet made perfectly level.
Let the toes on the forward feet grow
out little Fit them to a pair Of
quarbter boots and on each side have
a pocket made, in which place some
sheet lead. Keep adding to it until
you have balanced the colt. This
will Of course, increase his stride
and knee action. The hind feet
must be kept reasonably short. The OBJ
ject of weighing in the forward feet
by quarter boots instead of adding to
the weight Of the shoes, is to save his
legs. After the colt has acquired his
proper gait, the cause being removed,
the effect will cease and you can let
him wear the quarter boots until the
habit has ceased.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
NEW FAD az KANSAS FARMERS.
Have Many Public sales to Dispose
of Stock and Farming Implements.

of Stock and Farming Implements.
Never was there such an epidemic
of public sales on the farms as this
spring. Seven auctioneers have been
kept busy and others are in training
at auctioneers schools. Some Of the
auctioneers are "Colonels." They
claim that title when they have
cried 100 sales.
But it is only the result of the farm
ers getting rich-and of the land boom
which causes much change of loca-
tion.
Central Kansas has reached time
when the farmers who have made
their home here, writes an Abilene
correspondent of the Kansas City
Star, have acquired more material
than they need to run their farm, or
are anxious to change their residence,
and SO want to have SALE" They
go to the county seat and make ar
engagements with the auctioneer, and
have their bills printed. The latter
are put up in the post office or are
scattered on the fence posts of the
vicinity
The attendance on the public sales
is usually good, nothing but bad
weather keeping the farmers of the
vicinity away. The women frequently
accompany their husbands and form
an interested portion of the audience
when the household goods and can
ned fruit are sold.
The crowd that has looked over the
possessions of the household curious
ly and nodded at the various flaws
in the implements of the farmyard
has also had rude sort Of entertain
meat. On every sale bill in large
letters appears Free lunch at noon"
and some of them have the addition
al legend, Bring your tin cups" This
is Greek to the city resident, but the
farmer knows what it means. 1t is a
promise that there. will be great
steaming cans of coffee, with plenty
of sandwiches and perhaps pickles.
The task of providing cups for a
hundred or two visitors is form1d-
able one, and the prudent housewife
asks that the Corners bring cups to
use at this function. The habitual
auction attendant is fully equipped
with the cups to use on such occa'
sions.
During the winter all sales begin
at 10 o'clock, but as the days lengthen
the noon start is more common. It
all depends upon the amount of ma
terial to be sold. Sometimes there Is
something more than coffee to drink,
but not often.
The amount of property changing
hands in this growing method of dis
posing of used farm material is enor-
nous. In this county alone probably
seventy-five sales have been held
since the first of the present year, and
they have averaged more than $1,000
each, or at least 100000 worth of
second hand goods disposed of by
farmers to their neighbors. The same
condition exists in nearly every we'll
settled county OF the State, and so
common is the custom becoming that
it is unlikely that it will show any
diminution for some time to come.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07

GhEEN FEEDO AMI MAINGOLO0.
Succulent foods are supplied to all
birds each day throughout the year.
The double yards allow the birds to
gather green grass, young oats, rye or
rape for themselves during the grow
ing season, as they are turned from
the worn run to the fresh ones, when
the supply of green plants is eaten
off. If the sod is much broken, or the
plants injured SO they will not
spring up and cover the surface
with green again, the vacated
yards are cultivated and reseeded
heavily.
When buildings are new and the
runs are fenced in from land with
good sod on it, the yards may last
year or two without the sod being
used up, but unless they are large 1t
will soon be necessary to cultivate
and reseed, if they are depended up
on to furnish green food. The yards,
20 by 100 feet, are large enough so
that there is room for single horse
to work comfortably in them, 1t is
questionable whether it might not be
more economical to construct only
single yards for exercise, and feed
the hens daily on green food, which
could be raised on rich land, handy
by. Probably less labor would be
required to raise the green food IN
the fields than in the yards, but the
labor of cutting and carrying 1t to
the birds would be considerable.
For green food during winter and
spring mangolds are used. They are
liked by the birds and when properly
harvested and cared for remain crisp
and sound until late spring. They
are fed whole, by sticking them on to
projecting nails, about foot and
half above the floor. Care must be
exercised in feeding them, as they are
laxative when used too freely. On
the average about a peck per day to
100 hens can be safely used. They
would eat a much greater quantity
If they could get it.
A four months feeling contest, ex-
tending from Jan. 1 to April oO, l90o'
in which mangold wurzels were COM
pared with cut clover, has just been
completed. Two lots of hens, each
consisting of 100, were kept under
similar conditions, except that one
lot had about II pounds of mangolds
each day and no cut clover, WSlle the
other lot received no mangolds, but
were given five pounds OF clover
qeaves and heads, gathered from the
feeding floor in the cattle barns. Both
lots of birds had new beds of oat
straw every week. The 100 birds eat
ing the mangolds averaged laying 63.9
eggs each, during the four months.
The 100 birds eating the clover aver
age SO. eggs during the same time.
The slight difference between the
yields of the two lots can hardly be
regarded as indicating greater value
for the mangold ration.
The vigor and apparent healthful'
ness of the two lots were equally
good. In the general feeding both
mangolds and clover are used daily.
Formerly it was thought necessary to
steam or wet the clover with hot wa
ter in order to get good results from
it. It is now cut and fed dry, in the
bottom of cement barrels, cut on
about 10 inches high. About i've
pounds are eaten daily by 100 hens,
with very little waste. Apparently as
good results are gotten from it as
when it was scalded the labor OF
preparation being very much lessen
edo. M. Gowell, Maine Experiment
Station, Oronto, Me.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
HIS EXPERIENCE AS HAMLET.

How are you getting along?" ask.
ed a travelling man of an acquaint'
ance who had gone on the stage.
"Oh, l have met with share OF
success. played Hamlet for the
first time"
Did you get through all right?"
Eyes, except that happened tc
stumble and fall into Ophelia's
grave"
THAT must have been embarrass.
ing"
1T was: but wouldn't have mind.
ed it if the audience hadn't seemed
so disappointed when 1 got ont -
London Taller.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
THE DIFFICULTY.

Really said Mrs. starvem's
crony, I'm surprised to hear you
say you're having trouble to get your
money out of Mr.. Starboard. He al
ways boosted that he paid as he
went"
YES complained Mrs. Starvem,
"but 1 can't get him to go."-Philadel
phia Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
A Great Part Of Educatlon.

The beauties of perfect discipline
were never more forcibly illustrated
than they were the other day when
$500 children marched out of New
York public school building in per-
feet order while the roof burned over
their heads and blazing brands fell
abount them.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHICKS.

Here is a remedy for bowel com
plant in young chicks that has not
been known to fail if used in the very
beginning of the trouble, with clean.
warm, dry shelter and good whole.
some food. Boil fresh milk and after
it is cool give to the chicks to drink;
do not allow them any other drink
until there are no more symptoms
of trouble Be sure that the milk is
boiled, not just heated, as milk that
is not boiled will prove laxative to
the young birds.-Practical Farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
AS TO PERAMBULAToRs.

Salesman-Here's a nice roomy
one that will hold two children com.
fortably.
Mr.. Coonley somewhat embarras-
ed)-Very nice, indeedy; but-er-
you doesn't happen to hab one in
stock OATS equipped wifi tcaneau,
does you?-Puck.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
SADLY MERCENARY.

"Why are you SO eager for fame?"
asked the Idealist.
Because" answered the active
man, 81 need it in my business. Fame
nowadays is merely synonym for
successful advertising. "-Washington
Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-07
JUDGING WEIGHTS OF CATTLE.

A simple rule for the judging of the
weight of cattle, says an exchange, is
as follows If the animal girts five
feet, it will weigh somewhere from
700 to $50 pounds. Every added inch
in girth adds 20 pounds till you get
up to six feet, and then add so pounds
to the inch.-Farmers Home Journal