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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

How To CURE SPLIT HocF.-I had a horse
that had booth hoofs split from top to bottom.
He could not walk without his feet spreading
apart 1 kept him for three months on straw
one foot deep in the stable, but all did no good.
At last went to the blacksmith shop and had
heavy shoes made which spread wide at the
heels. To these heavy shoes there was welded,
at the outside of each heel piece made of
shoe nail iron. These pieces were made to fit
we'll around the foot, about inch below the
hair. let the pieces come together within
b alf an inch each, and turned up about three
iourths of an inch. In the turned up part a
hole was made to receive bolt an inch long,
with square head and screw and nut on the
other end. On mailing the shoes on and put
ting the bolt in and screwing on the nut,
the foot was brought together. In this way, l
was enabled to work him every day if l wish
ell. Previous to this my horse had not walked
one mile in three months. Next day after
had the shoes put on drove him in carriage
twenty miles, and have used him right along.
Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
PrecOciOaLS.

One day at school told the boys
Twas wrong to chew tobacco;
A six-year-old, grown very bold,
Presumed to give his veto.
Says he, 81 saw fellow chaw
Because he had the toothache;
'Taint very wrong for any one
To chew that has the toothache."
The school agreed with him; indeed
His logic charmed the urchins.
Quite puzzled, I could scarce reply
AT first to his assertions.
A happy thought however brought
Relief from Greeley's namesake,
Horace" said, ''if a girl instead
Should chance to have the toothache,
And want to chew, what should she do :"
Like older ones by time unschooled
He scratched his head, and then he said,
ssShe'd orter have the tooth pulled.n
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

@-A never yielding problem to the newly
married man is how to carry groceries people
will not suspect that he is just married. One
looks SO sheepish that he publicly advertised,
while another, in trying to avoid this extreme,
becomes so preternaturally solemn that he is
betrayed at once.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
PRICES REDUCED.
Madame IN. ROSENTAa a e.,
Nn .4Q North Cav Sf

Invites the attention of purchasers to the fol
lowing:
Ladies' Velvet and Crepe Bonnets, OF best
quality, from $3.50 to $500; Ladies' Velvet
Crepe, Straw and Felt Hats, best quality, from
$3.50 to 81 90; Children's Velvet, Straw and
Felt Hats, best quality, from IS cts. to $500
These goods all OF the latest sly les and best
trimmings. Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets in
Straw, Velvet and Felt, Is, 40, so, so and Is
cents; French Corsets 80, 40, so, 60 and IS cts
Skirt Braids, all shades, cents; Clark's and
Coates Cotton cts. IL BIB. Blankets 1926 per
pair; Ribbons, all colOrs and widths, S, s, TO-,
IL, l5 II, 20, %, rs and 80 cents; Gents I'm
dershirts and Drawers 30 cents; Ladies' Felt
Skirts $780, Double Shawls S2.25; Kid Gloves
so and 70 Gents Wooden Jackets $l.25, $3.50
and $l.75 for best, and many other kinds Of
goods that are much below usual prices.
gass~ Rad Rnvas givAn free Of charge with
all hats and bonnets bought here.
Azes- Customers purchasing from me a0eH be al
looed deduction Of 10 per cent 10 cents on each
doliar,) on presenting this advertisement. There
fore cut it out and bring 1t Nth you to
MADAME Il. ROSENTHAL,
Apr. 19,'73-ly. 279 N. GAY ST.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
ok MILE HOUSE,

YORK ROAD, NEAR TowsoNTowN.
The undersigned having taken the Six Mile
louise. York road, lateleiy occupied by Mr..
ohm Bond, will hereafter conduct the same.
he house has long been known to farmers, as
a place of resort to and from market, and the
proprietor desires to state that he will devote
his entire attention to his business and will en-.
Cdeavor to merit the expectations Of the public.
His table and bar will be supplied with all that
the seasons afford. Attentive hostlers will at
all times be present to care for stock placed In
his charge. G3~ Charges moderate.
THOS. E. r. GERMAN.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

AHIR1sH VALENrINE.-Oh, Paddy, swate Pad
dy if was yer daddy, I'd kill ye with kisses
entirely. To feel yer swate breath, | would
starve me to death, an lay off my hopes alto
gether; too joost have taste of yer arm on
me waist, I'd laugh at the mainest Of weather.
Dear Paddy, be mine, me own Valentine-yell
find me both gentle and civil; our life we will
spend to an Elegant ind, and care may go dance
with the divil.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
HOaO lIiLdneSS Su6dues.

"The following sketch, from the excellent
Christian Weekly, may be intended for children,
but there is that Of practical suggestion in it
which may be accepted by the mature, and
adopted in their every day life with great profit:
Toms sister Nell was pretty, and, being a
thority over him. Tom was rough and awk-
ward, and just at the age when boy resents
all meddling with his rights" He would put
his hands in his pockets, his chair on Nell's
dress, and his feet on the wndow-sill. OF
course they. often quarreled.
"For PHYS sake, Tom, do take your hands
out of your pockets " Nell would say in her
most vexing manner.
"What are pockets for, I'd like to know, if
not to put ones hands in ?" and Tom would
whistle and march off.
atom, don't believe you've combed your
hair for week."
"Well, what's the use? 1t would be all
roughed up again in less than an hour"
81 do wish, Tom, you would take your great
boots off the window sill !"
ooh, don't bother me, Pm reading" Tom
would say; and the boots refused to stir an
inch, which, of course, was very naughty
And 80 it would 60 from morning till night.
But little sister Bess had somewhat differ
emit way with somewhat stubborn Tom. Bess
seemed to understand that coaxing was better
than driving; and sometimes, when he sat with
UOIu Aduuo piuuSou III AiS pOChcISJ DUES Will
book or picture, would nestle down beside
him, and almost before he knew it, oae hand
would be patting her curls, while the other
turned the leaves or held the pictures. If she
CHANGED to see his feet on the window she
would say, "Just try my ottoman, Tom, dear,
and see how comfortable it is to the feet" and
though Tom occasionally growled in good
natured way about its being too low, the boots
always came down to its level. Whenever his
hair looked very rough, she would steal behind
him aud smooth it out in a way Tom liked
so well that it was temptation to let it go
rough, just for the pleasure ofhaving her comb
it. Yet for the next three days, at least, he
would take special pains to keep every hair in
its place, simply to please little Bess.
AS they grew older, Bess, in the same quiet
loving way, helped him to grow wise and man
ly. If she had an interesting book, she always
wanted Tom to enjoy it with her; if she was
going to call on any of her young friends, Tom
was always invited to 60 with her.
al can't understand" said lady Nell, "why
you should always want that boy forever at
your elbow He's rough and awkward as a
bear"
''Some bears are as gentle as Kittens" said
Bess, slipping her arm through his, with low
ing hug, while "the bear" felt great warm
glow at his heart as he walked away with Bess,
and determined to try harder to be courteous
and gentle as kitten" for her sake"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

@-Be no. stingy of kind words and pleas
ing acts for such are fragrant gifts. whose per-
fume will gladden. the heart and sweeten the
life of all who receive them.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

GB-The following is published by the Capt.
tai as verbatim report of lecture recently
given by a colored woman of Washington to her
hopeful offspring: "Ephrahem, come to your
mudder; now, whar you bin ?" "Playin' wild
de white folks chillun." "You is, Ell? See
hyar, chile, you broke you ole mudders heart,
and brings her gray hairs in sorrow to de grave,
wild yer recklumness and carryin's on wild ebl
assoayshuns. Hadn't I raised you up in de
way you should ought to go ?" "Yessum."-
Hadn't been kline and tender wild you, and
"Yessum." "Habn't reezened wild you, and
prayed wild you, and deplored de good Lord to
wrap you in his buzzum? An isn't l yer
material detector and garden fc' de law ?"-
"Yessum." "Well, den, do you s'pose Use
gwine to hab yer morals ruptured by de white
trash No, sab You git in de house dis instep:
an if eber cotch you 'municatn' wild de white
trash any mo-, TO de Lord, niger, I'll break
yer black head wild brick !" "Yessum."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

@-A poor, ernaciated Irishman, having
called on physician in a forlorn hope. the
latter spread large mustard plaster. and put
it on the poor fellows lean chest Pat then
with fearful eyes looked down on it and said,
doctor, it strikes me it's dale of mustard for
40 little mate"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

BUYING MIRRoRs.-The total disregard Of
many of our people to the fitness Of things is in
no respect so clearly manifested as in the pur
chase of mirrors. One kind is true in its rehec
ton, the two others are exaggerative. Of the
exaggerative one unduly expands the figure,
and the other unduly elongates it. Hundreds
of mirrors are bought every day without refer
ence to this fact You will find short, squatty
people with mirrors that make them look still
shorter and more squatty; and thin, gaunt
people with looking glasses that pare them
down fully one-half. And thus, through care
lessness and indifference the seeds of dissatis-
faction and distrust are sown, and many happy
homes are broken up, to scatter their broken
hearted contents upon the world. People with
square, expansive faces should select elongating
mirrors, and those who are long and thin faced
should get those which will expand them
Self-opinion is stronger than anything else, and
when our own glass assures us that we look
well, it is nothing whatever what other people
may think. You know that yourself.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
RELATIVE WEIGHTs.-Tt

RELATIVE WEIGHTs.-The average weights OF
boys at birth range a little over six pounds and
a half, while girls fall little below the figure.
For the first twelve years the two sexes increase
in weight in about the same ratio, after which
time the boys take the decided lead-the result
being that young men of twenty average about
one hundred and forty-three pounds, while the
average for young women of the same age is
twenty three pounds less. Men reach their
heaviest bulk at the age OF thirty five, their
average weight at that time being about one
hundred and ffty-two pounds. The maximum
of weight is attained by women at fifty years,
and is about one hundred and twenty eight
pounds. The weight of the average man or
woman at full growth is about twenty times
that at BIRTH
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

MANS INHUMANITY.-In Butler county, re-
Gently, young man who had "courted" to a
late hour, after the girls father had told his
daughter that she must never sit up later than
ten o'clock, discovered, as he was leaving the
house, that the old mans barn had been fired
by an incendary. Hesucceeded in extinguish-
ing the flames with little or no loss. And now
the natural inference would be that the owner
of the barn would invite that young man to sit
up with his daughter until late hour every
night, to guard against renewal of the incen-
diary attempt. But he didn't. On the contra
~, he accused his daughters lover of setting
fire to the barn, and supplemented his remarks
with the warning that if he came fooling around
his Maria any more he would break his back.
The disconsolated lover says mans inhumanity
10 man makes countless thousands mourn.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

MgrWm. M. Evarts tells this good story -
A few years since, at the urgent request of one
of his youngest daughters, he sent up to his
country place in Vermont donkey for her
use. She had read about donkeys, but was not
familiar with their peculiar vocalism. The an
imals strange noises inspired her with the pro-
foundest pity for his evident distress. So she
wrote her father: "Dear papa do wish you
would come up here soon my donkey is so lone
some."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

@-A Brooklyn judge charged the jury in
recent suit for breach of promise of marriage,
that the "gleam of the eye and the conjunction
of the lips are overtursa, when they become
frequent and pretrastea."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

'SoAT!-We were sitting by the ireside last
night, importuning our wife to desst from any
further condign manifestations towards our
youthful image, who had inadvertently and in
nocenty converted box of excelsior matches
into fam beau, and were urging upon her the
propriety of restraining the small modicum
commercial measurement Of temper that she
possessed, when the gentle waves of the am
bent air, waited toward US ravishing shower
of lasciveous music, low and soft like the faint
tones of an engine whistle few yards off
Our matrimonial partner, (who constitutes the
company of the frm) rose from her chair with
the same precision that would characterize the
movement of one who had mistaken red hot
stove for plush cushion, seized broom in
true artistic manner and struck an attitude that
would render Lawrence Barrett envious. After
receiving few more pulsations of feline har
mony, she opened the door and stood for few
moments gazing in rapture at the lovely scene,
and drinking in raptuously the gushing sym
phony that rppled through the air, and thus
with an Eolian voice pronounced with pathetic
ardor, the one word "scat," at the same time
hurting the broom out into the Cimmerian
darkness. A crashing of glass, scream Of
help, and the situation was before me. My
wife had missed the cat, but the broom true to
its mark, had struck the window Of our near
neighbor, and hence this explanation. We are
now prepared to inform any one of the cost OF
putting in four glass, 10x1o.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

@-I can always tell water when ! see it, !"
remarked Toddyblossom the other day; ait
looks so much like GIN"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

NE Off man who married his fifth wife, the
Traveller says, ono one can say that he is not
LAYING up his treasures in heaven"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

HAVING purchased all my varied stock of
the above named goods for Cash, l am
enabled is give greater bargains than houses
that have to buy on credit and pay more for
their goods on that account. Believing in the
motto, "Quick Sales and Small Profits" | have
made up my mird to sell at per cent profit
and thereby gain and retain the best of Gus
tom. To prove that am in earnest and do not
put in print what don't mean,
LOOK AT FOLIO WING PRICES:
Yard wide bleached and I'M
Canton fannels .............10, IL and Is "
Alpacas 20, IS and 30 "
Double shawls 90, $l.50 and $500
All wool cassimeres So IS and 20 cts.
Sattlnets..".. ........'Zo, oU anu %
French corsets. ...'....'.."oV
Ladies' Hose ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lUJ IL ana 10
Clark's and Coats cotton ........"........".."o
Wilimantic. ..."...4 "
Sept. Is, lS73.-1y.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

@n- How to become practically acquainted
with the "rule Of three" Live with your wife,
msthsr and nsther-in law.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

TLoUR, MEAL SALT,
SHOES, NAILS, MAcKEREL,
RABBITS SOAP, COAL OIL,
cheese, Hats, Maccaroni Starch, Crockery,
smoked Herrings, and many other articles too
numerous to mention. All sold at reasonable
prices by cHAs. r. CHEW
Feb. LIT.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
TeC0S Cattle Raising.

C. C. Fulton, editor of the Baltimore Am,eri-
can, has this to say of the cattle business in the
Lone Star State:
GA stranger coming to Texas would be al
most of the opinion that cattle must spring up
out Of the earth, or be blown over the land by
the fierce northers. Every steamer that leaves
New Orleans carries its deck load of tile, and
half the men to be met on the streets wear the
long spurs and carry the cattle whips which
indicate the rancbmen of the pr&irie. The
raising of cattle seems to be the main staple in
this section of the State, whilst many of those
engaged in it do not own an acre of land. They
brand and mark their cattle, and turn them
loose on the unerclosed prairies, to multiply
and increase. A part of these prairies belong
to private parties, but the ma jorty are the pub
lie lands of the State. We heard this morning
of one cattle raiser whe claims that he will
have seventy five thousand calves to brand
this season, who has no enclosed pasture, but
turns his cattle loose. He claims TO have
branded sixty-three thousand last year, and
seventy thousand the preceding year. Still,
in all this great COW country it is slmost inn
possible to get drink of milk, or gu fcient for
a cup of coffee. At Galveston it costs one dol
lar per gallon. The cows raise their own calves,
which are allowed to consume all the milk. A
calf is never killed before it is year old.
"There is now, however, an effort making to
compel all parties to keep their cattle in en-
closed pastures, and to take them up off of the
public lands. 1t is argued that they should be
compelled to buy the public lands for their
pastures, and not be allowed to let their cattle
roam at large. 1t is called the "tence law"
and imposes tax on the owners of all cattle
found at1arge after certain date, equal to the
tax that would be due the State if it were own
ed by private parties. Farmers re not requir-
ed to fence their lands, but can recover damages
for the trespass of cattle in their fields. The
superiority of cattle fattened in enclosed pas
lures, and their enhanced value in the New
Orleans and Havana markets, will, howev er,
soon compel those who keep their cattle run
ming at large, to either secure enclosed pastures
or quit the business. The keeping of cattle in
pastures is a comparatively new enterprise,
and it has met with marked success everywhere
that it has been adopted.
"This whole business Of turning cattle loose
with brands is regarded as very deuoralizing
process, leading to all manner of fraud and
rascality."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21

&3-A lady says, the first time she was kiss
ed, she felt like big tub Of roses swimming in
honey, selosas, nutmeg and sranbsrriss.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
REPRESENTATION.

Shun delays, they breed remorse;
Take thy time while time is lent thee;
Creeping snails have weakest force:
Fly their fault, lest thou repent thee.
Good is best when wrought,
Lingering laborS come to naught.
-S0uthiUelL.
Coleridge says there are four kinds of read
ers: The hour glass, VIII Sc reading runs in
and out and leaves no trace of gain the Sec
ond, like the sponge, takes everything; the
third retains only refuse that some one would
throw away but the fourth, like the miner
among gems, keeps the gems and casts away
the clippings.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
Here and There u Gem.

Men live better in the past, or in the future,
than in the present
Truth sometimes tastes like medicine, but
that is an evidence that we are ill.
Heaven alone means crowned, not vanqused,
when it says forgiven Proctor.
The column is an emblem of Faith, it springs
from earth to Heaven the arch symbolzes
Mercy, it descends from heaven to earth.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the
bridge over which he must pass himself; for
every man has need to be forgven.-Lord Her.
bert.
Great men leave two different impressions of
themselves on their cotem porares-the one the
result of their public career, the other of their
private life
The earth is every day overspread with the
veil of night, for the same reason that the cages
of birds are birds are darKened; SO that we
may more readily apprehend the higher har-
monies of thought in the hush and stiffness Of
darkness.-[ Jean Paul.
Honor is the finest sense
OF justice which the human mind can frame,
Intent each lurking fralty to disclam,
And guard the way Of life from all offence
Suffered or done. - Wordsworth.
1t is not work that kills men, it's worry
Work is healthy, you can hardly put more up
on a man than he can bear. Worry is rust up
on the blade. 1t is not the revolution that de
stroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear
secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet
JulCcS.-OScCHSF.
If you would revenge yourself on those who
have sighted you, be successful; it is bitter
satire on their want of judgment to show that
you can do without them-a CALLING wound to.
the self-love of proud, inflated people but you
must reckon on their hatred, as they will never
forgive you.
We may not see the guiding of our Father;
We cannot know what work our love may do;
But hands of angels shall the harvest gather,
And works do follow where souls shall CO.
- Cruger.
Many people have their own God, and he is
much what the French mean when they talk
of lie bon Dieu,-very indulgent, rather weak,
near at hand when we want anything, but far
away out of sight, when we have q mind to do
wrong. Such God is as much an idol as if he
were an image of stone.-Hare.
Be careful to make friendship the child and
not the father of virtue for many strongly
knit minds are rather good friends than good
men; SO, as though they do not like the evil
their friend does, yet they like him who does
the evil and though no counselors of the of
Tense, they yet protect the offender.-[Sr P.
Sidney
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
PASSION FOR FAME.

The vain wish
To float upon the memory of men
After his term of being, oft becomes
A master passionl and for that one aim
He barters all that his Creator gave
OF joy or solace in the vale of life,
And that inheritance of perfect bliss
Which might be his forever. -Herbsrt.
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miscellaneous.
Hu2,.Ors of the L0sU.

A FIRsT-cLAss STORY ABOUT A DECISION DOUBT
AUTHORITY.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-03-21
Housekeeping as. Housekeeping.

Surrogate, Greenfat, Hamilton county.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-07-07
r. O w E NJ
3. s,

DEALER IN
No. | WHITE MICH.
FLOUR, No | SPRING
WIS do, No. l STATE do.
EXTRA white GRAHAM 10
EXTRA white BUCK
WHEAT do, EXTRA
WINTER RYE do. CHOICE
DAT NEAL, SlFTED
CORN MEAL, SlFTED
RYE MEAL. COARSE
FLOUR, PROVENDER.
MEAL, WHEAT Shorts.
Middlings, Bran.
TURKS ISLAND SALT.
CEMENT. 2