The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Farmers who believe that of all the
world of industrial humanity they are
the only ones who should exhaust
their energies in production, to have
their products priced and taken with
out being consulted, are unworthy OF
the high calling that God honored by
introducing it into the world and COM
manding that it be followed.
The original conception of the sub,
marine boat is commonly attributed to-
Jules Verne, though he took pains to
disavow the credit in favor Of an Ital-
ian inventor whose fame has not sur
vived. But his imaginative creations
blazed the way for various realizations
in the field of invention. Fact excelled
the Verne fiction in one particular in
a unique way when Nellie Bly, raced
around the world for the New York
World on schedule faster by nearly
eight days than Phineas Fogg's.
Patients will take medicine when
they will not take advice, and too
often it is advice they need and not
medicine. The physician whose force
and character make his advice sought
after and followed is the one who &C.
complishes the most. He can not
ignore drugs, but his success depends
on the extent to which ne can domin-
ate his patients and correct the omis-
sions, errors and excuses of their
lives, declares the Vermont Medical
Monthly.
Game of basketball at Smith Col
lege having resulted in a broken col
lar-bone for the "star freshman play
err" parents of the girls at the col.
lege have petitioned for the abolition
of the sport, says the New York Even
ing World. If the presidents OF
women colleges will only take the oc-
casion to make monitory remarks on
the dangerous tendencies and de-
moralizing influence of feminine
athletics" sports at girls colleges
will ~ppear to have reached the status
of official recognition they now enjoy
at mems universities.
"Unless a man is rich he ought to
be regarded as criminal II he per-
mits his sons or daughters to become
musicians" says an authority in the
LONDON Saturday Review, who pro-
ceeds: I'm the musical profession
there are few prizes, but for the
largest number of artists the life Isl
one of drudgery-the drudgery OF
learning, the drudgery of pushing
ones self into notice, and after all the
continual drudgery of playing or sing
ing just the music the public wants.
1 recommend no one to enter such
profession unless he or she loves mu-
sic to such degree that the drudgery.
is pleasure"
Can it be possible that while medi.
cal science has been striding ahead at
an amazing pace during the last five
or six decades, while sanitation and
surgery and the treatment of all ply
steal diseases have been revolution
lied, there has been comparatively lit
tie progress in ministering to disabled
minds, says the Washington Post,
Such would seem to be the opinion OF
DR.. Stephen Smith, formerly a men,
Der Of the Lunacy Commission OF New
York. In a paper contributed to Les
lies Magazine, DR.. Smith consciously
criticises the popular conception OF
what constitutes lunacy and the pre-
vailing method of treatment, regard
ing which he asserts that custody
and not cure of the insane has long
been the chief concern of both ply
sicians and managers of asylums." AS
Stunning that to be true-an assumption
that The Post will avoid-it would
constitute a terrific indictment of hun
dreds, if not thousands, of physicians
in charge of and employed at asylums
and hospitals for the insane.
In one person, however, should one
beware of becoming unduly interest
cd; namely, ones self, says the Chris
tian Register. The moment one dis
covers that he is dwelling much upon
self, especially if ne falls to plying
himself, he is in danger, and must
rouse himself to resist. Self-pity is
corroding, weakening feeling. To
every one come sometimes downcast
moments when it seems little worth
while to go on living, when the game
seems hardly worth the candle. This
mood is always the signal for resolute
exertion. In Life lately appeared this
pithy anecdote. The pessimist says:
What is the use of struggling? We
are all destined to meet our Waterloo
some day." The optimist replies.
When | meet my Waterloo, my name
is going to be Wellington" That is
the right spirit. No matter what has
happened. we are not to lay down our