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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
SOME ODD sUPERsT1T1ONs OF FARMERS.


Superstition is more prevalent
among the American people than is
generally supposed" said a book
agent, "and even the hard headed in
telligent farmers are, to certain ex-
tent, afflicted with it.
"I remember asking farmer sixty
years old, a man of more than ordi-
nary intelligence, the owner of 900
acres of fine land, we'll stocked, and
who had several thousand dollars in
bonds and other securities, why he
did not build himself better house.
The one he lived in was old, small
and dilapidated, relic of the days
when he was poor
Afraid to, was the reply.
Afraid of what?' 1 asked.
WE'LL you see, 1 have always
heard that when an old man builds
new house he never lives long to
see it.
Il laughed, but he was perfectly
serious, and I found that in that
neighborhood the superstition was
generally believed in.
Another saying was common in
the same locality. The man who
plants tree generally lives to enjoy
its fruits. The belief in these say
ings was shown by the number of
fine orchards in that neighborhood.
Seed corn shelled at night gener-
ally grows best, is another saying
frequently used in the corn belt. A
farmers son suggested that it was
invented by the old men as an excuse
for making the boys work at night.
"'Things planted during the dark
of the moon produces the best roots,
is SO generally accepted as true that
vegetables, like potatoes, turnips,
beets, carrots and onions are planted
during the light of the moon by few
people. Many scientific farmers be-
lieve in this superstition.
""The farmer who refuses water to
travellers horse will see his own
live stock suffer from thirst before the
end of the year is belief so common
in some localities as to insure courte-
Gus treatment to all travellers.
"Some farmers will wiring the neck
of hen if she crows. They say a
growing hen brings bad luck to the
farm, and, as I heard one old farmer
remark, sets the wimmen folks bad
example.
Borrowed eggs always hatch, is
a saying probably invented by some
stingy man as an excuse for borrow
ing, but it is so generally believed in
some neighborhoods that a regular
system of borrowing and lending is
carried on.
"These and hundreds of other su-
perstitions are SO generally believed
in that they govern the customs of
communities to surprising extent" I"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22

five minutes shutting and opening the
door. 1t was so pleasant to be able
to do it again.
Then Mrs. Bentley invited her
neighbor into her fiat and apologized
for making SO much trouble.
1T was no trouble at all, my dear.
1t has made something to talk about. "
Now, Mr.. Bentley seemed to think
that $25 for the bed. S. for delivery
and $40 for damage to the Railways,
together with the charge of the car
penter for the time it took him to de-
stroy the bed, was rather large
amount to pay for subject of con-
versation. So he isn't saying word
about it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
HIS DEFINITION OF ETERNITY.

"The best illustration of what
eternity is, with its endless flight of
time" said a Western member of
Congress the other day, twas one I
heard given by preacher who was
conducting a revival at Colorado
mining camp. The revival had been
we'll attended, but there was a poor
harvest of souls, and the rough old
preacher depicted the joys of heaven
and the tortures of hell with discour-
aging results. One evening he an
nounced that the revival would close
with that meeting unless the sinners
showed desire to repent. He then
depicted the suferings of the lost, and
in telling them how long it would be
before they would be freed from their
environment of fire and birthstone, he
said:
"You will suffer for all eternity.
Do you know what that means? I'll
tell you. If little sparrow was to
dip his bill in the Atlantic ocean and
take one hop day and hop across
the country and put that drop in the
Pacific ocean and then hop back to
the Atlantic, one hop day, and if
he kept that thing up until the At
1antic was dry as bone it wouldn't
be sun-up in hell.
ut isn't necessary to add that
mourners came to the bench that
night and the meeting continued for
some time. - WASHINGTON Post.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
THE DRINKING WATER ON FARMS.

Drinking water on farms is given
but little consideration as to its purity
when it is derived from springs, but
many farms are supplied with water
from open wells, and its purity in
such cases depends largely upon the
mode Of protecting the we'll and the
surroundings. Wells being deeper
than bitches or drains, and the ten
dency of water being downward,
much soluble matter goes into the
we'll that is unknown to the farmer.
The water may appear clear and pure,
be free of odor, and yet contain i'm
purities. Farmers who do not con-
slider the matter have no conception
of the many sources from which their
drinking water is obtained. 1t comes
from the clouds, of course, but it does
not fall into the we'll, only reaching
it after passing through the surface
soil and dissolving the impurities.
Because the water passes through
sand it is not filtered of the soluble
matter. If salt is dissolved in water
the salt is not removed by fltering,
as the dissolved salt will go with the
water to the lowerest place. If the
well is open there may be toads and
insects in the water, which drown
and decompose. The wells should be
covered and the surroundings kept
clean, with good drainage in all direc-
tions. Driven wells are better than
those that are open, and should be
used in preference.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
TO CREDITORS.

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
scriber has obtained from the Orphans Court
of Baltimore county, letters of administration
on the estate of
JULIUS A. JANNKE,
late of said county deceased All persons having
claims against said deceased are hereby warned
to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof,
to the subscriber,
On o. before the 1st day of September, 1909 !;
They may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. All persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment. Given under my hand this 10Th day of
February, 1902.
CHARLES j. JANNKE,
Mch. 1.-4t* Administrator.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
AS TO ACCIDENTS.

According to the experience of the
accident insurance companies, about
the safest place for man to be is in
Pullman car or aboard an ocean
steamer.
Contrary to popular belief the ma
Jority of accidents for which the in
surance companies are called upon to
settle do not occur on railroads or
steamships. In fact, the proportion
OF such accidents is small.
Experience shows that it is the SIM
pie pedestrian who runs the most risk
outside the extra hazardous occupa-
tions, and oftenest applies to the com
Pany which issued his policy. The
most recent figures of one accident in
s1rance company show that in 1900,
HAAS claims for accidents were al
lsSed and paid. Of this number
I 500 were accidents to pedestrians.
Horses and vehicles occupy prom
inent place as causing accidents and
to them I,oI7 are attributed. Pedes-
trians who are knocked down by rum
aways and otherwise injured by horses
are taken from the pedestrian class
and placed among the victims of
horses and vehicles.
Next to these in order of impor-
tance comes the set of causes grouped
under the heading cat Home" In
this class are placed o2o of the acci-
dents for which the company was
called upon to settle. It is to be re-
membered that many accidents that
really occur in and about the house
are not included in this class, for there
are burns and scalds, injuries from
firearms and explosions, bites of ami
mails and foreign substances in the
eye, which are otherwise classified.
Steam railroads and steamships are
set down as being responsible for only
2oo of the accidents Of that year, and
the small figures are the more re-
markable when it is remembered that
people are most likely to take out
accident insurance when they go trav-
cling.
At one time the bicycle got in its
work in much more lively manner
than it does at present. During the
year under consideration 3o5 accidents
were attributed to that cause, while
for three years Immediately preced-
ing, counting backward, the company
settled 45o, $50 and 884 accidents
from this cause.
All accidents in factories, in the
erection of buildings, bridges, and
other structures, accidents resulting
from the use of edged tools, those met
with by laborers and men at work III
the trades, &c., are grouped together,
and as might be expected outnumber
any other class. For the past four
years the total number of all accidents
for each year being nearly the same,
the accidents in this big class were
6,972, 7,o47, 1913 and 1870. So it
seems Inat 10 tie wOTk1ngman aud
the laborer come the largest risks and
the greatest danger.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
TO CREDITORS.

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscri-
ber has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Baltimore county letters testamentary on the
estate of
WILLIAM BURTON,
late of said county, deceased. All persons having
claims against the said estate are hereby warned
to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof,
to the subscriber,
On, or before the 18th day of September, 1902; ;
They may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment. Given under my hand this 1lth day OF
March, 1902. SUSANNAH BURTON,
Mch l5.-4t* Executrix.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
Thomas III. Ridgely, Solicitor, 225 st. Paul
Street, Baltimore, Md.

nAvID H. CARROLL EFT AL, EXECU-
IL TORS AND TRUSTEES, Us. ANN E.
CARROLL EFT AL, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
BALTIMORE COUNTY, IN EQUITY.
ORDERED. by the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county this 18th day of March, 1902 that the pri-
vate sale made and reported by David H. Car
roll and Ethelbert e. Shipley, surviving Trus-
tees, for the sale of the property described in
the proceedings in the above entitled cause, be
ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the con-
trary thereof be shown,
On or before the 7th day of April, 1909;
Provided copy of this order be inserted in some
newspaper printed and published in Baltimore
county. once in each of three successive weeks
before the said 7th day of April, 1902.
The. report states the amount of sales to be
81. $685. N. BOSLEY MERRYMAN, Clerk.
True Copy-Test:
n. BOSLEY MERRYMAN, Clerk.
Mch 15.-4t.
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H. RSdgeIy, Solicitor, 225 st. Paul
Street. baltimore, Md.

nAvID III. CARROLL EFT AL. EXECU-
IL TORS AND TRUSTEES, vs. ANN e.
CARROLL EFT AL, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
BALTIMORE COUNTY, IN EQUITY.
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county, this 18th day of March, 1902, that the pri
vate sale made and reported by David H. Car
roll and Ethelbert E. Shipley, surviving Trus-
tees, for the sale of the property described in
ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the con-
trary thereof be shown,
On or before the I'll. day of April, 1909;
Provided a copy of this order be insertedin some
newspaper printed and published in Baltimore
county once in each of three successive weeks
before the said 18th day of April, 1902.
The report states the amount of sales to be
$66667 N. BOSLEY MERRYMAN, Clerk.
True Copy-Test:
Mch 15.-4t.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscri-
5er has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Baltimore county, letters of administration on
the estate of
SUSAN J. BURTON.
late of said county, deceased. All persons hav-
ing claims against the said estate are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber.
On or before the Sft day of September, 1909;
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment. Given under my hand this 4th day of
March, 1902
OSCAR J. BURTON,
Mch. S-4t* Administrator.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22

"AH," said the editor, "this poem
would be good only for one thing"
"What is that?" queried the bard.
ut isn't" answered the editor.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22

WHEN DEACON BROWN discover
ed there was a ballet girl in the show
he was mad" ''You mean he pre-
tended he was mad" "Not bit of
it. You see, he had forgotten to
bring opera-glasses." !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22

"YEs, NUM-" chuckled the buffoon
tramp, II am the funniest man that
ever raped at your back door. lam
just full of monkeyshines. . "In-
deedp p snapped the lean-nosed wo-
man, as she pointed toward the wood
pile; "then suppose you cut up lit
tie out there"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22

AT A school in Kent an inspector
was examining class of children in
arithmetic, when the inspector asked
the following question
Now, John, suppose gave you
two rabbits, and another kind friend
gave you one more, how many would
you have ?"
John-"Four, sir. ;"
Inspector-"No, my boy, two and
one don't make four"
John (quickly)-"Please, sir, I've
got one old lop-eared un at home.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22
HAIR WILL GROW AFTER DEATH.

Ida M. Mowry: I can tell of two
cases that have come within my
knowledge where the hair and beard
have grown upon the dead.
Many years ago the bodies of the
dead were being removed from an old
graveyard in Cincinnati to Spring
Grove cemetery. One day I was
present with friend when her moth
er was taken out of the grave where
she had lain buried for twenty-five
years. On opening the coffin her
daughter was astonished to see her
mothers face, neck and shoulders
covered with a full, long growth of
pretty hair, looking as natural as in
life when let down to be combed, only
much longer than her daughter had
ever seen it, so she told me. And,
what was more astonishing, the moth
er had not changed in the least so far
as decomposition was concerned, but
when the hair was combed back,
looked as natural as the day she was
buried twenty-five years before.
Evidently her hair had grown, for
her daughter told me that in her
mothers sickness all her hair had
come out and when she was buried
she did not have any hair on her
head, and that all that hair had grown
since her death, and, of course, would
continue to grow as long as the body
would furnish its material to grow
from.
The other case was that of the body
of Col Greathouse, who died in the
South during the war, but could not
be brought home for burial until the
war was over and peace declared.
Then his brother h had the body
brought home for burial, but when
the body arrived here the brother re-
fused to accept it as his brothers S
body, saying he knew it was not his
brothers. body for he never wore his
hair long, and that he always went
clean n-shaven, not even wearing a
mustache, and this body had hair
growing down over his shoulders and
his beard long down over his breast.
"No," said the judge, sit is not my
brothers. body, and I will ship it
back" But some of his friends
(among whom I had told of the cir
cumstance above related of the woman
who had been buried twenty-five
years. told him of that and other cir
cumstances of the hair growing on
the dead body, and finally persuaded
the judge to accept the body as his
brothers. and allow it to be buried in
the family burial 1ot.-M,S. II. ~.
Wing, in st. Louis GlO6e-Democ,at.
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miscellaneous.
HAAx COLLECTORS NOTICE.

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FTNAX COLLECTORS NOTICE.
LEVY OF 1901.
The Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for Bal
timOre county will be prepared to RECEIVE
THE TAXES for the levy of 1901. commencing
Monday, M0y 9th,
daily, AT HIS OFFICE IN T0wSON and also
al, back taxes due and unpaid on the levies of
former years.
Office Hours
Aprtl 1st to November 1st from A. NJ to5PM
November lst to april 1st from Q 4. n. to p. M.
W-OE SATURDAYS ONLY, THE LEVY
OF 1901 ONLY,
FROM o O'CLOCK A. NJ. to O'CLOCK P. M.
AT THE MANUFACTURERS NATIONAL
BANK, N. e. corner of Baltimore and Liberty
Streets, Baltimore, Md. coo
Treasurer and Collector.
F#SMAs F#SMAs I; 4. 9RARSi 9Fk1FhR, clerks.
JAMES F. DUGAN, dec. 7.-6m.
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BIRDS WITHOUT BRAINS.

1t is very common idea that if the
brain of an animal is completely des-
troyed it will die, or if it lives it re-
mains in a ''comatose" condition.
An ingenious German has cut out
some pigeons brains with care, given
the wound time to heal, and shown
that the birds can run about, fly
measure a distance, eat, go to sleep
in the dark, wake up with the light,
and, in fine, do most of the things
healthy normal pigeon can do. Only
memory and the mating impulses are
quite gone. 1t is possible to discrim-
mate very neatly between the reflex
acts and those involving some use of
the memory. Thus brainless fo1con
was put in cage with some mice.
Every time mouse moved the falcon
jumped for it and caught it. There
the act ended. The normal falcon
eats its mouse. When its brain is
gone, it pays no more attention to its
captured prey as soon as the mouse
ceases to move. These and a great
variety of other experiments on rab-
bits, dogs, fishes, and still lower
orders have shed a deal of light on
the obscure phenomena of mental
action. With this have come very
materialistic views. For if the larger
part of bodily actions can be shown
to be nothing more than simple me-
chanical responses t 20 appropriate
stimuli, the suspicion grows that the
more intricate working of the brain
is really only the result of highly
complex arrangement of the same
automatic character. This is, in
deed, the drift of present-day scientific
opinion and this explains why the
reactionaries, of whom Prof. Lom-
bard appears from the newspaper ac-
counts to be one, are driven to find
reason" in the kick of dead frogs
leg. For the live frog demonstrates
his disgust of science in precisely the
same fashion, and this, whether he
have brain to think about it, or has
had his thinking apparatus cut out.
Those who are interested in such
matters, will find the latest results
summed up in DR.. Jacques Loeb's
capital book on the comparative phye
iology of the brain. .-HasPea's Weekly.
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EH9Udrd Il. WdTds SOt1CttOT, Ftuettty bUttU-
ing, Baltimore, Md.
A NNIE Nj. UNGER EFT AL. rs. GERTIE
IA FRISSELL EFT A. LIN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY, IN EQUITY.
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county,th 10th day of March, 1902, that the
sale made and reported by John 8. Biddison and
Edward L. Ward, Trustees, for the sale OF the
property described in the proceedings in the
above entitled cause, be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown,
On or before the 7th day of ApriI, 1909;
Provided copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper printed and published In Baitl-
weeks before the said 7th day of April, 1902.
The report states the amount of sales to be
$2,100.00. N. BOSLEY MERRYMAN. Clerk.
True Copy-Test:
N. BOSLEY MERRYMAN, Clerk.
Mch. 15.-4t.
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A VERY worthy minister some time
since preached from the text: "Be
We therefore steadfast." But as his
chirography was almost as bad as our
own, the printer made it "Be yethere
for breakfast"
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ULEs, HORSES /,

NI
have at my farm 200 HEAD OF
HORSES AND MULES. 125 head of 49,
THE BEST MULES THAT CAN BE
FOUND. weighing from LOO to 1,5O0 pounds; +;
also. % HEAD OF HORSES, including MATCH-
ED COACH TEAMS, SADDLERS & DRIVERS.
LOCUST VALE STOCK FARM,
Towson, Nd, AZ miles from city limits.
Take Towson cars, York Road Line.
e. e. MCCLEARY, Proprietor.
C.and P. Telephone AL, LuthervilIe Exchange.
Dec. H-tf.
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"THE NEAREST approach to per-
petual notion says the Cynical
Bachelor, is woman's tongue"
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MONEY TO LOAN-IN SUMS TO SUIT.
AVA FROM 500 UPWARDS.
ROBERT H. BUSSEY,
Towson, Md.
Jan. 19-tf. Residence Cockeysville.
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GETTING SATISFACTION.

A retired sea captain and law
yer, who were always at logger
heads, lived next door to each other.
One very windy night the lawyer
was reading book in his study when
a terrible crash upstairs startled him.
Upon investigation he found that
a chimney had hurled itself through
his roof, doing considerable damage,
and soon discovered that it was the
sea captains chimney Fastening
down to his library he pulled out his
law books and hunted up similar
cases, devising and scheming how he
could secure satisfaction from the de-
testable captain.
While thus engaged a note arrived
from his enemy that read as follows !:
eff you don't return those bricks
1 will put the matter in the hands
Of the law"
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HARD LUCK.

Talking of newspaper stories, FL
mer Dover. Senator Hanna's private
secretary, tells a good one.
"Out in Ohio" he says, ''there
was an editor who was having hard
time to keep his little weekly afoat.
One day friend asked him how his
paper was hourishing.
Finely, said the editor.
"The friend expressed some sur
prise.
"'Yes, said the editor, the paper
is going everywhere. 1t goes all
through Ohio, all through the United
States, and to every country in the
world. In fact, l had to mortgage
my house last week to keep it from
going to hell.
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SHE-"You know, John, you prom
ised me sealskin wrap, and"
He-"And you promised to keep
my stockings darned and you haven't
done it..
She-"Well, you don't mean to
say you'll break your promise on that
account ?'
He-"Well, it's just this: You
don't give a darn and I don't give a
wrap"
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DELLA KELBAUGH EFT AL.

DANIEL NJ. WILHELM, ADMINISTRATORS
d. D. N, G: 7. A: OF GEORGE
WILHELM EFT AL,
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EeaaI 9otices.

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Robert III. Bwssey, attorney, TOsCsOn, Md.
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WIFE-"Our new neighbor next
door must be very curious. =
Hubby-"What makes you think
she is curious?''
Wife Because she always has her
blind open and peeps over here"
Hubby" But, how do you know 7"
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lTTCE TO CREDITORs.

Fra7sls L. Duncan, attorney, Piper Build
S7a0, TOtCsOn, Md.
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REV. GooDLEY-"Do you think
you observe the Sabbath as you
should?" Jiggaby-"Well, usual
ly spend the day quietly at home"
Rev. Goodley-"Ah! but do you
never go to church," Jiggaby-
"No. However, we have stained
glass windows in our library, and
they afford sort of church effect
while read my Sunday paper. !"
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TO CREDITORS.

Thomas r. KeIbdugh, Attorney, Equitable
Building, Baltimore, Nd.
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Elner J. COOK, At.orney, TO,gson, pa.
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Edsyard L. Ward, Solicitor, Fidelity Build
ing, Baltimore, Md.
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B0arssass C Lindsay, Solicitors, @1O East
Lexington Street, baltimore, and
Sntedley Row, TOtcson, Md.
EdsCnrd L. Ward, solicitor, Room S1% Ft-
deIttv BmfldinO, Baltimore, Md.