The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-02

kind sometimes kills, but most of us
would be willing to take chances.
In Argentina beef is so cheap that
cattle are chiefly valued for their
hides. A beef trust appears to be
wanted in that favored country,
thinks the Philadelphia Record.
The year 1905, thinks a religious
weekly, may go down in history as
bhe year of the awakened conscience
1t is to be hoped, remarks the Spring
field Republican, that 1906 will not
go down as the year of conscience
gone to sleep again.
A \ clergyman remarks that the
Square deal' is a twentieth century
flower with a first century root. 1t
might have bloomed sooner, too. OBJ
serves the Philadelphia North Amer,
can, had it not been for experiments
in grating.
A Kansas City burglar is operating
in dress suit. But this is not more
startling than the disclosures that
lot of burglars have been making al
ter dinner speeches in dress suits, OBJ
serves the Commoner.
Has the auto come to stay? A man
ufacturer says that thirty thousand OF
the red, white and blue devils" nave
been made in this country this sea
son, and this does not include cne
little runabout, which must be NUM-
bered by the ten thousand.
The Baltimore Herald contains the
following: A county paper contains
this advertisement: "Wanted-l00,oOO
hickory poles, seven feet long ana
from three-quar to one inch thick
at little end" If Admiral Sands IN
serted this ad. and succeeds in gettlns
the poles he should have no difncuity
In breaking UP hazing at the academy.
Ellis poverty is the strongest evil
dence of his honesty writes cor
respondent from Washington OF sen
ator. Not only is poverty no PROOF
of honesty, it is an incentive to DIS
honesty, declares the Columbia star.
The lobbyist always looks out TOT
the legislator whose poverty is the
strongest evidence of his honesty.
The women of the stage are credit
ed with more than ordinary charm.
says the New York Mail. They make
many acquaintances. They lead, IN
MANY respects, an unprotected lie.
which gives wagging tongues their OPP
portunity. Even fundamentally good
ones among them may play at times
on the vanity of men. They are not
home wreckers, however, burlesQue
posters to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
With our cheap postage, our 1ree
rural delivery routes and our tele-
| phone systems all over the country,
there is no way of preventing Une
practically educated farmer from 40
ing business with as great dispatch
and in as systematic way as do OUT
railroad magnates or iron kings, de-
clares the American Cmltivator, am
speaking of the art of writing and
not of penmanship. The man who
can express his ideas clearly, point
edly and forcibly on paper has an
education at his command that can
be made invaluable to him.
A Federal law providing that all
package goods made articles OF inter
state commerce should be marked
with the real weight of their contents
might be useful and proper, thinks
the New York Tribune. Bottles should
indicate their actual capacity and as
in Germany and France, they should
be marked by lines in the glass, so
that a customer at a glance can tell
just how much fluid one of them con-
tains. A full package law, we be-
lieve, would have the support not only
of the public, but also of the great
majority of packers and dealers.
Business is crippled, not strengthened
by deceit and trickery. The average
American wants square deal, both
in business and in politics.
A surprising feature of the Chicago
Tribune's compilation of criminal sta
tistics this year is the great increase
which it shows in murders committed
by highwaymen. While the total or
deaths by violence increased from
8,484 in 1904 to 9,212 in 1905, or by
less than one-tenth, the murders OF
this class went up from AGA to 6S2,
which is an increase of practically
one-fourth. 1t is phenomenon which.
on it's face, is rather hard to account
for. Other things being equal, crimes
of this sort ought, seemingly, to de-
crease with every increase of popu-
lation. At the same time, as has been
shown by enumeration this year, the