The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-24
Jacksonville and sunnybrook, 10th Dis

Jacksonville and Sunnyb 10th Dis
| trict.-Confirmation services will be held IN
| St. Johns Lutheran Church, Sweet Air, on
Sunday afternoon, May 25th, conducted by
the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Lehman.
Mr. and Mrs Cyrus w. Coe, Of Stewards
town, Pa, have been visiting the latter's
mother, Mrs. j. r. Price, of Jacksonville. Mr..
Coe is cashier of the Stewartstown National
Bank.
A number of the members of Chestnut
Grove Christian Endeavor Society attended
the rally held at Grace Church, Chestnut Ridge,
and some of them assisted in the musical part
of the program.
Mr.. Carroll, who recently took charge of the
store at Jacksonville, is already doing good
business and is popular with his patrons.
Rev. ]. W. Campbell, pastor of Chestnut
Grove Church, has been absent for some time
on account of indsposition. He is now much
improved and hopes soon to return to his
duties. Rev. Joseph S. Wilmington, of Balti-
more, occupied his pulpit last Sunday.
Mr.. Albert Ensor and Miss Matilda Ensor,
of Verona, have been visiting friends near
Jacksonville. Miss Ensor was formerly assis-
tant teacher in Sunny brook school. NJ.
Don't Marry Him to Reform Him.-Rev.
DR.. Madison G. Peters, pastor of the Baptist
Tabernacle, North avenue and st. Paul street,
took for his subject last Sunday night, MAR
rage and the Home" and the sermon was es-
he said
"a life of loneliness is more honorable than
a loveless marriage. All honor to the women
who make their own way in the world rather
than live life with man for the sake of sup
port And not until our women become indie
pendent and self-reliant will marriage become
what it ought to be-a union on equal terms
and free surrender of the heart. The out
ward legal forms may be complied WITH but
wife she is not who marries either for conve--
nience, position or home. Cupid has changed
his name to cupdity, and the estimate of mar
riage has become so entirely mercenary that
should not be surprised to see the matrimonial
market lists published in the papers with the
current prices of the stock exchange.
Don't marry man to mend him or reform
him If the man were not defOrmed he would
not need to be reformed. The man with NAL
formed habits is more likely to bring you sor-
row and shame than Joy and happiness.
have seen innocent young girls who persisted
in marrying bad men in the hope of saving
them. But they have almost invariably failed
to do what loving mother or sympathetic
sisters were unable to do. Love is not only
blind but deaf and dumb in the case of the
woman who foolishly persists in marrying
man to reform him. The risks are great
enough for any woman, even when she mar
ries man who does not need reforming.
Marry gentleman. | use that word in its
broadcast sense. A gentleman is gentle, gener-
ops and unsefish. A man who is hear
among his sisters and discourteous to his
mother is just the man you want to avoid.
Social standing is no criterion of gentility.
You frequently find more real gentlemen in
what are called the hum bier than in the higher
walks of life.
do not marry in haste or candestinely.
Hasty marriages seldom end we'll. Remem-
Der that nobody has your interests more at
heart than your parents. You will seldom go
wrong if you take their advice and heed their
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woman's life when she should be deliberate
and prayerful it is when she contemplates CIV
ing herself to another. Women as a rule are
the greatest sufferers when the marriage is a
blunder. The man can make his escape and
makes his home merely a place to eat and
sleep, but for the woman there is no refuge but
the grave. The frogs in Alsops fable were
extremely wisei they wanted water, but they
were afraid to jump into the well for fear they
could not get out. Look before you leapP'
Plans for the Improvement of Roads. -
At the meeting of the Evansville Farmers
Club, held on Saturday night last, Mr.. John
son, of the division of highways, Maryland
Geological Survey, described at length the
proper way to construct roads. He said the
only way to improve public highways is to
concentrate the amount appropriated, The
money should not be divided among a num-
Der of supervisors, but should be spent in bulk
where most needed. The average supervisor
has neither the experience nor the knowledge
to properly construct roads. Mr.. Johnson did
not believe that the time has arrived to bond
the counties. He thought if the counties had
large sums of money the latter would not be
economically expended, for the reason that
there would be an unwillingness on the part
of county officials to permit the money to be
expended under intelligent supervision after
plans and specifications of competent engi-
geers. That there would be disposition on
the part of county officials to continue the
work of expanding this money under the SUI
pervsion Of the politicians of the counties.
He thought it would be much better to educate
road in their neighhorhood properly made.
did not last long enough. In the making of
dirt road the main idea should be to have the
roadbed higher than the ground on either side;
labor on the public roads, but would prefer to
see these convicts employed in quarries and in
crushing stone to be sold by the State to the
there was growing sentiment throughout the
State for the services of members of the staff
of the Highway Commission to advise in road
making. The commission prepared plans for
Hartford county for the expenditure of the
Woolsey legacy.
Mr.. Johnson advised that the County COM
missioners throughout the State set apart at
least 81 900 for the repair of some small piece
of road as an object lesson. He thought it alb
solutely essential for the counties to have
steam rollers
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