The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-03-14

MARYLAND TELEPHONE-T0Ws0N q, III.
WHILE ON the witness stand in the trial OF
case in one of the Baltimore courts on Mon
day a proprietor of one of the big department
stores in the city swore that his firm lost from
700 to $4,000 year through the work of
shoplfters, mostly female thieves.
THE SALE of liquor in the Capitol at Wash
ington was stopped on Monday last, the bars
in both the Senate and House wings of the
building having been permanently closed.
This is in accordance with law passed during
the last few days ofthe Fifty-seyenth Congress.
FARM HANDS Of several Western states. it is
reported are organizing trades union. This
pracnUaiiy completes the organization oflabor.
The farmers themselves have never acted to-
gether, but this movement will probably lead
to some sort of a combination, and the farm
ers trust may become possibility.
CAPT. C. Q. CALHOUN, young member of
the Louisville, (Ky.) bar, has collected from
the United States Government the sum of ST.
1928, $3.50. 35 which the State of Kentucky ex-
pended in equipping Union soldiers during
the Civil War. He received 10 per cent. for
his services and his fee amounted to s132, 400.
He had worked on the claim about a year.
Capt. Calhoun was formerly poor.
Mr. CARNEGIE has said that it is "a disgrace
to die rich" and now comes the president of
Harvard saying that 'it is a terrible misfor-
tune to be born rich" AS the milIionaire's
early years must by this rule be given to get
ting start and his last years to getting rid of
his wealth, only limited time is left him for
the full enjoyment of his fortune. In the
meantime every wise father will tell his son
it is disgracefuI to be spendthrift and proper
to exercise that thrift which gathers gold by
every vile that's justified by honor.
In newspaper interview in New York city
on Monday last ex- president Cleveland said
IT came here solely for the purpose of attend
ing the Beecher memorial meeting in Brook
Ign last night. The reports that had politi-
cal talk with Edward NJ. Shepard, William c.
Whitney and others are untrue. am not in
politics. l am out for good. only called to
see Mr.. Shepard for two minutes and politics
did not figure in our conversation. Politics is
further from my thoughts at present, although
| am always ready to act in an advisory ca
pacity, if SO desired. AS for taking any active
part in politics, that is not to be considered"
LETTER from Washington says there has
been considerable criticism and gossip about
Sunday entertaining in that city and some
have been accusing the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt Of INDUCING in Sabbath frivolities.
In fact some one who considered herself the
censor of the Presidents morals wrote COM
/ planning against the Sabbath dissertation. The
President is understood to have sent the fol-
lowing note in reply to his critic: Madame
-On Sunday morning go to church. Sunday
afternao ns-4 60 riding Of. driving With ny agg
40 which Of these pastimes do
DLoT of young ladies in the pretty town of
Blue Rapids, Kansas, have organized a club
bearing the name unclaimed Treasures"
The constitution Of the body recites that the
members are bound together for the purpose
Of fostering the three great grsces-Benevo-
Ience, Patriotism and Matrimony." The or
ganization is bona fide one, though, ofcourse,
there is more or less of joke about its allege-
ment of purposes. Still, joke or no joke we
may be curious to know what the grandmoth-
ers of the country think of the boldness of the
modern girl in her view of matrimony when
it is compared to the shy modesty of the sex
in their girlhood days.
Mr.. JAMES H. SMITH, who has so ably filed
the office of Comptroller of Baltimore city for
the past four years, is a candidate for renomi-
nation, but he is not acceptable to either the
Hayes people or to the organization, possibly
because he has been too conservative and
would not permit his Office to be run by the
machine" In an interview few days ago
Mr.. Smith said: II promised, if elected four
years ago, that l would give the people nom
partisan, business-like administration of the
Comptroler's Office and have endeavored
to live up to the very letter of that prom
ise All must admit that he has done this
and still he is not acceptable to the bosses.
The honest voters should pay Mr. Smith the
compliment of a denomination.
WHAT is history but fiction agreed upon Pr
said Napoleon Bonaparte. who had some
knowledge of the subject under interrogation.
Napoleon's remark is as applicable today as
ever, and four solid columns of errors in
school histories in current use printed in the
Washington Post vouch for the truth intima-
ted by Napoleon. These errors were discovered
by the Board of Education in Washington, the
president of which is Gen. H. v. Boynton, and
they consist of statements concerning Civil
War battles in direct conflict with official
records. While such errors should not exist,
they will probably do no harm, as the average
school history does not amount to much at the
best. 1t is generally a mere skeleton of dry
facts and statistics. 1t is the bones of history,
not the flesh and blood
AT LAST the Democratic Organization" in
Baltimore has managed to -sennra n candidate
for mayor in the person of Mr.. Robert NJ. Nc
kane, the present States Attorney of the city
He is the fourth Democratic candidate now in
the field, the others being Messrs. Hayes,
I.atrobe and Jewell. The contest in the prima-
~ will be under the Crawford county system,
which is voting directly for the candidate. The
''organszation," which signifies the party
managers is fearful lest the candidacy of Gen.
Latrobe endanger the chances of Mr.. McLane.
The way the thing appears just now the out
look is strongly in favor of the denomination of
Mr. Hayes Mr.. John s. Cuttings, the banker,
s-Rho had been named for Comptroller on the
McLane ticket, declined to have his name used
for that office The primary will take place
on Tuesday, April 9TH.
COLONEL j. d. SHIREs, of Marion county.
KY, seems to be rather radical in his ideas.
II am in favor he says, ''of putting up all
county offices for sale to the highest bidder
Let the auctioneer run each Office to the highest
notch, then knock it off The money thus
obtained should be used for building and bet
tering roads, As it is worked now. candidates