The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-01

from thirty days to year. In case of tattoo
ing or other Disagreement the penalty may be
fifteen years in the pententiary. Hazing in
that State is likely to be deprived of its sparkle
as an amusement.
On WEDNESDAY the Democratic State Gen.
trail Committee met in Baltimore and made
the preliminary arrangements for this years
campaign. The date for the State convention
is August I'd, and the place Baltimore city.
Chairman Vandiver made a characteristic
speech and resolutions were unanimously
adopted making the suffrage amendment the
dominant issue in the coming campaign.
WILLIAM F. Downs, the young City Hall
clerk arrested for the larceny of nearly $4,000
of Baltimore's cash, was arraigned in the
Criminal Court few days ago and plead not
guilty to thirty-five indictments. His counsel,
ex-Congressman Wolf, made an effort to have
the case removed to another court, but in this
he was unsuccessful. Downs still maintains
his innocence and tells his friends that he is
confident he will be acquitted.
For EXCELLENCE in track maintenance the
present year the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is to offer nearly S11 900 in prizes to track
employees. To make the record accurate gasses
of water will be placed on the sills of the in
spectors' car attached to the fast trains. and
every spill of water from the glasses will be
counted against the section of track where it
OCCURS In addition to this an instrument has
been devised which will register every vibra-
ton of the car vertically or horizontally.
THE NEW steamer Lapland, of the Red Star
line. arrived at New York, from a foreign port
on Monday and one of the newest of the new
things on board of her is department store
in charge of Miss Edith Broome, of South
Orange, N. ]. There were no bargain days
on the trip" a dispatch says, $50 Miss Broome
was quite able to handle the entire business
herself. Trade was good though, and. from
the sales made she said she was sure prosperity
had returned to America. OF course women
cannot buy dress goods, but everything pas
senger is likely to need on the voyage is to
be had"
In A conference a few days ago the Demo
cratic Senators decided to vote as a unit for
an amendment to the tariff bill imposing tax
of per cent. on incomes of 81, 200 year and
over and an amendment to this effect was pre-
pared by Senator Bailey. He estimated that
it would produce s0O,OOO.OOO year revenue
Senator Daniel wanted the conference to favor
his proposition to tax the gross earnings of cor
porations, but the.matter was not acted upon.
On motion of Senator McLaurin it was decided
to favor in general lower duties on the neces-
sites and make the needed increase on the
luxuries. They went on record as against any
tariff policy so deficient in revenue-producing
capacity as to require bond issue.
DR.. JOHN MARSHALL, professor of chemistry
at the University of Pennsylvania, in talk be-
fore a group of physicians at Philadelphia,
gave the result of five years research, the OBJ
ject of which was to identify the active toxic
principle in the rattlesnakes venom. While
he regards the discovery as almost made, be
says frankly that he has not as yet succeeded.
He did know, however, that most of the an
cient myths regarding the RATHER have no basis
in science. He says, for instance, that there
is no antidote for the rattler's poison and that
the popular methods of treatment are all wrong
and do no good. He says that whisky is not
an antidote and the only good it can do is in
some cases to prevent the patient from dying
of fright; that the snake can not inject enough
ofthe poison to kill an ordinary adult and that
deaths very seldom occur from snake bites.
The best known treatment, he says, is to suck
the wound, removing as much as possible of
the venom.
AT THE Montauk Club in Brooklyn, New
York, dinner was given in honor of the 10th
birthday of United States Senator Chauncey
M. Depew, who was the star speaker of the
evening. Among other things he said: ut
has been my privilege to know, more or less
intimately, Lincoln. Johnson, Grant, Hayes.
Garfield, Arthur. Cleveland, Harrison, Nc
Kinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Speaking only of
those who have Joined the majority, Lincoln
was the most human. He never posed as Pres
ident The most calmly courageous
regardless of personal consequences to himself
or his political future in asserting and acting
upon what he thought right, was Cleveland.
The most thorough master of Congress. because
of complete knowledge of its moods, peculiari-
ties and eccentricities, was Mckinley. Begin
with the dawn of history, search the encyclo-
pedias, exhaust their records of the centuries,
and then sum up and condense their results,
and they will seem insignificant compared
with the achievements of the last seventy.five
years. l stood as a boy in a crowd which
gathered from the countryside of fifty miles
around to witness the first locomotive come
into our village. Near me was a farmer sit.
ting in his wagon, and when the whistle blew
he jumped out and ran up the hill and his
horses after him. My recollection is that he
climbed the hill first. My highest ambition
then was to ride to New York on that road
1 little thought that I would become its
president"
ACCORDING TO Gen. Murray Vandiver, chair
man of the State Central Committee Mary
land Democrats will have to toe the mark ON
the suffrage amendment this year or lose their
party standing. In an interview few days
ago he said Every Democrat who claims to
be a Democrat will vote for the amendment.
If he says he is a Democrat and votes against
it, he is no Democrat and will not in the future
be regarded as Democrat, nor will he be en-
titled to any of the honors which it is within
the power of the Democratic party to bestow.
We are pretty tired of working hard and of