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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
ANOTHER LINCOLN STORY.

Mr.. Lincoln, says writer in the
Burlington HaUkeye, was one of the
rare takers who could always point
a moral with an adorning tale taken
out of his experience. Everybody
has experience if he only knows it.
Most of us are so much in the habit
of taking in wisdom and fun though
the printed page or story as another
man tells it that we lack the capacity
to see it for ourselves.
A story teller is the man who finds
his own material. An old southern
politician was moralizing thus few
nights ago and eulogizing the man
the South used to dislike.
"When Lincoln first came to Wash
ington 1 went to see him, SO prejudic-
ed against him beforehand that no
man with less genius could have over
come it. l left that first interview
his friend. No man ever came under
the charm of Lincoln's personality
without respecting him, and, if allow
ed, loving him.
Zone day, after we had became
fairly good friends, I told him of my
early prejudice.
Mr.. Lincoln, l said, I have
heard every mean thing on earth
about you except one. I never heard
that you were too fond of the pleas
ures of life.' Mr.. Lincoln sat for a
moment stroking his long cheek
thoughtfully, and then he drawled out
in his pecurliar western voice:
"'That reminds me of something
that a boy said to me when l was
about ten years old.
Once in a while my mother used
to get some sorghum and some gin
ger and mix us a batch of ginger
bread. 1t wasn't often, and it was
our biggest treat.
"'One day smelled it and came
into the house to get my share while
it was hot. 1 found she had baked
me three gingerbread men, and took
them out under a hickory tree to eat
them.
j" There was a family living near
us that was a little poorer than we
were, and their boy came along as l
sat down.
"'Abe,' he said, edging closer,
gimme man.
Il gave him one. He crammed
it into his mouth at two bites, and
looked at me while bit the leg off my
first one.
"tAbe, he said. gimme that 9th
er'n.'
"T wantedit, but gave it to him,
and as it followed the first one said :
You seem to like gingerbread
"'Abe, he said, earnestly, 1 don't
s'pose there's anybody in the world
likes gingerbread as we'll as | do,
and drawing sigh that brought up
body gifts less of it,"
And the old politician said Mr.. Lin
coin looked as though the subject was
ended.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
GOATS FOR MILKING.

In recent number of Lady War
wick's new journal, the addition of
the mich goat to the stock of the
small holding" is strongly advocated
by Mr.. F. Bate, who suggests the
Management of Nanny as suitable
occupation for women. Until re-
cendy," remarks Mr.. Bate, "the
valu6 of the goat was hardly realiz-
ed in England. A great deal has
been d0ne, however, during the last
rs years by the British Goat Society
to improve the breed of goats and
to make their value known" With
out in the very least rejecting upon
the accuracy of this statement, it may
safely be remarked, says another
agricultural writer, that they are,
even to-day, very few districts where
the value of the goat is realized, or
where the British Goat Society has
been so much as heard of in the or
binary way. The more is the pity,
for, as Mr.. Bate shows in his excel
lent article-which does not in the
least overstate the case-the claims of
the goat to a agreater sphere of useful
ness than has up to the present been
accorded it in England, are many and
strong. As Mr.. Bate puts the case
''The goat is clean, healthy, docile
and affectionate animal, suitable to
be cared for by women. 1t yields in
remunerative quantities delicious
milk, which is much richer in solids
than cows milk, giving a percentage
of butter fat from two to three times
greater than an average COW, and,
perhaps from the smallness of its fat
particles-much more digestible and
nourishing, and better suited to in
fants and invalids.
A good ni1ch goat, as Mr.. Bate
goes on to say, only costs to purchase
about a quarter or fifth as much as
a moderately good COW; it costs to
reed about a sixth as much and, as
already stated, its milk is far richer
than that of the COW. A further
quality which should help to win
Nanny much favor at the present
juncture is her resistibility to tuber-
lculosis. She is practically proof
suppression that the goat is an
4vil-smelling animal, and that her
milk emits strong and unpleasant
favor, is stated by Mr.. Bate to be an
erroneous one. The Objectionable
smell is restricted to Billy; and pro-
vided Nanny is restrained from feed
ing on pungent herbs or bark, her
milk will be as sweet as that of any
COW. Readers are advised to keep
only goats of the best breeds, and
cross bred Toggenburg and English
are recommended as excellent milk
ers and easy to obtain at moderate
nriceS. -
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
REMOVING A RING.

Most girls who have had baby rings
have had trouble in removing them
from their fingers. "There is really
no necessity for all this ado about re-
moving tight ring" said jeweler.
"In fact, as in everything else, the
secret of success lies in knowledge
how to do it. Here is recipe that
I have found unfailing for removing
a tight ring, and there is no painful
surgical operation involved either !:
Thread a needle fiat in the eye, us
ing thread that is strong, but not too
course, then pass the head of the nee
die under the ring. Care, of course,
must be used in this, and it would be
best to soap the needle before begin
ming. The needle having been pass
ed through, pull the thread through
a few inches toward the hand-so."
By this time the jeweler had pass
ed the needle and thread under the
ring on his own finger and was pre-
pairing to illustrate the little lecture.
Wrap the long end of the thread
around the finger toward the nail in
this manner, then take hold of the
short end and unwind it-so. The
thread, thus pressing against the ring,
will gradually remove it, however
tight or swollen the finger"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
BREAKING EVEN.

Excuse me, Brother Sogback, F."
said an Arkansas matron, who was
one of the High Pirates at the church
festival, addressing a determined
looking gentleman, who was CASTRO
Homizing at one of the tables, "but
are you--ah going to stop eating
pretty soon? You have your fifth
bowl of oyster stew now and-ah -"
"The case" replied Brother Sog-
back, with his mouth full, Stands
like this, Sister Katchall: You made
me pay in advance. 1 forked over
five dollar bill, and you sweetly told
me that, as it was for the benefit of
the church it was against the rules to
give any change back. So, now,
Sister, I'm going to keep right on
eatin' till one of the three things hap
pen-till the rules are amended for
my benefit, or l git my moneys
worth, or bust. That's the kind of a
man am, Sister Katchall."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
ABSOLUTELY NoTHIEGp

They had been discussing the earl1-
est age at which children Of tender
years first babble incoherent words.
The doctor had been silent until, by
common accord, everyone looked to
him to finish the discussion.
IT remember a curious case, he
began, dreamily, which you may be-
lieve or not, you please. | was call
ed in to see a poor child of some four
months, and found it past all aid.
Cannot you do anything for 1t,
doctor?' the mother asked, and l re-
Piled, Absolutely nothing You'll
hardly credit the fact that the child
looked up in my face and said, Alb
solutely nothing!' 1t tsound incredl-
BILE, know, but it is fact"
He rosejust then andwalked away,
while the smoking room crowd won
dered.
Then one saw it and began read
ing, and then another muttered some
thing severe. But the doctor had
gone.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
BREATHING TIME.

When trees are bare and fields are white, Il
when barns are full and hills are breezy,
stay in bed until it's light,
And take, yes, take things pretty easy.
When roads are packed and bells ring sweet
ride behind pair of clippers,
And come back to the chimney seat,
a pleasant book and cozy slippers.
'Tis true that city clerks might find
such day-lit ease almost alarming;
They seem to think perpetual grind
LIS but another name for farming.
wish that busy folk could see
For work and leisure life is ample,
The sleeping field and stream and tree
Present the very best example.
When Mother Natures on the hop
follow her without conflicting;
And when she says it's time to stop
never think of contradicting.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
WHEN A MANS A MAN.

Why do all newspaper writers,
when writing of a marriage, say that
the couple were pronounced man
and wife?" 1 admit that the bride
was not a wife until married; but
was not the bridegroom a man be-
fore he entered the marriage state?
Sincerely, QUER1sT.
No, no, no Ask any woman. No
male is more than half a man until
married. 1t requires matrimony to
round out his being. In some parts
of the country, when one man is in
troduced to another, the first query
is, "Glad to know you; married
man or dog?" And the answer is
DOG" if the one interrogated is a
bachelor, and "Man," if he happen
to have a wife. Victor Smith.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

THE blushing bride-elect was re-
hearsing the ceremony about to take
place.
"Of course, you will give me away,
papa !" she said.
"I'm afraid I have done it already,
Caroline" replied the old man nerv-
ously. IT told your Herbert this
morning you had disposition just
like your mothers"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

"YoU KNOW that lady who was
here yesterday who smelled SO strong
of perfume ?"
eyes, Eddie"
Well, isn't she one of the CO.
logenial dames?"
I'll guess SO"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

THE Kansas city journal says that
a college boy and his best girl were
out driving one afternoon. They
had come upon fine stretch of road.
do you believe in palmistry,"
said he, "the reading of ones hand ~
81 believe" she replied, "that if
could see the lines in only one of
your hands l could foretell that we
would have a very pleasant drive"
He grasped the lines in one hand
and the-situation in the other.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

THEY were engaged. "Life," she
said, as she arose from the piano
stool, "wil1 be one long, sweet song
after we are married" THAT settles
it, then" firmly responded her lover,
as he picked up his hat and took his
departure.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

MAKE sure that however good you
may be you have faults that how
ever dull you may be you can find
out what they are, and that however
slight they may be, you would better
make some patient effort to get quit
of them.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

MRS. DE FINE-Here's my new
bonnet. Isn't it a darling? Only
S2S Mr.. de Fine-Great snakes !
You said bonnets could be bought
from s. up. Mrs. de Fine-Yes,
dear. This is one of the "ups." E"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

SHE-"What is a grass widow 7"
He She's woman whose husband
gets divorce because she makes him
run the lawnmower."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

SOME people gain reputation for
looking wise, and others gain wisdom
by asking why's.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

"WHAT IS the longest day you
ever knew" he asked, when con-
versation Jagged.
"T',;s one," she replied, without
et Identing an effort to conceal
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03
BOLGIANO'S SEEDS GROW

Have you ever tried Bolgiano's Stock "Great
b. B. Tomato? 2" Your neighbor has, that's
why he Is not discouraged growing Tomatoes.
They ripen clean up TO the stem, weigh heavy
and are free from blight. Packers give them the
preference and pay more money for them. Boil
ganos celebrated New Queen Tomato greatly
pleased the Patapsco Neck farmers last year.
We also have the finest stock of Livingstone s
New Stone, Favorite, Paragon and Trophy
Tomatoes, and are fully prepared to fill any size
order from a pound TO ton. Send for our Illus
trated Catalogue. It will tell you about the low
prices we are charging for Strictly Choice Seed
Potatoes, Sealed Alaska Peas, First and Best,
Triumph and Extra Early Morning Star Peas,
Yellow Danvers, White Silver Skin and Red Ber-
muda Onion Sets. We want your trade. We will
treat you right. y. BOLGIANO a SON. 2S 9.
Calvert ST., Baltimore. Md. lFeb.10tJune17.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

AFTER giving his word an hoDora-
BILE man always tries to keep it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-03

H-Ail orders carefully packed and delivered
to any rairossd station FREE OF CHARGE.
Ian pm
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12
No Paper Scheme.


The Juttes will show to the county
commissioners committee to-day that
theirs is no paper scheme. To begin
with. Captain lutte alona has sub
scrlbed 100000 to the stock of the
unlontown. waynesburg & West VIr-
ginla Railroad Company and his friends
in Pittsburgh whom he has been instru-
mental in interesting in the enterprise
have subscribed $1,000. 900 more. Greene
county, Pa, has subscribed S2500O0 to
the stock, and smaller subscriptions
have been received from others. It is
estimated that Si,5OOOOO will b. needed
to construct and place the road in oper-
alton. but altogether S5,OOO,OOO in cash
will be raised from stock subscriptions
in order to place the company on a
sound footing ana to provide for possl-
BILE advances in the cost Of materials
that would increase the expected cost
of construction and equipment, Wheel
ing manufacturers and business men.
1t is said, will be- approached to take
stock in the enterprise, and doubtless
the promoters will meet with favor
able reception. for the enterprise has all
the indications of being bona-flde and
well backed.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12
WHEELING DAILY lNTEIIIGENoER THURSDAY AP8L ~ 1900


nonogaheia river operators can make
but one. In addition the river haul is
one hundred miles less than It is from
Pittsburgh. one OF the principal ad-
vantages in shipping coal from below
Benwood is that the dangerous Bellaire
and steubenville railroad bridges, with
their marrow spans. are avoided. Any
steamboatman win concede that this is
something not to be sneezed at. az
nearly all the accidents on the upper
river have been at these bridges OF
course this shipping OF coal from
Wheeling by water Is the resurrecung
of an old dream. but II such expert
enced river men as the Juttes believe 1t
TO be practical certainly nobody in
Wheeling is In position to say may.
Il am surprised that the construction
OF such road as we have in Wow and
the shipping of coal from Wheeling
south by the river have not been done
long ago" said Captain lutte to Mr..
McGregor. II believe our road will
stimulate Industrial activities in
Wheeling and vicinity to such an ex-
tent that in ten years you viii have a
city Of $4,000 Inhabitants.
The details OF the conference between
Messrs. lutte and Protzman and the
county commissioners committee on
railroads to-day win be awaited with
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12

north OF Caldwelrs run, or nearer the
mouth OF Wheeling creek uptown than
Coal run-both of which locations
would be out of the way and very In
convenient for the travelling public.
Cheap Coke for Wheeling.
But it is in It's relation to Wheeling
and the Wheeling manufacturing dis
trict tina. the Uniontown, waynes-
burg & Yves. Virginia road especially
appeals. 1t means that Wheeling dis
trlct iron and steel manufacturers Will
be placed closer to a coke supply than
even the great Smoky city. At pres
emf the hauling distance for coke from
connellsvlllc to Wheeling is 1874 miles.
via the Pan Handle and 142 miles via
the Baltimore & Ohio. BY the new road
the distance from uniontown to
Wheeling is only ssventy-one miles, and
as the new coke development is located
twelve miles west of Uniontown the
distance for coke haul for the Wheel
Ing district would be cut to about fifty
nina miles. little more than two-Afths
OF the Baltimore y ohlo's haul.
At present the Wheeling district
pay 81 rs ton freight for It's
coke. Pittsburgh manufacturers pay
eIghty-five cents. or nifty cents less
than Wheeling. giving the Smoky city
an immense advantage over this dis
trIct. The construction of the Union
town. Waynesburg & West Virginia
would reverse this condition, and give
Wheeling rate of about seventy-hve
cents ton on coke, ten cents less than
Pittsburgh's. though Pittsburgh in
nuences would probably work to low
erlng the rate there to as cheap a rate
as Wheellng's,
5000 to 1000 Coke Ovens.
The coke development near Union
town mentioned above, located twelve
miles west of that place, is very rx-
tensive. 1t is stated that between 5000
and 1000 ovens are now being con-
structed, which viii have daily output
OF $1,000 tons. Much OF this develop
ment Is in the control Of the Federal
and National Steel companies and Ma
tIonal Tube Company, which are in
terested in Wheeling district. Cleveland
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12

Carrie Tortney, 2i39 Chapline strsi;
Mrs. Reed. Island; Mrs, Matte cOIgJr
10 South Huron street; Mrs. william
Fortney, 9S South Huron street; Nh
Conrad, 2l22 Eoff street; Mrs. Zinnr
2625 Wood street; Mrs. Nighiengals ~
Market street; Mrs. Exley lOj So1A
Broadway,
There was a very Jolly crowd In IL
evening. and the prize winners via
their huge bags Of table delicacies wt'I
the objects OF no little good natuTd
bantering as one after another thf
good fortune was announced. But y
one for a moment thought Of decllnl9
the prizes that came their way"
Following is Il list Of the evening W.
ners: William Pllnkey, 1924 Na'ks
street; II. l.. King. SS9 Market sire'-
Miss Margaret Warner 1913 van
street: ]. Il. Stevenson North Ict
street: PAU Mlnnen. 1887 OAK siTg,s
Hal Spelde,. 1866 Chapllne street NY
Sarah Robinson. III ChaplIne s'Fe.
Mrs. Anna Robinson, 05i Market sir''t
Miss Lizzie Loos. us South Front sW.
Miss Julia Kyle. +, Travis Mrs Ni, v,
Thomas Hornbrook, Mr. Coiiman ~, y.
Davis. George swift, w. H. Jones M
Int Mr.. Mitchell Fred Guyer H =
McKown. Mrs. II. Hamc Joseph bF'u5
a. G. Glnen. /. Dykes Mrs, Nv \
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12
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and western plants that would be
reached by the new road in connection
with the Wheeling * Lake Erie and
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling roads Mt
freight charge that could be made
lower than that OF the Baltimore &
Ohio and Pan Handle, It is claimed
Wheeling district alone last year
consumed 1.S6O,OOO tons of coke. on
which the freight charges footed up
81, $50 coo, The freight charges for this
amount of coke via the new line at
slxty-nve cents ton would be S1,17O,.
900. a saving of SSGOOOO At seventy
1--WE cents ton the freight would foot
up SI.S5o,o0Q. or a saving OF slSo,eo9.
ABIDE from the benents derived by
the Iron and steel manufacturers in the
Wheeling district the jobbers and all
business people Of this city would find n
new field opened to them. Fayette
and Greene counties, especially the lat
ter, are not well connected up with the
outside world, aud the now road would
give Wheeling jobberB the call for all
or nearly nii the trade in that section.
It would also make Wheeling the OUT
let for the tremendous outpu; Of pro-
ducc from southwestern Pennsylvania,
Coal by Water.
The Juttcs. who are so prominently
connected with the Unlontuwn,
Nfnvneahnrr &. NVcat Vfrrinin nro but
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12
ADDRESS THE COMMISSIONERS
Special Committee on Railroads-Dus-
mess People Also to be Seen
and Asked
TO ENCOURAGE THE PROJECT.
Details of the Route and Terminals of
the Road-River to be Bridged
at Bellaire.

Several weeks ago the Intelligencer
told exclusively of the fact that rail-
road survey had been quietly made in
this vicinity, and that n set of stakes
had been planted along the county road
on Chapline hill that would seem to in
dfcate that the road would seek an in
dependent entrance into the city. 1t
now develops that the survey was
that Of the Uniontown. Waynesburg &
West Virginia Railroad Company, and
that not only will it enter Wheeling,
but in addition the line viii be extend
ed through the South Side to Benwood
and on a bridge to be built across
the river to Bellnire. The survey was
kept under cover for the reason that
opposition was expected from the Bal
tjmore & Ohio and Pan Handle COM
panies. which. of course, do not want a
short line run from the Pennsylvania
coke fields to this city with Its ire
mendous yearly consumption Of coke,
aggregatiug nearly 100000 tons.
Survey Completed,
Now. however, the survey OF the en-
tire road from uniontown to Wheel
ing and Benwood. has been completed,
and the promoters are not adverse to
giving out their plans. Yesterday, Mr..
r. Protzman, of Pittsburgh, who is as
ISOLATED with the wealthy Juttes, of the
Smoky City, in the promotion of the
project. arrived in the city, and is ar
ranging TO appear before the board Of
county commissioners committee on
railroads this afternoon at o'clock,
when the project will be explained in
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-12

PARKERSBURG- ohlo river II feet
and stationary; raining, mercury 4Oo.
Up 49, Bedford, william Duffy. Green
wood; Down-clty OF Pittsburgh. Lit
tie Klnawhn is stationary; locals ON
time.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10 feet s
inches and falling; cloudy and cold.
BROWNsVlLLE-Rlvcr 9 feet 0 inch
es ana falling,
GREENsRORO-Rtver S feet q inch
cs and FILLING; cool and threatening.
MORGANTOWN-Rivor . feet inch
ea aud falling; cloudy ana warm.
WARREN River I feet Inches;
cloudy and cold,
observation-disclosures SO feet and
stationary. raining.