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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17
SINCE PA WENT INTO POLITICS.

bet there amt family
That's fyin' half as high as we,
An singin' airs at every turn
With money in the house to burn.
We're living now in scrumptuous style,
An ma says of'n with smile
They amt none of US got no kicks,
Since pa got into politics.
When he was pore and ha' no work,
To make livfn', like Turk.
He used to say this oil world were
A vain delusion an snare!
1t TUX all he could Scrape an get
To feed an dress us. but you bet,
He isn't in that orful fix
Since he got into politics.
He says the man that labors is
A chump that isn't onto biz,
An hasn't sense 'nuff in his brains,
To chase him indoors when 1t rains.
He used to be that way, but TUX
A tumble, an the best o. luck
Falls his way like thousan' bricks,
Since he went into politics.
He's wearin' clothes that's mighty ripe
An smokes seegars stead of his pipe
An gifts shaved at the barbnr's where
They squirt bumsquintum on his hair.
Az fR1s. Fusion am an some c11 ae otaer fhinTs
An says he's onto all their tricks
Since he got into politics.
Pa used to be Christian, and
Could sing and pray to beat the band,
An, jest to guide our footsteps right,
Had family prayers every night.
But now we're all In bed when he
Comes home at night, an ma says she
Imagines pious things won't mix
In corjil way with politics.
Ma asked him once if it was right
To help the corporations fight
The homes people. an he clinked
Some dollars in his hand, an winked,
An said she mustn't chaw the rag
Long as she stands an holds the bag
Whilst he climbs up the tree an picks
The golden plums o. politics.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17
SOMETHING TO LAUGH.

Bill Arp has been in Meridian,
Mass, and while there heard this
story: A Boston man who had never
been South before said to Mayor Dial
that he would especially like to see
where the negroes lived and how they
lived, so the Mayor took him to the
settlement. AS they drove up they
heard numerous women and children
laughing immoderately and talking
merrily. "What are they laughing
at?" inquired the stranger. II
thought they never laughed" The
Mayor replied: "Why, they laugh
all the time; they laugh at any
thing" "Is it possible ?" returned
the other, wonderingly. Suppose
you stop and ask them what they are
laughing at? My curiosity is greatly
excited" Mayor called woman he
knew: Hannah, come here. This
gentleman comes from the North-up
in Gods country-and he says he did
not know negroes ever laughed. He
would like to know what you all were
laughing at just now as we drove up"
This provoked another spell, and all
they got out of Hannah was: 'Jin-
ny axed Mandy which wuz de most
alike, 'possum or coon." The
stranger was profoundly impressed,
and made note of it in his memo
randum book.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17
LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING

Light housekeeping as usually con-
Quoted means living on bread and tea
or working twice as hard to produce
given result as if one were really
keeping house. Properly managed,
however, it may mean homeinaking,
and here are some hints, given in The
+ -KItchen Magazine, from the expert
ence of one who has tested the de-
lights and disadvantages of light
housekeeping for five years. She
says: 1t is such a pleasure to me to
have company when I please, with
out having to ask some unwilling
landlady if may nor is it without
its pleasant side that l can eat what,
when and as l please without having
to depend on some ones convenience.
She who is to be light housekeep-
er should choose her room wisely, for
on that depends half her success.
Let it have the sun and two closets,
have one corner of the room divided
off either for the kitchen part or for
clothing. Have the kitchen part lib
orally provided with shelves. Make
your kitchen arrangements as COM
plete as if you had family. Why
should you use bottle for a rolling
pin and drawing board for bread
board just because you are cooking
for yourself? Yes, / know we all do
that when we begin. / did, but, hav-
ing grown tired of it, found the roll
ing pin luxury not above my reach.
For long time I made hashes with a
knife and fork. Now have small
sized chopper, one of the machines.
It saves time, and really, you know,
tfs7gnjor: geafetaa taad dFbbEEy bEy EeE El shq1jla eyk
veniences few at a time and feel
much more respectable using the
proper tools for any work.
Make every inch of space count in
the kitchen. Put UP screw hooks
and hang all which can be hung.
Have mop and wire dishcloth tc
save your hands and a tin or an
earthen jar for your bread and cake.
If you keep both in the same jar, they
won't dry, though if you have a spice
cake your bread may taste of it.
Never keep crackers with the bread,
because they grow soft.
When you prepare your outfit, if
you are hard up let your kettle be a
pail into which you can set smaller
one. Enameled ware is far more sat
isfactory than tin.
A small sheet iron spider you will
want. You can toast bread to perfec-
tion on this over your kerosene stove.
Have an oven so that when you get
tired of bakers bread you can stir up
some biscuits for yourself.
The only advantage of chafng
dish over a kerosene stove and a spid-
er is its beauty. Alcohol is the dear
est of fuels and one of the most TN
safe. Whatever you can cook in a
chafng dish you can cook equally
we'll with the humber equipment at
one-third the cost.
Of course you do not want your
room to smell of food, and if when
you have finished cooking you will
put over your fire a dish of vinegar
with some mixed spices it never will.
Fit the amount of vinegar and spice
to the odor of food you wish to kill.
Let them boil for half an hour. They
form one of the best disinfectants
known, and your room will have de-
lightful and invigorating fragrance.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17
SAVED HER HUSBANDS MONEY.

Having no confidence in banks,
Thucydides Chuckster one night hid
his entire wad. amounting to $275, in
the oven of the kitchen stove.
And said nothing about it to his
wife.
Remember this fact. 1t is very i'm
portant.
The next morning, as fate would
have it, Mrs. Chuckster came down
stairs early and made the kitchen fire.
Mrs. Chuckster had been in the
habit of doing this for years, but this
also was in pursuance, doubtless, of
the DEGREES of fate.
But before kindling the fire in the
stove she looked into the oven to see
if the cat was there.
She found the wad of money.
Thucydides Chuckster was allowed
/ tosleep till II o'clock that morning.
And by that time Mrs. Chuckster
had made hurried trip to the various
storesin the neighborhoood and pur-
chased he following articles, paying
cash for The same:
kitchea broom.
I rocking chair.
8 pounds genuine coffee.
I copper kettle.
IA yards crash toweling.
| I barrel -four,
bushel potatoes.
I stove hook.
bottle pain killer.
hairbrush.
dozen steel pens.
shoebrush.
yards table covering.
I bottle ink.
pair shoes for Johnny.
pair gloves for Mrs. Chuckster.
I rug for parlor.
I box laundry soap.
set soup plates.
E pie plates.
granite iron coffee pot.
I lounge.
k1CCuGu ldDlCs
half dozen pairs ribbed hose fol
Katie.
roll cotton batting.
pound candied pineapple.
dozen oranges.
canary bird.
cage.
I package cockroach exterminator
Shortly after II O clock Mr.. Chuck
ster came tearing down the stairs,
four steps at time.
He rushed into the kitchen, his
hair on end and his eyes bulging out
like knobs.
"Merciful Heavens p he groaned,
as he looked at the red-hot stove and
sank into a chair. "Do you know
what you've done, Elizabeth"
"I think I do, Sid,' replied Mrs.
<Chuckster, handing him what re-
/ delivery wagons begin to come. I
have been buying few things we've
needed for the last year. Now take
this and put it in some good bank. II
it hadn't been for my carefulness you
would have lost it ALL"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17
THE DEADLY TRAIL.

A bacteriologist asked a woman
who did not usually have to go on
very dirty streets if he might make an
experiment on one of her skirts. II
was comparatively new one and, of
course, received the daily brushing,
too. He found on part of the skirt
binding at the hem the following small
menagerie: Two hundred thousand
germs, many bearing diphtheria,
pneumonia and tonsilitis, also col
lections of typhoid and consumption
microbes. The owner has been con.
verted to the short skirt.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17

MRS. WATrs-"Mr. Watts and 1
never quarrel before the children. If
we have any argument with each
other, we always send them out of
the room"
Mrs. Potts-"I have often won
dered why your children were out in
the street so much more than other
peoples"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17

GAM 1 the first girl you ever low
ed?" she asked him, more as mat
ter of habit than anything else.
"I cannot tell a 1ie," said he.
''You are not. You are simply the
best of the bunch. "
Being modern maid, she was con-
tent with that.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17

SADIE-Do you think he is sincere
in his intentions +?
Clara-I do; I've had lots of men
make love to me, but he's the biggest
fool yet.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17

IT WAS Charles Dickens who said
that the quality of housekeeping
could be judged by the condition OF
the castor on the table.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17

FIGURES never lie, so they say,
but this statement seems false when
one sees them in the skin-tight frocks
of fashion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17

THE woman who does not look in
the mirror is blind.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-17

\ delivery wagons begin to come. 1
have been buying few things we've
needed for the last year. Now take
this and put it in some good bank. If
it hadn't been for my carefulness you
would have lost it all"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
TALK WITH BRYAN.
He Will Not "A bandon Any Platform or
Principles.

-
NEW YORK. Jan. 2. Lin speaking OF
the Belmont dinner tonight, Mr. Bryan
said II understand it is merely to be
an informal social dinner and = do not not
intend to speak there. I
Mr.. Bryan was asked. : IN view OF the.
contradictory statements recently IN re-
gard to the policy and how he stood. res
piled II stand on the same Ines {
am not abandoning. any platform Or any N
priciples. shall talk on silver, the
trusts and imperialism I.
..You place silver first, was sus-
5gested.
ST make no special order" said Mr.
Bryan, ..any one of them is enough to
kill the Republican party. =
Mr.. Bryan was asked what ther pros
poets for Democratic success were He
said: 81.
bound to win in the end =
Mr.. Bryan when asked If he favored
the holding of the Democratic conve1l-
tion in this city, said:
..I don't care to discuss this matter.
I am not the person to decide or discuss
that sort of thing
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
PRICE OF FERTILIZER.

q h.
Farmers Fighting Against the In
crease Which They Think Arbitrary.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Jan. 22.-The OPP
position to the virginia-C Carolina CheIni-
cal Company. styled by the farmers ine
Phosphate Trust" is coming to head m
this state.
The farmers of Edgefeld have already
appointed day for a publfc meeting. The
farmers OF Greenwood on Saturday met
in n1ass-meeting and adopted resolutions
appealing to the farmers not to purchase
fertilizers at more than ten per cent. ad-
vance over last years prices.
The virginia-C Carolina Chemical Com
pany more than a month ago announced
a rise in the prices of fertilizers which 1t
claimed was necessary by the Increased
prices of pyrites and bone and scarcity
of phosphate rock The company, through
it's officers stoutly denied that 1t was q
r /
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
MANY BILLS HAVE.
BECOME LAWS
The Governor Has Attached His Sig
nature to a Number Of Legis-
Iative EnaCtments

The Governors desk was piled high
with bills yesterday, and he was kept
busy far into the night reading and sign
ing them. The following were signed by
him yesterday:
TO amend Section No. 2i9S Of the Code
of Virginia, as heretofore amended, to
the release and satisfaction of liens.
TO incorporate the Southern Improve
ment Company
To amend the charter Of the city of
I Newport News.
An act to incorporate the town of
h fPhoebus.
An act to incorporate the Norfolk,
Portsmouth and Newport News Railway
Company.
Relating to the signing OF certain obliga-
tions by corporations as surety through
duly authorized agents or attorneys in
fact without the nse of corporate seal and
declaimlng the force and effect of same.
Giving courts Of law jurisdiction over
suits on lost past due bonds or notes or
other written evidences of debt, anu en-
abling said courts to require parties IN
whose favor the Judgment may be render
ed to execute proper indemnifyinE bonds
before execution is issued.
Authorizing city of Norfolk to appoint
collector for delinquent taxes for that
city. !.
TO incorporate the Virginia Conference
Orbtanase of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South.
& To amend and re.enact an act to de-
clare Clincil river and Clinch mountain a
lawful fence in Russell county. zis,
Authorizing an increase in the salary Of
the county Judge Of TazeWell county.
Enabling the city of Fredericksburg
10 enforce the collection Of delinquent,
taxes. szss - s.sa
Amend and re-enact an act to incorpor-.
ate the town Of Dayton.
TO amend and re-enact the charter CT
Manchester Paper 3Twine Company.
TO authorize and permit the Old Do-a
n1inion Land Company To-: erect wharfs
and piers 81 and to construct bulkheadss
in James river, in the city Of Newport:
News. ana to issue bonds and negotiable
notes to pay for the same.
Authorizing a. ". Houchins. ex-dep,lty;
tpea surerS Of Patrick county. to levy and.
collect pnco1lected taxes in Smith river
district tor the year 1s994
Authorizing and empowering the School.
Board OF Big Stone Gap school district
to issue bonds to pay forsJhe erection Of
building for graded schools
81 To allow q oseph W. Ia ylor TO erect a
wharf or pier on Waits Bay, in Acco-S
mac county,
rs amend and fe-er1act section SNp.s 's27.
OF the Code Of ysirsinia Ia relation 10
.deYnur
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
GUEST OF kEL|L|AR
not THE HE CLUB.
.Bryan's Invitation TO be Entertained
at the Democratic Club Of New
York is Unofficial.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-The following
letter, signed by JOHN Fox. former
president OF the Democratic Club and
now a member OF the Board of Governors
Robert 3. Roosevelt, and John z. Doyle,
was sent tonight to John w. kellar.i
president of the Democratic Club:
"It Is with the most kindly feeling. and
certainly with no desire TO criticise your.
acts that we take the liberty, as members
of the Democratic Club, to address you
We are creGftably informed that YOU have
invited w. j. Bryan to become your guest
at the Democratic Club and take dinner
with you and a party of friends.
..In other words. Mr.. Bryan is to be.
entertained by you, and the place of such
entertainment is at the Democratic Club.
While it is your unquestioned right or the
right of any other member to invite any
gentlemen whom he may choose to be-.
come his guest at the club, yet under.
existing coalitions we greatly fear that;
your act will become construed by the
public as the act OF the club, should you
give such dinner to this distinguished
guest without affirmatively disclaiming
such intention on the part OF the club
NosPERsoNAL OBJECTION.
we, ourselves, can fully distinguish
between an official act and Individual
opinions We want It understood. too;
that We have no personal objections to-
Mr.. Bryan. nor do We object in the
slightest degree to your giving him a
dinner at the club In your Individual
capacity as one OF its members. We
should much regret. however, Il what
you propose to do should be construed:
throughout the country as d political er-s
.dorsement by the Democratic Club OF
the Presidential candidacy at this time Of
Mr.. Bryan.
The Democratic Club ts essenttaIly
Democratic political organization and
1 Of its 8, Geo members nome but Democrats
belong to II. You are now Its president
and IN the absence OF a disclaimer on your
part to the contrary your course IN any
fhirr that pertains to the club or Its at
fairs might be construed and not nm
.reasunably so as the act OF the club IL
WIN not do to say that suchsa construc-.
ton would be placed upon your acts by
tine ignorant or isihfoEned because ID.
Bryan himseh$ has establ blished a precedent
whichSis is applicable to the case Ia point
sWA desire to call your a attentloh TO q por-
ion gofs fs@thes scorresrondenc which took
n1ace Tetween your tnn:ned Hate psedecessors
as pressd L OF the clnbs and the disttss-
xnIshAd gentleman tnbsn sou have ill-ss
ss1itad to bs your saaeAt ats he elnhss4 osas
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
,.,an. ,,vur.,a mountains Il. whIch ends q.

.fsHs
sTabamyanta mount aims hicns ends -
The artillery occupied positions BEHIND 1,,s.
and on the plain. The British saEs.ralS sA ~,
. of comn1andins Kopie on shich El1 tne
sBoers were concentra concealed Pc Pc.
hind immense boulders strewn tnieAts NY
over the hill. Z. .
The artillery opened the attack and tns 9
batteries worked contiauousiy, poured ptll so
tons Of shrapnel among the sBoers,. y ~ ~
devoted their attention to musketry fir
I ing on the British infantry
The Beers stuck to their rocky fast-
nesses with the greatest tenacity and OF
the conclusion the British had only
advanced across few ridges. - ne Boers IS
apparently have few guns anu tney a.o ''
1 little damage.
Captain Honley, OF the Dublin Fustiters
fell r1ortally wounded while leading MS
men to seize fresh point Of vanta ge.5
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
THOUGHT TO BE COTTON.

A Man Is Held at Crews for ldentifica-
tion as the Escaped Murderer
3 NORFOLK. VA, Jan % Sheriff Smith.
OF Portsmouth,, received telegram to-
night. stating that a man, thought to
be the condemned murderer, Cotton,
whose escape from the Portsmouth jail
few days before the day seb for his
execution, had been arrested at Crewe..
Sheriff Smith will leave tomorrow
morning to see the suspect.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
s-tid -. ssl.t. siFas -
Bark Marie Released,

BERLIN, Jan. GA dispatch received
here from Durham says the German bark
Marie. loaded with sulphur. which was
captured early in January by the Brit
aish cruiser Fearless and taken to Port
Elizabeth, has been Internationally re-
leased.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
e:enera, s " hee,er viii sa,rTo-,lorrow.

General " hceIer VIII SAT- To- SIorrtW.
wAsTIISGTON. Jan. 22-The War De-.
E nartnent received a cablegram from
General Otis to-day stating thatb--Gen--
eral Wheeler Will sail from Manila We'd
nes1ay on the transport Warren for the
United States by way OF Guam and
Honolulu. 4r5sS
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23

The frst witness examined was Dr.
sJ.D. Osborneswho made the 5posk-mortem;
examination He described the ma tlire Of
Srlsh must have been 81 ma % NOR than
Ordinary strength h. muscles were.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23

s(Continusd 8 1sseal s1s
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
Range OF THERMOMETERS

iFro olioRinE was the range nf the ther-
m,r.etera at The Times Office yesterday:
a. NJ u NJ. 3 p. M, 60: 6 =
NJ, 5s: q y. d., 50; Il NJ. A \: average
Temperature. a9. s
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23

Continued on Second Page.)
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
RICHMOND VA ,=TUEsDAYaJ 1900.

we'll developed and he was of51arge frame:
The next witnessise amined was =: :aE p.
Slaughter, who was on the witness stand
when this report closed. His testimony did
NOT differ very materially from that Sgiv-
On by him before the coroner.s jury. The
Jury was shown, ,slby tAlr. EMc Ilwlne, "a pho
stograph Of Edward Wi1n. who $g had q
tight with witness at Kate BslIs house
on the night of the murder. The photo-
graph showed how fercely VIM had q
been beaten by slaughter. "A photograph OF
Kate &Bell,s house was also exhibited to
the jury by Mr.. N1cIlwane.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
WINES PHOTOGRAPH.

s. Witness was shown q photograph of
Edward Wynne, and was asked by Mr..
McIlwaine il that was; the man with
whom he had the fight. and saw at .the
coroner's inauest. Witness replied that
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-31

Is3t
arter tne res ar
Dath ssscnoo contested ,or the
.',atnner g tered oy the Sabbath Sch''e.i5
missionary to the school having ttt;
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sal number I schools ente,eo
he cson4st ana interest
d" s''' = tfle fres bA
g Inc Fl success i5s SCH os,t ri yss:s
''fl5g tdr've, locafet - mics st'ut fss
Nss1 " Ill ''aVl1g an -
( q ease OIL l4o per cent The ban51t1 z
/ ' + ~ presented to them JAnhary y
sstA1a .l t1sy VIII ned ltS@utatll July 81.
1t Will then be awarded to the school
iih ray ins we largest per &cenI u lbs mem~
p 81 VINO learn the shorter Or cate ate
c en- between now and the lst OF
nc socces siol senoot 20 :: ho t'ia
- Tor 0l'e la s SIX lnonths IN THIS year
So i 't'So N.Y. "'9 "h'n' Win u : :
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-31

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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-31
Advertised Letters.

Willmar. Mimi. Jan. %, 1900.
B,iduiu. Miss Cora
Hugstrum. MIR. Carl $50 -
.Incob>,n. Miss Ingeborg
Johnson, Mrs LenaC.
Albert
Karney- Miss Nellie
Norton, Mr.. Fl. E.
ltime Embrik ,---5
Roberts. Mr.. Doc
Root. Cha-. :
Smith Mr.. Geo a.
>undsaasen. Mr.. Nils p. F..
Stetten, o. A.
Singer, Mr.. T. L.. ..-"
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-01-31
Sooisl Dance.

.s ,Il'nere vii be 8 social dance wen
ln Bnnsle d 3 Al HFrid ay evening, Feb!
mary 1900 Good mus ic will BE
furnis he'd and . good Time Is assured.
II are cordl tally invited TO attend.
Price of tickets to dance will be
1 csIt 4 1tQlpple.