The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-08-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tn population of Naples is said N
include nearly a hundred thousand
persons who do not know today where
they will find bread and shelter y
morrow.
The London Daily News says: "The
world looks on and applauds, forget
full of the fact that battleship costs
s1,OOO,O0O, that e1,000,000 make TO-
900 900 yen, that 100000 yen make l.
; 600, 100000 sen, and that a Japanese
male adult operative earns in a year
about 5000 sen, or f8. The wages
for whole year of $4,000 male adult
operatives are sunk in a single JAP
anese battleship.
The literary press agents say that
a certain American story writer once
made joke about the Pyramids that
guides Of Egypt still tell to all trav-
eller The writer was studying the
Pyramids when guide approached
and said to him: ut took hundreds
of years to build them monuments,
sir "A government job, eh?" said
the novelist.
In a circular just issued by the
State Board of Health of Illinois en-
titled THE Cause and Prevention OF
Consumption" it is shown that in III
hn 10 ncth1n for
more deaths than typhoid fever, scar
let fever, diphtheria. all forms of bron.
chitis, Influenza measles and small.
pox combined 1t is further found
that those dying from consumption
are usually in the prime of life and
of ages of which men are most val
liable to themselves, their families
and. the State. OF the 1000 persons
who died from the disease in Illinois
in 1903 half were between the ages
of twenty and fifty, while the esti.
mated loss each year to the State
because of the disease ia about 1885,
900 900. The Investigations of the
Board have demonstrated that an es.
pecial climate is not essential to the
cure of consumption. but that the dis
ease Is durable in Illinois.
Englishmen are still wilfully ignor-
ant about America and American at
fairs says Mr.. Sydney Brooks in Har.
per's Weekly, and, what is worse they
refuse to be enlightened. The Eng.
lish at times seem almost to hate
the thought that America has emerged
from the backwoods. and everything
that smacks of America crudeness of
commercialism they fasten on all the
more readily as suspicion is begin
ming to arise that in other ways the
United States is getting ahead. With
American steel rails, machinery bridg
es. tools, inventions of all kinds flood
ng them Englishmen feel they have to
get even somehow. They accordingly
take it out H.. comments on American
manners and social life, and are pa
triotically resentful and suspicious OF
all attempts to portray things as they
really are"
The completely successful result of
Sig. Marconis attempt to keep the
passengers on board the Cunard liner
Campania supplied with a daily news
bulletin during the voyage to New
York represents by no means the least
of the recent triumphs Of wireless
telegraphy, says the London World.
On no single day does there seem to
have been any failure in the supply
of news, communication with the Am.
erican stations having actually been
established before that with the Eng
lish stations ceased 1t may there
fore be taken for granted that the mid
Atlantic daily newspaper has come to
stay, and the practical value of SUCH
an institution to travellers between
the Old and the New World cannot
be over-estimated. In time, no doubt
a similar boon will be at the service
Of seafarers bound even upon the long
est voyages; and it will then be neces-
sary for those who desire to obtain
complete rest and change by escaping
beyond the reach Of newspapers to
seek what they require elsewhere
tkdA III TIC PaIAlCoS ~ aSho VI OSOohs'
Charles M. Schwab's resignation
from the directorate of the United
States Steel Corporation, following
his retirement from the presidency
of the trust. recalls the old adage that
most men can stand adversely but few
can stand prosperity Mr.. Schwab is
an Illuminating example of the evils
of too much and too sudden pfosperi-
ty. AS Carnegie superintendent he
gained a brilliant reputation for ad-
ministrative ability. But when he was
elevated to the presidency of a billion
dollar trust and the pressure Of the
Carnegie common sense was removed
Mr.. Schwab promptly exploded and
scattered himself over two continents.
Until this new prosperity was thrust
upon Mr.. Schwab he was great cap