The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-04-25
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AFTER AUGUST 1st next $64, 900 of per
cent. Government bonds will be redeemable
and can easily be refunded at per cent. In
credit Uncle Sam lives at the head of Easy
Street.
MAYOR MAHooL has appointed Mr.. William
H. Bruno, member of the Appeal Tax Court
of Baltimore city to succeed Judge Conway W.
Sans, resigned. Mr.. Bruno, who is a well
known member Of the bar, is well equipped
for the work, having heretofore had expert.
ence as judge of the same court.
AT FOURTEEN points on the Canadian border
immigration officers have been stationed to
turn back applicants for admission who are
physically unfit" japanese will be barred,
and also European laborers if there is no de-
mand for workers, unless they have come
direct from their native land. Canada pro-
poses to defend the quality of its citizenship,
and is losing no time in applying the rules.
AT HAeERsTowN, on Saturday last, Judge
Keedy drew the jury for the May term of the
Circuit Court, the drawing being under the new
law which requires that the selection of jurors
be by numbered balls drawn from a box.
Deputy Court Clerk Oswald drew the num-
bered balls, one by one, from the box and
handed them to Judge Keedy, who called out
the number. Previously the court had selected
200 names, each numbered, from the poll and
tax books, apportioned to the number of voters
in each district.
On SATURDAY last Mrs. Casper Swope cele-
hrated her 9th birthday at her home in Clear
spring, Nd Hs- FAanltins have been preserved
to remarkable degree and she has NOT talar
drop of medicine in thirty years. She reads
without glasses and she frequently saws fire.
wood by way of exercise. Mrs. Swope, &C
companied by her husband and two children,
came from Germany in 1910 in sailing YES
sci and landed at Baltimore after a voyage of
eleven weeks. She has been a resident of
Washington county over sixty years. Mrs.
Swope is devout Catholic.
GEN. JOHN R. KING, pension agent at WASH
ington, announces that all the widows now on
the rolls of the Washington agency will re-
ceive the increase that was provided for under
an act of Congress just passed without the
necessity of making formal application there
for The frat xezsRans- At the d1ac1ea9sa
viii be made on June 4th next. The bill
which has just become law increases the rate
of pension to all widows minors and helpless
children now on the pension rolls at less rate
TO S12 per month. No application is required
to obtain the increased rate.
THE REPUBLICAN party of Howard made
beautiful exhibition of itself on Monday last
when the county convention was held at Eli
colt City. Or at least the leaders of the party
did. They couldn't agree in parceling out the
jobs and the result was two conventions and
two sets of delegates to the State and Congress
sionaI conventions. When the party is united
in Howard it is never able to accomplish any
thing. What can it expect to do when it is
split up into factions2 Ex-senator George
Dorsey Day, it would seem, aspires to bosship
in that neck of the woods. 1t may be case
of too many great men,"
GOVERNOR JOHNSON, Of Minnesota, who is
now full fedged candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency, has not
a very high opinion Of at least one of the as
pirants for the same honor. In an interview
at Omaha few days ago heis reported to have
said william j. Bryan is has-been.' His
star reached its zenith some time ago, and
when his name goes before the Denver conven
ton he will be looking for votes. The tide
always has limit. 1t continues to swell until
that limit is reached, and then it recedes. The
tide of the popularity of Mr.. Bryan receded
with the adjournment of the State convention
in Nebraska which Landed his name and re-
commended him for another nomination, and
has been recedipg."
FORTY EIGHT years ago the late C. II Essen
brandt, a Baltimore business man, loaned Q
friend a sum of money, never expecting to
have it paid back Last week Mr.. William
A. Eisenbrandt, an ex-member of the City
Council of Baltimore, received a letter con-
tanning $3.50 in cash. In part the letter said
For the help he gave me when was very
poor-he did not expect anything back, but as
have made some money, wish to send some
to his family as l said 1 would do when 1 got
able. / send the money this way, because l
do not wish any words with those who do not
know about it, as he is dead. 1 send some
interest also, as l had to wait so long to get
mp this money" Mr.. Eisenbrandt has no
idea who sent the money. He says he will |
hold it until he sees chance togive it to some
good cause.
THE LINCOLN EDUCATION LEAGUE, incorpora-
ted recently in New York State, announces
that it has provided fund of $4,000 to be
used toward placing in the school.houses
throughout the country bronze tablets bearing
the full text of Abraham Lincoln's address at
Gettysburg. The objects of the League are
ito perpetuate the fame of Abraham Lincoln,
to inculcate his principles and patriotism in
the minds and hearts of his countrymen, and
particularly among the rising generation, in
order to inspire them by his example to loftier
ideals and nobler practices of the rights and
duties of American citizenship" The League
also hopes to be in position later on to give
prizes for essays by school children on various
phases of Lincoln's character, and cooperate |
in other ways with the schools in interesting |
the children in the principles for which Lin |
coin lived and died.
THE WASHINGTON Herald, an independent |
newspaper that has a race-track fight of its |
own on in the District of Columbia, says: |
"The New York Legislature temporarily has |
surrendered to the race.track gamblers and the |
corrupt lnnuences aAgneu III 'nelr support
vice is triumphant. Temporarily |
an honest Executive is vanquished. But le-
Called rece-track gambling in New York, as
here and elsewhere, is just as certainly doomed
as il was before. This is as sure as fate. Gov
ernor Hughes may be depended upon to do
what he set out to do, if not today, then to-
morrow or next day." That can be said OF
great many other things that need reform. 1t
lakes a long time to rouse the moral sense Of
the people against visible and known wrong,
but when it does rise its current is terrible.
Slavery is good illustration. What is right
may not come today, but it will tomorrow or