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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
TWICE IN JEOPARDY.

An old negro was recently brought
before justice in Mobile. 1t seem.
ed that Uncle Nose had fallen foul of
bulldog while in the act of entering
the henhouse of the dogs owner.
"Look here, Uncle Moses" the
justice said, informally, "didn't I
give you ten days last month for this
same thing? Same henhouse you
were trying to get into. What have
you got to say for yourself?"
Uncle Nose scratched his head.
"Mars Willyum, yo' sent me ter
de chain gang fer tryin' ter steal some
chickens, didn't ye?'
eyes, that was the charge"
can don't de law say yo' can't be
charged twice wild de same 'fense?"
"That no man shall be twice placed
in jeopardy for the identical act, yes. ;"
Den, sab, yo' des hab ter let me
go, sab. All war after de same chick
ems, sah."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01

zing against my leg, but there was
no danger to me, for he never once
noticed either me or my stick, but
kept his eyes ever turned toward the
boys.
To lose my head meant to lose my
life.
The end of the stick, as / have
said, was now within his coil, at the
only point where it would be surely
effective. I calculated this to nicely.
1t was at the exact spot on the snakes
side where half of his weight lay on
one side of it, and half on the other.
Over the old oak trunk, gently and
imperceptibly, I leaned forward and
to one side, bracing myself carefully
so as to be able to throw all my power
into one sudden jerk. Then, just
when I was quite ready, that hitherto
unfelt stick point flew outward and
upward and the astonished rattle.
snake went sailing through the air,
not knowing what on earth had hap
pened to him.
Some twenty yards off he landed
near the dog and that unfortunate
brute, seeing the long fyAg thing
alighting, rushed at it, and was in
stantly bitten in the neck.
1 could not help him. In five min
utes he was dead.
The boys gave one shout when they
saw the snake sent so cleverly sailing
away from me through the air; but
now the sight of their dying dog
reused their anger, SO that could
hardly restrain them from shooting
the rattiesnake, which was coiled and
rafting where he fell.
But at last I persuaded them to
spare the snake and go back to the
house for box to put him in.
l got him into it without difficulty.
At home I tranferred him to a glass
fronted cage. But unfortunately the
fire which soon after destroyed my
house and one-third of my collection,
reduced him and his cage to ashes
Y0uth'S Consbanion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
THE VAST RESOURCES OF THE FARM.

In October last the twenty sixth
annual session of the Farmers Con-
gress was held in Rock Island with
large attendance from all the states
and territories of the Union. Mr..
John Stahl, of Chicago, president,
made very able speech wherein he
gave the following interesting statis-
tics:
Il congratulate you, as represen
tatives of the farmers of the United
States, on material prosperity. To
the nations production the farmers
of this year contribute six billion dol
lars. We hear much of the Standard
Oil Co. and its wealth, but our an
nual export-not production but ex-
port-of cotton alone has a value
four times as great as all the petro-
leum produced in the United States
ina year. From the attention given
disturbances in coal mining one
might consider that coal is very i'm
portant production of this country.
But year after year the farm products
of the United States have on the
farm value more than thirteen
times the value at the mine of all the
coal dug in the United States. We
have become the greatest pig iron
producing country in the world. Yet
each year the grain on one crop
corn-has value FIVE times greater
than all the pig iron produced in this
country.
Why, the corn grown each year by
the farmers of Illinois alone has a
value about equal to our entire pro-
duction of pig iron. Every time our
miners dig dollar from our gold
mines, we farmers dig seventy
dollars from the ground, and every
time our miners dig dollar from our
silver mines we dig one hundred and
sixty-fve dollars from the ground.
The farm products of the United
States have value more than twelve
times greater than all the gold and
silver mines in the world. With
their products Of one year only, the
farmers of this country could buy at
par all the stock of all the national
banks of the entire country, not once,
or twice, but eight times over, and
they could pay all the wages and sal
aries in Our great iron and steel indus
try thirty-fouT times and have money
left.
During the past sixteen years our
exports of all articles have exceeded
our imports by $4,000, 900, 900. In
the same period our exports of farm
products exceeded our imports of
farm products by $5,635, 900, 900.
The farmer is responsible for our
enormous favorable balance in inter
national trade. In all the world no
other class in any country produces
as much wealth as the farmers of the
United States.
Between 1900 and 1907 the value
of farm property in the United States
Increased from $ao, 400, 100000 to
S2o 900, 900, 900, gain OF S7,oOO,-
600, 900. The total capital of the
national banks of the United States
is $So8, 900, 900, or only one ninth as
much as the actual increase made in
farm wealth in seven years. More
over this increase of farm values in
seven years is equal to about 6 per
cent. of the capitalization of all the
railroads of the United States built
up during the last seventy-fve years,
which is really the most striking pro-
gress and prosperity of the whole
country of late years, though in no
other lines of development has TIE
advance been quite SO wonderful as
that of the farmer. THE Fnryow.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
For "THE UNION"
IN MEMoRIAM.
Rev. william G. Herbert.
BY EDWIN HIGGINS.


o, God, to Thee for saints at rest.
For all the white robed throng;
For all the armies of the skies,
We lift exultant song.
We thank Thee for the life of him
Fragrant with sweetest bloom -
Our heads are bowed, our eyes are dim -
We bear him to the tomb.
Ger nobler breast the storms ne'er swept,
Nor SHOWS their mantles threw.
Nor vernal showers their jewels wept,
Nor morn its pearls of dew.
Soldier of Righteousness, at rest,
From toll and travail free,
A victor's palm for sword and shield,
How happy thou must be!
By Thee, o Christ In sorrows night
The blackest clouds are riven:
Thy hand doth lead Thy children home
Through dark and light to Heaven.
When on the last great Easter morn,
The earth and sky and sea
And ages shall their tributes bring,
Wen bring our all to Thee.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
ESTABLISHED 1850.

feelings of the man in it, who was a
cabbage stealer in his salad days.
My friend, who believes all this, aud
acts with caution, is sensible in all
else. And so 1 say, "what fools we
be P' Yours, AUNT 10.
-Weytown (Pa.) EnterbriSe.
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EDUCATION helps man to make
his way in the world"
"Yes," answered the man who al
ways sneers; "there is no doubt that
a little football experience helps out
on a crowded street car"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01

ga WOMAN rever knows man un-
til after she marries him."
True; and a man never really
knows himself until the woman he
marries lets him know what she real
ly knows about him.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01

DON'T long for the good things that
others have instead of going to work
and earning for yourself.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
SEAL HUNTING ON THE ICE FLoEs OF
THE NORTH.

One of the most perilous of the
worlds vocatiors, but one in which
an army of from FIVE to seven thous-
and men take part, is the seal hunt,
as it is called. The scene of the hunt
is the ice fields which drift south
ward in the spring of each year from
the Artic regions, and a bleaker or
more desolate region could scarcely
be found than this great icy waste.
The prey CT the seal hunters, how
ever, is of enough value to tempt
them to brave the rigors and dangers,
for the hair seal which is their quest
is of especial value. Not only is its
coat valuable, but the blubber of the
young yields an oil much priced for
different purposes.
The Artic current which sweeps
southwark through the ocean along
the coasts of Labrador and Newfound-
land carries with it a variety of ami
NAL life, being one of the great feed
ing grounds for deep-sea fish such as
cod and mackerel. The lowtempera-
ture of the waters, and the fact that
for such large portion of the year
great masses of the ice drift upon
them, ranging from the glacial berg
to the foe, render the Artic current
fit habitat not only for many varieties
of fish, but for the seal referred to.
The ice foes form the cradle of the
young, where they are cared for by
the mothers during the first few
weeks of their existence. The fine
pelt which forms the coat of these
young seals is especially priced by
the seal hunters, for the reason that
it can be manufactured into leather
which is utilized extensively for max
ing trunks, boots, as we'll as book
bindings. The oil referred to COM
mands a high price, being used for
illumination, for fabrication, and for
the manufa cture of fine toilet soaps.
Scientific Ame,ican.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01

A WRITER in the Scientific Amer
ican ssys he has cleared his premises
of rats and other vermiE by making
whitewash yellow with copperas and
covering the stones and sleepers in
the cellar with it. In every crevice
in which rat might go he put the
coperas, and scattered it in the cor
ners of the floor. The result was a
complete disappearance of rats and
mice. Since that time, not rat or a
mouse has been seen near the house.
Every spring the cellar is coated
with the yellow whitewash as puri-
fer and a rat exterminator, ana no
typhoid, dysentery or fever attack
the family.
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miscellaneous.
A 7O-YeQT Old MOIIggge.

Some time ago attention was called to an old
mortgage on the Hamilton Easter property. on
Baltimore etreet-a mortgage made In 1904 Wn1cn
had to be paid of In 1895 by a purchaser who had
bought the property In ignorance of the mort
gage, causing loss of about 5000.
More remarkable still is a mortgage which the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company has just re-
ported.
In 1884 mortgage for $4,000, conveying land
on Baltimore street, was made to certain per-
son, who sold it to A. in 1913. A. died in 1858,
leaving the mortgage to B.. who died In 1885,
leaving 1t TO G.. who died in 1890 leaving 1t TO d.,
who died in 1898, leaving it to E., who has since
collected the money, seventy years after the
mortgage was made.
From 1Si3 to l9O4-a period of over sixty years
there is not word about the mortgage on the
Sometimes it is thought safe to assume that an
old mortgage has been paid Off, but that by over
sight release has not been recorded. This
seventy-year- old mortgage shows the danger of
assuming anything in title examinations.
The only proper way to examine title is to
make the kind Of exhaustive examination the
TiiIG Guarantee & Trust Co.
makes. and to do this requires skill and expert
alone possesses.
TITLES TO LAND IN BALTIMORE COUNTY
EXAMINED AND GUARANTEED.
MONEY TO LOAN ON MORTGAGE.
Next weeks advertisement will be entitled
"a Widows Claim"
The Offices are In the CALVERT BUILDING.
Corner of St. Paul and Fayette Streets. Balti-
more. Jan. 12-6m
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
FALLsToN, Nd, April II. 1907.
Mr.. WALTER P. RECKoRD,
Cnckavsvilla. Nd.

COckeySV1lle, Mo-.
Dear Sir Enclosed please find
check as per bill. Would have sent
it sooner but wanted to see If the
COWS would improve on your. Dairy
Feed. I am very well pleased with
it. When we run out of it we fed
bran and corn chop in place of Ham
mond Dairy Feed and corn chop and
our cows fell of about one-half
gallon per COW day, and since get
ting the Hammond Dairy Feed again
they have nearly come back to their
former quantity. So it is unnecessa-
ry to say that am more than pleased.
Yours truly,
Jos. B. TwINING.
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The Offices are In the CALVERT BUILDING.
Corner of st. Paul and Fayette Streets. Balti-
more. fJan. 12-6m
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Title Guarantee & Trust Co.
MONEY TO LOAN ON MORTGAGE.

Next weeks advertisement will be entitled
"a Widows Claim"
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
MUST HOLD NEW ELECTION
FOR EDITOR OF THE QUAD
None Of Five Candidates Before STAN
ford Students Succeeds in Obtain
ing a Majority Vote

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. s.
The sophomores balloted on the names
OF five candidates today for editor of
the class Quad" but as all failed of
the necessary majority another cleo
tion is necessary. This Will be held
Thursday.
For manager of the book d. w.
Burbank of Santa Cruz received an
overwhelming majority over his rival,
s c. Bias. also of Santa Cruz.
The surprise of the day was the re-
markable strength shown by Miss
Laura Wells of Honolulu in the race
for editor, she polling seventy-eight
votes. Two of the candidates have
withdrawn from the contest, leaving
the field to Miss Wells, G. n. Richard
son and H F. Bruning.
The Daily Palo Alto of this evening
claims to be in possession of evidence
that an attempt was made to mark
ballots at the QUAD election. In a
pointed editorial IL characterizes the
proceeding as "despicable." and threat
ems. If there is repetition of the Of
fense, to expose the names of the
guilty parties.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
PERCY PEMBROKE s
FOURTH TRIAL
Youth Who Thrice Faced a
Charge of Murder Is Up
for Highway Robbery
MAKING HARD FIGHT

OAKLAND, Feb. 5.-The trial of II
vear-old Percy Pembroke on the charge
that he robbed Edward Stanley, a bar
Der, in East Oaklands,in October, 1904
was begun today before Judge Muir
phey. -Four talesmen were examined.
but no juror was accepted. Deputy
District W. H. L. Hynes is prosecuting
and Attorney Lincoln Church is defend
ing.
Pembroke was acquitted at his third
trial several months ago on the charge
of having murdered Thomas Cook, a
Fruitvale grocer. The first jury that
tried young Pembroke on this accusa-
ton disagreed and the second was dis
missed before the evidence was sub
mitted because OF the serious illness
OF one Of its members.
Although Pembroke was acquitted.
his two companions. George W. Blaker
Jr. and John Schneider, were convicted
Of the murder Of Cook. Immediately
upon his acQuittal on the murder
charge Pembroke was arrested on the
highway robbery accusation.
In the previous trials Pembroke S
father, mother. brothers and other rel
atives surrounded him in court day
after day.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
HEARING GRANTED
To BREWERS

Attorney Hoef1er, representing the
seventeen treweries included in the To-
cal Brewers Association, appeared be-
fore the Police Commission last night
to ask for a date for a conference in
which the claims of the San Francisco
beer makers to the right Of recognition
may be made. April history shows that
most of the California breweries~ were
put out of business by the quake or
the fire, and in the first days of recon
struction manufacturers of foreign beer
obtained the leases or the patronage
of the new saloons opened in the city
So far 2014 licenses have been
granted for saloons and restaurants
serving liquid refreshments, as against
more than 1000 straight~saloons in the
city before the fire. AS the commission
is doing all in its power to favor the
old saloonkeepers who desire to return
to their former locations, it follows
that it may be able to do something
to advance the re-esta blishment of To-
cal industries, employing numberless
men.
Most of the commissioners have ex-
pressed themselves as being desirOus
of helping the home brewers "as far as
the law allows" and, no doubt, the con-
ference, which will be called for next
Monday or Tuesday, will attract atten-
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
PARTNER GOULD IS
FROZEN OUT"
yTorden and Meeker Form a
New Drug Concern, With
the Secretary Eliminated
MERRY WAR is ON

OAKLAND, Feb. 5.-Another phase Of
the strife among the three stock
holders in w. H. Worden & Co., a
drug concern, developed this afternoon
in the filing of articles of incorpora-
ton of the Worden-Meeker Company.
George F. Gould. secretary of the old
corporation. instituted suit against w.
II. Worden. the president, and F.
Leslie Meeker, the treasurer, yesterday.
charging them<with having embezzled
S1920.20 from the company. He also
obtained an order from Judge Ogden
for the arrest of the defendants to
prevent them from leaving the State
Worden and Meeker have retaliated
by organizing new company. in which
Gould is not a stockholder. The articles
of incorporation filed by the Worden-
Meeker concern empower IL to manu-
facture and sell chemical preparations
and drugs The capital stock is 500, 600.
The directors are w. H. Worden of
San Francisco. F. Leslie Meeker of
Berkeley. and William Wenham of
Alameda
Worden was arrested in San Fran
cisco today and Meeker notified At
torney James Greeley that he would
surrender to the authorities.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
GENTLE CRITICISM
OF THE GOODS

BERKELEY, Feb. 5.=Members Of
the Treble Clef Club. a musical organi-
zation made up OF women students at
the university, were considerably per-
turbed by the appearance in the Occi-
dent Magazine today of an editorial
by Irma Well, in which the following
comment is made on the plan TO pro-
duce a light opera. The Gondoliers": !:
Two OF three good songs usually exhaust the
musical excellence Of even the best comic opera
II is hardly worth while TO give time TO learning
something which does not want to remem-
her; and, moreover when all is done, can
see the same thing at Idora Park at any time
and better done.
The name Of the university stands for higher
culture. and when we appear before the public
in serious effort il ought 10 be something
worthy of the name. In the line OF opera any
thing truly worth while, that is TO say, grand
opera. Is. Of course, out Of the question for any
hut highly trained and especially cultivated
voices. in other lines the Treble Clef has on
several occasions manifested its excellence. Its
chorIses have always been fully appreciated and
lis soloists have the good will of the college
public
Combined they ought TO I'LL the numbers Of
2 most enjoyable concert. At the least IL would
give us good music unalloyed by mediocre acting
and amateurish staging and above all would
show an honest artistic effort instead OF land
this is a fair inference) a feeding of the fame
which burns more less brightly in every ado
lescent breast, 10 shine once at least behind the
footlights.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
B[AMES OFFICIAL
FOR DISASTER

That vessel is not workshop and
therefore cannot be included within the
provisions of the child-labor law was
the principal argument of Attorney
Williamson, counsel for the defense in
the case of James Mitchell against the
California and Oregon Coast Steamship
Company yesterday in Judge Graham's 8
court. Mitchell sued the steamship
company for $4,000 for the death of
his 14-year-old son, who was killed in
an explosion on board the vessel in De-
cember. 1905.
In attempting to offset the claim of
the attorneys for the prosecution that
the explosion was due to the negligent
use of open lights in the hold of the
vessel, Attorney Williamson cast the
blame on the inspectors who have testi-
fed in the case, declaring that they,
and not the officials of the company,
were responsible for the existing condi-
tions. He said that Inspector of Hulls
and Boilers Bolger had been derelict in
his duty in not forcing changes to be
made.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
TROTH IS BROKE n
BEFORE SUICIDE
William Neary Tells How
His Evil Habit Wrecked
Margaret Shepherds Life
He SUFFERS GREATLY

OAKLAND, Feb. 5.-Deep lines of
grief plainly betrayed how heavy had
been the blow that had fallen upon him.
as William Neary, a searcher of rec
ords. testified before the Coroner to-
night that before Margaret Shepherd
took her own life on the night of Feb
ruary she had broken her engagement
to him because of his inability to con-
quer his appetite for liquor Neary,
In manly, straightforward manner.
which won the sympathy of his hear
ers, declared that he had been unable
to control his craving for intoxicants,
and that because of this Miss Shep-
herd had declared that she could never
become his wife.
The young man, who for number
or years has been employed in the
office of the Stocker & Holland Alb
stract Company, first met Miss Shep-
herd about six months ago, shortly
after her arrival in California Their
acquaintance soon ripened into love,
and Miss Shepherd promised to become
Neary's bride. Then came the knowl-
edge that the man to whom she had
plighted her troth was periodical
slave to intoxicants. and with it came
the determination that she could never
become his wife.
The burden of grief. however. was
too heavy for the pretty stenographer
to bear, and after brooding for several
days over the wreck of her happiness
Miss Shepherd sought peace in death.
Taking advantake of the absence of her
friends the girl committed suicide by
inhaling gas at the home of c. B. Bur-
ton, 529 Hobart street
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06
CHURCHME n ACTIVE
IN POLITICS

OAKLAND, Feb. 5.-Representatives
of Protestant churches of Oakland have
organized for the coming municipal
campaign. Rev. r. c. Brooks, pastor
of Pilgrim Congregational Church, is
the temporary president and c. G..
White secretary Rev. r. c. Brooks, T..
B. Holmes and H. L. Kemp submitted
resolutions at the preliminary meeting
last night opposing the candidacy of
R. j. Boyer, H. T. Burns, w. J. Baccus
and G. E. Aitkin for the City Council
Permanent organization will be ef-
fected next week. Those who are TAX
ing part in the movement decided to
make fight against the election of
nominees who shall manifest their un-
fitness to serve the people of Oakland
in such capacity by their public record
on moral issues
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-06

BERKELEY, Feb. 5.-Mrs. Louise M.
Keeler. wife of the poet, Charles Keeler.
died suddenly at her home, 2727 Dwight
way, today. Heart failure was the
cause of death. She was "a years old.
Mrs. Keeler had been Ill since Saturday,
but her condition was not regarded as
serious.
Mrs. Keeler was prominent in the
colony of artists and literary folk in
Berkeley. She illustrated many of her
husbands books of poems and prose and
in other ways evidenced the possession
of rare talent She was a protege of
William Keith, the painter. In Red
Cross work she had been active and
the clubs of Berkeley all knew her as a
woman of force and unusual executive
ability.
Mrs. Keeler was a daughter of S. P.
Bunnell, who for ma.ly years served as
cashier and auditor for the Wells Fargo
Express Company. Mr.. Bunnell died
last April at his daughters home in
North Berkeley.
Mrs Keeler was born in San Fran
cisco and graduated from the State
University in 1894. She was married
to Charles Keeler fourteen years ago.
Two little daughters and son survive
the mother.
Prof. George II. Harrison will speak
at the funeral service in the Keeler
Lathrop and DR.. Hosmer of the Unitar-
ian Church, with which Mrs. Keeler
was connected, also will speak.