The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-01

MORE COUNTY UNION. If they fail to
give such order the business may be
diverted into other channels.
The oFFIcE-sEEKERs have been making 1t
warm tor Governor Crotbers in Annapolis this
week. They have been assailing him from all
sides. but he stands the rush with remarkable
fortitude and seems to take it all as matter Of
course. If be is not remarkably even tenn
pered man be is conducting himself in manner
that stamps him as one among thousands.
LAST YEAR the people Of the United States
spent 1915, 600, 900 for electrical manufactures,
yet many men still in active business remem-
Der the time when some simple instruments
in college laboratories without practical utility
covered the whole field of electrical knowledge.
The world is unable to define electricity, but
has learned much about what may be done
with it.
Mr.. R. CARLL Foster, popular young law
yer and a member of the firm of Foster &
Foster, died Of typhoid fever at his home In
Baltimore, last Monday. aged 33 years. He
had been sick about six weeks He is survived
by widow, who was Miss futile, of Boston.
Deceased was a son of Mr.. Reuben Foster, a
gentleman well known in the business circles
Of Baltimore.
PERHAPS THE biggest set of scamps that ever
banded together to rob State, were put on trisl
at Harrisburg this week for conspiracy in
stealing from Pennsylvania immense sums Of
money in the construction Of the new State
House. The details of these robberies show
the most barefaced acts to get money BY un-
derhand means, and one of the worst features
about the matter is that prominent State
officials were concerned in the stealing.
CHIEF ENenEER GEORGE W. Horror, Of
the Baltimore City Fire Department, who was
seriously injured at the fire which destroyed
the REGISTER building on Holiday street. is
slowly recovering. Three men lost their lives
BY the falling of wall and about twenty were
injured. Mr.. Horton was born in Baltimore
in 1916 and began his service in the fire depart
ment when be was 16 years of age He has
held every position that an active fire.
man could and earned his present position
entirely through merit. His death would have
been q severe blow to the department.
A LETTER from Annapolis dated January
9th said: "a large delegation, representing
various business, commerclal ana cnaritable
organizations, appeared before Governor
Crothers today and were given hearing on
the appointment of the Chief of the Maryland
Bureau of Statistics and the assistant, as we'll
as the subordinates in the bureau" This posi-
ton is held by Mr.. Charles j. Fox, of Balti
more county, and while it is said change in
the head of the department is desired, no
charges were filed against Mr.. Fox. He is
chairman Of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee Of this county.
MIR. POTTER, third vice president of the B.
& o. Railroad Company. who has charge of
the operation of the road has issued a strin.
gent order against the use of intoxicating
liquors by those who have anything do with
the direction or running of trains. The order
provides that those so employed are not to use
Intoxicating liquor at any time hereafter,
whether they be on or off duty. Noexception
viii be made to this rule. and no one disobey.
ing it will be tolerated in the service. 1t is be-
lieved BY the management of the road that
this is an important step toward reducing the
number Of accidents to the minimum and to
raise the efficiency of the service and the safety
of patrons.
AFTER SUFFERING excruciating pain in his
head for twenty-five years, Louis Wolfson, Of
Cincinnati. has secured relief by having the sur
geons cut out two nerves. The pain was above
the eyes and at the temples and required four or
five times a week. He had consulted the lead
ing specialists, tried medicines. various forms
Of massage and electrical treatment in vain.
The two offending nerves, one on each side,
were between l and 2 inches long and about
as thick as pin. They are termed sensory
nerves-that is, nerves which give the sense of
feeling and not control of the movements of
muscles. The headaches have not returned
since the operation. Local surgeons say this
is the first case of the kind on record.
ACCORDING TO figures compiled by the North
German Lloyd line, $40. OOO, 900 was taken out
of the United States last year by aliens return
ing to their former homes in Europe. This
computation is based on figures furnished-by
steamship agents. money changers and others
in position to be informed, and is made on
the assumption that the average amount
carried by returning foreigners is $500, and
that 550,045 immigrants returned to their
native land. 1t is estimated that this $500 will
maintain him in absolute idleness for year
or more, and when the money is gone he will
return. peculiar fact is that the returning
alien will not accept anything for his Ameri-
can savings except the gold of his own country.
Dr.. WILEY, chief of the Bureau of Chemis-
try of the Department of Agriculture, in his
report to the House Committee on Agriculture
on the results of experiments to determine the
poisonous effects of borax benzoic acid, ben
zoate of soda. sulphate of copper, sulphur
dioxide, formaldehyde and salycilic acid when
contained in foodstuffs, says that the expulsion
of the drugs from the body is performed almost
entirely by the kidneys and that he is satisfied
the term of American life would be heightened
if the use of such drugs in foods were wholly
discontinued. He says he is convinced that
kidney disease, so prevalent among Americans,
is partly the result of constant introduction
into the system of such preservative substances
as benzoate Of soda. carried in foods.
THAT THERE will eventually be conflict be-
tween the yellow and the white races that will
shake the earth is the opinion Of Justice Harlan,
of the United States Supreme Court, as express
60 IN aLl duuTcSS UclOIc Ano Navy AcnSuo ~
Washington. He said: IF l had the oppor
tunity 1 would vote for an appropriation of
$5OOOO,O 600 year for period of ten years for
q larger navy. There is DO such thing as
friendship between nations as between men.
Nations make no sacrifice to preserve friend
ships, and do not forbear to do certain things
because they do not meet with the approval of
other nations. We refer to the people of Asia
as the yellow race. There are 100000, 900
Chinese as strong mentally and physically as
we are. We have no hostility toward them
but there will be a conflict between the yellow
race and the white race that will shake the
earth. When it comes I want to see this
country with navy on both oceans that will
be strong enough"