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The midland journal., 1916-07-14
From Bad to Worse.

Smith Poor Green is an unlucky
dog.
Jones-What's the answer?
Smith-A few years ago he got mar
ried in order to escape from board
ing house.
JOnes-WelI?
Smith-Now his wife is running one
in order to support the family.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
How to Whiten Aandkerchiefs.

To whiten handkerchiefs which
have become bad color, soak them
for night in a solution of pipe clay
and warm water. Wash and boil them
next day, in the usual way. and they
will be beautifully white.
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Delicate Cake.

Cream half cupful of butter, add
one and half cupfuls of sugar, mix
well together half cupful of corn
starch and cupful and half of flour,
sifted before measuring, and two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Add the
flour alternately with half cupful of
milk, and fold in the whites of six
eggs beaten stiff, flavor with a half
teaspoonful of almond extract and
bake in a loaf in a moderate oven.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
Simple Way Out.

She-Now that you've got raise
of sixty month, Tom, we can afford
more expensive fiat.
He-But we're very comfortable
here. How would it do If asked the
landlord to raise our ent?-Bostor,
Evening Transcript.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14

Nothing Relieves Tender, Aching Feet
like hot foot bath with Johnson's Fo0t
Soap. Composed of Borax, Bran and
Iodine. At Druggists or sent postpaid
for Csc by Thos. Gill Soap Co., I'll
Kent Ave-, Brooklyn, N. Y. Adv.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
Not Such a Much.

Gyer-Your friend Slack isn't work
ing very much at present. is he?
Myer-Why, he told me the other
day that he was working for all he
was worth.
8 Gyer-WeH, that isn't much.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
NAA. No. ~eeQ-
And the Winds Blew.

Yes" said the
man from Texas,
"ours is a wonder
full country. Where
| live you have
only to drop a
toothpick in a field
and a year later
you will have a
forest"
"That's nothing, 7"
rejoined the Okla
homa man. up
where l hang out
all you have to do
is to drop a sus-
Dender hutton in
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
Innan peveIona New INDUSTRY

Japan is rapidly developing the cell
Iuloid industry, as all the raw mate
rials for its manufacture except nitric
acid are produced in that country.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
Boots,

when / was little boy wanted y
pair of boots with tops that reached to
my knees"
"Times have changed
"Yes. Now my daughter wants
them."
The midland journal., 1916-07-14

Pride is said to go before a fall.
Anyway, woman's pride usually
gives way before her tears begin to
fall.
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In Suspense.

"Where are you going this summer?
81 can't say" replied Senator Sor-
ghuln. Maybe won't know where l
am now on the way to until the cleo
ton returns are in next November"
The midland journal., 1916-07-14

the garden and the next morning you
will have a pair of ready-made treu-
sers."
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
III vorr oR ANv FRIEND

Suffer with Rheumatism or Neuritis, acute or
chronic, write for my FREE BOOK on RheumA
tism-Its Cause and Cure Most wonderful boob
ever written, it's absolutely FREE. Jesse A
Case, Dept G. W. Brockton, Mass.-Adv.
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heat FLASHES,
DIZZY, NERVOUS
Mrs. Wynn Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkha1n's Vegetable
Compound Helped Her /
During Change of Life. "A

Richmond, Va. "After taking
seven bottles Of Lydia E. Pinkham's
The midland journal., 1916-07-14

Many an attractive girl has secret
ly wondered how it was that she. who
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
. Rice Cakes.

Beat four yolks of eggs until light,
add cupful of milk, one-half tea
spoonful of salt, one cupful of freshly
boiled rice, one tablespoonful of but
ter, one teaspoonful of sugar and suf-
ficient flour to make a stiff drop bat
ter. Lastly stir in two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder and drop by spoon
fuls into kettle of hot fat. Cook un-
til golden brown, drain ON paper and
serve at once with the following sauce:
Simmer together one cupful of wa
ter and third of cupful of sugar,
add tablespoonful of cornstarch and
a pinch of salt, mixed in cold water,
then add to the hot sirup. cook until
well done. Add one tablespoonful each
of citron, raisins and cleaned currants
and steam them until well softened,
then add to the sauce and flavor with
ten drops of almond extract.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
Druggists Know a Good
Kidney Medicine

We are pleased to handle DIR. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root for our customers are al
ways satisfied with the results obtained
from its use. Our present manager who
is an old time drug man has used it with
good results in Kidney trouble and does
not lose an opportunity to recommend so
fine medicine.
Very truly yours,
PORTER'S DRUG STORE,
North Main st. Salisbury, N. G..
November 18th. 1915.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to DIR. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for sample size bot.
tie 1t will convince anyone. You will
also receive booklet of valuable infor-
nation, telling about the kidneys and blad-
der When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular ffty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.-Adv.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
Out of Sight.
First coed-Ai-

First Coed-Ai-
NEE is a freak.
Second Coed =
What's the an
swer?
First Coed-In-
stead of a pupil,
she has a college
professor in her
eye.
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spiced Salmon.

Turn out a can of salmon and re-
move the skin and bones, break into
good-sized fakes and put into a crock.
Strain the liquid from the fish into a
saucepan, add an equal amount of wa
ter and twice as much vinegar, dozen
cloves, half teaspoonful of pepper
corns, one-half of teasponful of salt
and a half blade of mace. Bring to
the boiling point and pour over the
fish. Cover closely and let stand "a
ho1rS before uSin0
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Simple Explanation.

Oculist (pointing to his test card)-
Can you read these letters?
Patient-No, doctor.
Ocnlist-Well, then, these?
Patient-No, doctor.
Oculist {impatiently pointing to the
largest letters)-Well, these, then?
Patient-No, doctor.
Oculist-Why, hang it all, how is
that possible?
Patient-Because never learned to
read.
If a woman is unable to marry a
man herself she wants him to marry
a friend Of hers and make her miser-
able.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
Chicago

form Of rubber stamp has been
invented for marking initials Of ownA
ers of golf balls.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14

It's for the farmer.
The midland journal., 1916-07-14
eiooer ,Profits for Farmer.

Birds Of a feather make bigger prof
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CHAPTER ~.

MI. Yertrees, having watched their
departure with the air Of a man who
had something at hazard upon the ex-
petition, turned from the window
and began to pace the library thought
fully, pending their return. He was
about sixty; a small man, withered
and dry and fine, a trim little sketch
Of the elderly dandy. His lambre-
quin mustache, like his smooth hair,
was approaching an equally sheer
whiteness; and though his clothes were
old, they had shapeliness and a favor
Of mode.
The room was cheerful and hideous.
Under a mantel OF imitation black
marble q merry little coal fire beamed
forth upon high and narrow "Eastiake'
bookcases with long glass doors, com
Portable, incongruous furniture, half a
dozen Landseer engravings which Mr..
and Mrs. Vertrees sometimes men
toned to each other, after thirty years
OF possession, as very fine things
They had been the first people in town
to possess Landseer e~ngravings, and
there, in art, they had rested. but they
still had a feeling that in all such mat
ters they were in the van.
The growth of the city, which might
easily have made Mr.. yertrees a mil
lionaire. had ruined him because he
had failed to understand 1t. When
towns begin to grow they have whims.
and the whims of a town always ruin
somebody. The dainty little man was
one Of the first to fall down and wor-
ship Bigness. He YVES a tru prophet
of the prodigious growth, but he had .
fatal gift for selling good and buying
bad. He sold his Inherited Office build
ing and house in town to buy lots;
then he sold his farm, except the house
and the ground about it, to pay taxes
on the lots. But he had to do some
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(Copyright 1915, b. Harper a Brothersj

window and paid himself the dubious
tribute Of a thorough inspection.
Throughout this cryptic seance his
manner was profoundly impersonal,
but finally he appeared to become pes
simistic. He shook his head solemnly;
then gazed again and shook his head
again, and continued to shake il slow
ly, in complete disapproval.
You certainly are one horrible
| sight" he said, aloud.
And at that he was instantly aware
Of an observer. Turning quickly, he
was vouchsafed the picture OF a charm
ing lady, framed in a rustic aperture
| OF the summer house" and staring full
| into his window-straight into his eyes,
too, for the infinitesimal fraction Of a
second before the iashingly censorious
withdrawal OF her own. Composedly,
she pulled several dead twigs from a
vine, her action conveying a procla-
nation to the effect that she was In
the summer house for the sole purpose
! Of suchlike pruning and tending.
Having pulled enough twigs to en-
| phasize her unconsciousness-and at
the same time her disapproval-of ev-
erything in the nature of a Sheridan
or belonging to a Sheridan, she de-
| scended the knoll with maintained
composure, and sauntered toward a
the Vertreeses. An elderly lady, bon
neted and cloaked, opened the door and
came to meet her.
Are you ready, Mary2 I've been
looking for you. What were you do
ing?"
Nothing. Just looking into one OF
Sheridans' windows" said Mary Yer.
trees. II got caught at It,"
"Maryw cried her mother. "Just as
we were going to call! Good heavens!'
"We'l go, just the same" the daugh,
ter returned. 81 suppose those women
would be glad to have us IL we'd
burned their house to the ground"
"But who saw your" insisted Mrs
V~ertrees.
Zone OF the sons, I suppose he was
| believe he's insane, or something. Al
least | hear they keep him in a SAM,
tarium somewhere, and never talk
about him. He was staring at himself
in a mirror and talking to himself
Then ne looked out and caught me-"
How did he look?"
Like a ghost in a blue suit" said
Miss Yertrees, moving toward the
street and waving a white-gloved hand
] in farewell tn her father, who was oh,
serving them from the window of his
library. Rather tragic and altogether
impossible. Do come on, mother, and
let's get it over!'
And Mrs. Vertrees, with many mis-.
givings, net forth with her daughter
for the gracious assault upon the new
house next door.
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CHAPTER ii-continued.

ooh, he's a friend Of the whole fam
Sly," she returned, with a petulance
which she made no effor, to disguise.
rRoscoe and he got acquainted some
where. and they take him to the the
ater about every night. Sibyl has him
10 lunch, too, and keeps" She
broke of with an angry little Jerk Of
the head. "We can see the new house
from the second corner ahead. Roscoe
has built straight across the street
from us, you know. Honestly, Sibyl
makes me think OF a snake, sometimes
the way she pulls the wool over
peoples eyes! She honeys up to papa
and gets anything In the world she
wants out Of him. and then makes fun
OF him behind his back-yes, and to
him to give her a twelye-thousand-
dollar porch for their house after 1t
WAS"
Good heavensr' said Bibbs, staring
ahead as they reached the corner and
the car swung to the right, following
"a bend In the street. rs that the new
house?"
Yes. What do you think OF IT."
"Well," he drawled. I'm pretty sure
the sanitarium's about half a size big
sger; | can't be certain till | measure"
And a moment later, as they entered
&oe driveway, he added, seriously:
But it's BEAUTIFUL
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age somehow according to his concep-
ton of his position in life"-one of his
own old-fashioned phrases. Mr.. Ver-
trees had discovered, too, that there
was no salary for him in all the buz-
zing city-he could do nothing.
1t may be said that he was at the
end OF his string. Such times do come
in all their bitterness, finally, to the
man with no trade or craft, If his
feeble clutch on that slippery ghost,
Property, shall fail.
The windows grew black while he
But as the mantel clock struck Wheel
lily six there was the rattle of an outer
door, and Mary Vertrees came rushing
into the library and threw herself into
a deep chair by the hearth, laughing
so uncontrollably that tears were in
her eyes. Mrs. Yertrees followed de-
%corously, no mirth about her. OH the
contrary, she looked vaguely disturbed,
as IL she had eaten something not quite
certain to agree with her, and regret
ted 1T.
Papa. Oh, ch,m And Miss ver-
trees was fain to apply a handkerchief
upon her eyes. I'm so glad you made
US go! l wouldn't have missed it"
Mrs. Vertrees shook her head. IT
suppose I'm very dull" she said,
gently. II didn't see anything anus
ing. They're most ordinary, and the
house is altogether in bad taste, but we
anticipated that, and"
Papa" Mary cried, breaking in.
'"They asked us to dinnerv'
"Whatv'
And I'm going!" she shouted and
was seized with fresh parcxysms.
Think Of it! Never in their house be-
fore; W. met any OF them but the
daughter-and just barely met her
What about you?" interrupted Mr..
yertrees, turning sharply upon his
wife.
She made a little face as IL positive
now that what she had eaten would
not agree with her. Il couldn't!" she
said. e."
Yes, that's just-just the way She
she looked when they asked herr cried
Mary, choking. And then she-she
realized 1t, and tried to turn 1t into a
cough, and she didn't know how, and il
sounded like-like a squeal!"
II suppose" said Mrs. yertrees,
much injured, ''that Mary will have
an uproarious time at my funeral. She
makes fun Of"
Mary jumped up instantly and kissed
her; then she went to the mantel and,
leaning an elbow upon It, gazed
thoughtfully at the buckle of her shoe,
twinkling in The rirelight.
"They didn't notice anything" she
said. $50 far as they were concerned.
mamma, 1t was one Of the finest coughs
you ever coughed."
"Who were 'they'Y" asked her father.
"Whom did you seeY"
"Only the mother and daughter"
Mary answered. Mrs. Sheridan is
dumpy and RUSTY; and Miss Sheridan
Is pretty and pushing-dresses by the
fashion magazines and talks about
New York people taat have their pic
lures In EN-. She Tutors the mother,
but not very succsafuly-partiy -
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The Turmoil
BOOTH HARRINGTON

The room to which he conducted his
tagging charge was furnished in every
particular like a room in a new hotel;
and Bibbs found 1t pleasant-though,
indeed, any room with a good bed
would have seemed pleasant to him
after his journey. He stretched him,
self fiat Immediately, and having re
piled Not now to the attendants
offer to unpack the bag, closed his eyes
YEARLY.
White-jacket, racially sympathetic
lowered the window shades and made
an exit on tiptoe, en%countering the
other white jacket-the harassed yer
seer-in the hall without. Said the
emerging one
HE mighty shaky, Mist Jackson
Eyelids all black. Rich folks gotta &c
same as anybody else. Anybody ast
me IL | change 18th at ole boy-No
sub! Lem keep is money; l keep my
black skin an keep out the groundr
Mr.. Jackson expressed the same
preference. "Yessuh, he look tuh me
like somebody awready laid out"
He fell silent at a rustling OF skirts
In the corridor. 1t was Mrs. Sheridan
hurrying to greet her son.
She was n of those fat, pink people
who fade and contract with age like
drying fruit; and her outside was q
true portrait of her. Her husband and
her daughter had long ago absorbed
her. Edith lived all day with her
mother, as daughters do; and Sheridan
so held his wife to her unity with him
that she had long ago become uncon,
sclous of her existence as a thing sep,
arate from his.
Mrs. Sberidan's manne was hurried
and lnconsequent; her clothes rustled
more than other wOmen's clothes; she
seemed 20 e. too many at a time
and to De vaguely troubled by them
and she was patting a skirt down over
moment she opened Bibbs' door.
At sight of the recumbent figure she
began 10 close the door softly, with,
drawing, but the young man had heard
the turning Of the knob and the rus,
Ting of skirts, and he opened his eyes
Don't go, mother" he said. I'm
not asleep" He swung his long legs
over the side of the bed to rise, but
she set a hand on his shoulder, re,
straining him; and he lay fiat again.
"No," she said. bending over to kiss
his cheek, II just come for a minute,
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but i want to see how you seem. Edith
said"
"Poor Edith ne murmured. "She
couldn't look at me. She"
NONSENSE" Mrs. Sheridan. having
let In the light at a window. came back
to the bedside. you look a great
deal better than what you did before
you went to the sanitarium, anyway.
Ats done you good; a body can see that
right away. You need fatting up. OF
course. and you haven't got much
color"
NO. he said, 81 haven't much
COLOR
You look a great deal better than
what l expected"
Edith must have a great vocabu-
laryr he chuckled.
3 "She's too sensitive" said Mrs. Sher-
idan, 'and 1t makes her exaggerate q
little. What about your dietg"
That's all right. They told me to
eat anything"
,rsThat's good.' she said. nodding.
They mean for you just to build up
your strength. That's what they told
ne the last time 1 went t. see you at
the sanitarium. You look better than
what you did then. and that's only q
little time ago. How long Was itr'
Eight months. I think"
mo. It couldn't be. 1 know II ain.t
that long. but maybe It was longer ;
! thought. And this last month or 20
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CHAPTER III.

II was gray stone, with long roofs
OF thick green slate. An architect who
lowed the milder Gothic motives had
built what he liked: 1t was to be seen
at ono that he had been left unham-
pered, and he had wrought a picture
out OF his head into a noble and ex-
uitant reality. At the same time a
landscape designer had played so good
second, with ready-made accessories
of screen. approach and vista. that al
ready whatever look Of newness re-
manned upon the place was to its adj
vantage, as showing at least n thing
vet clean under the grimy sky.
Altogether, the new house was n sue
cess. 1t was one of those architects
successes which leave the owners
yelled In privacy; ii revealed nothing
OF the people who lived In IL save that
shey were rich. In IA swelling cities
rich families, one after another, take
title and occupy such houses as for
tunes rise and fall-they mark the
high tide. 1t was impossible TO mag
fne a child's toy wagon left upon a
walk or driveway of the new house,
and yet II was-as Bibbs rightly called
kt--"beautiful."
What the architect thought or the
ttGolfo oil Napoli." which hung in its
vast gold vevel or rocco frame against
the grey wood OF the hall. is TO be con-
hectured-.perhaps he had not seen IL.
Edith, did you say only eleven
feet?" Rfobs painted, staring at 1t, as
tEs white -jacksted twin OF a Pullman
porter helped him to get out of his
bvercuat
Eleven without the Frame" she ex-
planned. Its splendid, don't you
think? 1t lightens things up so. The
hall was kind Of gloomy before"
mo gloom noww said Bibbs.
'T1is statue in the corner Is pretty,
too she remarked. Mamma and I
bought that" And Bibbs turned at
lner direction to behold, amid a grove
tf tubbed palms. a "nfe-size." black
bearded Moor, of a plastic composition
painted with unappeasable gloss and
~nriIliancy. Upon his chocolate head he
fwore a gold turban: In his hand he
held a gold-tipped spear; and for the
rest he was red and ySfow and black
and silver.
'Hallelujahv was the sole comment
OF the returned wanderer, and Edith,
saying she would Sind mamma" left
him blinking at the Moor. Presently.
after she had disappeared, be turned
20 the colored man who stood waiting.
lBiblE' travelling bag In his hand.
what do you think Of TT" Bibbs
asked. solemnly.
tGran'r' replied the servitor. "She-
mighty hard to dus'. Dus' git in all
Fem wrinkles. Yessuh, she mighty hard
10 dus'.'
"a expect she must be-" said Bibbs,
his glance returning refiectively to the
black full beard FOR a moment. as
there q place anywhere I could lie
DOWN." !,
~Yessuh. Wa got one nem spare
poons all nx up ~ you, sub. Right
Mp stains, sub. Nice ROOM"
He led theRway, and Blbbs followed
kIowfy, stopping at intervals to rest,
knd noting a heavy increase In the
ktaff Of service since the exodus from
he "old" house. Maid and scrub
kwOmen were at work under the pa
pntly nominal direction Of another
pullman porter. Who was profoundly
snj0ying his own a~ffectation of being
Haraesed VIII <Nra.&
-ythsas set box spsck Al. span
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The Story
of q Big
Man i'm a
Big Town


thing to keep himself and his family
up, so in despair he sold the lots
(which went up beautifully the next
year. for traction stock that was
paying dividends; and disappeared al
together from the commercial surface
at about the time James Sheridan
came out securely on top.
But there came a day when three
servitors or Bigness in Philadelphia
took greedy counsel with four fellow
worshipers from New York, and not
long after that there were no more
dividends for Mr.. Vertrees. In fact,
there was nothing for Mr.. Vertrees, be-
cause the traction stock" henceforth
was no stock at all, and he had mort
gagged his house long ago to help man
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svNops.s.


6heridan's attempt to make a business
man OF HIS son Bibbs by starting him in
the machine shop ends In Bibbs going to
n sanitarium. a nervous wreck. On his re-
turn Bibbs 10 met at the station by his
sister Edith.
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One Of the near-trasedIes Of

One OF the neartragedles Of
life comes when the poor young
man or woman 10 snubbed by
the rich crowd with whom he
or she has played at school In
childhood. II Ia then that pow
erty stings, and pride Of family
doesn't help much. The situa-
ton 10 quite az interesting,
though reversed, when . rich
and Iovabie young man 10
snubbed by q poor but naughty
aristocrat because he belongs
TO the "new rich"
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To BE o~0NTINU1n5
Evening star., 1916-08-05
Commerce Department Changes.

The Department of Commerce has
announced today the following changes,
in it's personnel:
In the bureau Of etandards-Pau1 Dsl
Foote, assistant physicist at s1.S00. has'
resigned, and the following promotions
have been made: William J. Canada.
electrical engineer. to $4,000: ]. Frank
lin Meyer, associate physicist. to $2.700:
Raymond Z. Shepard, associate cleo
trical engineer, to $4,000; Orville S.
Peters. Robert D. Duncan and Charles
o. Fairchild have been promoted from
laboratory assistants to assistant
physicists at $500, $1,44O and sl.4o0.
respectively.
In the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce-H. T. Van Deusen,
commercial agent, was transferred from
New York to Washington at $1,000:
Perry J. Stevenson has been appointed
clerk at $1,000, and George F. Banes
has been PROBATIONARY appointed as
clerk at 5000.
In the bureau OF fsheries-William
P. Hemenway. warden at Pribilof
Islands, Alaska, has resigned.