The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-03

sonable steps, for if an absolute sudden change
is made the effect is often extremely injurious
So in feeding cows up to their best mark it is
customary to start, after they have calved, ON
day for three days; then wait day, then
increase again until the COW is up to the limit
of the amount of food she will eat up clean,
and by handling this way, at about three
months after calving the COW is doing her
very best.
county to turn their cattle from dry food, both
grain and hay, without any preparation, to a
rich, succulent pasture. This is great injury
to the COW. She should be turned on this pas
ture for the first time for one hour only, d.
rectly after her mornings milking This
could be increased the next day by couple of
hours, the third day still longer, and by the
end of the fourth or fifth day she could be out
all day. Even this is a rapid change and may
provoke intestinal trouble in the COW. If the
cow has been properly fed during the winter
she will not gain in flow on pasture by very
much. If a COW or herd increases as much as
10 per cent or 20 per cent. in flow after being
turned out the owner can rest assured that be
has not been feeding them during the winter
to the best advantage. This does not apply
to the quantity of feed, but to the kind and
the assortment, and should be a sufficient
warming to him to study more carefully the
feeding problem so that during the winter he
can obtain better returns. A. B. G., JR.
Swearing the Most Popular Sim
Last Sunday evening Rev. DR.. Madison e..
Peters, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Tabernacle,
Baltimore, preached a sermon on profanity
which he declared to be America most popular
sin. He said in part:
Americans are the most profane people in
the world. A traveller in Russia was Judged to
be clergyman because he was not heard to
swear, all other Americans being supposed to
be addicted to this wicked practice. This vice
has become so prevalent as to deserve the dis
tinction of being called a national character
jstic. Most sins bring either pleasure or profit,
but profanity is productive of nothing. Why
should an honorable man have to add oaths to
confirm his word? Men say they never swear
unless they get angry. So when one angers
you, you insult God There is as much reason
in that excuse as though you stabbed your
father or kicked your mother, because some.
body has offended you. You say you don't
mean anything by it.
when people are awake and do things with
out meaning anything they are convicting
themselves of insanity. Swearing is a sense
less sin. The conversation of some men who
seem unable to speak without using three or
four oaths in every sentence has about as much
sense as though they said: What is the bloody
good of a bloody man using the bloody word
bloody every bloody time he opens his bloody
mouth
temptation as its excuse. 1t seems to spring
from mere malignity of spirit in man against
God because he has forbidden it. The shrewd
Quaker's advice to the profane youth, Swear
away, my young friend, till thee gets all that
bad stuff ont of thee,i points to the real source
of the vice. The man who lacks self-cOntrol
lacks the very nerve of character. A greater
thing than brains is the ability to command
them.
II have somewhere seen a sign Gentlemen
will not swear; others must not The man
who can be gentlemen when he wants to be-
never wants to be anything else. Who would
think of calling swearing woman a lady.
Profanity indicates low breeding 1t is an
evidence of a weak brain and limited IDEAS
The best measure of a man is his mouth
What comes out of his mouth determines
more than what is on him, whether or not he
is a gentleman. You frequently find more
real gentlemen in the humber than in the
higher walks Of life"
Tribute to a Minister'S Wife-In the last
issue of the Baltimore Methodist Rev. w. s.
Edwards paid pretty tribute to Mrs. Rebecca
Jane Fleming, wife of Rev. J. w. Fleming,
senior pastor of Parkton Circuit, who died at
her home at Parkton, April 18th, aged 81
years. After giving the particulars of the
funeral DIR. Edwards said:
MRS. Fleming was converted at the Wood
lawn camp-meeting when twelve years of age
acter and benignant life steadily matured
What has been said of another may be literal
~ applied to her-'her piety was of the most
solid kind, not evaporating in talk, nor obtrud-
ing itself in an ostentatious profession but OPP
Grating in constant and exemplary discharge
of every private and social duty As wife and
mother and member of the church, she was
as nearly faultless as any get to be. Becom-
ing the companion of Methodist preacher,
she soon and easily adjusted herself to the du-
ties and privileges of that relation, proving
herself invaluable to her husband in bis varied
work, and making her example and minis
tries among all classes a benediction. Her
practical good sense, amiable spirit, large be-
nevolence that took in all, her uniform bright
ness, her tactful resources with the young, her
prudence in speech and conduct, her gentle
winning manners that never failed, her gener-
Gus hospitality in the parsonage, where no
trace of untidiness or disorder ever appeared,
won for her universal esteem. She was the
kind of pastors wife everybody found it easy
to love, and for whom every body had good
word to say. When the end came she was
ready. Then, as it had been from her child
hood conversion, the joy of the Lord was her
strength OF all the company about her, she
was the most calm. The promised victory was
hers. All the details of her funeral, including
speakers and pall-bearers, were made by her"
New Plan of Suburban Development
The Baltimore american says one of the most
interesting plans of suburban development is
that which is being carried out at Anthony
vile, settlement near Gardenville, on the
Belair road, of which Rev. Henry S. Nagen-
gast pastor of st. ADthony's Catholic Church,
is the manager. Father Nagengast has owned
the tract for several years and has gradually
developed it, his main idea being the enlarge
ment of the congregation through the location
of the settlement of Catholic families.
The tract contains q acres and embraces the
old Lang and Burgan estates. A portion of
the tract has been laid off in building lots, and
streets have been laid off through it. A mum.
Der of the building lots have been sold and
several cottages of handsome design have been
erected. One house is now being completed.
Father Nagengast's dominent idea is to in
crease his congregation by drawing around st.
Anthony's Church a settlement of Catholic
families from this and other cities. The idea
is a new one in parish development in this vi
cinity and bids fair, from present indications,
to be successful one in every particular.
Father Nagengast, since his incumbency at
st. Anthony's Church, has labored hard to
render it one of the leading ones in the suburbs.
Prior to coming to this city he had an extern
sive experience in Europe, and is linguist of
ability. For time he taught school at Monaco,
France, and speaks French huently. During
the recent visit to this port of the French
cruisers Cecile and Suchet, Father Nagengast
visited them and found among the Junior Off
GERS one of his former pupils at Monaco.
The suburbs in the vicinity of Anthonyville
and Gardenville have been greatly developed
within the past two years, and have been
thickly settled by COMMUNICATIONS princi-
pally.
House Burned-Family's Narrow Es-
cape.-Early on Sunday morning last frame
house belonging to the estate of the late DR..
VIM. II. Mace, situated on the Carrolls Island
road, near Bengies. 18th district, took fire from
some unknown cause and was totally destroy
ed, with all its contents. Elisha Carback and
family, the occupants of the house, made a
narrow escape and lost nearly all of their be-
longings. The house was insured, but there
was no insurance on the contents, the estima-
ted loss on the same being several hundred
dollars.
Barn Burned.-On Monday afternoon last
the barn on the farm of Mrs. Dali Worthing.
ton, at Granite, I'd district, was burned, with
most of its contents, causing loss of about
$1,000, which is covered by insurance. Rich
ard Trail, tenant on the place, lost about $500
worth of farming implements, upon which
there was no insurance.