The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-04-15

would be won, predicts the Chicago
Tribune, If we would ignore the mag
mary ones.
About the surest thing in this
world, asserts the Dallas News, ia
that good-looking girl with lot OF
money is going to be noticed.
Anti-big hatpin legislation is ram
pant in several communities, and yet
we wonder, observes the Albany Ar
gus, at the persistence Of the suf
fragette movement.
New York is to have a salon for
poets. Let no thirsty bard get in
spired of a hope that this is case
of accidental misprint, cautions the
Philadelphia Ledger
This country could no doubt be run
great deal better, admits the Pitts
burg Dispatch, if it wasn't for the con
stitutional objection an American has
to letting anyone run him.
, II IS : Z
Says the st. Louis Republic: If Can.
ada has more miles Of railroad per
capita of population than we have, it
may also be remembered that she has
more acres of unoceupied land to the
mile Of railroad.
When bank clerk starts out to
break a faro bank it is safe to predict.
declares the Binghamton Republican,
that a bank will be busted even II
it is not the faro one.
We might understand better some
of the abstruse problems of life.
thinks the Trenton American, if there
were so many very clear explanations
of them by people who know nothing
about them.
The farmers, boasts the Agricultur-
al Epitomist, cannot consistently com
plain Of hard times or unremunerative
prices. They are realizing more for
their products, and their farms are
valued higher, than at any former pc
Rod within the past eighteen years.
In the declaration of the New York
City game and poultry dealers that
the advance in food prices is due
solely to the natural relations of sup
ply and demand" there is only one
error, AYERS the indianapolis News,
Instead of natural" the adjective
should be unnatural"
Is it mark of the Philistine
submits the New York World. to ask
what we have to do with Greek stand
ards of feminine beauty? What would
they have thought in the Athens OF
Pericles of the suggestion by Egyps
tian critics that Greek women did not
conform to the physical proportions
of the women of Memphis or Thebes?
Our own standards of physical beauty
are now the test by which such CONF
parsons are to be determined. The
main consideration is the superiority
OF the American type, whether or not
it agrees with classical ideals.
Replying to the argument by the
packers counsel, at Trenton, to the
effect that the corporation act of New
Jersey could not have contemplated
the use OF corporation books in Grim
inal proceedings, because at the time
of the passage Of the law the right to
compel corporation to produce its
books in criminal proceedings was
doubtful, Justice Swayze says: What
ever may be said of the privilege OF
a corporation against self-fncrimina-
ton at the time the corporation act
was passed, it certainly was never
supposed that corporation whose
books contained evidence which
would be important in criminal pro-
ceeding against individuals could not
be compelled to produce these books
for the purpose of affording such evil
dence. That right was as clearly re-
cognized in 1896 as it een ever be;
and | think this argument fails.
An excellent demonstration of the
discipline enforced at the Western
Penitentiary was afforded recently,
potes the Pittsburg Dispatch, when
fire was discovered in building in the
prison yard while the prisoners were
at services in the chapel. Remember
ing the instructive rush that follows
an alarm of fire anywhere among
those in the vicinity, and the fact that
these men were penned in the institu
ton and for moment unaware of
whether they were threatened or noe.
the fact that they went on with the
service as II nothing had happened.
the prisoner at the piano playing I'M
interruptedly and the congregation
completing the hymn, won the admir-
ing approval OF the warden when he
later addressed them. At the same |