The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-14

1uVASGS uHS NEW 1OTh kMSSp ~ AS
impossible to get some other fellow
to do 1t for you.
Life would be pleasanter all
around If our creditors had as much
confidence as we have, submits the
Dallas News, in our good intentions.
Many fellow has jumped from the
frying pan into the fire, declares the
Philadelphia Record, under the inn
preston that the fire was out.
Federal courts positively refused to
become excited over the Panama
libelss' It Is a wholesome and com
forting reflection. to the Philadel-
phia Ledger, that no matter what
storm and stress may rage. the coun-
try has at least one area Of depend
able calm.
IL the prodigal sons father were in
the cattle business now, suggests the
Dallas News, he would probably rath-
er kill one Of the younger children
than the fatted calf.
The President doubts that 1--WE are
quite SO near the millennium as MT
Carnegie thinks we are" Hoot,
mon! Even at that. shouts the Wash
ington Herold, we may be well within
speaking distance.
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my idea of getting rid of the
hookworm and the pellagra germ
remarked the man on the car to the
Toledo Blade, would be to tie their
tails together and hang them over
clothesline."
Dear old Chicago, sneers the New
York Evening Telegram. home OF the
epicure, the potted chicken feathers
and the cold storage fish eighteen
months old, is again in trouble with
the State Food Commission for stain
ing carp red and selling 1t for smok-
ed salmon.
A new field of medical science is
opened by the Paris surgeon who has
grated a sleeps jugular vein on the
leg of patient suffering from ar
terial aneurism. Modern surgery
comments the New York World. has
many wonderful feats to its credit,
but none SURPRISING this is the pos
sibilities of benefit to humanity
which it suggests.
What is to become Of the New
York ferries? asks the Providence
journal. The Brooklyn bridges and
tunnels have led to diminished boat
service across the East River, ana
now the Lackawanna ferries are
making fewer trips on account Oh
the Hudson tunnels. The time may
come when a ferryboat will be as
much of an anomaly in New York as
a horse car is at the present day.
Saws the Buffalo Express: The
gratifying statement is made that
there is no oficial disposition in Can :
ada to protest about the presence OF
training vessels for the naval militia
on the great lakes. despite the clam
or of some Canadian jingoes. A pro-
test would be somewhat ridiculous,
since none of the training vessels
could have reached the great lakes
without the permission of the Can
adian government
The smoke nuisance in American
cities Is so great an evil that even II
1t entailed no economic loss It's aDate-
ment would justify almost any con-
ceivable outlay. 1t is a breeder OF
disease and a destroyer of property.
It lowers the vitality of its victims
and is responsible for rising death
rate in scores of communities, as
serts the New York Mail But there
is. in addition, money factor In the
problem The smoke nuisance may
be considered as really serious only
in the large cities and towns OF the
country. in those communities there
Is an annual loss estimated at $oO0,-
600 900 due to waste and damage
caused by smoke This total repre-
sents a toll of SIT per capita every
wear for the inhabitants of the affect
ed communities In other words, this
nuisance costs the victims enough ev-
erv year to build the Panama canal
or complete the project of a deep wa
terway from the great lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico.