The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-16

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Baseball players who are wonder
ing what they can turn to after their
usefulness on the diamond is gones
remarks the Boston Transcript, ought
to be encouraged by the announce
ment that Mr.. Sunday appropriate
name), the baseball evangelist, clear.
ed 1857 during six weeks revival
at Aledo, ILL.,, recently.
Wonderful little Argentina reports
a foreign commerce which, If the
rate of the first nine months of 1905
was maintained, amounted to $780,
100000 for the full year. This Is
800 for every man, woman and child
three times as great in proportion
as our own immense commerce, COM
ments the New York World.
Two captains In the Commissary
Department, relates Harper's Week
ly, have been ordered to the cavalry
and artillery school at Fort Riley.
der that they may be sent among the
troops to teach them to make Bread
presumably like captain used 70
make"
There are many varieties Of good
women in the world, some passive and
others active, some subjective and
others aggressive. asserts Black
woods Magazine. The good Ameri-
can woman is the most active and
aggressive of her sex. She exercises
the strictest discipline over her Own
family. She has the most decided
convictions on social questions. In
nine cases out Of ten she is an anti
drinker, anti-smoker and anti-gambler.
The automobile was perfected at
just about the time that Americans
were experiencing the greatest boom
in business they ever saw--the great
est ever seen in any country. The
expensive toy became practicable
vehicle when the American had the
price on him." and the manufacture
of the machine has developed with
almost increditable rapidity, observes
the Philadelphia Record.
An unexpected blow to English
pride comes from a Japanese critic
who contends that England Is in @
state of decadence, says the Spring
field Republican. And he touches us
in a sore place by ascribing that de-
cadence to the AmericaniZation OF
England which is going on. Yet about
all America has done is to give the
British nobility boost with the heir
esses. Even that, however. Is de-
scribed as hurtful to "the old Eng
lish spirit Of simple faith in noble
ideals" This could be believed II It
were not true that the British aristo-
cracy always had simple faith also
in good round income.
In its latest issue Engineering News
describes what is probably the most
elaborate provision ever made by
railroad company for the care Of in
jured passengers. A special car has
been completed for the Southern Pa
cific in which there are twelve berths,
quarters for a surgeon, an operating
room and a kitchen. The same cor
poration has ordered several other
cars, which are not SO commodfous.
or expensive, but which are to serve
the same general purpose. In TAX
ing this action the Southern Pacific
is not setting a new example, but
the hospital car is at present good
deal Of novelty. 1t has been adopt
ed on oily very few lines. and its
central idea has. in the particuiar
specimen here referred to. been work
ed out with completeness that ap-
pears to have no precedent.
There is a grim side to the tremen-
dous industrial activity that character
lied the year just closed. observes the
Hartford Courant In the mills and
On the railroads of Allegheny coun-
ty, Pennsylvania. which includes Pitts
burg, 1900 persons were killed and
injured in 1905. These cases, the New
York orld says, became matters OF
record. Many cases Of those who were
taken to neither hospital nor morgue
we're not recorded. The World notes
that this number is only less than the !,
total of dead and wounded. Union and
Confederate, at Fredericksburg, that
it is almost four times the total at
tha 6rst Rllll Run and 1000 greater
than the Union loss at the second
Bull Run. 1t has been said that while
American inventors are most indus
trious and successful in devising
safety appliances. European countries
are ahead of us in the matter of their
adoption and general use. Evidently
it is high time for radical reform In
Pittsburg's big mills.