The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-19

of President Lincoln in order to check
mate England who was then plotting to
destroy the Union. England is making a
cats paw of japan and trying to wheedle
our government into an alliance"
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1t is said that ten thousand people have
gone from here to Baltimore to see the
fire ruins and the desolation. Some of
the best informed conclude that "the
only fre-proof building is fire-proof
building surrounded by fire-proof build
ings," and that brick and steel and sand
stone are better than marble or limestone
for building purposes. Better than any
of them are the broad streets which en-
sure this city against confagration aver
aging more than twice as wide as those of
Baltimore and New York. Perhaps
private buildings are as solid as they can
be made and be comfortable, but it is now
certain that all public buildings ought to
approach more and more the substantial
proportions of the Roman Coliseum.
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The U. S. Geological Survey now ap-
plies to Congress for million-dollar
building. 1t has spent million dollars
year for good many years-to what
end? 1t is alleged by Senator Stewart, a
miner and geologist, who entered the
Senate just forty years ago, that the Blu
reau is comparatively useless" that it
has never yet discovered gold, silver,
iron or coal mine, but has always follow
ed in the wake of private prospectors who
worked with pick, shovel and pan. Di-
rector Walcott of the Survey has now
appointed expert Kunz to be "Radium
Commissioner at the St. Louis Fair, and
he will now perhaps appoint Commits
sioners to exploit Solium, the X-ray,
Liquid Air, Bottled Sunshine. Paleontol
ogy, and Balloonacy. We have no money
to spend on good roads, irrigation, or a
parcels-post, but have loads of it for Pro-
fessors Langley and Walcott
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Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the
Senate, is much abroad and people on
the street turn to look at him, livery tall,
unkept, hirsute, shaggy, grizzled, loose of
dress, hoarse of speech. A baptist paper
filings at him and says he is the only
chaplain the Senate ever had who did not
believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
No, there have been several others John
Quincy Adams was Unitarian, and he
brought to Washington Boston preacher
of that school of thought. During Lin
coins incumbency, Sumner brought John
Pierpont and Vim. H. Claiming, who
alternately oficiated as chaplain. The
poet, Edwin Arnold, married one of Mr..
Channings daughters. One Sunday
when Pierpont was i'll Walt Whitman Of
fered to tpray for the Senate" as he
called it, on the ground that mo relig-
ious test shall be required of candidates
for office" but, though the two poets
were fond of each other, and though
Pierpont didn't want Presbyterians to
draw the line at him, he drew it at an
agnostic, and Walt lost his only chance
to offer an invocation
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DIR. Henry Gannett, lately returned
from taking census of the Philippines,
said in reply to questions mo, did
not find the climate despicable, by any
means. never saw the mercury above
e6o. AS you say, it is mp around SO or go |
a good deal of the time, but an American |
can keep comfortable if he has all the
time there is and knows how. l did not |
encounter very great difficulties in taking |
a fairly accurate census of the population. |