The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-03-16

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Optimism is when you wish to live;l
pessimism is when you wish to die;
and Oslerism is when other people
think you ought to die, says the Co
lumbia State.
l In this age of steel stone has by no
means been put out of use in build
ing important viaducts and bridges.
The second largest stone-arch bridge
in the world was recently completed
at Salcano Austria. Its span is 279
feet.
While more persons were killed last
year by horses than by automobiles.
the fact should not be taken as a dis
paragement of the automobiles, thinks
Florida Times-Union. They are not
as numerous as horses, and have
doubtless done more per capita.
Twelve of the fifteen members OF
the graduating class of Annapolis who
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their examinations Mathematics is
worse than hazing, concludes Boston
Transcript.
American farmers last year Furnish
ed the capital to start 1,754 new ma
tional banks, all for the service or
rural communities, states the San
Francisco Call The American farmer
Is an industrial prince. Farmers are
35 per cent. Of our total population,
a number unequaled by the members
Of any other vocation.
The Hudson-Fulton Commission has
officially decided that Henry, and not
Hendrix, was the name of the dis
coverer of the Hudson. AS Hudson
himself wrote it Henry, remarks the
New York Sun, the presumption after
three centuries of varied spelling is
that he knew how posterity ought to
spell it.
During the last calendar year the
exports from the United States to Lat
in-American countries amounted to
$181, 761, 296, states the Buffalo Court
er. The best customer was Mexico;
next, Cuba, then Argentina and Bra
iii. The export trade with Mexico
has increased in ten years from $l5,-
100000 to $51,00O,OOO;; Cuba, from
$4,000 900 to $44 100000; Argentina.
from $5,OO0,OOO to $3O,OO0,0O0; but the
export trade with Brazil has dropped
from $15,0O0,OOO to $12,OO0,0O0.
In a paper by Drs. Arthur News
holme and T. H. C.. Stevenson, read
recently before the Royal Statistical
Society, London, Eng, the doctors
said that the whole field of corrected
facts seems to lead to the conclusion
that the decline in the birth rate in
various civilized countries was not
due to increased poverty, but was as
ISOLATED with a general raising of the
standard of comfort and was an ex-
preston of the determination of the
people to secure this greater comfort.
The Standard Oil officials cannot
succeed in an attempt to conceal the
facts relating to their business which
the court desires to know, declares
the Washington Star They are cited
to answer a charge of conspiracy,
brought by a sovereign State of the
Union, and their role is that of a de-
PENDANT who, if he declines to reply
to legitimate questions, virtually con-
fesses guilt. Such shrewd mon as
those who have built up this giant
company should know that first i'm
pressions are lasting and that it will
take great deal of explaining and
proving and book exhibiting 10 change
the Interpretation instantly put by the
public upon their refusal to answer
and their motion for secret hearings.
Richard Arthur, NJ P, president OF
the immigration League of Australia.
has been pointing out some startling
facts in reference to the lack of popu-
lation in the Commonwealth. In the
vast northern territory there are only
800 whites, or one inhabitant to every
700 square miles The immense emp
ty spaces, he says, cry out for popu-
lation The world has grown so small
that the only solid title to any part
of it's surface is effective occupation.
Modern methods of transit have
brought the vast, unoccupied northern
territory of Australia within easy
reach of the teeming Asiatic peoples.
The School Child's Day of Rest.
Thursday, not Saturday, is the day
the school children should have of,
said a member of a Board of Educa-
ton ''Then the week of work would