The midland journal., 1906-04-27


rides he stole in his hobo days. The
railroads would have a corner on the
coin supply if politicians should sud
denly decide to pay for all the rides
that did not cost them anything, de-
clares the Washington Post.
Baltimore's fire early in 1904 de-
stroyed property estimated at $780,
100000, in the heart of the city. Ac-
cording to the figures of the Sun Of
that city, Baltimore now has business
plans and undertakings involving an
expenditure of $20OOO0,OOO, to which
the merchants and property owners
contribute $120,0O0,OO0, the people
$50,000,000, and the corporations
about $30,0OO,OOO.
The German Government has be-
come actively interested in the reviv-
ing of the empires ship-sailing trade
because of the rapid development OF
their navy and the great need of sea-
men. Sailing vessels are the only
practical schools for deckhands. The
Government also desires to preserve
and promote the small shipbuilding
yards, which are declining
A Swedish engineer, H. Hjalmar
Cassel, has just published, at Stock
holm, his impressions of a recent bust-
ness journey through the United
States. He calls the book American
Business Methods" He thinks that
the secret of American success is not
so much due to better machinery, tools
and appliances, as to more perfect
system of organization in factories
and offices, and to a minute supery1-
sion OF every detail of work.
The woman or man who has good,
substantial hobby is always sure Of
an escape from herself or himself and
the WEAKNESS of the world. Not the
kind of one that is swayed by the fads
and fashions of the day, that will
only make one dissatisfied and rest
less as the novelty wears off, but
real, steady hobby. If you have not
one find one, and see now much more
contented you will be.
Census figures show the population
of the British Emipre to be about
100000 or about one-half OF the
whole human race. The Empire to-
day covers more than one-fifth OF
the planet 1t is three times the size
of the whole of Europe, ten times the
size of Germany and all her colonies,
100000 square miles larger than
France and all her colonies, and
100000 square miles larger than
Russia in Europe and Asia.
Since the Civil War new kind or
rich man has come into existence in
the United States, says President Ell
lot in the Worlds Work. He is very
much richer than anybody ever was
before, and his riches are, in the
main, of a new kind. They are not
great areas of land, or numerous pal
aces, or focks and herds, or thou
sands of slaves, or masses of chattels.
They are in part city rents, but
chiefly stocks and bonds of corpora
tions. and bonds of states, counties,
cities and towns. These riches carry
with them of necessity no visible or
tangible responsibility, and bring upon
their possessor no public or semi Pr
lie functions.
DR.. Paul Cohn, Dean of the Imperial
Technology at Vienna, who was
member OF the international jury at
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
has written pamphlet on the educa-
tional system in the United States, in
which he pays a high tribute to Am
erican schools AT present" says
DR. Cohn. ''the educational institutions
in the United States, from the kinder
garten to the university, are of sucn
a character that the trip to Europe,
in order to acquire a higher education,
which a generation ago was looked
upon as necessary, is superhuous.
Even European educators are no long
er looked for, because the various col
leges, universities, polytechnic insti-
tutes and seminaries furnish all that
are required" The author gives the
statistics of the various universities.
adds the New York Tribune. and
dwells upon the system of instruction
in these and in the public schools, and
also comments favorably on the exclu-
sion of religious instruction from the
public schools.
So enormous, says the Knoxyiiie
(Tenn.) Journal and Tribune, was the
product in 1905 of our farms, mines
and factories that had it been moved
at one time it would have filled 3d.
184,S57 freight cars, or more than A.
900, 900 more than would have been
required to move the products of the
prosperous year 1904. Thirty-three