The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-06-05

Since they have invented gun
that shoots 300 miles, the only way
to keep from getting shot is to get
out an injunction. From the Balti
more Sun.
If George Eliot were alive today
says the Richmond Times Dispatch
we hardly see how she could avoid
bringing out "the Diyorce-Mill on the
Floss
Congressman Hobson is not with
out certain cheerful optimism, AYERS
the Atlanta Constitution. He thinks
that somebody will take the Philip
pines eff our hands.
Remarks the Buffalo Commercial:
The international rivalry in the ere
alton of huge and costly naval arma
ments is a curse to the nations that
enter it, and the United States is
happily exempt from the necessity OF
joining this mad competition
In Mrs. Howard Gou,d's opinion
no woman can dress decently on less
than $4,000 year. There are lots
of people, comments the Trenton
True American, who do it on $40 a
month, and they don't shiver to death
at that.
The cheapening of diamonds, admits
the Washington Star. to place them
within the reach OF the masses will
not materially help the people who
are offering their Jewels for quiet sale
in order ITO raise the price of a new
automobile or to meet. interest de
mands.
Lest the fame of patriot be dim
med it should be explained, protests
the Louisville Courier-Journal. that
when the author OF just published
history says that Lincoln, upon the
occasion OF his inaugural address.
was surrounded by number of press
agents" he means representatives OF
the press.
When a person has completed his
eighty-fourth year he hes completed
it, just as when he has gathered
eighty-four bushels of apples he has
gathered eighty-four bushels. II he
goes on gathering, reckons the In
dianapolis News, every one he gets
after that is making up this eighty
fifth bushel; so every minute after
completing his eighty-fourth year is
making up his eighty-fifth.
The American army is less and less
popular among able-bodied men and it
is difficult to keep the ranks full
One reason evidently is the small pay
and the little glory, laments the Chris.
tian Register, which comes TO sol
der in time of peace; but another
and more potent reason is that the
American soldier who comes under
the command of an officer who is not
patriotic and democratic becomes
servant with less liberty than an ordi
nary servant, because if he does not
like his place and his employer he
cannot give notice and quit.
The doctors Of Vienna have organ
lied an automobile club on a cooper
atiye basis 1t is proposed first te
persuade the home manufacturers tic
build car specially adaptsd for doc
tors work. Then upon payment OF
a moderate sum down, followed b. |
monthly installments, the club will |
assist the doctors to become automo |
bile owners. The monthly payments !
will be less than the present cost OF !,
hiring two-horse carriage by tho /
month, as most of the doctors do. The )
club will have its own central gar |
age and branch garages will be open |
ed in various districts of the city as I
the demand increases. The promoters /
Of the association hope to increase
the number of motoring doctors from
the present twenty or so to at least
200.
Travellers in France are much i'm
pressed with the growing democracy /
of that country. notes the Home Her
aid. There was time when the :
peasant tipped his hat to the SON OF
a somebody. and bowed low in ser
Witty before lord. Today many OF
the highest officers in the French cub.
met and in military and naval affairs /
are held by sons Of peasants. lib
erty, fraternity, equality names so
misued during the period of the
French Revolution, are today be.om.
ing a reality, and France is year
by year advancing in the spirit OF
the sae democracy. Some see iD
this cause for alarm, but why should
there be? 1t shows the awakening
of the manhood of the nation. Indeed.
this spirit of democracy, while stir