The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-22

weeks'rnn at the Baltimore Academy of Music
was witnessed by $500 persons, the receipts
being given, in round numbers, as S53, 900. 1t
said thousands of people went to see this
play who had never been inside theatre
before.
THE MARYLAND PENITENTIARY is selfsup-
porting institution and does not cost the State
a cent. We doubt if there is another institu-
ton of the kind in the country that can make
such claim. This state of affairs is largely
due to the excellent management Of Mr.. John
L. Weyler. who has been warden of the peni-
Tertiary many years.
THE ONO Legislature now has before it
bill appropriating $4,000 to erect several
monuments on the Antietam battlefield. That
State had ten regiments in that battle and it
proposes to mark the position of each. One
of the stones will indicate the place where
William Mckinley, then commissary sergeant
of the Twenty-third Ohio, served rations to
his comrades while the battle ragged
PRINCE HENRY said in one of his Boston
speeches "Tbe United States has been closely
watched from the other side during the last
year. We are aware of the marvellous indus
try which has brought your country to its
position" The party of prosperity has right
to feel gratified by the remark. Its policies
may be judged by comparing the present in
dustrial situation with that of six years ago.
In ONE of the Baltimore courts a few days
ago Charles D. Helfrich obtained verdict for
$1,000 damages against the United Railways
and Electric Company for the loss Of his left
arm in an accident that occurred in November.
1900 He got off an east bound car of the
Wilkens avenue line at the corner of Saratoga
and Stricken streets and wasstruck and knock
ed down by a west-bound car as he was cross
ing the street The jury was out nine hours.
A MAN elected to a local school board in
London has sent this letter to the press defin-
ing his policy 1.-THE semitic men are gone.
I hope we shall have no more dabblings
with laboritorys and that sort of thing. A
good sound elementary education for our chill
dren is what we want; good reading, good
writeing and good aritmatic." Weare willing
to bet that there are school trustees in Balti-
more county who can beat this 'local board
man and not half try.
On THE 18th instant John D. Rockefeller,
of N. Y, who is the largest stakeholder in the
Standard Oil Company, received check for
81, 900 900 to cover the amount of his personal
dividends for the last six months. On the
same day he also received check for 81 ,50o,-
600 for his share of the dividend declared by the
Consolidated Gas Company. Mr.. Rockefeller
is credited with Standard Oil holdings to the
Z or ,Io h fbor
liam owns about half that amount.
PERHAPS THE most extraordinary doctors
bill ever heard of in this country was that pre-
scented by DR.. Walter C. Browning. of Pitts
burg, against the estate of the late State Sena-
tor Christopher L. Magee, who was very
wealthy man. The claim, which the execu-
tors refused to allow. and for which the ply
stefan has sued, is s190070 for medical attend
ance for long period. DR.. Browning, who
is a specialist, says that Mr.. Magee had ac-
knowledged an Indebtedness of more than
$4,000.
PRINCE HENRY of Prussia, whose visit to
America was a notable event of the present
year, again set his foot on German soil last
Monday. Just before leaving the ship that
bore him home the Prince was interviewed by
an Associated Press correspondent, when he
said II desire to send last word through
you to America to say how deeply grateful l
am for the measureless kindness / received
while there. l tried to say this before left
but 1 want to say again that am grateful for
the the cordial and generous manner in which
the people and the President of the United
States repoivad mo -
Mr.. JAMES J. HILL is thought by many to be
the leading railroad man of the United States
today and he is also, it is said, remarkable
for his common sense on all matters Of busi-
ness. He is Canadian by birth, but is now,
and has been for many years. resident of st.
Paul, Mimi. In a recent interview Mr.. Hill
said 1.-The railroad interests in this country
are not the greatest after all The agricultural
interests are most important. They represent
one-half the population of the United States,
one-half the capital, and about all the patriot
ism, religion and feeling there is. The coun
try rules the cities. / should be sorry to see
the time come when the city interests con-
trolled the country. AT present they do not.
Whenever situation comes up where the in
tegrity of the country is at stake, the agricul-
tural interests rise up in body and sweep the
obstacle aside. 1t is the man who owns the
land, the area upon which we live, who is the
strongest factor in affairs"
AN EFFORT has been made to induce Senator
elect German, of Maryland, to accept the
Craftsmanship of the Democratic Congressional
Committee, but be has definitely declined to
do so, remarking that he mao rgraduareu out
of the committee" A dispatch from Washing
ton to the n. Y. Sun said Mr.. German is not
taking politics at present and apparently is
taking no interest in the game, but this is be-
cause he is too wise and shrewd man to begin
active operations so far in advance of Presi'
Dental election. He will give the Democrats
in Congress the benefit of his advice in manag
ing the campaign for the election of Congress-
men next fall but he will allow some one else
to be the figure-head of the campaign commit
tee. There are large number of Democrats
in both houses of Congress who do not attempt
to conceal their belief that Mr.. German should
be the Democratic candidate for the Presidency
in 1904 but when the Senator is approached on
this subject he smiles his inscrItable smile
and says nothing"
issued bulletin from which the following
statistics are taken: The farms of Maryland,
June LIST, 1900, numbered 1902, and had
value of SIZE, 1880 of which amount
S54, $40, $50, or 21.3 per cent, represents the
value of buildings, and $40, 1867, $50, or 6S.7
per cent, the value of the land and of inn
provements other than buildings. On the
same date the value of farm implements and
machinery was sS,611, 200, and of live stock,
800, 855, 877. These values, added to that of
farms, gives the total value of farm property"
S2O4, 645, 407. The value of products for 1899
was S43, S23, 419, of which amount slS,6O6,450,
or % per cent, represents the value OF ami
NAL products, and $50 2l6,S69 or69.Oper cent,
the value of crops, including forest products.
The total value of farm products for 1899 ex-
ceeds that for 1889 by 81, 3S0055, or 65.7 per
cent. Increases in the number of farms are
,ho,rr For oil counfips pxcer,t Anne Arundel