The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-29

paper are sufficient safeguards. Lit
tie thought is given to the danger to
public health it represents, protests
the New York World. Over 1900
deaths year from typhoid fever and
other diseases are laid to the house
fly. II the same number Of deaths
could be attributed to yellow fever
or smallpox there would be universal
panic and a worldwide quarantine
against the. city.
Few benefactors Of mankind have
ever achieved such great services for
their felloWmen as DIR. Robert Koch,
the great German bacteriologist, in
sists the Richmond Times-Dispatch
For years DR.. Koch has sought to
discover serum cure for tuberculos,
is, and though he has mot effected
this process, he has added enormous
ly to the knowledge of the world as
to the best methods for fighting the
white plague of Europe and America.
The steadily decreasing death rate
from tuberculosis where modern
methods for prevention are enforced
is the inexpressible gift that the white
races have received from the labors
of Dr. Koch and his fellow students.
Simple as is the definition OF gamb-
ling, the explanation of why so many
people gamble is difficult moralizes
the New York World Few people
gamble to make money The sordid
gambler sits not on the public side
of the table, but runs the game. He
counts on the mathematical percent
ages in. his favor. The man who bets
on horse races simply to make money
gets a job working for a bookmaker
and blossoms out into a bookmaker
himself The cold-blooded, avaricious
Wall street man starts in a brokers'
office, not as a customer. The most
likely explanation of the popularity Of
gambling is the excitement of it, the
mental effects; not the belief that it
is profitable but the uncertainty of it's
results.
Anybody can make a living on new,
fresh, low-prfced land. 1t is when
. land becomes costly that the owner
must hustle and use his brains, de-
clares the American Cultivator, or
give way to somebody else who can
make the land pay decent rate of in
terest. Land the world over tends to
became gradually more valuable. That
is why agriculture is becoming
business Of brains rather than of mus.
Gle, and why it affords better and bet
ter openings from capable men. Each
generation of farmers must be lit.
tie smarter than the one before.
High-priced land demands high grade
farmers. The man who qualities for
agricultural teaching or superinten
dence will choose line of work that
will be more and more in profitable
demand.
Among well-authenticated cases or
age, asserts the New York American,
may be mentioned the following: In
Great Britain. Mrs. Margaret Pagan.
104; Samuel Goldstein, 1861 Mrs
Mary Coleman, 1O7; Catherine, Coun-
tess of Desmond, 140 The records
proved conclusiyely that Sir Moses
Montefiore and Admiral Wallis lived
into their second century; that M.
Conerbe, French farmer, survived
his 112th birthday; that another
Frenchman, NJ. Soule, died at 115; that
Pascal Vicarn, a Roumanian, lived
120 years, and that an Armenian nun
entered convent at Jerusalem and
never crossed its threshold to the day
of her death. ninety-eight years later
These are well-established case, and
others might be given.
The wooden Indian as a tooacoo
store sign will soon be o1:lawed in
Oklahoma, now that Cherokee Sen
ator has introduced in the Oklahoma
Legislature bill which proyils IS for
the doom of this old and interesting
device of American advertising. The
Indian vote in that State can not
safely be affronted, and both Houses
will pass the bill with a Cherokee
whoop, contends the Springfield Re.
publican. The red men, esp ,cialiy
those who are civilized. see in I, the
wooden eflgy Of an ideal type of their
race something that lacerates their
pride, and they are as much opposed
to 1t as some OF our citizens are to
the stage Irishman But, whatever
happens in Oklahoma. the wooden In
dian is probably secure In mos: OF
our cities and towns east Of the Mis-
sissippi river The Indian vote In Mas.
sachusetts will never brighten the poll.
ticians or dominate the Legislature.
And thus long-cherished ornament
of our business streets promises to
be passed on to posterity. The time
was in England when an effigy of
killed Highlander was used as sign
for tobacco stores, and there 1t still