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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-04-09
REVIVED SPR|NGH|LL
Richards New Drug Store Made
the Town a Busy and Pros
porous One
nx LAwRENcE ALFRED CLAY.

d :
BY LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY.
When one of the merchants OF
Gpfinghill added a stock Of drugs to
Mat Of his hardware folks said the
town was looking up but at the end
az two years nobody had been sick
and the sales had not amounted to
S.. For the next five years Spring;
MN was known as being such q
healthy place that doctor could not
earn enough to pay for oats for his
horse. There was no further call for
q drug store and none was established.
One night, to the amazement OF
EpringhiIl and the surrounding conn
tries, Jonas Bebee, farmer. living
about two miles out of town, vas
taken with a serious case Of bilious
collie and had to send seven miles for
. remedy
"Begosh! but this won't happen
again." exclaimed Jonas when he was
able to get out.
Two weeks later he had sold his
farm and had blossomed out as a
druggist In Springhill. He didn't
NOV anytnlng aOous pIescilp.,ons ?.
pnt ne 0iun reaal1e tn's neeess'es'
The novelty Of farmer, fresh from
the pillow, turning druggist, brought
considerable trade for year or two.
Then several citizens had a narrow
escape Tor their nves, trade began 10
M1acken up, an0 toI seVeIai years ~
was connned mostly 70 the SAFES Oh
COpperas ana mar dyes.
Bebee,s drug store become the
7dlsng place OF farmers and villagers.
and every evening except Sundays
there was crowd OF q dozen OF
twenty men talking politics or play
Mg cneckers. Jonas was not selins
Maky GEMS worm OF drugs a WeeA.
Jonas, asked q farmer one might
% he entered the store, have you got
any porous plasters? I feli on the
fence today and wrenched my Old
back"
Why. yes, said Jonas, I've got
Snfee Of tnem' put tney are On my
own BACK. A leiier can't pend over
afenecker board as much as 1 40 wl'n- :.
ont some support for MS spine
why don't you give up your gosh
hanged business! asked the farmer
IS ne turned away
Cant DO IT, Jeptha, can't dc. IT.,
"a nave to go back 20 farm work II
dad.
a stranger young man-nad ar
rived IN town about two hours before.
and ne entered the drug store az the
same tme az the man IN search OF
porous piasters ana nearo what was
said. ne LOOK a general iooK around
ana tnen Went OUT without saying
anything to ANYBODY
At ten o'clock the next morning the
stranger called and found Jonas sit
ting on the steps Of the store lazily
whiting at pine shingle.
Are you the owner OF this drug
store! ''
The sole and only owner, Jonas
replied w
''Your stock seems to have got pref
~ low"
well, / believe ] have got some
logwood left, and don't know but
what could scare up a bottle of vas
cline"
Want 20 sell out?" inquired the
stranger.
~ dunno whether I do or not, Some
times I'VE thought would accept a
fair offer and then again / thought
how lonesome i would be without THO
place. ),
do you ill prescriptions?''
mot for my doctor but when any
one tells me what ails him / give bin
whatever I think will cure him. r
The young man turned away to
smile
"Supposins ryou wanted to sell?
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FIGHTING POWER OF OUR NAVY
The Dreadnought Revolution Leaves Us
Unprepared for a Great War.

The Dreadnought Revolution Leaves Us
Unprepared for a Great War
from the Worlds Work
An event that happened in 1906 changed The
whole naval situation; it made obsolete all
nghting ships then aloat. and led to the
reconstruction of all navies. This event was
the launching OF the British battleship
DreadnOught.
Tho Dreadnought concentrated its fighting
powers upon the heaviest possible guns In
stead of a miscellaneous assortment, it had
simply 10 12-inch guns. Its displacement
1880 tons, was larger than that of any other
battleship then aloat; it's armor protection
much greater; more important still, it had
a greater speed Up to that time the aver
age battleship contented itself with II or
is knots; the Drcadnought could make 81.
fleet of dreadnoughts could easily Ce-
stroy any battleshp squadron that had ex-
isted up TO that time. It's speed gave it the
power to choose the place and time of battle.
and also, if necessary, to keep without the
range of the enemy's guns. Its heavy arma-
ment enabled it to Outrange the old style
ship and to inhict greater damage. The ma
ton that possessed a considerable fleet of
dreadnoughts therefore, easily ruled the
waves.
There are really two types of dreadnOughts
the battleship dreadnought and the cruiser
dreadnought. This latter ship is known as
the battle cruiser. Like the dreadnought, its
heavy battery consisted of all big guns; like
It, it had great displacement-l7, 500 tons;
1t differed only in that il had not quite so
many big guns-eight instead of ten-and
had much thinner armor. 1t sacrificed itself
in these two details in order that 1t might
attain much greater speed, "a or 2s knots
The naval authorities use a generic name
to describe these two types; dreadnoughts
and battle cruisers are known as capital
ships" If we wish to estimate the fighting
qualities Of any navy. therefore, the one i'm
portant question is this: How many "eapitaI
ships does IL possess? These capital ships
and these only, are "ships Of the Iine"-
ships that constitute the irst battle line
On July /. 1904, the office of Naval I4teli-
gence at Washington published broadside
showing the relative naval strength Of the
great naval Powers. England had 20 dread.
noughts built and II building. a total of as
Germany had II built and II building, a total
OF 2s The United States had 8 built and
building. a total OF ~. France had 4 anoat
and IN progress OF construction. total OF
l2. Japan had built and building, a total
of 10. Russia did not possess a single eapi-
tai ship. though she had Il building or au-
thorized
Assuming that, IN these six 'hrst-class'
Powers, al the ships IRE armed with the
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What One Week Can Brinp Forth

! FOCAL OPTION was ION the slSids" a
IL week ago Today its success is not only
possible but probable. This change has come
about because of the appeal of the Governor
to the people Of the Commonwealth. The
opponents of local option have been protest
ing against his alleged attempt to browbeat
the General Assembly and to interfere with
its freedom OF action, but the Governor has
been doing nothing of the kind. He has been
attempting to impress upon it a realization
of the strength of the sentiment of the vot-
ers IN order that the lawmakers may carry
out the win of those who elected them.
The Governor is the representative of the
whole state. lie is convinced that he has
received mandate from the people to secure
for them local option law. lie is right
Thousands of voters here in Philadelphia
cast their ballots for him because they had
confidence in his promises. They were inde-
pendent citizens who owed allegiance to
neither party machine. They are citizens
whose wishes deserve respect They hold
the balance of power between righteousness
and machine rule and they are backed by
tens of thousands of regular Republicans
and Democrats who look to the Governor to
execute his platform and their will. The
Governor is strong because he Is conscious
Of the strength that is behind him
When the Organization discovers that it is
not fighting Martin G. Brumbaugh, but is
defying the will of the majority Of the voters
of the Commonwealth the victory for local
option will be won
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Bipartisanship for Political Decency

TN HIS article discussing the ideals and
y purposes of the Democracy in Pennsyl-
vania. A. Mitchell Palmer, after declaring
the desire of the party to stand by Governor
Brumbaugh in his fight for necessary reform,
says: but II Grundy is going to control the
child labor situation, Mulvihll hold up the
local option bill and Bigelow continue to
stand between the people and good roads,
then we shall fight on with all the strength
we can muster"
Mr.. Bigelow's days are numbered and Mul-
vihll is an anachronism. 1t will be long
time before any political party again finances
itself through the bung holes of beer barrels
Besides, the Organization cannot deliver the
goods The Governor not party to the
agreement, nor were the hundreds of thou
sands of citizens who now demanding
local option. Mr.. Grundy is an astute special
pleader. but his victories are chiefly in ret
respect, and he will be engulfed in new
era.
The power of the Democracy is not great;
1t will be even less if it's representatives do
not stand by the Governor in furtherance of
program which is more humanitarian than
political A little bipartsanship for the
achievement of political decency would do no
harm
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Sandbagged and Ruined

A GERMAN submarine officer when asked
[1if he would sink an American ship re-
piled certainly not, If knew it was Ameri-
can. Besides, you have so few that we have
them pretty well photographed in our mind"
Our ocean-borne commerce Is probably the
most valuable in the world. We can build as
good ships as can be built anywhere our
people are apt in navigation We have
everything necessary for the upbuildng and
maintenance OF a great ocean marine except
laws to foster it. Washington has succeeded
IN demonstrating that even the most -four
ishing business can be destroyed If legisla-
tors keep whacking at it long enough
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! linen, clothing and provisions. Then tba
noncommissioned officers write on the door,
with chalk, There is nothing left to eat or
drink so as to save the rest any usoless
trouble. But already night is falling. the
distant cannonading grows fainter; one by
one the windows of the General STAR 20
dark. Won Klucll sends again to the Town
Hall for 20 bottles of champagne, and the
party Is over.
Afraid of the Dark
But now Won kluck knows fear From
those hostile shadows what dangers NAV
surge! Rapidly his escort prepares the de-
fense, and while the officers run to find cam
dies the faithful Darmstadt rushes IN the
Mayors office. "a thousand francs this
minute!" he cries "You will nav tbou.
sand francs this minute" At the same time
he scizes the Town Clcrls surrounds him
with Uhlans and carries him off to the gas
works. There they learn that the manager
left "a hours earicr-but put his fires out
before he left! SO the gas tanks are empty
Won Kluck orders that three hostages be
taken: NJ Delsol. the clerk; NJ. Bard and
M Chatray, the District Attorney.
The last named General Darmstadt wants
to arrest personally so as to have the pleas.
ure OF insulting him some more. After hay-
pointing to his toque, says: Take your he'll
met and follow mel" The hostages are locked
up and warned that they will be shot at day
break and that afterward a war tax of
1000 will be levied on the town. So they
are left to the guard of their sentlneIs But
the General Staff has lost time In these vain
measures its work is disorganized; by hap
hazard lighting the cards are badly read and
1t Is necessary to improvise a plan of de-
fense while tho English, pursuing their adj
vantage, approach the town. At dawn they
are less than a mile from the General Staff
which risks capture. One of the English
sharpshooters, at S75 yards, picks off Ger
man sentinel.
Won Klucl decides to flee Hestating to
have the hostages shot. he ends by releasing
them All the same before leaving he has
them backed against n wall in front of
firing squad. Twenty minutes they are kept
there, anXiously waiting-perhaps to give
the general revenge for the fear he himself
has felt, Then they are set at liberty.
So runs the story of truthful witnesses Of
the stay of Won KluclS at Coulommlers. Per-
haps 1t is only a trihing episode in the his
tory of the war. yet who can say what In
fuence a moment of disorder in the German
General Staff had on the decisive hour?
Perhaps the gasman played his part, too
in the great German defeat And must he
not have read with pride Joffres general
order before the Battle of the Marne: SOL
diers the time of retreat has passed. the
time of offense has come; you hold Frances
fate IN your hands. We are attacking, Sol
diers, advance as long as you can. II you
can no longer advance, hold the position you
have gained. If you can no longer hold IT,
die!"
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Japan Cannot Absorb China

WHATEVER may be the result of Jap
w anese efforts to increase the influence OF
Japan in China the Chinese will continue to
dominate their own land. Every observer
who has travelled in the Far East has come
back with reports of the marvellous capacity
of the Chinese. They have patience, endur
ance. initiative and honesty, and even when
the japanese are favored by all sorts of dis
eliminating duties and railroad rates the
Chinese merchant can compete successfully
and drive his rival out of business. This is
what is said to have happened in Manchuria
after the Russo-Japanese War, when Man
churia was filled with japanese immigrants.
The Chinese merchant beat the invader at
his own game.
The hope Of the East is really in China.
The nation is slowly waking to realization
of its power and to determination to eXer-
else it for It's own protection Under the
lead of men such Yuan Sh-tai, who
understand the limitations as wcll the
qualifications of their fellow nationals, it
will adopt one after another the methods Of
modern civilization and adapt them to it's
own needs. When the Chinese get ready
they are likely to throw off whatever Jap
anese chains may be bound on them in the
present transition state.
In the meantime tho interest of the United
States in the maintenance of the open door
should not be slackened. American manu-
facturers who enter into relations with Chi
nese merchants for selling their goods are
likely to prosper more than those who ignore
the native and attempt to do their own dis
tributins in a country with the ways of
which they are not familiar.
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Honoring the Memory of a Brave Man

LIVERY member of the police force shared
IL in the tribute paid to the memory OF
James Namely yesterday, Namely came to
his death in the performance of his duty.
and the thousands of citizens who crowded
the streets about his house were there be-
cause they knew that every other member
OF the police force would have gone to his
death as unfinchngly. The Mayor was
there 10 show his own personal respect for
the dead officer, and also as the representa-
tive Of the city as whole which mourns
the passing of a faithful deferder.
So whenever we see policeman we should
make obeisance to him in our hearts, for
We know that in a crisis he will do that
which we are afraid we should not have the
courage to do We call them our defenders,
but too often forget the high qualities re-
quired TO enable them to merit the title.
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A SONG OF SHOPPING

Oh glad am | with her to go
Where apple blooms are dropping
And merry birds are hopping on the lea!
But II produces vertigo
When she proposes shopping.
No shopping with my little love for mel
She fingers over fussy thing
All satiny and slky-like;
! really think she'd haggle half day
She leaves heap OF mussy things.
All mercerized and milliy-like,
And spends an hour to purchase appllquel
She loiters over hosiery
In manner that Is shocking;
II doesn't seem to bother her a bit.
1t skaters my composure-y
To see so much of stockng;
feel as though I'm like to throw MI
She dotes on haberdashery;
She wants to buy all of Il.
At last she gets flaming necktie-ohe'
She takes me 20 a hashery
(Alas. the awful pail of IT'D
And lunches me on cocoa and puh'
Oh, glad am / with her TO go
Where apple blooms are dropping
And merry birds are hopping on the leA'
But Il produces vertigo
When she proposes shopping,
No shopping with my little love ior ~
Clinton Ecollard, IN Jpass-
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Preparations for National Birthday Party

WTHEN the national celebration of the
w Fourth of July in independence Hall
was suggested last year it was ndorsed at
once by the whole nation. The plans were
begun so late, however, that many men who
would have been glad to take part had made
other arrangements.
The President, as the official representative
OF the Union of States will in time count it
as one of his great privileges to stand every
year in the place where the great Bell
sounded its proclamation OF liberty to all
men and invited the oppressed of every land
to seek refuge here
Mr.. Wilson, who established the precedent
last year, is expected to follow his own eX-
amnle this EGar. 81 once more use Inde-
~ pedestal from which
to de...t. moving message to his fellow
countrymen. And the Governors and Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress are ex-
pected to accompany him in such numbers
that the old square will think that it is once
more the seat of government.
This will happen If the committees in
charge OF the arrangements are properly
diligent.
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The Old Demoeratie Aristoeraer

INJECTION to membership in the Phi Beta
- Kappa Society. honorary college fra
4ernty. whose members are selected because
81 Inc excellence of their scholarship, Is sell
dom declined. The secretary of the chapter
- lis University of Pennsylvania, who says
that the student who has just refused to ac-
eept election IS the first to decline may be
fsht. but there are traditions surviving in
hiber universities that students there have
ven temporary distinction by setting up
Tor themselves different standard from
that whish prevails both in and out of col
lege such a student may deserve respect
for acting according to his convictions but
his coneietions do not deserve respect.
He Is said to believe in an educational
democracy and 10 be opposed to a manifesto
Ilon q any sign which viii distinguish one
ssholar from another But he cannot apply
<a.s theory consistently. Every time he talks
s.Ih 8 student who thinks less clearly than
As does and expresses himself more hun
sIInal9 he displays the badge OF his own su-
Ia1Ity ana proves that there can be no
aEI thing As an intellectual democracy in
III ~ are equals. Nature has made him
see kappa man whether he IS will
Haal e nnt. And whether ne ae-
EIaa e ths society and wears its
aaEasF 8 pfetera o aoek by
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FICTION A PROPHECY OF FACT

From The Boston Transcript.
Although the loss of a submarine is nothing
new in the history of naval disasters, it is
nevertheless, a coincidence, that the first trag-
edy of this kind in our navy should have come
almost simultaneously with the death of Nor
gan Robertson, who described a similar ac-
cdent i'm one of his best stories of the sea
Fifty Fathoms DOwn''-whch Is the exact
depth at which the F-4 now lies! To his
prophecy of the sinking of the Titanic In his
tale about the great transatlantic liner the
Titan must be added another borne
out even more strkingy, Robertson may not
have been great artist, with Joseph Conrad
but he was undoubtedly one of the best writers
of sea yarns since William Clark Russell and
ranked with Frank T. Bullen, whose death
preceded his own by but a few days; and he
was too good a sailor, mechanic and inventor.
and too conscientious a craftsman to write a
story about submarine navigation without ia
mlliarzing himself with the technical details
so that Fifty Fathoms Down doubtless de-
scrbes with a great degree of accuracy lust
what transpires among the unhappy crew OF
a submarine disabled and cast away on the
he'd OF the ocean, In Robertson's fiction when
the "DlVer' had been Tammed and sunk the
hrst thing her commander, Lieutenant Breen
did was to fire out all the torpedoes In order
TO Increase the buoyanCy and then, one after
another, the members of the crew We're fired
out through the tube, from a depth Of 100 feet
to swim upward and find on the surface the
floating torpedoes upon which they sustained
themselves and saved their lives. Breen him
self remained, for the last man had nobody
TO shoot him through the torpedo tube and
the rest of the story. when the submarine had
settled deeper into fifty fathoms of water, is
concerned with his blundering but successful
EFFORTS to make by artificial means sufficient
oxygen to prolong his life until he was res
eued. which he accomplished in a remarkable
manner, According TO Robertson, men may be
shot like toTpedoes through the submarine
tube, and one floating torpedo is. able to sup
port two
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FESTIVAL OF THE PASSOVER
Institution of the Rite and the End of the
Israelites' Sojourn in Egypt.
From Exodus.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt saying:
This month shall be unto you the beginning
of months; ii shall be the first month of the
year to you.
Speak We unto all the congregation of Israel.
saying, In the 10th day of this month they
shall take them every man a lamb. according
TO the house of their fathers. lamb for an
house.
Your lamb shall be without blemsh a male
Of the first year; ye shall take it out from the
sheep, from the goats
And We shall keep 1t up until the 18th day
of the same month; and the whole assembly
of the congregation Of Israel shall kill it in
the evening.
And they shall take OF tho blood, and strike
1t on the two side posts and on the upper door
post of tho houses, wherein they shall eat it.
And they shall eat the flesh in that night
roast with fire. and unleavened bread: and with
bitter herbs- they shall eat it,
1t is the Lords passover
For l will pass through the land of Egypt
this night. ard will smite all the nrstborn in
the land of Egypt, both man and beast and
against all the gods of Egypt / will execute
judgment; am the Lord.
And the blood shall be to you for a token
upon which the houses where We are; and when
see the blood will pass over YOU, and the
plague shall not be upon you to destroy you
when l smite the land of Egypt
And this day shall be unto you for a memo
rial; and ye shall keep it feast to the Lord
throughout your generations; We shall keep it
a Feast by an ordinance forever.
ana IL came TO pass. that at midnight the
Lord smote all the first born in the land of
Egypt from the first born of Pharaoh that
sat on his throne unto the first born of the
captive that was in the dungeon: and all tho
first born of cattle.
And Pharoah rose up in the night he. and
all his servants, and all the EgyptIans and
there was n great cry in Egypt: for there
was not house where there not one dead
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night,
and said rise up and get you forth from
among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as We have said
Also take your focks and your herds, as ye
have said, and begone; and bless me also
~
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel
who dwelt in Egypt, was A30 years.
And it came to pass at the end of the 43O
years, even the Selfsame day it came to pass
that all the hosts of the Lord went out from
the land of Egypt
II Is n night to he much observed unto the
Lord for bringing them out from the land of
Egypt; this is that night Of the Lord to he
observed of all the children of Israel in their
generations.
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himself, does not affect bis standing in the
aristoctacy Of intellect one whit II he does
not know this now, he will know it when he
is ten years older for the Phi Beta Kappa
Society is the one college society in the world
which is founded on the theory that the
aristocracy of intellect is the only kind OF
an aristocracy which can be recognized in
democracy, and the only kind which domi-
mates society even in those lands where an
arstocracy Of birth or of wealth is recog-
nizpd