The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-06-21

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There is always room at the top
If You can push the other fellow on,
suggests Life.
One enthusiast says it will not be
long before everybody will ride in mo
tor cars. This, observes the Wash
ington Post, is growing more likely
since they are now making automo'
bile hearses.
The Houston Post tells of jack
rabbit that fell in the water and was
instantly swallowed by Texas black
bass. If, to begin with, queries the
Washington Post, the jackrabbit was
full of Texas strawberries, the bass
must have enjoyed the meal.
One of the most pleasing features
of counting widow to the Charleston
Post, is the masterful and artistic way
she assists in boosting the game.
What wonder that bogus antiques"
impose on museums and collectors,
signs the New York Evening Post,
when the very spade that began the
subway has been counterfeited!
The governor of North Carolina re-
Gently met the governor Of South Car
DINA and each discovered that the
other is a prohibitionist. 1t is now
a longer time between drinks, COM
ments the New York American.
Peace and pistol are perilous
combination, warns the Philadelphia
Press. The depressed, disappointed.
overworked, under par moment Will
come when hideous suggestion VIII
take shape in suicide which would
never have come but for the pistol
habit-the long and habitual presence
of a suicidal weapon. 80, 81
Agnes Repplier wonders why men
stick to the derby hat year after year,
while every enterprising woman in
sists on a new style of hat with eacn
season. Miss Repplier is not the first
person, declares the Pittsburg Dis
patch, who has named effect and cause
in close juxtaposition and yet. failed
to see the connection.
Mr.. Richmond Pearson Hobson APP
pears in more praiseworthy role IN
a campaign, declares the Atlanta Con-
stitutfon, to convert his constituents
to modern agricultural methods than
in his efforts to pull the nations leg
for a. billion dollar navy. The former
movement, moreover, has the advant-
age of being within the realm of pos
sibilities.
If money is not to be taken Tor
campaign work.. demands the chicago
Inter-Ocean, from men who have 1t
and are willing to give it-who are
almost invariably men connected IN
some way, directly or indirectly. with
stock company enterprise-then we
shall be obliged to carry on our cam
paigns without funds and leave the
average voter in doubt or darkness
as to what the election is really
about.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell
comes back from England with the
degree of Doctor of Science conferred
upon him by Oxford to announce MS
intention of making his man-lifting
machine a man-fying machine. Dr.
Bells experiments have so far result
ed in the production of kite that
will carry man Up into the air. he
now proposes, according to the bos'
ton Post, to attach motor that snail
propel man and kite through the air.
The genius which gave us the tele-
phone may yet distance other COM
petitors in the realization of the
dream of man-fight.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and the Department OF Justico
could not employ their time and tai
ents to better advantage than to call
railroad companies to account Tor :
wrecks caused by defective equipment,
overworked crews, or other factors
which might bring the offenders with
In roach of the law. insists the Wash
ington Post The public is not SUI
ficiently protected by individual dam
age suits, occurring after the disaster.
The government should be able, some
how, to reach and punish railroad COM
panies for permitting preyentaDle
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