The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-11-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Uncle Sam seems TO be looked on by
other nations as the great mediator.
Whenever there is trouble anywhere
else on earth. everyone looks to the
United States to step in, take the combat
ants by the scuf of the neck, and stop
the row.
Turkey is the latest applicant Tor med
iation The terrible Turk" was going
about his accustomed ways, when Italy
knocked him down and tramped on him
Everyone held his breath. awaiting the
Turks reprisal. What happened? Tur-
key yelled take him Of, fellers; didn't
do nothing!'' And now Turkeys insist
ing that fighting is furtherest from its
desire, wants Uncle Sam to make Italy
quit What will Uncle Sam do? Z
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Doctors say that many human ills are
merely imaginary. No doubt that is the
way they account for the cures made in
this city on November S, by Bishop
Oliver G. Sabir, of the Evangelical
Christian Science Church, when he laid
his hands on six blind, lame aud i'll per
sons and made them we'll There was
great excitement AMI many others wished
to receive treatment but the Bishop was
unable to do more, being exhausted both
physically and mentally by his efforts.
He said anyone could do as he did after
little study.
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Germany's exactions for potash may
have been good thing in Disguise, for
this Government was stirred to seek the
great basis for fertilizer compounds with.
in the confines of the United States. It
is now said that wonderfully rich de-
post has been discovered near Washing
ton. 1t has all been gobbled up by a
syndicate, so it is likely that the farmers
will not profit very greatly, although the
price will probably be reduced.
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Only few years ago San Diego was a
quiet, somnolent village. content in the
possession OF a beautiful harbor and a
matchless climate and seemingly undis-
turbed by ambition or dreams of power
and opuleuce People focked there in
the winter to escape the seasons cold,
and they swarmed on the beaches in
summer to get away from the summers
heat, but the city seemed impassive and
content. Then something stirred its
peaceful slumber. Perhaps it was the
insistence of the rest of the world to be
taken into that sacred and beatific en-.
vironment. 1t was little troublesome
but room was made for the newcomers.
Then more came. Then San Diego's
population doubled in five years The
United States census told the story, and
San Diego herself was mildly surprised.
About that time the holding of an expo
sition was being agitated Sau Diego
said. why not?" Her people. now
awake and glad of it, subscribed round
million dollars to show their faith, then
voted another million in bonds; $40 a
head for every man, woman and child in
the city. Did this keep people away?
No; Oh the contrary such an exhibition
of enterprise made people think San
Diego was good place to locate in, and
they have been going there at such a
rapid rate that it has been difficult 10 find
houses for them to live in.
San Diego is building a great exposi-
ton, and at the same time it is building a
grea. city; a city of homes, with schools
and churches aud theaters-every adjunct
of modern civil life. Its achievement in
city building will be hardly less interest
ing in 1915. than its achievement in ex-
position building