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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
EXPERIMENTING THE MOSQUITO
German Experiments with Plan
Which Interferes with BREEDING.

German Experiments Witt Piah
Which lnterferes with Breeding.
Much the most effective way of gat.
ting rid of the mosquito is to abolish
the place where it breeds. BY drain
ing marshes, filling up pools of stag
nant water and removing such OBJ
jects as old tomato cans in which a
little rain collects much has already
been accomplished. A second kind
of welfare consists of making the wa.
ter uninhabitable for the larvae. A
few fish will eat them up and prevent
Matching. Kerosene oil on the sur
face of pond will often prevent the
development of the insects after the
eggs have Matched. Still another
promising plan is now reported by
the American Consul in Frankfort,
Germany. The authorities in Berlin
who manage Germany's colonial pos
sessions now think Of adopting in
Africa an aquatic plant called arzolla.
Experiments conducted by the Ger.
man director of fisheries at Biebrich,
Mr.. hartmann, and extending over
period of fourteen years, indicate
that this plant, a semitropical pro-
duct, is particularly useful for the
purpose. Reports of his work induc-
ed the director of the imperial col
onial Office to call him to Berlin in the
spring of 1907, and the Colonial Of
flee ordered that the test of his meth
cd should be made by the Institute
for Tropical Hygiene at Hamburg,
where Director hartmann had the use
of the State Botanical Institute for
propagating the arzolla plant.
As, however, Wilhelmshaycn pos
sesses a malaria station, and as es.
pecially in it's vicinity hundreds OF
cases of malaria occurred, the expert
ments were made in that territory,
which is full of stagnant waters and
swamps infested with mosquitoes.
While the proximity of the sea and
the abnormally cool temperature of
the summer OF 1907 had an unfavor-
able influence upon the growth of the
plant, it, however, covered the expert
mental waters in a short time with q
layer Of about six centimetres (2,362
inches), which suffocated all the mos.
quito larvae below and prevented tho
living insects from depositing their
eggs in the water. The final official
findings will soon be announced. It
is, however, reported that strictly
scientific and practical proof has been
made in the laboratories. Director
Bartmann several years ago commun.
icated his method to the mosquito
destroying commission at Eltville, on
the Rhine, which has used it repeat.
eddy with good success, especially as
the discoverer furnishes free OF
charge the necessary plants from the
experimental waters in the park of
the Grand Duke of Luxembourg at
Biebrich.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
THE COURTESY OF SPAIN.
AS Exhibited in a Spanish Boarding
House in New York.

At first sight a New York Span
ish boarding house might not seem
an ideal school of politeness, but a So
journ in first class casa de hnes.
pedes reveals unsupported heights of
courtliness.
It is about all the average Ameri-
can boarding house can do to be
barely civil at breakfast time, but the
little shy eyed Sevillian preceding her
tall Catalan husband to her pan Y cafe
bends graciously at her entrance to
even the new coming Americans,
throwing to them even very dis
tinct "Buenos dias." If it has become
Spanish there is "Hace frio, muy
frio esla manana, 'rprq "Muy linda ella
manana' following
For real courtliness the exit from
the dining room. morning. noon or
night, especially at the two latter
meals, is all but a pageant.
When his meal is finished the senior
from Colombia starts from his seat,
which happens to be at the end OF
the dining room furthest from the
door. To his own table mates there
is polite "Buen provecho," to
which each person responds either
"Gracias'' or "Igvalmente, senior" No
matter If they have been joking to-
gether in the previous breath. the dia-
logue is slow and dignified. Plainly it
is a ceremony of real Importance.
AS he passes the next table there
is turn of his body toward its occul.
pants and distinct "Buen provecho,'
with the reply as serious as if the
matter was quite weighty in its sig.
nificance. Then the senior salutes the
table to the left in like fashion, and
If all the hoarders are present he has
regular royal progress out Of the
room. -
When the American woman arrives
at such proficiency that she can sail
out of Spanish boarding house din
ing room and perform all the inclin-
atoms, pronounce all the "Buen pro-
vechos" with suficient dignity and be.
tray no sign OF the novice, drawing
room presentation would be almost
tame.-New York Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
State Of Maryland
COURT DEFIED BIZ MRS. BOOTH.
o Woman Stubborn As
Andrew Jackson.

Salisbury.-For the first time
since the formation Of the county
an order of the court has been de.
liberately disobeyed. the offender be-
ing Mrs. Mary E. Booth, who refused
to sign certain papers in civil suit
in which she was involved. After
having been ordered to do so by the
Circuit Court, she was summoned to
answer the charge of contempt. She
was speedily found guilty of the
charge and was fined $40 and costs.
She refused to pay the fine. As the
only alternative was to go to Jail,
1T is understood that her attorney
paid the fine, and that were it not
for that fact Mrs Booth would now
be incarcerated.
The events leading up to the err
Sis cover period of IL years, DUR
ing which time Mrs. Booth has con-
tinually and persistently refused to
sign deed conveying piece of
property near Eden to Capt. T.. w.
H. White, who purchased the prop
erty. The payment was to be made
In three notes, the last one. maturing
about is months after the deed had
been made. There was an agree
ment entered into at the time be-
tween the two parties to the effect
that when the last note had been paid
deed conveying the property was
to be executed by Mrs. Booth.
Mrs. Booth fatty refused to exc
cute deed then, and has adhered
in her refusal up to the present time,
Notwithstanding the fact that many
lawyers in the county have been en-
ployed in an effort to secure her sig
nature.
assumed control of the land and cut
and sold the timber on it. The
land was generally recognized as be-
but the idea of securing title was
seemingly given up as a bad job.
A short time ago. however. Captain
White negotiated the sale of the
land to e. w. Truitt, but he was
unable to give a title because he
had been unable to secure one him
self.
1t was at this time that the law
yers again got busy, and G. w. d.
Waller and Samuel r. Douglass, for
Captain White, and Mr.. Truitt and
A. M. Jackson, for Mrs. Booth, have
been in legal conflict ever since.
All kinds of persuasive powers were
tried and exhausted, and finally an
order of the court was issued in
structing Mrs. Booth to sign the pa
pers.
Mr.. Douglass, with this important
document, together with carefully
prepared deed and Justice of the
Peace T. R. Jones, proceeded to the
residence of Mrs. Booth to enforce
the order of the court. But she
again refused to sign, and after de-
family remarking that she would rot
in Jail first, slammed the door in the
faces of the attorneys and squire.
The result was that the charge OF
contempt was brought against her,
and a trustee, G. w. D. Waller, was
appointed by the court for the pur-
pose of signing the much-coveted
deed, so that clear title can now
be given for the land without the
signature of Mrs. Booth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
odds AND ENDS.

The Abyssinian wife is the head OF
the house.
The incubator was invented by the
ancient Egyptians.
The popu.a alton of Russia is in
creasing at the rate of 2,500,00O a
year.
Goods from America to the Far
East amount to about 100000
tons per annum.
The hide of COW weighs about
S5 pounds, but that of horse is
about half that amount.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
A lEesert lfnnresslen.

T'he &our before dawn,
Each breath is sigh,
The camel-men yawn
And glance at the sky.
The distance is drear
With silhouettes drawn
And CHASTITY We fear
The hour before dawn.
The hour before noon,
Each breath is a gasp,
Oh, water us sooni
Each tongue, like a rasp,
Is rugged with thirst;
Our starvelings swo0n.
Oh, sunshine-accursed,
The hour before noonl
The hour before dusk,
Each breath is sob,
"a ration of husk!
Our weary limbs throb,
Made sick with their load
OF spices and musk.
It acts like goad,
The hour before dusk.
Robert Visittart, in Mexican Herald
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
REST HOUR FOR MOTHER.

REST HOUR FOR MOTHER
Hurry, the plague CT our present
lay life, has at last invaded the sac
red precinct, and laid its blight UPON
The home and the householder. She,
as, well as others, feels the stress OF
he times, and multiplying commands
apon her time and strength. Even in
The country beautiful, right in the
face of mother Nature, with her great
.epose comes this modern, whirligig
life, with its ever-increasing demands
upon both the mental and physical
powers of ALL Even the tiny tot, with
.ts wide wondering eyes just becom-
Ing acquainted with the great world,
rises at o'clock, swallows a hasty
breakfast and hurries off in a cab for
long drive to his days work at
school; Grams his little head with
fundamentals" and essentials" and
at three or four o'clock in the after
noon is hustled into the cab for the
return ride home, having spent fully
eight hours in continuous mental ami
physical exertion-about the proper
amount of work for full grown man.
But it is the householder and her
needs we would deal with this time.
She must learn to conserve her
strength that she may cope with
these complexities, for it is no use TO
ask her to renounce them. She feels
that she must keep up with the pro-
cession, and she will toll all day and
far into the night that her house may
be in "spick-and-span" condition, and
that her girls may be attired in the
latest mode. Nothing delights her so
much as to have it said of her, shes
perfect slave to her family" But
she is only squandering her strength
and injuring her health, perhaps seri-
ously. The endurance of some moth
ers is little short of marvellous. but
these very ones often break down
and become chronic invalids.
The housemother must reserve for
herself at least an hour of early day
for rest and recreation, if she would
retain her health and strength. The
early afternoon is probably the best
time for this "rest hour" end If the
practice is kept up regularly, and
nothing allowed to interfere with it.
it will soon bring to the over-worked
mother steady nerves, bright eye.
and firm hand If she can lie down
and sleep the hour, the benefit will
be Unreasonable: but just the rest
fulness of sitting alone in her own
room. with the door closed against
intruders. is good for body. mind and
soul.
And the husband and children will
appreciate the bright color in your
cheeks and the CAV laugh of your
good spirits far more than the mere
creature comforts Of an immaculate
house.-Indiana Farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
Flag For Charleston School.

Charleston. - handsome HAS.
which was presented to the pupils OF
Charlestown graded school by the
Patriotic Order Sons of America,
was raised on the school grounds
The procession consisted of the two
Charlestown bands, Charlestown
Lodge of the order and the pupils,
who marched to the school building.
where several addresses and recita-
tons took place.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
Old Bank To Give Way To New

Hagerstown.-Con S. Lewis
Lamkin began tearing down the
First National Bank building, two
and-a-half story brick structure. on
Washington Street, nearly opposite
the Courthouse. to make way for a
modern six-story bank building to
cost about 100000, to be erected on
the site.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
Improving City Lighting Plans.

Hagerstown.-The Street Com
missioners of Hagerstown awarded
to the Westinghouse Electric Manu-
featuring Company the contract to
out $4,000 worth of new machinery
in the municipal power house. After
the new machinery is installed the
capacity of the plant will be doubled.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21
HOSE TO MATCH SHOES.

The sheer gauze Isle stocking is to
insure it a hearty welcome this year
it has been made in some instances
with double top-that is, the stock
ing has been made extra long and
tourned down to the depth of three
inches. This, it is thought, will over
come its aptness to break and tear
from the strain it is subjected to by
the hose supporters.
Both silk and Isle hose are shown
in the new taupe shades a long
range Of bronze, tan, mustard and
champagne tints, as well as shades to
match all the fashionable colors in
dress silks, which include wistaria.
reseda, rose, catawba and all the dull
soft shades that in millinery arc
known as tapestry colors.
While very thin plain stockings are
TO be the acme OF smartness, lace or
openwork hose are shown in no emil
OF attractive patterns. Some are made
with lace ankles and the upper por-
ton plain, but the majority seem to
lie of the allover openwork variety.
Stockings to match the color OF
the boot, tie or slipper will be in the
best of taste. but for those who like
to give little more piquancy to
their footwear the stockings of a
lighter shade than the shoe or cos
tune will be selected. In the summer
season the white tie will be worn
with the white hose, or stockings OF
more brilliant color may be chosen.
In the latter case they should cor
respond with the belt, parasol or 9th
er accessories of the toilet. For in
stance, with a white serge suit and
white canvas ties green hose, para
sol, ETC., are very fetching. The idea
can be carried even further for
house or country wear, for with a
white and black costume red stock
ings would be a relief, while hello
trope always looks well with bronze
shoes.-New Haven Register.
MRS. TAFT'S LOG OF TRAVEL.
In Mrs Taft's tally of miles she
easily outstrips the wives of all 9TH
err American Presidents since that
historic day when Liberty bell rang
out its famous message from the tow
er of Independence Hall, says HUI
man Life. She has seen moonlight
nights on the broad waters of the
Pacific from the bridge OF that mon.
ster ship. the Minnesota she has
Watched the dirt fly at the big ditch
down in the Panama country. and she
has risked her life on the TRANSIT
berian- railway. in that 6,O00-mile dash
across the gigantic width of Asia.
which the Gear planned as spectacu-
lar affair to catch the worlds atten-
ton.
She has fished in the royal lake at
Ashiba, where the Taft party was
ss;....-tered in one OF the Mikado's pal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21

The average snowfall in the vicinity
Of Ner York is seven feet.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-05-21

aces during its Japanese visit; she
has danced the queer native rigodon
in the Philippines; over the SHOWS OF
st. Petersburg she has had, fur-bund-
led, sleighrides such as only Russia
knows; and to beguile transatlantic
hours she has played SWITCHBOARD
with that gold braided gentleman, the
captain, whose word is law on the
liner.
On practically all of the missions as
a popular peace envoy, Mrs. Taft has
accompanied her husband. In the
matter of distance this would mean
more miles than one would care to
figure, for no American, outside of
the navy, has ever covered so much
of the earth's surface in behalf of the
Government as the new President.
LADY CREIGHTON A HUNTER.
/ Say what you please of the weak
kneed British aristocracy, but never
deny its members, and in particular
it's women, have plenty of the quail
ty Americans call sand. Viscountess
Crichton, daughter of the first Duke
of Westminster, had a fall in the
hunting field about month ago that
would convince most of our Dianas
their legs are far more reliable thar
horseback as means of locomotions
Her husband, Lord CrichtOn, was
equerry to the Prince of Wales, ana
she is an enthusiastic follower of the
hounds. She was galloping furiously
over a stretch Of rough country when
at hedge her horse slipped, fell and
rolled over on It's fair rider; crushing
her beneath it's weight. Medical ex-
animation disclosed that three of her
ribs had been broken and she had
received internal injuries, besides
bruises and cuts on many parts OF
her body. Yet almost the first ques-
ton she languidly put to her nurses
after week of semi-consciousness,
was: where's the next meet, and
when?" Since that time Lady erich.
ton has become convalescent, and, in
a matter-of-course way, she frequent
ly discusses joining the chase as 1t
she had never had fall in her life
New York Press.
BARONESS A SUFFRAGIST.
Twenty-six bills have been intro.
duced in the Finnish Parliament by
the twenty-five women members.
Fourteen of these bills bear on the
relation of women to the home and
the state, and twelve deal with the
welfare of children. The Baroness
Grippenberg has become the recognize
ed leader of the women sitting in
the Finnish legislative body. She IS
radical in respect to woman's posi-
ton and is one of the most effective
speakers in the Parliament. The Bar
oness withdrew from social life to
enter politics and she has been twice
elected to Parliament by big MAORI
ties. She is the honorary president OF
the ''Finsk Kvinneforening, probably
the most important of the many wom-
ems organizations in Finland, AMI
she now is being urged to visit Eng
land and America to lecture on the
practical fight for the ballot by the
women of Finland, and on the grow
ing Importance of women in the polit-
ical affairs of that progressive land
New York Press.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18
To Men and Women OfAtanta
and Vicinity

There will be a meeting at 7O015 Ma
eta street on Thursday evening, Novem-
Der IS, at o'clock, to organize a JEFF
fersonian Club and discuss important is
sues. The notice here given is short, but
all who can possibly do so are urged to
come and aid in this great movement
The meeting will represent pure democ-
racy, and each one present will be urged
to take an active part
A large and well-lighted hall has been
provided for the meeting, and there is ex-
cellent street-car service to and from this
point
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18
as They Happens" D,...

W lAUVp6V7 Tom Dola"
Congress, and especially the Senators and Repre-
sentatives of Georgia:
First, to let the Treasury notes live to do
good and not to be destroyed and do harm to the
republic
- Second, to increase the coinage of both gold
and silver and the issuance of gold and silver
tifcates to supply the demand for money in this
republic, whose production OF wealth and eXpan-
sion of commerce is increasingly marvellous "
Following the horrible affair which Mr..
Watson commented upon in last weeks issue
of The JEFFERsoNIAN, Cairo,
ILLINOIS Illinois, has witnessed another
GOES MAD. horror amounting virtually to
civil war. Ten thousand peo-
pie witnessed the hanging of one negro,
and three troops of militia were sent to the
frenzied town in the hope of preventing
race riot akin to that in Springfield last win
ter. How fully such Northern and Western
cases bear out Mr.. Watson's opinion that
never again would either section lend its aid
to forcing the negro upon the South polltl-
cally or otherwise. The trouble is too grave
and too widespread for the ancient pre- JUDGES
to have any weight whatever with this gen
Grafton.
And be it noted that women pulled the rope
with which the wretch was hanged.
The ofense was receiving an old bicycle
frame which he says he did not know, but
which, in fact, had been stolen,
The CASE and the offender was a little chap
OF PAUL. = Just the age that your boy and
mine would be in school. But
Paul hasn't had any father for many years,
and his mother and young brothers and sis
ters needed him to be a man,-sO he had been
out in the world earning his pittance, bravely
and generously sharing it with the little fam
ily.
Paul was nice boy Everybody who knew
him loved him. and believed just what he said
about that bicycle frame. Most of his old
employers had been boys themselves, anyhow,
and they knew that we can't expect little fell
lows of thirteen years to understand strange
Quirks that make small boys who have an in
grained love of old Junk receivers of stolen
goods, and such terrible things. The boy
with father gets into all sorts of mischief
and trouble, and daddy squares the damages
and gives the usual curtain lecture with much
outward gravity; and then sneaks into the
little sons room, kisses the wet cheeks, and
strokes the tousled head on the pillow just
bit CONTRIBUTION he can't be very hard on
the poor ''lid" who didn't realize.
But Paul had no father-and Paul's moth
er had no protector. This is why, when he
was hailed before Judge Broyles, of Atlanta,
neither of them got any consideration. Not
the boys tears, nor the mothers pleadings
availed Tt was eight years in the Reforma-
tory for Paul. Not because he stole that BIZ
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-11-18


cry an entangling alliance Of most abomina-
bic character Will receive official sanction.
The insidious creep of imperialistic tenden-
cies has indeed progressed so far that dlsrep-
utable State secrets are undermining the very
principles which the American Republic was
founded to further and to which it has until
the last decade or so faithfully adhered.
One hundred and twenty five thousand
railroad men east of the Mississippi will de
mand II per cent. increase
4 POSSIBLE in wages and uniform
STRIKE ON schedules This increase is
EASTERN ROADS. to make the wages of the
railroad men in the East
and North equal to the schedule of wages paid
to the Western employees. At any rate, no
matter what it is for, we hope they will get it.
No man works harder than the railroad man
or incurs more danger and hardships in the
course of his everyday employment. The
railroad men have been singularly patient,
they are also as majority singularly blind to
their own interests. Nearly all of them fight
government ownership of the railroads be-
cause they have been trained to the sheeplike
acquiescence in the idea that such owner
ship means poor wages to them, not seeming
to see that the measure which would reduce
freight rates and facilitate the distribution of
necessaries and commodities, that would af-
ford them easier hours and better protection
of life and limb would more than offset the
theoretical claim that they would receive less
wages. AS matter of fact, they would re-
ceive more, for wages would come first In the
schedule of operating expenses, whereas now
the earnings of the road must 90 for div-
dends on Watered stock, for fabulous salaries
to a few presidents and directors, with wages
and the betterments Of the road down at the
foot of the column
The National Farmers Congress at Raleigh,
North Carolina, adopted resolutions demand
ing that the mileage of Con
COOP gressmen be reduced one-half
RESOLUTIONS The farmers there and else
where should not only demand
this, but they should fail to return every Con
gresham who voted to increase his own sal
airy from $4,000 to 81 500 per year The Con-
gresham can not be elected. as he we'll knows.
without the ballots of the men of the rural
districts, and it is not only high time but long
past time that the farmers as a class should
repudiate every congressional rascal who gets
their votes on suave promises, proceeds to
Washington and. promptly betrays his con
stituents in the interests, generally, of some
New England manufacturer.
At the Macon Convention of the Farmers
Union in Georgia the following resolutions Of
protest were introduced by Fred. D VIM
berly and Charles McGregor:
Macon. Ca, November So Especial AN i'm
portant resolution passed by the recent Farmers
Union Conference in this city, and overlooked in
crush OF business related to impending currency.
"The resolutions of protest, introduced by Fred
d. Wimberly and Charles McGregor, are as fol-
lows:
We, the representatives of the Farmers
Union of