The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-24

to the heirs of man hanged for muir
der In this decision law is, as al.
ways it should be, crystallized com
mon sense.
Asks the Chicago Record-Herald:-
"Just to satisfy public curiosity, will
somebody kindly report how work is
progressing on the Hague Palace OF
Peace?"
According to Mr.. Crooks, M. p.
everybody who lives twenty years in
London without blemish on his char
acter goes to Heaven without dying
So far, however, there has been no
marked decrease in the death rate Cd
this account.
If one judges by the salaries paio
in some other cities and throughout
the country, the Teachers College is
building better than it knows in in
structing its pupils how to live on
thirteen cents day, observes the
New York Herald.
AS Senator Morgan gazes upon the
portrait of the late Senator Hanna en-
the Panama bonds he may be pardon.
ed for thinking regretfully how nice
his own portrait would have looked
upon crisp, new Nicaragua bonds,
with the legend under it, Father Of
the Isthmian Canal"
Dean George f. James of the De.
partment Of Pedagogy in the State
University, told the st. Paul Fedora
ion of Grade Teachers recently that
more than 100000 teachers would re
ire this year because their salaries
did not afford living. Many school
boards, he said, expected high school
teachers to instruct in Latin and
Greek and in several sciences, to con,
duct giee clubs and other musical or.
CARNATIONS and take general charge
Of physical culture and athletics for
$50 month, and only nine months in
he year. A laborer could earn more
wages and work every month in the
year.
Professor Starr, of the University
Of Chicago, advises mothers to strap
children to boards, papoose fashion,
and thus insure the erect form and
carriage of the American Indian. The
professor, it will be remembered, be.
lieves Americans are gradually be-
coming Indians, owing to climatic in.
fluences, and his suggestion in regard
to babies is evidently intended to
hasten the evolution.
An amusing feud between the bench
and the press has arisen in Mel
bourne, according to the London
Chronicle. One of the local morning
journals alleged that the court hours
were too short altogether, and that
public inconvenience thereby result
ed. Chief Justice Sir John Madden
read that statement, and staggered
counsel by sitting until o'clock every
day. A deputation of barristers wait
ed upon him and demonstrated. He
replied that so long as the public, as
represented by the press, considered
that the court was consulting its own
ease he would continue to sit late. He
has already converted the reporters
Says the American Tailor and Cut
ter: Properly to estimate the debt of
gratitude the world owes to tailoring
due consideration must be given not
only to the increased gracesIlness
and attractiveness good clothes give
to men in general, but to the. wonder
full work the tailor does in so clothing
misshaped men as to make them less
conspicuously disagreeable in appear
ance than they otherwise would be.
Think of what tailors do for the lop-
sided, whom they pad and build up
to apparent evenness, and for the CIR.
affe-like necked, the swaybacked, the
bow-legged, the knock kneed, the
scraggy and the big bellied, to whom
their art supplies either some degree
of attractiveness or whose lack of
pulchritude it minimizes. Tailors. in
short, are responsible to great de-
gree for the social and moral condi.
tions of civilized mankind, and by the
excellence of their work, or the lack
of it, contribute much to the worlds
happiness or greatly add to its spirit
ual depression and mental derange-
ment.
"The chewing gum is generally re-
garded by the parents of children who
are addicted to it as pernicious hab-
1t" recently remarked Philadelphia
dentist. And yet, in certain cases,
| have no hesitation in saying that it
is a most excellent thing. In fact,
on more than one occasion have l adj
vised the parents of children whose
faces were narrow and whose jaws
were not sufficiently developed to
make them chew gum. The constant
exercise has tendency to widen an
otherwise narrow jaw and thus make