The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-11-15

the produce OF the west can be nan
died with satisfactory expedition by
water. 1t would be a remarkably slow
boat that could not make as good time
to market as some of the freight
trains that ply between town and
town in the west today"
Oil dressing is found very beneficial
to the macadamized roads in ALE.
gheny County, as it has been to roads
in many other parts of the country.
The fears of insurance men, maintains
the Pittsburg Dispatch, that it might
contribute to great fire have been
proved groundless by elaborate tests.
Oil mixed with dust is not infam-
mable.
The railroads and other corpora
tons are making mistake in appeal
ing to Federal interference to evade
the laws passed by the people. They
should realize, according to the New
York American, that public opinion is
the real power in this country, and
not Federal judges, or technicalities
or anything short of the sovereign
will of the voters.
Staying all night" was one of the
delights of young girlhood, but it was
not often permitted, for there was
much talk after the lights were out
and consequently not much sleep, re-
fleets the Indianapolis News. Perhaps
these old customs are not much miss.
ed, delightful as they were, for the
times change and the people change
with them. But older people think
of them with tender regret.
1t is said that the people along the
coast of Newfoundland are expert
wreckers-not in that they wreck YES
sells to rob them, but in that they
know how to avail themselves legiti-
mately of the opportunity afforded,
contends the Montreal Star. In this
connection Sir Wilfrid Laurier used
to tell of meeting priest in charge
of parish near Cape Race and the
bishop of his diocese. "How will
your people do this winter?" asked
the bishop. every well, think, your
reverence" replied the priest cheer
fully, with the help of God and a
few wrecks"
"The bone-shaking," says the
christian Advocate of New York,
that Bishop Moore got in springless
Picking carts on the Chinese roads
prompted him to send out two Ameri-
can top-buggies to the presiding ED
ers of Shan-hai-quan and Tientsin.
The natives stare at the modest char
lot as if it was ninety horsepower
Mercedes or Panhard. An old man
iarin said to Mr.. Brown, of Tientsin:
1t is foreign toy. The ancient is
best"
There seems to be no doubt of the
steadily increasing immigration of
Japanese to the United States. They
do not come directly, but from neigh
boring lands. For many months the
government has had immigration in
spectors in Mexico and Canada max
ing Investigations respecting the COM
ing to America of Asiatic laborers
especially Japanese. In practically
every instance, relates the Boston
Post, the inspectors have reported
that the Japanese who reach Mexico
or Canada are bound for the United
States. Inquiries in the Hawaiian Is
lands have revealed organizations
whose business it is to procure Jap.
anese laborers for work in the United
States. 1t is this against which Amer
lean labor protests, and the protest
should be needed
If the Mississippi River with its
great navigabie tributaries were in
Europe, asserts the New Orleans
Picaynne, it would be walled with
granite and dreged out to float vessels
of great tonnage and these would be
carrying a vast traffic at rates with
which the railroads could not com
pete, but as the road would have all
the business they could do there
would be no reason to complain of
the rivers. However much we may
undervalue this water transportation
today the time will come when the
Mississippi Valley will have hun
dreds of millions of population, and
they will be driven by necessity to
make the most of their inferior water.
ways.
We would not for a moment sug
gest that a college education is the
thing for everybody, pleads the New
York Post On the contrary. we are
persuaded that our colleges, with mis-.
directed kindness, sometimes make it
too easy for stupid or lazy boys and