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Nogales international., 1928-08-03
CHARLES scHARDIN DEAD

Charles Schardin, 81 years of
age, died at $50 o'clock last even.
ing at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. q. Taft on Grand avenue.
He was mining man, and a
brother of w. H. Schardin, form
erly connected with the Nogales
international.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03
New Country Home
Being Built By
Elmer Hoy

Elmer Hoy is erecting a nice
home on the old Harrison ranch
y T. ch he recently purchased.
The residence is being built just
east Of the Riverside school on the
Washington Camp road.
E. L. Yeager is the contractor.
Yeager recently came here from
Phoenix and has been. working on
the new Catholic church, now in
course of construction.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Baumann and
baby of Taft, Cal, will arrive next
week to visit Mrs. Baumann's
sister, Mrs. Ralph Rawsthorne.
Mrs. Baumann before her mar
riage was Miss Martha White of
Nogales.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lown and
baby have returned from a fishing
trip to Mormon Lake and while in
the north visited the Grand Can
yon.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03
NEW WAREHOUSE

Mike Ahumada is to begin erec-
ton shortly of a warehouse at his
wood yard just south of the pow,
er plant of the Public Utilities
Consolidated Corporation or
Grand avenue. EA
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

William MCGOWAN, in charge Of
the shoe department at the J. c..
Penny store left Thursday for a
vacation in California.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

The Smith River Power Com
pany of Smith River, Calf, six
miles south of the Oregon line is
now the property of the Public
Utilities California Corporation, a
subsidiary of Public Utilities Con-
solidated Corporation, which is
the holding corporation for the
W. B. Fosnay Company.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

Mrs. Louis Pearson Woods of
Shreveport, La, who has been the
house guest of her sister, Mrs. T.
M. Ford, has gone to California.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03
A VANISHED BUGABOO
SOME REAL CALVINISTS
JAILERS AND CRIMINALS
THE TALKING MOVIES

Dread OF big business fades.
: Raskob. financial head of the four
billion dollar General Motors
Company, is Democratic National
Chairman. Owen D. Young, chair
man of the Board of the General
Electric Company, one of the big
gest corporations in America, is
asked to run for Governor by
Democrats in New York.
-
William Jennings Bryan, where
he dwells in bliss. doubtless
shudders at all this. But these
are practical days; big business ix
practical. and it is well 10 pecOG-
nize things as they are.
Some Calvinists, it seems. are s9Sli
Calvinists like old johA- Qnsen
Wilhelmina, of Holland, will aoe
attend the Olympic games. Calyia-
lists in Holland are urged 20 stay
away from what stern preaehexs
call "a carnival of the flesh"
Datch CalviHiStS say the 0lympic
games turn men away from Cob
gotha to Greco-Roman paganism.
A majority of human beings have
abandoned the John Calvin theory.
which included the burning alive Of
DR.. Servetus on slight provocation,
believing that the good Lord wants
people to enjoy themselves occa-
sionaIly
Crime organization seems Ia
reach almost everywhere. One Sun
day morning two dangerous man
killing gunmen escaped from Sing
Sing Prison.
The saitie morning two Sing Sing
Prison g.uards were arrested, &C.
cnsed Of blackmailing motorists on
the highway.
No wonder prisoners escape,
when the jailers by night are high
way blackmailers by day. A fine
example TO the prisoners. in re
forming prison atmosphere.
Jeritza will talk and sing in =
talking movie" /" These Takes
make a good start with this artist
The singer will get $4,000 a week
or more. And while she rests the
6lm will go on singing, millions
bearing i. Wonderful inyentions
time and labor saving. =
DIR. Ira S. Vile says the pop1k-
ton is growing older. 1t lives
longer, the birth rate is lower. But
old people, he says, are no longer
proud of their age and little rever-
ence is paid it. Today the number
Of those past fifty is fifty per cent
greater than in 1870
Age is nothing to be proud OF
since we grow old in spite. of our
selves. But to be hard al. work
when you are old, and EFF
GENTLY at work, is something
Young ladies that don't SEEM
70 get any proposals" will marvel
on hearing that our Peggy Joyes
is about to be married again.
This will be her fifth husband
and her second nobleman Onc<
Miss Joyce was the Countess
Costa Moerner, but she gave that
up. The Commoners had good
money" Happy No. S. if every
thing goes smoothly, will be Lord
Northesk, whose wife. formerly
Miss Jessica Brown, is now divorc-
ing him.
'How does she do it?" young
ladies ask. How did Helen OF
Troy do it. or Cleopatra?
Miss Joyce. it is said, has GER
tain dash and swing in night club
that electrify the atmosphere.
There are many Give ones" in
night clubs
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

Some Calvipists, it seems, are sEsli
Caivinists like old john. Qnsen
Wilhelmina, of Holland, will aos
attend the Olympic games. Calyia-
lists in Holland are urged 20 stay
away from what stern preaehe<s
call "a carnival of the flesh.
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

Dutch CalviRiSts say the Olymplc
games turn men away from G0A-
gotha to Greco Roman paganism,
A majority of human beings have
abandoned the John Calvin theory.
which included the burning alive of
DR.. Servetus on slight provocation,
believing that the good Lord wants
people to enjoy themselves occa-
sionally,
Nogales international., 1928-08-03

William Jennings Bryan, where
he dwells in bliss. doubtless
shudders at all this. But these
are practical days; big business Is
practical, and it is well 10 rec0G-
nixe things as they arc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Unique Telephone Use

Surgeons have discovered that by
means of a telephone and an induction
balance particles of metal lodged In
human flesh can be detected instantly.
Thus the surgeon knows exactly where
to begin work without having to take
"pitture" in many cases.
For example, If one is so unfortunate
as to have particle of iron lodged In
the tip Of one of his fingers and is un-
certain whether 1t had been removed,
these appliances would locate it quite
easily.
First the patient Is asked to place
his fingers, one after another. on the
balance. The moment the injured one
comes in contact with the device the
telephone proclaims the presence Of
any metal in the finger, If by chance
any metal had been left.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Literature Of China
Preserved in Memory

Che Hwang-ti, emperor Of China,
226-221 B. c.. evidently was man
with opinions of his own plus an ex-
aggerated reverence for "the good old
times" He issued an edict that all
books on the realm were to be burned
excepting those treating Of medicine,
diyinatiOn and husbandry. This in
cluded all the writings Of Confucius.
1t was further ordered that anyone
who mentioned the Book of History or
the Book of. Odes (theA Chinese
classics) should be put to death.
This Is said to have been the most
drastic and comprehensive suppression
of literature. While the destruction
of books was enormous, few copies
of the most treasured volumes were
preserved. According to one tradition.
however. large number Of works
were saved only through the mar
velOus memories of public reciters.
Even today it is said that If the same
literary tragedy should be enacted,
thousands of Chinese could be found
who could rewrite from memory not
only the text, but commentaries Of
their nine classical works.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Dragon-Fly a Marcel
of the Insect World

The dragon fly is not one of those
beings who have eyes and see not.
When this insect looks at you he sees
you well-71,00O Of you.
This most wonderful organ Of vision,
though no larger than a pins head.
has facets upon the lens of the eye
and these facets have been counted as
high as 1900, each one more perfect
than any side of a diamond fashioned
by the hand of man.
The dragon-fly usually is found near
water, probably the stream whence it
first emerged, says London Tit-Bits.
Its wings, which are of the most ex-
quisite and transparent gauze, move
with incredible rapidity. It is the
swallow among insects, and so swift
is it's flight, and so keen its vision,
that II will recognize, follow. and
catch on the wing the tiniest prey.
II can fly backwards or forwards, and
turn at right angle at top speed.
Like the swallow, too, it's flight seems
tireless. and it is seldom seen to
alight.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Vultures Do Work of
Scauengers in India

In my travels in India, writes cor
respondent, was in the vicinity Of
the Massacre Chat. of evil repute In
the Mutiny of 1857. and saw a vulture
over the Ganges. This scavenger bird
was apparently on the surface OF the
water. and was Tapping its wings, for
all the world as If small crocodile
had gripped it's talons and was trying
to drag ii under. Then I observed a
white object come to the surface mo-
mentarily and hob under again. My in
terest was aroused at the strange pro-
ceedihgs which followed. The vulture
tapped its wings as the weight Of the
f1otsam told on its strength. Again
the white broke the surface and as
1t did so the huge bird, with fully
opened wing. appeared to be using
itself in the manner of a sail. and.
with the help of the breeze. which
was blowing stirred its prey out Of
the mid-stream. Hopping every now
and then. till at last 1t ran the white
object right up on a gently sloping
shelf of sand on the near bank. By
this time the afr was thick with birds,
and no sooner had the vulture in ques-
tion beached his capture than cluster
of like birds swooped down, and the
whole commenced an orgy Of feasting
and fighting. The next day human
skeleton remained.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
English Methuselah

Methuselah is reputed to have lived
to be nine hundred and sixty-nine
years old but there are no documental
instances as remarkable as that. Ac-
cOrding to the parish register of st.
Leonard's. Shoreditch, England. the
oldest man of modern times was
Thomas earn, who was born in 1881,
Outlived many sovereigns and died in
Queen Elizabeth's reign in 1888. In
lT24 Petrarch Czartan died at the re-
puted age of one hundred and eighty
FIVE, while Henry Jenkins, who re-
membered going as a boy of twelve
with load of arrows to be used in
the battle of Flodden Field, died In
England in 1870 when he was one
hundred and sixty-nine years old.
Jonas Surington Of Bergen, Norway,
lived to be one hundred and fifty
nine. Perhaps the Oldest man living
is Zorro Agha, Kurd by birth, and a
porter in Constantinpole since about
1890. He has been widower four
times, can cite unimpeachable rec
ords to show that he was one hundred
and fifty on his last birthday ami
versary.-Kansas City Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
$40, 900, 900 LIQUOR SEIZED DUR
ING 1927

Forty-sM rum ships, ranging from
speedboats to cargo steamers, with
liquors valued at more than $10,-
900, 900, were seized by prohibition
enforcement officials last year.
The, largest number was taken by
the Coast Guard, twenty-four; while
twelve were seized by marine police
and ten by customs officers.
Only seventeen of the boats were
sold at auction, bringing but $751;
600. The lowest sale was for 3d.
900 while cargo ship, valued >at
$4,000, brought $12,100.
OF the liquors seized, there were
1870 kegs Of scotch malt, 102,480
gallons of alcohol, 40,430 cases OF
whisky, wines and other liquors;
1872 demijohns of rum. 3,3O4 bags
of wines and ocrdials; $4,000 bot
ties of beer and 532, 600 loose bot
ties of various liquors.
There were three hundred arrests
but no figures were available as to
disposition of the cases.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Poor Spelling Common

Poor handwriting and incorrect
spelling are faults not confined to the
poor and ill-educated, asserts WIN
West in Liberty. "As for styles af
writing, I'd say that bad handwriting,
like Chanel blue and reptile feathers.
is very good this year. The better the
financial circumstances of the writer,
the worse. 1t seems, is the scrawl
"Speliing-let's be kind" the writer
continues. "but even the grand dame
stoops to 'payed' for paid 'Arctics'
are almost invariably 'artics,' while
for 'leggings' the more Chaucerian
1eggins is usual. With hats and
shoes and similar monosyllahles
most women do well, but 'sequins' he.
come sequences and suede is repro
dHced as 'swede.'"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
HOW THE BANANA WAS NAMED

EARLY inhabitants of the East be-
liev.ed that the banana Plant was the
source of good and evil and that the
serpent which tempted Eve hid in :;
bunch of the fruit" writes w. T.
Pope of the Hawaii Exper4r- IT S
ion of the United States Department
of Agriculture. Undoubtedly this
legend influenced the early classitiers
who designated two species of the
slant as Musa paradisiaca (Fruit of
'aradise) and Musa sapientum
(Fruit of Knowledge). The com
moa name, banana" was adopted
from the language of an African
Congo tribe, and first came into use
during the sixteenth century Prior
to that time the fruit was called
apple of paradise and Adams
fig" The name banana seems tc
have haen borne for a long period by
the fruit, which was eaten raw
The term ''plantin" was given to
variety which, though closely related
TO the banana, Ia edible only after
being cooked. The generic name
Musa" for the banana group was
bestowed by the botanist Linnaeus
in honor of Antonius Musa, a learn
ed physician Of the early Roman
Empire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Land of the Onion

It is said that when ship is ap-
preaching the island of Ceylon dell
cious perfumes are waited to the
mariners nostrils long before the
shores come into sight, so luxuriant is
the growth of flowers on the islands,
Other travellers assert that a similar
statement is true of the island of Der.
muda; but in the modern instance the
fragrance which meets the sailors nos
trils is not that of delicious flowers,
but of the more humble, useful and nu.
tritious onion.
The Bermuda farmer often raises
lilies for the New York Easter market.
but his mainstay Is the onion. The
Bermuda onion is the best in the world.
Nothing so good is raised in the Unit
ed States. Every year we import
onions from Cuba and the other West
Indies, and even from SO distant
place as Egypt, but no. onion takes the
place of that of Bermuda.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Yodeling S.uiss Custom,

For more than century Tyrolese
yodelers have been heard on the con-
cert and vaudeville stage of Europe
and America. The first Tyrolese to
popularize the yodel in the theater
made fortune in England by so doing
and, returning to his native land, pur-
chased castle and retired in wealth.
This form of vOcalization was per-
fected at family concerts organized to
while away the long winter evenings
in the country 1t thus became the
custom for groups of brothers and sis
tiers who'were especially noted in their
own valley to go together upon the
concert stage in family groups.-Na-
tional Geographic Society Bulletin
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Edrth's Surface Never
Quite Without Motion

No portion Of the earth.s surface Is
ever at rest, though all but the great
movements of earthquakes escaped at
tention until recent years. The minute
vibrations are followed by j. j. Shaw
in Nature as an unending train OF
waves, waxing and waning in ampli
tude, that are increasingly cOursing
along tile earth's crust and reach to
unknown depths. The wave period
ranges between and 8 seconds; the.
amplitude is between one 50,0OOth and
one 2000th of an inch, but with wave
length of to 16 miles. The speed OF
the waves is believed to be about two
miles per second. Such local causes as
air tremors and the swaying of build
ings and trees were formerly sug-
gested but it is now known that they
are wide-spreading earth movements.
Earthquakes are easily followed on the
recording apparatus by the primary
and secondary phases and the long
waves rising to maximum. The mi
nor -microseisms-are not
easily separated from one another, and
there has been no means of studying
their propagation. But recently GER
tain tremors have been traced on re-
cording instruments 20 feet apart. Con-
tinuing the investigation, the range has
been extended to two miles. and it has
been made practicable to pick out indi
vidual tremors on the two sets of rec
ords. One result is the showing that
the travel of the microseisms Is inde-
pendent of wind and weather. though
the source and cause of the move
ments are still mystery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Nod So Bic

Hall Game was the guest of honor at
literary dinner. and it fell to Thomas
Nelson Page to introduce him in what
the reporters are fond of calling "a few
well-chosen sentences"
Just before rising to do so. Page
passed his menu card to Game withsu
request that II aqkos aph y. -
"After you hV spoken" whls
Sir Hall.
"NoA bow" said Page.
c. ri ID later he asked his
ii had been In so great
hurryr7i {his signature.
"WelH age. 'if you must
know. iS<Sl luse wanted to be
able to- AS Plly that I had read
sometb We written"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
HISTORIC ST. JOHNS COLLEGE,

That the earliest. free public
schools in this state were founded
eor the education of Maryland youth
in good letters and manners" may
be surprise to many a tired bust
ness man. AS he reads, at the end
Of days toll in the crowded city,
about the present campaign for the
restoration and development Of st.
Johns College, Annapolis, he may
well question how far that aim of the
,olonists has been accomplished.
How many of his office boys, how
many of the youths he sees on the
treets walking or driving automo
lies, most of them products of our.
ublic school system, give evidence
If the training in good letters and
manners" for which the free public
schools were founded by the Mary
.land Assembly in. 1896?
Each member of the governors
council who passed the Act for the
Advancement Of Learning ''vicd
with his neighbors in mating gen
erous donations of HUNDREDS of
pounds of tobacco" and King Will
liams School was established with
this lofty aim. After the Revo,u
ton because other free public
schools had developed, and because
parrots would no longer send their
sons to Oxford or Cambridge, the
need of a college was manifest. By
legislative act what had been King
Williams School became in 1884
st. Johns College. A non-sectarian,
LIBERAL arts college for mem the only
,ne of it's kind in Maryland, st.
Johns was and is in a unique posi-
ton for preserving the best of the
past for the service of the president.
With the increasing demand for
cultural education--the Federal
Bureau of Education states that the
proportion of students enrolled in
liberal arIs schools is double what it
vas in 1910-St. Johns is now plan
ming a development in keeping with
is history. Because it wishes to
jultu LuC DCSI w LAC "a CoOAI Oli thC
foundations of the best that has been
inherited from the past, it is seek
ing ($1,000,000) funds for new
equipment Because it is modern it
must have new science building
Because its grounds and buildings
have provided the setting for histor
ic events in the life OF Maryland and
of the nation. it aims to give the
proper background for its training
n good letters and manners" by re-
toring for use as student and facul-
y residences, four of the famous old
colonial houses In Annapolis. The
college which taught William Pink
", Francis Scott Key, and Rsverdy
Johnson will remain small college,
tut its training will be OF quality
orsistent with the aims OF the
founders of Maryland's schools.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Doctors Long Fast in
Interests of Science

The first fast of long duration under
taken for scientific purposes, and with
the possibility of imposture eliminated,
was completed about fifty years ago
by Doctor Tanner Of New York, who
went wholly without food for forty
days, from noon of June 20 to noon of
August z, 1880.
During that period there is satisfac-
tory evidence that Doctor Tanner ate
no food. He drank very little water
and no other liquid whatever. His
weight at the beginning of his fast
was 157 pounds and at its conclusion
121 pounds, showing loss Of 80
pounds, or almost pound per day.
He CONSUMED meat and fruit in lib
eral quantit at the end, show "a
that the old theory of this being d
gerous was not true-at least not
his case.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Forgot the Rule

"Grammar is a most confusin' thing"
remarked Cassidy to his friend. II
never can remember whether to say 1t
is + or 1T Is me-"
II can give you good rule on that"
returned his friend. "Just say over
to yourself this rhyme. Tt is l. said the
spider to the fly and there va are"
A few days later the friend met Mike
and inquired If the rule had been of
any help. ~
ut would have been but for wan
thing" replied Cassidy. II couldn't
for the loife of me remember whether
your rhyme was 1T is l, said the spi-
der to the fly, or Tt Is me, said the
spider to the flea boston Tran
script.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
MARyLAND WHEAT AREA

A preliminary survey OF the area
sown to wheat in Maryland fall Of
1927 for harvest in 1928 indicates
100000 acres, as against $4,000
sown in the fall Of 1926 and harvest
ed in 1927,-an increase of about 5
per cent according to Statement
issued by John s. Dennee, Federal
agricultural statistician in charge OF
the Maryland district. Condition OF
the crop on December l was given BY
growers as 80 per cent of normal
as compared with IS, the ten-year
average on that date. Since Deem
Der condition was taken. some dam
age is reported from winter-killing
in the Piedmont region.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
Strictly Business

Masters was the meanest man that
ever lived and had never been known
to give anything away. He either sold
il or arranged an exchange.
you've got very bad cold" he re.
marked to friend one day.
'"The worst ever had" wheezed the
other.
"Well." said Masters, 81 know q
thing that will cure 1t in three days"
I'D he very grateful if you'll tell me
what ii is" cried his friend.
Grateful !" snapped Masters. and
his eyes narrowed. "I'll tell you If you
know whatll drive away these warts
on my left hand"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
She Should Kno.v

Responding to an invitation to see
the school principal and talk over the
question of her boys transfer to a
school better suited to his sluggish
mentality an indignant mother ap-
peared with her unpromising off
spring.
"Pm Mrs. Blank" she snapped out
IN icy tones; "do look feeble
minded"
Never pausing for reply. she con.
tinued:
"This is my son Arthur; does he
look feeble-minded? They say his
brain is three years behind his body.
I'm his mother and he was all born
at one timer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-20
New Era

A friend asked Chauncey NJ. Dppew
what he thought of women s0l0ns, As
usual, Depew was not at IA loss for a
diplomatic answer.
"Well.'>>he said with chuckie. n
suppose the day may come when all
the congressman will be ladies. And
when that time comes, | expect wen
have to call it The house Of Miss Rep
resentatives.'