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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
San Jose Scale Pest
Attracting Attention

The San Jose scale is attracting in
creasing attention in Rhode Island,
Ohio, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Idaho,
Texas and New Mexico. The lime-sul-
phur spray, according to reports re-
ceived by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, is not proving as
satisfactory as formerly. probably on
account of less thorough applications.
Well-sprayed orchards, however, have
some infestation, In Illinois large
percentage of nnsprayed scale was
found alive. in some localities as much
as 80 to so per cent. Some states are
recommending lubricating-oil sprays as
developed by the bureau of entomology.
In Idaho there is very heavy infesta-
ton of the scale along the shores Of
the Snake river and on islands in the
river. Fruit orchards adjoining are re-
peatedly reinfested. At Emmett and
Parma apple orchards are infested,
even in the best-cared-for orchards. In
Boise the pest occurs on currants, pear.
cherry, apple and rose.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
Too Late to Recall 1t.

Blake was talking with his friend
Scribbler, the well-known English jour.
nalist of Fleet street.
do you believe in writing aDony-
mously q he asked the hero of the pen.
Scribbler looked to see that the door
of his study was shut ere he replied
in confidential whisper:
swell, I've often wished that one Of
my productions had been anonymous"
what was that?" asked Blake.
"a letter proposing to Mrs. Serib-
bier" groaned the. famous writer
London Answers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
The FISHING Hog.

l have my loves and my hates. No
words can record my aversion for the
person lis he man or devil?) who
snares the little fish under size, whose
abortive selfishness leads him to con-
tinue when the creel is full, and who
catches the mother at spawning time.
To me he is the human wolverine. the
fish glutton; and for him have ioath-
ing as well as hate.-From "Old Black
Bass" by Albert Benjamin Cunning
ham.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
chinch Ruu Pest.

The mild weather has favored the
successful Overwhelming of the chinch
bug, according to reports received by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture. 1t is now found to. be pres
ent in winter quarters in threatening
numbers over the greater part Of
southern and central Illinois, in Is
counties; in southern Nebraska. from
Jefferson county west at least to Fur
mas county, and in the northeastern
corner of the state in Boyd county.
where it is southwark extension of
serious manifestation in southeast
ern South Dakota; in eastern Kansas
it seems to be more abundant than
during average years. The tempera-
lures have been above normal and
very dry. Burning of alternating
quarters is being practiced through
out the state of Kansas.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
PITNEY STATES
IT DID The WORK
Waterford Resident Declares He
Feels Like. New Man Since
Taking TanIac.

"Tanlac has proved its merits in
my case and I'm glad to tell others
about it every chance | GET declared
William S. Pitney, Box ALP. Waterford,
N. Y.
81 suffered so badly with stomach
trouble l was actually afraid to eat.
Gas bloated me till / felt like ! was
being smothered,, heartburn kept me
in misery and sometimes the pain in
my stomach was so awful I would be
doubled up in agony.
"But Tanlac has done the trick for
me and feel like a new man. My
appetite is wonder, and the hearty
meals now eat never give me the
slightest touch of. Indigestion. I con-
slider Tanlac without an equal"
Tanlac is for. sale by all good drug
gists. Accept no substitute. Over
b million bottles sold.-Advertise-
ment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

pound to my friends as it has certainly
given me great relief. Mrs. G. B. ROB-
NsoN, 6O8 N. Lincoln ST., Amarillo, Tex.
The Vegetable Compound is Q splendid
medicine for women. 1t relieves the
troubles which cause such symptoms az
backache, painful times, irregularity,
tiredand worn-out feelings and nervous
ness. This is shown again and again by
such letters as Mrs. Robinson writes
as well as by one woman telling another.
These women know what it did Tor
them. 1t issurely worth your trial.
Housewives make great mistake IN
allowing themselves to become SO i'll
that it Is well-nigh impossible for them
to attend to their necessary household
duties.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
Good Returns Can Be
Secured From Garden

Most farmers don't think much of
the garden, vet this is perhaps the
most profitable acreage on the aver
age farm. A good farm garden will
almost support family and leave a
surplus of eatables for sale. Tho
front-door market isn't had PROPOSE.
ton where folks travel by automo-
bile
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
Plant Some Rhubarb
and Asparagus Early

A dozen hills of rhubarb and row
of asparagus, 25 to so feet in length.
are indispensable in every home gar
den. They not only give large yields
of tender shoots very early in the
spring, but also furnish laxative ele-
ments generally much needed at that
season 1T the year asAA
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
TEASING, Indeed.

Sweet Young Thing Gin parlor)-
Mamma! Mamma! Come here and
make Harold quit teasing me!
Mamma (from stairway landing)-
What is he doing, dear?
Hes sitting at the other end of the
sofa. Judge.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
FOR OVER 40 YEARS

HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE has
been used successfully in the treatment
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE con-
sists OF an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves by local application, and the
Internal Medicine, Tonic. which acts
through the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces, thus reducing the Inflammation.
Sold by all druggists.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

woman always selects good
listener when she wants an entertain
ing companion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
BACK kCHED
TERRIBLY
Mrs. Robinson Tells How She
Found Relief by Taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Amarillo, Texas" My back was my
greatest trouble. It would ache so that

IL WOutQ almost &hA
me and I would have
cramps. / suffered in
this way about three
years; then a lady
friend 8 ugges ted ed
that / try Lydia =.
Pinkham's Vegetar
BILE Compound. Ihave
had better health
since, keephouse and
am able to do my
work. / recommend
the Vegetable Cons
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

It's now up to some genius to in
augurate a correspondence course I'm
lawn moving.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

Pepys Born $50 Years Ago.
Samuel Pepys. writer of the famous
diary, was born $50 years ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

Trouble never fails to come to the
man who waits for something to turn
up.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

To stop wagging tongue, stop your
ears.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

A pretty woman knows best the
value of smile, but all smiles have
intrinsic worth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

An undertaken has to look sad no
matter how much it pleases him to get
the job.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25

When the wife's away the husband
may not get gay.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-25
BETTER
DEAD

Life is a burden when the body
is racked with pain. Everything
worries and the victim becomes
respondent and downhearted.
To bring back the sunshine take
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-07

the coat closet. French doors form
attractive entrance into the living
room, which has the bay shown in
the exterior view. Opposite this bay
is a fireplace, the nucleus of the fur
nshing in any living room.
Kitchen and dinin groom divide
the rear half of the first floor. The
dining room is IL feet 2 inches by
IA feet s inches, an dhas pairs of
easements on TWO sides. A pair of
corner china closets take up practi-
cally no disable floor space, and pro-
vides ample room for pretty hina,
silver and linens in the smallest pos
sible space. These come set up,
ready to install in the building and
are finished to match the rest of the
woodwork.
The kitchen can be kept cool and
free from cooking odors by means of
windows on two sides. The sink is
under one of these, the work table
under another. There is a built-in
dresser and a broom closet. With a
rear entry for the refrigerator and
an outside stair, as well as an inside
one to the basement, the kitchen
is spared unnecessary intrusion.
There is a bedroom in each corn
er of the second floor, insuring good
light and circulation of air, as well
as Ion gwall spaces for the placing
of furniture. Each one of them has
a good clothes closet, and two of
them have tray cases besides. The
linen closet in the hall at the head
of the stair is handy to all the rooms.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-07

Square" houses have a great deal
to be said for them in the way of
economical construction and labor
saving arrangement of rooms.
But too many of them, unfortu-
nately, are the sort which one archi-
tectural authority has called "un-
graced cubic boxes" This need not
be- the case, for a square house may
be exceedingly attractive. An I'M
usual amount of skill in designing
houses is necessary, however. 1t is
false economy to plan the house
yourself, or allow your contractor to
do so. Too many good, well-design-
ed plans are available at little or no
cost.
The home pictured here is of the
ordinary &c by &c feet size, small
enough for practically any city lot,
and yet it incorporates every excel
lence of design and interior planning
that any seven-room house could
have. 1t is not extreme or faddish;
its distinctiveness is merely a matter
of better architecture than is usually
found in homes of this type.
The location of the living porch
at the side rather than across the
front has many advantages. The
air of privacy created by the formal
entrance is appropriate for a home.
This is carried out by the vestibule
and hall through which one passes
before reaching the living room. The
open stair in the hall has a landing
thai is accessible from the kitchen
also. A feature of the front hall is
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

their late common enemies so much
as to fight each other.
Their gail in this respect has been
exceeded in possibly only one other
respect. They have the notion in
Europe that Uncle Sam and his inter
national bankers will finance any
war that comes along. Going into
the next war without finances they
are planning on getting the money
from the United States government
or its citizens to fight it. Without
money and credit no war will amount
10 a great deal, and If at this time
the former blunder has gone so far
that it cannot be corrected, it would
be the proper and accepted time now
for Uncle Sam to refuse to nance
lany more wars, and to pass some kind
of an act preventing it's private mon
eyed interests from so doing. II
the -would-be b~elligerents of Europe
at this time have it drilled into their
craniums that in the next conflict
they can hope for no financial aid
from this side of the Atlantic their
fighting ardor will tend to resemble
a disappearing morning fog.
In the same connection it would
be a good stroke of policy for the
executive department at Washington
to make the affirmative announce
ment that it looks with disfavor upon
the present war attitude of the sew
eral European countries and that it
positively refuses and will continue
to refuse now or at any time here
after to take part therein This an
nouncement could be made in entire
safety as against possible needs of
se~lf-defense, for no belligerent is 60
ing to commit acts of war against
the United States this time. They
may plead for Uncle Sam to enter on
their side, but they are not going to
force him against them. No danger
in that respect.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
THE STAR

-
Had l a tongue like a two-edged
sword,
And over words untold a sway,
Id tell all the words my tongue did
hoard.
OF the drummer who NJ to
stay.
He smiles at tho ladies with win
ming grace,
While he gobbles the viands Of
fered;
He kisses the baby's dirty face,
And takes all the comforts prof
fered.
He traces the lines in Nellie's hand,
Past, present and future giving;
By messages sent from the spirit
land,
Without working he gets a good
living.
With papers and pipe on the cot he
will rest,
All day he is mapping there,
Not a mite will he bulge from the
family nest,
For only himself does he care.
BY raps on his head his own fortune
he tells.
Echo says. Nobody homc;"
He places the family under medium
spells,
Where no trouble but just joy is
known.
The smoke from his pipe is a black
atmosphere.
live;
The bats in the belfry are house
keeping 'tis clear,
In place of the brains nature doc"
give.
The smell Of tobacco spit soon fills
the room,
The chunk he bites off is a whop-
per;
He spits tobacco in a way I presume,
Comes down from the Kansas
g~rasshopper.
lie comes when he will to the home
retreat.
Without ever spending a quarter:
Some day a chilling reception he'll
meet,
For he keeps the whole place in
hot water.
Gertrude Burke.
LOST-At McGill, elk tooth charm.
Finder please return to Max Her.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
THE WRONG HORSE

Arthur Brisbane undertakes the in
telligence of the leaders Of the re
publican party when he says In two
or three installments of his syndi'
Gated editorials that they are likely
to nominate Clifford Pinchot for
president. If there is n mar in
the United States more than another
whom the people of this country
will never elect to that Office Mr.. Pin
chot is that man. He could not car
ry a single western state and the
leaders of the republican party know
it. For that reason they will not
take a chance ON him, knowing that
his nomination would be 4 gross ease
of political suicide.
There is an other reason. Pin
chot poses as a progressive and has
led the country into believing he is
one. On that account the eac
tionary east would not stand for
him and the west, which is the home
OF so-called progression within the
party, has no use for him whatever
and never would consent to him
for it's banner bearer in the conven-
tion against the east
Mr. Brisbane processes a great adj
miration for Pinchot. He touts Presi-
dent Coolidge to the skies for hav-
ing appointed the Pennsylvania gov
ernor as arbiter of the threatened
coal strike, claiming that his settle
ment of it will be in the interest of
the people If Pinchot settles the
Goa question in the manner he Sc
tied the western forestry question it
will be in the interest of the multi
millionaires of the country. Right
from the moment that his forestry
policies went into effect lumber
prices scared and with the retention
of those policies it has kept going
until today they are 500 per cent
higher than when Pinchot started in.
That is his style of progressivism.
a style that the country does not
want and which the voters will re-
pudiate en- masse if ever they are
given the opportunity. which they
never will be by the astute men die
tating presidential nominations.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

full lake and boating parties used to
spend their evenings and Sundays
there the year around. In apparent
age it had been longer extinct than
the ~Punchbowl.
Lightning is liable to strike any
where and volcanic eruptions are pos
sible where they have been before.
mating. They occur at strange and
unexpected places. The more violent
one that visit death upon thousands
of people generally come in localities
where light and supposedly harm
less shocks are the more frequent.
California, Japan and Italy are typi-
cal places of this sort. In recent
times as 1t now develops all of them
have more than proved it.
Mount Katmai, the greatest of all
volcanoes of human knowledge. oc-
Cured at a place and in a manner
to have claimed few If any peoples
lives, but it proved, as does the jap
anese disaster and as did that of
San Francisco, Messina and Mar
Unique, that Ponpeii and Hercu-
laneum were neither the greatest nor
the last, but on the Contrary that
the catastrophes of this age are not
only worse than those of 1000 years
ago, but far more frequent. Rather
than being quieted down the earth's
crust seems to be in a worse state
a veritable hair-trigger condition that
makes former periods appear insig-
nificant in comparison.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
HOW WAR CAN BE STOPPED

Uncle Sam made one big mistake
when at the close of the late war
he did not set his foot down hard
and demand his money from each
and every one OF the allies fighting
from 1914 to 1918 Ito make the
world safe for democracy
BY so doing he might have engen-
dered some i'll feelings for the time
and for a long while, but he would
have put a crimp in the plans for
war that have been carried on with
out a moments cessation ever since
by those OF them which have never
ceased to lust for more territory,
more power and more blood.
From a week after the armistice
until now certain nations, officially
through diplomatic agencies and by
means of propaganda have never
ceased in a campaign to tell the peo-
pie of the United States that they
We're financially ruined, yet during
the self-same weeks they have strain
ed every fiber to prepare for more
1865 w ohS oupl ChlC
above their neighbors and to be ready
to strike eve as tho kaiser was
ready for the swiftest and most eff
fective of war movements in 1914.
With Uncle Sans money these
things haye been done and are still
being done. Every ally of promi-
hence owes the United States sums
ranging far into the billions and each
and every II in turn has proclaimed
absolute inability to pay as much as
one dollar-with the bare exception
OF Great Britain, which has agreed
TO a funding scheme by which it got
far the best of it. Each of such ma
tions reports back-breaking taxes up
ON it's people and has cullected sums
that before the var and the dayct bill
ions in government expenditures and
war budgets would have been stag
gering. The money has been and is
being collected and spent, yet no war
debts whatever are being paid or
have been paid. 1t is being spent to
prepare for more war-not for de-
ense but for aggressive war, and just
as sure as the preparations have
been completed in some cases and
are in progress in others, and the
spirit of war is there, it will! come. 1t
is in the air. There is no spirit of
Cancellation in Europe. 1t is on the
program and there is only one thing
that may stop 1t, which is for Uncle
Sam to demand an immediate show
down in the settlement of the last
wars claims before another one can
be started.
Leniency in this case has been
license, and it has been willfully
misinterpreted. Firmness should
have been shown from the first mo-
ment, but now it may be too late to
have the right effect. Instead of
tirmness the country was flooded with
that William Jennings Bryan talk
about forgiving the allied debts,
which was all the hint that was need
ed to encourage the big and little
kingdoms to go ahead and spend the
money of American liberty bond buy
ers in getting airplanes, cannon and
other material ready not to fight
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

Finally Sam Davis managed to con
vince him that he could not afford to
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

antagonize BueI and the Tonopah
Sun, and Sparks and Buel made up.
The governor wanted to smoke the
pipe of peace as he had done once
with Davis after one Of his jangles
of several weeks, but Buel was not
u smoker. so instead of that Sparks
appointed Buel a member of his staff
making him a lieutenant colonel.
This pipe Of peace of Sparks was
a real one and he forced Davis to
smoke it with him. 1t was a great
pipe bowl with a stem two or three
feet long. After the bowl was filled
with a stout brand of mother of
nicotine Sparks directed the Carson
humorist to sit down, rs he did him
self, and they placed the soles OF
their feet together. Then the gov
ernor placed the mouthpiece in his
mouth and drew a long and deep
breath, filling his in'ards with what
amounted to a huge cloud of mel
low smoke, then passed the stem over
to Davis and compelled him to do
the m When Davis had drawn
IN his first installment Of the fumes
he had to pass it back to the COVER
nor. This was kept up for one or
two hours, I've forgotten the exac
time. but according to the way they
do it reg'lar." as Tom Sawyer would
have told Huckleberry Finn, until the
feud was completely smoked out and
the Ratchet properly buried.
But in the case of Buel Mr.. Davis
had so completely awed the governor
about his greatness as a cartoonist
that the pipe of peace was foregone
and he was commissioned a lieuten-
ant colonel instead. 1t used to be in
teresting during the eastern promoter
days Of Tonopah and Goldfeld to see
some cross-eyed crook escorted to the
Office by some mining shark, hoping
to get a free ad in the form OF a
cartoon in the paper, and be intro
duced to Buel IN a most dignified and
straight-laced fashion as Colonel So
and-So. Buel would jump up, wipe
the chalk off his hand on his trousers
leg, shove out his mitt and shout:
Put 'er there, OIL pard, In n col
one; myself"
Those eastern mining promoters
are great gentry when you turn 'em
loose, never more so than when they
come west to inspect their mines"
Once I saw another cToss-cyed one
I think it was a different one-on the
train coming in from Reno. l had
seen him several times before, but
this time his wife was with him. She
sat there as u~rcorcerned, looking out
the window at the sagebrush as if
she had been braking on that road
for ten years. Every little while, the
train being fairly we'll crowded, her
husband would introduce her to some
new promoter coming out Of The
diner.
Her first trip he would add with
each introduction. Hasn't she got
her n~erve-ah?"
1 had known quite g few m
folks in Tonopah years before that,
so it struck my funny bone, the same
as probably it would anybody in Ely
to have the same stuff pulled en-
route from Cobre here.
But she had her nerve at chat, for
she V batted an eye nor appeared
10 think it required any more nerve
to ride on a train one place than an !
other. 1t was all the spme to her.
So IL has 4 crews editor" You
wouldn't although it. But in view !
of the Harding scoop the revelation
is clever. B. BROOKS.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
BABBLINC BROOKS
IN THE DESERT

They are saying over in and around
the edge Of Utah that the Mnllard
County Chronicle recently got off a
joke and the joke is being told
around as q good one Ii may have
happened in the plate division of the
Fillmore weekly, and for hat mat
ter in the same department of any of
the Ely metrops, in which event your
humble servant would never have
seen it, so if the rest of you have
read it in the White Pine News it is
one on lis.
Here is the way ALT Bellander told
it the other day. He said an Indian
called on a country editor to pay
his subscription. The country editor
was just out of blank receipts but
took tho money and led the red nan
TO believe that he would have some
the next day. The Indian called but
still no receipt blanks. He was dis
appointed and the editor tried to kid
him, asking why he wanted a receipt
anyway.
Maybe so I die" the Indian told
the editor. II go up heaven. st.
Peter ask ME If I pay all my debts.
/ say yes. He ask me If I pay for my
paper. I say yes. He cay, you got
'em receipt Then maybe SO / have
to look all over hell for you to get
'em receipt"
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

FOR SALE-Canaries; singers.
Mrs. j. d. Ray, Ills Mill street.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

LOST-At McGill, elk tooth charm.
Finder please return to MAJ Her.
man and receive SIS reward.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09

So il has a crews editor" You
wouldn't although it. But in view
of the Harding scoop the revelation
Is clever. B. BROOKS.