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The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

the pins and buttons, and striped blue
elastic, and boxes Of cheap thimblcs, and
the cardboard notices stamped foi
working in silk, graced the glass case
once more.
The same limited number of custom
ers dropped in, and Emma served be-
hind the counter, and washed dishes in
the back room. She was very, very
wretched, and life looking dark indeed
to her.
Old Mrs. Hunt and Thomas still lived
on the upper floor. The old grand
mother told Mrs. Hacker that Tom was
beginning TO like Fanny Earle, the hair
dresser's pretty daughter.
Sometimes Tom would pass the win
dow, but he never looked toward II.
Emma used to sit behind the counter
thinking Of him. What lover she had
had, and she had cast him away for a
fortune-hunter. Her verdict was that
she deserved punishment, and she was
very sad and very meek.
She expected nothing now but to die
an old maid, living behind that little
shop counter, and never having any adj
miration or attention again.
In this mood she sat beside her mother
one winter evening. The table was
spread with the thick stone china; the
brown teapo, and the pan of sausage
Kissed on the stove. The door stood
open between the shop and the parlor
All that had happened since might have
teen 4 dream, and it might have been
the same night, year before, when the
letter had come to them which had made
such changes, and Emma had even poured
out the second cup OF tea for her mother,
when the door into the hall creaked, and
looking up, she saw Tom, big and brown
rs ever, with such look in his eyes
But it c,uld not be for her; she did not
deserve it. And Emma dropped her
head upon her hands and burst into tears.
Then she felt Tom knccl down beside
her and put his arm around her waist.
"Look at me, Emma" he whispered.
"Look at me, my dear. ] cannot bear
it any more. never can help loving
you, and for all that's come and gone,
] believe YOU do love me a little"
Then Emma found courage to put her
hands upon his shoulders and whisper:
"Oh, Tom, believe l do"
They were married in n very little
while, and il was only after the wedding
tha; old Mrs. Hacker, with very sol
cmn face, informed them that she had a
confession IN p,atc
81 haven't lost my money a, all, my
dcars," she said. "I'm half afraid OF
it, for it seemed to bring unhappiness
with it. Yc, still il is comfortable to be
rich. And now you arc married to an
honest man, that chose you when you
were poor, my dear, We might rs well
make the most Of il, and all go over to-
gethcr-Granny Hunt and ALTO the
big house the servants are keeping for
us, thinking we're off on journey. ]
shall never blame myself, and ] don't
think any of you will blame me, either.
Tom looked at Emma, but she only
threw her arms about his neck and hid
her face in his bosom and said:
"I'he money cannot make me any
happier than ! am, Tom"
And even Grandmother Hunt de-
clared: ."Thc house don't seem too fine
TO me- now, for there's love in il, and
truth in it, and my Tom is as happy as
the day."
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05
WHOLE No. S39.

the clothing Of women can be made over
to suit new fashions year after year
Their laces and ribbons, feathers and
trimmings Of all kinds, reappeared con-
stantly in new forms. II woman has
a splendid wedding dress, for instance,
she keeps it for years and wears it on
state occasions. But a mans wedding
suit must be worn out before it goes out
Of fashion. Among the poorer classes
the women always dress better than the.
men in the same station in life. They
will seize upon fashionable style and
make up old materials in the new shape
with marvellous aptitude. Men do moth
ing Of this kind, and that is the reason
why, as a rule, they do not follow the
fashions as scrupuiuusiv Is women
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05
MARK ANToNY's GRAFTON OVER
CESAR.
The Text from Which Shakespeare Wrote
His Version.

Friends, Romans, eountrymen. lend me your ears
will return them next Saturday. ! come
To bury Caesar, because the times are hard,
And his folks can't afford 90 hire an undertaken.
The evil that men do live after them,
In the shape Of progeny, who reap the
benefit Of their life Insurance;
So let Il be with the deceased.
Brutus hath told you Cesar was ambitious!
What does Brutus know about itl
II 10 mono Of his funeral. Would that e werel
Here, under leave Of you, come TO
Make q speech Mt Cnsar's funeral.
lilo was my friend, faithful and just TO me;
lle loaned me IS once when was In pinch,
And signed my petition for . postofhee,
hut brutus said he was ambitious.
Brutus should wipe or his Chin
Cesar hath brought many eaptives home TO Rome,
Who broke rocks the streets until their
Did the general Golfers gu.
When that the poor hath cried, Cgsar hath wept,
Because it didn't cost any ything, and
Made him solid with the masses; tCheers.
Ambition should be made cf sterner stufF,
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious
Brutus is liar. and can prove 10.
You all did see that upon the LupereAl
thrice presented him with kingly crown,
Which lie did thrice refuse. because IL did not IL
him quite.
Was this ambitious. Yet Brutus says he was am
bilious:
Brutus not only the biggest liar in the country
But he Is horse thief of the deepest dye! Zap
plause.
II you have tears, prepare Ia she'd them now:
You NIL know this ulster!
! remember the frat time Cesar ever put IL on;
II was summers evening in his tent,
And tie thermometer registered ninety degrees In
the shade:
hut IL an ulster TO he proud of.
And cost him 81 u; Marcaiu, SwartImytr's;
Old SwartE wanted $40 for II.
Hut finally came down 10 : a. hccause IL was Cm,nr
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

nJThe first actual model Of steam
carriage Of which we have any written
account, was constructed by French
man, named Cugnot, who exhibited il
before the Marshal de SAKE in I763.-
The first English model Of a steam car
riagc was made in 1884 by William
Murdoch, the friend and assistant of
Watts.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

4 FALL OF "BLAcK" SNow.-A fall
of black snow is the latcs; sensation in
Pennsylvania. The Mt. PlcaSan; TTmrs
SAYS that persons from Laurel Hill re-
port 4 queer story from that section
tha; of the falling of black snow which
occurred last week. The snow fell TO
the depth OF half an inch, and instead
Of the usually white, fiaky element il was
dark and sooty in color. Immediately
following the descent OF the snow fami-
lies residing IN the ncighborhood were
attacked with sore throat and the young
er portion with measles. The theory
advanced is that the smoke, SCOT and
other impurities from the hundreds OF
coke ovens in this vicinity had been col
lec;rd in the atmosphere ard by an un-
usual direction OF the wind had been
driven to laurel Hill and fell, mingled
with n snow-storm. That the measles
and sore throat that followed was due 20
the fact Of these sooty PARTICLES collect
ing and retaining germs Of the diseases
at Mt. Pleasant and vicinity, and con-
Eliminating the atmosphere where they
fell.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

kzsrThe first iron rails for road bed
were laid down At Whitehaven. England,
in 1873. This cast iron road was call
ed ''plaie way" from the plate-like
form in which the rails were cast.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

b1The first grand jury in America
met AZ BoSiOn, September Ist, 1855, and
presented one hundred offences.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

sTThe first degree Of Doctor Of
Divinity conferred at Harvard was con-
ferred upon Rev. Increase Mather, in
1909, then President Of the University.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

ng Theearliest institution for savings
OF any kind was established in Berne,
Switzerland, in 1857.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

rD-The first attempt TO establish
post office system in the American COL
onies was made in 1905, by one Thomas
Neale, to whom a royal patent for this
purpose had been issued but his ar
engagements were very limited and inn
perfect. The utmost contemplated by
Neale was post Office in each county,
and his actual operations came short Of
this
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

r2-The first mint in the United
States was put in operation in I7os, and
from that time until 1857 the whole
amount Of gold coined was salued At
s4SI, ,47,, ,o7S. 70; value OF silver coinage
sIo7,5s7,9I7.5s; value Of copper coin
age sI,55s,7s3.5S: making the valua-
ton OF the whole coinage S5S0,6Is,-
$40. rs. The whole number of pieces
coined in this time was 6sS,6Io,40o
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05

bGThc first insurance Office in New
England was established at Boston in
ISz5.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05
SHEPARD G. MILLER.
Real Estate Broker q Property Agent.
10 Lexington Street. nsar Calvert,
BALTIMORE, Nh.

Controlling . large amount 20 invest will lend
you any desired from 500 10 900, or over,
20 suit, At per cent, from one 10 hvc years, on
city or county property, With interest payable
every six months. Call % see him write 10 him
90 borrow money to pay OF all high rate mort.
cages. Five and per cent. paid for wcll-seeured
ground rents. tAug.7, soy.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05
III l.. BOWEN,
Real Estate Agent, Conveyaucer
and Collector or House and
Ground Rents. tA

B-L0AES TgD.wn
NO. . sMEDLEY ROW T0Ws0NT0WE
GD-Frss eonEeysness forthOss desiring 10 look
ct property. rJan. 22,'ely.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05
GEO. n. MATTHEW'S & co.,
VI Real Estate Broker.

ONee No. % Le<iagtoa Street,
ID door west Of 81. Paul ST.. BALTIMORE.
Houses, Ground Rents. Farms. Country Seats,
&e., Bought, Sold and Exchanged. Money Loaned
on Mortgage In sums 10 suit. Ground Leased,
Houses Rented, Collections Made. &e. Al basi-
mess connected with Real Estate will be promptly
attended 10. fApril 10, ,'sO.--ly.
The Baltimore County union., 1881-02-05
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
from the Louisville cOurior-JOurnai.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Lincoln's early youth was spent in
Spencer county, Ind, above Rockport,
4 beautiful little city crowning the abrupt
cliffs which frown over the Ohio River.
Hewas faithful and industrious, but there
was in him 4 latent Incidence which
made him fond OF taking his rod to fish,
or with his gun upon his shoulder, he
would oam in search of game over the
long, low hills bursting with red clay.
There are living at present several old
citizens who knew Lincoln well at that
time. He was thoughtful and his soli-
tary expeditions probably gave him plen-
ty of opportunity to indulge his mcdita-
tive faculties. This is description of
his appearance then: Hislong, lank legs
under an awkward body; his homely
face upon which the prominent nose
stood like handle; his long hair dang
ling upon his shoulders, bring up in
stan,ly the picture Of Ichabod Crane in
the twilight stealing over the hills OF
Sleepy Hollow to pay his court to Fraue-
lcin Katrina Won Tasscl.
The embryo statesman was full of
spirit and fond of mad pranks. One old
gentleman in Rockpori lives to tell Of
the last time he saw Lincoln. He was
visiting the Lincoln homestead, and as
he was coming away they found tres
passing COW hanging about the gate
The COW had given the Lincolns much
annoyance by entering their garden and
committing dcprcdations. Young Abe
WAS dressed in sui, Of jeans, without any
coat, a. it was summer time, and on his
head he wore broad. .brimmed white
straw hat, part of which was cracked and
broken. Finding the COW standing hypo-
critically meek At the gate, young Abe
leaped asiride of her back, and, digging
his bare heels into her sides, the aston
ished animal broke away down the road
in numbering gallop. "'rhe last ! saw
OF Abe Lincoln" TIE old gentleman re-
latcs fondly, ''hc was swinging his hat,
shouting at the top Of his voice and gsi-
Looping down the road on that thunder
struck cow"
In the old country church near the
Lincoln place is 4 pulpit which was made
By Abe Lincoln and his father. There
is bookcase in the Evansville Custom
House made by the same carpenters and
taken there for preservation. Near where
the old house stood is dilapidaied corn
crib with raj! floor, the rails for which
were split by young Lincoln. Las, fall
monument was raised over Nancy Lin
coins grave through the efforts of Gen.
Nea;ch, Of Rockpor;. II is plain slab
with plain inscription.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19
Longfellow's Birthplace.
A Visit to the Maine Mansion Where the
Greatest Of American Poets was Born.



Longfellow's birthplace in Portland is . Gu
rious study of old and new. Seeing photo
graphs of it appended to his portrait, we in
quired where it might be found, and were di-
rected to descend from the billy business quar-
ter down to the old region of narrow circular
streets along the harbors edge. There once
abided Portland when it was . town of wood
houses and of elns, Of summer roads and YES
sells on the stocks, rampant over the waters.
Now the railroad creeps along the harbor's
rim, the wharves smell and stew, and respec-
table families have generally built on the plat
eau, away beyond the modern promenade
town.
The Longfellow house is very large, three
story, oblong mansion, sixty feet by forty, and
with back buildings OF impressiyeness. stand
ing on corner In the most desecrated quarter,
with one door in the end one in front, and an
other on the large, barn-like side yard, behind
which are stable, teol-houses, possibly old Jaw
yers' or business offices, making background
not unlike negro quarters at some Southern
villa. The roof ON the main mansion is four
sloping, and four long red chimneys point from
it. The house is trimmed with red paint.
Green Venetian shutters darken its many win
dows. A sort of shed adjoins the main portal
on bu6 Str6ot. NO sudu0 Is lmIuouldtoiy u0Ak
it, but on a neighboring corner some largo
elms lean, as If waiting for their old friend,
the poet, to re-appsar these many years.
Shackly spaciousness, large and shabby gen.
teel, is the carriage Of the great old dwelling.
Right opposite it is railroad und-house. with
big dome, and the circular street aforesaid
shows at one view other residences like this, of
former day, still in good use, and in the 9TH
er view a line of shingled cooper-shops and de-
serted shipyards and gates to old wharves.
The very yellow paint, little dingy on the
old Longfellow roost, seems to say: "This is
my last suit. God knows when will get
anotherl"
We could see in this thin-planked, wide
ranking yellow house that the proprietor OF IL
had been a man of substance. He was, in
deed, public man as we'll as man of busi-
ness, and able to do the proper thing by his
careful, neat-fngered son.
AS we made the turn Of the Longfellow
dwelling we asked one or two of the inmates
if Mr.. Longfellow was not born there. They
looked at us vacantly and indicated an old
Irishwoman sitting in the side doorway Of tho
kitchen part as the party probable to know.
This female, with pair Of red arms, was i'll
ling the doorway as she sat on its sill, and two
or three other tenants Of the practical old trap
stopped hanging clothes Of various colors on
the several clothes-lines across the yard and
gazed at the apparition Of q well-dressed man
coming up among the chips and offal, the
ducks and chickens and split wood and bits Of
rent fence, to ask q question.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19
A Critic on Criticism,
saturday Reyiew.1


The real mischief which even sound criti-
cism does is to check spontaneity. A writer
may be warned of a fault and may accept the
warning, but his natural power is abated for
the moment; he thinks of his PAGES, and, if we
may say 30, is thrown out Of his stride. But
this sort of effect soon passes away, and the re-
suits of criticism may, in the long run, prove
salutary. That righteous judgment does not
interfere with a bad books vogue we see every
day in the illustrious example of certain nov
elists. To take an example of the other sort,
powerful critic long ago informed the author
of A Daughter Of Heth that, whatever he
might succeed in, one field was closed against
him-the field of fiction. But this prophesy
has been eminently unfulflled Again, it often
happens that new book, novel or poem is
very much to the taste of the critics. The
press is unanimous in its praise. The authors
heart rejoices he looks forward to many edi-
tions, and thinks that even on the system of
"hah profits" there must be money for him.
But the public has not agreed with the review
ers, and the publishers books snow sale Of
some fifty copies and an alarming deficit
Authors should reflect on these verities, and
so learn to bear criticism without screaming
aloud or writhing in silent anguish. And yet,
though no one knows better than the critic the
truths which we have advanced, IL is probable
that the critics, next to. really great poets,
themselves suffer most keenly from unfavor-
able reviews. These are the amiable inconsis-
tences of human nature
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19
A Railroad Pro Bono Publico.

There was one passenger-a woman-on
Louisville and Nashville railroad train, the
other day, who evidently believed that rail-
roads were made for the people, and not the
people for the railroads. By some untoward
mischance she dropped her artificial teeth
from the car window. The thought of going
among her friends at Nashville ALI toothless
was not to be endured, so she summoned the
conductor and ordered that the train be taken
back to Louisville, or to the nearest town
where dentist was to be found. The conduc-
tor demurred, and finally compromised the
matter by stopping the train five minutes
while the woman's husband ran back to hunt
up the teeth. When this time expired he had
not returned, and the train was started on
without him. Forthwith the wife sought the
conductor and demanded that it be stopped,
that she might get off and stay with her hus-
band. The conductor hesitated The wife re-
marked, "Stop this train and put me off or I'll
put bullet through you" Here was business,
and the train was backed to the place where
the husband was, and he got on again, but
without finding the missing treasure: Then
the wife insisted that the train be turned
around and go back to Louisville" Thls the
conductor, having locked himself in the bag
gage car to avoid the threatened bullet, re-
fused to do, and the train went on with its
toothless but irate passenger. On reaching the
next station an offer of reward for the recovery
Of the teeth was telsgraphed back, and they
were found and sent on by the next train.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19
This Wonderful Nation.
Big Men, Big Snakes, Big Vines, Big Ages,
Big Lies.

From veracious Exchanges
John Jacob Wier died at Mansfield, o., last
week, aged 101 years.
Bellefontaine, o., has a cslored boy Is years
old who weighs 225 pounds.
Mrs. Susanna Shafer, colored, living near
Carthagena, Ohio is over 1O2 years old.
In Boone County, Indiana, the wolf bounty
upon full grown wolves has been raised from
$40 to $15.
A Canton, ILL.,, butcher found in q cows
paunch he butchered last week few nails,
screws, and an emblematic pin of the G. A.
R.
Mr.. Henry Gatlin of Clinch County, Ga,
killed buck the other day weighing 1s0
pounds, and having eight points to each antler.
A willow tree in Bristol, N. H., measures "a
feet 8 inches in circumference one foot from
the ground and is Is feet 3 inches nine feet
from the ground.
Officer w. III. Griffith, while fishing day or
two ago at Green's mill-pond, Ga, killed .
rattle snake measuring II feet in length and
about 10 inches in circumference, which sport
ed 10 rattles and button.
Messrs. Sam Arnold and James Jones killed
black bear on Tuesday in the Ocmulgee, Ga,
swamps. The animal weighed about four hum
dred pounds. When discovered he was enjoy
ing feast of green corn.
Nick Overmier of San Diego, CAL, says that
the jack rabbits and the deer are eating up all
the orchards in his sneighborhood. Old velvety
horn bucks just pass up into an apple tree and
clean out the whole thing-apples and limbs.
On Mr.. Reid's island, in the Chattahoochee
river, there is volunteer watermelon vine,
having radius Of twenty-five feet, making .
diameter of fifty feet. This, being multiplied
by 3,1416, gives circumference Of 1877 feet. It's
size at the root is about that of . mans arm.
A lady was getting dinner in Americus, and
while she was busy at the stove heard some
thing fall on the kitchen floor behind her.
Turning her head, she was Mortified to see .
large rattlesnake lying on the floor. His snake
ship crawled out and disappeared under the
kitchen.
The Meriwether (Georgia) Nimrod, Henry h.
Harris, caught veritable wild cat last Satur-
day. The monster cat weighed twenty-seven
pounds, measured three feet eight inches in
length, and had tusks three-fourrhs Of an inch
long. The colored town butcher, Willis JOS
sey, who saw numerous wildcats in his youth
and claims to be authority In matters relating
to the wildcat tribe, says the cat was about u
years old.
An engineer on the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad approaching a wood rack where he
had TO stop, noticed an OK running after the
train. Stopping to take wood, the OK came up
to the tender, and remained standing very close
thereto. The engineer said to the fireman, T
of the tank" The fireman being afraid of
him, the engineer drew from the tank q buck
ct full, and the OK eagerly gulped it down,
bucket after bucket, until he had emptied
large railroad" bucket three times, when he
stepped off a few PAGES, turned round and
bowed his head as much as to say, Thank
you, sirl'
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19

A MISSISSIPPI correspondent has been in
vestigating the reading habit of the South
ern people, and finds that Is per cent. of the
bookstore trade at the South is in school
books; 10 per cent. in professional books; 5
per cent. in cheaply bound fiction, leaving
only 10 per cent. for general literature, such
as poetry, travel, fiction, history, etc. OF
the latter women are the principal buyers.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19

THE fall wheat crop of Illinois shows a
falling off of about SO per cent. from the
crop of last year, and is probably the worst
in quality and quantity grown in the State
for twenty years. The crop of this year will
not dishearten the farmers of the State,
however, and it is probable that larger
area will be sown this fall than ever before.
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19

SPEAKING of the dynamite and clockwork
packed in Cement" (" the London News
says: "We may reckon on the cordial CO.
operation of the Government of the United
States. Though in regard to words spoken
or written America ha- always shown the
strongest reluctance, with which we have
considerable sympathy, to interfere with
the utmost license of individual eccentricity,
her statesmen have always drawn the line
at overt acts directed against friendly
Power. Even apart from any such sound
and wholesome political doctrine, the ordi-
nary dictates of humanity, the first princi-
pies of civilized life, would be sufficient to
condemn any connivance, direct or indirect,
with the abominable traffic now disclosed"
The Portland daily press., 1881-08-19
The New York Glove Fight

Those journals given over to Democracy
and other ills are very angry because the
New York Republicans have ceased calling
each other "stalwarts'' and "half-breeds,"
and are getting ready to carry the State next
fall. The reconciliation is bitter disap-
pointment to the Democrats; but they have
brought it upon themselves. They ought to
have learned before this time that these
little spats between Republicans are only
lovers quarrels, and strengthen mutual
confidence and esteem instead of weaken
ing them. The Republican party in New
York has only been practicing. 1t went
into training at Albany. The leaders put
on the gloves and had a lively match. That
was all there was to ii. They were getting
into condition for the tussle with the De-
mocracy in November.
The Republicans are in excellent condi-
tion now. The exercise! has done them
good and they are in fine fighting trim.
While their opponents have stood or
lounged about watching the friendly match
and thinking it deadly quarrel, they have
been hardening their flesh. Now they are
in prime condition for the real fight.