The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-09

VIZ LING
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II you are farmer, be a good one,
or else devote your efforts toward
some other means of making livelt-
hood, advises the Weekly Witness.
American girls have paid S160000.-
geo for titles. The balance OF trade
was affected by this branch of bust
ness.
New Jersey has COW that can
bark like dog. This looks like the
state of industrial mergers is getting
up an animal merger.
AS another evidence of the pros
perity of the great common pee-pul.
we note that $36,000,0O0 worth of dia-
monds were imported into this coun-
try during the present calendar year.
observes the Atlanta Constitution.
The Kansas City Journal remarks
that Count White says the revolution
airy party is small but determined
Russia seems to be having a tremen-
dous amount of trouble with small but
determined people.
London is undoubtedly leading the
world in the matter of women's CLUBS.
Twenty-one years ago there was not
a single institution Of the kind; now
there are thirty, with total mem
bership of over 10000. There are
also several mixed clubs, of which the
women members number about
thousand, concludes the London WoIn-
an at Home.
For the first time in the financial
history of the South, the deposits In
that region exceed one billion dollars
Should there be no relapse from ms
present position as wealth producer.
three years hence the farmer will md
that the farming element, which forms
thirty-five per cent of the population.
has produced an amount OF wealth.
within the preceding ten years equal
to one-half of the entire national
wealth produced in three centuries
It is asserted by the newspapers
that women are writing the best nc
ton of today, states Lippincott's. The
head of a large publishing house goes
further and declares that "nine-tentns
of the good fiction of today is written
by women" The substantial pronrs
many women receive tell loudly ana
convincingly that in this channel tncir
work is rated beside that OF mere
man"
The higher the average of intelii-
gence among a given class Of men, the
reader they will be to combine ior
mutual protection and benent, ae-
clares the Coast Seamen's journal.
Lunatics never combine for any pur-
pose whatsoever; that Is why a great
crowd OF them is easily managed oy
one keeper-just like the citizens OF
a great city are managed by one boss
In control of a well-organized politicai
machine. Great is the power OF or
ganization, greater even than was u
anna of Ephesus.
We do harm when we limit the
phrases social work" and SOCIAL
workers" to those who are working
through societies, declares the chris
tian Register The majority OF the
best social workers in any communi-
ty are those who give their personal
influence, their daily attention, ana
the work of their hearts and hands 70
increase the well-being of their neigh
bors and fellow-citizens. Social work
OF this kind often opens out into the
weIl-ordered work OF society, but
the society is nothing unless behind
II is the social force OF community
of well-wishing men and women.
Priy.te ownership in public utili-
ties seems doomed in Europe, says
CKlrles Edward Russell in Every
body's Magazine. The practical de-
monstrations are all against II. Inc
most obvious trend of thought is sure
lv destructive of it. Originally IN the
cities private ownership was the rule;
in few more years it will be rare
" found exception. In European cit
les. at least, the people have fuiiy
satisfied themselves that they can DO
many things they formerly had done
for them and do them better and more
cheaply. That settles the fate OF pri-
vate ownership.
Virtue, charity, appreciating NOR
ais. individual and collective self-sac
rifice form the broad, Indispensable