The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-02-21

| graphic albums have looked through, and how
happy they have made me How used to long
for the time when somebody would bring me an
album, and tell me the names Of all the people in
| it, and all about each ones family affairs And
when we came to person who was particularly
obscure, they would ask me to guess who it was.
1t was beautiful. 1t was exhilarating. No same
ness to that. 1t was a recreation never tired of,
and often when got through / would commence
and go all over them again, to see if could tell
the names without making any mistakes. And if
there's any thing, to this day, really enjoy, it is
looking through thick album of entire strangers,
and have one of the children tell me who they all
are. Children don't get tired, and they can go
through four five albums and feel just fresh,
and enjoy it just much you do And they
expect you to keep up an excitement all the way
through. They see no reason why you shouldn't
be interested in their Uncle William, who owns
farm and has got, 0, such pretty little calf and
Aunt Julia who is rich and has been to Europe
and Cousin John who was shot in the war and
grandpa, who took them to see the circus once
They may be tiresome but they are honest, which
can't perhaps be said of all these people you've
been introduced to, who bowed so politely and said
they were happy to meet you, and hoped you were
very well, and all that, when you know perfectly
well that they personally don't care two straws
whether your funeral takes place in twenty-four
hours or twenty. four years.
Looking through albums has its draw wbacks,
though, like all pleasures. If you talk too much,
for instance, you are apt to make disagreeabe
blunders as to whom the parties are. Iremember
once of bursting out laughing at what considered
a very funny picture.
"Look at this queer little old woman" said l,
''fxed up for masquerade. Who is she?"
"Why, it's my mother" the indignant re-
joinder. "Mother always dressed young, but there
is no occasion for remark like that"
naturally felt somewhat crestfallen at this, and
so when l came to n very tragic queenly-looking
woman, I thought would recover my lost ground.
"0h," said I, ''that's what I call fne-ooking
woman, and can tell about who it is tod without
much trouble. Any body with half an eye can see
the family resemblance there"
"Family resemblance, indeed Why, you absurd
thing That's old gypsy woman that tells for
tunes"
Ever after that simply said that everybody
was fne-looking, and always got on nicely
In making calls there are a few questions OF vi
tai Importance to young men, which 1 as man
somewhat advanced in life may be excused for
suggesting.
Does this young woman really care for you
only for your invitations to balls and theatres ?
| How many times can you call on young lady as
friend and be just the same to her as any friend
who might drop in Where does friendship cease
| and business commence? Where is the line to be
drawn?
Some think the old lady is beginning to draw
| the line when she tells the young all about
| her daughters lovely disposition, and how gener
GUS she was to her little brother in reference to
turnover pie, at the tender age of five years. and
what beautiful wife she would make.
| very estimable lady, with whose daughter L
was once on terms of friendship, told me that her
daughter had too many gentleman callers, and she
! should not be at home to a good many of them,
especially me. This was honest and straightfor
| ward, but WASH 'tmean enough to take advantage
of such an open disposition, and so l kept calling
| there Just the same as ever, till one evening her
| big brother took me and set me out on the side
walk, without making any fuss about it at all.
| didn't know it at the time, but afterwards found
out that he intended to draw the line, shouldn't
want to advise anybody. It's like eating roast
pork in a boarding house, you must decide 1t Tor
| yourself.
There are a good many kinds of calls which [
haven't time to specify, but there's one kind that
will always wear, and there isn't any discount on
it. It's your good old fashioned call in the eOun-
try, where you drop in any time, and they are
always glad to see you. No airs there. You can
take your things off, or leave them on, Just you
| have a mind to- and if they have company you can
| shake hands all round, introduction or no intro
duction and can cross your legs, and tip your
chair back and hold the cat, and be sociable; and
when you get up to go you can kiss the girls all
round and light your pipe by the kitchen lire.
| MARVELLOUS G GRowTH OF FNEBRAsKA.-Ther rapid
| growth and development of Nebraska excite the
| envy of California which is making very striking
comparisons between herself and the newer State.
| Nebraska is not half so large California; she
| did not become State until the other had made
great advance in wealth and population. She had
not 90 coo white inhabitants when California had
near 500,0 600. Six years ago her grain product OF
all kinds only IL, 900 900 bushels, and last year
| H. Do OK &
| O00,O Her cultivated area is now estimated at
4O00O GOO acres, against 3,7O0O,OOO odd acres in
California. Since 1860, the population has in
creased 500 per cent, while the other State has in
| creased in the same time but 80 per cent.
Nebraska's grain yield was, last year, 2O,OOO,OO0
| bushels more than during the previous year,
wholly due to the increase Of farms and settlers OF
whom there were 100, 900, and more in 1879. The
increase of live stock the same year was SO per
cent, and of hogs so per cent. The present white
population if fully 100000. California's is less
than 1000, 900. The principal town, Omaha, has
kept pace with the growth of the State, having
added 1000 new buildings last year; having
shipped 500 900 bushels of wheat, received 100000
head of live stock and SEQ, 100000 Of bullion and
| precious eres, while its banking transactions
| reached 5000, COO, 900.
Eight wears since its population was not above
five thousand; now it is fully forty thousand, and
| il has the commercial and manufacturing impor-
| tance of twice that number. The cause Of the su-
perior growth of Nebraska must be sought in her
cheap land, small farms and competition in
freights. California is kept back by land mo-
nopoly and monopolists and any quantity Of rings
within rings. 1t is within reason to say that no
| State in the Union, with half the natural advan-
tages of California, is retarded by the selfish
| schemes of few hundred men resolved to amass
immmense wealth at the expense of the commu-
nifty, and continually and successfully carrying
| out their resolutions.