The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-06


thousands of people and had large circle of
warmly attached friends.
If HE retains the Office year longer Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson will hold the Cabi.
net record in length of service. In point of |
valuable work performed his rank will be en-
tirely satisfactory.
THE HEAD of the Government Weather |
Bureau declares in a lecture that the great |
variety of atmospheric changes in this coun-
try is invigorating and accounts for the back
bone of the American people. This is good
news if true, for the supply is inexhaustible.
THE CARRIAGES and stable trappings of Presi-
dent Roosevelt were sold at auction in Wash
ington last Saturday. A landau that cost
2,4OO brought only $3.50, which was the highest
price received for any article sold. Strict
orders were given at the White House that
nothing should be said at the auction room
where the articles came from.
THE New YORK Lunacy Commission has
ordered study of methods for the prevention
of insanity as it found that 60 per cent. of the
insane in that State have hereditary tendencies.
1t is believed that much may be done in modi-
flying the environment so as to defeat the ten
denotes in certain families in which lunacy
runs. The head of the commission says that
they propose to make such Improvements in
the food occupation and education of persons
suspected of hereditary faint as to cause them
to leave off all dissipation.
DR.. ]. H. KELLOGG, head of the Battle Creek
Sanitarium, says in Good Health that the fast
ing fad is growing. On the whole, he thinks
it is not doing much harm, as people generally
eat too much, and, while admitting that there
is benefit to be gained by fasting. says there
are also dangers attendant upon it. He says
it is error to suppose that fasting is the only
means of purifying the blood and that there is
some evidence tending to show that fasting
actually increases the pollution of the blood
by crippling the action of the intestines.
AT CINCINNATI in the Scottish Rite Cathedral,
about 500 members of the Masonic order from
all parts of the country witnessed the ceremony
of taking President Taft into the Kilwinning
Lodge, of which his father was master, and
in which his brother, C. P. Taft, is member.
The President was made master Mason at
sight, =" which means that he was advanced in
forty minutes to station which the ordinary
candidate would not get short of three months.
After the ceremony he gave the visitors re-
ception at his house and at night attended
Masonic ball.
In THE Parkside Presbyterian Church of
Brooklyn, N. Y, lately thirty.fv men from
the army of the unemployed offered their SER
vices at auction to the highest bidder, under
the direction of Rev. John D. Long, pastor
of the church. The men wore masks and were
tagged with numbers, and twelve of them were
given good jobs, while the rest found relief
from a subscription. All were apparently of
good physique, and most of them were skilled
workers. The object of the auction was to
show that the army of the unemployed was
greater than the public had believed
A JOINT committee of the Wisconsin Legsla-
ture has been instructed to investigate the
primary election of last September, which re-
suited in the nomination of Senator Stephen
son to succeed himself as a Republican. This
inquiry is the outcome of charges of bribery
made against the nominee. The Senator told
the committee that he had left the primary
expenditures largely to the State chairman,
but that in some cases he had employed work.
ers. His agents were not restricted except to
keep within the law. His contributions to
churches, he said, healways made, whether he
was running for office or not. He expended
over 100000 in the campaign.
ABOUT TWO thousand "kickers," represent
ing many of the counties in the State, appeared
before the Good Roads Commission in Balt-
more last Friday to enter protests against the
action of the Commission in selecting the
roads that are to be improved by State aid.
The largest delegation was from Baltimore
county where the battle over the route to
Belar has been waged the hottest. From 300
to 500 of these crowded before the Commission
at the Fourth Regiment Armory. Among
those from this county who spoke were DR.. j.
F. H. Gorsuch and Messrs. Asa B. Gardiner,
Jr., Charles A. Councilman, H. G. Luttger-
ding, G. Ross Mace and Maj. Thomas B. Catch.
The principal contention was over the Belair
road, the Hartford road people putting up
strong fight against the selection of that thor
oughfare as State road.
ACCORDING TO a Government census bulletin
in 1907 the telephone and telegraph companies
purchased 2,311 ,651 poles, or 65.9 per cent. of
the total. This was S4,O71 poles less than in
1906. The electric railroads and electric light
companies bought 901, $50 poles, or 257 per
cent of the total The purchase of these COM
panies decreased by %, III poles. On the other
hand, the purchases of the steam railroad COM
panies in 1907 increased by 40,520 over those
in 1906. In 1907 the highest average cost is
shown for the poles purchased by the electric
railroads, and electric light and power COM
panies, $602. Although the number of poles
purchased by these companies was far below
the number purchased by the telephone and
telegraph companies, the high average cost
caused the total cost of the purchases of the
former to constitute over half the total cost of
all poles purchased. Evidently all this shows
the wisdom of the late Stirling Morton sadvice
-"plant tree"
On SATURDAY night last the Department of |
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