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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
Ge2stZe2aess i2s Families.

Gentleness and kindness in certain
relations are almost synonymous terms.
A person who is kind is apt to be gentle,
and one who is gentle is quite sure to
be kind Kindness, however, is a
trait gentleness habit. The ab-
sence of gentleness in families may not
prove unkindness, but its presence pro-
notes kindness. Gentleness involves
self-control and consideration for
others. 1t is rare that persons living
together in the close relations of a
family do not find elements of dis
agreement. Incongruity of ftemper, i'll
health, WEAKNESS, the uneven distribu-
tion of duty or reward, or a thousand
circumstances, tend to produce attrition,
and thus harsh words. Children in
some homes have cultivated the habit
OF quarreling to an extent that leads to
the constant interchange of unpleasant
words Ill temper is always present
Such homes are the scene of contention
and strife.
Yet naturally the children are no
more disposed to contention than Others
who rarely indulge in it. 1t began in
trifes and unnoticed, grew, until at
last it was hard to control. This is the
history of many families. 1t is against
the beginning of such things that pa
rental watch and care is needed. And
the manifestation of gentleness between
husband and wife is the best possible
means of promoting it among children.
Example is very potent. If parents
disregard the little courtesies, and speak
indifferently or even harshly, the chill
dren very speedily learn the lesson,
and if they are gentle, considerate and
polite, the children observe and follow.
This is the rule. Of course, there are
exceptions Rude, boisterous boys, or
children with strong propensities for
evil, require stronger treatment than
mere example. But even here gentle
ness, mixed with firmness, is best.
Timothy Titcomb once wrote: "There
is either human nature in pig or
pig in human nature; you can lead,
but cannot drive him. Government
by sheer force rarely succeeds well III
families. The cases where it is needed
are very rare. But the power of gen
tleness has rarely been measured. 1t
moldS character and smooths away rough
tendencies. 1t is the polish that beau
titles even rough natures. 1t does not,
rightly cultivated, produce effeminacy.
A strong nature may lie back of it, but
the self-control, which is essential to
gentleness, is one of the noblest elements
of manhood and womanhood. The
noble qualities should always be cultiva-
ted in children and the ignoble repress-
ed. But what We urge in gentleness
seeks this result. The cultivation Of
the strong with the suppression of the
weak. 1t is from such homes that our
best citizens come-men of strong ma
lures under perfect control.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
HNSa. Us a2s I1sCJeac to Tenn
De2'Na3ae29t.

Viewed naturally, the hair is as great
index of temperament and disposition
as the features. Coarse dark hair and
skin signify great power of character.
Fine dark hair and skin signify strength
ofcharacter along with purity and good
ness. Straight, stiff black hair indl-
Gates coarse, strong, straightforward
character. Fine dark brown hair signi-
fes the combination of exquisite sensi-
bility with great strength of character.
Flat, clinging, straight hair, a melan-
choly, but extremely constant character.
Coarse red hair indicates powerful
passion, together with corresponding
strength of character. Auburn hair,
with horid countenance, denotes the
highest of sentiments, intensity of feel
ing and purity of character, with the
h;GhAe+ conac;tu- for arnrlounnent or
suffering. Straight, even, smooth and
glossy hair denotes strength, harmony
and evenness of character, hearty affec-
tions, clear head and superior talents.
Fine, silky, supple hair, is mark OF
delicate and sensitive temperament,
and speak in favor of the mind and
character. White hair denotes a lynn
phatic and indolent constitution. And
we may add that, besides all the quail
ties, there are chemical properties resi-
ding in the coloring matter, which un-
doubtedly have some effect upon the
disposition. Thus, red-headed people
are notoriously passionate. Now, red
hair is proved by analysis to contain a
large amount of sulphur, while very
black hair is colored with almost of pure
carbon. The presence of these matters
in the blood points to qualities of tenn
permanent and feeling which are almost
universally associated with them. The
very way in which the hair flows is
strongly indicative of the ruling passions
and inclinations, and perhaps clever
person could give a shrcwd guess at the
manner of man or woman's DISPOSE
ton by only seeing the back of their
head
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
FesU A2ssaCe7's to the Dues
tiO7e What IS LOUe

One hundred letters were written to
as many well known "thinkers" of
Vincennes, requesting answers to the
question: "What is love?" The result
of the editors labors indicates con-
fusing variety of opinions among the
people of Vincennes as to what love is.
Following are the answers from sixteen
different persons:
The most interesting and pardonable
of human weakness.
A mere delusion that has ruined many
men.
A feeling of such exquisite tenderness
that it is too sweet for comparison.
1 don't know anything about it !;
don't think it amounts to much.
The sweetest and most passionate
excitement known to man-binding to-
gether by the strongest cords, sex,
kindred and nations.
Don't know anything about it; l
never was there.
1t is something that no fellow can
find out-yet all feel its power more
or less.
A sweet and delusive imagination
only.
A dormant passion of the mind
aroused by beauty or intellectual quail
tiles of some one woman.
An undefnable principle which all
beings possess, and which lies at the
foundation of all happiness.
A noble passion that envelops our
whole being, and shows itself in every
thought, word and action.
True bliss-void of fancy-of hap
piest happiness.
An egotism of two.
A feeling that takes root in the heart,
and is only made perfect when it enters
the soul.
A latent faculty of the mind that,
when aroused, glows with a radiance
that illuminates the gloomiest mind,
and wields power of influence that is
unequaled.
One of the worst diseases of the heart.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
He9. First Specs.

A woman who looked as if she had
been long time in this vale of tears
went into a jewelry establishment on
Jefferson street and said:
81 want pair of specs.
"This way" said an obliging clerk
with his hair parted in the middle, as
he led her up flight of stairs into a
long room where space was reserved
for optical purposes. A small, nervous
looking man at once surrounded her.
"Sit here" he said, placing chair
for her and hanging up an A B c card
in front of her, ''6x your eyes on that. "
'I AIM going to have my pictures
taken," said the woman tartly.
"Certainly not, madam; you wish
to renew your eyesight. Just tell me
what you can see on that card, ~
10. Do you follow me?'
''Tust let me have my par'Sol and I'll
foller ye. l didn't come here to be
made fun of. l kin read and write as
we'll as you kin, and count, too. l
want pair of specs. "
Ofh
eyeglasses with such nose as yours,
madam.
"What's the matter with my nose,
hey? If amt much of nose, you ain t
agoing to poke fun at it.
"It is a beautiful nose," said the
optician firmly, "and would adorn a
handsome pair of eyes-glasses. Will
you kindly look at this circle of lines |?
Do they all appear to be of the same
size?"
"'Pear to be? They are of all OF a
size; no fooling, young man"
"Certainly not, madam; if the circles
appear to be all of one size, your eyes
are not deformed. "
"Deformed! Good gracious who
said my eyes were deformed ? If ever
l heard of the like. ;"
"You see, madam, we are compelled
to test the optic nerve, and determln:
if the person has presbyopio-"
"No, sir, I'm Baptist, and l won
stay here and be insulted-"
s'You misunderstood me, madam;
you are afflicted with hypermyopiaf
either eye"
"Look here, young man," said tn
woman fiercely. 81 dare say you thin
you know a lot, but l want pair {
specs! l amt as young as l used to bt
and"
"Oh, yes" interrupted the rash OF
tician, 81 see you are getting old and
But he never finished the sentence
When the woman came out of the stol
she was trying to straighten out the ri
of her parasol, and muttering to he
self:
"Old, indeed I've ruined a 81 par
sol, but | haven't lived all these lor
years to be insulted by being callt
old I'll find some hardware store whe
they speak English to get my specs
Old the impertinent thing y
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
For "THE UNION" /"

For "THE UNION"
Messrs Editors viii you favor one of your
constant readers and occasional correspondents,
by republishing the lines below, from the pen of
Father Ryan? They are, to me, so beautiful that
think they deserve printing at least once year,
and know that you and most of your readers
will thoroughly enjoy them.
Yours truly, CHESAPEAKE.
BALTIMORE, January 81, 1884.
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.
BY FATHER RYAN.
How swift they go,
Life's many years,
With their winds of woe
And their storms of tears,
And their darkest of nights whose shadowy slopes
Are lit with the flashes of starriest hopes,
And their sunshiny days in whose calm heavens
loom
The eclouds ofthe tempest, the shadows ofthe gloom
And ah we pray
With grief so drear,
That the years may stay
When their graves are near;
rhsugs The Brors Of 70 9nOrrows DO raaia-', and
bright,
With love and with beauty, with life and with light,
The dead hearts of Yesterdays cold on the bier,
To the hearts that survive them, evermore dear
For the hearts so true
To each Old Year cleave;
Tho the hands of the New
Flow'ry garlands weave.
But the flowers of the future tho fragrant and fair
With the past's withered leaflets may never com
pare;
For dear is each dead leaf-and dearer each thorn
T. A.. IL I.or
have worn.
YEA men will cling
With love to the last,
And wildly fling
Their arms round their past
As the vine that clings to the oak that falls,
As the ivy twines round the crumbled walls;
For the dust of the past some hearts higher prize
Than the stars that fash out from the futures
bright skies.
And why not so?
The old, old years
They knew and they know
All our hopes and fears;
We walked by their side, and We told them each
grief,
And they kissed off our tears while they whispered
relief;
In the hearts of the dead years are buried and
sealed.
Let the New Year sing
At the Old Years grave:
Will the New Year bring
What the Old Year gave?
All the Stranger Year trips over the SHOWS,
And his brow is wreathed with many rose:
But how many thorns do the roses conceal
Which the roses, when withered, shall so soon re-
veal?
Let the New Year smile
When the Old Year dies;
In how short o while
Shall the smiles be sighs?
Yea Stranger Year, thou hast many a charm,
And thy face is fair and thy greeting warm,
But dearer than thou-in his shroud Of SHOWS
Is the furrowed face of the Year that goes.
Yea bright New Year,
Ger all the earth,
With song and cheer,
They will hail thy BIRTH
They will trust thy words in single hour,
They will love thy face, they will laud thy power;
For the Ne,o has charms which the Old has not,
And the Stanger's face makes the Friends forgot.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

s0-"Have you got any family? ?"
asked a young lawyer of a colored man
whom he was appointed by the court
to defend, the latter being charged
with having stolen horse. else got
no family yit; l looks to you for dat. :"
"Look to me to supply you family ?"
s'I looks to you and de jury" "What
kind of stuff is that you are talking ?"
sHit's just what says. Miss Matildy
SNOWFALL says eff only gifts a yeah
in the penitentiary she'll wait for me
but eff gets noah, den she's gwine ter
marry de berry fust niggah what comes
along. So yer sees, boss, what a 'sponsi-
bility dar am restin' on yer"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

TOBACCO AND THE PULsE.-Dr. Tro-
itski has made number of observations
upon the effects produced on the tenn
perature and pulse by smoking. He
found that in every case, varying ac-
cording to the condition of the individ-
ual, there was an acceleration of the
pulse rate and slight elevation of tenn
perature. If the average temperature
of non-smokers were represented by T.
900, that of moderate smokers would be
1908; and while the heart in the
former case was making 700 pulsations,
in the latter it would beat I,ISo times.
1t is in the latter effect that he thinks
the danger of tobacco smoking is man
ifested.-/ou,uaI de Meaeelne de B'~r-
elleS.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

B9rA Michigan girl told her you
man that she would never marry HI
until he was worth 100000. So
started out with brave heart to IF.
it.
elbow are you getting on George
she asked at the expiration of couI
of months.
"Well," George said hopeful,
have saved up S22.
The girl dropped her eyelashes a
blushingly remarked: 81 reckon ths
near enough, George" :"
Twenty-Five dollars in cold cash To-
like good deal of money to NJ
gander.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
For "THE UNION.
SUNSET.


SUNSET.
BY LEO RALE.
From afar,
Gates ajar,
Gates of pearl and gold,
Through the riffs,
Of the drifts,
Glories great unfold.
From the out-lands,
Of the cloud-lands,
CLEAN the FURNISHED fres
While their tender,
Wond'rous splendor,
Reverence inspires.
Shadows fall
Like pail,
AS the colors fades
And the light,
Lately bright,
Sinkens into shade.
And with US,
'Tis even thus,
When the day is done,
To the tomb,
With its gloom,
Our course has run. TX
Then afar,
Gates ajar,
Portals pure unfold;
Heavenly light,
Divinely bright,
Shines through the gates of gold.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 20, 1884.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

B9~A Georgia editor says tn
feminine heart is just like new
rubber shoe; you may pull AZ
it till it stretches out a yard 10
then let go and it will fly right
its old shape.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
Learn o. Trade Boys.

Boys, learn a trade. Learn a trade
ever, if vnr, are IN I~-:-; - ,AN'A 10y
seem to insure you against want as long
as you may live. You may not follow
trade for living, but time invested
in learning a trade, and learning it
thoroughly, is the laying away of a
capital stock on which you may find
it very convenient to draw some day.
Life is said to be an uncertain existence.
1t is, so far as wealth is concerned. You
may be rich man to-day, but by some
unlucky investment which made great
promises at the start, and failed, you
are made poor man. With good
trade, under such circumstances, you
have nothing to fear. You have an
exhaustless reserve fund to draw from.
Not only learn the theory of trade,
but learn it thoroughly. In the Car
riage Makers Convention at New
Haven, Conn.,, after the Committee on
Apprenticeship had reported in favor
of restoring the old system of inden-
turing apprentices until they reach their
majority, John w. Britton, of New
York, said: "One of the serious wants
Of rlI1S country anu our traue, Is goou
boys. Our boys are deteriorating, as
are our men. The greatest difficulty
that we experience in New York, is
that of getting boys who have brains
and are willing to learn trade thorough
ly. The example of men who have
made millions in few years, is held up
before our boys in school, and the boys
become infamed with the notion that
they must make their millions and be
able to found CROSSROADS colleges be-
fore they die. So they eSchew trades
and become poor professionals. -
America to-day depends upon Europe
for her most skilled and finest workmen,
simply because her young men slight
the minutie of the trade they 60 to
learn, and merely obtain a superficial
or general knowledge of it. We have
too many professional men in the coun-
try to-day, and as the speaker above
referred to says, our schools love to
dwell too much on the achievements OF
professional men. A man with trade,
trade we'll learned, next to the farmer,
is the most independent; and most to
be envied among men. He is prepared
for any emergency.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

p9-"There is a man in this town."
saws the State Sentinel, of Dover, "who
offered to wager that he could eat two
partridges every day for 80 days, and
the last day eat 10 pound goose in
addition. He has often eaten a 10
pound goose at meal, and never thinks
of eating less than three pints of oysters
at one time"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

D9-srDo not marry widower," said
the old lady; Ca ready-made family is
like plate of cold potatoes. i" "Oh,
I'll soon warm them over" replied the
damsel; and she did.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

B9~"Little girl, where is your faith
err" "Poor papa died two years be-
fore | was born"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02
Coming Dorm Was DiH-
c9gZf.
From the New Milford Gazette.

From the New Milford Gazette.
Last Thursday Dennis Hickey, of
New Milford, cut down a birch tree,
which lodged in an oak tree about sixty
teet high. He hitched yoke of oxen
to the birch tree and tried to dislodge
the top. But the top could not be
moved, and he took his axe, climbed
the birch tree, and, getting on the oak
tree, cut the top of the birch off, and
the trunk fell to the ground. MIR.
Hickey now for the first time realized
that to descend from his lofty perch
would be perilous feat. The trunk of
the tree was smooth, there were wide
spaces between the few branches, and
the trunk a few feet beneath him was
so large that it was very doubtful if he
could hold on to it with his feet and
hands. AS he sat in the fork of the
tree and cogitated he took out his knife
and cut his initials in the trunk for the
purpose of diverting his mind and ofre-
viving his courage.
Having finally recovered his nerve,
he began the descent. The trunk soon
grew too big for him to hold on, there
were no available branches to clutch,
and, despite his desperate efforts to
cling on, he lost his hold when about
thirty feet from the ground, and spun
through the air with a big fiat rock
waiting to receive him below.
When about twelve feet from the
ground he passed a big branch which
he had previously observed, and, as he
clutched for it unavailingly, he exclaim-
ed: ooh, Lord, only half way down
yeti" The next instant ne was on the
rock. A shoe was torn off, wrist and
ankle sprained, but he was alive and
not mortally injured.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

pG="My darling" he said, s'let me,
ah, let me share all your life's burdens
forever" "Share 'em! !" she exclaim-
ed, eyes, you can have them all, and
you can begin by going out in the rain
and milking three cows" and his
affection for the country maid filtered
out at the end his fingers.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

s@~"Will the angels come down for
me with a chariot and horses when l
die?" asked little boy of his Sunday
school teacher. 81 guess so, ifyou are
a real good boy" said the teacher
The little fellows eyes sparkled with
anticipation as he eagerly exclaimed,
"And, oh do you think they'll let me
sit on the front seat and drive p
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-02

WIN. Il. B0sLEY
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02
HOARD OF ALDERMEN.

Petitions Read and Referred-Re-
 ports of Committees Acted Upon The Boulevard Sewer Considered
 Other Matters.
 A regular meeting of the Board of Alder men was held last evening, His Honor Mayor Lewis presiding. Petitions were read and referred as follows: Of John Gibbons for g sewer in Grand street between James and Haven streets; of William H. Kenyon for 6 sewer in Wallace street between Myrtle and Locust streets; of William G. Conren for 6 sidewalk on Lynwood street; of Hoyt Bros. for lamp on the west side of the Quinnipiac drawbridge; of Michael Reardon for side walk on the south side of Lamberton street and the east side of Clark avenue; of John N. Nichols for sewer in St. Roman street: of Louis H. Frost, Charles H. Hall and John Beecher to be appointed special constablee Tules suspended and they were appointed); of George H. Bartlett to be appointed special constable; of Sidney F. Smith for curb and concrete walk on the northerly side of South Water street between Howard avenue and Sea street; of Tobias Butler for the grading and curbing of the west side of Winthrop P avenue between Sylvan and Davenport ave nues: of the United society to extend their church to the rear.
 Alderman Coffee strenuously objected to this petition and moved it's indefinite post ponement. In discussing his motion he said that fine city had no right to dispose of pub lie property in this way He said that 8 bad precedent was adopted when Trinity church was granted permission to extend their church edifice. He thought these privileges should be stopped at once.
 Alderman Kennedy also opposed the pc tition and favored its indefinite postpone InaR6.
 Aid Alderman Baldwin favored reference of
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

Short in His sAeeOunts-Shoots Himself
 in the Head-The Wound Not Neces-
 sar1lY Fatal.
 William L. Killenbeck is young man who
 has been employed by Goodrich & Co., man
 ufacturers of car trimmings at No. I'll Goffe
 street He belonged in Waterbury, and it is
 understood was employed as bookkeeper for
 the firm. He did not appear at his place of
 business yesterday and sent word that he was sick Mr. Goodrich in looking over the books came to the conclusion that there was discrepancy in Killenbeck's accounts, and went to his boarding house at 102 Meadow street and rang the bell. The call was answered by the young man himself, who ap-
 beard bareheaded and in his shirt sleeves. Mr. Goodrich stated to the young man that there was slight discrepancy in his accounts which he would like to have him explain. Killingbeck replied, 'FI will go up with you, J and, as MT. Goodrich supposed went back to get his coat and hat. Soon after the report of pistol was heard, and MT. Goodrich, fearing that the young man had committed some rash act, called Officer Laughlin, who entered the house and found that Killenbeck \ had shot himself with the intention of com X hitting suicide After entering the house ! he placed a revolver to his right ear and dis \ charged it. The ball took downward and inward course and lodged near the base ot the brain Dr. Mailhouse was first summon ' ed and afterwards Dr. F. H. Whittemore was called The doctors gave it as their opinion that while the wound was serious it was moi necessarily fatal.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-02
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

The Ruf1e store will offer large assort- ment of silks very cheap to-day.
 The county jail had an accession of twelve prisoners yesterday, all sent from the City court
 The E. G. Storer Lodge of Perfection held meeting last evening, at which work on the fourth and sixth degrees was performed.
 The sloop yacht Endeavor was foated yes terday, and is at the yard at the foot of Chestnut street for repairs, which will soon be made.
 The circular issued by Israel Kleiner & Son, tailors, TOT and 7O9 Chapel street, are in great demand, as they give clear summary of the fashions for the fall and winter, so that he who runs may read. Call and get one.
 The contract for the brick work on the largest of the two new shops which Sargent & Co. are to build has been awarded to Charles D. Kinney. The building is six stories high, and over ,00O, GOO of brick will be required in it's construction. Charles E. Brown will do the carpenter work.
 This afternoon a number of the members of Red Cross lodge, Sons of St. George, go by stage to Southington to visit Friendship lodge, who gave them the invitation. Red Cross lodge was instituted July 1st, and is doing finely. At the last meeting they cleo ted Dr. Waldo Jewett, of the Tontine, as lodeg physician