The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-06-04
WORTH QUOTING


The Augusta Herald boasts tha&:
Georgia's bad men are now making
good roads.
One good thing about being phil
osopher boasts the New York Press,
is you never realize what fool the
world thinks you are.
The higher duty on stockings, sug
gests the New York American, is
doubtless advocated by the safety-de.
post companies.
Once upon a time a lawyer met
fool and his money; the next day, re-
lates the Chicago News, the fool mer
the lawyer with his money.
There are lots of helpless indivii.
uals in this world, and we should all
be thankful, muses. the Epitomist, that
we don't belong to that class.
1t usually costs less, remarks the
Chicago News. to get divorce than
1t does to pose as the defendant in
a breach of promise suit.
Pat Grove says kidnapping is
mans job" and yet, only last week.
comments the Atlanta Constitution,
red+headed widow ran off with a mil.
lionaire.
Few men are so wise as not to
have an idiotic area in their brains,
or so good as not to have twist
in their moral perceptions moralizes
the Christian Register.
If the inventor whose airship
couldn't come down. propounds the
New York Evening Post, would com.
bine with the inventors whose air
ships cannot go up, we should have
the problem solved.
Prof Wood suggests that 1t might
be possible to signal to the Martians
by means of black spots four miles
square set in the alkali plains Of the
Far West.
Playing to the gallery is one Of the
cheapest devices Of the ambitious man
and one which, being detected, as II
commonly is, asserts the Christian Reg.
lister, drops him to low level among
those whom he is most DESTROYS 70
please.
Holbein's picture of Christina OF
Denmark. painted under orders from
Henry VIII of England, who had some
thought of marrying the princess, was
sold, notes the New York Evening
Post, for $33O,OO0 The enormous
price is explained by the fact that
the women Henry VIII did not marry
are much rarer than the women he
did.
There is the objection to the taxa
ton of bachelors for purposes Of rev
enue only, says the New York Even.
ing Sun, that many Of them would
come to regard themselves as licens-
ed by the State, and might even go
so far as to ask protection against
designing widows, ETC., considering
their conditions, in fact, as sort
Of property or easement which they
had a right to enjoy al against the
rest OF the world. This, OF course.
it would be impossible to provide for.
A3rfxy NId NINfn0o With
your trouser legs tucked into diiapi-
dated old boots recommends the Agri-
cultural Epitomist Too many farm
ers dress in a slovenly manner AMI
SLOUGH along as though ashamed OF
themselves. They should be. for they
are discredit to the great agricul-
turaf profession, the grandest work
any man ever engaged in. Clothing
is cheap, it costs but little to be clean.
and neatness is necessary to success
Be clean and be honest. then stand up
straight and walk as though you have
some respect for yourself and for your
business.
Henceforth the corporation tnae
kills by reason of parsimony or OF
indifference, that grinds the faces of
the poor to swell its profits, that OBJ
trudes itself between a dangerous and
brutalizing employment and the pro-
tests of the public. may be dealt with
under the criminal code like an in.
dividual offender. prophesies the New
York World. 1t Is responsible for its
sins of omission as we'll as for its
sins OF commission. Long person
in some respects OF great Importance
to itself, 1t is now person in ali
respects. some of them of the high
est public value. We need not con-
Germ ourselves especially at this time
with the question as to the souls