The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-09-06

| The girls who are establishing the
| precedent of kissing their rescuers
| confesses the New York American,
| are doing more for the promotion of
heroism than all of Carnegies money
The scientist who discovered that
! people think with their toes, declares
the New York Commercial, should ap
| proach his subjects with more under
standing.
| Even if the tobacco trust should
show it's irritation by putting up the
| cost of its wares to the consumer,
| pleads the Washington Star, it would
| be less formidable in it's wrath than
monopolies which handle necessities.
! Says the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle: Modern power boating is
| wholesome as well as fascinating. In
order to enjoy 1t one need not neces-
sarily be a trained steam engineer
| At the same time it is a pastime which
is not without its perils; and not the
least of these perils is buffeting white
capped waves with disabled engine
or an empty gasolene tank"
This tendency to devote the idle days
to the reading of fiction to the exclu-
| sion of books and articles of greater
moment seems to be growing.
warns the ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
! This growth raises the question OF
| summer reading to the habits of read
| ing during the remainder of the year.
| Does the reading almost exclusively
| of novels and short stories during the
summer tend to deprive the mind OF
power to relish heavier reading when
| cooler weather comes?
Generally speaking, the vacation
| school aims at providing rational play
| first and utility is indirect and sec.
| ondary, observes the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald. Manual training is an
attractive feature, and cooking, sew
ing and millinery are taught. The
| object, however, is to make the vaca-
! ton school as unlike the didactic
| school as possible; first, becatlse the
! children really need rest and recre-
| alton, and, second, because any at
! tempt to give prominence to utility
would reduce attendance.
| There is no trouble with the acres
in the State. They are fertile as
ever, boasts the New York World.
The orchards are as good as when in
| 1902 they put New York at the head
| in apple production. Migration to the
| west has done part of the mischief of
| rural depopulation; the lure of the
| cities has done more. Villages and
school districts have grown poorer,
| while certain professions and con-
| gested urban society have grown not
| certainly richer.
! On his way back from Rio de
| Janeiro, Hon William l. Buchanan
stopped over at Havana. Il think
many of the reports of disturbed con-
| ditions in Cuba have been exaggerat-
| ed" he says. Il know of nothing
| there now except peaceful conditions
and these are particularly shown in
the increase of business. The daily
| growth of business of the National
| Bank of Cuba, which has dozen
, branches throughout the island, is.
to my mind, very good Indication
| of this"
F, The human hog is the same in
| Washington, in New York, in San
| Francisco, in Toxic and in Duluth,
admits the Duluth Herald. If there
! are no open cars he shows himself
IN closed cars ny taking up whole
| seat while others e standing by
! spreading his newspaper out so that
| his elbows dig ir.3 the ribs of those
tnat sit near MIN ana by standing
near the care entrance when there is
plenty of room up front"
Receur automobile accidents have
resulted in the death or Injury OF
| the persons responsible for the dis
aster, and have consequently not re-
| ceived the attention of the courts
| The criminal negligence is there inss
the same, urges the New York Call,
and it is a fair question for the
courts to consider wnethor there
should not be public action taken TIC
prevent this form of self-destruction
| There seems to be no hope of reck
| less men learning to be careful Re-
! peated warnings appear only to make
! them more Indifferent.
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