The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-08-10


| WORN .0slUoTlNGX
| 2- ~,
according to the London Saturday
Review the French are now the most
| pacific nation on the face Of the eartn.
! 1t is solemnly reported in the New
York Press that 'the King is some
| times obliged to make dozen changes
day, and he never puts on fewer
than three suits day." Talk about
| the strenuous life!
London Punch makes this joke:
| Good servants are becoming so DIM
cIlt to obtain that we really cannot
blame the American lady who disin-
! herited her son because he married
her maid.
Secretary Taft says: Greed blinds
the trusts to the law" Blinds" Is
hardly the word, thinks the New
York American. The trusts see the
aaw clearly enough to dodge it.
Observes the Troy Times: There
seems to be but two lines of political
endeavor in Santo Domingo-the outs
trying to get in and the ms fighting
against being put out"
Says the Louisville Courier journal:
Farmers throughout the West, North
and South are pleading for more Ia
borers. They cannot get them. And
while the farmers crops demand
armies of additional workmen for their
handling, New York and the other
cities of the land are housing men,
women and children in repugnant
squalor Instead of enduring the tor
tures, the disease and oppression OF
tenement-house life, these people
could be drawing good wages and
living wholesome lives in the coun-
try. They would help the farmers,
they would help themselves, they
would improve the whole social and
economic situation of the world.
Voltaire once observed that he was
in favor of abolishing capital penalties,
if the murders would only commence
by setting the example 1t is anomal-
Gus that in our highly-civilized COM
mInity the more heinous the crime
the better appear the chances of es-
cape for criminal. A strict enforce
ment of the penalties plainly provided
under the existing criminal statutes
should be the sole reply to the never
ending agitations or petitions for the
reprieve of those whose hands are
dyed in blood.
Probably DR.. Alexander Graham
Bells special census report on the
blind and deaf of the country will
stand as the first thorough official ex-
animation of the subject. With MIN
the investigation of blindness and
deafness is a labor of love. He is an
expert upon the subject, and he has
been willing to devote to its examl-
nation an amount of time and trou-
bile that no ordinary official inquirer
could afford. One point which Dr.
Bell has brought olt will attract
much attention He establishes the
connection between cousin-marrlags
and blindness In 5 per cent. of the
cases of blindness in the whole coun-
try the parents of the afflicted were
cousins. Of the blind whose parents
were cousins, 25 per cent. were con-
CENTRALLY blind, whereas among the
blind whose parents were not cou-
sins the proportion of congenitally
blind was only 6.S per cent
The great world famine, which
gloomy scientists used to predict, ap-
pears farther off than ever, despite
the steady increase in the human
species. With nitrogen made in In
limited quantities, both naturally with
the aid of clover and artiffcially by
electric process and water power, the
supply of that important crop ele-
ment seems assured, in view of the
asserted fact that there is more nitro
gen above every quarter section of land
than is required for the entire annual
corn crop of the world. Potash, too.
exists in enormous quantities in COM
mon rocks, and recent experiments
suggest that it may be gotten out by
grinding and profitably used for crops.
AS for the third element needed, phos-
phoric acid, the great deposits OF rock
phosphates seem likely to provide for
all requirements for long time to
come. The world will not starve
yet awhile, nor will farmers go out
of business.
The real virtue of riches is that
they add to the picturesqueness of
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