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them. In addition. he knew the history of wall
paper and pointed out interesting changes in
styles, in ceiling decorations, in friezes. etc.
When they left him Mrs. D.. said impulsively.
Well, that man is an artist. feel positively
rested. He takes a load right off your shoulders,
and now" she sighed resignedly, Il s'pose we have
to go back to that stupid furniture department
again" And it truly seemed more stupid than
ever. The salesman was affable enough. but he
seemed only to follow them about, state prices
and tell them what was "the latest"
He did not know how to suggest what would
harmonic with the rest of the room, nor how
it might fit in any way into their particular needs.
Neither did he educate them to an intelligent
appreciation of his furniture as the other sales
man had done with his wall paper.
The first salesman was a genuine comfort be-
cause he gave them the advice of a specialist.
He knew that out Of every dollar the customer
paid for those goods four or five cents came to
him for his service. So he did not merely touch
his cap as a lackey does in the v~estibule, but he
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Reunited After MANY Years.

Lake City, Ia.-Adopted in infaucy,
May Lathrop, now 16, has long been
searching for her father, two brothers
and a sister, while they have made in
quiries in almost every city for her.
While the search of years has been
going on, the two brothers and the
father have been living in Gowrie.
within an hours ride of the girl, May
Lathrop. The queerest feature of the
family reunion is that May Lathrop,
after all these years, cannot speak to
her own father.
He is German and speaks not a word
of English, having always lived in :
German community.
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Fruit Trees in the Poultry Yard.

The practice Of planting fruit trees
in the poultry yards is becoming quite
general among poultrymen and farm
erS. 1t has much to recommend it,
since it is good for both fowle and
trees. The shade during the hot sum.
mer days is a very desirable feature.
The loose soil under the trees (the
top of the ground should always be
kept loose about the trunks) affords
excellent opportunities for exercise
and dust baths, and the insects, which
are certain to be attracted to the trees,
furnish a wholesome change of diet
The destruction of these insects, of
course, works to the benefit of both
trees and hens; while the constant
fertilization and tillage the trees will!
receive promote a healthy and vigor-
u growth.
The favorite trees for this purpose
seem to be the plum and the pear.
The latter is liked because of it's
sturdy upright habit of growth; the
other because the hens answer the
hardest question of the plum grower
how to get rid of the c~urculio? Ap-
pies, or the larger growing varieties
of cherries, may be equally satisfac-
tory; and it would seem that the
ounce might be planted to great ad-
vantage in the poultry yard. This
fruit does not ripen until late in the
season, and is generally picked off be-
fore it gets ripe enough to fall, so
that the problem of what to do with
the hens while the fruit is ripening
Is solved with much less difficulty
than If cherries or prlms, apples or
pears were used.
Any mi of the lighter breeds of
, chickens could easily learn to fly into
an ordinary plum or cherry tree, and
would ply havoc while there; while
apples and pears have a habit of rip
ening gradually and falling one at a
time. With any of these fruits it
is almost a necessity to have another
lot into which the chickens can be
turned during the ripening.
One caution may be given to the
man who thinks of planting trees in
his poultry runs: Do not plant too
many trees. Shade is good for chick
ent in hot weather, but sunshine is a
necessity. Do not have the trees so
close together or so arranged that all
of the lot lot will be shaded by them
at any time of day. Be sure, especial
ly, to give the early morning sun a
chance to get in. Remember, too, that
the trees are liable to make a very
vigorous growth if the soil is at all
Suitable.-Farm Journal.
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staring at him out of the darkness,
and made a dash for the door, only
to hear the door, with the spring
lock, bang and SNAP" Alone in
a cellar with go snakes!
He had hardly strength to crawl
to the top of the steps and to beat
feebly against the door. To his in,
tense surprise it flew open-for il
had not caught when it slammed.
Hurrying to the offices of Forrest &
George Adair, the renting agents,
he told of his experience. Weak.
scratched, nervous and bruised, he
told what he had seen.
Brown" the %janitor of the
firm, claiming to be the champion
snake killer in the country, was told
of the experience and dispatched to
investigate.
He went to the cellar armed with
a lamp that wouldn't blow out, and
killed by actual count SO snakes.
The snakes had been in there
since they first made friends with
"Zulika."
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ion of firing a revolver into the air outside your
door would seem to city jewellers as extraordinary
as the Maori nose salute. But as a rule we Ameri-
cans have reduced the custom of s~alutation to its
barest and lowest terms. cutting out pretty much
all the fanciful formalities of other lands and in
deed of earlier times in our own land. We bolt
into shops, tell the clerks what we want, with no
pretense of greeting them like human beings, and
then bolt out again in the same timesaving but
mannerless style, which makes any welLbred
Frenchman wonder and think things about us. At
least. he wonders for a few days, then he catches
the microbe. At first, when he enters an American
elevator, he says to the boy, Good morning. VIII
you be so kind as to take me to the eleventh floor
. . Thank you" But the next week he knows
his lesson. He, too, bolts in, and merely grunts,
"'Leven." He is Americanized.
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SOUTHERN
AGRICULTURE

The Plowboy.
A rattle Of chains and a trample,
Out in the stable | hear,
The plowboy ami the horses, SO gen.
tie,
Then out in the barnyard appear.
He snaps them and straps them to
gether;
He smiles and his rudy face CLOVIS;
He speaks and they quickly obey him
Then off DER the green field he goes.
All day long in the furrow
He sings and he whistles or dreams;
Perhaps all the day he is planning
His future, and working his schemes.
Few are the sorrows that find him,
Life is to him but a charm;
What can be purer and better
Than the life of the boy on the
farm?
From May Farm Journal.
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Stop Land %Skinning, Go to Farming.

Stop Land Skinning, Go to Farming.
If your idea of farming is no high
er than to surplus tracts of land
on which you will place troopers to
exhaust what little natural fertility
there is in the soil and produce "dis.
tressed' cotton to sell in competition
with the cotton you and your children
raise, thereby depressing the price and
making it possible for gamblers to
rob you and your wife and children
Of a just compensation for their Ia
Dor, then your idea Of real farming
is fifty years behind the times, and
you ought to be ashamed of yourself
at least three times a day. If you
deliberately put ignorant negro rent.
ers in competition with yourself and
your children in the production and
sale of farm products, and then lament
and MOURN over the fact that your
boys seek some other employment
away from the farm as they become
of age, you ought to pray for enough
light and wisdom and business sense
to see who is responsible for that
state of things. If you'll get it into
your head that it is fair business sense
to stop trying to buy so much surplus
land and spend your money to i'm
prove the land you cultivate, and then
fight it out on that line, you'll soon
be a great deal better satisfied with
your occupation and can be enabled
eventually to ear the greatest amount
of profit from your labor. Stop land
SHINING and go to farming.-Marsh-
vile Home.
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4 STAND OFF.
With Some Things in the Indians
Favor.

Sc ~ -
Favor.
One time at a big North Texas
"getherin'," | saw a big Indian traif-
ing along with nothing heavier to
tote" than a big red apple, which he
was eating with JUNCTION. Behind him,
and struggling after him was a little
old dfied-up squaw, with a forty-pound
(estimated) pappoose strapped upon
her back, and no apple. Sizing up the
outfit, I thanked God for American
civilization.
The same afternoon | ran across a
half-starved white woman in a ram
shackle wagon, to which was hitcheG
a half-starved pair of ewe-necked cat
manned b%ronchos. Along with the
woman were a half dozen taller
faced" kids, that had probably never
had all they could cat in their lives.
The layout" was located in the broil-
ling sun, in front of a suburban saloon
(the worst kind Of ~saloon), and afford
ed a picture of hard luck rarely to
be witnessed this side of the land of
gall and laZiness. The poor woman
asked me if | would not go into the
saloon and try to get my husband
to come and go home" describing the
sun-of-a-gun and failing to do him JUS
tlce. He was having a high old time
too drunk to understand what | said
to him. l asked the woman how far
she lived, and she said about nine
miles. | advised her to drive home
and leave her missing link, which hor-
rified her. Said she Couldn't think
of such a thing; why, he'd kill me-"
AS | left her | revised my vote OF
thanks to the Almighty for our boast
ed civilization. After all, the woman
was a lot to blame. The action of
the libel upon manhood which she
called my husband" was evidence
that she had started in wrong in per.
hitting him to impose upon her. He
had imbibed the mistaken idea that
the soul and body of that pitiful
wreck he had made belonged to him.
While some women are a trife tD
advanced" to suit my old-fashioned
ideas, | see and hail the day as near
at hand when she shall at least claim
her soul and body as her own, and
against which nc man shall dare to
say her nay. Houston (Tex) South
western Farmer.
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songs and were quite studiously and
painstakingly devil-may-care. And l
went to one of their balls. 1t "a most
precOnceivedly riotous. Everybody
seemed to have a particular bit of
wickedness-or what passed as wick
edness-to do. and every one did his
OF her part at the right time and with
all the outward symptoms of gusto.
So far as I could learn the students do
what they please. II they ever did
more than that then the quarter has
d~eteriorated. The trouble is, prob
ably, that the persons who think 1t is
not SO a and care-free as it once
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Pretty soon the spring sessions of
the schools will be closed. This makes
it opportunity to study about CONSOLE
dating a great many of the smaller
schools into larger ones, so that bet
ter houses, better teachers and larger
courses Of study may be offered to
the young men and young women of
the farms. They deserve the best,
and this is the way to do it with the
schools. Make good roads and con
solidate the schools.
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THE PARIS "QUARTER LATIN

when they relate the same sorrowful
story. 1t seems to be a personal
grief, some bereavement that has sad
dened them for life. / don't know
why, for the Latin quarter seemed to
be doing business when I was there.
At any rate, there were droves of
students, or persons I took to be stu
dents, with funny whiskers and long
hair and flowing ties, and they got to-
gether at various places in the quarter
and drank beer or wine and sang
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The Soft Answer.

Struck on the head with an e
while addressing an audience at Croy-
don public hall, Mr.. Victor Grayson,
M. F., declined to be disturbed by "the
softly yielding argument which has
impinged itself against my cerebel-
lum."-London Daily Mail.
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s. G. Blythe Says 1t Is the Fashion
to Say 1t Has De~teriorated.

The Latin quarter is not what it
once was, says Samuel B. Blythe in
Everybody's. There is authority for
the statement. Any person who has
been two consecutive weeks in Paris
will tell you SO with sobs. The lam
entations of those who have been
there six months are heart-rending
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Don't forget that 1t is a warehouse
and not politics you want in your COM
munity. If politics and politicians
would have saved us we would have
been in the New Jerusalem of fnan-
cial prosperity long ago. The politi-
clans, however, will not saw US. They
will save themselves. Oh, the pie
counter.
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was have grown a bit less careless
and gay themselves. They have
changed their viewpoint. However, it
is the proper thing to say the quarter
has gone back. 1t makes people think
you know all about it.
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Touching the Pocket Nerve
By Miss Diana Hirschler, LII. B.
Expert Trainer in Salesmanship

Mr.. and Mrs. Doubtful have
decided to renovate their
house and are deep in the
discussion of wall paper.
waxed floors, new dining room
table, etc. Mrs. DIS converse
ton Is full of Lucy recon-
mends Blanks for SO and So"
Mary says we ought to be
very careful if we patronize
Clark's, because they break
their promises" Jennie tells
me her rug didn't wear we'll
that she bought at The ORR
ent," ETC., etc.
In the midst of 1t Mr.. Near
by comes in and catches the
drift of the conversation. He
breaks in with: Say, Bob, If
you want wall paper I'll tell
you of a cracker-jack salesman
to go to. / believe he fairly
eats wall paper. he's so wide
awake about it. He knows
what you want better than you
do yourself"
Mr.. Nearby interests Mr..
and Mrs. Doubtful so that they
call for this salesman at that
particular store. He immedi-
ately enters into their plans
with spirit and asto1ishes
them with his extensive
knowledge of patterns, their
designs, their blending colors,
the qualities of paper, the eff
fects of light and shade and
whether they would permit
many pictures hung against
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equipped himself with the
knowledge Of the man inside
the office door-the man who
gives advice and gets paid for
1t, not only in money but in
appreciation, lifting the load
of anxiety from those who
seek him.
Don't be a butler even
though you are a courteous
turnkey.
Be a doctor and diagnose
the case.
Be a lawyer and convert
your jury.
Be an architect and con.
struct a helpful argument.
Or be an artist and put in
strokes that tell.
Introduce yourself to your
own goods. Make them
friends Of yours-not the kind
that stick, but the kind that
chant parting is such sweet
sorrow" and are gladly swal-
lowed up in wrapping paper
and string.
How the race Of shoppers
flock to such an expert!
Mr.. Provider is willing to
shop with his wife when they
are going to deal with Mr.
Expert. Miss Proudfoot un-
bends to Miss Bright behind
the counter who shows that
she knows not only color but
style and the appropriateness
of each to the individuality Of
the wparer.
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10 III can find anx q

No n can find any objection to
taxation, provided he gets the worth
of his money. Great things can be
done unitedly that are impossible of
accomplishment singly. This is or
should be the purpose of taxation-to
do unitedly and equitably those offices
that are common to all, and which
would otherwise fall heavily upon only
the few who are willing to do and to
bear public duties.
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"All eason are thine" thou split
log drag, and all soils, climates and
conditions are the sort for the sue
cessful use of the split-log drag.
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Photographs Copyright by Underwood 4 Underwood.
listener. Why, they're SO stolid they passed a
law once that a mar shouldn't kiss his own wife
on a Sunday. And one man who had Just got
nome on Sunday from a long journey broke the
ordinance and was hauled up in court for it.
fact. 1t YVES a good while ago, though"
'Frenchmen kiss each other-Tve seen them.
And ltalians-why you'd think to see a couple of
noble Palermitans fling themselves into each 9TH
ers arms that you were witnessing the end of
some soul-stirring drama, whereas it only means
all right. What in creation those mercurial PEG.
pie keep ~savedup, to express their feelings in a
great crisis, l simply can't imagine"
The plump matron giggled.
They say King Edward has the true British
dislike or sentimental poses, but when he goes
over to Germany a-cousining among the royalties
he remembers his own German ancestry and he
and the mighty Kaiser Wilhelm embrace like a
couple OF gushing schoolgirls. 1t must be a
sight"
Speaking of kissing, didn't you suppose every.
body knew that a kiss on the stage of a theater
is just a hollow show, as little like the real thing
as a painted tree? Some friends of ours a little
way out of town got up a very clever play last
winter and had a professional coach and all that.
1t was for a charity hospital. Well, Mrs. Smith
and her husband were both in the cast, but Mrs.
Smiths best scene was with the hero, her lover.
PS "NS ~ ouSSCoo, OuL pOOT MIS-.
Smith found a queer chill in the air when the af-
fair was talked over afterwards with some of
the women on the board of directors at the hos
pital. 1t was only later still and In a roundabout
way that she found they thought her beautiful
KISS was far too real to be proper. And wasn't
her husband mad when he heard of the gossipi
Why-you know the stage effect is the emptiest
shSw. AS a matter of fact all that happened
when his face bent so close over hers was her
own frantic whisper, For heavens sake let me
straighten your wig; it's sliding over one ear"
Did you ever see them rub noses in New Zea.
land? That's the limit. OF course you don't often
have the chance, for it's only the aborigines-the
Maoris-that do it, and now a good many of them
are civilized out of all their native picturesque
in the mountain district where you go to see the
geysers and hot springs there are a few that keep
up a queer mixture of store clothes and primitive
manners. There's a native girl there who acts as
a guide through the geyser region-she's really
quite we'll educated and upto-date, but-don't
you know how some coquettish French and Ger
man girls deliberately keep up a foreign accent
rather fetching? Well, this Maori girl will rub
noses with you in the most demure fashion If
you signify that you're interested in anthropol-
ogy or sociology or whatever head covers the
subject"
1t is really curious when you come to think of 1t,
how many ways the human creatures have of say
ing How dye do. The traditional cowboy fash
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For every task there is to be per-
formed God has prepared somewhere
someone to execute it
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-30
Doe Run Store Sold.

The trustees Of the estate of E.
l.. Boyd, of Doe Run, who had
entered bankruptcy proceeding,
have sold the store to Pusey w.
Burlington, of Doe Run.
This store was one of the largest
and did more business than any
other country store in Chester
county, until it changed hands
about three years ago.
Previous to that time the store
was owned and managed by P. w.
Burlington and son Edwin. They
sold out on account of P. W. Buff
fington's advancing years and be-
Ncause indoor work did not, agree
with Edwin's health.-Oxford
Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-30
Democratic Mass Meetlno.

The Bryan, Kern and Covington
Club of the Sixth District has ar.
ranged for the closing meeting of
the campaign in this District, to
De held in the Town Hall, Rising
Sun, Saturday evening". October
81. The meeting will be addressed
by Governor Austin L. Crothers,
Hon. N. Winslow Williams, Secre-
tary of State, and Howard Bryant,
Esq, of the Baltimore Bar.
Music will be furnished by Ris-
ing Sun Cornet Band. A cordial
invitation is extended to everybody
to turn out and hear the issues dis
cussed by these able speakers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-30
Adam Reigert MagraW.

Adam Reigert Magraw died on
Monday, October 26, in a sani-.
tarium in Chicago, aged about 26
years. He had been subject to
epilepsy from childhood and was on
his way to Sheridan, Montana. to
reside with his uncle when stricken
while staying few days in Chicago.
The remains will be brought to his
old home at West Nottingham
today, and funeral services held at
the Magraw house at 10 O'Clock this
morning. Interment will be made
in the family lot in the adjoining
cemetery. He is survived by a
brother and sister, John H..
Magraw, of Boise City, Idaho, and
Mrs. Emily Heiderman, Of Peters
boro, Canada. His father, Adam
R. Magraw, Sr., died in Bielefeld,
Germany, Dec. 30, 1907, and
Adam, Jr. had recently returned to
this country and few weeks ago
was visiting friends at his former
home in this county.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-30
Bodies Found In Susquehanna
River.

The body of an unknown white
man apparently between the age OF
35 and 40 years, was found floating
10 the Susquehanna river on Sun
day afternoon, a short distance be-
low Port Deposit. A Coroner's
jury viewed the body and returned
a verdict that the man came to his
death from unknown causes, as
pieces of iron were tied to the
waist, and marks of apparent
violence were found upon the body.
The sum of $9.8 80 was found in one
of the pockets of the trousers.
The body of Kenneth Null, aged
II, who lost his life two weeks ago,
by the upsetting of a boat while
crossing the Susquehanna below
Cull's Ferry, came to the surface
on. Sunday. Attempts had been
made to raise the body by ex.
plosives, but without success.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-30
Death OF a Centenarian.

Mrs. Anna Maria Pass, who cele-
brated her one hundreth birthday
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Louisa j. Mount, in Wilmington,
Del, Thursday, October 18th, died
at half past eight O'Clock Friday
evening. She was i'll upon her
natal day and although relatives
and friends called to congratulate
her, she was able to talk to them
and asked after absent members of
her large family. Her strength
failed rapidly and she peacefully
passed away the following day.
Deceased was Dorn in Elkton,
Cecil county, her maiden name
being Pluck. When 81 years of
age she married Isaac s. Pass, who
died in 1882. For some years after
their marriage Mr.. and Mrs. Pass
lived in Elkton, later removing to
Wilmington, where Mr.. Pass died
and his widow spent the past thirty
years. Since her husbands death,
she made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. Mount.
Seven daughters survive her
Mrs. Louisa Mount, Mrs. Helen
Gilbert, Mrs. Elizabeth Davids,
Mrs. Hannah Hanna, all of Will
mington; Mrs. Martha Palmer, of
Landenburg; Mrs. Emma Walls, of
Collingswood, N. j., and Mrs. Ruth
Clement, widow of DR.. j. M.
Clement, late of Philadelphia
Mrs. Pass husband was direct
descendant of the man who cast the
Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
Funeral services were held Mon
day evening at her late home in
Wilmington. Tuesday morning the
body was taken to Lewisville,
where additional services were held
in. st. Johns NJ. e. church, with
interment in adjoining cemetery.
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Mrs. Fannie Boyd.

The community of Perryville was
greatly shocked on Tuesday by the
sudden death OF Mrs. Fannie Boyd,
wife of George L. Boyd, which oc-
Cured from malignant diphtheria.
The case IS particularly sad, the
death being entirely unexpected,
Mrs. Boyd having been about her
home the day previous. The de-
ceased was % years Of age and was
daughter Of Alexander Craig, of
Perryville. Her husband, a pop.
ular conductor on the p. B. &. W.
railroad, and a young daughter
survive.