The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-19

The President says he likes the man
who sings at his work. So do we,
asserts the New York Mail. What
we object to is the man who sings at
ours. -. = ;-c.'
Real courtesy is one of the finest
flowers of humanity, POLITICALLY sug.
gests the Duluth Evening Herald, and
it scatters sunshine and makes life
easier, pleasanter and more profitable
A Vassar girl jumped fence four
feet ten inches high without touching
her hands to it. Yet the world will
distrust that girls biscuits, laments
the Minneapolis Journal, until it is
shown. -,,>..yss@ 7'-'~--r
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch says:
LET us rejoice that the total of our
interest-bearing national debt has
dropped below 100000, 00O."
The parrot-chicken, which calls the
farmer when it lays an egg, has moth
ing on the cash register chicken,
which rings up every egg, boasts the
New York American.
The Englishman who has donated
$Z5,000 for the founding of a church
in which sermons are to be preached
in Esperanto, according to the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, is like the des
perado who chose the gooseberYy bush
for his gaT!ows and requested the
Sheriff to wait for it to grow.
Full Justice will be done to Jeffer'
son Davis by American historians
His virtues will be recognized. The
bitterness is gone, declares the Chi
cago Tribune. What the man himself
was will be his memorial. There can
be little doubt that the modification
of feeling regarding him manifested
on Northern and Southern sides rep
resents the true opinion of him as
distinguished leader of the lost
cause" ,a,,-
The New York Medical Journal very
frankly and judiciously says: 1T IS
only humane to try to deprive death
of its pains and terrors, but to do SO
is vastly different thing from killing
a person painlessIy." Certainly al
Will agree with such view, as well
as that which maintains that under
no circumstances does q reputable
physician do anything to cut life short,
as he would be murderer if he did
We do not need to become absolute
vegetarians at one stroke, remarks the
New Haven Register. 1t has not been
demonstrated that such a change
would be best for us. But if the per-
sons who are eating meat at two or
three meals in the day would CUT
down the consumption to one meal
day. and reduce the quantity at that
meal, all of US, with the possible ex
ception OF the beef barons, would be
happier and healthier
The milk bottle should be sterilizeo
or abolished altogether. Paper milk
bottles. which can be thrown away
after once used, are said to be avail
able at small cost. Until legislation
can be obtained which will insure the
real inspection of diaries and real
protection of the milk supply until II
reaches the consumer, it might be
possible to avoid part of the danger
by insisting upon the use of paper
milk bottles. One thing is CERTAIN
declares the Washington Post, tho
present methods of handling milk III
large cities must give way To some
new system that will observe more
of the rules of cleanliness. 1t will be
highly cred:table to Washington II II
can lead the way in this imperatlvely
necessary reform.
The killing of deformed babies
would have cost England Pope ana
Byron The killing of weak ones
would have cost America President
Roosevelt. 1t is more difficult an the
case of babies than in the case OF AMI
mails to determine which Will DO
worth raising" At any rate, oD'
serves the New York World, it is too
early to urge the killing of the puny
ones while the process is, still going
on with such appalling speed. Might
it not be better first to experiment
with saving more of them by still fur.
Their improvements in sanitation and
greater growth of knowledge and see
if some of the rescued do not turn
out poets or Presidents?
Referring to the efforts to suppress
the opium trade in China the New
York Tribune says: ut was not 10
be expected that the campaign against
this most insidious drug habit would
instantly or easily become entirely
successful. 1t will take time and hard
work to redeem the empire from the
vice to which it has been subject foT
ages. But the outlook is distinctly