The midland journal., January 28, 1898, Image 2

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®<* Midland
s published on Friday morniwgofeach weekat
Rising Sun, Cecil Co., Maryland
BY
E. E. EWING & SONS.
Independent in politics and all other
subjects.
SI.OO A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Friday, Jail. 28,1898.
From October ist, ’97, to January Ist,
’9B, there was a fall in the general level
of prices of one per cent.
Is McKinley’s weakness or want of
policy in Cuban affairs owing to his nat
ural hare-like timidity, or is it owing to
his being bound hand and foot by the
gold trust which has Cuba as security for
interest on Spanish bonds ?
At long and last the ironclad war ship
Maine has been sent to Cuba. On Tues
day forenoon the great battleship steamed
into the harbor of Havana. President
McKinley was doubtless forced to make
this movement looking to the protection
of the lives and property of Americans,
by the almost unanimous protest of the
people at his disgraceful, cowardly policy.
For three years the United States’ Gov
ernment has not had a war ship in Cuban
waters; afraid, it was alleged, of offending
Spanish pride!
The rising market which was confi
dently predicted at the end of the last
year for the opening of this has failed to
come. Nothing has risen. The stock
market has risen a trifle and an advance
is confidently predicted, but it is still in
the future. Wheat has" fallen. Cotton
hangs at an abnormally low point The
entire array of manufactured staples
shows no change except for the worse.
The volume of busiuess grows, but profits
do not, because prices are low and show
no dispositionjto advance. —Phila. Press.
When the mints of the United States
are opened to the free coinage of silver, a
silver dollar will be worth as much as a
gold dollar, just as it now is, but gold will
not purchase as much wheat, corn, cattle,
hogs, boots, coats, pants, jack-knives,
&c., as it does now, and farmers will be
able to get more money for their produce
and consequently be able to pay more on
their mortgages and have a chance of
getting out of debt, and this is what the
goldbug press call “dishonest money,”
“repudiation” and “menace to the
nation’s credit”! Did you ever know
anything more brazen than that when it
is properly understood ?
The little band of frisky politicians who
masquerade as "middle-of-the-road” Pop
ulists held a meeting in St. Louis on the
13th inst. and proposed a convention to
nominate a presidential candidate for the
People’s party on the 4th of July next.
Two or three other dates were suggested
but the 4th was the favorite. This is
about the wildest delusion that has so far
ever been heard of. What is still more
inconceivable is that Hon W. Barker of
The American. Philadelphia, encourages
and endorses the scheme and urges it in
his paper. The folly of the proceeding is
made more manifest by the reasons ad
vanced by Mr. Barker for the movement
The fact is that Mr. Barker’s reasons are
no reasons at all.
The voters last fall made a sad mistake
when they voted only to change the
name of the party in power in place of its
principles. The same policy is contin
uing the same results.
A contemporary very truly states : The
rule of the batiks is a curse to the coun
try. They are plundering the people
and gradually but surely putting them ill
fiancial bondage. If the people do not
strangle the banks the banks will strangle
the government.
What is the cause of falling prices and
hard times? Lack of money. There is
less money in actual circulation today
than ever was before. The money is
empounded in the Treasury or hoarded
by banks. There is none for business
purposes. Earnings, not wages are the
test of the prosperity of labor. There
may be an increase in wages to those em
ployed and yet a decrease in earnings on
account of reduced hours and number of
those employed, and such has been one
of the results of gold monometallism.
The National Review, a goldbug paper,
says: "The superstitioii that a banker
must necessarily understand the science of
the currency system he uses, is as sound
and no sounder than the suggestion that
a man who crosses a bridge must nec
essarily be an engineer, or the man who
eats a bun be a baker.
A Grand Address.
The address to the Direct Legislation •
Conference by Frederick Upliatn Adams,
published in the New Time, January,
1898, number, is eloquent with facts and
information on the Constitution and the
views the framers of that document held
with regard to trusting the people with
political power. But few of these old
Revolutionary duffers had any faith in
the masses of the people, but were anx
ious to remove power as far as possible
from them.
This remarkable address of Mr. Adams
ought to be read in every public school in
the State and the subject it treats on com
mented ou by the teachers in order to
impress the subject on the minds of the
pupils.
The New Time should be a monthly
visitor iu every family. You should not
be without it. We offer a clubbing rate
of #1.70 for the Midland Journal and
the New Time, or will forward your sub
scription of SI.OO for the New Time. j
TBIE AXj: FRIDAY, 3 4CSSX XJ JUSCY 23, 1898.
A Broadcloth Party.
Dr. Charles Martyn, in his preface to
the life and century of Neal Dow which
is being published in the New York
Voice, sketches the Whig party’s char
acteristic in the following paragraph :
“The Whig party, good as it was in
many respects, had one fatal defect: it
lacked confidence in the people. It was
a broadcloth party. It looked upon the
country as a probate court in which the
educated and wealthy were guardians and
the people wards. A typical Whig dis
trusted the democratic idea. While say- 1
ing that all men are equal he was afraid I
they would be. * * * The Whig'
party rested one dainty hand familiarly
on the shoulder of respectability and the
other on a cambric handkerchief, twice
doubled to prevent the possibility of con
tamination with the shoulder of labor.”
It would be impossible to write a more
accurate figurative description of the Re
publican party of today than this por
trayal. The old Federal party, of which
Alexander Hamilton was the leader, the
Whig party and the present day Repub
lican party, stand in their succession as
grand-fathtr, father and son. The son
has grown more arrogant and disdainful
of labor, while patronizingly smiling on
labor for its vote, because it is more
wealthy than its father and grand-father.
The son, and the third in succession of
this dynasty of class government, has
risen above a bioadcloth distinction and
aspires to a golden sceptre. It believes in
the divine right of gold for the wealthy
few, and court-made law for the people
who crowd the labor world. It sets prop
erty far above human souls and regards
labor as only fit for its servant. By the
sacred right of the vote labor has yet the
power to free itself from its present ser
vitude to the house of gold, but appears
to distrust its manhood and fears to assert
its independence. Labor admires the
broadcloth of a master and despises the
overalls that cover itsown stalwart limbs !
The seers are vainly striving to pene
trate the veil that hides the future and
divine whether labor can ever be lifted to
that higher estate where wealth shall be
humanity’s footstool and labor its throne.
Plain Facts.
Plain Facts is the title of a new venture
by the single taxers of Baltimore, pub
lished monthly bv The Plain Facts pub
-1 lishing Company. Price 50 cents a year.
The initial or January number is mainly
devoted to urging the passage by the
present legislature of an act amending the
constitution so as to permit the people to
have a voice in their own government,
which they have not, strange as this may
sound to the majority of people, neither
in State or Nation. Local self-govern
ment is the object of the little magazine
" Plain Facts.” Local self government
is a very important question. In fact is
the "open sesame” to democratic or pop
ular government. Plutocracy reigns and
over-rides the people more arrogantly,
uncurbed and defiantly, in the great Re
public of the United States than in any
, monarchy of Europe. If any doubt this
let him compare its despotic sway in the
United States with its power in the gov
, ernmet of any monarcy. It is time the
people were moving to the recovery of
their lost heritage. They have no voice
as things are in making the laws that
oppress and rob them.
But we fear our present legislature will
do nothing. Neither party represents any
■ political principle, except that the Repub
lican party iu a general way represents
the national principle of the party, the
gold standard. The Democratic end of
the legislature represents only an effort to
get into office. They owe their election
to no principle whatever, except to elect
Gorman to the U. S. Sena'e for another
term. That is absolutely all. They
neither stand for gold supremacy’ or the
principle of remonetization of silver,
rather against the latter if anything. As
far as any political principle is involved,
the legislature is clearly emasculated.
The “Boss” in Politics.
The following little sketch from the
Outlook fits our Maryland politics so
nicely that we copy it for the benefit of
our Maryland electors to consider :
“A single man becomes a ‘boss,’ nom
inates the members of a representative
body. The electors go to the polls simply
to ratify his choice. The representatives
so elected represent not the electors but
the‘boss.’ They are a very loyal body
of men; but loyal of course to the ‘boss’
who has given them their offices. They
are very faithful to the interests which
have been entrusted to them, but these
interests are those of the ‘boss.’ It it
happens that their nominal constituents
wish anything done or not done, they be
stir themselves, frame petitions, organize
mass meetings and appoint committees
who humbly beg their supposed represen
tatives to grant them a hearing. Some
times the hearing is accorded sometimes
refused. Sometimes the petition is read,
and sometimes it is thrown into the waste
basket.”
What an admirable photograph of the
Gorman politics of this State ! He has
the work reduced to a system with his
county boss iu every county who has his
district corporal, one or more, all working
together in the most complete harmony
The candidates are selected with care and
judgment before the day of nomination,
each man fitted to the work that is to be
assigned.to him. Election day rolls round,
the handle of the machine is given a turn
and, presto ! everything comes out of the
hopper ground to the right
“grist” to suit the loaf that is to the sat
isfaction of the big "boss'” taste. And
this is the way politics has been run in
Maryland for twenty years. An all round
smash has lately taken place, but things
will never be much improved till the rep
resentative system is broken up and the
people hold all political power in their
own hands and refuse to delegate it into
the hands of any set of selected (by a
boss) meu. *
Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, 0., says,
“After two doctors gave up my boy to die!
I saved hitn from croup by using Oue
Minute Cough Cure.” It is the quickest
and most certain remedy for coughs,
j colds and all throat and lung troubles.
I Eli T. Reynolds.
The American Farmer’s Prospect Not
Bright for Big Prices.
It is known that the Argentina wheat
crop, now garnered is fair and that
country will have considerable surplus to
export. There is every assurance of a
boutiful wheat crop in India to be
harvested in March. This winter’s Aus
tralian crop was not blighted and Australia
will not continue an importer of wheat.
The wheat market iu Chicago indicates
that speculator believe that wheat will go
down by next July to 75 cents. While |
I cash wheat is 90 cents, option wheat for
July is 80.
The wheat crop in the Southern hem
isphere is good; if the crops in European
countries are fair lower prices next fall
are inevitable.
Judge Louis E McComas was elected
U. S. Senator on Tuesday at a joint
session of the Maryland Legislature by a
vote of 62 out of a total of 114. Gorman
- received 47 and Shaw 5; necessary to a
choice, 58. Mr. Gorman’s term will
expire in March 1899, when Mr. Mc-
Comas’ will commence.
Perhaps Gorman regrets now that he
did not come out honestly and announce
that he stood on the Chicago platform,
i Had he dropped his old ‘ methods” there
is hardly a doubt that he would have
again been elected to succeed himself.
The American Mechanics in the little
war between them and the Catholics in
angerated the movement of supplying
public school houses with the United
States flag, and hoisting the same over
the buildings with appropriate ceremony.
This was all very well if the order con
sidered it a display of patriotism and a
useful object lesson for the rising genera
' tion. Flags, like all things made of
textile fiber or wool, are prone to wear
I out rapidly from use and require renew
ing. This feature of the patriotic side
was bound to become more or less irk
some in due course of time, when flag
renewal day came round. This antici
pated trial to the sentiment of the order
is showing itself in the Legislature. Del
. egate James, of Baltimore, has asked
. leave to introduce a bill making appro
. priation for supplying public schools with
flags and flag poles. This would require
, a large sum of money which would be
. taken out of the school fund and literally
. wasted in this idle display of mock
, patriotism and sham love of country. It
the curriculum of the schools does not
- inculcate patriotic American sentiment,
r the display of flags on buildings never
. will.
. The little religious “unpleasantness”
t between the Pope of Rome and the Order
j of American Mechanics ought to be kept
. confined to the parties directly interested
] in the quarrel and the future expense not
saddled on the State, and a soft snap pro
. vided for a lot of new officers to eat up
• the tax which industrious people pay.
Hows This ?
We offer Oue Hundred Dollars Reward
j. for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
I J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
’ West & Truax,
P Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
’ acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by
all druggists.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
A Jewish Wedding: I-'eust.
There were a great many people com
ing and going that day at the house
of the wise ltabbi Isaac Ben Nassur.
They were not all Cana people, by any
means. The bridal feast was spread
in the large front room opening upon
the porch, and all who had a right to
enter were welcomed heartily. Food
‘’•us plentifully provided, but the mer
riest hour of each day would be after
sunset, when, the day’s work being
lone, all the invlpcd guests would
come. The bridegroom was continual
ly present, to receive congratulations
and good wishes. With him were sev
eral young men of his more intimate
friends; but decidedly the most impor
tant figure in that room was Isaac
himself. As master of tlie house and
as ruler of the feast, he sat at the
head of the long table provided for
the occasion. His dress was as simple
as ever, but it seemed to have under
gone a change, he wore it w ith so grand
an air. He appeared to be happy, and
he received great respect from the
throng of people who came to congrat
ulate him upon the marriage of his son.
So the marriage feast W’enton until the
midday was past and the shadows be
gan to lengthen in the streets of Cana.
—W. O. Stoddard, in St. Nicholas.
Money In Urnims.
Here is “a strange true tale,” with
the scene in Georgia, near the flourish
ing town of Covington: A few years
ago a negro woman living near Coving
ton lost a son, by death. A week or so
ago the woman had a dream in which
the sou appeared to her and told her
that if she would go to a certain corner
of the house and dig she would find a
flat rock, underneath which she would
find a lot of silver money. The woman
awoke and was so much wrought up I
over the vision that she aroused some
of the family and went at once to the '
designated spot and began to dig. ,
Soon the flat rock was reached and re- ‘
moved with trembling hands and high 1
expectation. A small box was re
vealed; tliis was taken out and opened,
and, to the wonder and astonishment
of all present, it contained 30 silver
dollars.—Atlanta Constitution. I
Mothers Praise Hood’s Sarsaparilla, be
cause, by its great blood enrlchiug qual
ities, it gives rosy ’cheeks and vigorous •
appetites to pale and punv children.
1 i
Hood’s Pills are the favorite family ca- J
thartic and liver medicine. Piice 25c. \
Liver Ills
Like biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, consti
pation, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly
cured by Hood's Pills. They do their work
Hood’s
easily and thoroughly. 1 I I
Best after dinner pills. 111
.25 cents. All druggists. I 111
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Pill to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly.
That’s what you want! Eli T. Reynolds.
The Gold Standard.
The gold standard is of no advantage
to any except those who own bonds, those
having fixed incomes; it appreciates the
purchasing power of a dollar and neces
sarially makes the debtor perform twice
as much labor, or give twice as much in
commodities to pay his debts as he would
if both gold and silver were used as
money.
FLORIDA.
. PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED TOUR VIA PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD.
The next Pennsylvania Railroad tour
to Jacksonville, allowing two weeks in
Florida, will leave New York and Phil
adelphia by special train of Pullman
Palace Cars Tuesday, February 8. Ex
-1 cursion tickets, including railway trans
-1 portation, Pullman accommodations (one
berth), and meals eu route in both direc
tions while traveling on special train, will
be sold at the following rates : New York,
1 #SO 00; Philadelphia, Jt.45.00; Canandai
gua, $52 85; Erie, 554 S 5; Wilkesbarre,
tionate rates from other points.
For itineraries and full information,
! apply to ticket agents; Tourist Agent, 1196
Broadway, New York; or address Geo. W.
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agt.,
' Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
J A Perkins, of Antiquity, 0., was for
thirty years needlessly tortured by phy
( sicians for the cure of eczema. He was
quickly cured by using DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve the famous healing salve for
piles and skin diseases. Eli T. Reynolds.
I When bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10c, 25c.
AT ALL TIMES—
As well as Holidays, you will
1 find at DR. KIRK’S DRUG STORE a full line of Perfumes,
i Fancy Cut Glass Bottles, Toilet Articles, Dressing Cases,
• Notions and Sundries, Violins and Musical Goods, a full line
’ of all the reliable Patent and Proprietory Medicines, Trusses,
Supporters, Belts and Instruments used for the sick and in
jured, Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes and Smokers’ Goods, Combs,
Brushes, Hair Dressings and Dyes.
All Goods at Lowest Cash Prices!
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Having had 25 years experience in repairing ofeverj description ol
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles,
eyz classes, irosic zczzs. ac.
work guaranteed. Special attention given to Chronograph
Next door to Post Office * RISING SUN. MD. 1
A77a£ '
oystersLT
The undersigned are prepared to furnish the linest quality Oys
ters, Raw, Fried, Panned, Stewed, or in anv stvle desired, and can
supply them in quantities to suit, by the plut'e. quart, gallon or *
barrel, in the shell or out. Fresh shipments in the shell daily.
We also huve a lull stock of
Groceries, Meats, Sausage anc/ Scrapple.
ICE CREAM AND FRUITS IN SEASON.
£i*Speeiai attention given to orders for catering for balls, parties or festivals.
TOUCIITOX & XIELDS,
Restaurant and Grocery, i
Tow n Hall Building. Kising Sun, Md. I
Try our Fancy Santos Coffee, Golden
Rio and Caracas I.aguayra for better cof
fees. We keep them fresh—shipped to us
as we need them. Other grades cheaper.
Buckets, Brooms, Woodeu and Willow
Ware.
Fresh and Salt Meats.
Canned Goods, choice Apricots in boxes,
ioc per lb. Evaporated Peaches at right
prices.
Syrups and Molasses, good and low in
price.
cut at our factory ou Pearl
street, seasoned when brought, at 75c per
100 lbs.; if not, and we season, fi .oo per
100 tl>s will be charged.
Apples and Malaga Grapes.
We try to please.
B®“Buekwlieat Flour, loose or in sack:
for holiday presents, in fancy designs.
We are yours to obey, &e., j:
Cor, Queen it Cherry Sts.. —. ■■, -T—. 1. . ... . ■ -- , , I■
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expenses. Position steady. Reference. Enclose .
self-addressed stamped envelope. The Dominion |
Company, Dept. R. Chicago.
Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe.
10 ceuts.
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That is what it was made far.
A line of Dry Goods.
Ladies’ Shoes 95c, a specialty, in all
sizes. Children’s and Men’s Shoes.
Ready-made Dresses, Skirts, Wrappers,
Silk and Shirt Waists, Children’s Wear
aud Underwar of all kinds.
Outing Flannel, Wrappers, Plaid and
Lancaster Ginghams.
Men’s Overalls and Working Shirts
very cheap and of good quality.
Oil cloth —good article and low down j
in price.
cs, at right prices. Decorated China Sets,
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Early Shipments for Spring Buyers.
130 rolls of China Matting now on sample.
Twenty-five Bed Room Suits expected from the
factory in two weeks.
An advance shipment of Hamburg Edging
came today, 60 pieces in the lot.
We propose making a cut in odds and ends and
pass them out at a mere nominal price.
Why not secure your share ? Money saved is
money made.
Voces Thcly,
E. R. BUFFINGTON.
WORTHINGTON’S!
Thanking our patrons for their liberality during the Holiday
season, we come before them again with the substantial of every
day trade :
Brown and Bleached Muslins ,
Prints and Ginghams ,
lickings and Cotton Flannels ,
Outing Cloths & Flannelettes ,
Notions and Trimmings ,
&c., &c., &c.
MU VS FINE SHIRTS, white and fancy designs—all up-to-date
goods. Gent’s Collars of latest styles.
Many bargains will be offered to clean up before stock-taking.
Another lot ot \ork State Buckwheat just in, at a lower price.
Groceries of the best.
EDW. H. WORTHINGTON.
January brings its needs
and we still have goods that are seasonable and up-to-date.
We figure our margins on the large quantity of goods that we handle
and you will find our prices very low on many of our lines of goods.
Ladies and Gents’ Skates, in plain and nickel, ranging in price
from Jsc to $1.20 per pair. A very good assortmentof Children’s Sleds
and Coasters, Snow Shovels, Sleigh Soles, Shaft C himes and Sleigh Bells.
Ready-Mixed Sleigh Paints (in seven colors), Wood air tight Stoves
and Coal Oil Heaters are great favorites this winter, and if you want to
be thoroughly lashiouable you should have both in your; house.
Iron Lasts and stands, Half-Soles, Shoe Nails, etc., Window Glass,
Putty, Handled Axes, Cross-cut Saws, Steel Wedges, Guns and Ammu
nition.
HAINES & KIRK,
Rising Sun, Md.
(Rising
A Another year has gone and is
JfT f\<aV. Prr| C.y j Ij numbered in the history of the past,
— // and this year brings us to the front
eli 7. eetnolds, Prop. Nr with still more experience and
. knowledge of the requirements and
needs of the public, which puts in a
position to come boldly to the front with a line of goods
that will please any intelligent buyer. Nothing will be
misrepresented, but goods will be sold for just what they
are—nothing more, nothing less. This is our motto for
doing business.
jor-Au invoice of Stationery and *®“Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Ar-
Blauk Books now on the way, con- tides, Soaps, Perfumes, Patent
taining many good things. Medicines, &c.
BfegfOur stock of Watches and
Jewelry, Silverware and Silver Nov- Paints, Oils and Varnishes,
elties is complete.
Sfcgr-Pocket Books, Purses, Bill te* Photograph Cameras and
Books, Card Cases and Pen Kuives, supplies,
ladies’ and gents’—you ought to
see them. ftarFine stock Key West Cigars.
Yours truly,
ELI T. REYNOLDS.