The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-23

| SCdC0S the CQlCaSO Tribune.
Mrs. Craigie in London interview
says American women don't have
large families, but they are very fond
of their children. Too indulgent, per-
haps; America is the paradise Of the
| all ages.
A young man who Is in love with a
| pretty girl thinks that he is fated to
| marry an angel When it is all over,
| though, he sometimes regrets that ne
wasn't shunted by fate into marrying
cook instead
The Electrical Magazine says:
| Quite apart from the electric lamp
in street and window, the electric
| tram and car in country and town,
and the electric motor in mine and
workshop, electricity now pervades
every aspect of our existence. The
| electrical idea is held in common by
| all; it has broken loose among the
multitude
y
Doubtless, observes the Chicago
Tribune, there always will be persons
so constitutional as to have more
sympathy for condemned criminals
than they have for the victims.
The New York Evening Post states
that handwriting experts may ex-
press differing opinions on the stand
as to the essentials in signatures.
but there is one question in answer
ing which they are unanimous: What
compensation do you receiver" Fifty
dollars per day, hotel bills and trav-
cling expenses" Is there an expert
labor union, with its minimum wage?
The Pennsylvania Railroads report
shows that its net income last year
was $38,000,000. 1t is going to be diff
ficult for politicians to understand
vito friends to an occasional free ride.
comments the Washington Post.
Fifty-two entries in "The English
Catalogue of Books for 1905" pub
fishers Circular, Limited), states the
London Mail, refer either to reprints
Of or to works on Sir Walter Scott,
forty-four to Dickens and fourteen to
Thackeray.
We talk about the return to the
simple life, extol it, advocate it, and
adopt it in so far as it does not af-
feet our social existence; but restau-
rants will go on fourishing, supper
parties will continue and woman will
eat all she can get; and if her com
plexion goes she will more and more
resort to artifciality's artful aid. con-
cludes the London World.
An English scientist has developed
an apparatus for measuring the sew
enty-millionth of an inch, states the
Buffalo Courier. With such an instru-
ment, apparently 1t might be possible
to measure the size of the souls of
some of the big American corpora
ton managers.
A trust is trust. whether it be the
monopoly of steel production, the
beef combine, the sugar refinery, the
cotton field, or the labor organiza-
ton. Whatever hampers, restricts,
or nullifles the law of supply and de-
mand is a monopoly and trust. II
it is wicked in one case, it is wicked
in all. If it is virtuous in one case.
it is virtuous in all. declares the
Washington Post.
Some shrewd Kansas farmers have
taken to raising corn husks for hot
tamales, a Mexican importation that is
sold In Kansas City and towns in In
dian Territory, relates the Spring
field Republican. Twenty punches OF
the husks make full gunny sack,
and these sacks are worth So apiece.
The Kansas City packing houses are
also using the husks for casing saul
sages. which increases the demand
for them. The husks have to be pro-
duced with care. SO as to be nicely
bleached and in good condition 1t Is
claimed that there is more money in
raising these husks for market tnan
in feeding the corn to the cattle.
The season. for the slaughter OF
eagles has set in. American eagles
and golden eagles particularly have
fallen victims to the insatiate desire
of men to kill. Just why the sight OF
a large fowl flying harmlessly over.
head or taking its rest on tall trees
or hill top drives every hunter to his
firearms we leave for others to figure
OUT says the indianapolis News, II
there is any sentiment in this coun-
try at all it ought to be of sufficient
strength to prevent the destruction at
least Of the American eagle. as this
theoretically is cur national bird. 1t
has already become so rare as to be
a novelty. and to lead correspondents
to consume much space in giving the