The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-03-20

going to such an expense Why,
if hadn't seen it with my own eyes couldn't
believe it !"
"It is awful" exclaimed the others.
And the worst of it is, she seems to hold her
head so high p continued the FIRST. "Pve heard
hat her grandfather had to 60 to the poor-house
when he broke his leg, and yet she holds her
head up, with the best of US Of course, don't
want to back-Dite any one-it isn't my nature
to talk behind peoples back-but 1 will say
that shouldn't wonder if such extravaganza
brought that family to want of bread before
spring comesw
Nothing was said for the next FIVE minutes
and then one of the two exclaimed
Gland sakes but I'd almost forgotten to tell
you Lizzie Thorburn has a new hat
"What. another?"
eyes, another; she wore it to church last
Sunday Think of that-a girl having three
hats in one year,
"Shameful !" they cried in chorus.
"I don't know what the world is coming to-
continued the first. "When l was a girl, one
nat had to last me seven years, while now
girl wants at least two year-if not three. l
tell you, when | sat in church Sunday, and saw
Lizzie come shying i'll with that new hat Unjust
of cost three dollars at the least) | felt queer.
Tue fate of the people Of Sodom and Gomorrah
came TO my mind in second i; ami sAoaldn't
be surprised if Lizzie had been stricken then
right down"
They pondered over It for two or three min
utes, and then one of them replied:
$50 Mary Jane DoolIttle is dead, is she? 2"
eyes, poor thing" was the reply; "dead and
buried week ago. Hannah was at the funeral
and she says that Doolittle never shed a tear
never even blew his nose."
"He didn't?"
"No, he didn't. Hannah watched him all
through, and she says he has heart like a
IF ha ahould ha orrastad for har
derer l shouldn't be the least surprised. Poor
| met her only last August, and l
could see that she was killing herself. l didn't
ask her right out about it, but | could under
stand that Doolittle was cold hearted wretch.
He didn't have much to say, but just one re-
mark he made convinced me of his cold heart
edness. He asked for soap to wash himself,
and when she handed him piece he looked at
it, sneered like, and says he
"Mary Jane, you mustn't buy any more yal-
Ter soap!'
"Did he say that?"
"He certainly did. I'll GO before any court
i'll the land and swear to it!'
| had TO get off the train then, and missed
further conversation.-M. Quad.
EARLY PRINTING IN AMERICA.-The Puritans
evidently believed that free press was neces-
sary to the existence of a free people. Eighteen
years after the landing on the bleak coasts OF
New England the Pilgrim Fathers established
the first printing press on this side of the At
lantic in 1888, and at Cambridge in 1889 the
first publication was made by Daye, and was
entitled "The Freeman's Oath" Daye had
been brought over by Joseph Glover, rich
nonconformist preacher, who also brought with
him stock of printing material. An old sea
captain, one William Pierce, edited an almanac
in the same year, and in the following, the
Revs. Weld and Eliot produced "The Psalms
Newly Tuned into Meter, (which passed through
seventy editions in one hundred and fourteen
years, and was also reprinted in England and
Scotland Some other books OF religious ma
ture were issued, and in 1911, book called
"The Body of Liberty" containing one hum
dred colonial laws appeared. Daye's work was
full of typogra phical errors, but he was super
ceded by Samuel Green, mistakenly called the
f rst printer in America, for we find that Daye
obtained grant of 800 acres Of land in Massa-
chusetts for "beng the first who set up print
ing"
Then come the poems of Ann Bradstreet, wife
Of the Governor, and several other smaller pi-
ous works
In 1858 Eliot printed the catechism in the
Indian language, and in 1854 the printing of
all the laws of the court began. The first
A American edition of the Bible was issued In
1861 and 1868.
The first copyright was passed in 1872, stip-
that no printer should print or sell any
more copies than were agreed upon, and paid
fer by the owner, and the next enactment Sc
cured the copyright for seven years.
PILLOW PRAYERs.-We do not mean those
which are sleepily offered after one has got into
bed, because too lazy to kneel before. We refer
to the communion with God permitted those
who cannot sleep, who from illness or care, or
some constitutional infirmity, are compelled to
drag through the weary hours of wakefulness
To such as these prayer is an unspeakable COM
fort. God is especially near. The deep silence
of the hight, the all enveloping darkness, which
as a curtain, he has drawn over the sleeping
world, the helplessness and dependence in
which all are laid, give the most impressive re-
q lizaton Of his being and presence. 1t is good
at such times, if you can, to recte to yourself
from Scripture. With what force and
S sweetness do they come to you, and what full
ness of comfort have they for the tired and sor
rowing. SO with familiar hymns, which, in
deed, are utterances in other forms of the pre-
cious truths of his Word. Many of these are
doubly dear from the associations they bring
with them, the fragrance of remembered hours
Of cemmunions with friends, or special expert.
ences of your soul, or the histories of others
who made these vehicles of their devotion.
rs 1t is hard winter, but the price of os-
trich tips continues panicy-or, rather, there
is always panic in the house that cherlshes
a desire for them without realizing from it.
When the question comes up "Bread or Feath
ers? ?" it is COED deal as it was with the boy
when asked which of his demands was the
most imperative-"Never mind the shoes,
dad" he replied, 81 must have the breastPin" !"
rs Very stern parent indeed-"Come here,
sir What is this complaint the school-master
10 iniu
It's Just nothing at all. You see Jimmy
Hughes bent pin, and only just left it on
The teachers chair tor him to look at, and he
came in without his specs and sat right down
On the pin, and now wants to blame me for 1T y
re- lady went into a carpet store recent
Iy, and pointing out a carpet, asked the pro-
prietor what it was. Brussels" says the pro-
prietor. brussels" quoth the lady, passing
her hand over it /; "seems to to me the brus-
lies don't stick up much
Mg~ Never trust with a secret married
man who loves his wife, for he will tell her,
and she will tell her sister, and her sister will
ell everybody.
The Metropolitan Hotel, Lincoln, Neb.,
has the Lords Prayer printed entire on its dali
~ bill Of fare.
-"The Lord never meant for us to bile over
with religion this cold weather." said Du-
nth deacon as he dismissed church and went
nome to hug the stove.
"A clergyman in Fond du Lac, Wis, pub
icly prayed "Oh Lord, Thou knowest that
ny hated wife is the one great obstacle in the
way of revival in my church. Wilt Thou,
thy goodness, remove her ?" The next day
he wife removed herself to her fathers house,
md now the petitioner is likely 10 be removed
,y his congregation.
"A Vermont schoolmaster says he never
elt unequal to any demand in the line of his
excepting on one occasion, when a
armer brought mis- bouncing teen-year-old
laughter to the school, and, walking up to
he masters desk, said: That's my youngest
,al, and if ever you catch her sldin' down hill
With the boys just want you to trounce her."
"A farmer in West Baltimore, Ohio, made
utter enemy by dscharging an employee
)ne night the man got into the farmers stable
nd began to mutilate span of horses. lie
ut off their names and tails, and was about to
,amstring one OF them when it kicked him
enseless. Three of his ribs were broken, and
lis other internal injuries are likely to kill
lin.
1t is now possible by the aid OF hydraulic
machinery to bend iron shafts oftwelve inches
iiameter to any required shape. Incredible
is this statement may seem to an expert, crank