The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-05-11
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One hundred and twenty-five women
at the Society of Polictical Study In
New York City, decided that nom
support is a mans greatest sin
against the marriage contract, and
therefore wife's chief cause for di-
vorce. Despite her Wanted enamel
patton woman still exploits her lead
ing-strings.
A generation ago Mr.. Parton pre-
dicted that the coming man would
neither smoke nor drink Yet, Ia
ments the Philadelphia Record, the
internal revenue collections of the
United States Government increase
apace, and instead of giving up his
vices, man is reputed to have been
Joined by woman.
A grain and cattle merchant of
Chicago predicts that nearly half a
million settlers from the United
States will enter Canada this year.
The influence of American settlers in
Canadas great Northwest is almost
certain to react in favor of closer
trade relations between the two coun-
tries whatever political effects it may
have.
The Chicago Chronicle makes this
suggestion: Why not assemble all the
euthanasia cranks who wish to kill
off the old and ''incurable" people
in one Enclosure and all the cranks
who are. producing schemes for the
abolition of death in another inclos
ure, organize them into football
teams and then turn them loose and
let them proceed to exterminate one
another in true football style?
Hereafter criminals whom the law
adjudges shall be killed in New Jer-
sey will be electrocuted. This is the
method of capital punishment now
enforced in New York, Ohio, Massa-
chusetts and Mississippi. There has
been dispute as to the comparative
suffering where death is occasioned
by electrical shock and hanging, but
it is a controversy that must remain
unsettled Dead men tell no tales.
To overcome the temptation o.
boys especially to gloat over bloot
and-thunder novels, the New Yor.
city board of education is establishing
suitable libraries for the classes in
the public schools. There are now
5000 of these class libraries going
with an average of 35 books each.
The idea is that where good reading
is placed within easy reach the young
mind will naturally take to it and
not go farther for something worse.
The man that beats his carpets has
nothing against them; he simply
wants to get rid of some of the dirt !
that has accumulated in them; and
his neighbors are not going to think
that he is a fifty fellow because ne
does this, says the Indianapolis News,
We have been turning some rascals
out-a mere incident. The reaction
is going to be strong enough. Let
US do something to be assured that
we gather some substantial fruits and
that all of our effort has not been
'like tale told by an idiot, full OF
sound and fury signifying nothing"
The sport on the diamond attracts
through no side issue of the betting
book or of purses for events. It's
appeal is made, declares the New
York World, by the measurement OF
man against man in strength, skill
and quickness. Men who play for CAR
cago or Boston one year are cheerec
as heartily on appearing Tor New
York or Pittsburg another year Inc
game is national, the interest very
human. The name on the uniform
shirt stands only for local color.
The statisticians have not definitely
ascertained the centre of crime, out
if the lenity with which murderers
are treated in Chicago determines the
pre-eminence of that city as focus
of crime its title to the distinction
will not be disputed admits the Phiia
delphia Ledger. In an address deliv
cred before the Chicago Medical So
ciety recently DR.. Thomas Grant Al
len declared that in six years muir
derers had claimed 795 victims in
Chicago. Since 1901 the annual num-
Der had doubled During this period
there had been only eight legal exc
cutions.
Says the New York Sun: There
are diseases of which the general
public knows little or nothing which
in their results are as disastrous to
life, to health and to happiness as Ia
consumption, which, on account OF
its destructiveness, has been justly
named "the Great White Plague"
Should thew not be taught to realize