The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-01-06

One of the first duties of the Texas
legislature is to make ends meet and
lie them in double bow knot, states
he Dallas News
There is entirely too much time
aiken up every day trying to help
hose make up their minds who don't
now what they want, the Atchison
slobe AYERS.
Secretary Morton says the Amerf
an navy has the finest enlisted men
# any in the world. Some of the Off
:ers are pretty good. too, the Wasn
ngton Evening Star rightly states.
The new style of tight trousers VIII
BRING our local charros into fashion
lgain. Also the creased trouser will
rave a rest, remarks the Mexican Her
I'D
An English specialist announces
hat he has discovered a remedy fof
defective sight that will obviate the
necessity for wearing glasses. Cali II
Anti.paine-in-the-f Doctor, advises
he Newport News Press.
A st. Louis man was struck by two
rains before he could collec. MS
thoughts, and if he does not cellec'
damages he doesn't deserve to have
any money.
Naval demonstrations must be ter
rible bore to the Sublime Porte thinks
the New York Evening Sun. Hardly
month passes but it has to receive
visit from some squadron. Austria y
the latest nation threatening to sho"
the Sultan what she can do.
St. Louis Worlds Fair buildings ina
cost S15,O00,0G0 have been sold 10,
$3.50, 600, and, strange to say. no on'
was hurt in the bargain rush, eithei
Chase French-who, judging iron
his name, might be of either Prusslal
or English descent-has left be
quest of $4,000 to buy medals for BosI
ton public school graduates. PossinE
he thought it wise to have them tau'
tagged as warning to the word II
general.
writer to the Editor of The Nev
York Times says: Politeness IS suci
a charming thing-wfly don't we prac
tice it more? Is there any one n th'.
community who has not had an expert
ence with some polite, painstaklng q
fetal or man of business: Let MN
contract his feelings after this expsri
ence with those which filed MS bosom
after an encounter with some rude, IN \
different Jack in Office. Seeing ina
we all appreciate good manners, II !,
really most extraordinary that SO rev
of us make an effort to acquire them
Perhaps. being so busy people, W
think it takes times to be polite. bu
on the contrary politeness is grea
timesaver, being, in fact, the best SC
cial and business lubricant IN tn
world. New York. pause a moment u
your buffola-like career, and conside
the matter!
We believe sincerely there ar.
bright days for the farm hfe-daV
when the longing of youth will .
toward the farm rather than from II
saws Up-to-Date Farming. SpeaKlni
of the advice so tersely given IN IN"
heading of this article, and in an art
Gle bearing the same head, one
orr local dailies expresses the follow
ing very sensible thoughts: HOY
MANY men there are who wish the.
had followed such advice. In the rest
1essness of their youth and their ignor
anca of the world they look upon liz
on the farm as 'cribbed, cabined am.
confined and as thing from WHICH
ia escape. They go eagerly away, no
necessarily to sorrow and death, to D.
sure. for many attain wealth. an
fame hut whether they miss or gar
wives in the big outside world tn
time comes when they look yearnins
,v hack to the farm wnere boyhoo
DAVIS we're spent The one who IS poo
regrets the lost Independence OF th
life there and has visions of even ye
becoming the possessor Of a few acre
and of getting back to the soil. II a
is rich he buys a farm and equips
m suit his taste and his purse, de-N
ing what pleasure he may from NJ
occasional visits there. Perhaps n
one appreciates rural life as much a
one who left it. and it may be she
absence is needed to prove It's aaVat
taees and It's charms. But it IS pr.
that when the lesson is learned wnif
one is yet young that the wandefe
does not make haste to return an
remedy his mistake. The time WI
VET arrive when farming will be reeoe
nized as an art and will he followed a
profession. The things that tn e.
vonng find irksome viii be fewer than
now The restless boy will make hi
tourney while mis- years are few AMI
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