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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
MUCH LIKE THEIR FELLOWS
Average Persons Behind Bars Would
Compare Favorabiys With Those
Who Have Liberty.

"Some people. Bud" said Leonard
v. Whenne. according to Glenn M.
Farley In the Seattle Post-Intelligen-
Ger. "secm to think the jails are filled
with very dangerous and very wild
people. suppose the average nan
or woman would no more think Of
mingling with these persons behind
the bars than going into the bear pit
at Woodland park. As matter Of
fact, there are about the same grades
of society In Jail as out Of 1t. Man
and woman prisoners go about their
daily tasks quietly; they are as. soft
spoken and trivial In conversation as
are the people outside. have seen
some mighty pleasant people in jail
men that could sit down and talk
courteously and intelligently with you
on any topic. And in general appear
ance they will line up with the aver
age street exhibit. They don't look
dangerous, they don't look wild. Not
one in forty is confirmed criminal.
Most of them were caught off guard !;
they made little slip when the judg-
ment was asleep, and there they are.
We ought not to be sentimental with
these prisoners, nor should we hold
them in horror. They are just
piece of the community, split of tenn
porarily, mostly through their own
carelessness.
eve are all living over powder
magazines; man or woman may live
for fifty years before an explosion
comes, and it might never come. Many
a man has been a model citizen, sober.
decent, upright, fair and square with
his neighbors, and in an unguarded
moment has destroyed it all. One lit
tie word will sometimes move good
citizen to shoot and kill. The human
equation is a mighty complicated in
strument, set on hair trigger, and
some fool is always lingering it, or
examining it to see If it is loaded;
we live in succession of tragedies,
though never expecting them. Even
now the loom of time is weaving trag-
edles to come, with the sun shining
and the birds singing and spring in
the air; tomorrow, perhaps, blow,
lapse from moral consciousness for
a moment, and another respectable
person will go wrong.
bud. never be thankful you are not
as other men; be thankful that no
body ever happened to set off an ex-
plosion under you, and If you pray,
Bud, pray for strength to go puckered
for ambushes until your time is up.
and you lie down to sleep with your
fathers. And, Bud, that's about the
only time you will be wholly safe"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
New Harbor on the Baltic.

1t is reported from Copenhagen that
a new harbor is to be constructed at
Korsor, which is Danish seaport go
miles west-southwest of Copenhagen.
The cost of this work is estimated at
100000 kronen and 1t is stated that
American capital has been interested.
The harbor will have depth of ten
meters as against nine meters in Co
penhagen and large quays will be built
with ample facilities for handling mer-
chandise.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
den movement Of the hull told all we
were under way.
CHAPTER u.

The Prison Ship.
The greater portion of that voyage
Of So days / would blot entirely from
memory If possible. / cannot hope to
describe it in any detail-the foul
smells, the discomfort, the ceaseless
horror of food, the close companion
ship of men turned into mere animals
by suffering and distress, the weari-
some days, the black, sleepless nights,
the poisonous air, and the brutality of
guards. can never forget these
things, for they have SCARED my soul.
The hatch above remained open, but
carefully guarded night and day, while
we were permitted on deck for air and
exercise only in squads of ten, two
hours out of every twenty-four. This
alone served to break the dread mo-
notony Of the voyage. From our exer-
else on deck we generally returned be-
low drenched to the skin, but glad to
even pay that price for two hours Of
fresh air, and an opportunity to gaze
about at sea and sky. We were herd
ed well forward, rope dividing us
from the main deck, which space the
passengers aft used as promenade.
There were only three women aboard,
fat dowager, the young lady had
noticed at embarkation, and her col
ored maid. 1 gained but, one glimpse
of the young lady in the first two
weeks at sea, and then only as we
were being ordered down to our quar-
tiers for the night. just as was ap-
preaching the hatch to descend our
eyes met fairly, and ] instantly knew
she saw, and recognized me. For a
single second our glances chung, as
though some mysterious influence held
us to each other-then the angry
guard struck me with the stock of his
piece.
what er We standin' thar fer?" he
demanded savagely. go on down
lively now"
/ saw her clasping fingers convul-
sively grip the rail, and, even at that
distance, marked a sudden flame of
color in her cheeks. That was all her
message to me, yet quite enough. Al
though we had never spoken, although
our names were yet unknown, / was
no criminal to her mind, no unrecog-
nized prisoner beneath contempt, but
q human being in whom she already
felt personal interest, and to
whom she extended thought and SYM
patty. continued entirely ignorant
of the identity of the young woman.
She remained in my memory, in my
thoughts nameless, a dream rather
than reality. I did learn that the
gay gallant was a wealthy Spaniard,
supposedly of high birth, by name
Sanchez, and at one time in the naval
service, and likewise ascertained that
the rotund planter was certain Roger
Fairfax of Saint Mary's in Maryland,
homeward bound after successful
sale of his tobacco crop in London. 1t
was during his visit to the great city
that he had met Sanchez, and his
praise of the colonies had induced the
latter to essay a voyage in his COM
pany to America. But strange enough
no one so much as mentioned the girl
in connection with either man.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
WOMEN NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands of women have kidney and
bladder trouble and never suspect it.
Womens' complaints often prove to, be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result Of kidney or bladder disease.
Ii the kidneys are not in healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
gans to become diseased
Pain in the back, headache, loss Of am
bition, nervousness, are often times symp-
toms of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
be just the remedy needed to overcome
such conditions.
Get medium or large size bottle i'm
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

III
Arson Carlyle, aged twenty
three, the ninth in descent from
Capt. Geoffry Carlyle Of Glas-
cow, Scotland, was among the
heroic Canadian dead at vimy
ridge. Unmarried, and the last
Of his line, what few treasures
he possessed fell into alien
hands. Among these was a
manuscript, apparently written
in the year 1887, and which,
through nine generations, had
been carefully preserved, yet
never made public. The paper
was yeIIowed and discolored by
years; occasionally a page was
missing, and the writing itself
had become almost indecipher-
able. Much indeed had to be
traced by use Of a microscope.
The writer was evidently . man
of some education, and clear
thought, but exceeding diffuse,
in accordance with the style Of
his time, and possessing small
conception Of literary form. 1t
editing this manuscript for mod
ern readers I have therefore
been compelled to practically re-
write it entirely, retaining mere
Iy the essential facts, with an
occasional descriptive passage,
although have conscientiously
followed the. original develop
ment of the tale. In this recon-
struction much quaintness of Ian
guage as well as appeal to prob
ability, may have been lost, and
for this my only excuse is the
necessity of thus making the
story readable. have no doubt
as to it's essential truth, nor do
question the purpose which
dominated this rover of the sea
in his effort to record the adven-
lures Of his younger life. AS a
picture of those days of blood
and courage, as well as story
of love and devotion, deem it
worthy preservation, regretting
only the inpossibility Of now
presenting It in prin. exactly as
written by Geoffry Carlyle.
r. p.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
Riu Demand for Watches.

Watches are not being turned out
fast enough by American manufacture
ers to supply demand which, accord
ing to the representative of one large
producing concern, is greater today
than ever before. Leading factories
fell behind in their regular output
last year. when their plants were busy
filling war orders.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
The Proper Vehicle.

''How foolish some of these poets
are in their imagery! Now, how cap
a lovers lady drink to him with her
eyes?" Couldn't she use looking
glaSsP
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

It Is simply low Vitality, lack of Energy
caused by impurities in the blood. GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC restores Vitality
and Energy by Purifying and Enriehing ths
Blood You can soon feel its Strengthening
Invigorating Effect. Price soc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
ALIENS FooT-EAsE DOES

When your shoes pinch or your eorns and
antiseptic powder to be shaken into shoes
and sprinkled in the foot-bath. 1t will
take the sting out of corns and bunions
and give instant relief to Tired. Aching
Swollen, Tender feet. Sold everywhere
Don't accept any snbStitnte-Ady.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
Economical.

"Why don't you try cooking with
electricity" Because we want tc
keep down current expenses"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

The old fashioned medicines have not beer
displaced by modern science. AS a Spring
medicine. Wrights Indian Vegetable PillI
have had unrivalled merit for 50 years.--adv
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

Thrift of time will repay you II
after life with usury of profit be
You'd your most sanguine Dreams
Gladstone.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
What Better?

He-What is your highest ambition
She-Six feet one and just released
-Gargoyle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

A single application OF Roman Eye Bal
Gam on going to bed will prove It's merit for
determinations Of the Eyes, external and In
ternal. Adv.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

Some women are always talking
about the lost art of conversation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

Captain Carlyle finds a friend
but at the same time he finds
that he has an enemy on board
the Romping Betty. His enemy
warns that he will get revenge,
but why? Geoffry racks his brain
in vain for the answer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

More than 2,4O0 operations are nee.
essary in the manufacture of u good
watch
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09
lTO BE CoNTINUED.5
Too Generous.

The trouble with the fellow who bor-
rows trouble is that he wants to loan
some of it to everyone he meets.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

Study adorns all stations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-05-09

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All sizes. 1905 Commerce St.. Dallas Texas.
Evening star., 1919-02-09
Now Duty of Government to Give
American Workers Cheaper Bread

OF living is to be lowered there
must somewhere be starting
point. In view OF the fact that
the wheat hole in which the gov
ernment finds itself already has
been dug, why not make wheat
that necessary starting point? 1t
is not contended that, merely to
reduce the cost of living. the
government fshould enter on SO
paternalistic a project as the sub
sidizing of bread. The paternal-
ism started when the govern
ment, as war measure, guaran
teed an artificial price to the
wheat growers. The question
now to be determined is how the
government may wind up its
paternalistic adventure with the
least possible hurt to a heavily
burdened people.
Evening star., 1919-02-09
World Price a Fallacy.

If it is accepted, then, that the
first main proposal should be re-
jected and the second made the
policy of the government in deal
ing with the wheat guarantee
problem, it remains only to ex-
anime the sub-proposals en-
bodied in this program.
The first of these, in the order
given, is that the government
should resell wheat at the world
price" The impraeticability OF
this plan is at once apparent. So
long as governments and not in
dividuals are the buyers and
sellers of the worlds wheat
crops, there will be no world
price except such as it may
serve the interests of those gov
ernments to fix arbitrarily.
With England, France and Italy
dominant customers for Amer
ica's exportable surplus, with
England controlling the crops in
India and Australia, and France
that at home and in Algeria, the
three powers by combination
could fix the price at any figure
which suited their fancy. 1t
would make America the laugh
ing-stock of the world.
Evening star., 1919-02-09
Issue Involves a Penalty.

But the issue goes beyond the
question as to how a stated sum
shall be collected from the peo-
pie. 1t resolves itself into the
question whether, in order to
avoid collecting certain sum in
directly through taxation, much
greater sum shall be taken di-
rectly out of the pockets of the
people through a sustained high
cost of living.
If the price of bread is main
tanned at a level to make good
the wheat guarantee, the prices of
other foodstuffs, of clothing, OF
fuel and of many necessary
things will thereby, in an unde-
terminable degree, be kept high.
If the government resells wheat
at supply and demand level or
at a fixed lower level. prices of
these other necessary things,
still in an undeterminable degree,
will 60 down with wheat.
OF all things needed to restore
the nation to healthful peace
time basis. lower cost Of 1iv-
ing. isrneeded most, II .Sherost
Evening star., 1919-02-09
LOADING OF SHIPS
TOO SLOW A JOB

Declaring that there was a loss OF
100 per cent in the idle tying up of
vessels through slow loading by man
ual labor. Secretary Redffeld made a
strong appeal for a remedy in a recent
address.
Most of our merchandise said Mr..
Redfield, "at wharf and terminal ID
handled by Individual labor. The re-
sultant cost is the largest part Of the
whole transportation expense 1t costs
more to load a barrel of fou- into the
car at Chicago than 1t does to trans
port it from Chicago to New York. 1t
is said to cost more to lnad box or
barrel into an ocean liner at our local
wharves than to transport ii from
New York to Liverpool. 1t is said to
cost more to transport a box or barrel
from one car through tina asserting
sheds to another car in some of our
asserting terminal yards than to
transport it from it's original starting
point to its final destination"
Mr.. Redf1eld emphasized that it is
not what it costs to run a ship that
counts so much, as IL what It costs to
keep that ship idle. More efficient
methods. Mr.. Redfield believes, will
solve the problem of loading for over
seas shipping. in much the same way
as in the case of great lakes ship
ping
Evening star., 1919-02-09
Justi6able. IF Expedient.

1t is only expediency, not a
question of right, which need
hold America back from adopt
ing the big-stick method of sell
ing wheat. Neither the enor-
nous crop in prospect nor the
artificial price placed upon it is
due to Americas need of wheat.
No stimulation was needed in
order to assure that there would
be enough to supply the home
demand. Both the increased
acreage and the artificial price
are due to Europe's appeal for
bread. Had the war continued
Europe would gratefully have
taken every bushel we could
have spared, with never mur-
muir at the price But the war is
ended and things have changed.
Europe now refuses to recognize
that it is under any obligation,
moral or otherwise, to eat high
priced American wheat SO long
as cheaper wheat may be had
elsewhere.
In deciding, therefore, whether
to make use of the handy club it
holds America needs to consider
only the policy which is to
Americas best interests. Ameri-
cans are under no obligation to
penalize themselves to benefit
other peoples when the other
peoples have taken the lead in
putting transactions in such
things as wheat and meat and
cotton back on cold -blooded
business basis.
Circumstances not of our ere
ating have relieved America of
all obligations Of bounty to for
eign peoples, except those who
are destitute.
Evening star., 1919-02-09
Vital Political Question.

Political questions involved are
as worthy of consideration as
are those which are economic
No little apprehension is ex-
pressed over the spread of boil
shevik propaganda in this coun-
try. Scores of thousands OF
workers arc idle through lack of
employment. Strikes and lock-
outs have brought idleness to
thousands of others. Even on
those who remain employed the
cost of living bears heavily.
Among those who toll there is
an undercurrent of discomfort, of
apprehension as to what the fu-
ture may hold for them. Ill-ad-
yised demand by employers that
there shall be a general reduc-
tion in the wage scale is adding
fuel to smoldering resentment
which at any time may burst into
fame. 1t is a critical hour in the
nations history, and both wise
craftsmanship and genuine
spirit Of square dealing are need
ed to avert Z catastrophe.
What an argument for the agi-
tators It would be If tie govern
ment, to protect itself from i'm
mediate loss, should force the
people through another year to
bear an unnecessary burden of
high prices. They would shout
that the poor were being robbed
that the rich might be saved from
paying taxes. The people would
listen, and untold thousands Of
them would believe. The govern
1nent would be playing the game
exactly as the bolsheyists would
like it played When the French
revolutionists cried that they had
no bread, Marie Antoinette in
quired why they didn't eat cake.
Marie Antoinette and her Bour-
bon husband paid with their
heads the penalty of their blum
dering. The American govern
ment cannot afford to blunder at
a time like the present.
Evening star., 1919-02-09
America Holds a Club.

There is way, students of the
world food situation believe, in
which a market could be found
at loss-saying price for even
half billion bushels of surplus
wheat The only question in
volved is the expediency of max
ing use OF such selling methods
as the plan requires.
The world must look to the
United States in the coming
year for more than so per cent
of its meat and fat requirements.
There are other essentials which
the world must have, some of
thena foodstuffs and others raw
materials for manufacture, and
which it cannot get in any con-
siderable quantities elsewhere
than from America Shall
buyer. IT is asked, be permitted
to enter our markets for impera-
tive needs in certain commodi-
ties and ignore US in the pur-
chase of other commodities. such
as wheat? Or is it fair and
sound public policy to insist that
buyer that requires its meat
from us shall take from US a fair
percentage of its bread? In
other words, would it be ex-
pedient to hold a club over the
head of the world and tell it
that unless it bought Americas
surplus wheat at an artificial
price it could not have other
American commodities which it
cannot get along without?
Should such a policy be adopt
ed, there is no reason to doubt
that the world would absorb the
wheat surplus, but the operation
certainly would get America
very heartily disliked.
Evening star., 1919-02-09

With "a billion busilei crop and
maximum world requirement,
there would be no surplus prob
lem. The world would have to
take America 5 wheat at Ameri
cas- price or go hungry, and the
world is rather tired of going
hungry But should the crop
equal the 200, 100000 bushel es-
innate OF the grain dealers and
should the world requirement
fall TO Mr.. Barnes minimum OF
200,G10,000 bushels, the surplus
problem would be very serious
one indeed.
1t would be no great calamity
should fifty million or even
hundred million bushels of wheat
be left on the government
hands, to be placed in storage
as insurance against the posi-
bility of poor crops another year;
but there is no sufficient storage
for an unsold surplus of 350,000,-
600 bushels, nor is it an inviting
notion that nearly 800,000,000 of
public money should be tied UP
indefinitely in wheat with the al
most certain prospect that at
some future time the holding
would have to be 1iquidated at
loss.
Evening star., 1919-02-09
Fine for the speculator-

Second of the sub-proposals is
that the wheat shall be resoh at
a fixed price lower than the guar
antee price, $l.25 bushei being
the figure most often mentioned.
It is contemplated that foreign
ers shall have the same benefit
of this subsidy as American con-
sumers, and that there shall be
no governmental control OF the
wheat after it has been rcsoid.
This would be ) finc thing for
Z the people Of Europe and : fne
Evening star., 1919-02-09
Surplus Becomes Problem.

The problem would be very
simple one if it ended here.
None of the other plans proposed
would be entitled to considera-
ton. But there remains the ex-
portable surplus of Americas
wheat crop to be dealt with. If
Secretary Houston's estimate of
billion-bushel crop is correct,
the exportable surplus will be i'll
the neighborhood of 350,000,0O0
bushels. If the estimates of the
grain dealers that the crop will
go to 1900, 100000 bushels should
be borne out by the harvest, the
surplus will be 5s0,0O0,0oo bushels.
1t is proposed that this sur
plus wheat shall be sold in the
worlds markets at the price paid
farmers under the guarantee,
plus handling and carrying costs,
or at least at a price as high as
the traffic will bear. 1t will be
the highest-priced wheat in the
world, and it must be accepted
in advance that foreigners will
buy no more of it than they abb
solutely are compelled to take.
In his statement a few days
ago before the House committee
on agriculture, Julius H. Barnes,
president of the United States
Food Administration Grain Cor
poration, estimated that the
worlds requirements of wheat
from the coming harvest in this
country might be as low as zoO,-
OOO,000 bushels and might go as
high as 400, 900 bushels, de-
pending on supplies from other
sources sui,, asl.s.t
81 - s@ass-s
Evening star., 1919-02-09

thing for the specuiators here al
home. but where do the Ameri-
can people come in What as
surance would they have that
they would get back, in the way
OF cheaper living, any part OF the
dollar busl1el subsidy for the
payment OF which they would be
taxeds 1t is bad enough that spec
ulatorS may fix the price of bread
in normal times. but for the gov
ernrnent TO pay out a billion dol
lars or SO i'll subsidy and still
have no protection afforded the
peoples loaf is a pill little too
unpalatable to go down.
This leaves, of the projects so
far advanced, the one which
would have the government sub
sldize -four and so control its
distribution that a pound LOAF OF
bread for FIVE cents would again
become the standard. This plan
would continue the government
as the sole purchaser of wheat
and the primary distributor OF
flour, as it has been in the
handling of the 1917 crop. 1t
also would necessitate continued
government control over the re-
sale by wholesalers of -four to
retailers and bakers, of the sale
by the retailer to the housewife
and by the baker to the con-
sumer. 1t would require, too, the
creation of machinery to exercise
this supervision, as the present
machinery will cease to function
when peace is proclaimed.