The midland journal., 1906-08-17

|
are we going to do about it?' suggests
| the Washington Star.
| The novel is as valuable form as
any offered by law or science TOT
| showing conditions as they really ex'
ist Statutes and statistics are not the
only terms in which facts can be leg
| Ultimately expressed, declares the Cal
! cago Post But inasmuch as all ways
| are open, the man who selects the one
that offers most license must be
| judged by the highest standard OF SIN
| cerity, veracity and ability.
Representative J. Adam Bede'S sug-
: gestion that Texas should be divided
into five States is described as
novel" In fact, says the New York
Tribune, it is as old as the State OF
Texas itself, and older. The original
design of the Texas annexatlonlsts,
in the days of "Old Hickory" was
to make five States Of it, so as to
balance the five free States at the
North, which they then saw impend-
ing.
An inspector of London police, VINO
had had an opportunity to note the
behavior of the 600 Japanese sailors
during the time they were being en-
tertained in the metropolis recently on
their way to take over two new
Japanese cruisers, was asked his opin-
ion of them Little gentlemen. every
one," he replied.
A Hiawatha clergyman preached
rather exhaustive sermon from the
text, Thou are weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting. After the
congregation had listened about an
hour some began to get weary and
went out; others followed, says the
Kansas City Journal, greatly to the
annoyance of the minister. Soon an
other person started, whereupon the
preached stopped his sermon ana
said: That's right, gentlemen; as 1ast
as YOU are weighed pass oIt-
The suffragettes of England have
had one of their meetings broken up
by outsiders, and now know how 1t Is
themselves. Mr.. Keir Hardle, VINO
had come to address the strenuous SIS
ters. notes the New York Press, climb
ed a high picket fence and took to the
tall timber, but it is refreshing 10
note that Mrs. Sullivan, one OF the
leaders of womens rights movement,
stood her ground manfully and knock
ed down two male diSturbers OF the
peace with her clinched fist in an et
fort to restore order.
From the blue grass of Kentucky
to the Canada line there is not man
with a spark of liking for horses in
his soul who will not sympathize with
Mr.. Keene over Sysonby's death. He
was an alien. to be sure, but what
boots it where a good man or a good
horse was bred? While the line from
which he sprang was English, he was
sucked by his English dam in Ken
lucky, says the New York Sun. If
Mr.. Keene so decides, hippophilists
will applaud the feeling that may lead
him to give Sysonby a final resting
pace in the Blue Grass country. where
he was born
Except as a decorative feature in
fox hunting, stag hunting and the like,
the horse has made his exit from po-
lite literature and, appropriately
enough, the equipages which he draws
have gone numbering after him, prop
hesies the New York Mail Hereafter
we shall find the faithful friend of
man exiled to dialect stories and pas
torals which tell of circuit riders in
the Southern mountains, shrewdc
kindly horse traders, simple-minded
peasants or that life in we olden
time" which we have been wont to
associate with pictures of English
stage coaches and ruddy-faced squires
armed with pewter mugs and long
Churchwardens.
Most railroad managers supposes
the New York Tribune, have consid-
cred the proceedings which have been
going on in the United States courts
to prevent them from giving special
fayors in the way of rates or cars az
per secution Some of them have de
nounced the President as a mischief
maker running amuck and as dan
gerous radical ignorantly interfering
with the legitimate business of the
country. But it seems that the radi-
caIism of yesterday is the conserva-
tbs m of today, and the legal and moral
standards which little time ago were
SO unreasonable are now regarded as
emlnently proper. The railroad pres
idents have been convinced at last