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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
a rare. Rare Man.

William H. Handy, short story
writer and novelist, is a great lover
Of folks and makes friends with all
sorts and conditions of men. One day
while on an outing in the Ozarks he
got a hill billy who was something
Of character to accompany him on a
fishing excursion in order to study the
type. The two men spent the day in
the woods together and returned to
camp old friends and then Mr.. Handy
learned that he was not the only one
on the expedition who had been study
ing his companion. As they shook
hands in parting the hill billy said:
Il taken a likin' to yuh, but yuh
shore be the queerest man | ever see.
I've noticed you all day, an yuh amt
took a drink, yuh amt took smoke
and yuh amt cussed onct!"-Kansas
City Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
SUCCESS WITH SMALL FRUIT
knowledge Of Market Requirements,
Executive Ability and Expert
ence Are Necessary.

To successfully harvest and market
crop of small fruit requires business
ability Of no mean order.
Because a person is successful in
growing fruit it does not necessarily
imply that he will make success Of
the harvesting and selling part Of the
business. Still there is nothing about
the work that should discourage the
uninitiated.
The principal characteristics called
into play are, a knowledge Of market
requirements. executive ability, expe-
rience and knowledge as to the char
acteristics of the different kinds and
varieties of fruits
One of the first things to consider
is the market, whether local, semi
local or distant. For long-distance
shipping, only those varieties that are
noted for firmness and bookkeeping
qualities should be used. and these
must be picked before they are at
their highest safe of ripeness.
With nearby or local markets. how
ever, the question becomes one of size
and quality rather than one Of firm
ness though firmness is desirable in
any case. 1t is often an advantage to
grade strawberries and if this is done
1t should be done by the pickers as
they are removed from the vines. The
grade should be made uniform
throughout the package. but the top
layers may be turned calyx down,
greatly enhancing the attractiveness
of the fruit. The package should be
full.
To oversee dozen or fifteen pick
ers is no small task. To secure the
best work the overseer should be in
the field among the pickers. Among
the number will be those who will
need watching. 1t is good plan to
reward the faithful ones at the close
of the season. In general. generous
treatment in dealing with pickers is
returned four-foId In better service
rendered.
The growers whose style of culture
Is up-to-date. that is to say, plenty OF
room for each plant so that the ber-
ries are large and no weeds or grass
in the way. SO that the berries may
be easily and quickly gathered. win
usually have no trouble in securing
pickers. He has frst choice for Of
course. every one will want to pick
where picking is best.
Picking berries is at best tedious.
back-aching job. It takes grit to stick
to 1t day by day. hence 1t is that the
task should be made as agreeable as
possible.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
CUPID HAD HIT HIM HARD
Surely Day o. Romance Is Not Ended
When Loveslck Swain Can Feel
Like This.

Come, come, old man; don't let It
knock you out There are plenty Of
other girls in the world. In six months
from now you viii have forgotten
her."
Yes, / suppose it is as you say:
but it isn't six months from now.
Everything see reminds me OF her.
When look at other women / can't
help thinking how much more beauti-
full she is than any of them. When
the wind blows l am reminded that it
is probably adding to the color of her
cheeks. Whenever I pass a corner
where she and have stood together
l have strange empty feeling as
il something we're gone out of my
life.
When I look up at the sky, can
not keep from remembering that it
is above her. If / could forget her
for only day, for only an hour, !
think / might learn to hope again;
but can't get her out Of my mind.
1t seems to me that the whole world
is changed since she told me that /
was never to see her aagin. can't
understand how anybody manages to
keep on being happy. would give
almost anything to forget her. Chi
cago Record Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
SCORED ONE ON HIS RIVAL
Brown Had Overlooked Leap Year,
and Jones Was Quick to Mark
the Point.

Irving Fletcher, the well-known adj
vertising expert, said at an advertis-
ing mems dinner at Delmonico's in
New York:
"A good advertisement never lies.
1t never deceives For it can only
pay by making life patrons. not tran
sient ones.
"A good advertisement never lies,
but it states it's case as strongly as
possible, and 1t avails itself of every
point, however slight. There it is
like young Jones.
Young Jones proposed at Lake
wood to pretty girl, but she said I'M
certainly, swinging her slim foot in
and out of her slashed skirt:
81 like you, Mr.. Jones. But, then,
like Mr.. Brown, too And Mr.. Brown
is so devoted. He says he thinks
Of me. 365 days in the year
HUH snorted young Jones. con-
temptuously. He wants a day on
every four years. does he? Well,
hope you're not taken in by any such
one-horse devotion as that.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
A Real Need.

A Frenchman named Delaney has
invented an apparatus whereby you
can wind your clock by opening and
shutting door, the winding machine
doing its work by the action of the
door.
What is really needed, however, is
an invention that, attached to door,
will get rid of people inside OF the
room. No known method has yet been
invented to accomplish this purpose.
Yet is there anything which would pro-
mote greater efficiency and comfort
and give more lasting satisfaction?-
Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
FLOWING IS OF IMPORTANCE
Upon II Depends to Great Degree Ma
ture Of Later operatIons--Mone
and Labor Saved.

Flowing, though seemingly a simple
process. is easily the most important
operation in the tillage Of the soil.
Upon 1t depend to o great degree the
nature Of later operations and the fire.
quency with which they will be re-
Quired. In fact. unless land is plowed
n the best manner possible, and at
the right time. the preparation of the
land for growing q crop will require
additional labor and cost It may
even be impossible to prepare good
seed bed when plowed under certain
conditions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
GOOD THINGS FOR THE HOGS
Prescriptions Given VIII Not Cure
Cholera, but They VIII Keep An
Irnals in Condition.

The following prescriptions will not
cure hog cholera but they will keep
the hogs in good condition. Choose
one which you will have prepared to
give your hogs, say every go days, and
at any time they seem out Of condi-
ton:
Wood charcoal, one pound; sui
phur, one pound; sodium chloride, two
pounds; sodium bicarbonate, two
pounds; sodium hyposulphite, two
pounds; sodium sulphate, one pound;
anthony sulphid, one pound. Pulver-
ize thoroughly, mix we'll and give one
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
HIs Tralnrno Counted.

Old Squire Grampus Bill Bigsnort's
a-makin' a gosh rattlin' good record
down thar tew congress. Bill'll make
'em set up and take notice. He's had
durn good trainin'.
Farmer stringent eou bet He's
done nothin' but set around Pettus'
store with yeou an other similar
prominent legislators fer tn last twent-
ty years"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
FRESH AIR REQUIRED
OXYGEN is DouBLY IMPORTANT
DURING THE NIGHT.
Many Advantages Seen in Use Of Open
Front House Scratching Shed Is
Kept Dry During Wet Wealth
er-aens Keep Clean.

How 1t ever came to happen that
chickens came to be confined in small,
close, ill-ventilated houses during the
long hours of night, 1t is hard to i'm
agine.
Perhaps it was the result Of mans
effort to domesticate the wild fowls.
He had to make many changes In the
habits of the birds, and it was natural
for him to do SO along the lines OF his
convenience and in imitation Of his
own conditions
If he and his family spent the night
indoors with as little fresh air as pos
sible admitted into the rooms, why
was not that the proper plan to pur-
sue with his hens?
Oxygen is needed even more at
night than in the daytime, and chick
EMS night is a long affair. especially
during the winter time, when it goes
t. bed at 4:30, and is up at $50 or z
a. m. So If fresh air is important, 1t
certainly is doubly so at night, and
the open houses provide for this very
nicely
There are many kinds of fresh air
houses in use at the present time;
those that have canvas or burlap
curtain are not truly open-front
houses, except when the curtain is
withdrawn.
The best open-front is covered with
wire netting on one side or at least
the greater part Of one side. The
open side should face the south, so
as to admit the sunshine as well as
the fresh air.
As this is the storm side, the end
Of the house occupied by the roosts
should have a canvas frame fitted
over the upper part, leaving all the
rest Of the front that is occupied by
the scratching pen, etc., open to the
weather, as the protecting caves or
slanting roofs are sufficient to keep
out the rain and excess of sunshine.
The advantages Of this way of hous-
Ing chickens are many, and it pro-
vides a well-ventilated scratching
shed, which is big item during the
winter, and a more even temperature
: UA4tl6s GA 0CdSOAc VI tAO year.
During wet and muddy weather, the
scratching shed, which remains dry,
prevents the fowls from bringing mud
into the nest boxes on their feet, and
dirty eggs do not bring as ready a
sale as the clean ones, and washed
eggs lose their gloss, and that outer
film from the she'll, which admits the
air more freely to the inner part of
the shell, causing it to spoil more
readily.
The open-front houses remain COM
paratively dry during the wet weather,
and frost never accumulates on the in
side, so that litter remains dry for a
long time, and droppings are more
easily cleaned. There is no danger of
the fowls taking cold as one would
seem to fear. Such troubles come from
impure air, produced by long damp
ness or draughts.
The pure air gives them resisting
power against roup, throat or similar
troubles, as it adds to their vigor.
These houses are now being tried in
places where the weather is very Sc
we're In the wintertime, and no bad
results have yet been reported.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
why Not Armor for Every Bullet1

An ingenious New York doctor has
invented a bichloride of mercury tab
let in which the antidote is combined
with the poison. SO that person may
swallow corrosive sublimate, inten-
tionally or accidentally, with IMMUNITY.
It's a capital idea, and ought to be
applied to poisons generally. and pos
.sibly Maxim might find some way Of
applying the principle to firearms. An
automatic. self-resisting bullet, or
something Of that sort, would be al
much greater utility than his siIencer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

Would Eat for EYE Months.
tablespoonful to each 200 pounds Of
live weight of hogs treated once day
for several days.
Sulphur, two pounds; copperas,
two pounds; madden, two pounds;
black anthony. one-half pound; salt
petre, one-half pound; arsenic, two
ounces. Mix with IL gallons of water
and give one pint to each hog. This
will be sufficient to dose 100 hogs.
Salt, four pounds; black anti
mony. one pound; copperas, one
pound; sulphur, one pound; saltpetre.
one-quarter pound; wood ashes, one
peck, Pulverize and mix thoroughly,
moisten and put enough in trough to
prevent waste and put where hogs can
have access to it at all times. II dis
posed to have cholera, they will eat it
very freely; at other times they win
eat less, or perhaps none at all.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
PROTECT PLANTS FROM BUGS
Simple Devices May Be Made From
Wire illustration Show
How They Are Made.

These figures represent simple de-
vice for protecting young plants from
insects. 1t is made from wire screen.
The first figure shows the screen with
D section cut out.
The second figure is a section of
wire screen about rs inches in diane,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
Uae for AIfaIfa.

Alfalfa can be stored in the silo, but
1t is much better to make hay Of 1t
and put corn In the silo Alfalfa
makes higher quality of dry feed
than shredded corn fodder and dry
feed is necessary IA addition to silAea.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
In Doubt.

us young Softly drinking or practis-
ing law"
What do you mean?"
Il heard him telling somebody lately
that he was having considerable prae-
tise at the bar"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
Lies Ups and Downs.

Nov call that real foolish to
climb that rock. What are you doing
there, anyhow"
I'm just bordering how shall get
down again -Fliegende Blaetter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
Shock Proof.

Clarence-Her father saw Jack kim
her the other night. and he was great
ly shocked.
Gladys Nothing like that need
worry you, Clarence. Dads an elee-
trician.-Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

ter. Cut out quarter section as
shown in the first figure. Bring the
edges together and paste. Put wire
ring in the top. Put in small wire
loops at bottom so the screen can be
fastened down with pegs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
uninfiuentIaI Quantitx.

do you approve of taking the word
obey out of the marriage ceremony"
NO." replied Miss Cayenne Let
1t remain. Nobody is going to keep
bringing up marriage ceremony and
quoting from it as If it were a party
platform"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

Experience is a good teacher, but
experience cannot put Sense in the
head of the pupil.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

Many a man who imagines himself
capable of ruling a nation cant even
keep his own children out Of mischief.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

A COW recently walked into a village
bank in Ohio. She probably wanted
to have her milk certified.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
just al Good.

Have you any scent cigars?" asked
the man.
No." replied the druggist, but Ne
have something just as good. Here's
a 10-cent cigar"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
It's Nature.

This insulation is a curious fact"
We'll. it does incline people to rub
ber"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

There are nearly forty thousand
electric vehicles in this country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

A good BLUM makes more noise than
great riches.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19

It's easier to induce man to &C.
cept a favor than take a joke.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-06-19
And Do Nothinn.

The world is full of people wh@
keep insisting that something oagAa
to be done.-The Pelican.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-05-23
THE MOSQUITO.

Chicago Tribune:
While citizens are organizing to
strike down evil and comfort and sus-
tain the beautiful, why allow the mos
quito to escape? If not as dangerous
in these parts as the fly, he is even
more easily assailable. He can and
should be put down. He restricts life
when life be exuberant, at full tide. He
arises to drive the gardener from his
garden, the lover from the tree-lined
walk, and folk in their leisure from
the places of favored advertisement.
He chases humanity behind screens
when flreflies and whippoorwills, stars
and fragrant breezes invite to outdoors.
He leaves the irritant of his poisons to
distract the mind which otherwise
might mount restfuily above the irks
and dust and glare Of day. He exists
by sufferance. He operates within
short distance of the place where he
was born. His pasture is the locality
which was Indifferent enough to fur
nish his cradle. From 1t to his dinner
table is short fight. For birth he
needs standing water.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-05-23
NEGLECT OF sHEEP.RAlslNG.

DR.. w. H. Dalrymple of the Depart
ment of Veterinary Science, Louisiana
State University, writes an article.
"Sheep-a Pathetic Story" for Modern
Farming. And it is indeed pathetic
story for Louisiana, as it shows that
of the $4,000 sheep and lambs used in
the New Orleans markets, including
packers receipts, the farmers of this
state furnish less than one per cent;
or at an estimated value Of $4,000
Louisiana farmers get about $1,S75.
And this is in spite of Louisiana's be-
ing an ideal sheep country.
1t is superfiuous to quote to any
well.informed farmer that sheep are
invaluable for fertilizing land and
cleaning up pastures, converting foods
that cattle would pass by into high.
priced mutton. But as DR.. Dalrymple
remarks, "The dog is held up as the
great drawback to this industry in
Louisiana, as it is in almost all other
states. At the same time, 1t does seem
a very narrow viewpoint our people
must have, to permit such an impor-
tant and profitable industry as the rails
ing of sheep for market and for the
benefit of their own properties, to al
low lot of useless cur dogs to deprive
them of the benefits to be derived from
it. Any one who prefers useless
hound dog, or any other sort of dog,
for that matter, to a flock of profitable
sheep on his farm, is surely not the
kind of citizen who has the best inter
ests of his state at heart, and especial.
| y with the prospects and possibilities
which Louisiana has in this branch OF
farm husbandry."
The trouble Is, Of course, that the
man, who prefers the hound or the cur,
does not raise sheep, does not want to
raise sheep, and never expects to raise
sheep, while on the other hand, the
man who does want to raise sheep, and
who tries to raise them, Is at the mercy
of his Indifferent neighbor. Surely
there should be some protection fol
the more Industrious and progressive
|of these two totally opposed and en-
tirely different classes of men. The
only way that this can be done is tc
Ipenalize dog-owning by forcing the
owner to pay tax that shall reduce
the evil to a minimum. Until this Ii
done, it will be impossible for extern
sive sheep-raising to be carried on
however remunerative and convenient
the market.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-05-23

The Chamber of Commerce of Nat
chez has requested the town of Bayou
Sara to cooperate with 1t in its efforts
to have Congress reimburse the land
owners on the east side of the river,
between Natchez and Bayou Sara, for
the damage done the latters lands by
the building of levees on the west
side only. The claim is Justly made
that consequent damage to riparian
lands has been very great. Mayor
Logan, always on the lookout for any
thing to help his town, will call a
meeting of the aldermen, and discuss
wayas and means of active co-opera-
ton. He laid the matter before the
mayor of ST. Francisville, and it is to
be hoped that st. Francisville will not
withhold it's helping hand in case,
which may mean great deal to people
in the lowlands of West Feliciana, In.
Guiding Bayou Sara.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-05-23
A PALpAsLE FRAUD.

Colfax Chronicle:
An anonymous writer signing the
non de plume WINFIELD Citizen"
sends us a copy of a letter printed In
the Winfield Comrade purporting to
be letter from Christ and requests
that the Chronicle publish 1t. We pub
lished this letter four or FIVE years ago
at the earnest request of one OF our
subscribers, and have seen 1t printed
since that time in a number of In
stances. 1t is fake and fraud, and
has been so denounced by number of
scriptural scholars, who have pointed
out the earmarks Of fraudulency from
the language of the letter itself. The
person who wrote it was so ignorant
that he makes use of expressions show.
ing conclusively that it could not have
been written In the time of Christ, nor
for thousand years after his cruel
fixion.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-05-23
SMITH RESOLUTIONS FAIL TO
PASS SENATE.

Senator Leon Smiths resolutions to
probe the Tensas Delta land deal and
the bond sale were lost in the Senate
by large majority. Senator Favrot's
explanation of his vote probably ex-
presses the general sentiment. He
said:
81 see no good purpose to be SUBJ
served by trying to substitute the judg-
ment of the Senate or Senate COM
mittee for the judgment of the board
of liquidation No Interior motive be-
ing charged the action of the board of
liquidation can not be overturned or
nullifed. The people of the state hav-
ing granted to the board Of liquidation
full power and discretion to act, the
people are competent to deal with its
members at the proper time if, in their
Judgment, duty has not been perform
ed"
Senator Smith vehemently declared
the absence of political motive in the
proposed investigation, but it Is never
theless so regarded by the public at
large and this consideration discount
ed heavily the merits of the proposal
for the investigation.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-05-23

strong laws have brought success and
satisfaction in Texas, Nebraska and
Kansas.
The only argument of any strength
made by the Louisiana bankers is that
the small number of banks in this
state, and the consequent concentra-
ton of deposits, as, compared with
the other commonwealth that have
tried bank guaranty acts, make the
blow to a guaranty fund, in case OF a
bank failure, much greater here than
elsewhere. True, but Puddin' head
Wilson it is, who says, "Put all your
eggs in one basket and watch that
basket" If Louisiana's pecuniary eggs
are in only few baskets, and the
same blow will fall on all, depend upon
| it those baskets will be watched! And
watched both by the owners and by
the care-takers. In other words, II g
very grave reciprocal risk attaches tc
the matter of bank deposits, there will
be more oversight taken in the organi
cation of banks, the personnel of theil
officials, and their operations general
lily. Strong laws will be devised, more
careful supervision will follow, and as
sociate banks in the guaranty fund
will demand, and receive, right tt
know more of the condition of theil
fellows. Details will be looked after
but the temper of the people Is a de
Imand for bank protection and the!
will have it!
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-05-23
shERlFF,s SALE.

State OF Louisiana, Parish Of West Fe.
Ilclana, gath judicial District Court
The Mutual Building and Loan Asso-
citation We. Mo- Mrs. r. ]. curtealn.
BY virtue of Writ Of Fieri Facias to
the Sheriff directed by the Hon., the oath
judicial District Court, for the Parish of
West Feliciana, La, in the above entitled
and numbered cause, l have seized and
will offer for sale to the highest bidder at
the front door of the Court House in the
town of st. Francisville. La, at the hour
of II o'clock A. NJ, on
Saturday, June ~, 1914,
the following described property, to-wit:
Lot number twenty three (23) and parts
Of lots numbers thirteen Q3) and twenty
four (24) in Square number two a., front-
ing sixty feet in lot number thirteen and
running back In parallel ines two hundred
and fifty-six feet, as per map of w. B.
Smith of date May g. 1896; also portion
of lot number twenty-five (22) in Square
number two (2), measuring thirty seven
feet six inches fronting on Sun Street,
and running back ninety-five feet: with
all buildings and improvements thereon,
all situated in the town Of Bayou Sara,
Louisiana.
Terms of sale-Cash, with benefit of
appraisement
J. II. cLAcK, Sheriff.