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Preaching and Practice.

See here, Mr.. Blank, what are you
going out to night for7' asked Mrs. B.,
with threatening look.
big political meeting tonight ex-
claimed Mr. B., apologetically.
Political meeting, eh2' echoed Mrs.
B. 'You have been going to political
meetings every night for five weeks,
and if it had not been for me you would
have worn your boots to bed every time
But Just think how nice it would be
if l should get nominated for some
thing. Think of the loads of money l
could rake in, and the nice furniture
and new clothes and sealskin sacques
and
THAT lido, interrupted Mrs. Blank;
Il have heard this story before. You
made speech last night at ward meet
ing, l see.
'Yes,' responded Mr.. B., with par
donable pride.
'And l see by the two or three lines
notice of it in the newspapers, that the
burden of your remarks was 'the office
should seek the man and not the man
the office. Now you just take off that
overcoat; sit right down, and if any
office comes along and knocks, | will
let it in.
| He caf
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13
Bathing in Warm Water.

The Sanitary W0rM considers clean
illness not only essential to good health,
but it is a mark of good breeding. The
laborer, by the clinging of dust to his
perspiring person, becomes fit subject
for the bath tub very frequently. Too
frequent bathing is weakening. 1t may
not be advisable to take bath morning
and evening, as some medical journals
advise, but a good washing frequently
enough to keep the person clean. Warm
baths will often prevent the most viru-
lent diseases. A person who may be in
fear of having received infection of any
kind should take warm bath, suffer
perspiration to ensue, and then rub dry.
Dress warmly to guard against taking
cold. If the system has imbibed any
infectious matter, it will be removed by
resorting to this process, if done before
the infection has time to spread over
the system; and even if some time has
elapsed, the drenching perspiration that
may be induced by hot water will be
very certain to remove it.
In cases of congestion, bilious collie,
inflammation, etc., there is no remedy
more certain to give relief. In cases oi
obstinate constipation also wonderful
cures have been wrought. For sore
throat, diphtheria, and inflammation o
the lungs, hot compress is one OF the
most potent remedies.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1885.

wealth, and SO he said to his executors;
Il will give you bonds at par-good and
desirable securities that l hold-to
sum equivalent to your entire interest
in the Texas Pacific road, and will as
sumo the entire indebtedness and hold
that note for 81, 500, ,ooo.' The bonds
that he offered were of such character
that the executors gladly accepted them
and the bargain was made. But he was
not without many and influential friends,
who had watched his wonderful and
brilliant career and had confidence in
his recuperative powers, and these aid
ed him materially. Simon Cameron
loaned him 1000, 900 and Colonel
James Duffy accompanied him with a
like sum. His own self-reliance, how
ever, proved the eventful means of a
triumphant success. Undismayed by
misfortune, he still kept urging along
the Texas Pacific scheme, and as his Sc
curities reached their full values he
parted with them and cancelled his notes,
until in comparatively short time he
had redeemed his promise and paid
cvcIy Creditor doller for dollar.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13
Calendar on Your Fingers.

This is the way that an old timer
manages to keep the days of the week
that months open with. It will be found
correct and interesting to people who
have memory for such things:
'What day of the week did January
come in ona' asked Grandpa Martin.
IF you can tell that, can tell you the
day that any month will come in on, by
hell of little lingo learned from my
father when | was boy. Monday, did
you say?' and grandpa held up his
hands preparatory to counting his nm
gers. Now, April is the month; let us
see: AT Dover dwelt George Brown,
ESQ.,, good Christopher French and
David Frier.' We go by the first letters
of these words-I, 2, 8, AT Dover
dwelt George-G is the letter we want,
and it is the seventh in the alphabet.
January came in on Monday, you say.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday, Saturday, Sunday-seven:
April comes in on Sunday. Take Feb
ruary-second month-at Dover. D is
the letter, and fourth in the alphabet.
Take Monday again as the starting point
Monday, one; Tuesday, two; We'd
nesday, three; Thursday, four; Febru-
ary comes in on Thursday
IF you make no mistake in using the
rule, it will give you the answer every
time. Leap year requires the addition
of one day for the last ten months, to
allow for the 2oth of February.
Il never knew anybody outside of my
fathers family continued grandpa,
who knew this little lingo and how to
use it. He taught it to his children,
and have tried to teach it to mine,
but they seem to forget it, and | am
afraid it will get lost. When father used
to go to presbytery, fifty years ago, it
often happened that question of dates
and their relation to days would come
up, and no almanac at hand; in fact,
the question might be as to some day
of the next year; but almanac or not,
my father could always find the fact
wanted with just the little key of the
first day of the years.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13
She Made a slight Mistake.

She was a thin, narrow, dark-visaged
woman with specs on, and she carried
a package of tractlets and leaflets which
she scattered broadcast among the sin
ners in the horse-car on which she rode.
When only one or two of the pamphlets
were left man got in. He was on his
way to the depot, countryman going
home, evidently. He had big water
melon which he disposed of tenderly on
the seat by him, and glass flask with
rubber cork stuck boldly out of his coat
pocket.
'Heugh!' he painted, as he stuffed his
fare into the box. Hotter than harvest
up here, amt it?'
Everybody looked cold disapproval
at him, as good Christian people do
when spoken to in street car; all but
the woman with the tracts. She fish
ed one out and extended it to him.
'Thankee, he said, receiving it in a
brown paw, comic almanac, hey2
mo, sir, said the woman firmly, in
high falsetto voice. Its to sstt66iii- sSsnna
immortal soul. Touch not, taste not,
handle not the wine, and she pointed
with crooked torefnger to the glass
flask protruding from his breast pocket.
'Oh, 1 see, said the man, smiling
good-humoredly on his sour-viSaged
Wis avis; Ebut this bottle amt for me,
ma am
'Woe unto him that giveth his neigh
Dor drink quoted the woman, fercely.
He amt eggsactly my neighbor,
either, said the man. You see, it's
the new baby, and wife calculates to
fetch him up by hand, and this bottles
for him, bless his pootsy tootsey. Here's
the riggin' of it, and diving into an
other pocket he fished out some india
rubber tubing, etc.
The woman didn't wait to finish her
dissertation on temperance, but got out
without asking the driver to stop.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13
The Last Boy.

The Last Man'-so I've heard it said
Will find his situation frightful,
With all the other people dead;
But should think it would be delightful.
There's nothing I'd enjoy
Like being the Last Boy.
That candy store just up the street
wouldn't lose single minute
In choosing what I'd like to eat,
And spending several hours in it.
With nobody to say
1 mustn't do that way.
I'd 90 and visit all the shops,
And gil my pockets-fll them mainly
With little gans, and kites, and tops,
And other things I've teased for vainly.
And nobody would care,
If nobody was there.
I'd never 60 to bed-for then
There'd be no horrid nurse to take me;
I'd never go to school again;
There wouldn't be a soul to make me.
There's nothing I'd enjoy
Like being the Last Boy.
Slate and Pencil People.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13
Courtesy at Home.

One is forcibly reminded, in going
from place to place, how small and
seemingly trivial often are the things
which go to make or mar the comfort
and peace of home. In some households
there is genuine good will and kind
ness which only works out half its mis-
sion, for the reason that it does not ex-
press itself in little courtesies of speech
and action. These are more important
than some of our busy men and women
may realize. The ready thank you,'
'if you please, ETC., at table and else
where, the quiet excuse me- when
obliged to pass directly before or incon-
veniently near another; the loving
goodnight and CHEEKY 'good-morn-
ing,' although little things, are helps in
making a happy home. Courtesy is
but the ready overflow of kindness and
good will to all, and is therefore but a
natural expression which costs nothing,
but which often cheers an aching heart,
and which never fails to make home
brighter and more attractive to old and
young.
a@-'Oh, hubby, I've had such dread
full accident!'
What is it, my dear2'
'I've broken the hall mirror, and you
know it is sign of bad luck to break a
mirror.
so it is, my darling, especially when
the mirror costs $I4.'
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13

B9~The best food for young pigs is
something which will not ferment such
as dry, unground oats. The little fell
lows will chew these and spit out the
skins, and the thorough mastication
they give to them wonderfully aids its
digestion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13

While Colonel Scott was in the midst
of this trouble John Edgar Thomson
died on May 27, 1874, and the execu-
tors of the estate felt themselves some
what embarrassed by reason of Mr..
Thomson's Endorsement of the note for
1900, 900. Under these circumstances
Col. Scott did probably what no other
man would have done. He felt some
what hurt that anyone should think that
he had brought his benefactor into
trouble or had deprived President Thom-
sons widow of any other portion of his
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13

B@~ John B. Cough, the great tenn
perance lecturer, who recently died in
Philadelphia, addressed in his time 4,
900, 900 people.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-03-13

B@The way to gain good reputa-
ton is to endeavor to be what you de-
sire to appear.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-08
Ears Almost Earen OFF.

About eight months ago 1 con
traeted blood poison, | wat
treated by a private physician on
fhIrty-frst street, and then for 9
month at the New York Hospital
Finding l did not improve / began
taking Swift's Specific, Up to
this time hada drowsy and sleepy
feeling continually, with no appe.
tlte, and was losing flesh rapidly,
| was covered over the ankles,
arms, neck and face with sores, and
1t seemed that my ears would be
eaten off. l have taken seven
bottles of the S. S. s., and the
sores are all gone except lew on
my forehead, and they are nearly
out of sight; my ears are entirely
well, my appetite is splendid, and
! have gained five pounds in
waight; | feel so perfectly well
that | know in a short time | shall
bo soupdly cured,
FRANK E. KEEFE,
405 w. list street, New York.
Feb. Is, 1856.
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d. C. GIDDINGS FOR COY
ERNOR.

! $1,000 O@t"
The above is tho caption of q
communication dated on tho %
inst, and printed in the Dallas
News of the Sd. The writer says
"The friends of Col. Glddings arc
not willing that no should longer
remain in retirement. They be
lieve that he is the man for thC
emergency, and so believing have
announced him as q candidate fol
the Democratic nomination fol-
governor, and they commend hin
as the right man to all who desire
for governor q statesman of cxpe
rience and strong will and 4 man
of frst-class business capacity"
1t is true that four well known
and prominent gentlemen are now
before the people as candidates
for the nomination !; all of them arc
good honest men and as private
citizens are beyond reproach; they
are men of good character and fair
average ability, but it may well be
doubted if any of them have the
necessary ability ard statesman
ship to make a good governor for
Texas at this particular time. Not
one of them has any record as a
statesman or as q man of superior
business ability.
The BANNER is not advised Of
Col. GiddIngs' intentions in regard
to the governorship; he has not
been in politics for some years,
and has in no sense been q candi-
date for the position he is not an
Office seeker, but there is no doubt
if he was called upon by the Demo.
cracy of Texas, assembled in STATE
Convention, to become candidate
for governor he would not decline
the honor, and if he should be nomi-
mated it would be a clear case of
the Office seeking the man, not the
man seeking the Office.
Col. Giddings has a statewide
reputation and his name has fire.
quently been named IN connection
with the governorship. 1t will be
noticed that the call upon him to
be candidate comes from North
Texas, and he has many friends In
that section as well as generally
throughout the state.
Col. Giddings is too well known
in this immediate section TO need
any commentator whatever, but
it may not be amiss TO say that if
he is nominated and elected he
will make a governor who will ad-
minister the laws fairly and impair
tally; he is man of ability and
nerve and should any emergency
arise he will pursue no VaciIlating
policy, but will act promptly and
fearlessly. He is q man who has
views and opinions and who is not
afraid to express them. If he be-
comes candidate the people will
be fully advised of his views on
the questions now before them.
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THE yIRTIE5 OF HONEY.

Pure honey should always be
used freely in every family. Honey
eaten upon wheat bread is very
beneficial to health. The use oil
honey instead of sugar in almost
every kind of cooking is pleasant
for the palate as it is healthy for
the stomach. In preparing black
berry, raspberry and strawberry
shortcakc it is infinitely superior
1t is a common expression that
honey is a luxury, having nothing
to do with the life giving principle,
This is an error; honey is food in
one gifts most concentrated forms,
True it does not add so much to
the growth of the muscles as does
beef steak, but it does impart other
properties no less necessary to
health and vigorous physical and
intellectual action. 1t gives warmth
to the system arouse nervous ener-
gy, and gives vigor to all the vital
functions. To the laborer it gives
strength, to the business man men,
tai force Its effects are not like
ordinary stimu ants, such as spirits,
etc, but produce healthy action,
the results of which are pleasing
and permanent-a sweet DISPOSE
ton and a bright intellect.
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405 W. list street, New Yorl
Feb. Is, 1886.



My little boy has suffered for six
years with scrofulous sores. Many
who saw him 2 ypaE or so ago
thought no never could recover.
Commenced taking Swift's Specific,
and has taken about twelve bottles,
which has effected q nH".s.ect cure.
Il hay" waited some time to sec
whether the disease would come
back, but am now satisfied that the
cure is permanent, for all the sores
are gone, and he is fat and rosy,
and as playful as any child of his
age. With a grateful heart known
only TO a mother l write these
lines. MRS. MARY Il. HOLT.
Concord, Ga, Feb. 6, 1886.
Treatise on Blood and Skin
Diseases mailed trce.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer
8, Atlanta, Ga. New York, 157
W. 23d street.
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The Galveston News says that
Terrell, Hancock and GIddings
confront actual conditions and sug-
gest more OF less feasible reme-
dies. Swain, Ross and Martin
dawdIe for hours over how they
voted in the constitutional conyen-
ton, or what they SAID when such
and such a bill was pending, OF
what they did say but did not
mean, or did not say but meant, In
previous speeches. The campaign
of Swain, Ross and Martin shows
Texas craftsmanship so far as they
are concerned to be at a low ebb,
The three first named gentlemen
take strong ground in favor of deep
water for Texas, and IN view OF
past experience they very proper
ly insist that if Texas wants deep
water she must take stops to help
herself. Heretofore, IN the matter
of deep water, Texas has sat like a
hungry young hooking bird with
mouth wide open waiting to be
fed; waiting for the federal gov
eminent to do something she ought
to do herself.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-08

Hon. JOHN HANCOCK delivered
the principal speech at the Dallas
barbecue on Monday. He suggest
ed a plan by which Texas could
have a great deep water harbOr'
His plan is to devote eight or ten
million acres of the public lands
for harbor purposes and to pay for
work on the harbor by the sale OF
land as the work progresses, and
that the state issue bonds to the
school fund for the value of the
school lands as taken up. This
plan would give a permanent
school fund and a permanent har-
Dor, too.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-08

James Ludlow, of Springfield, O.,
claims to be a clairvoyant and
spirltuallstic medium. Recently
he discovered the original of a lost
marriage certificate in some dusty
folios, dug out OF thoo records of
the Associated Charities Library,
Chestnut street, Philadelphia. The
find, it is said, will bring to GER
tain parties in Clark county, o.,
an estate valued at 100000.
Ludlow is to receive a fee OF $780,
900. The marriage certificate is
dated Feb. 10, ITO, and Ludlow
claims that while in q clairvoyant
state in Ohio the secret of the old
records IN Philadelphia was di-
vulged to him.
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Cherokee Standard: We hear
farmers complain that they are
growing poorer every year, and
that they cannot pay the wages de-
manded of them by freedmen and
laborers. Now the remedy is not
organization. II the farmers or
game to regulate the price of Ia
borers, the lahorers will organize
SO Rs to keep wages up to their
present high price. What farmers
need and must have is improved
agricultural implements. BY i'm
proved machinery ono halt Of the
number oflaborerS can be disposed
OF and forced 10 go to farming on
their own account. Get something
to tear the stumps out ofyour land;
90 to work yourselves and there
will be joy instead OF sadness over
tho profits of the farm,
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THE TARIFF QUESTION.

The Republicans of Pennsylvan-
ia held q state convention at Har-
risburg on the SOth uIt. The tenn
porary chairman, Mr.. Oliver, made
an address in which he said that
the Democrats were endeavoring
by Legislation to close hundreds of
workshops and drown the fires in
the iron furnaces. In order to
stop this the Republican party
should be restored to power and a
protective tariff should be levied.
This course would make the own
ers of the iron furnaces and work
shops richer than they now are
and the poor much poorer. SINCE
the high tariff has boen in force,
during the past twenty-five years,
more manufacturers have grown
rich and become millionaires than
there ever was in the previous his
tory of this country. 1t is no won
der that the Republican leaders,
many of whoa baYe grown i'm
menseIy wealthy by means of the
high tariff, do not want any change
made init, unless perhaps it be to
increase it, that their profits may
be still further enlarged. More
money has been made during and
since the war than made during the
entire time from the foundation of
the government up to the time the
war began. The workingmen have
been paid better wages, but the
cost of living has been largely IN
creased and taking the working
people as mass, but comparative
ly few of them have accumulated
a compenteney, while the great
majority are worse off financially.
than they were ten or fifteen years
ago. The Democrats, as a party,
insist upon tariff for revenue only
while the Republicans insist upon
a protective tariff. 1t begins to
look as though the next presiden-
tial campaign will be conducted on
the tariff question. The Demo-
Gratis elected MIR. Cleveland on a
platform pledged to tariff reform,
b4t not only has the tariff not
been reformed, but a bill for that
purpose has been voted doYn by a
House of Representatives with a
considerable Democratic majority.
In other words the pledges OF tho
party have not been redeemed. III
would seem that the tariff ques-
ton is becoming more complicated
as time rolls on and it will require
the best craftsmanship IN the
Democratic prrty to solve it in
such way rs to maintain the par
ty In power.
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Madison county sends an un'
instructed delegation to the state
convention.
Tho Dimmitt county conven'
ton did not instruct for governor,
Craine was Endorsed for congress,
Corn in Madison county will
prove 4 failure for want of rain
and unless 1t rains within a few
days the cotton crop will 30 tho
same way.
The Goliad county convention
was but slImly attended, Judge
Cook was Endorsed for governor,
Grain for congress and p. f. Pear,
son for attorney general.
Tho water works ut Tyler
were sold on Tuesday for Sl97.
The state was the purchaser the
company was unable to pay taxes.
The water supply is failure tor
the present.
1t is claimed that 800 houses
arc now in course of construction
at BallIngcr. Lots have advanced
steadily in price and they are now
SAID TO be worth 100 per cent. ad-
vance over The prices they sold for
on sale day.
"A BellvilIe special to the News
says from information received
from different portions Of the state,
the friends of Hon. A. Chcsley feel
confident that he will warm the
seat on the supreme bench to be
vacated by Judge Robertson.
Capt. John Scssum, comman-
der OF 4 colorcd military company
ut Houston, has been arrested on a
charge OF stealing gold watch
and some money while acting in
the capacity of waiter for some of
the Houston boys at the Lampasas
drill.
The commissioners court of
Smith county met at Tyler on Tues
day as 4 board of equalization.
About 1000 farmers had been sum-
moned to show cause why their as
scssmcnts should not be Increased.
They don't want TO pay any more
taxes.
Tho habeas corpus case of
Thomas J. and Frank Scott. accus-
cd OF numbering Harris and putting
his remains in the Robbers cave
near San Antonio, was heard by
Judge Noonan, who on Tuesday
refused them bail. The evidence
is strong and conclusive.
Judge Goldthwait, of Houston,
declines to become candidate Tor
the Legislature. He cannot afford
to spend the time and money to
make tho canvass and if elected to
neglect important private business.
1t is extremely difficult at the pres
ent time to get frst-class man to
become 4 candidate for the lcgisla-
turo.
"A call has been issued for
citizens meeting at Marshall, Har-
rison county 10 determine whether
or not county officers shall be
nominated. These meetings here
tofore have been non partisan and
are simplyln the interest of getting
good, honest, capable men for
county officers.
Marshall has been struck by
revlvaIist in the person OF Rev. NJ.
Burnett. lie converted $50 sinners
in about week; this is most ox-
cellent work but before, or at any
date after Christmas it is safe to
say that majority of the converts
will afford material for the next
revivalist that comes along. Emo
tional converts seldom last alter
the emotion has had Tune 10 cool.