The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-18

If THERE is q much-abused term above an
other it is "heart failure" OF course, every
one dies of heart failure. So long as that or
gan can go on beating a man has no reason to
send for an undertaken. But it is wonderful
what an amount of work it does and that it
runs as long as it does. Some one fond of
figures has been at work upon it, and his cal
culations are interesting. The normal heart,
it appears, beats about seventy-6ve times in a
minute so that an hours record would be
something like 1920 beats. Surprising that a
man lived to be so, his heart would have
beaten 1892, 100000 times. If son of this
man, more robust than his father, should fill
out the scriptural allotment of three-score
years and ten his heart beats would number
2,649, 04, 900. 1t is easy to understand, after
such a computation, why this Woodworking
servant of the human body so frequently wears
out.
THIS Is the way the St. Louis Glo6e-Demo-
crat puts it: baltimore still imagines she is
in the race for the two big national conven-
tions of 1904. She will get neither. Both
will come to st. Louis where there is some
thing to be seen, and where they will be very
near the center of the influences which sway
the country. Baltimores turn, however may
come in 1908. Both the parties will hold con-
ventions in that year also, for there is no good
reason to suppose that the Democracy's smash
upof19O4 will drive it out of business entirely"
MRS. BLAINE, widow of the Maine statesman,
James G. Blaine, died at her home in Augusta,
Maine, on Wednesday last, aged rs years. Her
maiden name was Harriet Stanwood and she
was born at Ipswich, Mass, where her father
kept a store. She graduated at Washington
College, Pa, at the age of IL and at once COM
menced teaching in school at Blue Lick
Springs, KY. 1t was here she met Mr.. Blaine,
who was also teacher, and three years later
they were married. Mrs. Blaine is survived by
one son, James G. Blaine, and two daughters.
1t IS an expensive business to fish for trout
out of season in Pennsylvania. A fish warden
of Center county on Wednesday caught two
suspected men who resisted efforts to examine
their baskets and the officer was compelled to
use force. Twenty-eight trout under six inches
in length were found in their possession.
They pleaded guilty to violating the fish laws
and paid $3.50 fine for the short trout and 500
each for resisting the officer, making a total
of $3.50.
PREDICTIONS ARE made that the cotton crop
of 1903 will be short. Forecasts of this sort
have been often falsied in the past when the
conditions seemed to be as adverse as they do
now This is country of lightning changes
for the better. A month or two ago the
Kansas wheat crop, it was supposed. would be
a failure, but the harvesting record tells diff
ferent story Cotton may yet pull up to
point not now in sight.
In THE Republican State convention of Ken
lucky on Wednesday Ex-Governor Bradley
offered the following resolution and it was
unanimously adopted amid much enthusiasm
"That we, the Republicans of Kentucky, ex-
press our heartfelt approval and admiration of
the administration of Theodore Roosevelt and
that we heartily indorse him for the Republi-
can nomination for President in 1904"
AFTER A married life of twenty-one years
Mrs. Lucy F. White, wife of Cecil county
farmer, abandoned her husband and went to
Wilmington, Del, to live. Her only explana-
ton was that she was tired of farm life. Her
husband has sued for divorce.
CONGRESSMAN RoDENBERe's idea of erecting
a national monument at Washington to the
signers of the Declaration of Independence is
one of striking force and propriety. If Con-
gress will cause suitable plan to be prepared
the people will do the rest.