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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

new cavern. rivaling in beauty the one at
Luray, and wier's cave and the cave of foun-
tains, at Shendun. Va, has been discovered in
Shenandoah county. Va, near Woodstock. The
discovery was made by accident Workmen
were taking lime stone from quarry at Tom
Brook. and in blasting the stone the entrance to
the cave was opened. AS yet the cavern has
only been explored for about 175 feet, but the
portion that has been visited is filled with the
most beautiful lime stone formations and con-
tains large chambers. ''-
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

FOR SALE
A FARM OF 244 ACRES. 10 miles from @
Baltimore, 2 miles from Finksburg Station, W.
NJ. r. R.; frame house, tenant house, new bank
barn, log barn. with shedding; buildings in best
condition. Apply to
No. 121. LONGNECKER BROS,
Mch. 23.-tf Real Estate, Towson, Nd
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18
EPORT OF THE CONDITION

LII OF
The TOwson National Bank, at TOwsOn,
in the State of Maryland. at the close
of Business, June 8, 1904.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

A competent authority has recently estimated
that $500 600 has been added to the wealth of
the South in the last two years. and these figures
are doubtless within the mark. The growth of
its iron and steel industry in the period named
would alone represent value approximating
the figures given. This year the value of pig
iron produced in the region of Birmingham is
conservatively put at $S00000,0OO.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

There are beetles in England (oe the family
known to scientists as telephoride) that are
popularity called soldiers and sailors, the red
species being called by the former name and the
blue species by the latter. These beetles are
among the most quarrelsome of insects and fight
to the death on the least PROPAGATION. 1t has
long been the custom among English boys to
catch and set them fighting with each other.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

PERSONS WANTING TO RENT THE Il
GRANGE HALL, Towson, for the purpose Of
holding Meetings, Dances, Lectures or other
Entertainments, will apply to
JOSEPH B. HERBERT,
June 11.-3tl Smedley Row, Towson, Nd.
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Over 900 Porto Rican school teachers are to
visit the United States in July. Committees
are at work in all the leading cities of the island
obtaining subscriptions for the fund of $4,000
necessary. Cornell University has promised to
take 200 of the young ladies and Harvard 400.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

According to the report of the Attorney
General of South Carolina to the General AS
sembly of that State, the circuit solicitors have
tried since 1888, 2.7s1 cases for murder. During
the last five years 93S murder trials have been
held, and in 400 of these the verdict was mot
guilty" The murder record for the State last
year was 222. or nearly five aweek. OF these 1O2
were convicted, but the sentences in many in
stances were ridiculously inadequate.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

BY ACETYLENE GAS.
wRUsH GENERATOR is THE BEsT.-aa
G. HOWARD STIRLING, ACT,
June u.-4t*l 223 N. Calvert St. Balto., Md.
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1t is stated that over 20OO0.OOO acres Of land in
the United States are owned by members of the
English aristocracy and British land companies
and syndicates. Most of these estates are stu
ated in the Southern and Western States. A
Dutch corporation is said to own 100000 acres
of land in the West, and German company
10000 acres in several states. Alien land lords
own property in most of the larger cities of the
Union.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

Senator Depew states that when he was %
years old he was elected Secretary Of State,
after he had served in the Assembly, and then
he was offered the position Of minister to Japan
at salary of So, 600 year and an equal amount
to fit himself out. but he realized that it was the
parting of the ways for him, and he accepted
salary from Mr.. Vanderbilt OF $4,000 year as
attorney for the Harlem Railroad.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

W. B. Subtitle, of Ravenna, o.. is the inventor
of railroad track in which the base and cap are
separable, and the advantages are that it makes
a jointless rail and cheaper track. It will
save $1,000 mile in renewals, it is said. The
cap is reversible and the base is indestructible,
according to the claims of the inventor, and no
fish plates are required.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

j. Ttncent Roach, Solicitor, 100 e. Lecing-
ton Street, Baltimore, Md.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
IN THE MATTER OF THE TRUST ESTATE
OF FLORA r. BLANQUETT,
DECEASED.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE CoUN-
TY, IN EQUITY.
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The Philippine Government is in the market
for school teachers. 1. has carried over 1000
pedagogues half way round the world in an effort
to educate the Filipino youth up to American
ideas, and still wants more.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

Thus far New York has contributed only two
Presidents by election-van Buren, and Cleve-
land. New York has contributed nine Vice
Presidents, however-Burr. Clinton Tompkins,
Van Buren,, Fillmore, Wheeler, Arthur, Morton
and Roosevelt.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

After six years of experiments the officers of
the street railroad company at Chillicothe,
Ohio, have decided that the women conduc-
tors must go. The women were satisfactory,
except that they were not strong enough for
switching work.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

DR.. ]. Furness Brice, ships surgeon on the
transatlantic liner Cymric, is now on his 8l9th
voyage. So far in his life he has traversed some
thing like 100000 miles, equal to 100 times
around the globe.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

An elk of majestic proportions holds place
in the main entrance hall of the Temple of Fra
ternity at the Worlds Fair. The specimen is
said to be the largest of its kind, mounted and
well preserved. 1t was loaned by New Mexico
lodge of the Order of Elks to the New Mexican
commission, which body in turn loaned it to the
Fraternal Building Association.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

A rare case of longevityis cited in the lives of
Mrs. Hanna c. Baker, Henry N. Spencer. John
r. Spencer and Mrs. Fanny f. Fowler, brothers
and sisters, all living in Noank, in the town of
Gr0ton, Conn, whose ages aggregate 500 years.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

Col. ]. E. Thayer. of Lancaster, Mass. is build
ing a museum in his town to contain his mag
nifcent collection of birds of North America, a
collection which even the government at Wash
ington cannot surpass.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

There is on view, in the shop of Dublin gun
smith, a breach loading rifle that was offered to
the British War Office at the close of the 18th
century. 1t was rejected, it is said, because it
took too much ammunition.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-23

little of that sec, alUo that Of the
Baltic, which Is q double point nee
cSSary to the success OF the project:
TO hasten the decadence OF Persia, 70
penetrate to the Persian Gulf. TO re-
establish, IL possible, through Syria
the ancient commerce Of the Caucasus
and advance to West India which II
the port OF entry OF the wsrld. Once
there. you no longer need the gold
Of England
"10 To seek and maintain with
care the alliance Of Austria; to sup
port in appearance ner ideas OF fu-
ture rule over Germany and excite
(par-desSous main) the jealousy OF
her Princes Try to make them call
for the assistance OF Russia by n
or the other of them, and to exert
oyer the country h kind Of protec-
ton which prepares for future domt-
nation.
III. To interest the house of Aus
tria in chasing the Turk out of Eu
rope and neutralize he jealousy upon
the conquest of ConStantinople, per-
hapS sustaining her in q war with
the older states of Europe, perhaps IN
giving her a portion of the conquest
which you may retake a little later.
ZIP. To determine to reunite to
yourselves all the orthodo- 80 schis-
mdIC 1IechS, WHICH are eCdLIcTe Gu
either in Hungary or in the south of
Poland; make yourself their center
and establish in advance a universal
predominance by a sort of rule or
sacerdotal supremacy. This will be
constituting friends among all your
enemies.
"13. Sweden dismembered, Persia
vanquished, Poland subjugated, Tur-
key conquered, our armies reunited,
tho P1nRE coo and tho Pnltin Gaa
guarded by u ships. it will then be
necessary to propose separately n
very secretly first to the court OF
Versailles, then to that Of Vienna, to
divide with her the empire Of the
universe; if one of the two accept,
which cannot fail in flattering their
ambition and self-love, make use of
her to destroy the other; then des-
troy in her turn the one which
remains engaging with her in a strug-
gle which could not be doubtful, Rus
STA possessing already in her own
right all of the east and a great part
of Europe.
"a. If, which is not probable,
each one of them refuse the offer OF
Russia, it will be to know
how to excite quarrels among them
to become weakened. the one by the
other; then profiting by a decisive
movement, Russia will advance her
troops assembled in advance, upon
Germany: at the same time two con-
siderable fleets, shall a dvance, the n
from the Sea of Agof, the other from
the port of Archangel, charged with
Asiatic hordes under the protection of
the armed ships of h Black Sea and
the Baltic. Advancing by the Medi-
terranean and by the ocean, they will
inundate France on M side, while
Germany will b g attacked upon the
other, and these two countries con-
conquered, the rest of Europe will
pass easily, and without striking n
blow, under the yoke:
Thus Europe al and ought to be
Observation-Disclosures.
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P! HURRAH. TOOTH oUTl TooTHACHE ALL GONE"

nothing had seemed to No lie had
jawed aroduj about the oil. the
coal bill and The butchers bill, and he
had figured out that they would be in
the poorhouse and all on her account in
less than three months. He was trying
to poke the cat out from under the
lounge and swearing about the new
hired girl TT the same time when l
opened the Goor and walked in on him.
"Mr. Bowser, I'm here" I said as l
began to take the pins out of my hat.
by thunder" be gasped as he ceased
poking the cat and turned white as the
snow in his front yard.
Don't use profane language in my
presence, sir. There will be thunder
and lightning around here before the
day is out, but it's too early to speak
of it."
"You-you didn't write that You were
coming" he said.
mo, sir, I didn't. Where's my daugh-
ter?'
upstairs"
"well. you sit there till I go up and
see her for q few minutes, and dent
get after that cat again"
I was down again in ten minutes.
and I found Mr.. Bowser pacing up and
down the room with his hand to his
jaw.
whats the matter with your jawy"
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Eating i'm Siberia.

A traveller in Siberia, according to
The Chicago News. has the following
to say in regard to table manners
which he met with: In eating you
must reach for what you want. 1t is
very seldom that anything is passed
during this first stage of a meal. You
would never suggest to your neighbor
on the right to pass o the cheese,
but you would rise in o III place and.
with a firm grasp on your knife, reach
over his plate and impaie the tempt
ing morsel. II this is not possible you
leave your place n go around the ia
BILE and secure your loot. Ny Rus
sian naturalist. Alex. was a fair sam
pie Of an educated Russian and he
turned to me and said: L see you eat
with a fork Yes said I, and I see
that you do not No, but I had a sis
ter who studied at an English CONVEX
in Japan for a year or so. When she
came back she ate with a fork, but
we soon laughed her out OF it." The
end Of the Russian knife is broader
than the portion mex to the handle
and it is used both as a knife and as
a spoon. They complain that the
American knives do not hold enough"
After this it is not surprising to learn
that 1.-The Russians were Aighly
amused" at the authors "use Of the
toothbrush. which they consider q ne
culiarly feminine utensii."
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everybody sit down for you. but per-
haps you'll get over that i II time. Just
remember that a wife has the same
right as q husband. She's NO slave, but
an equal partner. There VIII be little
family jars as you go along, and you'll
again. I'll drop in On you now and
again to see how things are going, and
you will be under my eye more or less
no matter how far away l am"
1t wasn't three months before / had
to take him in hand and dress him
down. He ordered me out doors and
called me an old virago, but it was for
the last time. / could talk five words
to his one. and 1 gave him such n
tongue lashing that he went down Gel
lar and hid behind the coal bin for half
a day. Now and then, as time went on.
he broke out anew, but 1 always got
the best of him, and he finally saw
that it was no use.
The other day, after figuring up that
it was about time for n of his
"spells," I took the train and dropped
in on him Unexpectedly. 1t was a good
thing I did. He had got his feet wet,
and the consequence was a toothache.
He had kept Mrs. Bowser awake half
the night and had decided not to go to
the Office next day. She had tried pare
goric, peppermint, hot salt, mustard
and three or four other remedies, but
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to carry you That tooth has got to.
coEe out"
Never I'm a desperate man, and
1 warn you to let me aloneI"
The mother-in-Iaw who hopes TO con-
quer must be firm. Mr.. Bowser got
away from me for a minute, but then
ne caved in with a groan of despair
and got or bis overcoat and hat. As
he went out Of the door he looked
around the hall as if he never expected
10 enter it again. and l knew that Strs-
Bowser had tears IN her eyes as she
watched Us from a FROM window.
/ led the way down the street. and
he followed. l expected him to make
a bolt for it every minute. lat bis
nerve was gone. We happened 10 and
the dentist disengaged. and the two OF
US lifted Mr.. Bowser into the chair.
n hat tooth waS out in ten seconds.
He dropped it into his pocket with a
thud as we started for home. and not
a word was spoken until we reached
there. Then Mrs. Bowser, the cat.
Mr.. Bowser and myself gathered IN
the sitting room. and Mr.. Bowser sud
denly seized me in his arms and went
Waiting about as he shouted:
"Whoop. Hurrahi Tooth out! Tooth
ache all gone. Dearest, incest and
best old mother-inlaw In all this
world. Whoopee." II. QUAD.
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RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AND
WILL OF PETER THE GREAT

In view Of the worldwide interest
in the war now begun between the
oldest of European depotsms which
survives the modern advance of civil
fzation, and the youngest of the east
ern powers TO enter into what Is
known as the eastern question, any
thing which throws light upon h
causes which Eave led to the situa-
ton becomes Of great importance.
Since the fab OF Rome. no nation
save Russia has aimee at universal
object by aggression on every hand. .
a few years ago Russia beckoned
the people of the world to meet and
i'm conclave agree upon d means to
attain to a condition OF universal
peace They all answered her cali
with more or less willingness and a
pretense Of faith: but no doubt more
because they did not wish to create
a precedent by refusal, than any nope
or e that it could be of any benefit
or was at all possible
Al the very moment that Russia
assumed this attitude and called with
her left hand. let US see what the
other members of the Russian Bean
were doing.
G1NAAo LII 49, ASAN "a" III
Ter peace, its right grasped and de-
Stroyed the time honored constitution
q Finland, which the car d rev years
before had sworn to maintain and de-
fend With the right hind paw It
seized two Provinces OF China, and
with the left n it planted it's iron
rule on Persia. This remarkable stu
alton created by a consistent policy
q aggression cannot fail to claim at
tentiOn. It is the policy Of 8
now and has been for years. and n
key to it is the will of Peter the
Great, probably the most marvellous
human document ever written, as it
is certainly the most f~ar-seeing viii
lany eve conceived. 1t is 20 ~ZeaiouSly
followed that by it's aid all the dip
Iomacy of Russia can be forecast and
understood. Her excuses for bringing
troops into Manchuria and her on
slant pretexts to keep them there.
are a prominent example of the coun-
sci he gives to exert over the coun-
try that sort of protection which pre-
pares for future domination"
The following is a literal rams
1ation Of this will, which / made from
a Paris paper, l. Journal des
Etrangers," printed more than forty
cal ago.
MRS F. NJ SOUVIEILE.
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y. ~. D1AAN1A.
Assistant Secretary of War

Gen. Miles has been spoken of as a
candidate for president on the natioral
democratic ticket. He has absolutely
no fitness for the office, and we DO not
think that his nomination is within the
range of political possibility. but it has
ben urged by socme of his friends and
admirers. The Springfield Republican
is we'll disposed towards him, and when
objection was recently made by 10
News n Courier to him as the dem
ocratic candidate because he could not
hope to succeed without the southern
vote. and no southern state with anv
sense of self-respect would vote for
him even if he should be nominated
by the convention. u Massachusetts
contemporary sought to excus Gen.
Miles's objectionable sin by declaring
that he was practically under orders
from his suDeriors at Washing
ton," when, as jailor of JEFF
ferson Davis, he subjected his helpless
victim to the most humiliating treat
ment. 1t has been nearly t~hirty-nine
years since. as turnkey at Fortress
Monroe. he placed manacles upon the
hands and letters upon the feet of "
Davis. and since that act he has de-
served nothing but the detestation of
Mr.. DaviS's people. Excuses have been
made for him over and over again. Tt
has been said that he was acting under
orders from Washington, that he -
| compelled to take the course which
| he adopted. that he could not disobey
| his instructions. but the facts condemn
him utterly. We have no doubt that
he regrets now that he ever permitted
his brutal instincts to overcome his
duty as an officer and gentleman. but
1.-The damned spot will not out."-News
and Courier.
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Bowser Conquered
hs Motherin1aw Arrives In Town and Takes Charge Of
the Household-She Rules Things With an
Iron Hand and Remedies Affairs

|, 1 asked. although Mrs. Bowser bad told
me all about IL.
"Toothache."
And Whist are you hanging around
the house fcf and making IL disagree
able for everybody: Aren't you big
enough TO &C 10 the dentistT'
That's NJ business" he snar.ed al
me.
"And its mine IS well. Don't answer
me back ike that You seem 10 forge.
who I am"
81 never can forget that"
And don't you Try 10 ! an your
mother-in-iaw. | ar head boss Of his
shanty Sc long a. YOU and my daueb-
ter live together / s5a!. look oct for
her side o. things Opea that mouth Of
yours and let me see the tooth"
I'll take care OF my own toothache."
be mumbled-
"And so will l. Open your mouth"
He hesitated for a monen and then
obeyed, with a groan.
It's that old tooth right there" /
said as | wrigGled at ii. and a pretty
man you are. It's got a cavity big
enough to hold 8 peanut. Why didn't
you go to the dentist last night instead
of t%hrashing around and disturbing the
house? A man forty-fve years Old
afraid of al old TOOTH
"Who-who invited you here?' he
asked as he sat down and changed
hands on the jaw.
II invited myself. When / get ready
to come, 1 come; when l get ready to
go, I 60"
And you-you may stay a whole
week"
1.-TWO, three, four Of them. / shall
remain until you have cuddled down at
least. Now, then, you stay right where
you are until after luncheon and don't
be providing around the house and try
ing to De a martyr. You are Nc martyr.
and don't forget it."
"But my tooth achesr' be walled.
Then let it ache. When your wife
had toothache for two weeks ard had
finally to have six drawn at once, you
were whooping around the house and
cracking hickory nuts with your teeth.
You called her a BOBBY for crying. No
more hot ashes, hot salt, peppermint or
paregoric. After luncheon you ans I
will take a little walk together"
ITO the dentist's?"
ITO the dentists, Mr.. Bowser."
"Never! III die firstw
"You hear me and get ready. You'If
| go If you have to go In an ambulance"
Mr.. Bowser cuddied up or the
i lounge with only the cat to keep him
|, company, and I went about straight
ening things out. No doubt his tooth
did ache, and he felt bad all over, but
I had no pity for him. When a moth
er-in-law begins to pity her son-ir.
law she loses all influence over him.
Mrs. Bowser would have put some.
thing cold on his head and a hot iron
at his feet.
When luncheon was served be re-
fused to taste of a single thing, but .!
didn't press him. An hour later he
pretended to be asleep, but I rubbed
his bald head in a vigo Gus way and
| said:
"Now, then, for the dentist's"
"Never! I'll die first!" he shouted as
| he rolled OF the lounge.
you'll either talk a walk on your
| legs, Mr.. Bowser, or I'll hire four meD
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Copyright. 1904. by C B. Lewisl
AM Mr.. Bowser's mother-in-law.

Copyright. 1904. by c. B. Lewisl
AN Mr.. Bowser's mother-in-law.
1 am the only person on earth
who can make him turn pale and
shiyer.
I do not hold a terrible secret over
him. but / have a little way about me
that calls his bluffs.
/ came into the game at an early
date, as soon as he became my son-in-
law.
I saw that he was good hearted. but
inclined to thunder around and be the
1T, and he hadn't been married four
weeks when 1 took him by the ear and
said:
Sonny, you have married my only
daughter. You have promised to love.
honor and cherish her"
And I'll do it, he replied.
you'll have to. sonny-youIl have to
or settle with me. You have got q
voice like a bull and a way Of making
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jefferson Dayis's JaiIor.

rier: There seem to be a ending
controversy as to who was RESPONSE
bic for the ironing of President JEFF
ferson Davis Should not the attached
order from the Assistant Secretary Of
War c.. A. Dana set the matter at rest
forever?
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d. CARDWELL
d. O<iIkD ISIAII
Columbia, s.. c., February IL.

(From Records of the Rebellion, Sc
ries II, Vol VIII. Serial No 121. Page
5,657.]
Fort Monroe. May %. 1865.
Brevet Major General Miles is hereby
authorized and directed to place man.
acles and letters upon the hands and
feet Of Jefferson Davis n Clement
c. Clay, whenever he nay think it ad-
visable, in order to render their i'm
prisonment more secure. By order OF
the Secretary of War.