The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-04-24

Z a oluuys
happiness. Sixty
IL. five might be a
good age to stop
Ar'n"r "r'S"""e dull routine work
for wages, but no man would want to
stop real work until death, except that
six months to look around this side
of the grave might be acceptable.
Goethe finished the second part Of
Faust" when he was past seventy
two; and one of the ablest French
writer's, starting a new prose style,
wrote nothing until at eighty-six he
wrote the Life of st. Louis at the re-
quest of the kings widow. Within
half century 25 years have been add
ed to the average lives Of old men:
nobody would want those years wasted.
In the murder of an unfortunate
young woman, New York detectives
think they see, at last, "the perfect
crime," one in which the perpetrator
cannot be identified.
Fortunately, there Is no perfect
crime, except in the imagination of
the criminal or the detective story
writer, because criminals are dull, can
not keep their mouths shut, are vain,
boast and the electric chair gets them.
Also, they jump when hand is laid
on the shoulder; that helps detectives,
and criminals are betrayed by fellow
criminals.
Bishop Stewart, Episcopalian, of
Chicago, thinks Immortality may be
limited. "Only those who have def
mite relationship to God through the
spiritual life may be eligible for i'm.
mortality, and other souls cease to ex,
list upon DEATH"
This important suggestion of ce-
lestial -four hundred" will appeal to
many that might not care to meet, in
heaven, the cave man with low fore
head, protruding jaw. the bushman
with vocabulary of $50 words, or all
the repentant thieves, murderers and
trust magnates.
1t is conceivable that selection of
the celestial few might be postponed
a few million years, until real civili-
cation shall have begun. This is the
poison gas age.
Rivers have played an important
part in the worlds history and in wars.
The Tigris and Euphrates, creating
fertile Mesopotamia, and the ancient
Nile, with its rich valley, regularly
coated with Nile mud, made the first
civilizations possible.
Men fought through the ages about
those two rivers, and today rivers still
cause war. In Europe the Rhine bor-
der may cause repetition of the big
war. In Africa, the Blue Nile, fed by
Ethiopia's Lake Tana, breeds bitter
hatred between England and Italy.
Charles Lamb tells of a Chinese gen.
tleman whose house burned and of
pig so marvelously roasted that there
after pigs were locked in houses, the
houses burned for the sake of the roast
pig.
That Is recalled by a lady under
arrest In Pensacola, Fla. Sheriff Can
dy charges she tried twice to wreck
a passenger train to kill her husband,
the engineer. 1t is alleged that the
plot failed because the wrong spikes
were pulled from the rails. Sheriff
Candy thinks the lady wanted to col
lect $1,000 In life insurance,
An African savage who gave all his
ivory tusks for gun was found later
in the bush, on his knees, praying to
the gun not to shoot him. He did not
know how to use 1t.
This country Is equally ignorant
about using youth and Its enthusiasm.
A Frenchman says truly american
digestion would improve If Americans
made more and better sauces."
voltalre, another Frenchman, said
the same thing Of England long ago.
He found that England had many re-
ligions and only one sauce, whereas
France had many sauces and only one
religion, and he preferred France.
The new Zeppelin. in spite of en-
gines out Of order on her return from
Brazil to Germany, kept on her way
at so miles an hour, fighting winds
over the Mediterranean. That Is one
advantage of dirigible-she stays up.
The heavier-than-air plane with en-
CINE trouble comes down.
Russia has genuine youth move
ment," with one-third Of all workers
under twenty-three years of age, 43
per cent Of them girls. Russia has
173,OOO,O00 population. nearly half of
It born since the Bolshevist revolution.