The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-02-04
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OanQitS as we 40 with the CeuIrdl
American kind, signs the New York
American.
No man has any rights, declares
me Chicago Tribune, that lead 9th
ers wrong.
OF course, women are not mercen-
rry, admits the Atchison Globe, but
gambling seems a greater sin to them
when you lose.
Hearts are a good deal like records
muses. the Pittsburg Dispatch. You
:an break them ever so many times
without damaging them in the least
A good many people are making a
personal test to see whether Mr.
Taft's judgment on What Is
Whisky?" is correct, notes the Bal
timore Sun.
It's when man burns the candle
at both ends, announces the Phila-
delphia- Record, that he finds the
game isn't worth the candle.
Why do we speak of the discovery
Of the north pole, when there is no
pole there to be discovered? demands
he Christian Register. We reach
the equator, but nobody speaks OF
discovering it.
The falling off Of $4,000 barrels in
The output of Milwaukee beer would
Indicate that prohibition is more real
n many States than casual observers
nave reported, thinks the New York
World. II in spite Of prohibition
laws drinking was practised to the
same extent as before. the brewers
would certainly know 1t.
Says the Los Angelica Times: Just
IS long as there is such an enor-
nous increase in the production OF
the precious metals and no large
increase in other productions, just so
long it will take larger number Of
dollars, whether they be in gold or
In silver, to buy a bushel OF wheat
Or corn, a bale Of cotton or sack
Of potatoes.
The application OF science to agri-
culture is the secret OF the increas-
Ing production Of our farms per acre,
as well as growing the best corn in
the world, as Indiana has been do
ing for several years past, as wit
ness the awards of the prizes at the
Worlds Corn Shows. 1t is proper for
us to say in this connection that the
Indiana Farmer has been the medium
showing the application OF science to
agriculture now for more than so
years, carrying from the laboratories
20 the farm every available bit OF
information cleaned from all sources
ID the world
II the Britishers should ever wake
up and set themselves to manufac-
turing for their colonies. first finding
out what the colonials want and then
pushing their goods properly. con-
tends the Detroit Free Press, there
may be change in the tenor OF the
returns. Until that time comes. how.
ever, Americana Canadian trade will
continue to develop. as it has de-
veloped in the past in the face Of
all that politicians have been able
to do to weaken 1t. Possibly Presi-
dent Taft had the fact in mind when
he decided that the British prefer
entail tariff was not an undue dis
elimination against this country UNI
der the maximum clause.
1T is a commonly accepted belief.
admits Country Life in America, that
nothing short OF being pried loose
will induce bulldog to give up his
grip on another dog or on an In
truder; but this Is a mistake. A lit
tie household ammonia poured on him
las near his nose as circumstances
will allow-will make him let go I'M
meddately. The fumes of ammonia
are SO oyerpowerlng thatsa dog can
not possibly alntaln MS grip and MS
breath at the same time.
Remarks the St Louis Post Dis
patch: The battleship Utah is the
largest and heaviest war ship ever
built in the United States. and ex-
penis declare she has no equal atioat
as a first class fighting machine.
Needless to go over the figures OF
her length, her tonnage, her draught,
her beam, her armor. her armament
and her cost. Let it be conceded
that she is the greatest and most for
midable ever-and that she is ours.
Now that we have her, what are we
going to do with her?
If Russia imagines that the Unit
ed States will compete with Japan for
tho possession of the north half OF |