The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-11

LIT. E0JerS on 'haDOr anu CdPlIhl.
On Sunday night, Sept 80, Rev. DR.. Madison G.
Peters, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Taber-
nacle, Baltimore, preached his last sermon in
the series on Labor and Capital" In the
course of his remarks, among other things, he
said Labor is an ordination of God. 1t isnot
true that the world owes us living; every
man owes the world work, and all labor that
tends to supply mans wants, toincrease mans
happiness, and to elevate mans nature, IS
honorable. The best way to prove the honor
of toll is to illustrate it in your own person in
righteous life To love and to labor is the
sum of living. The man who despises labor
forgets that the very air he breathes is the re-
suit of the labor of God. The man who works
with pride and gladness unites himself by
common bond with all the best and noblest
who have lived, are now living and who shall
ever be born.
ITO do in the very best manner the work
which is given one in his place to do is holy
ambition. 1t is the fulhllment of the divine
law. 1t is good democracy. 1t is practical
Christianity. Yet many Americans look upon
labor as marking an inferior caste. Nobody
cares to have trade. Everywhere we see high
sounding titles for familiar employments.
Christian must do his best in everything and
be faithful in his work, however humble it
may be. Faithfulness is a foundation upon
which other qualities must be built; but
man who is only faithful in his position will
not add to its Importance any more than he
adds to bis own value. If you want to rise
above your position, You must study the needs
of the next position just above you.
How do men get on? By never getting of
ON sprees-and spending their time in idle
ness. They cultivate the higher attributes OF
manhood; for brain power always takes pre-
cedence over brute force. Instead Of spending
their time in striking for higher wages and
fewer hours work day, our successful men
devoted their time in learning how to do bet
ter work. which so often insures that pros
perity which complaining never wins.
start out and begin to be capitalist your
self and make the best bargain for yourself
you can. Level up. straighten up, reach up,
grow up, save up, this is the only way you
can get up and overshadow the men who
abuse their power.
II wish could make you believe that it is
possible for you to realize the very highest
ideal of true living without possessing an
abundance of this worlds goods. After all,
man can live only in one house and sleep in
one bed and eat one meal at time. Great
wealth often means great embarrassment.
How poor the rich man who sacrifices intel
lectual tastes for money
but what shall we say of the man who
buys money by compromise with conscience ?
1t is because men know full well that they are
making money by a sacrifice of conscience
that they dislike to hear the ethics of Christ
applied to daily conduct. Their idea of the
simple Gospel means preaching on justifica
ton of faith, the efficacy of the sacraments
and the heavenly recognition, but not the
truths that search the conscience and arraign
the conduct.
christianity is not only a recipe for getting
to Heaven, it is rather a powerful incentive
to make this world better for our being in it.
And it is because men have so long lived in
this tradition that up to the present time only
the half of Christianity has been preached
the social laws of Jesus have largely been neg
lected truths of Scripture, and for this reason
it cannot be truly said that Christianity has
ever been fairly tried"
How to Burn Soft Coal-Some Valuable
International late issue of the Coal Trade
Journal says: civilian s. Essick, secretary of
the Reading (Pa.) Stove Works, states that in
view of the fact that there have been so many
inquiries as to the use of soft coal and coke as
a substitute for anthracite coal, he had secured
all the information that he thought was suffi-
cient to assure people that coke or soft coal
can be burned successfully.
when fire is started with bituminous coal
in the ordinary cooking stove all the hampers
must be OPEN The coal will then kindle
quickly. Put the coal on in small quantities
or the fire will be smothered. Keep the fire.
box pretty we'll filled and free from ashes.
I'm a range be careful in starting fire not
to ill the firebox too full, as the bituminous
coal will swell or expand and raise the lids.
Coke can be burned precisely the same manner.
I'm fixing the fires for the night in stove or
heater observe the following rules:
First. Have good strong fire.
Second. Put on fresh coal.
Third. Let the draft on long enough to
burn off the gas. This requires but a few
minutes.
Fourth. Close all the dampers or in other
words take off all the draft.
in the morning stir up the fire well With a
poker, put on the draft and good quick fire
will soon be secured.
1.-The smokepipe in a range should not be
less than six or seven inches in diameter.
When less than that the fire is apt to be slug
gsh. ~
The tlues. smokepipe and chimneys must
be cleaned from time to time and the SCOT re-
moved The accumulation of SCOT in a stove
or heater where soft coal is used is much great
er than when anthracite is used.
Experiments have shown that soft coal can
be used as successfully as anthracite and at less
COST"
Improvements at the Maryland School
for Predetermined trustees of the
Maryland School for Feeble Minded, near
Owings' Mills, will shortly begin improve
ments to the institution amounting to over
100000 says the Baltimore Herald. Archi-
tect Jackson @. Colt has prepared plans for an
elaborate administration building, which will
be constructed OF stone ana contain all the
offices of the institution, including the super
intendent's and visitors rooms. A general
kitchen, with service for the entire institution,
will be erected in the rear. A number of rooms
in the new building will be used as dormito-
ries until the improvements are completed.
Several handsome cottages will also be erected
later and the inmates moved from the adj
ministration building into them.
The administration building will cost about
$4,000. A wing has already been erected,
which is used as a school building. After the
main structure is erected another wing will be
added to the assembly hall. The adminissra-
ton building will be three stories in height,
and will be the central building. composing
the institution. Mr.. Milton G. Urner states
that the improvements will cost over 100000
A committee of representative ladies has
been appointed to purchase a merry-go-round
for the use of the inmates of the institution,
every means being used to make the Mary
land Home for the Feeble-Minded an ideal
institution of that character.
Messrs. John Cowen, E. u. Preston and j.
Henry Miller, contractors, are figuring upon
the plans for the erection of the administra-
ton building.
Low Rate Excursion to Niagara Falls.