The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20


peared in the daily newspapers the morning
after Inauguration day. In it he tells why
I believe in the kind of journalism for which
the Outlook stands" His close acquaintance
with the staff of that paper began when he was
Governor of New York.
THE NEW tariff bill was introduced into the
House of Representatives on Wednesday. 1t will
create an estimated annual revenue of $500, 0OO,-
600, an increase of about s50000,0O0 compared
with the pretent tariff. One of the most i'm
portant features is an inheritance tax estimated
to bring in about $40, 600 900 annually. The
internal revenue tax on cigarettes is increased
from SO to $500 and from s1.00 to $3.50 per
thousand. Beer and whisky are not touched.
Coffee is on the free list but tea is taxed
cents per pound and 8 cents when brought in
from other than the producing country. A
large number of articles are put on the free
list, but the bill imposes an average maximum
duty 20 per cent in excess of the present tariff.
A BILL has been introduced in the Legisla-
ture of Maine to pension unmarried women
after certain age, at the expense of bachelors
and widowers. The bill is entitled IAN act to
impose a tax on unmarried men of 30 years and
upward for the benefit of spinsters of 40 years
and upward who have never received an offer
of marriage" 1t provides that the tax shall
be collected in the same manner as poll taxes
and shall be disbursed to spinsters who have
reached the age of 40 years who have not re-
fused any reasonable offer of marriage.
Reasonable" offers are held to be any pro-
posal of matrimony made in good faith by any
man who is not an inmate of an insane asylum
and who has not been convicted of felony or
infamous crime. No benefit exceeding 500
year is to be paid to any spinster.
Dr. JOSEPH RUTER OWENS mayor of Hyatts
vile for three terms and treasurer of the Mary
land Agricultural College since $780, died at
his home in Hyattsville, on Monday night last,
after long Illness He was born in Balti-
more in 1889 and spent his entire life in this
State. He removed to Hyattsville in 1885 and
accepted the position of chief clerk of the
claims divisions of the Treasury Department,
Washington. He kept this Office until 1890,
when he was named as treasurer of the Mary
land Agricultural College, which position he
filled until the time of his death. Dr. Owens
was a gentleman of the old school and had
warmly attached friends throughout this State
His wife, who survives him. is sister of Mr..
Charles A. Councilman, of Baltimore county.
He is also survived by several children.
In ITS last issue the New York Independent
in an editorial on 1.-THE Cabinet" said: 1.-THE
politician of the Cabinet is Mr. Hitchcock,
who succeeds Mr. Meyer as Postmaster General,
and comes from the same State of Massachu-
setts And yet we sincerely hope that the
Postofice is to be less and less political ma
chine 1t is great business; and business
and politics are incompatible. II he will for
get that he has managed great political cam
paign, and will try to make the Department
serve the people, and can extend its province,
as so often recommended, he may win honor
equal to that of the highest of his older asso-
ciates. 1t is q disgrace that our Postotfice
should be more backward than in any other
of the great countries. 1t is rival business
selfshness that prevents its better service"
Mr.. DANIEL RIDER, very successful and
highly respected commission merchant, COM
mitted suicide at his home, 2905 St. Paul street,
SAOOe
ing himself through the head. Mr.. Rider had
been in delicate health for some time and had
partially given up his business to recuperate,
but his efforts in this direction were without
satisfactory results and it is believed that de-
preston of mind over his physical troubles
led him to commit the act. For many years
Mr.. Rider had been engaged in the grain and
feed business at the corner of Greenmount
avenue and Eager street and was known to
thousands of Baltimore and Hartford county
people. He was member of the old Corn and
Flour Exchange and the Chamber of Com
merce, and had served as director of the lat
ter. His two sons-Messrs w. Whitridge
Rider and Daniel Rider, Jr.-had been engaged
in business with their father nearly year.
He is also survived by his widow and two
daughters-Mrs. Alfred T. Hoen and Mrs.
Conn, wife of Lieut.. VIM. T. Conn, Jr., of the
U. s. Navy.
THE ADVENT of the automobile has brought
about new road conditions 1t has been pro.