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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-19
Tuesday,. Decem1er aad. 1908.

Described in said mortgage, being Lots Nos. 8
and in Block No. 2, as designated on the Re-
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county, the said Lot fronting on the east
side of Roland avenue about so feet with depth
easterly of about 100 feetto IA. foot alley.
Improved by an
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-19

BkoNzh TURKEYS FOE SALE
TOMS $500 EACH AT MY FARM.
LEWIS NJ. BACON.
Dec. 19-2t%l Philopolis, Md.
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DONE QUICK AND wELL2

LET US DO 1T FOR YOU
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THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT
AND ONE-THIRD ACRES OF
LAND. MORE OR LESS.
The improvements consist of
AE LARGE THREE-STORY FRAME
DWELLING WITH FOURTEEN ROOMS,
BATH. HOT AND COLD WATER,
BANK BARN. TWO-STORY CAR
RAGE HOUSE. COW SHED.
CORN HOUSE. CHICKEN
HOUSE, TWO-STORY
ICE HOUSE, WIND
NJ LII. ETC.

The land lies in the most picturesque section
of Green Spring Valley and has beautiful build
ing sites, fine Water and Fruit Trees of all
kinds, and Chestnut, Oak, Poplar and Hickory
Timber. Park Heights avenue divides the prop
erty through the centre.
TERMS OF SALE.-One- third Cash, balance
in six and twelve months, or all Cash at the
purchasers option credit payments to bear in
terest from the day of sale and to be secured to
the satisfaction of the undersigned, Assignee.
A3-A deposit of $1,000 is required at the time
of sale the deposit may be made either in cash
or by certified checks. Taxes adjusted to the
day of sale.
JOHN H. DUNCAN. Assignee.
SCHWAB BROS. & CO., Auctioneers.
Dec. 1Q-ts
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TenaI Mntices.


Harry s. Career, attorney, BelGir, Md.
ID. q. Nc IYt0sh, attorney, fOtcsOn, and FL:
RlrIf
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ALL THAT VALUABLE PROPERTY
CONVEYED BY SAID MORTGAGE.

wAt 3 O'Clock P. NJ,
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Harley d WheItIe, attorneys at La,c. 2OO-@O4
MaryIGnd Telephone Building,
Baltimore, Md.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-19
NrOTICE To CREDITORs.

Hen1si0hausesa & Stein, attorneys, 231-@3S
ComrtlGnd Street, Baltimore, Md.
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Neru Advertisements.

For SALE
THREE FRESH COWS. Apply to
FREDERICK REICHERT,
Dec. 19-2t*] Sweet Air, Md.
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John Mays Little and NJ ID. II. AIie1a, Att0T-
neyS at LGtu, TOtcsOn, Md.
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WANTED
TWENTY FRESH COWS. Apply to
HARRISON RIDER,
At the Coal Yards, Towson, Nd.
Nov 14-tf
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W. Gall Smith, attorney at Lar, Second Ma
tiOnGI Bank building, TOiCsOn, Md.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
DoCkER'S HARD YEARS.
The Strain of Raising Family on Ten
 or Twelve Dollars a Week.

Ernest Poole. in August Everybody's.
 Few lockers figure ahead" about sons to be newspaper wonders" Most are the steady, hard-worlxing kind, who fig ure simply on bringing up sons to be good husky workingmen like themselves. This is no easy task. In the average large family, the pinch begins some five years after the wedding, and from that time on every penny of the lockers s10 or s12 a week Is needed to keep his small children. So the pinch lasts some 10 years. till the eldest son begins working. Happy the docker in whose tenement home no accident, sickness, or death has come In the meantime to drag him down.
 Most lockers, before they are 50 find that the muscle force and endurance that seemed everlasting begin suddenly to wear out. Although this is a fact well known to all, 1t comes to each man like a blow from behind. When 1t comes, the average docker, having married young, has at least the consolation of one or more sons and daughters already working for the home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
The City Election

The fact that very large vote was boiled at yesterdays primary gave practical evidence of the interest the people are taking in municipal affairs. Capt. Frank P OBrien, candidate for mayor, had the rare distinction of be- ing unopposed, but for the other offices there were earnest contests. The op- posing candidates had warm and ac- tive supporters, and among the defeat ed aspirants are some of Birmingham's best and most patriotic citizens.
 Harry Jones, who won in the race for president of the city council, has served long in the board of aldermen, and has made a fine record. He has had wide experience in local affairs, and, as he is man of keen perception as well as moral courage, he will make an ideal presiding officer. He is in- deed exceptionally well equipped for the high office to which he has been chosen.
 Few positions in Birmingham are so important as that of chief of police, and George H. Bodeker, the popular and efficient incumbent, defeated an- other good and efficient man, ex-Chief w. E. Wier, by a large majority. Bodeker is model police officer, for no man understands better than he the value of discipline and how to ob- tain results in the all-absorbing busi- ness of police protection.
 Excellent citizens were chosen for the other offices, and Captain OBrien's administration will, there is every reason to believe, be notably strong and popular.
 The people have spoken. It has been a spirited yet, for the most part. a friendly contest, and all is now well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
SAN FRANCISCO RESTORED.

From the Washington Post
 .erhree- -fourths of the city of San Fran c;sco has been rebuilt, and in another year the metropolis of the Pacific coast will he as fne-looking a city as is to been seen in the entire west" said Fran cis B. Smith of Vallejo, at the Raleigh.
 .'This achievement in the face of dini- culties almost impossible to comprehend, I consider remarkable Practically the entire business section of San Francisco is built of reinforced concrete and steel and granite construction, but in the resi- dential portions of the city that were burned San Francisco is still a shanty town. The people have not profited by their experience in this respect. mean that, instead of putting up houses that would better withstand earthquake or fire they have rebuilt dwellings or frame, just as before.
 -sN"On Mob Hill, the fashionable resi- dence section of the city which suffered more than any other residential part the new houses are of wood instead Of stone
 But it is truly remarkable the prog is due to a fear of recurrence Of an eartnQuake anu tue tuOuSiit tioe AA SA-> buildings are again destroyed there will not be so much loss, or perhaps 1t may be because the owners did not have money enough to construct more ex- pensive dwellings.
 '.But it is truly remrkable the prog ress that has been made After the ire the price of building material took jump that was staggering to the men who had to rebuild. Lumber more than doubled in price, steel and cement went soaring, and labor was not to be had except at extravagant figures. Builders estimates, in nearly every instance, were far from right. I know of one case where it was estimated by a builder of a large office structure that the cost would be $350,000, but when it was com pleted the figures were nearly $S0O,OO0. Rents have gone up in consequence, but 1t will be many years before the men who have rebuilt will get even. Advance in rents has caused many persons, who before the fire leased two or three rooms to economize and now these same per- sons are renting desk room only The result is that many of the large office buildings are only partly filled. Ulti- mately everything will adjust itself in San Francisco, but 1t will take time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
More Revenue Will Be Needed

Ever since the present fiscal year was begun the treasury has been run ming behind at the rate of about a million dollars day. The federal gov ernment cannot stand such a deficit if long maintained, and no one at present can see any immediate prospect of considerable increase in importations.
 When the tariff is revised, say next spring, the deficit promises to have nearly exhausted all surplus in the treasury, and the revisers will be well nigh compelled to plan to secure more revenue. This does not mean that tariff rates must be increased, but it does mean that numberless prohibitory rates must be reduced until imports under them are possible. In other words, we need revenue tariff instead of prohibitive rates of duty.
 The revisers of next spring will probably have to choose between revenue tariff and some new source of revenue in the form of stamp taxes, or an inheritance tax, or an income tax, combined with greater economy in expenditures. Too much money is being spent on the army and navy, and altogether revision promises to come when the funds of the government are seriously depleted, and the need of more revenue will be almost impera- tive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
Southern Lumbering

In 1907 the south cut 19,303, ,983, ,000 feet of lumber. This was the record cut of this section of the country, and came very near being one-half the country's entire lumber production. To be exact, it was 47.9 per cent of the whole, and the grand total includes over seven billion feet of lumber that is not cut at all in the south-fr, west ern pine, redwood, larch, white fir, su- gar pine, and tamarack.
 Alabama's production last year was 1,224,967 900 feet, as against 1,009, ,7S3,- 900 feet cut in 1906. The cut of 1907 in this state is also a record cut of this state. The states that outrank Ala bama are, in order, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Virginia and West Virginia The cut of Louisiana last year was nearly three billion feet, or nearly three times the production of Alabama.
 The entire cut of the country last year was 4O,256, 6,154OOO feet, and yellow pine trees furnished 32.8 per cent of this immense total. The cut of yellow pine was last year more than treble the cut of white pine, and nearly treDle the cut of Douglas fir. Louisiana led the states of the country in the cut of yellow pine, 2.345,912,O0O feet; West Virginia in the cut of oak, 466,602 ,000 feet; Kentucky in the cut of poplar, 205 ,671 900 feet; Louisiana in the cut of cypress, 5O9, ,665,OOO feet; Arkansas in the cut of red gum, 238, ,921, ,000 feet; Mississippi in the cut of cottonwood, S9, 9,154,000 feet; Arkansas in the cut of hickory, 30,446,000 feet, and North Car olina in the cut of tupelo, 16,664 ,00O feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
WISE JASPER KERN.

From the Atchison Globe
 There are three children in the Taft family, two in the Sherman family, three in the Bryan family and three in the Kern family Five on the republi- can ticket and six on the democratic. This should make the thoughtful voter Git is proper always to refer to voter as thoughtfuD think and think If the republican ticket wins it will mean one less child to burden the telegraph than if the democrats win.
 On the other side, however, Jasper Kern is on the democratlc ticket, and a great intellectual treat is in store for the people if his father is elected. Jas per is thoughtful child much given to statistics. He has compiled statistics concerning everything, from how much milk six-month kitten drinks per lap to how many times a day mother says Don't The election of Bryan and Kern means the opening of child s storehouse of knowledge to a thirsty public. Vote for Jasper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
Politics In New York

The determination of Governor Hughes to seek renomination in the republican convention of September 15 has upset the plans of the republi- can bosses, big and little, in New York state To a man they dislike him, and if they are forced to support him again, a curious state of things will arise The antipathy of the county politicians, from Tammanys chief to the boss in the smallest county in the state, is pronounced. Governor Hughes ignores them and they declare their opposition to him openly and frankly. Still they may have to accept him in order to have even an opportunity of carrying the state, but as governor he has made many enemies. and Norman E. Mack, the new campaign chairman of the national democracy, knows the weak points of the enemy in every county in the state.
 { When to the discontent over Gov ernor Hughes Is added Hearst ticket alike for president and for governor, it must be conceded that politics is mighty onsartin in New York state. The selection of MT. Mack as leader is fortunate for the democrats. He lives in Buffalo, is known throughout his own state, and is deservedly popu- lar in it. He is also widely respected. If any democratic manager can steer the democrats in New York to victory MT. Mack can.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
MEN, WOMEN, AND STYLE.

Eugene Wood, in August Everybody's.
 Nay, madam never look so scornfully at me. Don't tell me that these wild con- the men-folks. Was ever fashion any thing but comic to the men-folks? Aren't they for everlasting making fun of what you wear? We're just as bad as you are, just as much slaves to style, only we don't go at 1t in such slam-bang, Pas rich-and- -Ma-don't-care way as you do, sweeping from one wild distortion to an- other. And that's the sad part of it. The changes are so microscopic, and yet so necessary to our self-respect, that life for us is just one long, agonizing worry. That man who looks so swell in evening clothes: you think he's happy. Little you know! He has Just discovered that he's the only man there with black tie on.
 When a woman's head-gear gets out of date, she rescues from the wreck the pompons and the plumes, the buckles and the bugles, ribbons, rosettes glass cher res and muslin buds-all kinds of orna- mental junk that she can use another time She can pull and yank the wire frame into the very latest style; nobody'll ever know the difference. But between this seasons silk hat and last seasons there is je-e-e-est a leetle mite of differ ence that defies all making over. The lit- tie more, and oh, how much it is! No guilty wretch caught in the act of steai- ing sheep can possibly feel more like a sneak than the man caught wearing a last years hat. And if he doesn't feel that way, the more shame to him! He ought tO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28

in a comic oddity. CWhat world Tn which wild laughter and wild grief are so inextricably interfusedD After the flesh, our friend still lives: only his mind IS dead.
 And here is one whose every lineament shows forth engaging frankness and the joy of life--worse than dead. Embezzler, guilty fugitive with a neighbours wife. His broken-hearted old father, his wife, his children-all of us who trusted in~him, how much rather would we have followed him to his grave than have this come upon him. And thentthe long list of those with whom our lives were intertwined, for whom we hoped, believed, expected mere inspidities, trihers, failures, half successes. living along somehow. And we ourselves. What we meant then to be; and what we are!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
Ge0rgIa'S Convict Lease System

The Georgia legislature is in ses- sion, and it has two more weeks in which to work. It is expected in that time to investigate the horrors known to have been parts of the states con vict system. Our sister state is torn, so to speak, from center to circumfer- ence over the revelations of treatment dealt out by contractors, or rather by subcontractors, to the states prison CTS. Russian atrocities seem to have been outdone. Even the Congo rubber sections furnish no parallels, and the worst of Turkish cruelties have been exceeded.
 And this has been going on for years, and yet every year legislative Investigating committee had been sent to the convict camps. and their white xaahing renorts Mlled thu state to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
THE LElSURELY NOVEL.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 In the last two years there seems to have been a sort of revulsion of feeling on the part of authors of current novels against writing a short story in expanded form in which every page is to contain a lot of incident and the motive of the tale is to progress rapidly to what has been called the "1eisurely novel' of the days of Dickens and Thackeray and their ilk, in which there should be more. of lit- erary form and good deal more discus sion of the details which enter into life, with much less of excitement.
 De Morgan is said to have begun this scheme and to have had many followers, but many of the books now appearing which seem to be imitators of this style are really works which were written some years ago and which could not find hearing Books like 'The Post Girl'' are now being read with avidity, and 1t can not be said that the charm lies in any excitement whatever. It is rather in the dissection of psychological phenomena and an exposition of the little things of life which give charm rather than in
  Herrick comes to the front with "Tc- gether,' in which he lays bare all the seamy side of life in nearly 500 closely printed pages which are replete with facts and full of unpleasantness, but which appeal to large number of people.
 It seems certain that the era of the "Six Best Sellers no longer deals with men in doublets and hose or In mys- teres of crime. We have had surfeit of this sort of thing and are now coming back to an intellectual era when we are willing to get little philosophy. lot of exposition and much of the real analysis of life as most of us find it. The change is certainly for the better It gives the author a wider scope for his genius-if he has any-and it marks an advance in the appreciation of the average American reader. All that Is life can be made liter ature, but all literature should be more than mere record of facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Mr. Mahen Returns.

President J. c, Msben of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company re- turned from the east last night. He left his family at Atlantic City.
 MT. Maben attended a meeting of his board of directors in New York last week and submitted his annual report, which will be issued shortly in pamphlet form Asked as to business conditions in New York MT. Maben said:
 There has been some improvement. and on the whole matters are looking fairly well. The steady advance in the Sloss- Sheffield stock has been remarked. The sales have been quite large There have been rumors that the stock is being bought by certain important interests, but whether there is any truth in these rumors 1 am unable to say"
 When MT. Maben's attention was called to a report published in New York financial paper to the effect that the Dimmick Cast Iron Pipe works and other pipe plants might possibly be merged into the Sloss-Sheffield company he simply said: No deal or proposition of the sort referred to has come before our board
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
Railroad Traffic.

"The current calendar year will prob ably contribute no less than 100000, 900 bushels of grain, including flour and meal as grain, to the traffic which originates in the interior of the country and finds it's way to the half dozen or more large seaports on the Atlantic, the Gulf and the Pacific coasts says the Wall Street Jour nal.
 "The interior movement of grain for the past four years has averaged somewhat more than soc, 900 bushels. This togeth- CT with flour would make 9OO,ooo,0O0 bushels Consequently somewhat less than half of the entire movement to primary markets comes to the seaboard for domes tic consumption and export This traffic comprises one of the largest items in the railway operations of the country.
 ''The railroads of the east and central portions of the United States are relying largely upon the contributions from farm products to improve their traffic between this and next spring. In view of the larg- CT crops of wheat, corn and oats, and the better outlook for most other farm products, the railroads rightfully anticipate larger tonnage for these sources than has been the case in recent years. It is not so much that the grain crops are in | a much better condition and thus more of the grain can be spared from the farm for markething than If pasturage, forage, vegetables and orchard products were in less favorable products"
 The railroads of the south well as those of the west, will be severely taxed before the year is over. The great cot ton crop will stimulate traffic in other lines, and between now and next spring the railroads will be almost as busy as | they were two years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
lookinu Ahead,

'The Elks are already looking forward with keen interest to the next annual meeting of the grand lodge in Los An geles," said member of the order who seldom fails to attend the big gathering. We had a pleasant time at Dallas, but Los Angeles is in most respects the con- vention city par excellence of the United States.
 Before many years it will come Bir- mingham's time to entertain the Elks. All we need is one more hotel. With grand, palatial hotel, in addition to the good hotels we have now, Birmingham could well take care of the grand lodge of Elks, with it's attendant throng. would suggest that just so soon as the talked-of sky -scraper hotel is definitely determined upon, an organized effort be made to bring the Elks here. It is safe to say the hotel project will materialize within the next two years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
The Liquor Traffic.

While the prohibition wave has had the effect of keeping down internal reve- nue receipts, the postoffice receipts show a large gain," said S. w. Barnes of Gin cinnati. ''The express business has grown at a rapid rate. and the soliciting letters alone, sent south by liquor deal CTS, greatly increases the volume of post office business
 Cincinnati, Louisville and intermediate cities are flooding the dry territory with mail. But mail orders for whisky from Georgia for home use are not as plenti- ful now, am told by liquor merchants as they were early in the year. This IS because the blind tiger traffic has so ex- tended recently that in Atlanta, SaVan- nah. Augusta and other Georgia cities the places selling beer and whisky are almost as numerous as they were before The prohibition statute went into effect. For the first two or three weeks In Jan uary prohibition came very near prohib- itirg, but gradually many prominent so1t drink stands became to all intents ana purposes saloons. and many man who keeps liquor on his sideboard no longer sends away for goods but finds it con- venient to buy them in his dry town. Nevertheless, the liquor orders by mall amount to an extensive business, and Cincinnati case goods dealers are doing d more thriving trade than ever before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28
SILENCE.

By Thomas Hood. There is silence where hath been no
 sound; There is a silence where no sound may
 be-
 In the cold grave-under the, deep, deep
 sea, Or in wide desert where no life Is found, Which hath been mute, and stlil must
 sleep profound. No voice is hushed-no life treads sil-
 ently, But clouds and cloudy shadows wander
 free, That never spoke, even the idle ground. But in green ruins, at the desolete walls Of antique palaces, where Man hath
 been, Though the dun fox, or wild hyena,
 calls, And owls, that fit continually between. Shriek to the echo, and the low winds
 moan. There the true Silence ts. self-conscious
 and alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28

country it means that the best judges of the home situation see that employ ment for them will be provided in the plants reopened by the country's great crops. These plants will invite immi- grafton, and every employed man is creator of more wealth and more pros- perity.
 The return wave of immigration will prove almost a good barometer Of general business. Big crops, heavy orders for goods and returning immi- grants seem to be coming together to re-establish activity and prosperity and general confidence.