The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24

worrying MIN.
DIR. HARcoURT, pastor ofthe Peoples Church
in Reading, Pa, created sensation in closing
bis sermon last Monday night with the follow
ing words Congress has been playing fast
and loose with our nation. A new Cromwell
is needed. Have the people of the United
States whose children are dying with cold and
hunger from the scarcity of coal a right to
take coal if they cannot buy it for love or
money? This is the question that meets us
today. How are we going to answer it 2 By
the laws of man or the law of God? David,
King of Israel, we are told, when hungry and
likely to die, went to the temple and took the
shew bread, which was not lawful. Jesus
Christ and His disciples satisfied their hunger
by entering field of corn, plucking and eat
ing the ears" DR.. Harcourt is well known in
Baltimore and was pastor of Grace NJ e..
Church in that city several years. About a
year ago he created much discussion by de-
claring from his pulpit that preachers should
be excluded from the sick room.
THERE IS something altogether wrong in the
state of Denmark-in other words, in coal dis
tribution. Congress is about inquiring why
the private operators can rush coal to the
market and ask extortionate prices for it and
the railroad operators are only shipping an
apparently limited supply. The public is
willing to accept the statement Of President
Baer that the coal of his mines will be sold at
fair price-or the price Of last year plus fifty
cents per ton. All right. But the promise
amounts to nothing if he does not ship every
ton possible. Not to do so raises the suspicion
that the private operators will be favored in
the matter of getting coal to the market to sell
at S12 to SIS per ton and divide profits with the
railroads. Be the cause what it may, there is
something wrong about the distribution and
transportation of coal and the railroads will
be given the floor to answer.
A LETTER from Washington says 1.-The De-
partment of Agriculture is planning deter
mined war upon obesity, waged along strictly
scientific lines. There is every reason to be-
lieve that it will meet considerable success-at
least that is the opinion of the officials most
interested. The movement opens the pleasant
prospect of Americans becoming famous as the
leanest people in the world. DR.. Harvey W..
Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, be-
lieves it will be simple matter to accomplish
great results in the line of lessening the super
fuous flesh of the American people," DR..
Wiley says: "Tbere is no use in making a
man fat unless we wish to eat him."
On THIS page of THE UNION today we pub
lish the annual statement of the Fidelity and
Deposit Company of Maryland, which shows
net surplus of 80, SIC, 233.57. The capital stock
of this enterprise is 100000; the surplus
$4,000 900, and the undivided profits 1916, 233.-
57-a marvellous showing for corporation do
ing thoroughly legitimate business The
wonderful success of this company is largely
due to the executive ability and indefatgable
energy and perseverance of it president, Hon.
Edwin Warfield, who is devoting to its inter-
ests the best years of his active and successful
life.
THE ANNUAL meeting of the Old Town Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association of Bal
timore was held on Tuesday night. Mr.. Theo
F. Wilcox was reelected president; Messrs
J. George Gehring, Jr., l. Hirshberg, VIM.
Sherwood and Frank A. Persohn, vice .presi-
dents; Mr. John w. Marshall, secretary, and
Mr.. John c. Friedel, treasurer. Among the
members of the board of governors are DR.. J.
f. Martenet and Messrs. John G. We'll, VIM.
Gisriel John g. Beck, Samuel T. Dukehart,
George w. Clark, Lewis c. Rice, Fred. G. Bur-
ger and Thomas c. Ruddell
ALFRED A. Hewlett. a retired and wealthy
miller of Syracuse N. Y, celebrated his SD
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seventy-five widows of that city. He invited
every widow he knew and sent after those he
didn't know Mr.. Hewlett who is widower
is famed as practical joker and this widows
dinner was little funny business on his
part. The affair is said to have been great
success.
So MUCH gold coin is piled up in the United
States treasury to redeem gold certificates never
presented that the director of the minis sug-
gests that the accumulation of gold hereafter be
held in the form of bullion. The $500, 600
of gold coin now in the treasury might as well
be in bullion, as it simply secures the more
popular and convenient gold certificates.
EXCEPT THAT be is about head taller than
his illustrations father, General Fred. Grant is
now almost the exact physical counterpart OF
him. His beard, now tinged with gray, is
worn the same as his fathers. Army life has
given him rugged look, too, and altogether
he bears a marvellous resemblance to the silent
soldier.
THE SOUTHERN TRUST COMPANY of Baltimore
has elected Mr. Edward j. Bond, president for
the ensuing year. MIR. Theodore f. Wilcox,
formerly cashier of the Old Town Bank, is
secretary and treasurer. Among the directors
of the company are Messrs A. A. Blakeney
and George R. NOVEL;, of Baltimore county.
THE GRAND JURY of Chicago has indicted
forty-five coal operators and retail dealers
charging them with conspiracy to doan illegal
act injurious to public trade in putting up the
price of coal, ETC. The bail of each was fixed
at 81 500.
THE AGGREGATE value of real and personal
property in New York State, subject to local
taxation, is IS, s41 ,6S7 $685. nearly equally di'
vided between real and personal. The increase