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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
A Centennial Message.

In July, 1876, Tile Sunday SeA00l
Times suggested to General Grant, who
was then President of the United States,
that, as that was the national centennial
year, he should issue centennial pro-
clamation to the children and Sunday
schools of the country. He answered
Immediately as follows:
A CENTENNIAL MESSAGE FROM THE PRES
IDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, June 6, 1876.
To the Editor Of Tile Sunday SeA0ol
Times, -PAi1adelbAia Your favor of
yesterday, asking message from me to
the children and youth of the United
States, to accompany your Centennial
number, is this moment received.
My advice to Sunday-schools, no
matter what their denomination, is: {:
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-an-
chor of your liberties; write its pre-
cepts in your hearts, and Practice them
in your A0eS.
To the influence of this Book are we
indebted for all the progress made in
true civilization, and to this we must
look as our guide in the future.
Righteousness exalteth a nation !:
but sin is reproach to any people"
Yours, respectfully,
u. S. GRANT.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
The ssROse FeVer.''
Pittsburq Commercial Gazette.

"Doctor, I thought you would never
come. I can't stand it much longer"
said young man to Cincinnati
doctor.
"I've got such a pain in my head.
First it was headache, then my head
got cold and the pain concentrated be-
tween my eyes. When breathe through
my nose it feels as if my brains were
being pulled out
"HumphI" said the doctor, "been
to the flower show, have your"
eyes" said the young man in sur
prise, "I've been there two or three
times"
"Well, you've got rose fever. Some
times it's called hay fever. Some flower
has poisoned you. Had lot of patients
like you this week"
When the patient had been prescribed
for and had departed, the writer, who
had been somewhat surprised at the di-
agnosis given, remarked:
"Were you jesting about that mans
complaint2"
s'No, certainly not. l have had a
number of patients this week who have
had the same trouble. Some of them
have not had as severe an attack as this
man has, but complain of unusual pains
in the head which they cannot account
for. 1t is queer disease, and yet it is
perfectly explainable on a natural and
reasonable basis. Plants and flowers
possess in nearly every instance some
good or bad property. A child at play
in the garden may take fancy to eat
the leaves or the seeds of a pumpkin
and no harm results. The next minute
or two the little thing changes its food
to jimson seeds and then there is a
funeral. In some cases it is the root
only of the plant which is poisonous or
beneficial, and it may have to be treat
ed in complicated way before its
qualities can be extracted. In other
plants it is the leaves alone which con-
tain the properties, and then again in
many other instances they are contain
ed in the flower. 1t is not, perhaps,
the whole flower which is of use. 1t
may be the corolla, or the calyx, or the
stamens, or the pistils, or the petal
which are charged with good or evil.
And then, too, as you have often heard,
no doubt, the same flower or some other
vegetable matter does not affect all peo-
pie alike. Hay and rag weed are the
best known causes of this species of ca
tarrh, and its name, 'hay fever,' has
been given to it on that account.
"There is no determining what flow
ers have and what they have not in this
influence. Some people are affected by
tuberoses, others by lilies various kinds
l know big, strong man, who is
thrown into perfect agony by the slight
est smell of faxseeds when prepared for
a poultice. Another man of my ac-
quaintance would be made violently i'll
if buckwheat flour is cooked in build
ing where he is. All these things are
perfectly explainable on scientific
grounds, which l don't propose to enter
into now, but if you will inquire among
the people who have been TO the flower
show 1 am sure you will find many who
have had sudden headaches and trouble
| with catarrh after leaving the flowers" >"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
Why Girls do Not Marry.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
"They talk of men not being willing
to marry, nowadays" said a bright
girl, "but I scarcely know girl who
wants to become wife. They are learn
ing something that will interest them
as we'll as support them, two roles in
which husbands just now fail. The
truth is we are all scared away from any
desire to marry by seeing how wretched
those who do marry are. Where would
we look for husbands2 Among the SUI
perfiCial young men who fill our draw
ing-rooms? They are insuherable as
mere acquaintances or beaux; who
would contemplate them as husbands
I have always thought that if I could
find a young man at all like my father,
I could love him and marry him; but
that school of men has vanished from
the younger ranks"
Nobody doubts that she expressed
the convictions of large representation
of young women. Their lack of inter
est in marriage is not due to the larger
activities which continually open before
women, but to the unattractive, unreli-
able material in the way of husbands.
Women are women, and would love and
marry as readily to-day as when the
earth was new, if they came in contact
with men who aroused their respect and
admiration. The order of maidenhood
that can content itself with an inferior
article of husband, merely for the sake
of being married, has almost vanished.
The young woman of the period has
too much character and self-respect to
dread being an old maid so much that
she would contract an uncongenial union
to escape it. Undoubtedly inefficient
men are on the increase. Many young
married folks, apparently rich, really
depend upon others for luxuries and
even support. Their fathers or grand
fathers furnish the money that supplies
their homes, oftener than the outside
world knows of. Then look at the num-
Der of married women engaged in bust
ness! 1t all means something, and
wise girls learn the lesson and hesitate
before running the risk of having hus-
band and children to support, either
by inherited fortunes, or by their own
labor.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
The Story of q Song.

A Washington letter to the Cleveland
Leader says: l heard a curious story
in regard to the well-known song,
"No one to love? none to caress!
Travelling alone through life's wilder
ness"
The author of this song lives here in
Washington, he boards at hotel with
in a square or so of the White House.
He is now man of perhaps forty, and
he wrote the song many years ago. He
was in love with beautiful girl aud the
day was fixed for their marriage. In the
interval between the engagement and
this day, the war broke out and the
young man enlisted. He was out on
the field when the time approached for
his wedding. 1t was on the eve of a
great battle in which the young man
was to take part. He wrote to his sweet
heart asking her to postpone the day OF
the marriage until after the fight. This
she refused to do, and said if he did
not return and keep his part of the
agreement she would consider the en-
gagement off. The young man preferred
to trust to luck in regard to the engage
nient to being considered coward in
running away from his first battle, and
remained on the field. His lady love,
however, was SO piqued at the refusal
that she persisted in her rejection of his
suit and married another man. Inspired
with the feeling of the desertion, the
rejected wrote the song which has had
such wide run. He not only wrote
the song but he remained true to his
first love, and for some time, the story
goes, he has been living here with his
mother. Not long ago, however, his
loves husband died, and since that time
he has renewed the acquaintance of the
widow, who, though older than when
he went to war, is still charming. The
old fame has, it is said, revived in the
fair widows breast, and there is fail
prospect of a match.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
TOWSONTOWN Md, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 1885.

at length, giving vent to my thoughts,
81 wish there were no callers in the
world they are always coming in just
when you are busiest. If there is an
other one comes here to-day, I will set
Frisk on them"
The coat was at last finished, and I
was just brushing out some of the dust,
with relieved smile, when ting went
the bell.
Of course it was another caller, and
was trying my best to entertain her,
when the door softly opened and Carl
came in and crawled up to one corner
of the sofa. After looking first at the
lady, then at me, he said, 'tI tould not
find Fisk"
Wanting something to say just then,
l asked: "What do you want with Fisk,
darlinga"
To which he replied rather sharply:
"Don't you know you said you was
adoln' to set Fisk on the next taller
what toned here to-day and bovered
you3"
"Do not mind the child" said l.,
blushing. "He is always saying some
thing"
She replied that she had children of
her own, but it was not long until she
brought her call to a close, looking
more diSgusted than entertained. The
children being pretty well tired out, 1
did not have much trouble in getting
them to take their afternoons sleep,
after which I went about getting my
supper, thinking I would now have a
little time to collect my thoughts; but,
alas at that minute heard the sound
ofthe carriage wheels, and three cousins
came jumping in.
went out to greet the old folks,
never thinking to tell the girls not to
awaken the babies, and as we came into
the hall heard such wailing sounds
and Gathering tongues as "Oh, mamma !;
want mamma," and "Oh, Cousin Dot,
this one has black eyes," and "This one
looks just like you," and ooh what
makes them ely SOP" "Oh, Cousin
Bell, you are sitting on the baby!"
"There, Sue, Charley is choking on
that candy!'
But 1 have supper all over, babies all
asleep, and company all in bed, and al
though it is 10 o'clock, and I am very
tired, want to say few words to the
young girls who may chance read this
story:
eff you are single and have pleasant
home, and" But the baby is cry
ing. Perhaps some time l will have
time to finish.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
A Burglars Back-DOwn.

1t was night-midnight. This indi-
Gates that there is going to be some
thing goreful about this story. But
there isn't. Wait.
The soft murmur of a SOU SOU West
zephyr was audible in the interstices of
the darkness. Mr.. Bucephalus K. Smock
did not hear it. He was wrapped in
the arms of slumber.
Beside the bed stood solemn figure.
1t was man clad in mystery, a paper
mask, and ten-dollar suit OF clothes.
The man was burglar.
He had entered the palatial residence
of B. K. Smock by means of skeleton
key, and he carried in his hand a gilt
tering Stiletto.
While he was preparing to toss up a
cent to see whether he should murder
B. K. Smock or not B. K. awoke.
"What do you want1" he asked.
"Your money or your lifel" replied
the burglar, in ghastly, corpse like,
tombstone, Arizona whisper.
"Well," said B. K. Smock; "this is
Where you don't get either.
And he drew torty-four caliber navy
revolver from beneath his pillow and
pointed it at the burglars soul.
"Hold on u exclaimed the burglar
''don't want all your money. I'll take
three dollars, and let it go at that"
"No three" said Smock.
"Make il tWo-ffty."
emo"
"I'll take thirty-seven cents" said
the burglar, desperately.
"Not tnirty-seven, said Smock.
"Now, see here" said the burglar,
persuasively; "you aren't going to send
me away without anything, are your"
eyes sir; l am.''
"Well, hold on; let's talk this thing
over. I've come all the way down here
from Saratoga County to get something
or other, and don't want to go back
empty-handed. l should die of morti-
ication. My mother and sister would
blush at my want of success, and my
little brother call me a blamed big
chump. I've got girl up 1here, and
she'd marry the other fellow, sure, if
went back without anything. Don't
send me away like that. Think of my
future. I'm new in this business. want
to get fair start. There's no hope of
success for man in any calling if he
doesn't get fair start. You want to
ruin my prospects now, do your"
B. K. Smock was touched. He dis
liked to admit it, but his sympathy was
aroused.
"What will you take1" he asked.
"1'll take sheet of paper with your
autograph on it, said the burglar.
"All right" said B. K; "but tell me
first how it is that you can begin by de-
manding SO much, and then go away
contented with so little.''
"Well," said the burglar, wiping
away warm salt tear; 81 began life as
an Office seeker. PUCK.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

BS~It is narrated that John K. Por-
ter, now famous throughout the State
for his brilliant attainments, when 9
young man was assigned by the court
to the defence of a man charged with
assault in the second degree, to give the
accused the best advice he could under
the circumstances, and to bring the case
to a trial with all convenient speed.
Porter promptly retired to an adjacent
room to consult with his client, and re.
turned shortly without him.
"Where is your client?" demanded
the astonished Judge.
"He has left the place, guess" re-
piled Porter, with the most refreshing
sang t10id.
cleft the place!" Why, what do yol
mean, Mr.. Porter?"
"Why, your honor directed me t.
give him the best advice l could unde
the circumstances. He told me he wa
guilty; so 1 advised him to cut and rul
for it; he took my advice, as a ellen
ought, opened the window, and skedad
died. He is about mile away now.
The very audacity of the young ban
sister deprived the Court of the powe
of speech and nothing came of the mat
ter.-Chr1Skian Observer.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

Two times 'leven are twenty-five;
Kitty, don't I wish twas you,
Stead of me had this to dol
Two times 'leven are twenty-five.
Three times 'leven are thirty three;
Robin in the apple-tree,
I hear you; do you hear me?
Three times 'leven are thirty three.
Four times 'Ieven are forty. four;
How the sunbeams speck the floor;
Four times leven are-what bore!
Four times 'leven are forty-four.
Five times 'leven are fifty-fve;
Swallows! swallows! skim and dive,
Making all the air alive,
Five times 'leven are ffty-fve.
Six times 'Ieven are sixty-six;
Tip, for shame sir Pretty chicks,
Don't you mind his saucy tricks;
Six times 'leven are sixty-six.
Seven times 'leven are seventy-seven -
There now, Kitty, you can't even
Say the first-"once 'leven are 'leven;"
Seven times 'leven are seventy-seven.
Eight times Ioven are eighty eight;
Some ones pulling at the gate; l
Hark it's Bessie, sure as fate
Eight times Ieven are eighty eight.
Nine times 'leven are ninety nine;
Coming, Bessie amt it fine?
That's the last one in the line!
Nine times 'leven are ninety
-Episcopal Register.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

1t was at big August meeting in
Wake county, N. c., and there were
acres of darkies present. "The Cross
ing of the Red Sea" was the subject Of
the discourse, and the Rev. Mr.. Dukes,
'mancipated minister, was treating ii
in the most frigid manner. He had
just closed by saying, "Moses and the
chil'un of Israel crossed ober the Red
Sea on the ice, but when Faro and his
lumberin' big chariots came long dey
broke frue the ice and dey was all
drowned" when a young man from
town arose and said:
s'Brer Dukes, will you low me to ak
you question ?"
"Sartainly; what is it7"
"Well, Brer Dukes, rs bin studdin'
geography, an geography teeches me
dat de Rea Sea am in de tropics. What
1 want to ak is dis: Whar dat ice cum
from whar Moses crossed ober on7"
Brer Dukes cleared his throat, mop.
ped his brow, hesitated moment, and
replied:
"Well, Use glad you ak dat question.
1t gives me an opportunity to 'splain.-
My dear young brer, you mustn't think,
cause you war store close an bin to
school, dat you know everything. Dis
thing I'm preachin' about took place
long time ago, fore dere was any geog-
raphies an fore dere was any tropics. y
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

Building and Engineering Times.

OutuIty o1tu engineering AtHees
Seeing and feeling are two senses
which arc nl0rc Important in aiding to
knowledge of our surroundings than
any others, and yet their education is
generally neglected until the possessor
begins to learn something of mechanics.
By mechanics in this connection is in
tended any attempt to contrive, put to-
gether, manufacture or exchange by
manipulation, so that a woman who
contriveS and fashions a dress out of the
uniformed and plain material may be
mechanic. The use of mechanical tools
cannot be begun too early in life,
whether the pupil is to be practical
mechanic or to follow some other call
ing-there are few vocations that do
not demand for success some practical
knowledge of mechanics. "The whit
thing Yankees" possibly owe much of
their undisputed position as inventors
and good mechanics to the habit of
using pocket knife. Avery prominent
inventor and superior mechanic recent
ly remarked that the bent of his taste
as mechanic was undoubtedly given
by his schoolmaster, who was a carpen-
ter and joiner, and who worked at his
trade IN summer and taught the district
school in winter. If boy did not
possess a foot rule, he made one for him
from a Shingle or constructed an inch
scale. The foot rule and pocket knife
he considered necessary in schoolboy's
outfit, and he encouraged his pupils to
estimate dimensions by the eye and then
verify them by measurement. Wind
mills and water-wheels were part of the
pedagogue's training, and the click
clack of one or the other could be heard
all about the school house and on the
borders of the brook in an adjoining
field. Vanes cut from pine boards, toy
ships, bird houses, bows and arrows,
pudding sticks, and most of the toys
used by boys forty years ago were made
by the schoolmaster's boys under his
direction. To-day, beside the prolific
inventor named, there are one superin-
tendent of railroad company, one
bridge builder, one superintendent of
large mandatory, and two architects
to be counted from memory who prob
ably received their bent for mechanics
from their carpenter schoolmaster.
And those lead lives of usefulness
they are producers, added to the wealth
and comfort of the country and the
people; and nothing in their observa-
tion-education make them less valuable
members of society. One of the most
distinguished pulpit orators was black
smith, and many men who are noted for
their eminence in literature, divinity,
law, medicine, and as educators have
had mechanical training.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

H0rIf a man would, according to
law, give to another an orange, instead
of saying, 81 give you that orange
which one would think would be what
is called in legal phraseology San abso-
lutte conveyance of all right and title
therein phrase would run thus:
81 give you all and singular my estate
and interest, right title and claim, and
advantage of and in that orange, with
all its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips,
and all right and advantage therein,
with full power to bite, cut, suck, and
otherwise eat the same, or give the same
away, as fully and efectually as l, said
A. B., am now entitled to bite, cut,
suck, or otherwise eat the same orange,
or give the same away with or without
its rind, juice, pulp, and pips, anything
heretofore or hereafter, or in any other
deed or deeds, instrument of what nature
or kind soever to the contrary in any
wise Notwithstanding.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

%Self-respect is the foundation of
character and of progress. Break it
down, and nothing valuable can be
built upon the ruins; establish it firm
ly, and no one can tell how noble a
structure of virtue and happiness may
| not be raised.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22
B@~It il alwus safe to follow the re-

BaSIt IL alwus safe to follow the re-
ligious beleaf that our mothers taught
us-there never was mother yet who
taught her children to be an inidel.
A man may learn inidelity from
books, and from hiz assoshiates, but he
kant learn it from his mother, nor the
work ov God that surrounds him.
Unbeleavers are alwus so reddy and
anxious to prove their unbeleef, that
have thought they mite be just lettle
doubtful about it themselves.
The infdel, in his impudence, will
ask you to prove that the flood did oc-
cur, when the poor idiot himself kant
even prove, to save hiz life, what makes
one apple sweet and one sour, or tell
whi hens egg is white and ducks
egg blue.-./osh Billings.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

s9-Mr. Smiley-"Better let me car
ry the poodle, my dear, and you can
carry the baby"
Mrs. Smiley-'No, no; you carry
the baby; I cannot trust you with Gyp;
you might drop him."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

BG Cucumbers sliced are said to re-
move freckles. This is not wonderful.
They have been known to "remove"
whole families. es.-Mayathon LudependSnf.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

NARA widow, intending to succeed
her husband in the management of a
hotel, advertised that s'the hotel will be
kept by the widow of the former land
lord, Mr., who died last summer
on a new and improved plan."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

B@@ Troubles spring from idleness,
and grievous tolls from needless ease.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

p@r Adversely is the trial of princi-
pie; without it man can hardly know
whether he is honest or not.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-08-22

D@The young girls want the dolls,
the older ones the dollars.
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4 a new and improved plan. +"

n6TMr. Cleveland is the first Presi.
dent who has ever worn only mustache'
Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-18
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