The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-05-03

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one of the unexpected results OF
anti-railroad legislation, to the Phil
adelphia Record, is the promotion Of
honest politics.
Modern battleships do deadly exc.
cution, observes the Pittsburg Press,
particularly among their own crews.
can Ohio man." according to the
Chicago Tribune, latter playing the
piano twenty-five hours became I'M
conscious"
Recent revelations at Paris, in the
consideration of the Baltimore Sun,
will no doubt help to discourage the
tendency of American heiresses ito buy
titles with monkeys on the end Of
them.
So overwhelmingly vast is the total
of merchandise moved on railways in
American that the addition of .004 Of
a cent per ton per mile in the rate
would yield the companies over $74O,-
100000 estimates the New York
American.
1t is a fact, declares the New York
Herald, that when the mind is in.
tensely occupied minor bodily ailments
cease to trouble us. If the pulpit
held attention as closely as does the
stage there would undoubtedly be less
coughing and less drowsiness In
church.
The present year, asserts the Lon.
don Globe, sees the tercentenary OF
the introduction of forks into Eng
land, for it was in 1907 that the now
indispensable articles were introduced
into France and England from Italy.
The Massachusetts, announcement
that the human soul weighs an ounce
must not be misunderstood, warns
the Pittsburg Press. Not everybody's
soul weighs that It's just the aver
age. There are heavyweight souls.
middle-weights, light-weights, welters
and light and heavy bantams. Ice
trust magnate souls are all light ban
tams.
A Washington horse is declared by
veracious news report to have first
thrown his rider, injuring him severe
ly and then rung the bell of the
nearest physician, summoning assist
ance. So sagacioRs an animal, thinks
the Pittsburg Dispatch, should have
reflected that the wisest way would
he to summon the physician first and
then abstain from throwing his mast
er.
Instead of increasing the rates the
telegraph companies should reduce
them They would gain such volume
of new business that they would more
than make up the difference. 1t should
be the settled policy, maintains the
Washington Star, Of these corpora
tons to attract business, to train the
people 10 use IuC NhO AhOAO =
quently, to invite them by the orrer
of low tolls and good service to tran
sact more of their business by tele-
graph than before. The telephone
companies have learned the lesson
of profitable rate reduction, and 1t Is
a strange spectacle now to find the
telegraph corporations pursuing the
hazardous course of inviting regula'
tive legislation by their defiance OF
the spirit of the times.
An idea of the rapidity with which
the timber is disappearing from some
sections of Pennsylvania insists the
New York Tribune, can be obtained
from the following figures, which re-
fer to the timber cutting on the
Hicks Run tract in Clearheld County:
Original size of tract, 5000 acres;
timber cut the first two years, S,oou
acres; still standing, 5000 acres;
amount of timber cut. 100000 feet;
amount standing, 200.OO0,000 feet;
daily capacity of sawmill, 100000 feet;
daily shipments, Is carloads; Snount
of timber in Hicks Run yard, 6,O00'
900 feet; time of operation, Q years;
estimated time to cut standing tim
Der. 4 years; number of men employ
ed. 500 to 1000
Referring to the get-rich-quick
swindles the New Orleans Picaqune
remarks: "It is this sort of thing
which attracts investors (ike molasses
draws flies, and they are so eager to
get in early that they don't realize
their situation until they are wholly
and hopelessly stuck in the plausible
Sweets" If a swindle is to be sue
cessful, it must offer some line OF
business of which the proposed victim
is absolutely ignorant and promise