The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-02-21

wake up a policeman.
About the meanest thing a woman
can do when her husbands name is
mentioned is to sigh, look resigned
and say nothing, confesses the Chi
cago News.
A prominent Washington physician
says that "mince pie is not injurious
if you can digest it, It might be adj
ded, comments the Baltimore Ameri
can, neither are carpet tacks 50
much depends upon the little wore
''if."
A fellow who neglects to hire car
riages and buy flowers and theatre
tickets, Just because 1t is leap-year,
pronounces the Manchester Union, de
serves to be an old maid.
Remarks the ST. Paul Pioneer
Press: The only sensible thing fol-
victim of even q slight attack OF
influenza to do is to go home and &c
to bed Immediately and then send
for a doctor to attend to the raatter
OF treatment. This will prove the
cheapest and the safest course to pur
sue.
1t is urged that fundamental and
never-to-be-forgotten thing is that
there can be no such thing as clean
fly or harmless one, insists the In
dianapolis News. They are one and
all laden with foulness and bear
more or less of the germs of disease
and death.
What's the use of bringing in the
harrow and the other field implements
that are standing out in the field
where last used? asks the American
Cultivator. They will be out there
all ready to start work with in the
spring. Spring isn't very far off, and
besides, it would be a good deal OF
trouble to bring them in under shell
ter How the implement dealer slaps
his thigh when he sees a moving ma
chine going to pieces as it stands out
in the field subject to the preserving
power of the elements.
A tree-planting revival is in prog
ress in southern Indiana, where many
farmers are utilizing waste tracts OF
land for the growing of such trees as
black locusts, hardy catalpas, and
other fast-growing varieties. The inn
mediate cause of this movement, OBJ
serves the Argonaut, is the scarcity
of timber for fence-posts. 1t IS said
that land which can be bought at
from six to ten dollars an acre will
yield a good crop of locusts in about
ten or twelve years, the product OF
which is estimated to be worth from,
$3.50 to $500 an acre The forest ser
vice of the government is encourag-
ing the movement in accordance with
its general policy.
The possession of truly large
fleet will not provoke war with other
countries, argues the New ORLEANS
Picayune, but, on the contrary, 1t
will have tendency to diminish the
chances of foreign countries attempt
ing to attack us. The best prevention
of war is to be always prepared for
it. There is no doubt that Germany's
admirable army has saved her from
attack and possible disintegration,
and it is equally certain that Great
Britain's long era Of peace and pros
perity has been due to her great pre-
ponderating naval strength A big
and strong navy would be the slhrest
guarantee of the maintenance OF
peace between US and other countries,
and the sum that such navy would
cost us would not represent small
portion even of the waste and cost,
that a single month of active war
would occasion.
BY what methods shall women agi-
tate for what they consider rights
denied to them under the laws? This
question, which has deeply stirred
England for the last two years. is
now being asked here in view OF the
attempt to introduce "suffragette"
methods into this country by Mrs.
Borrpiann Wells and her aides, notes
the New York Evening Post. The
presence here. too, of Mrs. Golden
Sanderson, the daughter Of Richard
Golden. who went to prison for VIC
lent demonstrations on behalf Of WON.
ans suffrage, has set American suf-
fragists to asking whether their time
honored methods of quietly appealing
to reason are the proper ones to fol-
low. Are they accomplishing any.
thing? Is their cause advancing? Is
it being properly put before the pub
lie