The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-15

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Baby thinks o good deal Of his dad,
but it takes mammals kiss to cure
hurt finger, says the domestic philos-
opher of the Indianapolis Star.
Pennsylvania Railroad disclosures
are making President Cassatt believe
that everybody but father worked the
coal mines, observes the Baltimore
Sun.
Says the New York Press: 1T is a
good deal better to think poetry than to
| write it, and better to write 1t than
to print it," Still there's very little
harm in printing it if nobody reads
it.
Spanish financiers have brought out
an ambitious new plan to build a rail-
way in Africa joining port on the
Mediterranean near the Straits of Gil
bralta with some port far down the
coast, thus affording a new route OF
transportation in Africa, and, as they
hope, affording a quicker route from
Spain to the west coast of South Am
erica.
Too many architects in San Fran
cisco. Too many of all-so-called gen.
teel professions everywhere. Why do
not men get back to the soil, where
they are sure of living, anyway,
remarks the Massachusetts Plough
man. Farming is the most ancient
pursuit, for Adam was, according to
| Tennyson, the first grand old gardener
who smiled at the claims of long de-
scent.
Farming has reached the stage
where large profits are hardly possi-
BILE without heavy investments in
working animals and machinery. Civ
en- farm workable by machinery.
the next important point is the man
who works it. An energetic class OF
farmers on farms adapted to thor
ough-going methods can hardly fail to
become prosperous.
The Earl of Wemyss, who is eighty
eight years old, solemnly informed the
House of Lords that Great Britain
had no army and only sixty up-to-date
cannon. On the same day, laughing
| ly adds Town Topics, the official news
| of the surrender of Turkey was an
nounced, and seriously impaired the
effect of the eloquent speech of the
noble lord, who was requested TO
take a seat on bench No. %.
The horse refuses to go, and his val
ue has advanced. On January /, 1907,
there were 14,364,OOO horses in this
country. On the first day of 1906 there
were 18,718,00O. In nine years there
has been an increase of 80 per cent.
The gain in the number of mules has
been great, but not SO large. In
1897 there were 2,215,0O0. This year,
Notwithstanding the heavy purchases
made by the British government dur
ing the Boer war, there are S,40O,-
%
900.
Says Samuel Merwin in Success
Magazine" The Presidents muck
rake" speech, in spite of it's frank and
outspoken plea for honest, merciless
exposure of rascals high and rascals
low. was at once seized on by the
rascals and their newspapers as glee-
fully as If it were a defense OF Sec
ond-story work and porch climbing.
Already the rebaters and bribers and
adulterers and respectable grafters are
beginning to walk abroad with the
old smile, and to say, "After all, this
is a pretty good country and pretty
good world" .e.y. !. e:1:3g
There can be no dissent that pic
lures suggestive of crime and vice
displayed broadcast where they meet,
the eyes of children-meet them,
whether they will or not, are thrust
before them-can not but have
demoralizing influence, remarks the
Indianapolis News. There Is no par
emit of whatever condition that would
not shield his girl or boy from such
things. We have had in recent times
awful examples of the young led
astray. How much they have been
helped down by the display OF bad
pictures may be easily felt IN any
reckoning.
It seems especially incredible to the
editor of the Success, that a strong.
sturdy, self-made man, who has had
to fight his way up from poverty, and
who feels the backache in every dol
lar he has earned, should let his saw
ings slip through his fingers in the
most foolish investments, with
scarcely any Investigation. often send
ing his money thousands of miles
away to people he has never seen and