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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
\ You Need a Medicine a
You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why
3 is that so many products that are ex-
Hensively advertised, all at once drop out
Of sight and are soon forgotten? The
season is PLAINTIFF article did not fulfill
Ahe promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
surative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says "Take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root, a
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many Of my customers testify
No other kidney remedy has so large q
Mle."
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root is due to the fact,
% many people claim, that it fulfills al.
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
Ever and bladder ailments; corrects uri-
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive sample bottle OF
Swamp Root by Parcels Post. Address
DIR. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottles
Sor sale at all drug stores. Advertisement
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
FIRST TO HELP UNFORTUNATE
idea of Teaching Deaf and Dumb Had
Its Inception in Brain of ~
Spanish Monk.

Search for the first man to conceive
1he idea of imparting knowledge to the
deaf and dumb leads one into clois-
Ter in the Middle ages. There, in his
Kttle cell in a Spanish village near
Madrid, the Benedictine monk, Pedro
de Ponce pondered in 1870 over the
Troblem of how to make useful citi-
Eens of those who had been denied
both speech and hearing.
Two centuries passed before modern
England took up this charity, the De-
ArOit News states. George Townsend
finally succeeded in establishing a
deaf and dumb asylum in London in
1902, and in 1910 Thomas Braidwood
induced the city of Edinburgh to fol-
low the example of the capital.
Americas first deaf and dumb in
Stitution was not founded until 1850,
after the famous William Van Praagh
lad introduced the oral method Of
teaching both in this country and Eng.
land.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
MOTHER! OPEN
CHlLD'S BOWELS WITH
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP

Your little one will love the "fruity''
taste of California Fig Syrup" even 1t
eonstipated. bilious, irritable, feyerish
Or full Of cold. A teaspoonful never
fails to cleanse the liver and bowels.
IN few hours you can see for your
self how thoroughly it works all the
sour bile, and undigested food out of
the bowels and you have a well. play
Sui child again.
Millions of mothers keep California
Zig Syrup" handy. They know a. tea.
spoonful today saves sick child to-
morrow. Ask your druggist for genu-
ne california, Fig Syrup" which has
directions for babies and children Of
Ill ages printed on bottle. Mother
Won must say california" or you may
get an imitation fig syrup.-Advertise-
Ment
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18

humOr. The son John has gone to the
city to get an education and for the
time being hess caught by the glamour
Of city life. But the concluding stanza
in which he tells Of his return on
Thanksgiving day shows that the lus-
ter Of the city offered him but fleet
ing inducement.
And so the summer faded out, and the
autumn wore away,
And a keener winter never fetched around
Thanksgivin' day!
And as turned and looked around, some
one riz up and bent
And put his arms round Mothers neck.
and laughed In low content.
TITS me-" he says-''your fool boy John
come back to shake your hand;
Set down with you, and talk with you,
and make you understand
How dearer yit than all the world Is this
old home that we
VIII spend Thanksgivin' in fer life-jest
Mother. you and me!''
John Greenleaf Whittier wrote Of
the pumpkin, and in the poem Of that
title he says, in part:
All. on Thanksgiving day, when from
East and from West,
From North and from South come the
pilgrim and guest
When the gray-haired New Highlander
sees round his board
The old broken links of affection restored;
When the care-wearied man seeks his
mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the
girl smiled before;
What moistens the lips and what bright
ems the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich
pumpkin pie?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
These Go weIl with the rvrkev.

To caramelize sweet potatoes afte
they have been parboiled, slice, dip ii
strip or sprinkle with sugar ant
brown in the oven. Or small section
may be dipped in caramel strip pre-
pared as for caramel custard b,
browning the sugar and adding enough
water to make a thick strip. Anothel
way is to bake the sweet potatoes
mash, season with butter and pack II
their half skins. Then pour a tea
spoonful of caramel strip over eacI
and put In the oven to reheat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18

Then thanks for the present, none
sweeter nor better
Fer smoked from an oven or circled q
platter.
Fairer hands never wrought at pastry
more fine,
Brighter eyes never watched DER its bak-
ing than thine;
And the prayer which my mouth Is too
full to express
Swells my heart that thy shadow may
never grow less;
That the days of thy lot may be strength
ened below,
And the fame of thy worth, like the
pumpkin vine, grow
And thy life be as sweet and its last sun
set sky
Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pump
kin pie.
The poem, "For an Autumn Festi-
VAL" by the same author. is of more
serious and devout nature, as several
Of the stanzas will testify.
Once more the liberal year laughs out
Ger richer stores than gems Of gold;
Once more with harvest song and shout
Is Natures bloodless triumph told
Who murmurs at his lot today?
Who 'scorns his native fruit and bloom?
Or signs for dainties far away,
Beside the bounteous board of home?
And let these affairs. wreathed with
flowers
And piled with fruits awake again
Thanksgiving for the golden hours,
The early and the latter raini
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
Complete ABSORPTION.

~How was the Lecturer asked Mr..
Gadder.
"Oh, 1t was wonderful" exclaimed
Mrs. Calder "The speaker discussed
the consciousness of the subconscious-
ness"
did you find out what it was all
About?"
NO. didn't; but 1 got SO interested
q don't believe could tell you, to save
my life, how any woman present was
dressed"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
tiful Of Thanksgiving poems is 1--WE
Thank Thee" by Emerson. It runs !:

t1rul or thanksgiving poems is I'VE
Thank Thee" by Emerson. It runs
For flowers that bloom about our feet:
For tender grass, SO fresh, SO sweet:
For song of birds and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee.
For blue of stream and blue of sky;
For pleasant shade of branches high;
For fragrant air and cooling breeze;
For beauty OF the blooming trees,
Father in heaven. we thank Thee.
AS in most Of her poems, devout
religious spirit pervades Phoebe Cary's
poem on Thanksgiving. 1t is an ap-
peal to the grown-ups on this day to
make trip back to their childhood,
and is marked by the felicitous SIM
plicity Of the writer:
o men, grown sick with toll and care,
Leave for a while the crowded mart.
o women, sinking with despair,
Weary of limb and faint of heart,
Forget your years today and come
AS children back to childhood's home.
Following again the winding rills,
Go to the places where you went
When, climbing up the summer hills
In their green laps you sat content
And softly leaned your head to rest
On Natures calm and peaceful breast.
Then the old lady Of the poem goes
on to tell that she has just come from
Sarah's, who lives in sort of pa
lace in the city, and has creams and
salads, made by French cook, that
cost fortune" However, things
didn't quite suit her at her nieces,
and an invitation to an old-fashioned
Thanksgiving dinner suits her well.
How I run on. Well, thank you, neigh
Dor; 1 see you want to go.
I'm comm to Thankssivin'; your good
old ways / know;
An my mouth waters; dear old friend
there's tears in these dim eyes.
For I shall taste the flavor of mothers
pumpkin pies.
Another poetess, Mrs. Margaret
Sangster, wrote this verse on the
'Thanksgivin' Pumpkin Pies:
So you bid me to Thanksgivin'. Thank
you. neighbor; it is kind j.
To keep a plain old body like myself so
much in mind.
Here I've been sittin' all alone, and
mist before my eyes,
A-thinkin, like simpleton, on mothers
pumpkin pies.
A toast by Ida E. s. Noyes is very
appropriate, since 1t has THANKSGIVING
for subject.
For every day Of life we're living,
Thanksgiving!
For friends assembled round the board,
Thanks we're giving.
For every blessing, great and small,
Thanks give we all!
While it was not written especially
in reference to our national feast of
Thanksgiving, Keats lode to Autumn
is generally considered a poem of the
season. The first stanza runs:
Season Of mists and yellow fruitfulness
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and
bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eaves run.
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage
trees.
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core
To swell the gourd, and plump the haze
shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more
And still more, later flowers for the bees
Until they think warm days will never
cease,
For summer has o'erbrimmed theb
clammy cells.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18

past have embodied their gratitude
pr the blessings Of the year In verse.
{ times the burden Of their song has
Incorporated the time-honored custom
Y which one day Of the year is set
part for the giving of thanks.
Perhaps Thanksgiving recalls to
them mothers ingenuity and skill in
making pumpkin pies, and so in a
quantity humorous way the poet pays
tribute to the pumpkin and the prod
uct thereof.
Again the spirit of these November
poems embodies Thanksgiving joy
and freedom from sorrow; for health
and happiness; for things spiritual and
physical.
At any rate, ever since Thanksgiv-
ing has been proclaimed a national
holiday the poet has found inspiration
for his art and by means Of his verses
has awakened a sympathetic chord in
the breasts Of many men and women.
Although nearly all Of the poems Of
James Whitcomb Riley contain an es-
sence Of this spirit of gratitude with
the existing order Of things, some Of
these are specifically devoted to the
day itself. Among these the poem
entitled Thanksgiving" is one of the
best.
Let US be thankful-not only because
Since last our universal thanks were
told
hou far In he 20
applause,
And fortunes newer smiles surpass the
old
But thankful for all things that come as
aims
From out the open hand Of Providence,
The winter clouds and .storms-the sum-
mer calms-
The sleepless dread-the browse Of in
Let US be thankful-thankful for the
prayers
Whose gracious answers were long.
long delayed,
That they might fall upon US unawares.
And bless US. as in greater need we
prayed
Let US be thankful for the loyal hand
That love held out In welcome to our
own
When love. and only love. could under
stand
The need of touches we had never
known.
Let us be thankful for the longing eyes
That gave their secret to us as they
wept,
Yet in return found. with a 'sweet sur
prise,
Loves touch upon their lids. and. smil-
ing. slept.
And let us. too. be thankful that the
OF sorrow have not all been drained
away.
That through them still. for all the COM
ing years,
We may look on the dead face Of today.
VIII Carleton, the New England
poet, strikes the universal note Of
thanks in his hymn, part Of which
follows:
We thank Thee. Father. for all that is
bright
The CLEAN of the day and the stars of
the night;
The flowers of our youth and the fruits
of our prime.
And the blessings that march down the
pathways of time.
We thank Thee. o Father. for all that
The sob of the tempest. the fiow Of the
tear;
For never in blindness and never In vain
Thy mercy permitted a sorrow or pain.
The spirit of unembittered resigna-
ton at approaching death is ex-
pressed in O, poem by Edith M. Thomas
on "a Last Thanksgiving"
When II is time for me to go
Time of the rose-or falling snow
Or when new winds wake vernal strife.
This to the world I've cherished So
IT have been thankful for my life."
When night and shade together flow,
When dawns some scene not yet know,
Let me draw back one fiuttering breath
To say to all I've loved below,
y have been thankful-in my death!"
"IIow John Quit the Farm" is
narrative poem by the Hoosier poet,
and combines pathos as well as quaint
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
Have Backache?
IF You Have Kidney Trouble Heed
the Advice of Mrs. Barker

Hotchkiss, w. Va.-"It is with
great pleasure that I write these
few lines in praise of DR.. Pierce's
wonderful Anuric (anti-uric-acid)
Tablets. I had been troubled for
ever a year with kidney trouble
and had tried various kidney rem
edies. At last / thought / would
write to DR.. Pierce for bottle Of
Anuric kidney and backache) Tab
let's. When had taken the bottle
] seemed to be entirely well. !
would not be without them at all.
7 rest better at night and feel bet
ter every day."-Mrs. Inez Barker.
Write DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel
IN Buffalo, N. Y, for free medical
advice, or send 10c for trial pkg.
HAnuric."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18
Jud Tunklns.

Jud Tunkins says he knows men
who. talk about whether they'd rather
possess money or brains when they
haven't chance for either.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18

BAD handwriting covers a lot of
worse spelling.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-11-18

The object Of Thanksgiving
day Is to take US back Of the
goods Of life to the supreme
good. The tendency is to get
absorbed In things and forget
their spiritual value. Thanks
giving day reminds Us of spir-
itual values.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-08
AUM A NISMS
William AthertOn Du Puy-

Uncle Joe Cannon no longer sits for his photo
graph with the long and uptilted cigar in his
mouth. .
He was a competitor in a domino champion
ship match at the National Press Club in Wash
ington not long ago. He did not win the cup. 1t
carried away by a mere stripping newspaper
man by the name of Harvey Lee Cobb. who halls
from Waco. Tex.
But Uncle Joe sat for his picture with the
champion. He took the cigar out OF his mouth
and tucked IT away. The photographer protest
ed said the picture would look odd and unnatu-
raj without the torch.
But the statesman adamant He was get
ting that age, he said. where his friends
thought he should disport himself with GER
tain degree of reserve and dignity. The cigar
for Photographic purposes, had been banished
When Francis NJ. Goodwin came down to the
city of Washington from the State of Washing
ton to take the post of Assistant Secretary Of In
terror. he found E. c. Finney occupying a
similar post in the same branch OF the service
The two assistant secretaries got their heads
together. They had found that they had been
associate sleuths in uncovering big Govern
ment graft decade and half ago.
Mr.. Goodwin went to the capital of certain
Western State to get the goods on the surveyor
general other special agents had tried and fail
ed Mr. Goodwin went shopping around:
There was desk in the offices that was OF
a different make from the rest 1t looked more
solid than forbidding. 1t was securely locked. II
aroused curiosity. He asked about it, and was
told that it belonged to the surveyor general
That night he got INTO lndt uesh' ne mdue
COMES Of the letters he found there, letters which
showed that there collision between this
man and another in washington
He sent his copies to headquarters. There they
were handled by clerk named Finney.
The field agent and the clerk are now the two
assistant secretaries of the department
DR. Elmer Darwin Ball, Assistant Secretary. of
Agriculture. got his training at Ames Agricul-
tIiral College, in Iowa, where Secretary wallace
also went to school. They never met, however
nn,n Mr. wallace came to Washington on Mr.
Harding's appointment and found the other
Ames man the job.
mr. Harvey w. Wiley, the food expert once
made this comment apropos to Fletcherzing:
"Observe the dog. He hits it lick and bolts
IT. vet he has no indigestion"
People who go to see Mrs. Harding at the White
House usually remark afterward: she Is prettier
than her pictures"
Copyright 1891, by Public Ledger Co.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-08
Clear the Path
Of Business
a PRESS dispatch, accurate
"a enough in statement, is likely
- tn rive American readers. at
y ENATOR SMOOT, able author
y ity, estimates that a tax of one

~ ENATOR SMOOT, able author
~ ity, estimates that tax of one
- per cent on all goods, wares or
merchandise sold or leased in the
United States, with an exemption
of $4,000 in every case, would yield
fifteen thousand million dollars
year.
P. He reckons that such a revenue.
together with that now derived from
the income tax, the inheritance tax,
the amount collected at ports of
entry, and the proceeds of "a nor
NAL tax upon business" would pay
all that will be required to main
tain our Government and take care
of the 21a per cent sinking fund.
By the phrase "a normal tax on
business" we assume he means re-
peal of the excess profits tax, which
invites excess prices, and the assess
ment of taxation upon undistributed
net earnings of corporations suffi-
cent to prevent individuals and part
nerships from escaping the income
tax by Incorporating.
The purpose Of the $4,000 ex-
emption is obviously political. 1t is
calculated to appease small trades
men and farmers.
But for the difficulty in collect.
ing the sales tax on small individual
transactions we should oppose any
exemption. 1t is bad in principle.
Since the purpose of taxation is
to sustain the Government, all should
share the burden.
However, the important thing
now is to free business so that if
will prosper, doing away with un.
employment. substituting hope and
happiness for dread, ~" setting be-
fore enterprise new goals of high
achievement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-08
Our NeU German EnUOy

~ ERMANY is making up her mind what kind of Am
II bassador to send u.s. that peace is declared In
Berlin it is suggested that she ought to send radical
or at least an advanced LIBERAL this glorious democratic
Republic.
Somebody in Germany doesn't know much about this
nation. Let them pick out man who thinks that no
government ought to its own railroads, its own
shipping because the government has not the ability
honesty manage them 1t may be hard to find such
in Germany where the most highly efficient government
ownership of railroads has prevailed for But they
may be able to find the in of the old Ruhr mine
owners who still refuses to meet talk with his workmen
in spite Of the revolution.
If Germany doesn't realize that this nation is the
dictionary conservative nation of the world not ending but
Just beginning its period of government nnaer industrial
feudalism and orgaized capital, Germany doesn't know
much.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-08
Japan s Huge
Naval OutLay

4 L ~ u 90 ulspdlCl, aOouloeo
~ enough in statement, is likely
- to give American readers, at
least, a very mistaken idea of the
extent of the naval preparations
now in progress in Japan.
1t reports the Japanese naval APP
preparations for the coming year at
500,000,000 yen, and many Ameri-
can newspapers, accepting the cur
rent quotations as to the value of
the yen, report Japan as about to
spend $250,000000 on her navy.
While so moderate an expendi-
ture is contemplated by our Pacific
rival, it is asked, why should we
demand the expenditure of more
than $4OO,OO0,OO07
But into this question enters at
once the relative purchasing power
of the money involved. In interna-
tional exchange the yen may be
equal to 40 and fraction cents of
American money. But Japanese
labor in building warships is paid
about one-ffth as much as American
labor.
For all supplies entering into the
construction of warshIps, or the
manufacture of ammunition and
armament, and particularly for all
expenditures having to do with the
maintenance and upkeep of her
fleet, the yen is at least equal to
two dollars spent on the American
navy.
The japanese bluejacket is virtu-
ally unpaid, and the expense of the
whole roster of commissioned of
foers is trifling as compared with
that of the American navy. Susie
nance-rice and fish-makes little
inroad upon the japanese naval
funds. Everything manufactured in
japanese workshops and navy yards
costs an infnitesimal part of what
an equal quantity of supplies OF of
construction would in our factories.
The measure of naval preparation
is not fixed so accurately by COM
parison of amounts appropriated as
by results attained. The Japanese
naval appropriation, so far from be-
ing less than ours, is, measured by
results, two and one-half times
greater.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-08
Undue Discrimination IN
Local Gas Rates
By BILL PRICE.

The Supreme Court of the United States is asked by
ROSCOE F. WALTER, attorney for certain private con-
sumers of gas grant rehearing the adverse udg
ents rendered by that court and the lower courts OF the
District in the legal effort to have set aside the decision OF
the Public Utilities Commission increasing the local gas
rates.
Whatever the final outcome involving unjust dis
elimination gas rates in favor of the Federal and Dis
trict governments against ALL private consumersthe
fact remains that this discrimination does exist and
throws heavy burden the private citizen
For more than four years the Federal and District
governments have enjoyed gas rate of seventy cents
thousand cubic feet and in the of street lighting for
the District about half of this During these years
private have had to pay constantly increasing
rates. amounting indirectly to confscaton of property
The point in the litigation is that the action of the
Public Utilities Commission in increasing the rate to pr
vate without also increasing the rate to the
governments beyond the authority of the commission
and illegal.
The Courts have held that Congress has the power to
fix special for the Government but have not passed
upon the question of the statutory OF the Public
Utilities Commission to fix all rates.
In. the Senate hearings preceding the fixing of
entycent the Government and seventyfve cent
rate to private consumers it developed that these rates
were made pending action by the Public Utilities Com
mission on rates Senatorial opinion that the
commission should have power over all rates
Congress time intended that the two rates should
remain longer than commission could conclude vaua
ton hearings and fix the rates in accordance with vaua
tons. 49,. .....
But the Public Utilities Commission has refused to
accept statutory responsibility for changing Government
rates. and Congress has not relieved the situation by
making the commissions powers clear At the direction
of Congress- the Bureau of Standards investigated and
recommended that the rates to the Government should be
only slightly less than that to other consumers.
Congress and should act justly in this matter. By
no stretch of the imagination the widely divergent
rates now existing be considered fair and the burden
should not longer remain wholly the people of Wash
ington