The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-07-20

ed IN numDer OF INSTANCES al dCludi
lack of knowledge of the very business
they were paid to know and direct.
The season is again at hand when
joyous, buxom, athletic American Wo-
manhood starts forth for health, recre.
alton and broadening influences,
leaving the stingy, antiquated, tiresome
husbands to cucumber the earth at
home, comments the louisville Times.
More of a menace to the country than
the soulless greed of trusts or the
outrageous demands of labor unions
is the growing vacation habit OF the
country.
Speed is an excellent quality in its
place, remarks the New York Worlo,
but endurance is it's desirable compile
ment Weston, the veteran, SURPRISING
at sixty-eight longdistance walking
record of his early manhood, is hap
py example of the combination Win
agility of the virtue of 'lastingness.
If all the smells in the Chicago
stockyards were reduced to liquid and
sprayed with altar of roses they would
form body of perfume sovereign
teenths the size of Lake Como, reckons
the Chicago Tribune. The perfume lake
would evaporate in three years, two
months and IA days, and, when the
wind was blowing northeast, Two
ac% ~ nnrfIIn0 would ne
plainly distinguishable at Formigas,
Azores islands.
A contemporary thinks, says the
San Antonio Express, zone result Oh
the beef trust exposures will be TO
encourage local butchers in the small
er towns to do their slaughtering for
themselves, as it was done in the days
before the trust. And it will not be
as easy to kill these small competl-
tors by rebates as it was before. AND
it may be added that we got very
good beef at moderate cost before
there was any beef trust
1t would take a bold man, or one
far gone in liquor and reckless of con-
sequences, to call Miss Ellington, the
English woman's rights leader, sui
fragette," says the New York sun.
Miss Ellington heckles the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, slaps constable in
the face and kicks him twice on the
leg, and refuses to recognize the Jurls,
diction of a magistrate, all in one day.
We would sooner call Carrie Nation
"suffragette;;" it would be safer
The Havana Telegraph observes
that the agitation for new and perm
anent reciprocity treaty between CUBA
and the United States, which is back
ed by the United Corporations OF Gu
ba, is chiefly interesting as showing
the full appreciation, by those VINO
are real representatives of Cuba's
commercial and industrial events, OF
the vital Importance to Cuba OF the
American market for Cuban products.
There can be no excuse for the Wo
man who spends on needless dress
the dollar that should be laid up for
a rainy day, or who by extravaganza
drives her husband into bankruptcy
or despair; but the number OF such
women is comparatively very small
saws the New York Herald. Taking
a broad view of the matter, we must
look at results. The naval ornaments
costing vast sums become obsolete In
a few years, and the money spent on
excessive indulgence in drink pro
duces only red nosed, incompetent
men, while that devoted to dress gives
us the tastefully dressed, lovely Am
erican woman-a thing of beauty and
a joy forever.
The days of emaciated clerical bod
les. consumptive clerical threats, the
power of quoting poetry rather than OF
giving forth original thought, coupled
with what was once considered an es
sential unworldliness meaning abso.
lutte incapacity for affairs, have gone
by. The days of preachers thrilling
by sustained rhetoric and oratorical
powers seems to have lapsed in the
pulpit, as in legislative halls, on the
lecture platform, and at the bar, com
ments the Christian Register. A new
type has come into beng, and We may
call. him the builder, the man wnc
does not work on the sandy founda
tions of sensation and SNOWY oratory,
but on firmer and more lasting materi
al, the man who aims to make
church that will go alone, SO to speak
will exist without linn if his absence
is necessary.
The modern magician comes from
the laboratory. He speaks in the
name of science, for there is a sciences
of the inmate 'ial-a science of witch
craft-a science which has it profes
sors and learned societies. its journals
and magazines. The very ghosts thai
haunt the societies for psychical re
search have taken on scientific air;