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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-01
WHERE IT WAS DONE.

Joe Bing, he cut ten cord o. wood
From rise to set o. sun;
He cut it, an he piled It, too,
Yes, sir, that's wat he done.
To cut ten cord Of wood, vow,
Is one tremenjus chore-
Joe Bing cut his behind the stove
In Luscomb's grocery store.
Joe Bing, he cut eight loads o. hay,
swan. an raked It. too,
An in twelve hours by the clock
He was entirely through.
He could, guess. before he slept
Cut jes' as many more
He cut 1t where he did the wood,
In Luscomb's grocery store.
Joe Bing, he plowed four acres onct,
He plowed It good an neat;
An fore the sun had near gone down
The job was all complete.
The hosses never turned hair,
Want tired, ner leas bit sore.
He pl0wed It all in one short day
In Luscomb's grocery store.
Joe Bing, he made five dollars onct
BY simply pickin' hops;
He done It all In Jest day
With time for sev'ral stops.
He could as well a-kept 1t up
A dozen days or more.
Where was it done2 The same oil place
In Luscomb's grocery store.
- WOnaOne Home COnaDQn{On
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-01
AS 10 wETTING PENCILS.

The act of putting a lead pencil to
the tongue to wet it just before writ
ing, which is habitual with many
people, is one of the oddities for
which it is hard to give any reason,
unless it began in the days when
pencils were poorer than now, and
was continued by example to the
next generation.
A lead pencil should never be wet.
1t hardens the lead and ruins the
pencil. This fact is known to news
paper men and stenographers. But
nearly every one else does wet pen
Gil before using it. The fact was
definitely settled by a newspaper
clerk away down east. Being of a
mathematical turn of mind, he ascer-
tanned by actual count that of fifty
persons who came into his Office to
write an advertisement or a church
notice, forty-nine wet pencil in
their mouths before using it. Now,
this clerk always uses the best pen
ellis, cherishing a good one with
something of the pride soldier feels
in his gun or his sword, and it hurts
his feelings to have his pencils spoil
ed. But politeness and business
considerations require him to lend
his pencil scores of times a day.
And often, after it had been wet till
it was hard and brittle and refuses to
mark, his feelings would overpower
him.
Finally he got some cheap pencils
and sharpened them and kept them
to lend. The first person who took
up the stock pencil was drayman,
whose breath smelt of onions and
whiskey. He held the point in his
mouth and soaked it several minutes,
while he was torturing himself in
the effort to write an advertisement
for a missing bulldog. Then a
sweet-looking young lady came into
the office, with kid gloves that but
toned half the length of her arm.
She picked up the same old pencil
and pressed it to her dainty lips pre-
paratory to writing an advertisement
for lost bracelet. The. clerk would
have stayed her hand, even at the risk
of box of the best pencils, but he was
too late. And thus that pencil pass
ed from mouth to mouth for week.
1t was sucked by people of all ranks
and stations, and all degrees of clean
illness and uncleanliness. But 'twere
we'll to forbear. Surely no one who
reads this will ever again wet a lead
pencil.-G'abAite.
AN IRIsHMAN, on visitinga prison,
was looking through the barred win
dow from the outside, when one OF
the prisoners, coming close to the
bars, exclaimed
"What are you peeking in here
for |"
! ''Faith," said Pat, "I'd rather be
p'akin' in than p'akin' out"
Tommy, said Mr.. Tucker, laying
him across his knee and vigorously
applying large and muscular pater
nal hand, cit almost breaks my heart
to do this"
"Then why don't you let NAV dc
it!' yelled Tommy.
OLD BAcHELoR-Did you see in
divorce case lately where the wife
took the dog and let her husband
have the child?
Old Maid-Yes; / suppose sh'
felt it would feel too strange not tc
have something growing about th'
] house.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-01

ALL OF US can't be in the same
boat. If we were, we'd sink it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-01

THE PEOPLE in the fiat above sell
dom call the baby what the fond pa
rents do.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-01

"Do YOU object to a cigarette
smoker" asked young Softleigh, as
he prepared to light cigarette.
really, don't know" rejoined
Miss Cutting. "No gentleman ever
smoked one in my presence"
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
mrs. KUEHN TELLS OF TRIP
Heiress Says She Visited Ireland for
Evidence Against Cousin.
Married German Doctor Last October
After Six Months Life Under
Marital Contract.

New York. Dec. 2l-Smiling aud happy,
and contradicting in every word Of her
.conversat ton and every glance Of her
bright blue eyes, that she has either been
in a sanitarium, or is addicted 10 the use
of drugs, Mrs. Ida May Miller Kuehn.
the Iong-missing Philadelphia heiress,
was interviewed in her room at the Hotel
Astor to-day
She related, with much amusement, the
narrative Of her trip abroad. from which
she returned very Unexpectedly yester-
day, and explained how her husband
created the impression that she was in
a sanatorium for the purpose of conceal
ing her whereabouts. in order that her
enemies" would not discover the pur-
pose Of her visit TO Ireland.
DR.. Kuehn was with his wife, looking
not bit the worse for the rough handling
he received a week ago when the same
enemies broke into his Wife'S house in
Philadelphia and arrested him in an en-
deavor to find out just where the young
heiTesS was.
Mrs. Kuehn is twenty-four years old,
plump and healthy. She enjoyed her visit
TO her fathers old home at KnockmOyle,
County Tyrone, immensely, and is positive
that her trip has been very successful
DR.. Kuehn and his rich young wife
who hopes now to gain possession of her
fathers estate of Sl00.O10 lived for six
months under a marriage Of agreement
They signed the contracts on May 8. and
were married on October 10 by Magis-
trate Ladner, one of Philadelphla's old
police court judges. Asked if she be-
Ueved in the Parsons trial marriage. Mrs
kuehn said she did not Il simply think
that a man and q woman should not
have 10 depend on the law to sustain the
bonds that love and respect should keep
intact l also think that no one should
have to remain tied to a person whom he
or she had ceased to love"
DIT. KIehn and his wife returned TO
Philadelphia this afternoon. and viii
spend Christmas at home. amid the first
peace and quiet that they have expert
enCed since they met
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
SCATTERS ASHES TO WINDS.
Friend Of Eccentric Miner VIII Per-
form Strange Ceremony.

Pueblo, Colo. Dec. 24.-Early Christmas
morning. at a little cabin on top Of Galena
Mountain. near Silverton. a peculiar ceTe-
mOny viii be enacted. In the presence Of
a few old friends the ashes Of r. F. Me
gold, Colorado pioneer and discOYeTer Of
the famous "OlG Hundred mine. viii be
scattered 10 the winds, in accordance with
the miners dying request
G. W. COburn. one Of the best known
mining experts in the State and a lifelong
friend Of NiegOid, viii have charge of the
ceremony. He passed through Pueblo yes
terday on his way TO Silver-on with a
vase containing the ashes OF his friend
NiegOld died "a few days ago in Los An
geies, where the body was cremated.
He was eccentric in his ways but hon
esty and hard work won him a fortune
estimated at a million in the San Juan
mining district He came to Colorado
from Germany when sixteen years old.
and, after experiencing all the hardships
Of "a miners life in the early time. opened
a claim on Galena Mountain. which paid
well from the first. known as "Old Hun
dred.' This WAS twenty years ago.
From that time almcst up TO his death
Niegold lived alone on the mountain top.
During the winter he saw no one except
his business partner, CobUrn.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
FIGHTING BOB EVANS ANGRY,
Makes Protest Over Searching of the
Ohio by Customs People.

Rear Admiral Robley D Evans. com
manding the Atlantic feet, was at the
Navy Department yesterday for the pur-
pose Of reporting to Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf what he considers the out
rageous treatment accorded the bluejack-
cts on the battleships Ohio by the Gus
toms authorities of New York City. Ac-
cOrding to naval authorities. the action Of
the customs people in boarding the Ohio
when she arrived at New York from
Manila, and holding the bluejackets up
tor duty on the inexpensive trinkets they
had brought back for their sweethearts.
sisters, and mothers. is unprecedented.
Admiral Evans feels particularly bitter
over the incident. 1t is understood he has
recommended to Secretary Metcalf that
the Navy Department make official com
plant to the Treasury Department IL
is claimed that there was nothing of
value brought in by the men Of the Ohio.
and that the searching of the ship by
the customs people was an insult to the
American navy. The matter probably
viii be taken up Immediately by Secre-
tary Metcalf with the Secretary Of the
Treasury.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
RISKS HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS.
Charles Bell Makes Daring Rescue
at n Fire in Neyx York.


New York, Dec. A-FIre trapped two
men on the fire escape platform outside
of the offices Of Strysower & Vogel. on
the top floor of the f0ur-storv building at
c. East Eleventh street, this afternoon.
When the flames began TO scorcb their
necks and the tongues of fire from the
windows below We're blistering their feet.
the two men climbed to the railing Of the
platform and prepared to jump to the
street.
Just then a young man in shirt sleeves
leaned far out of a window in the offices
OF the Empress Manufacturing Companv
on the sixth floor Of the building at No
81, and held out his right hand toward
the two men on the fire escape. The
young man was Charles Bell. book
keeper for the concern. Sol Ostrow and
a. Goldberg. two clerks. held his feet
while he leaned with his body half out
Of the window. From the window to the
fire escape, where the two men i'm danger
were, was about four feet. Bells right
arm bridged the space about half way
Morris Kuhn, one Of the men on the
platform, tried the experiment Of escape
first. He stood on the railing and pressed
his body against the hot bricks while he
reached out his arm toward Bells out
stretched hand. The crowd Of Christmas
shoppers on Broadway held its breath
The hands clasped and Kuhn swung out
and down Immediately he was drawn in
the window. The crowd sent up a cheer.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
FOURDIEINRACERIOT
Mississippi Town Scene of a
Pitched Battle.
BLACKS SURROUND WAHALAK.
Trouble started on Train by Negro
Who Il shot by COnductor-Dead
Mans Companion Kills Detective
and Il LyDched-Gov. Vardaman
Sends Troops to the Scene.

Meridian, Miss. Dec. 24.-Two white
men and two negroes are reported dead
in "a race riot tonight at Wahalak. in
Kemper County. a wayside station on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad fifty miles
north of Meridian. Only meager infCrma-
tion has been received.
one negro, Tom Simpson, is reported
to have been Iynched. The names of the
two whites dead and the other negro
could not be ascertained.
The trouble is said TO have broken out
at : O'Clock tonight. and was precipi-
tated by the lynching Of Simpson, who
yesterday assassinated John O'Brien, "a
veteran white railroad detective in the
employ of the railroad.
Blacks Surround Town.
Negroes from many farms and sawmuls
surrounded the town, swarmed into the
little place. and created a reign of terror.
Gov Vardaman was apprised Of
the situation and at 9 o'clock ordered that
Battery I and Company D, Of the State
national guard. proceed at once to Wa
halak The troops left an hour later
ron a special train.
Up to midnight no word had been re-
ceived from them. The artillery carried
gatling gun and the infantry were
heavily armed, Capt, Roland Sullivan
commands the battery. with ffty men.
and Capt Raymond Bel leads the infan-
try with 80 men,
There are but twenty-five white resi-
dents in Wahalak.
Barricaded Outlaw Lynched.
The negro said to have been Iynched
was a companion of Eli Tompkins
aboard a Mobile and Ohio train yester-
day. near Wahalak. when a disturbance
with a conductor. Thomas Cooper. arose.
Cooper shot and fatally wounded Tomp-
kfns. whose body was found later beside
the railroad tracks. Simpson. after at
tacking the conductor with a knife.
jumped from the train.
A posse. among whom was officer
O'Brien, went in search of Simpson, who.
heavily armed. barricaded himself in a
house. O'Brien walked boldly into the
place. and as he entered a door the fugi-
tive desperado literally blew the officers
head of
Before the men with O'Brien could
marshal their forces, Simpson had fed TO
the woods He was captured at dusk to-
day, and, according to reports received
here, the posse strung him from a con-
venient limb.
News of the lynching spread like fire
among the negroes in the surrounding
country and great crowds of them came
troOping to town. The negroes were met
by a large force of whites, made up
mostly of farmers and sawmill labOrers.
and a desperate fight followed
Both telegraph and telephone wires
were cut early in the night, and there is
no communication with the town except
by messenger.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
ARREST LARGE FUR IMPORTER.
Officials Charge BERNARD Drucker
with DefraudinE the Government.

New York. Dec. 4-Bernard Drucker
head of the fur importing firm Of 3
Drucker & Co. OF - Bond street, and
Jean Massce. customs broker. Of C6
Beaver street. were arrested to-day by
United States Marshal Henkel on the
charge of conspiring to defraud the gov
crnmcnt out Of large sums Of money.
which the complaining officials alIese
should have been paid by Drucker's firm
on importau0ns. The prisoners We're held
in $500 bail each by Commissioner
Shields FOR examination.
The complaint was sworn To by O. W.
Crenshaw. a special employe Of the
Treasury Department. Il charges. among
other things. that the defendants. to-
gether. made an entry upon an impOrta-
ton Of Fur clippings from Germany. on
December / last. which they declared 10
be worth 2Sl55 marks, but which the
government claims was properly worth
$50 marks. and the government officials
auege this was but a fraction Of the
transactions already developed.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
VICTIMS FACE MANN
Gates, Gould, Ryan, Morgan
in Town Topics Case.
TO TESTIFY IN LIBEL SUIT
MiIIiOnniFcs Promise 20 Appear If
served with Subpoenas in Norman
fisher of Town TopIcs-VanderbiIt
II Included in the List.

New York. Dec 2l-SeveraI men Of
prominence may be called at the trial of
Col William d. Mann, Of Town Topics.
which was continued to-day before Re
corder Con. John ". Gates has been sub
poenaed, and some others have expressed
their willingness 10 appear with a sub
poena. Some Of those who may be called
by the prosecution are O. II. Perry Bel
mont. George J. Gould. Thomas F. Ryan.
J. Pierpont Morgan. and William X.
Vanderbilt
Assistant District Attorney Garvan re-
fused TO say anything about the calling
Of these witnesses. Their names and 9th
ers were mentioned when Col Mann was
on the stand as a witness for Justice
Deuel. at the trial of Norman Hapgood
for criminal libel Col Mann told Of his
relations with them.
The purpose Of the prosecution. it is un-
derstood is 10 show that the story told
by Col. Mann of his dealings with these
men was just about as accurate as his
explanation Of Count Reginald Wards
gift Of Rico mining stock. a letter from
Count Ward, on which Col Mann wrote
20. h, W. D. NJ" is the basis OF the
perjury charge against the colonel.
II Col Mann decides not to go on the
witness stand it is said that it will not
be possible To call these witnesses. The
exact plan Of the prosecution is not
known, except that it Is hoped to prove
by certain witnesses that statements made
by Col Mann at the Hapgood trial were
not true
Only expert testimony was taken to
day David c. Decker. teller for the
Union Square Bank. testified about the
20. X, ". d. NJ" on the Ward letter.
saying that in his opinion the colonel
wrote the initials 1t is understood that
only bank tellers will be called as hand
writing experts. and not the usual pro-
fessionals
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
COL. JAMES H. PEPPER DEAD
Noted Kentucky Distiller Suffered
Broken Leg Thursday.
Organic Complications Set in with
Fatal ResuIts-Wife Seriously III
with Bronchial Pneumonia.

New York. Dec. 2L-CoL James II.
Pepper Of Lexington. KY. the weIl-known
d.stiIIer. died at the Waldorf-Astoria at
5.15 o'clock this afternoon. His wife is
in a serious condition in the same hotel.
suffering from an attack of bronchial
pneumonia.
Because Of an oversight in the drawing
Of the death certificate Coroner Har-
burger was sent to the hotel tonight
by the board Of health to investigate
Col. Peppers death, and it is likely that
an autopsy viii be performed merely as
matter of form
The death certificate. which was fled
soon after Col. Pepper died. gave the
causes of his being taken of as kidney.
lung. and heart troubles. and an impact
ed fracture of the leg. The health board
rejected the certificate because it failed
TO give the details in regard TO the frac-
ture. Coroner Hamburger visited the no.
tel at about o'clock. He said. after he
had made an investigation:
col Pepper was attended by Dr. Rich
ard 4 Gibbons, who has an office at 50
West Thirty-sixth street, but who lives
at the Waldorf. Dr. Gibbons was assisted
by Drs Jaleway, w T. Bull, Gibney,
and Caldwell The latter is an X-ray ex-
pert. have seen DIT. Gibbons and ". A.
McCuskey, one of the assistant managers
Of the hotel, and have made an examina-
ton Of the body I have ordered DIT
O'HanlOn TO make a thorough investiga-
ton. The body has been removed TO an
establishment"
DIT. Gibbons told the newspaper men
that Col. Pepper had broken his leg last
Thursday afternoon He was on the
way TO the hotel after a business visit
in Wall street. and had just left the
train at the Thirty-third street
station. He had started to cross the
road when he slipped and fell. striking on
the curb
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
SM00T MAY RETAIN SEAT.
Mormon Senator Likely to BE Sup
ported by His Colleagues.


That Reed Smoot, the Mormon Senator
from Utah, wiz retain his seat in the
Senate seems certain. A vote viii be
taken in January on the resolution re-
ported from the Committee on Privileges
and Elections declaring the Sepator not
entitled 10 his seat II is the opinion OF
the best informed Senators that the
resolution will not command q majority
Of votes. The principal speeches in Op-
position TO Senator Smoot were made be-
fore the holidays by Senators Burrows, of
Michigan. and dubois, Of Idaho.
The Senator's who viii lead the fight
in favor OF the Mormon Senator VIII be
heard soon after the holidays Foraker.
Sutherland. and Hopkins viii be heard in
behalf of Smoot. The Utah Senator viii
be heard 81 his own behalf. A canvass
o. the Senate shows at least ffty-two
votes in opposition to the resolution de
claring Shoots seat vacant. A majority
of the Republican Senators believe he is
entitled 10 his seat. and Senator Dubois
has not been able 10 rally all the Demo-
cratic Senators in opposition.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
AID FOR FRENCH CATHOLICS.
Pope Gives His Sanction to Efforts
OF Duke of Norfolk.

Rome, Dec. 2i-The Duke of Norfolk
has volunteered, with the sanction Of the
Pope, 10 form a committee in Great
Britain 20 raise subscriptions to aid the
Catholic Church in France.
In accordance with the custom the
cardinals presented their Christmas con
gratulations to the Pope to-day. Replying
10 their congratulations. his holiness said
he was sorry he had no good news 20 give
Abiding to the trials of the church in
France he said he wished he and the whole
sacred college could be in that country
and share the persecution Of the clergy
there. He was consoled however, by the
solidarity of the French episcopacy. and
also by the appreciation of the bishops
throughout the world He trusted that the
church would ultimately triumph
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
BANKS FUNDS IN TRUNKS.
Discovery Is Nade That Chicago FL
nancier Planned Flight.

Chicago. Dec. 2i-Discovery that VII
liam J. Atkinson. president Of the defunct
Lincoln Bank, of Morton Park mysteri-
oUsly shipped five trunks from his home
u Morton Park the night before the SEN
sational failure, gave rise to-day to the
belief that the missing $500 from the
funds of the depositors were sent to New
Orleans. Flight from Chicago to avoid
exposure and possible prosecution of the
bank crash is now believed to have been
contemplated by Atkinson.
The money supposed TO be in the trunks
would have been ample 90 hide him away
in South America
1t was learned that the trunks were
shipped under suspicious circumstances
from three different railroad stations
This looks as though the banker now
under arrest planned 10 join his wife IN
the South before the failure
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
LATE OWNER GIVES BIG GIFTS.
New York Millionaire Adopts Novel
Pnrting Remembrance

Bristol. Tenn. Dec. 24.-Henry X. Nc
Harg, the New York millionaire who re
Gently sold the Virginia and Southern
Railway TO the Southern Railway Com
Pany. as a parting remembrance to en-
ployes Of the road, to-day presented each
head Of department with check equal
TO one years salary, and to each en-
ployes of the road, to-day presented each
airy. The checks aggregated nearly S50,-
600, and were delivered to the men along
the line on a special trains the cOnduc-
tor being attired i'm Santa Claus garb.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
SENTENCE ADMIRAL TO DEATH.
Court Decides He Surrendered to
Japanese Withou; Resistance.

st. Petersburg, Dec. 24-The court
martial trying Admiral Nebogatof and
the senior officers of his squadron found
him and Capts. Lichin Gregorieff. and
Smirnoff commanding war ships. guilty
Of surrendering their ships 70 the Japan
ese without trying to defend them.
All were sentenced to death. bat were
recommended to the Cars mercy. II is
prcbable that the Car viii commute the
sentences to ten years Imprisonment in a
fortress.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
MAYORS NOW BAPTIZE.
French officials Conduct Marriages
and Christenfngs.

coming quite common in France. and the
mayor of town now often acts as cure
at baptisms, giving the parents a certif-
cate that the child had been civilly bap-
tzed. and expressing the hope that the
child will become a free republican citi-
zen. and viii honor its parents and god
parents.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
DEATH DUEL IN SCHOOL.
Father Kills SIiEhtiRE Teacher and
Pays Penalty

Whitesburg, KY Dec. 2l-At a school
Christmas tree entertainment last night
John Branham and Silas Mullins drew re-
volvers and began firing AT each other
The shooting was taken up by members
of the Brauham and Mullins factions
When the little room was cleared Of smoke
it vas found that both Brsnham and Nul-
Inns had been killed. and that Albert NIul-
Inns was dying
The larger part Of the assemb,ace was
srnool children. Mullins was the teacher
ana made sighting remark about q
present given TO the child of Branham.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25

News was received at the State Depart
men yesterday that Eloy Alfaro had been
elected constitutional President of Ecua-
dor by the national assembly at Quay
aquil
President AIfaro has exercised the
function of the Presidency for a consider
able time. but owing to questions about
the legality of his election disorders
have occurred from time TO time a revO-
lutionary movement having recently been
suppressed at Guayaquil. The action Of
the assembly. it is believed, viii prevent
further outbreaks of any magnitude.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-25
LOCAL.

Foraker Gains by Negro Trouble.
1-Government After Standard in South
west
president Firm in Brownsville Case.
2-AH Washington Celebrates Christ
mas
annual Report Compliments Life
saving Service.
l2-District May Change Divorce Laws
Court Hears the Youngest
Lawyer
l2-BarnwaH Wants Churches Taxed.