The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-15

the cause of European peace, declares
the Paris Deheche Chronicle.
When we were boys, says the Hav-
erhill Gazette, and didn't dare to set
tie our quarrels in any other way,
there used to be lot of satisfaction
in calling names, appeasing temper,
doing the other boy no harm, and be-
ing safer TOR all concerned.
It is just hundred years since an
Englishman of original fancy prone.
naded the streets of London in a cy-
lindrical hat covered with beaver and
was Kissed and booted home by the
crowd, relates the Paris Desbats. This
frightful, ridiculous. cumbrous, and
uncomfortable headgear, heavy and
fragile at once, has succeeded
throughout the world by its spurious
appearance of luxury.
The general report to the London
Board of Trade on railway accidents
in 1904, issued on July II, states that
the danger of railway travelling has
been reduced to such point that IN
1904 the chances against passenger
being killed in train accident in the
course of a given journey were more
than 2OO,OO0.OO0 to 1.
It is only natural to suppose that
Russia will turn her attention to the
direction of Central Asia with pres
sing earnestness, says the Toxic Jill.
In view of this trend of affairs, the
Jill perceives that the British desire
for the enlargement and solidihcation
of the Anglo-Japanese alliance is not
based entirely on the admiration ana
appreciation of Japan's prowess.
The most notable feature in the
statement of our foreign commerce
for the fiscal year 1905 is the increase
in our expectation of manufactured
goods. remarks the New York Sun.
From s452,415, 921 in 1904 to $543,62O,-
297 in 1905 is indeed goodly jump.
The increase alone is about equal to
the total of such exports in 1873.
Canada is grievously disappointed
with the results of her foreign trade
for the post fiscal year, notwithstand-
ing the fact that it's total volume was
double that of the total volume In
1896. observes the Milwaukee Wiscon-
sin. The reason for disappointment
is that the gain is in imports, and that
exports show heavy falling on from
the figures of the preceding year.
man who had been in the gold
rush of '49, had survived shipwreck
off South America, had escaped by the
smallest possible margin from burn
ing hotel, and had lived to tell the
tale of his escape from serious mine
disaster. was finally killed the other
day by a locomotive. 1t was con-
ventional ending to romantic exlst-
ence. comments the Boston Tran
script. He was walking the track.
No man is more unreservedly caiied
a shameless liar than the newspaper
reporter, and no man considers the
SANDERS against him more lightly
SAYS the Louisville Times. His con
science is usually clear, his motives
disinterested his knowledge OF human
nature comprehensive, his sense OF
humor keen and his knowledge OF MS
traducers complete.
The progress of good road MAKING
in the prairie West has encountered
peculiar conditions and some ne"
kinds have been developed states the
American Cultivator. First class roao
material is sometimes not to be had at
reasonable cost. But the resourcefui
Westerners have found that in sucn
cases much may be accomplished oy
the use of split log drag just after
rains. The drag fills the ruts and
puddles, packs the soil which rapidly
dries out at the top, making smooth
even cement-like surface. Eastern
farmers have plenty of good gravei
and are not likely to need such meth
DDS on the public roads. But on cart
roads over soft land where ruts ana
mud cause trouble. the plan might De
worth a trial.
If the Army and Navy Journal cor
rectIv translates an article in the Ar
tillery Journal of ST. Petersburg, the
wonder is, not that the Russians were
whipped in Manchuria, but that they
made so good a showing as they did,
the New York Press. the
article referred to gives an account
of an examination held last year at
the Esarkoe-Selo School of Applica-
ton, where Russian captains OF artii-
lery go through an eight-montns'
course before taking over the COM
mand of a battery. The examinations
were taken by forty-six officers, some