The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Bandit Raisuli is too busy making
chills chase themselves up and down
the Sultan of Morocco's spine to go
on the lecture platform.
The latest hair tonic is piano
music, and it seems just as efficacious
as any of the others, says the Age
Herald, of Birmingham, Ala.
The shirt-wafst man must put a
coat on or stay out Of the Fine Arts
Building at st. Louis. Such Is the
lack of privilege through not being
born an Igorrote.
Timber wolves in the country north
Of Laramie, Wyo. are said to be more
numerous this season than for years.
Heavy losses of live stock have re-
7, Gently been caused by these gray
thieves in that part of the State.
Kuropatkin has ordered all cores.
pondents to the rear. This ought to
satisfy the correspondents who have
been anxious to get to the Japanese
front, comments the Washington
Post.
Family pews were introduced at
the beginning of the seventeenth
century, states the Reliquary. Some
of these had table and fireplace
also curtains and window blinds, SO
as to secure the utmost privacy. This
led to abuses. In some of the closed
pews card-playing was not uncom-
mon, and the tedium of long serv-
ice was sometimes relieved by light
refreshment.
One of the big problems before
ranchmen in the Southwest is the re-
juvenation of their ranges. Over.
stocking has practically killed out
the grass in many sections and this
is bound to decrease. The holding
capacity of the ranges. Similar con
ditions exist in parts of the North.
west. The range does not need a rest
so much as change. Diversiication
is the solution of the problem.
The London papers tell many
stories about Dom Paul Kruger, most
of them familiar but there is char.
acteristic one, which is new, about
his visit to England. Americans
travelling in England are exaspe-ated
by the warning, "Trespassers will be
prosecuted" which confronts one
everywhere in the rural districts of
England. On one occasion during his
visit Mr.. Kruger said: THE houses
in England are very fine, but l find
no happiness ON your veldt. l go
right away from London, and sit
down under a tree on the veldt to
smoke, but before 1 get two whiffs
up comes some one who says the
land is his, and he does not want me
there. No, there is no freedom on
your veldt."
Ingratitude pretty nearly reaches its
limits in the case of Brooklyn WON.
an who jumped from a moving train
and would have fallen under the
wheels but for the conductor, whose
leg was crushed, and after months
suffering has died from his injury,
says the Philadelphia Record. Never
has the woman expressed her obliga'
lions to the man who lost his life
savings hers, and never did she make
an inquiry for him or show conscious
ness of his existence. That the life
of a brave man should be taken away
and that of such woman be spared
Is one of those mysteries that moved
the writer of Ecclesiastes to reflect:
vanity of vanities, all is vanity"
Although Harvard came in for
much singing ridicule when 1t pro
tested against Princeton's vociferous
roofing" that protest has neverthe-
less been needed. The college yell
Is about done for in American ath-
letics. says the Kansas City Inde-
pendent at least it will never again
be the feature of every game that 1t
was. A good thing at the outset, as
a source of inspiration and cheer, it
came to be an unmitigated nuisance,
both to players and spectators. Eng
land played large part in bringing
about this reform. The British are
notably quiet at games, a We'll
Played" or well done!" being the
limit of their enthusiasm. When
Yale and Harvard competed abroad
last year their college yells fell quite
fiat, and last week, when the Ameri-
can college won over Cambridge and
Oxford, the yell was noticeably abb
sent.
The serious student Of nature can
have no interest in belittling or in
the intelligence of ami.
mails. declares the Century Maya
zine. What he wants is the truth