The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-05-26
FEAR is WEAKNESS.

regulate the rates of railroads.
FEAR is WEAKNESS.
Up. Thomas, In Vital Culture.
As a rule, fear is a thing that makes human
beings miserable. tt would be actually better
for persons to get hurt occasionally rather than
to be SO fearful of everything that their nerves
are constantly Jared. One day my boy, who
is very fond of experimenting, was seen to be
playing with bottle of gasoline. He had
taken the stopper out of the gasoline and had
put piece of paper in the mouth of the bottle
and had lit the paper and was calmly standing
by when bis governess saw what he was doing,
and threw up her hands in horror and scream
ed at the top of her voice. The scream startled
the boy, and he dropped the lighted match
directly into the bottle of gasoline. Of course
every one expected to see the gasoline blow up
and the boy pass out of existence and into
eternity. But such was not intended. The
match went out. as did also the light of the
paper, and the boy turned and asked, "What
are you screaming about ?'
l would not advise any one to perform this
experiment, yet il is scientific fact, as / have
often demonstrated, that you can let drop q
lighted match into bottle of gasoline without
the slightest danger, for gasoline will not ex-
plode unless it is vaporized and mixed with
air. know some big, strong men and women
that are afraid to go out in the street by them
selves, especially when it is dark. | know
some men that would not be afraid Of lion or
tiger, though they are MORALLY afraid of q
woman. know one man who is afraid to 10
to bed and sleep at night for fear he will not
wake up; another who is afraid of microbes,
and who will drink nothing but whisky !;
another who is afraid to employ others to assist
him in his business for fear that they will steal
bis thoughts, and SO it is if you will look
around. Most are fearing everything in this
world, and many of them even fear something
that is to come hereafter.
How much better it would be to undertake
some good, healthy work, casting all fear aside
and going straight ahead as if God were back
Of you The fact is, if you are right, God is
back of you, and there is absolutely nothing
to you. 1t would not amount to very much (;
at least it would not be near so bad as setting
down and thinking about it. Great men of the
past have been fearless, at least, when they
knew they were right. If you wish to be
happy. cast all fear out of your mind.
VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS, who attended a
session of the General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, held at Bir-
mingham, Ala, received an ovation. In the
course of an address Mr.. Fairbanks said
"Methodism was never more vital factor than
now and there was never more need of its dis
cipline and genuine apostolic spirit in the up
building of great religious community than
there is in this hour. 1t is positive, conser-
vative force, aggressive in its beneficent in
fiuence, making humanity and the world bet
ter. From the time of the immortal John
Wesley until now it has been militant church
1t has stood upon the frontier battling for jus.
tice and righteousness 1t has pushed forward
against the powers of darkness and evil and
planted its banners in the remotest parts of the
earth. Wherever it goes it carries the torch oil
a higher civilization. It is in the best sense 9
democratic church, working among the great
masses of the people, lifting the lowly to better
conditions. It's hospitable doors must always
open to those in lowly place as well as to those
who are in higher spheres"
AT THE annual meeting of the Association Of
Presidents and Secretaries of State Boards OF
Health, held in Washington this week. one of
the principal addresses was on Tuberculosis"
by DR.. Richard Lewis, of Raleigh. N. C. He
said that the prevention of tuberculosis was
very much more important than its cure and
outlined system of public education by means
of travelling lecturers and literature which
could be carried on at the annual expense of
running one small sanitarium. and would. he
said, reach 100 900 people directly in each state
and, indirectly, practically all the inhabitants
of each state. DR.. John s. Fulton, secretary of
the Maryland Board of Health, was elected
secretary of the association.
THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY received en-.
couraging reports at its annual meeting in New
York last week. The society has had pros
porous year. ALI debts have been paid and
there is balance on the right side. The per-
manent general fund amounts to $537, 1863, and
only the interest of this is used in the general
work. This organization is ninety years old
and since it was formed it has issued 78, 500 500
Bibles and parts of Bibles many. of them hav-
ing been printed in foreign languages. Dis.
bursements for the year amounted to sS15,011
THE LARGEST individual contribution in aid
of sufferers from the great Chicago fire was
$50, 600 given by A. T. Stewart, of New York.
For San Francisco there has been one gift of
500, 900 from E. H. Hartman and two Of
100000 from Messrs. Rockefeller and Carnegie.
But relative to means or fortune the Stewart
gift was much larger than either of the latter.
Back in the early '70s individual fortunes Of
500, 900 900 or over were not known.
In SOUTH MOUNTAIN, east of Smithsburg,
Washington county, Nd, copper has been
found in paying quantities and there are also
traces of gold. People are prospecting and the
land values have advanced surprisingly. One
small tract has sold for $4,000 that, before
the find, could have been bought for less than
a quarter of that sum. Mining operations are
to be started on this tract at once. Harrisburg
capitalists were the purchasers.
CONSIDERED AS disturbance of the earth's
crust" says San Francisco paper, "the earth
quake was positively Insignificant. There was
a vibration of a few inches, not noticeable to
person walking" As everybody was running
about that time, the vibration of a few inches
had singular effect on the nerves.
Mr.. CLEVELAND is so well-preserved in his
10th year that he has thought it advisable to
give notice that he will not again be candi-
date for the Presidency. But he has not yet
announced that he considers Bryan good
enough conservative.
GOVERNORS WILL be elected in twenty.nine
states this year. Oregon leads off on June 5th,
followed by Arkansas September 10th, Georgia
October Sd and Kentucky November 9Th. Po-
litically, 1906 is not as much of an off-year as
might be supposed.
WITH MAYOR ScHMrTz, of San Francisco,
the professional fiddlers and ex-
Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee the amateurs, the
power of music in politics continues to be
worth the attention of budding statesmen.
A 1000 horsepower engine in Pittsburg is to
be operated entirely by blast-furnace gas for
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