The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-22

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A st. Louis woman who desired to
commit suicide paid druggist for an
ounce of carbolic acid and received a
bottle of glycerin favored with acid.
Things have come to a pretty pass,
remarks the Courier-Journal, when
even our cold poison is rectiied!
A Kentucky Congressman says the
Wall street man is bull today, a
bear tomorrow, but always hog.
That man will not be called to fill
the chair of high finance zoology in q
tainted-money college, prophesies the
New York American.
There is an idea abroad among NOR
al people that they should make their
neighbors good, declared Robert Louis
Stevenson. One person l have to
make good, myself. But my duty to
my neighbor Is much more nearly ex-
pressed by saying that have to make
him happy-if l may
The newspapers have been SO much
occupied with that $32,000,000 gift to
education that they have hardly no.
ticed that naphtha and gasoline have
been put up.a cent gallon, observes
the Atlanta Journal Many cent
makes $92,O00,00O.
The day is seemingly not far dis
tant, notes the Philadelphia Press
when the electric railway system OF
the country will reach transcontinental
proportions, when it will be possible
to board a well-appointed, comfortable
and speedy train at Boston and alight
at San Francisco. The conception is
by no means visionary.
If the Legislatures can contrive by
law to force men who are too vain,
too selfish or too cold to wish to
marry, to do so against their wills,
suggests the Richmond News-Leader,
they will make great many unhappy
women and add largely to the prac'
tice in the divorce courts.
After fourteen troubled years the
only American State which ever UNI
dertook the saloon business on its own
account gives it up as bad job, OBJ,
serves the New York World. The
enactment by the South Carolina Leg
islature of a local-option law means
the end of the State dispensary sys'
tenn.
The Utica Press declares that: "Sev'
eral States have good child labor laws
now and other States have poor ones
or none at ALL The manufacturers
whose matters are properly regulated
must come into competition with those
where there is no restriction, and
hence where goods may be made and
sold more cheaply."
The roundest and rosiest of Ohio
mayors has warm admirer in Con
gresham Champ Clark, of Missouri.
IF Tom Johnson never does anything
else" said Champ Clark in the House
of Representatives, "he deserves a
monument as high as the Washington
monument for what he has done to-
ward establishing three-cent street
car fares in Cleveland"
The Christian Register recalls re-
mark made by Professor Benjamin
Pierce in his old age. Il have studied
the stars at long range" he said. and
there are questions which l cannot
answer, problems which l cannot
solve; but have no doubt that some
day l shall study the stars at short
range and be able to see what now I
cannot discover"
You have only got to make peo
pie think thing is stolen and you can
sell anything in Birmingham said
prisoner named Leng at the Birming
ham, Alabama, Police Court. He had
been doing a big business in bottles
of burnt sugar and water, which he
said was whiskey-stolen.
When properly performed the pas
teurization of milk renders it safe and
wholesome. without injuring its value
as a food, declares the New York
Globe. In conjunction with inspection
and cleanliness there is every rea
son to believe that it would enable
the city to secure a milk supply in
capable of spreading the germs OF
infectious disease. Mr. Nathan Straus
has for a number of years been con
Quoting in this city an object lesson
illustrating the number of babies that
can be saved by pasteurized milk, and
has declared that the same economy of
human life could be attained in the
case of adults.
A Strike Over So.
A report comes from Troy, N. Y, OF