The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-04-12

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Hire deskroom in Wall street and
run a railroad" is the modern way
according to the Ohio State Journal.
Women always consider it an I'M
fair advantage for a pretty widow
to have curly hair, notes the New
York Press.
More railroads for the Philippines
may settle the insurgent question, re.
marks the Atlanta Constitution. Give
'em all free passes; they'll stick the
flag in their caps and ride themselves
to death.
Two hundred and fifty-seven mil
lions of cigars may look like heap
to the New York. Sun. but at that rate
it would take the island of Cuba thir.
ty years to supply the American
requirement for cigars for a single
year.
The forest policy of the government
was the subject of extended discus
sion in the Senate during the recent
session, and is likely to lead to wide-
spread public comment, AYERS the
Washington Post. At it's base, the
real issue of the forest policy is
whether the government or the rum-
Der trust shall control the timber sup
ply.
WhIn a man operates life insur-
ance company, suggests the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, for the purpose
of fitting his family out with individual
yachts and palaces, rather than with
a view to making the dividend accu-
mutations of fact equal the dividend
accumulations that glitter in the I'M
agination of the agent, he Is not
thief. He has the exaggerated ego.
We must regard with profound salts
faction the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States though
we regret to see that one justice DIS
sented-to the effect that any State
may constitutionally enact law pro-
hibiting the use Of the national nag
for advertising purposes, insists the
New York Tribune. 1t is as SOUND In
morals and in patriotism as it is In
law.
General Miles does justice to the
looks of very notable old Apache
Indian. Geronimo" he says, was one
of the brightest, most resolute and de-
termined looking men have ever en-
countered. With the exception of Gen.
eral Sherman, he had the clearest.
sharpest eye l think l have ever
seen"
TIE sood-natured competition OF the
German and American yachts, main
tains the Chicago Tribune, is almost
sure to relax further the tension be-
tween Germany and America in other
directions, and undoubted good must
result. Wherever practicable this as
sociation of countries in friendly strife
should be promoted for the better &C.
uuaintance, the more generous rivalry,
and the more cordial fellowship of all
concerned.
In Europe the rapid growth of such
city universities as London, Rome and
Berlin is a phenomenon in education.
That of Paris has always been para
mount in France. Those of Bologna
Salamanca, Cordova, Leyden, even
Oxford, were all in towns which in
medieval times were relatively con-
siderable, observes the New York
World. Yet when all is said in favor
of the Rockefeller definition OF col
legeable" town, is there not in the
country college some wholesome ten
dency to check that rush to the cities
which is one of the most disturbing
portents of the times?
The United States needs labor
There is a famine in the labor market
in nearly every section of the coun-
try. especially severe in the smaller
cities and the agricultural districts.
The house of Representatives took
note of this, declares the New York
Tribune. when it dropped the Senate's
educational test and decided that the
time was not yet ripe for more rigid
scrutiny of material which we need
for the purposes of economical and
industrial developments.
The United States produced one
and one-third billion pounds of sugar
in 1906, and Cuba sent to us two and
two-thirds billion pounds. The coun
trv made a sweet morsel of this, &C
cording to the New York Times, and