The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

If the Czarevitch had been twins
Russia might have got a constitution
remarks the New York World.
The city of Cape Town, South Africa
is about to extend its water works al
an expenditure of $40 100000.
Any one who wishes to buy town
will be interested to know that there
is one in county Cork, Ireland, that if
soon to be put up at auction. 1t be
longs to count who happens to be ID
need of ready money.
The St. Louis house which proposes
10 build a large wooGen-ware factory
could increase its business by making
new arms and heads for people who
reach out of the street car windows.
the St Louis Republic declares.
A new millionaire" is reported tt
be paying $6,O0O,Ooo for divorce.
New York society man" with $4,000
a year says that it is impossible tc
live upon that sum. plain living
and "high thinking get many jolts
these days, thinks the New York
World
A post-mortem examination was
held over the body of William kress
whose death at Roanoke, Ind. aroused
suspicion among the authorities. Ter
32-caliber cartridges, 4 carpet tacks
and a needle were found in the stom
ach. Kress was ambitions to beat tbs
hardware-eating record, comments the
Path Finder, but succumbed in the.
process.
When Admiral Cervera reads that
Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky's o.
ders are imperative to go out of Port
Arthur harbor or destroy his ships be
yond possibility OF repair before the
fortress falls, he must find some com
fort in the thought that there is al
least one man who understands how
he felt at Santiago, says the Indian
apolis News.
People who think that all the worlt
is dishonest will sniff at case which
has just occurred in Chicago, where
Thomas Taylor, an L-road guard
found satchel containing $4,000 il
gold and checks. belonging to the
Woodlawn bank, states the Path Find
er. His honesty was rewarded by a
gift of 800.
colored men S1.75 day to strike mos
quitoes where track layers are at work
in a swamp. The men have struck
for 81 day. This will draw the com
panys attention to Line fact that for a
weeks wages they can buy enough
oil to cover the swamp and do up the
mosquitoes That are always on strike.
the Brooklyn Eagle states.
Finland demands her old constitu
tional rights, the rights which line
of Cars had sworn to preserve, but
which were taken away from her the
other day. Nicholas ii. allots her
100000 roubles for the benefit of her
landless classes out of gratitude for
the birth of son. The New York
Evening Sun says this is like asking
for bread and getting a stone.
During recent session of the Pan
American Presbyterian Alliance in
Liverpool, a paper on christianity
and Current Literature" was read by
the Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke, of
Princeton University. At the outset
of his address, which is printed in full
in The British Weekly (London, July
y and is declared to have touched
the oratorical hig1-water mark" OF
the convention, Dr. Van Dyke endea.
vors to define the scope both of liter.
ature and religion. Literature, he
says, is "the art in which the inner
life of man seeks expression and last.
ing influence through written words"
Religion is ''the life of the human
spirit in contact with the divine"
ASf OioiO, NC TSllRiOH ue6Qj
literature to express its meaning"
a2d "perpetuate it's power"
In many sections of the cotsltry
since the R. F. D. lines have knocked
out so many of the rural postoffices,
the custom of naming the country
homes and farms has revived, says
the Danburg Reporter. We horH it
will obtain in our county of Stokes
Such names as Oak View" Chest
nut Shade" Maple Gien." River
Foam" Meadow Brook Farm" and
others suitable to the taste or fancy
of the owners, are used. The custom
is old and colonial-like, savoring of
the good old ante-bellnm days. We
have always thought that the efface.
ment of the individuality Of the neigh.
borhoods and postoffices was the only
Objectionable feature about the rural
free delivery. 1t is easily neutralized
by the naming of fhe farms ond oo,,n