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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02
MIlI OF 6eorge q. Ash probated

The will Of the late George R. Ash.
State Auditor. was admitted to probate on
Tuesday. in the Office of Registerof Walls.
The estate. which Is composed of both
real and personal property, is devised as
follows: To his sisters. Misses Helen,
Mollie and Flora Ash. jointly, his interest
in the home property at the corner Of
North and High streets. Elkton. except
ing the warehouse property. The resi-
dence, Including the warehouse property
on North street. to his widow, Mrs. Eloise
W. Ash. outing her life and after her
death to his son, George Reynolds Ash,
absolutely. If the son dies before his
widow. the entire residue OF the estate is
bequeathed TO his widow. who is named
executrix. The win bears date November
II, 1000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02
GAS TANK ExpL0DES.
House Demolished And Owner
Killed.

An acetylene gas tank in the cellar Of
the home of Thomas Richards, at Tough
kenamon. Pa, exploded about o'clock
Saturday night, demolishing the dwelling,
a large stone structure, Instantly killing
Mr.. Richards, and probably fatally in
juring his wife and daughter. Mr.. Rich
ards was lying i'll in bed at the time Of
the explosion and when rescuers reached
the scene they found all three members
of the family buried in the ruins. The
debris was torn away from the pinioned
and unconscious sufferers, who were
carried to places of safety. Measures
taken to revive Mr.. Richards were in
vain, death having claimed the aged man.
His wife and daughter were revived.
Both Of Mrs. Richards legs were broken.
and in addition she suffered internal in
juries. Miss Annie Richards also sus-
tanned the fracture of both legs.
Mrs. Richards and her daughter were
taken to Philadelphia hospital where
they are lying in serious condition.
Mr.. Richards was 10 years Of age. He
was one Of Chester county's most respect
ed residents, and in addition to being a
large land owner was director in the
Kennett Square Bank, and was interested
in numerous local business enterprises.
The cause Of the explosion in.the gas
tank is not known. Numerous similar
machines are in use throughout the neigh
borhood for illuminating purposes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02
6ranary And Contents Burned.

AT an early hour Wednesday morning
Of last week the large granary on the farm
OF Miss Ada L. Lockwood, near Warwick.
Cecil county, and tenanted by Joseph
Schriver. was discovered On FIRE. Mr.,
Schriver ran out and liberated the stock in
the nearby barn. Neighbors were SUM
moned. and they succeeded. after hard
fight as bucket brigade, in preventing
The flames from spreading to any Of the
other buildinet, In the burned building
there were about 100 bushels Of corn and
400 bushels Of wheat, which were destroy
cd Miss Lockwood has 81 1000 insurance
on the sranary,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02
PERSONALS.

VA. duu MtSs II wayne NSyu " CtC
New York visitors last week.
A largely attended social dance was
held in oakwood hall on Tuesday eve
ming.
C. c. Reynolds. Of Baltimore, is spend
ing the week with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Howard Reynolds.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. DuHamell Of
Earleville, celebrated their iftieth we'd
ding anniversary on Sunday.
Mrs. Josephine Cantwell and Miss
Emma Barnes. Of Charlestown, were the
guests Of Mrs. Clara l. Turnerla week.
The marriage is announced of Mr.. Ar
chic Dempsey. Jr., formerly Of Elkton,
and Miss Elsie M. couden, at Newark
Del by Rev. G. T. Anderson.
Miss Mary Ewing, Of Perrrysille, and
Mr.. Lemuel X. MentzelI. Of Baltimore,
were married 10 that city on Jan. II in
St. Thomas Church by Rev. Father
CahilI
Mr.. J.Howard Pierce, of Liberty Grove.
and Miss Mary Y. McClenahan. OF Phila-
delphia, were married on Wednesday by
the Rev W. H. Briggs. of Zion M. E.
church.
Mrs. Perry Sylvanus Shaffer has issued
invitations for the marriage of her daugh-
Ter, Miss Lynn M. shaffer. 10 Cecil E.
Ewing, on Tuesday, February 90. at two
o'clock. at her home in Rising Sun.
Miss Louise Boulder, who recently re-
signed from the Chesapeake City Post
Office. and Mr.. Eugene Thornton Of
Bethel, Cecil county, were married in
Elkton Saturday by Rev. S.M. Perry.
The dancing class organized by num-
ber OF young men Of this town and
vicinity held its first session on Tuesday
evening in the public hail. when over
forty members were present. The class
is under the instruction Of Mrs. Jennie
Creswell. Of Port Deposit.
DIR. N. T. Kirk, who has been resident
physician ia the Hospital Of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway at Rocky Mount, n
C., for some months, has accepted the
position Of resident surgeon in the Hos
pital Of the Old Soldiers Home. al Wash
ington D. c. DR. Kirk is son of
Thomas Kirk, Of this town.
Stewart NJ Ward Jeff Rising Sun last
Monday evening for Tuscon. Arizona. for
a-sojourn Of several months for the bene-
lfit Of his health. He was accompanied
by ] NJ. Holden who was called to Saw
telle. southern California, on business.
Mr. Holden has an uncle in Sawtelle who
is in failing health and sent for him to
come and settle some business matters
there and at Seattle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02

The will Of Thomas M. Lort. probated
in the Registers Office at Elkton, be-
queaths $500 to testator's brother. Isaac
F. Lort. $50 to Martha A. R. Brown. $500
70 Selinda S. G. Hansell. and the residue
of the estate TO testator's widow. Ellen p.
Lort. who is named as sole executrix.
The will is dated July 81. 1908. and is
witnessed by George A. Lynch and
Cover T. Albaugh.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02

Ridgeiy and Denton farmers have
signed an agreement not to contract TO
plant tomatoes the coming season for less
than $Ix per ton. The price received last
year was 50 per ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02
Rising Sun Library.

ne I0IloWIng llbTaflans nave been ap-
pointed, who will have charge on the
dates designated:
1919 8to5P. NJ 7to9P.M.
Feb. 8-Ada B. Reynolds, Mrs. Jos. Smith.
. 10 Carrie Hambleton, Lucy Gillespie.
II Gertrude Dare, Della Jenkins.
. "a Ethel Webster. Hanna Kirk.
March 2-Mrs. Founders, Mrs. T. B. Moore.
Helen Reeder, yerna M. Grason.
l6 Ellen Clifford, Margaret Reynolds.
28 Emma Brown, Mrs. Wagner.
April e-sara Kirk, Mrs. A. L. Burlington.
Is Margaret Reeder, Edna Wilson.
20 Mrs. @. =. Pyle, Mollie Keen.
"a May Alice. Mrs. BENZ. Briscoe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02

Unequalled bargains in children's two
piece Suits and Ladies' Shoes. Go 10
Bufinetcn's.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02

Bufineton's busy at stock taking.
Bargains brought forward 20 be pushed
our Of the way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02

For fancy Groceries. Canned Goods and
Fruits 60 70 Bnfhngson's.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02

More Improvements at Bufington's s
Grocery counter extended to the rear.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-02-02
Fire At North East.

Fire early Sunday morning destroyed a
frame building owned by Biddle & Black
well at North East, with $500 worth of
newly purchased nets and fishing tackle.
The FIRE is believed to have been Of in
cendiary origin. and this is the second loss
suffered by the firm within year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
DIVERSIFIED LIVE STOCK?

Diversified stock raising is more
profitable for the average farmer than
the raising of only one class of live
stock, writes W. E. G. in the Kansas
Industrfalist. Diversified farming and
diversified stock raising will produce
more profit with less loss of fertility
from the farm than either alone. They
naturally go together. If only cattle
are raised on a farm the crops pro-
duced on that farm must be those
which are suitable for cattle The
same thing is true with any other class
of live stock. One class of live stock
alone will tend to limit crop rotations.
as a rotation may include a crop which
is not suitable for that class of live
stock and must either be omitted from
the rotation or be sold in the vegetable
form. which means less profit and a
much greater loss of fertility from the
farm.
If a farmer has all of his capital in
vested in one class of live stock, his
risk is greater. Some years, due to
low markets. disease, or some other
cause, one class of live stock may not
return a profit, but may prove a loss.
If he is entirely dependent upon that
class of animals for his income and
they do not give him an income, the
loss will be more keenly felt than if
he had some other animals to market,
which give him profit.
One class of live stock on a farm will
not consume so large a proportion of
the crops of the farm as will all classes
combined. The tastes of the different
animals differ greatly and what one
will dislike another will relish. Many
of these crops are such that they can
not be marketed or disposed of profit
ably without feeding them to live
stock. and if only one class of animals
is kept and they dislike this crop, it
will be a loss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25

eyes of every one with whom she comes
in contact, should be arrested as a
menace to the public. In some cities
there is a law against it and it should
be universal. A pin can be placed in
hat so there is little danger, and some
women realized and remember this. One
trouble is here. A woman will buy a
large hat with long pins to reach
through it and then use these same
pins for a small hat. 1 trust you will
find it convenient to print an article
concerning this, and here is one woman
who will hope and work for a law COM
polling women to wear shields on their
hatpins."
That's the kind of talk. And it shows
that if all the women were Of a mind
to practice just ordinary caution in the
use of their hatpins city ordinances or
state laws would not be needed to regu-
late the handling of this newest of the
deadly weapons. It is too much,
though, to expect that all women will
be as careful as they should in
this particular. So the public will
have to be protected against them by
some sort of a statute. 1t was only
the other day that an Ohio man had a
hatpin Jabbed clear through his nose
while he was trying to keep his feet
in a crowded street car.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
EVENING CHAT
Here's Wishing All My Reader Friends
~ RVTzI CAMERON.

Here's Wishing All My Reader Friends
a Happy Christmas.
christmas jollity! New Year
All Of i a froiieking, ro1lioking quality!
Moping is nothing but treason!
I hope that you'll blissfully, mirth-
fully, kissfully
Enjoy your holiday season.
Just reading that made me reel
cheerful so I pass it on to you ana
wish that it may truly describe your
holiday season.
Furthermore, 1 hope that you re-
ceiyed all the Christmas presents that
you wanted, and wanted all that you
hope you weren't disappointed in
anything and still more that you
YOU were. For while it is a COM
paratively small and easily healed
hurt to be disappointed in gilt, II is
a very deep and slow healing wound
to see that someone is disappointed
in a gift that you tried hard to make
please.
hope that you weren't so worn out
with buying and making Christmas
gifts that you couldn't give those
about you the all important gift of
sweetness and good cheer on Christ
mas day.
of the holiday season-or, if need be,
in place of it, you also had in your
heart that serene undercurrent of
happiness that comes from knowing
you have really done honor to the
Lord of Christmas by making Christ
mas happier for someone less fortu-
nate than you.
hope that if by any chance that is
not true you will go straight out and
do something like that right now, even
as you lay this paper down. Remem-
Der the eleventh hour was not consid-
cred too late.
And now a word for the future. Last
va TanaiZvo6 a letter from
my reader friends containing this
paragraph:
81 have sent out several gifts to
friends whom 1 hold in high esteem
and have received gifts from them and
acknowledged them at once, but it is
now about four weeks since mine were
sent, and 1 haY~ not received a word
yet. This I consider to be a great
breach of courtesy. Last year it was
the same thing with the same people.
1 think the matter ought to be called
to the attention Of any who are so
negligent"
As this letter came to me rather
too late to be timely for last year I
put it aside for this year.
To some people the necessity for
acknowledging Christmas gifts is a
very bitter drop in the cup of Christ
mas cheer. 1 wonder if their habit of
pr -crastinating the duty does not
difficult than it really is. have one
friend from whom I always receive
an acknowledgment OF my gift the
day after Christmas. The note is
brief but very cordial, and look for
ward to it as a bright spot IN the let
down of the day after. This woman
has a large circle of friends and
busy life, and yet she finds time on
Christmas day to do this
Can't you do the same? Or, if not
on Christmas day, at least in Christ |
mas week?
Don't try to write a long or elabor- |
ate letter, just make it a word of |
thanks. If it is genuine and hearty, 1
that will be quite enough and will /
. .'obably be far more welcome to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

While you are being worked you are
also losing time.
We know who the power behind the
throne is, all right, If the king is mar
ried.
A hermit is a man who attends to his
own business, although there may be a
few others.
1t is easy enough to raise disturbance,
but the harvest doesn't amount to muck.
A man who doesn't belong to any IS
among those who don't care which church
you join.
Mrs. Alb Adkins always seems to be go
ing away returning from somewhere
or other.
In a woman's mind a tragedy is to have
the pastor call while she is drying clothes
in the house.
1t shocks a man a lot to learn that the
sewing circle may review the same story
he heard at his club.
It should be said for the tramp that Re
doesn't blame his artistic temperament
because he is slouchy.
Neither is there much use waiting for
the time to come when automobiles Will
be within the reach of the poor man.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man whose favorite indoor amusement
was arguing about the Scriptures?
There are numerous and varied pocket
knives in use in this country, most of
which, we gather from extensive borrow
ing, need sharpening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
THOSE DEADLY HATPINs.

Strange but true, a letter has been
received by t, paper from a woman
who protests against the carelessness
of her sisters in the use of the hatpins
of such length that they get in the
menace class. 1t follows:
mo doubt you have printed articles
concerning the danger of hatpins, but it
would not do any harm and might do
a great deal of good to jog the memory
of some careless women in this town.
Just recently a gentleman, residing
here, narrowly escaped having his eye
put out by being struck with a hatpin
which extended two or three inches
through a woman's hat. The pin struck
just at the corner of the eye, causing
considerable pain. To my mind a wom-
an going about like an animated pitch
fork with these daggers thrust through
her hat at all angles endangering the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Is 1t true, asks Mrs. Nye Of the New
ton Journal, that personal taxes are
rearly so per cent lower this year than
last?
Miss Alta Legg, the reporter of the
Horton News, who has to hustle
around town for the local news items,
seems to have an appropriate name
and, perhaps, it is merely clever
nom de plume.
Bud SIivers expended this philoso-
ply into the ear of the Toronto Re
publican man recently: 1.-The first
time you get stung on a gilt edge
proposition, it is the other fellows
fault, and after that when you hold
the sack you can blame yourself
Editor Macdonald of the Caldwell
News seems to be a devotee of the
theory that discretion is the better
part of valor, as the following in his
paper would seem to indicate: What
I saw going on behind some big hats
at church might be entertaining
what would happen to me?
In Kansas town where two broth
ers are engaged the coal business
a vival was recently held, relates
the University Kansan, and the elder
brother was converted. For weeks
he tried to persuade his brother to
join the church. One day he asked,
why can't you join the church like
I did," Its a fine thing for you to
belong to the church, replied the
younger brother. eff join the church
who'll weigh the coal?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

1From the Chicago NeWS.J
Live and let live is a poor motto for
butchers.
Anyway, the man who contradicts him
self may be right.
1t is easier to write history than it is to
manufacture it.
Only after trying does a man realize
the many things he can't do
Every married man should keep stock
of ready made excuses on hand.
You can jolly the average man by re-
fering to him as prominent citizen.
Early to bed and early to rise is OF
the combinations that make a small boy
sore.
After a woman has been married two
or three years she quits saying that she
understands men.
When a woman tells you she has Sc
cret sorrow she expects you to sit up and
take notice.
temper. If she had one to begin with,
she retains it as long as she lives
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
FANATICIsM POWERLEss.

The possibility that the Green Flag
of the Prophet may be lifted by the
sultan of Turkey, who is invested
with dread dignity as the successor of
Mohammed, always excites CONNIE
when the Turk is at war with the
Frank But the magic phrase, a ''holy
war" bears eXa--i nation no better
than the generalization called ''the
Oriental mind" writes William T. Ell
lis in the January Century. Italy has
lust proved in Tripoli that fanaticism
hurls itself in vain against modern
machine guns, and the forces upon
which the leaders of q "jehad," or
hol war, can rely, are, except in the
case of Turkey itself, wholly morgan
lied along modern military lines. Even
the Arabs immemorial maneuver of
striking a swift blow and then retiring
to the Businesses of the GASES is
thwarted by the scouting aeroplane.
Mobs cannot fight armies. In the old
rush of spearsmen and swordsmen and
bowmen the casualties were compare
lively so few that the wounded might
be carried away or left behind. Mod
ern weapons do a wholesale business;
they are to the old ways as the steam
reaper to the sickle.
Another factor, UNDECIDED by the ro-
mantle, which time has injected into
any possible conflict between the fol-
lowers of the Prophet and the civilized
powers is that of a navy. The recent
experience of Turkey with Italy is
sufficient commentary upon this. An
armed rising Of all Islam against all
Christendom is utterly impossible.
Even in India the unorganized un-
drilled, unaTmed and scattered Mos
lens, numerous as they are, could not
hope to prevail against the British
frOOnS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

rFron the Philadelphia Recordl
Never trust a man who deceives him
self.
On the other hand the lack Of virtue is
its own punishment.
It's when the doctors bills come in that
we wonder if life is worth living.
Possession is nine points of the law, and
most lawyers are self-possessed.
Intellectual growth shouldn't necessar-
fly cause a mans head 10 outgroW his
hat.
The fellow who wants to get something
for nothing can always get in free fight.
The average woman not only wants the
last word, but about 90 per cent of thu
preceding conversation as we'll
Nell-"It doesn't take much to please
Mr.. Saphedde" Belle-'No, he seems to
be tremendously pleased with himself"
wieg-"Skinnum admits that he occa-
sionaiiy robs Peter to pay Paul" Wagg
Yes. and then he turns around and
robs Paul"
BIobbs-"Good thing Methuselah was a
man and not a woman" Slobbs-"Why2 p
BIobbs-"Wel1, II he had been a woman
we would never have known how old she
really was"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
MEXICO MUST COME TO ORDER.

Whatever the course of the United
States government may be in respect
to disorders in Mexico and the result
ant destruction of the property of
foreigners in that country, and the
still graVer outrages to which they are
subjected personally, the one thing
certain is that Mexico must come to
order. There must be a restoration of
the ordinary security for life and
property which civilized states are
supposed to guarantee to subjects of
other powers and to their own citizens
alike.
1t may not be true that Ambassador
Wilson has gone back to the City of
Mexico, bearing a virtual ultimatum
to President Madero, but it is clear
that foreign interference must come
unless Mexico shall prove able to re-
store law and order within a COM
paratively short time. The constant
destruction of property owned by for
eigners cannot go on without limit.
Nor can wide districts in Mexico be
virtually closed to the outside world
by the crimes and terrorism of bandits,
whether or not disguised as rebels
Since this country has taken the
position, for half a century, that the
great powers of Europe must keep
their hands off the weak nations of
Latin America, the United States
stands in the position of a self ap-
pointed guardian for all foreigners
and foreign interests in Mexico, Cen
trail America, South America and the
independent islands of the West
Indies. This responsibility may entail
heavy burdens, but it cannot be push
ed aside. If the Mexicans do not set
their house in order the United States
may be compelled, in the near future,
to Cd the work for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
by THE WY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

according to reports from local ex-
press agencies, the Christmas spirit
should be plentiful in our be-yootiful
little arid village today 1t is an
ping 1t in n large and numerous con-
signments.
The new motorcycle ordinance re-
quires riders of the popthings to carry
a number ON both back and front of
the machine, but we hold that a better
way would be to have the number, in
reverse type, in the tire, so that the
coroner or attending physician might
discover the offenders number in about
zs,point, on the frame of the victim
It is not the Christmas present list
that gets your William goat,-it is the
list of those you forgot to remember.
A Kansas City dealer gave a bottle
of champagne with each ttree-gallon
sale of red Ticker. The booze was bad
PEELED him to add something to the
insult.
In Berlin, there are city ordinances
against noise and long skirts, but none
against long hat pins The hat pin is
one of the worst crimes on the job.
but it seems to be sacred
A New York man has a finger grated
on for a nose, and if he doesn't look
out, he will be pinched for sticking it
into some manicure's affairs.
The "Spugs" lose out, as usual. There
is really little sense in their contention.
We can't eat, wear, smoke or drink the
little Pip booklet sent us by Father
Polk Daniels, but wouldn't swap it for
a roast duck, overcoat, pipe or quart.
A lot of convicts seem to think that
Stubs is. Santa Claus And all they
want in their stockings is ''out"
Mer- no,-won't say that; every
body's doing it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-25
A CHRIsIMAs SONG

See, how CLEANS the holly berry!
Masters mine, let US be merry!
Crimson hangs the berry on the bought
Io, how shines the holly leaf!
Masters mine, away with grief
Melancholy? Who'd be melancholy now?
Years ago within a manager
once there lay a little stranger.
Crimson hangs the berry on the bough!
And the tender mother smiled
O"er the slumber of the child.
Melancholy? Who'd be melancholy now?
Gloryi Glory Down the ages
Drifts the song of saints and sageS.
Crimson hangs the berry on the bough!
And we catch its echo still
From that far-off Bethlehem hill.
Melancholy? Who'd be melancholy now?
Clinton Scotland, in Ainslee's.