The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1906-05-18

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DR.. Douglas Hyde, founder OF the
Gaelic League, says he believes there
will be 500,000,000 inhabitants of
America in two generations.
That the Rockefeller millions may
bear an Inheritance tax later does not
make 1t any easier for the consumer
to meet that new rise in the price Of
kerosene, comments the Chicago Daily
News.
The Railway Age says there are
1904 miles of railroad under con-
tract or construction, with 8,433 miles
in live projects still to come. The
new mileage of 1906 will exceed that
of 1905.
In order to advance the price OF
sugar, weakened by general overpro-
duction, a systematic reduction of the
cultivated area has been encouraged
in France.
AS to the dissipation of large for
tunes, says the Indianapolis News
um-m-m, well, the boys with the ex-
ception of a few like Johndee Junior
of course) are doing their best.
Kent, Ohio, is conspicuous because
a letter has gone there addressed to
Stefan nsuperczacmantzan
sky. Anyone can have it, who will
call for it, the postmaster says.
The car and repair shops of the
railroad companies are the third larg-
est manufacturing industry in Kan
sas. Their number decreased for
some reason from 81 to 23 in the five
years, but the value of the work turn
ed out increased from $6,S00,000 in
1899, to $11, 100000 in 1904.
The wearing of women's hats in the
theatres of Paris has tried the pa
thence of Frenchmen, until cores
pondent of the Temps writes that
he and mis- friends, tired of not being
able to see the stage, are forming
league to achieve the removal of wo-
mems hats They propose always to
wear their hats during performances.
Of 1880 fires in New York in 1905,
bringing losses of more tnan $1,000
900, carelessness with matches caused
1,OO1: carelessness with lighted CT
CARS, etc., caused 404; carelessness
with candles, etc., caused 256; care
lessness as to curtains near gas jets
caused PIT. What premium might we
not afford to pay on good, ordinary
sensible, everyday care!
the mere fact that an increasing
number of European emigrants are
seeking our shores, remarks the At
lanta Constitution, is not in itself any
thing to occasion alarm or especial
anxiety. 1t is the quality and not
the quantity Of immigration that is
to be feared If our immigration laws
are rigidly enforced, it is difficult to
see how an appreciate number OF I'M
desirables can land.
The United States troops at San
Francisco have rendered the country
IN rth
emergency than if they had won
battle against an invading enemy.
They were there on the spot; they
have proved themselves the right men
in the right place; all honor to them!
The fact that within nundred-mlle
radius a. score of towns have been
demolished with loss of life and
destructiveness probably equalling
that in San Francisco, and that the
shock was severely felt four hundred
miles to the south and two hundred
to the east, says the New York World,
indicates that the California earth
quake belt must hereafter rank in
possibilities of catastrophe with Gala
bria, Japan, and the East Indies.
The Old Mole that speeds around
underground, humping itself regard
less. Is a scientific puzzle. Where it
matches itself, where it gets its dyns.-
mic "go'' and where and when it will
bob up next may be known to those
who 'sknow it all,' but the learned
investigators of the world are still
Specializing on the subject.
Matteucci, the brave, devoted d1rec-
tor of the observatory on Vesuvius, Is
not only a scientist but poet. Hear
him: 81 love my mountain. could
not leave her. My few friends say
that her breath will scorch and wither
nv poor life one of these days; that
she will bury my house in streams
of LIQUID metal or rae it to its foun-
dations. Already she has hurt me,
has injured me sorely. Yet forgive
her; I wait upon her; 1 am hers
ways"
The advance in democracy by
France was curiously illustrated in
the naval program of 1900, when five
large armored vessels authorized