The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-07-26

| opinion observes the Atlanta Journal,
that the trusts are highly beneficial
| institutions.
That the beef trust should consent
! to give a reason for raising its prices
is an unexpected courtesy, according
| to the Washington Star.
China has just invested in a plant
| for the manufacture Of smoheless pow
der. But the awakening" might come
| quicker, thinks the Kansas City Star,
ff the production of smoReless opium
| were larger
! Womans influence is prominent in
| America, and very much that is high
! est and best in our national life is
| due to that fact, assets the New York
| American Many of the greatest chap
tiers in the Revolution and Civil War
| relate to women.
The beauties of the English lang
uage are again evident, to the Wash
ington Post, in the case of that west.
ern man who had skipped with the
town funds and was described as six
feet tall and $4,000 short"
1t is surprising to the Baltimore
American, that the allurements of the
Chesapeake are not better known to
owners of small pleasure craft in the
big cities that can reach the bay with.
out going outside. The Chesapeake
abounds in attractions for those who
journey leisurely in households or
motor boats.
Last month the Allahabad Pioneer
remarked editorially: "Day after day
under the present short-sighed Govern.
ment we in India are drifting into a
condition which cannot but be viewed
with alarm by those who have wit
messed the past and can only look TIC
the future with anxiety"
There may be all kinds of scien'
tific reasons why kissing should be
suppressed, admits the Philadelphia
Press, but in a duel between a mic,
robe and the little blind god the mic
robe will have the same chance that
a butterfly would in an attempt to
snuff out the sun.
The, ability Of the people of japan
| to keep silent at time of national
/, necessity is remarkable. This ability
| is distinct asset in the great game
of war, in which knowledge of the
enemy's movements is still most i'm,
| portant. 1t would be particularly
| notable asset in war with people
| like ourselves, remarks the Cincinnati
| Times-S STAR If an Arr ertcan battleship
had been sunk off Santiago, it is
safe guess that all the world would
/ have known of the disaster, with de-
| tails, within Is minutes.
! 1t seems to be necessary to the Phil
! adelphia Record, not only that the
| racing of automobiles should be con.
| fined to tracks, instead of highways.
| but that these tracks should be en-
closed with Notifications SO substan.
/ tial that runaway machines cannot
break through and plunge into
a crowd of spectators. When that
shall be done the casualties will be
confined to the operators.
| Rev. q. T. Sweeney of Indianapolis
was for three years consul-general
| at Consuantinople. THE Turks are
victims of a false civilization and
false religion" he says, ''but l found
them magnanfmous people, open to
reason and with absolutely no race
prejudices. They don't object to
Christian being Christian or an
Armenian being an Armenian. But
| they do object to Christian or an
Armenian meddling with the Moham-
say that the large majority of the Ar
menians massacred were agitators,
They knew that their designs against
the Sultan's religion formed treason
| to the Sultan's government, and they
went to their fate with open eyes,"
A delightful canard, now current in
tHS press, lSSAtVS uI0 oAiO"o Ia "
tHarmer whose barn is infested with
rats that have of late been eating dy'
a1amite, writes the Boston Transcript.
According to the legend. the imaga-
nary huabandman is very uneasy in
his imaginary mind He doesn't want
the rats to live, and he doesn't dare
STAY them AT any moment, thinks
he, the barn may mount skyward-
cows, hay-loft, brown Dobhdn and all.
He ought to know better. Time and
time again the scientists have ex-
planned that dynamite can be ham
mered without exploding, and that it
can be burned without exploding; it
went got off unless it meets with a
| spark and blow simultaneously.