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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Collies Once Made Part
of Kirk ConrreVafio,

In Scotland, half a century ago, lei
was the general custom for the shep-'
herds to take their faithful collies
with them to church. In some dis,
tricts, where the population was scam,
ty, the congregation on Sunday MORN
ings would frequently be made up
half Of humans and half Of dogs. The
collies sat out the service with COM
mendable patience until the announce
ment of the last psalm, when there
was general stretching and yawning
preparatory to scampering out as soon
as the benediction had been pro-
nounced. In one kirk the congrega-
ton determined that the service should
close in more decorous fashion. When
a strange minister officiated one Sum
day he found all the folk sitting when
he was about to pronounce the bless
ing, and paused for them to rise. "Say
ava, sir" whispered one old shep-
herd near the pulpit, "we're a. sit
ting to cheat the dogs."-Montreal
Family Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Moonlight at the Poles

The Naval observatory says that at
either pole the moon is above the ho-
rizon continuously for about two
weeks. and then below the horizon con.
tinuously for about two weeks. At the
Arctic and Antarctic circles there are
some years when for few days in
each month the moon does not set,
and a few days when it does not rise;
otherwise at these circles 1t rises and
sets daily. In the polar regions, dur
ing the winter months, the moon is
generally above the horizon when 1t
is full and below the horizon when 1t
is new, and the reverse is the case
during the summer months.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Interesting Church

The Worsted church at Canterbury,
New Hampshire, was completed in
1899 by the Free Will Baptists and
COngregationalists. 1t suffered much
financial distress and Mrs. Sarah Eliz-
abeth (Harper) Monmouth. undertook
to raise funds for the benefit of the
church. She acted as associate pas
tor and officiated for nearly eight
years. She personally made the
worsted decorations which consist
principally of religious notices.
There was an extraordinarily large
number of such decorations complet-
ed in 1878. when Mrs. Monmouth
ceased her labors. An interesting
fact is that Mrs. Monmouth suffered
severe financial reverses and pub
lished and sold booklet for 25 cents
in the town, entitled Living on Half
a Dime a Day." which she claimed
was an actual experience of her own.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Changes Brought About
- Ell A.m~ns~ az


Nowhere else, save in these United
States, is there such a blend Of food
resources and contrasting food tastes
Of different racial strains, writes Mu-
riel Allen King in the New York Her
aid Tribune. In pre-war, pre-prohi-
bition days, there was great pride in
local cookery. Certain dishes were In
delibly associated with certain Sec
tions of the United States. One went
to New England to eat clam chowder,
brown bread and baked beans; to
Texas to get tamales; to Virginia to
luxuriate on spicy baked ham and
crisp corn pone. There were, posi-
bly,, tea rooms in Boston, Kansas City,
or in Greenwich village. which nobody
knows today, that advertised real
southern waffies," but the Greek lunch
counter had not quite erased the idea
that certain dishes were appropriate
to certain feasts, that certain foods
were traditional mates and compan-
ions to other foods.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Many By-Products
to Cream Farming
No More Profit to Farmer in
Higher Price" of
Fluid Milk.

:; The best system of farming is the
one which results in the greatest finan-
cial advantage and contributes most
to the farmers economic wants, ac-.
cord to the De Laval Bureau of Dairy;
ling. It's the profit, not just the amount
received for farm products that counts.
During recent years there has been.
ia tendency among farmers to go into
the production of fluid milk for the
big city market without realizing that
it costs in the neighborhood of 5Ol
cents per 100 pounds more to produce
the kind of milk consumers in the
cities are demanding. Surveys made
by a Mid Western Agricultural college
showed that it was costing farmers
$2.15 to $3.50 per hundred pounds to
produce milk for which they received
only $3.50, and that of the IA cents
per quart f = milk paid by the con-
sumer the dealer received SO cents
and the farmer SD cents.
Higher Price, But No More Profit.
The desire to sell milk as whole
milk rather than as cream or milk to
De converted into butter or cheese is
due to beliefsthat the "higher price"
leaves the greatest profit. says the
Bureau. The skim milk profit angle is
too often completely forgotten. When
whole milk is shipped the profits that
could be made from skim milk, the val
,,,bto hy OroduotS ~ Ho,oo m fory,,ipo -
are lost. The returns it is possible
to make by properly making use Of the
skim milk retained on the farm after
the cream has been separated from the
whole milk is something far-sighted
stock and dairy farmers should not
overlook.
An explanation OF the advantages
OF retaining skim milk on the farm
is worked out in an example cited by
a leading dairy authority as follows:
1.-THE good creamery last year paid
at least an average price of 30 cents
a pound for fat. This would bring /,
return of $175 net for 31s per cent
milk The skim milk left on the farm
is easily worth 80 cents out Of every
100 pounds. provided of course the dairy
farmer is raising the right kind of
live stock. This brings his milk to
$2.25 net. 1t has been calculated by
those who have given the matter study
that 1t costs in the neighborhood Of
80 cents more to produce the kind of
milk that the consumers of Chicago.
are demanding. Adding this to the
price returned by the creamery, we
have $2.75. Out Of this $2.75 the ex-
pense of operating the association
must come and the milk must be,
hauled to the local plant, which costs
from 10 to 20 cents q hundred. In
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Nova Scotian Island
Dreaded bv Mariners

Every year. Sable island, on the
coast Of Nova Scotia, has had its tale
of disasters. During the war between
the French and the English. troop
ships were known to be dashed to
pieces in the terrific breakers. In 1746
the Due d'Anville lost transport
and a flreship in severe storm near
the island, and in 1851, one of the
vesselr that had been with Wolfe at
Quebec was wrecked. A curious tale
Is told about the latter.
There was an old landmark on the
island in the form Of a pyramid of
sand a hundred feet high. In 1912,
during a fearful hurricane, this was
completely blown away, and where it
had stood were some small huts built
from the timbers Of wrecked ships.
The huts contained articles Of furni-
ture, bales Of blankets, some military
shoes, and boxes Of other goods. A
brass dog collar that was unearthed
bore the name Of Major Elliott, Forty
third regiment. This was the regiment
wrecked in 1861, and examination Of
the records showed that the soldiers
who had been saved from Wolfe's
transport had been taken of the is
land. The site of their old encamp-
ment is now under water.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Chess Without a Peer
in Line of Amusements

Chess is the king of games. Its
subtlety and scientific beauty is with
out peer in the line of amusements.
For centuries the sport has consti-
tuted one of the principal diversions
Of kings, statesmen, painters, poets
and captains of industry and COM
merce. 1t has been universal in its
scope and without restrictions among
peoples, creeds or countries.
This intellectual pastime frequently
has been suggested as cure for a
few of the world ills. Students of the
game are of the opinion that 1t de-
velops thinkers, brings to light genius
and encourages mathematical calcula-
tons. The dull brain is stimulated
into flaming activity young minds are
schooled to think clearly and concise
ly, while the old brain is rejuvenated.
It Is q mental solvent that contains
those Ingredients that make the eye
sharp, the spirit calm and the dis
position unruffled. In brief, chess is
a mysterious science dealing with pro-
found problems.
Like golf, the game takes possess
sion Of the mental faculties and di-
verts them from their ordinary
grooves. The absorption and abstrac-
ton afforded constitute panacea for
the cerebral organ wearied by business
or frazzled by cares, the latter being
neutralized by the foresight demand
ed.-Kansas City Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Fuel for Smoking Meat

The Department of Agriculture says
that the best fuel for smoking meat is
green hickory or maple wood smoth-
cred with sawdust of the same ma
terial. Hard wood of any kind Is pref
cradle to soft wood. Resinous woods
should not be used, as they may give
a bad flavor to the meat. Corncobs
are good substitute for hard wood.
Juniper berries or fragrant woods may
be added to the fire to flavor the meat.
The fire should be kept burning slow
ly, keeping the temperature between
20 and 80 degrees.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Work of 7lUo Brilliant Men
ReuoLutionized Dairying
Frying Professor Found Simple Way to
Measure Fat Content of Cream;
Cream Separator Work of
Swedish Inventor.
Swedish Inventor.

cream that was used as cream and
for making ice cream. By the old
method much more labor would have
been required in the homes and In the
factories, and the present high quail.
ity of products could not have been
made"
The cream separator eliminates the
great waste which accompanies hand
skimming methods. According to ex.
periments conducted at the Indiana
State Experiment Station in separat-'
ing certain quantity Of milk, 26.2
pounds of butterfat were lost by shall
low pan gravity setting. and 40.07
pounds were lost by water dilution,
while only IL pounds were lost when
a centrifugal separator was used.
This gives one an idea Of the enor-
nous losses which occur from hand
skimming and which a good separator
eliminates. In addition, 1t saves all
the time, trouble, bother Of setting,
handling and washing pans, and pro-
vides the skim milk in sweet condi-
tion. ideal for feeding young stock
This Is extremely important, as much
Of the profit from dairying comes
from proper utilization of skim milk.
Find Worn Separators Faulty.
There are many separators in use!
today, however, that are wasting valu-
able butterfat in the skim milk with
out the owner knowing Of his losses.
Badly worn separators, or ones that
were of faulty construction to begin
with, should be replaced. A farm
wife can tell whether her coffee grind
er Is grinding fine, medium or coarse
by merely looking at the texture of
the coffee after it has passed through
the grinder. But no one can tell how
much cream separator is wasting
by looking at the skim milk, nor by
filling a glass with skim milk and al
lowing it to "set" on the window sill
for day or more to see how much
cream rises to the top. When one
"sets" skim milk that has gone
through the separator it cannot be
expected that the small, hard-to-get
fat globules will work their way
through the milk serum and rise to
the top unless there is an unusually
heavy loss. "Setting" skim milk is
merely an impractical way Of trying
to test an inefficient separator by the
more inefficient gravity setting "test."
other words, the person selling whole
milk can scarcely expect to net any
more than $3.50 hundred. This
would leave but 25 cents hundred
for the production of milk over that
which the creamery pays and it is
doubtful whether this will compensate
for more than so per cent of the addi-
tional costs of producing market milk.
Here's How to Figure 1t Out.
Further, when skim milk is used
on the farm it permits different type
of farming to be developed. 1t is diff
ficult, indeed, to say how much more
farmer can earn If he raises his
calves, some hogs and chickens. This
will depend upon the management of
the farm, but it is factor of no small
consequence and should be considered
by those who would leave their cream.
cries and cheese factories in order to
get what appears to be much higher
price for their milk"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Adjustable Racquet Strings

Mainsprings of timepieces, violin
strings and the strings Of tennis rae
quets have way Of breaking without
any explainable reason. To overcome
this trick Of the atmosphere. for the
atmosphere has had to bear the blame,
the violinist loosens the strings of the
instrument during the interval of dis
use. This idea has been recently made
use of in the design Of the tennis rae.
quets. By means of threaded con.
traption extending through the handle.
it is possible to loosen the strings
when not in use. 1t is said that the
implement is in much better condition
for play when frightened after a short
repOse Of this kind.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Virginia Home of Culture

Localism alone can produce. in the
case Of America, a thoroughly authen-
tic type Of man; this type alone can
be the germ cell of an authentic Amer.
lean nation. Again. localism alone can
lead to culture; it must start as sin.
gular and single and. therefore, small
thing. 1t will grow and spread as
time goes on. The only really Gull
tural atmosphere one finds today In
America is that of Virginia. The cul-
tured men who were born in it's field
of force are responsible for most that
is of cultural value in America. But
how different Virginia is from all 9th
er states! Its culture is particular
one; it is not only a matter of age
but of kind as well.-Hermann Key
serling in Atlantic Monthly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

tent Of milk or cream. A brilliant In.
ventive genius named De Laval, labor
ing in his workshop in Sweden, found
way by which whole milk could be
accurately, continuously and quickly
separated into cream and skimmilk.
De Laval also inaugurated the re-
search which resulted in the widely
used efficient mechanical mixer Of
today.
Professor Babcock's discovery sta
bilized the dairy industry. Doctor De
Laval's separator saved farm women
millions of dollars worth Of cream
while his milking machine saved farm
men millions of hours Of drudgery.
when it is realized" says DR.. @.
w. Larson, former director of the Ma
tional Dairy Council, "that the change
from the gravity method Of obtaining
cream for buttermaking and other
purposes to the continuous separator
resulted in the saving of labor, bet
ter quality of cream and butter, a
skim milk superior for feeding pur-
poses and available for the manufac-
ture of by-products, and great saw
ing of the butterfat that was lost in
the skim milk, the value of this in
genious invention can scarcely be
overestimated.
Old Methods Wasteful.
IF all the cream that was used In
this country last year for making but
ter alone had been separated by the
deep-setting system, which was the
best method known at the time the
centrifugal separator was invented,
more than $35,00O,OO0 worth Of butter
fat would have been left in the skim
milk. This does not take into con-
sideration the enormous quantity Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

about the dolls, bringing in their
names and also occasionally men-
tioning "dolls." Whenever a dolls
name is mentioned the child who has
been given that name rises and sits
down again. The word, dolls" is
a signal for all to exchange seats,
during which scramble the leader
tries to get a chair, and the zone
left out becomes the new leader.
Menu of Masked Simplicity
By this time, the children will
have lost all self-consciousness and
can be depended upon to suggest
the other games they want to play.
Generations of them have had lots
of experience at it, for dolls are
almost as old as the world. This
is evidenced by the fact that dolls
have been found in the earliest
Egyptian and Aztec excavations.
And they remain today the best gift
you can give little girls.
When supper is ready, each child
picks up her doll and they go into
the dining room. Chairs are set for
children and dolls, and at the head
of the table is a large, lifelike doll,
finely dressed. In the middle of the
table is tiny canoe containing
paper dolls, and blue crepe paper is
arranged around the canoe to repre-
sent water. At each place is a
little china doll; all the dolls should
be dressed alike in order to avoid
bitterly outspoken comparisons on
the part of the guests.
The menu itself should be simple,
gaining its party air by its novel
service. For instance, such menu
might contain:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Exchanging Time

Today the Arab woman cooks her
bread outside the shelter of reed mats
and mud, which is her house." and
boils her water over a fire lit In
hole which she scoops out in front of
the door The continuity in the es-
sentials of life is unbroken; we know
that as she cooks now, so did her fore
bears cook $500 years ago. and In all
likelihood when we come to dig the
pre-hood levels we shall find that the
same customs and the same devices
go back even farther into the past.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

st. Paul's cathedral. London, Eng.
land, the masterpiece Of Sir Chris.
topher Wren, commenced in the year
1878 and completed in ITO, cost f747,.
ego, The cross on the dome is 365
feet above the ground level and the
inner cupola is 21S feet above the
floor. The bell. "Great Paul." in the
southwest tower. weighs II tons. To
the south of the cathedral are re-
mains of the chapter house and clois-
tiers of "Old st. Paul's," destroyed by
the fire of London in 1885,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS
Notice To Contractors
STATE OF MARYLAND
STATE ROADS COMMISSION

SEALED PROPOSALS for reconstruc.
ton of existing bridges as follows:
Cecil County. Contract Ce-7o-2S. Fed
erai Aid Project No. 2o5-A. Recon-
!. struction of the existing bridge over
Octoraro Creek on the proposed Port
Deposit to Conowingo Road.
Will be received by the State
Roads Commission, at its Offices
Federal Reserve Bank Building,
Calvert and Lexington Sts., Balti-
more, Md, until IL M. on the nth
day of March. 1880. at which
time and place they will be publicly
opened and read.
Bids must be made upon the
blank proposal form which, with
specifications and plans will DO
furnished by the Commission upon
application and cash payment Of
$1.0O, as hereafter no charges Will
be permitted.
No bids will be received unlese
accompanied by certified check for
the sum of Five Hundred ($50O)
Dollars, payable to the State Roads
Commission.
The successful bidder viii be Re.
quired to give bond, and comply
with the Acts OF the General
assembly of Maryland. respecting
.ontracts.
The Commission reserves the right
20 reject any and all bids.
By order of the State Roads
Commission this 2Ist day of February,
1885,
G. CLINTON UHL.
Chairman
L. H. STEUART. Secretary
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
The First Party for
the New Dolls

nAF all parties which one can
VDgive little girls, there is none
more delightful than a doll
party. For the invitations, use Or
binary notepaper, tracing picture
OF a doll on the top of the sheet.
Actress the invitation to each little
girls favorite doll, in care of its
owner, as: Miss Chlorinda Doll
Brown, in care of Miss Mary Eliz-
abeth Brown. 1t is we'll to invite
the dolls to supper, rather than tea,
for then the menu can be so planned
that it will not interfere with their
mothers regular meals.
Hunt the Dolls
When the children arrive, they
should find the house decorated with
paper dolls cut out of mat stock
and colored slightly with water
color. To break up any strange
, ness, the visiting dolls should be
carefully seated on the davenport,
and their owners should be started
off on game of hunt the dolls"
A number of the tiny dolls which
can be bought for a penny have
been hidden around the room in
unlikely places. After a certain
time has elapsed, the hunt is over !;
each guest counts those she has
found, and the one who has found
most is declared the winner. The
little girl guests keep the dolls they
found.
A variation of the old stage-coach
game is fun, too. The leader gives
each child the name of one of the
dolls present and then seats all the
children. She then starts story
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

Dreamed Chicken in SsVeet Potato
Cases
Lettuce Sandwiches
Date and Cocodnut Sandwiches
Orange Ice Cream IN Baskets
Hard Candies Cocoa
To make the creamed chicken, boil
four medium sweet potatoes. peel,
halve and hollow out the halves to
make boats. Brush with melted
butter and brown under the broiler
fame. Make. white sauce of four
tablespoons of butter, four table
spoons of flour, two and one-half
cups of milk and salt and pepper.
Add contents of one can of chicken,
heat and pour into and over the
potato cases placed on individual
plates. This will serve eight.
A Two-in-One Dessert
To make the date and cocoanut
sandwiches, chop a cup of pitted
dates and add one-half cup of moist,
canned cocoanut. Add enough
n1ayonnaise to make the filling easy
to spread and spread between butt
tered slices of whole wheat bread.
For the ice cream. beat two eggs
we'll, add seven-eighths cup sugar,
two cups orange juice, one-half cup
lemon juice and one tablespoon
grated orange rind, and let stand
until the sugar is all dissolved. Add
three 6-ounce cans of evaporated
milk, color as desired, and freeze.
Cut sponge cake into squares
hollow out the centers to M
baskets and fill with the ice or
Sprinkle chopped candied or
Oeaf over the ron \
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
Costly to Feed Hogs
Skimmilk Rich In Fat

On many farms wornout, improper.
ly designed or poorly constructed sen.
arators are in daily use, despite the
valuable educational work of the agri.
cultural colleges, county agents and
cow-test association supervisors states
the De Laval Bureau of Dairying. In.
stead Of serving as cream savers"
these faulty machines have become
cream thieves" One state cow-test.
ing association report published last
year showed 10 separators losing $50
month. 1t is costly business to feed
butterfat worth $44 per hundred
pounds to hogs selling for between
$500 and $1,000 per hundred.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
MRS. JENNIE TAYLOR

Licensed Funeral Director
Gentleman Embalmer Lilo
ensed for Maryland and Penn
sylvania.
Dignified service given all
calls, night or day.
Cor. N. Queen 6 Walnut Sts.
Phone 122 Rising Sum, Nd.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07
6 6 6 Tablets

Relieves a headache or Neural
gia in 80 minutes, checks .
Cold the first day, and checks
malaria in three days.
666 also in Liquid
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

He that soweth the whirl-
wind in the first place doesn't
have to reap it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

W 0rl d practically
revolutionized t h Q
greatest rural in
dustry In the Unit
ed States. A pry.
ing profe s sor
n a m e d Babcock,
working in the lab
oratory Of the Wis.
consin College Of
Agriculture, found
a simple, accurate
way to determine
the hutterfat con.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

Self-trust is the essence of
heroism.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

When the heart dares to
speak it needs no preparation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

Two adventurous and brilliant men
working In different parts Of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-03-07

L. H. STEUART, Secretary
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-06
Becoming Clothes!

Just between ourselves, don't
you think that fashions this sum-
mer are more generally becoming
than they were a year ago. and
isn't II your opinion that for a
strictly limited expenditure you
can buy clothes that are more 70
your taste than ever they were
before7 And aren't you glad that
in spite OF protests and indiffer-
ence the dressmakers finally did
persuade us TO wear normal
waistlines and longer skirts?