The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19

Carrol!ton boy in the Panama Canal
Zone, who writes home they haven't
been doing much digging on the can
al yet because they have no place to
put the dirt.
When a bank fails in China they
cut off the heads of the officials.
They haven't had any bank failures
there in recent years, notes the New
York Herald.
The summer girl who wears peek
a-boo waists, remarks the Baltimore
American, is much more apt to be
converted to a different sort of ap
parel through the attentions of mos
quitoes than she is through anything
that the preachers may say.
The Post Office Department has
tried leaving off the back stamp
which tells the time when letter
arrives at the postoffice. 1t never hai
any function except to call attention
to the time made by the ma1l-Wagon
teams, declares the Evening Post.
The Cork Constitution quotes Faith
er Bernard Vaughan as follows: "Wo-
men, whose dainty feet were set upon
a rung high up the social ladder, were
easily condoned those sins for which
their sisters lower down would be
speedily condemned and tabooed.
A correspondent of the London
Spectator declares that with his u.s.
ual insight, John Stuart Mill said
that England will only be safe II
governed by a great middle party"
and what was then counsel OF per
lection has now become mandate OF
necessity.
The Maine sardine factories are
reported to be working. overtime.
This is 4 native product, observes the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, that only
needs the foreign labels to make It
self quite as fully esteemed ms the
imported article.
There is a strong feeling in Aus
tria and Germany against cooperative
stores. At recent meeting In
Vienna, speaker predicted the ruin
of the mercantile class unless some
hing was done to check the move
ment.
If it takes nine tailors to make
man, demands the Baltimore Amerf
can. how many does it take to make
him ridiculous is a query that is
likely to be put by the one who Is
prone to let custom have her ancient
sway as he considers the announce
ment from the English metropolis
that blue evening dress will be the
thing for men.
The New York Sun declares that
there is altogether too much divers
fsy, too great an expression OF ln'
diyiduality, in the garments worn by
the male portion of humanity under
the present conditions. A Simpilned
Tailoring Board, backed up Ii neces-
sary by Executive order, could regu'
late authoritatively and finally.
this momentous question.
James Russell was right when he
called the newspaper "the university
Of the people," observes the New
Haven Register, and it Is because
this is so that the more influential
newspapers of the country have poio-
" proclaimed their independence OF
all political alliances and entangle-
ments. Their readers demand from
them careful, we'll considered views
upon the current history OF the DAY,
and to accommodate them independ
ence is absolutely necessary.
If is sheer pretense to claim, az
some do, asserts Leslie's weekly
that the keepers of saloons or the
managers of places Of amusement,
who defy the Sunday closing laws,
are actuated by any desire to oene'
fit their fellowmen. Such claims, as
a matter Of fact deceive very few
n any. If a more liberal construc,
ton of our Sunday laws has any
justification, it must be found else
where than in this foolish and tlimsy
talk about benefiting workingmen.
The unsanitary stabling of cattle IN
italy and consequent tuberculosis
have developed a new form of insur'
ance. A company has been estab'
hshed insuring butchers against con-
demnation of beef by sanitary inspee-
tors. Butchers pay to this company.
notes the New York Tribune, prem
ium for each head of cattle slaught'
cred in the municipal abattoirs or
for carcasses brought there for In
spection, and if the meat is con-
demned the company reimburses the
dealer and retains the carcass.
man has invented cement
shingle. It is a metal single COW
cred with cement, and is really
tile as lasting as stone. AS cement