The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-08-23

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The courts have decided that the
New York Central must pay $101,7S9
for killing one man. If the company
were required to put up for all its
victims at that rate, urges the New
York American, it might conclude that
saving money at the expense OF life
is not the highest form of economy
after all.
'The world is mine!" exclaimed
Monte Carlo; but that was before the
Standard Oil Company came upon the
scene, is the comment of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
Kaiser Wilhelm used to be mentloD
ed in the same breath with President
Roosevelt, AYERS the New York Amer1'
can, but that was before two girls
beats the Kaiser playing tennis.
Experts declare that the worlds sup
ply of anthracite at the present rate
of consumption will be exhausted in
seventy-five years. The prudent man,
observes the Chicago Tribune, will Or
der his coal for the winter of 1882 at
once.
Inventors balk at no obstacles. One
of these agents of progress, notes the
New York Tribune, has devised plan
for inducing women on leaving street
cars to step off forwards instead OF
backward If this invention works the
discovery of the secret of perpetual
motion will seem less hopeless.
A man was excused from jury duty
down in Texas the other day on the
ground that he had % children, and
was therefore too busy to attend to
much else To the average mind, OBJ
serves the Cincinnati Times-Star, the
excuse seems to have been a fairly
adequate one.
A plan for the retirement of aged
United States employees has been de-
vised by an official commission. Its
purpose is to retire the clerks at Wash
ington at the age of seventy, and to
provide for their support after that
age. saws the New York World. 1t Is
not proposed to pension them like
soldiers and sailors at Government ex
pense, but to have them provide for
their own support in their old age
That makes this plan worthy the con
yhn yyn
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts acted
during her lifetime upon the theory
propounded by Mr.. Carnegie that 1t
was a sin to die rich. The value OF
her estate at the time of her death in
December last was $395,O00. She was
a splendid giver At the time OF the
famine in Ireland she gave $1,25O,OOO
in aid of the Irish peasantry. She
has been the constant and liberal pat
ron of charities and churches. Her
generous endowments, prophesies the
Philadelphia Record, will keep her
memory green. 1.-THE richest woman
in England" will take her place in the
history of her generation as also one
of the noblest and best of her sex.
The lightships off South Fass, on
the Mississippi river and Off Calves
ton, are soon to be equipped with the
submarine bell system, and other light
ships at various northern ports have
already been so equipped. That such
a device is of great value to the navt
gator, contends the New Orleans Pl
cayune, can be readily understood by
anyone who has been afloat IN fog
and uncertain as to his position.
America has entered upon a new
building era that might properly be
called the steel-cement age, declares
the Wichita Eagle. With the discov
cry that it is cheaper to build upward
than to spread has come the skyscrap
er and the electric elevator in place
of the old-fashioned stairs. With these
has come the demand for fire-proof
buildings.
Centuries after Mr. Rockefeller is
gone the effects of his benefactions
will remain, asserts the New York
American. The wisdom of men and
the goodness of men will be increased
through generations by his money
Moreover, while Rockefeller lives, and
as long as his name shall be remem
bered, his example will stimulate other
multi-millionaires to emulation. Sure
ly there could not be nobler rivalry
than competition in founding and en-
downing institutions of learning and
setting free from the burdensome
cares of life gifted men engaged in
original research. The John D. Rookie
Teller who bestows millions with both
hands upon universities and schools
deserves all the applause that his en-,
lightened benevoleuce brings to him.