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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
CAN SCIENCE PRoLONG YOUTHl

The old days of "spread-eagleism"
are over. Mere rhetoric no longer
convinces, if indeed it ever did. Sar-
casm is another cartridge that is quite
as likely to burst at one end as the
other. The professional vender of
"comic stories," too, carries about as
much conviction with him as a brass
band, and the savage partisan who
breaches on the text attributed to
Horace Greely that every horse thief
is member of the opposite party
only hurts his cause.
After all, however, with perfect ar
rangements, attention and order, the
success of the speaker ultimately de-
pends upon himself. If he desires
personal popularity and the success of
the evening, he will avoid serious ar
gument and hold the attention of his
audience by a succession of anecdotes,
apt but never bitter, with good-natur-
ed ridicule, quip and gibe, and con-
fine himself in general handling OF
the subject narrated to give ofense.
If he takes his cause as more i'm
portant than his personal success he
will seek to hold the attention of the
audience in the main, not by tricks OF
oratory or eloquence, but by plain,
telling pithy facts and figures, clear
ly, fairly, and succinctly stated but
without abuse or invective. He will
combat the arguments of the opposi-
ton neither by good-natured jest nor
by general denial, but by the citation
of official and uncontrovertible infor-
nation from the original authorities.
1t is this speaker that makes converts
for his party-and enemies for him
self. He embitters his antagonists
because he does convert.
The gift of CAB, pleasant address,
and a newspaper scrap-book are all
the preparation necessary for the pop
ular orator. The hardest kind of
hard work lies before the really efec-
tive speaker.-Ca,I Smyder, in Serb
me1'S.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
LIFE on A BATTLEsHIP.

"Life on battleship is no holiday
excursion" said an old mariner, who
knows thing or two about guns and
things of that sort, to the New Or
leans mes-Demo,at, land th c
young man who would pick out this
kind of life with the idea that it
would be one grand, sweet round of
pleasure would miss the mark.
"No doubt there are many young
men who are extremely anxious to
be abroad one of these big battleships
when the guns unlimber, but I am in
clined to think that just one expert
ence would be enough for the average
young man. Now, l do not belong
to the branch of Uncle Sam S fighting
force, but my experience has taught
me many things while at sea, and I
know something about these big guns.
Take these I3-ineli guEs now in use
on the big battleships. When these
guns are fired there is something 60
ing on. It is awful. No man can
stand to be near them without an ap-
peal to protection of some sort. In
the first place the men are forced to
fill their ears with cotton. One
young gentleman from Annapolis
failed to do this on one occasion, and
he has not been able to hear anything
since. The mere fact that the gun
decks are bolted down ought to give
some idea of the amount of force in
volved in the discharge of one of these
guns. The stufing of the ears with
cotton is absolutely necessary. The
discharge of a I3-inch gun creates
tremendous vacuum. It literally
pulls all the air out of the ears of
men who are close to the gun. Here
is where the danger comes in. The
reactionary force is something terrific,
and unless the ear is protected by the
use of cotton the air would rush back
into the ear with such force that the
drum would be in danger of serious
and permanent injury. The drum of
the ear would not stand the quick but
violent return of the air. Hence the
use of cotton has been resort to while
firing these big guns. There is an
instance on record where the rushing
Of the air into the vacuum caused by
the discharge of one of these guns
was so forcifu1 that it broke the lock
-cf a door near by. which had been
carelessiy left closed for the men usu-
ally take the precSution to open the
doors on occasions Of this kind.
Standing near 13-inch gun when it
is in operation would cure the naval
ambition of many young men. I am
sure that it would probably convince
men who are much older in the ways
of the world that the men who repre-
sent the sea-fghting force of the
United States government have no
easy time"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
THIS INDIAN ExPERIMENTED.

A missionary in charge of small
church on the Indian reservation at
Ononeaga held evening services for
his people at which some of the sub
iects upon which he lectured were not
strictly religious.
One evening when the little build
ing was we'll filled with braves and
their squaws he described the solar
system and told them that the earth
revolved about the sun, and also
turned over once in every twenty-four
hours.
Early the next morning the priest
was awakened by knock. He open
ed the door and found a big Indian
wrapped in his blanket standing on
the porch.
"Why, Obaga !" he exclaimed,
''is anything the matter :"
Missionary lied p grunted the
Indian.
IT lied What do you mean?"
Missionary say world turn over
every night. Injun go home, set ul
stick, put apple on stick. If world
turn over apple fall off. This morn
ing apple on stick. Missionary lied,
Huh !''
And with this parting grunt he
strobe down the path, unheeding the
priests calls.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
STATISTICS OF FARM LABOR.

According to statistics prepared by
the Department Of Agriculture, there
is greater number of persons engag-
ed in some form of farm work than in
any other branch of labor. In 1890,
out Of ~, 735,6oI persons, 10 years of
age or over, having gainful occupa-
tons in the United States, 8,3o5,634,
or 500 per cent, were engaged in
agriculture, and of these 1904, ,o6I
were agricultural laborers.
The main object of the statistics is
a consideration of the wages paid this
class of labor. 1t is shown that those
who work for hire on the farm are a
decreasing element, as compared with
the entire farm labor of the United
States. Doubtless this is due largely
TO improved agricultural machinery
and its wider introduction.
Farm wages month, by the year
or season, without board and with
board, were higher in 1899 than in
1898. The smallest changes in the
rate of wages from 1898 to 1899 were
in Georgia, Texas and New Mexico,
each less than I per cent. The high
est gain was in Minnesota, 10 per
cent. followed by Wisconsin, 10 per
cent. !; Washington and Michigan
each 9 per cent. North Dakota, 8.5
per cent. South Dakota, rs per
cent. and Wyoming, 7 per cent.
There has been a gradual increase
in the rate of farm wages in the
United States since 1879, when it
reached the minimum. As the de-
mand for such labor, especially in the
harvest season, is still good, and the
supply has decreased fully one-third,
the tendency of wages would, natur-
ally, be upward.
The uncertain character of farm
work, largely dependent as it is on
the promise of crops, and varying
from pressing demand for help in
summer to practically no demand at
all in winter, makes it difficult to de-
termine just how many laborers gain
livelihood entirely from agriculture.
The figures given represent the num-
Der employed during the year, but it
is we'll known that great many more
work on the farms in summer than in
winter. These statistics do not fol-
low the summer surplus in the period
between harveSts.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

Rubbing the neck with lemon juice
will remove the dark lines and rough
appearance caused by wearing high
collars.
Lemon juice, which is largely used
for whitening the skin, tends after a
time to make it yellow. Citric acid,
its active principle, has no such after
effect.
Most children like dates, therefore
it will be round simple matter to
give tnem one of the most pleasant
natural physics in this way at dinner
daily in the shape of date dessert.
Feelings of heaviness and despon-
dency vanish with the eating of fruit.
Excess of meat will disorganize the
system and uric acid will be stored
up. But sharp fruit pulps come in
contact with the flesh and the acids
counteract each other, so that the
body receive only benefit.
The sharp acid of the red currant
jelly that makes this relish so much
valued when rich meats are eaten, is
in quantity, very near to the amount
of citiric acid held by the orange, as
the currant has no less than two and
a tenth per cent, while the orange
has two and two-ifths, the gooseber-
ry having only one and half parts
per hundred of free acid.
Milk as a food is perfect one for
the very young infants only. In
adult life it is often of service and
may save life, but it does not afford
all the materials required for nutri-
ton. Moreover it yields what is not
required-a large percentage of lime.
The latest researches show that this
is not so greatly on account of the
quantity of lime contained in the
milk, as because the salts are in a
form peculiarly adapted for retention
in the system.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
MORE BACHELORS THAN sPINsTERs.

A careful reckoning of the number
of men in the various states of the
Union who are available matrimoni-
ally has just been finished by the CEN
sus office. It finds that in the aggre-
gate there are 6,726,77 bachelors Of
81 or over, and makes record of the
remarkable fact that there are at pres
ent in the United States $500, 900
more single men than single women
of that age and above.
The exact figures are 4,Io5,446
maidens, so that the latter are in the
minority 2,53I,333. In other words,
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, there
are 2,53I,333 unattached males who
could not possibly get wives unless
they fell back upon the widows or
upon girls under 20.
New England has always been sup
posed to be overburdened with single
women, and yet the census reckoning
shows that there is not state in
that group which has not more bach
elors than spinsters. Even Massa-
chusetts, long declared to be the
chosen home and resort of the old
maid, has slight overplus of un-
married men, the figures being 282-
o32 single males, against 277,7II fe-
males similarly situated. Maine has
6o,878 bachelors, against 43,79o
spinsters; New Hampshire 38,7I3
bachelors and 3o,554 spinsters Yer
mont, 2o,I32 bachelors and I9,749
spinsters; Rhode Island, al ,645 bach
elors and 80, spinsters, and Con-
necticut, e4,I58 bachelors against a.
73I spinsters.
1t is clear from glance at the cen
sus figures, however, that the unmar-
ried women of the east ought to mi
CRATE to the great and growing west,
where the available supply of hus-
bands is relatively enormous. Just
think of California, for example,
where there are 239,5o4 bachelors and
only 88,755 maidens of 20 and up
ward
But the opportunity in Idaho is
much more attractive, the single men
numbering 23,42I and the spinsters
only 1856. Montana is another
state rich in chances Of marriage, its
bachelors numbering 55,457 against
1850 spinsters. Oregon has 90, ,525
bachelors and 16,775 maidens, while
Washington claims oo,oI4 single men
and 16, ,3I8 women. But the banner
state for bachelors is Wyoming, which
has 2,347 spinsters against 20, ,e27 un-
married persons of the sterner sex.
1t must be very difficult for woman
to become an old maid in Wyoming.
The excess of bachelors over spin
sters of 20 years and upward in Mas
chusetts is nearly per cent. In
Rhode Island it is S per cent, in Con-
necticut rs per cent, in Maine SO per
cent, in New Hampshire 26 per cent,
and in Vermont AS per cent. New
York shows a surplus of 23 per cent,
New Jersey 2o per cent, Pennsyl-
vania 38 per cent, Ohio 38 per cent,
Indiana 90 per cent, and Illinois 6S
per cent. Kansas rises to an excess
III bachelors to Io8 per cent, while
Missouri shows surplus of IL per
cent. Michigan has an excess of II
per cent. of single men.
In this country the males outnum-
Der the females "a in every I, 900, and
thus it is obvious that, if all of the
women do not get husbands, it is not
for lack of available material.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
VOL. So. WHOLE No. 1879.
NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER.

How many buttons are missing today?
Moody knows but mother.
How many playthings are strewn in her way?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many thimbles and sDools has she missed
How many burns oD each fat little fist
How many bumps to be cuddled and kissed?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many hats has she hunted today?
Nobody knows but mother.
Careless1y hiding themselves in the hay.
Nobody knows but mother.
How many handkerchiefs willfully etrayed,
How many ribbons for each little maid,
How, for her care, can a mother be paid?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many muddy shoes all in row.
Nobody knows but mother,
How many stockings to darn, do you know?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many little torn aprons to mend2
How many hours of toll must she spend?
What is the time when her days work will end
Nobody knows but mother.
How many lunches for Tommy and Sam2
Nobody knows but mother.
Cookies and apples and blackberry jam,
Nobody knows but mother.
NourishinR dainties for every "sweet tooth
Toddling Dottie or dignifed Ruth.
How much love sweetens the labor, forsooth ?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many cares does morner heart know?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many joys from her mother-love fiow2
Nobody knows but mother.
How many prayers by each little white bed,
How many tears for her babes has she shed,
How many kisses for each curly head?
Nobody knows but mother.
--NeaD York Mail and Earpress
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
TIL E N o. z.

Nothing is more rare than really
perfect nose-that is, one which
unites harmony of form, correctness
of proportion and proper affinity with
the other features.
The following are, according to the
rules of art, the conditions requisite
to the beauty of this organ:
The nose should have the same
length as the forehead and have a
slight depression at its root. From
its root to its extremity should fol-
low perfectly straight line and come
exactly over the center of the upper
lip. The bridge of the nose, parallel
on both sides, should be little wider
in the center. The tip should be
neither too thin nor too heshy, and its
lower outline neither narrow nor too
wide. The lobes must be gracefully
defined by slight depression. Seen
sideways, the lower part of the nose
will have but a third of its total
length.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13

The clock chimed out the hour of
midnight when the death angel visit
ed the little room upstairs. Mrs.
Garrett and Mrs. Abel woke stimuli
taneously.
"Oh. dear love,
Who is all my own,
1 waited, dear, so long!
But you are here at last,
And the rest Is past;
Oh, dear love,
Who is all my own!'
"Grace singing at this time of
night ~ Mrs. Garrett exclaimed, as
she and Mrs. Abel both hurried to
the room.
In the middle of the floor Grace
stood, her long hair falling about her
shoulders, her arms outstretched and
a smile playing about her lips.
Dear mothers p she said joyful
ly, he has come and I'm going away
with him."
Mrs. Garrett led her back to the
bed, where she laid down, as if very
tired.
81 knew he would come p she
whispered. Her eyes closed wearily
aud she ceased to breathe.
The funeral was quiet, as had
been the pure girls life. Two wo-
men mourned the loss of a daughter.
In Western town Osburn Ross
ate heartily of baked turkey and
drank freely of wine. If he remem-
bered the mock marriage ceremony of
twelve months before it was only
with a passing regret.
"She loved me too hard" he easied
his conscience by saying. ''No
man likes too much of a good thing"
Mrs. Garrett and Mrs. Abel read
Grace's last story as soon as they felt
they could stand it. 1t was only
simple little tale of a woman's faith
full love.
"She died believing he still loved
her."
"Thank God !" came the other
woman's answer.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
A YELLOW DOG VERSUS A BOOK AGENT.

We used to have yellow dog at
home that always recognized book
agents and tramps at sight. 1t made
no difference how we'll or how poorly
an agent was dressed, that dog knew
him and stopped him. If he was
dressed like a preacher and insisted
on coming in, he didn't look like
preacher when he went away.
One sultry summer day an extra
swell book agent descended upon us.
He was tall and slender-made more
so by his silk hat-was straight as
an arrow and walked with the light,
springy step of trotting horse. He
wore a neat cutaway coat, white
vest, newly pressed trousers and pat
ent leather shoes on which the sun
beams skipped like spring lambs. He
seemed to be fortunes chief favorite.
AS he approached the gate his sky
was serene. No cloud appeared any
where. But alas for what was just
over the horizon Under the ever
green tree, where two or three hens
lay scratching in the dust, was stretch
ed the yellow cur, taking his midday
nap. The instant that agents hand
touched the latch his sky was black.
The air was soon chaotic with swing
ing arms and legs, coattails, plug hat
and cries If Murder |"
The corn in that immediate neigh
borhood was never harvested.
AS the dog lay dowRn;gain to pick
the shoddy out of b =. torn
and tattered man linn
lies MontkLy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
A VAST SALT FIELD.

In the middle of the Colorado
desert, little to the north of the
Mexican boarder and 264 feet below
the level of the sea, lies a field of
crystallzed salt more than thousand
acres in extent, presenting a surface
as white as snow and beneath the
MONDAY glare of the sun so dazzling
that the naked eye cannot stand its
radiance. 1t stretches away for miles
and miles about Salton, Colorado, an
ocean of blazing, blistering white.
Here daily throughout the year
men are at work overturning the
great deposit with massive plows and
scrapers, getting it into great piles
preliminary to putting it through the
refining process. The salt plows
used to secure the harvest are great
four wheeled implements driven by
Steam and managed by two men.
The salt crust is thrown up in parallel
ridges; then laborers with hoes work
it to md fro in the water, washing
out the dirt preliminary to stacking
it In mo1nds to be taken to the mill.
Salt SPRINGS in adjacent foothills
are constsntly contributing to the de-
posit, andso heavily laden are. they
with almos pure salt that the plow
has already passed on before new
crust has forued in the furrow left.
This fact reiders it unnecessary to
operate more han a small portion of
the vast depost.
AS may be supposed, work in these
fields is performed under the most
trying conditions. No white man
can stand the Intense heat, and for
this reason the work is done wholly
by Japanese and BY Coahuila Indians.
Of these the indians are by far the
better adapted to the work, the Japa-
nese performing only one portion,
sewing the sacks in which the salt is
shipped. The atmosphere, laden as
it is with particles of salt, gives rise
to a painful thirst, and the only
available drinking water comes from
a single well. 1t is warm and ill
tasting.
Beautiful mirages frequently ap-
pear above the great salt field in the
day time, sky pictures of magnificent
cities and flower dotted, tree shaded
fields. The moonlight, too, produces
wondrously beautiful effects upon the
great field of cleaning salt. For
several weeks in the year the ther-
mometer on the salt field averages
I4o degrees, and the reflection of the
sun produces glare like that from
furnace. The deposits vary in thick
ness from ten to twenty inches and
form solid crust over the great
marsh. 1t is estimated that about
700 tons are now plowed up daily
MeW York Tribune.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
JUDGE sToRY's MONEY.

In 1926 Josiah Quincy, then a
young man but recently graduated
from Harvard, was invited by Judge
Story, a member of the supreme
bench, to accompany him to Wash
ington. In Figures of the Past"
Mr.. Quincy gives an incident of the
journey from Boston to Washington
which was made by stage-coach:
The first night of our journey was
spent at Ashford, in Connecticut,
where we arrived late in the evening,
and here the bother of wildcat curren-
cy, as it was afterward called, was
forced upon Our attention.
The bills of local banks would
not circulate beyond the town in
which they were issued, and when
Judge Story, who had neglected to
provide himself with United States
notes, offered thS landlord a Galera
bill in payment for his supper the
man stared at it as if it had been the
wampum of the Indians or the shell
money of the south sea islanders.
"This is not good" said the host,
"and I think you must know it."
81 know it is good" retorted the
judge testify. "And I'll tell you
how 1 know it. 1 made it myself p
This reply, of which the landlord
could make nothing, unless it were
the confession of a forger, did not
mend matters, and it was fortunate
that I had provided myself with some
national notes, which ended the diff
Guilty. The explanation was that
Judge Story as president of a Salem
bank had signed the bill.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13

where the husband is once complete
ly and hopelessly subjugated, the
only alternative hope for the family
lies in the ability of its real head to
endure the consequences of the re-
peated impacts to which family bat
tering ram must be subjected. She
must "butt up against things" her
self, and take the best care of her ad-
miring, but helpless, husband she
possibly can. This may be painful,
but it is highly educational, being
chiefly the use to which nature in
tends that every hard head on human
shoulders, male or female, should be.
-St. Louis GIo6e-Democ7at.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
THE SWEETEST GIRL OF ALL.

I've sung of the girls that play at golf,
OF the girls who fish and shoot;
I've sung of the maid who's not afraid
To pose in her bathing suit.
I've sung of the girl who weds duke,
And lives in palace hall;
And the footlight maids, with their lights and
shades,
I've sung of them one and all.
But now will sing in soft refrain
Of the girl you would like to know;
The girl who can cook without paper or book,
The girl who can darn and sew.
OF the girl who never went far from home,
Who is void of all social schemes;
Who is homely and neat, old-fashioned and
sweet,
The girl whom you see in your dreams.
-WOndu,S Home Communion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13
DUTCHMAN
A Dutchman, addA

A Dutchman, add
said: "You vas on1
wish 1 vas you. Veh
the bed in, you shust
dree times and lay down.
nit the bed in, 1 haf to ldS
blace und Wind de clock und
cat oud und undress myself, und -
wife wakes up und scols me, den de
baby cries und I haf to walk him up
und down; den maybe ven shust go
to sleep, it's time to ged up again.
Ven you ged up, you shust stretch
yourself und scratch a couple of times,
und you vas up. 1 haf to light de fire,
put on de kettle, scrap nit my wife al
ready, und maype get some break
fast. You play round all tay und haf
blenty of fun. 1 haf to work all tay
an haf blenty of drouble. Ven you
die, you's dead ven l die, l haf to
90 to hell vet. - Unidentified.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13

"MY DEAR" remarked the very
fresh young man, "you remind me
of an imitation diamond" "Why
so :" "You are so brillia nt."
every complimentary" "On, no"
"And you," rejoined the knowing
maid, remind me of an emerald. "
"Why?" "You are so green"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13

WHAT WE call strength of charac-
ter in ourselves we are apt to call
stubbornness in other peoples.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13

"I'vR been looking for my hus-
band for the last two hours" said an
agitated woman to a calm one.
Don't be excited, madam" replied
the latter. "I've been looking for a
husband for the last twenty-five
years."