The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-06-09

proved successful and enjoyable. Mr. EdWard
c. Necker worked energetically to fit up the
grounds for the occasion. A new bowling
alley has been erected and this furnished much
amusement during the day.
Potato bugs appear to be following mp
Bryans tactics. There are 16 to leaf and II
you clean them up with paris green the old
crowd is back again ready for business in the
morning.
Farmers are very busy and the bugs or lice
that have attacked the peas rye, cherries. ETC.,
are making much extra work for them.
Pickers complain bitterly OF the way this pest
gets on them and they can't work with any
satisfaction Instead of eating the vines and
peas these lice appear to suck the juice from
them and they become SO disgusting to the
sight that the pickers sometimes get sick hand
ling them.
Wheat and rye look well, but rain is much
needed and unless it comes very soon trucking
crops will necessarily suffer badly.
Mr. Samuel II. Yeats and wife, of Glyndon.
and Mr.. Frederick Kremple and wife Of
Chestnut Ridge, paid flying visit to friends
here last Sunday. They were much pleased
with this section of the county.
Men employed on the Belair road have been
laid off temporarily, but there is such a de-
mand for pea and berry pickers that they can
readily find employment
Crows are doing great deal of damage in
the corn fields. Dummies have been erected
in the fields. but the crows get so bold they
actually alight on them. Blinds have been
put up Dy some anu Cn6 DdIlBluS Vi Iuc Suuo
sometimes reminds Us of what must be going
on in the Philippines. ).
Again After the Gamblers-Colonel Tay-
lor Has q Rough Experiences the
session of the County Commissioners on
Wednesday it was given out that they in-
tended to make another effort to break up the
gambling and disorder that is still going on in
| the districts adjacent to the city. Col. Taylor
announced to the other members of the Board
| hot rt1u 10ro nod nod hio oorc TINT
the Commissioners themselves were prohting
| by this very lawlessness, as well as various
other of the county's officers. Some had even,
he said, fixed the amount which the Com
missioners received fol. their condonance.
While he said he knew that as 10 the Com
missioners this rumor was false and absurd,
| and firmly believed that it was equally false
| and absurd of every other officer who had
been thus slandered, yet he thought that pub
lie officers should be like Caesars wife-above
suspicion; that this would be best accom-
plished by removing all grounds of suspicion
and preserving law and order at any cost.
! That such lawlessness does exist. Colonel
Taylor thinks beyond doubt His reasons
for that belief, he said, were in part derived
from his experience at Kirby's saloon, in the
18th district. He went there, he said, on
| Tuesday night last, to personally investigate
| place of which he so often had heard. He
went unannounced, but he was recognized by
some of the guardian angels of the place.
|
keep in pigeons" and his further ingress
barred. He, however, rushed into the place
! at the cost of few bruises and saw it in full
| blast. Men gathered around him and began
to use him roughly, when from somewhere
in the crowd cry came, For Gods sake
! don't hurt that man ~ and the turbulent and
threatening crowd fell away and left him. He
saw, he said, evidences of gambling and pool
selling on every hand.
| Leaving Kirby's he went on to Kelly's.
| he and mo with an
| inhospitable reception. His experience con-
| WINGED him that some steps should be taken
| to break up these places that it did not APP
pear to be very difficult to find out that they
existed.
Commissioners Slade and Knox expressed
themselves as anxious to take any step or any
measures necessary for breaking up this state
of disorder
Chief of Police STREET. appeared before the
Board at the afternoon session and explained
to them how almost helpless the police force is.
He has not many men and they are well
known and uniformed, and it is almost an
impossibility for them to obtain evidence, as
the places invariably close at their approach.
He is anxious. he says, to close up every place
where there is gambling or where liquor is
sold on Sunday.
The Board then considered the ACCESSIBILITY
of employing regular detective force to Sc
cure evidence for the conviction OF these law
breakers. Unless steps are taken promptly
they are useless. If action is deferred until
the meeting of the grand jury the offenders
will have temporarily retired into some con-
venient haven until it is safe to venture forth
again into their accustomed haunts. States
Attorney Grason was also in conference with
the Board advising them as to the best method
to pursue in suppressing the lawlessness.
The Board finally directed the chief clerk to
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beats and to suppress it, and notifying them
that their retention of their positions would
depend on their fidelity to their duty and eff
cheney in its discharge. The Board did not
decide whether or not to employ detectives,
but intimated that if such step is necessary
to secure evidence to convict it will be taken.
Mosquitoes The Dangerous and the
Other Kind.-At the annual meeting OF the
Maryland Public Health Association, held in
Baltimore last week, DIR. w. 8. Thayer, of
Johns Hopkins University, made an address
on Malaria and Its Prevention" in which he
demonstrated the important part played by
certain species of mosquitoes in the transmits
sion Of malaria.
Thayer, ''since the parasite of malaria was
discovered and about Is years since it has been
recognized. 1t lives in the blood and develops
in the red corpusels, destroying them. They
are of different shapes in the course of their
development and when fully developed are as
large as the corpuscles. When developed they
rupture the corpuscle and some of the para
sites speculate, the spor attacking other cor
puscles. There are three species OF the para
site-one which develops in 4S hours, another
in 70 hours, and the third varies in develop
ment from "a to 48 hours Often they exist in /
enormous groups. The chill of malaria COR
responds with the sporulatipg of theparasites.
''Wben there are many groups OF parasites
they speculate daily, and we have the con-
tinuous or remittent fevers Some of the
parasites do not undergo speculation, but from
| them wormlike forms issue. These forms
have been shown to be male and female. From
| their coniugation comes an arrOw-Shaped para
| site. an extremely active body, capable OF
| living outside in other bodies. 1t has been
| demonstrated that these parasites can be re-
moved from the blood of a malarial patient by
mosquitoes and live in the muscles of the
| mosquito.
ut was formerly thought that there were
| three ways for malaria 10 enter the human
system-by drinking water, by respiration and
| by the MOSQUITO bite. For the first two no
conirmatory evidence has been produced.
| There is no case on record where malaria re-
| suited from drinking water. One investigator
drank the blood of malaria patient with no
i'll effect. If it had been administered hypo-
dermically it would have caused the disease.
ut is hard to prove or disprove breathing
theory. In 1883 Dr. King, of Washington,
suggested the mosquito theory. All conditions
| for acquiring malaria are favorable to mos
| autos Where there are no mosquitoes malaria
| is almost unknown. That mosquitoes can
transmit malaria has been proven on birds.
! The parasite is transmitted through the sail.
vary glands. The parasite in birds blood
and in a human beings blood is nearly the
| same
1.-THE common house mosquito OF Balti-
more, known as the culex, is not dangerous.
The parasite is carried by the brindle or
spotted winged mosquito, known as the ano-
pheles. This mosquito has four spots on each
! of his wings.
1.-The anopholes is easily distinguishable
| from the culex. 1t is to be found along the
shores outside of Baltimore, at Sparrow,,s
Point and in every section where malaria
abounds. The culex has six legs, his hind
legs being raised when standing on wall be-
hind his back, and one proboscis The ano-
phole also has six legs. but his hind legs
generally reach to the object he is resting on,
and he seems to have three proboscises.
IA mosquito net is a preventive against
malaria fever in such fever districts. 1t is
matter of record that investigators have slept
in the open air in malaria countries under
mosquito nets and have suffered from no III
effect from the exposure. High winds and
| high attitudes are unfavorable to the anopho-
! les, which frequent the low, warm and moist
marshes and make their attack in the still OF