The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-26

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We observe a general concensus of
! opinion that Mark Twain's message
was much more entertaining than the
Presidents, observes the Boston
| Globe.
Since one of the fraternity has won
i the hand of the Presidents daughter,
| the baldheaded men may take heart,
cheerfully remarks the Baltimore
| Sun.
Certainly, haZing should be rooted
up at Annapolis, if all four of the
classes there have to be kicked out
and a brand new start made. Better
so than tnat young rufians should
defy the authority of the United
States, avows the Boston Journal.
The United States now buys more
diamonds yearly than any other ma
ton, states the Boston Transcript.
This is interesting, and possibly due
to the fact that larger proportion Of
our youthful male population feels
! the necessity of becoming engaged
with a real diamond engagement ring.
A feature of our iron and steel
trade during recent weeks has been
the temperance of the United States
as a buyer, on a scale sufficiently
large to be noticeable. These orders
are the outcome of the extraordinary
activity of the American trade, says
Engineering, the demand being so
great that the country's own mills are
unequal to it.
The only way in which to reform
football is to stop playing it, and then
play another game with the same sort
of ball, declares the World today.
Just what that can be which ought to
replace the present melee we call
game, we leave to the experts to de-
eide. But of one thing we can be rea-
sonably assured, the new sport should
be one which will not require the
services of doctors, the maintenance
of hospitals and the celebration of fu-
nerals.
Telegraphing without wires from
Guantanamo, Cuba, to the Charleston
Navy Yard is really one of the great
scientific achievements of the age, de-
clares the Boston Transcript. 1t en-
phasizes the fact that Americans are
quick to improve upon European in
ventions. Marconi is fast dropping
behind in the race, and his fellow-for-
eigners are already distanced. When
some three years ago the young Ital-
ian opened his Cape Cod station 4e
promised to have his transatlantic
system working for commercial pur-
poses in six months. It is not open
yet Meantime, without boasting, our
own scientists nave gone ahead and
actually accomplished practical Won
ders.
The annual report of Herbert Put
nam, librarian of Congress, shows that
the library contains 1,344,618 books,
82,744 maps and charts, 1929 artis-
tic prints and 410.352 pieces of music.
Inc manuscripts, which form valu-
able collection, have not been enumer-
ated pending their grouping into vol
umes. Many of these, concludes the
Washington Post, are of great inter
est and of permanent value.
The New York Evening Post de-
clares that politics has not for gen.
Grafton offered such chance for dis
tindtion and usefulness. We have
the substantial assurance that one
need not oil his hands or sell his
soul. We look then with confidence
for a civic awakening which shall
draft youth of courage and strength.
A few years ago they sprang to arms
with pathetic eagerness because they
thought the war with Spain noble
adventure in behalf of their country.
The summons to battle is as loud to-
day. The enemy is thousand times
more formidable; the victory more
momentous in result. There is no
question of the outcome II the best
blood and the best brains are on the
right side.
A New York correspondent in the
Philadelphia Ledger says: "All rec
ords broken "a year of unprece-
dented prosperity" will be on active
duty soon, when the compilation of
the business record of 1905 is COM
pleted. Some of these stupendous
and gratifying figures are already for
comparison-notably the totalings of
the value of gems imported at New
York. When the local custom house
closes it's doors ON Saturday noon al
most $37,O00,000 worth of diamonds
and other precious and semi-precious
stones will have been entered in the
year. Never before in the history of
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