The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03

IN California that san FRANCISCO was
| the front door of the United States
and New York the back door. 1t Is
still customary, however, for all goods
to be delivered in the rear.
A New York physician says fathers
| should encourage their boys to play
baseball Any boy that needs en-
couragement in that direction is hard
| ly worth the trouble.
AS they have it figured out now. We
have to have big navy to protect
those more or less troublesome colo
NAL possession that we would not have
had if we had not had big navy.
Says the Chicago Tribune: 1t is not
improbable that future naval wars may
be fought out with torpedo boats, tor,
pedo boat destroyers and destroyers
of torpedo boat destroyers, and so on
Report says that ten per cent. OF
the Japanese soldiers are women
With so many chances to tell reason
able lies about the war, why ring il
one so stupid?
The British Admiralty has just
struck off its maps the so-called Roya'
Company Islands, which have ap
peared hitherto as to the south OF Aus
tralia, but have been found to be non
existent.
If stupid and slow men are on big
battleships while clever and quick mer
are GA torpedo boats it would be alb
surd to conclude from results in that
particular case that the day of big
lighting machines was at an end.
The suggestion that nurse maids
should receive regular training fol
.heir work is not without. its good
points Trained nurse maids. how
ever, would command a wage too high
for the average paterfamilias, who
would have to content himself with
the crude article as found today.
Can any one tell, muses. the Boston
Waterman, why So many of the great
battles of the world are fought on
Sunday? In the case of the battle
of the Yalu the Japanese could have
been moved neither by superstition
nor irreverence.
A Zurich lady doctor is advocating
a scheme under which all unmarried
girls of the well-to-do classes are tc
be compelled by the State to devote
one year to unpaid hospital work. She
claims that not only would the hospi
tails benefit. but the girls would gain
training which would be of great value
to them after marriage.
President Eliot, of Harvard, has
seized upon another occasion to urge
working people to be content with
small pay. In his fine and philosophi'
cal way he says that "love OF work.
the motive of exceling, and the play
of mental powers. should give the Ia
borer more satisfaction than his
wage" What is the use, then. OF CIV,
ing college professors four or five
thousand dollars year, and why
should not lawyers and doctors and
merchants and bankers take the medt
cine that the learned Eliot prescribes
for mechanics and men with the Pier
and spade? asks the New York Mail
and Express.
So many prominent railroads in va
rious parts of the country have been
borrowing or intend to borrow tens
of millions of dollars for needed i'm
provements. expansion and develop
meat that upon no ineonsideraoie
number of lines the movement which
was begun years ago to pull down
mean and ugly passenger stations In
country towns and small cities. and to
set up in place of them really attractive
bits of architecture, with flower beds
and other comedy setting and framing,
may encounter a check. The Boston
and Albany has long been noted fol
it's handsome stations in the minor
communities of the Old Bay State
The famous architect Richardson de
signed several of them.
Ia Feeling" music the sound Is con
iucted from the instrument to the
person by means Of electric wires. In
stead of the sound waves merely
knocking on the tympanum of the ear
as in listening to music, the waves OF
harmony course clear through the
body, so that the tune is felt from
head to foot. The device can be at
tached to any kind of musical instru-
ment, so that one can feel a piano,
photograph. guitar. banjo or a from
bone, and il a wire could be attached
to every horn a person could feel thu
music of a brass band. Those who
have practiced feeling music have
demonstrated that they can easily dis
criminate between the feeling Of diff.
ferent airs as we'll as of different in
struments. They could readily distin