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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
WHERE INSTINCT SAVES.

The superiority of instinct over rea-
son in certain crisis has been striking
ly displayed in the case of the calam.
tiles in the islands of Martinique and
st. Vincent. 1t is related by survi.
vors from the scene of the devastated
islands that the birds, beasts and rep
tiles fled from the neighborhood OF
the craters several days before the
cataclysm came. This phenomenon,
while noticed at the time, did not at
tract any attention. 1t had no mes
sage at all for the people in the vicin-
ity of the danger points before the
outburst. Some of the survivors re-
call the warning now with a melan-
choly interest.
Science, too, showed itself to be
blind in contrast with this prescience
of the birds and beasts. A commits
sion of savants appointed by the au-
thorities of that locality made an ex-
animation of Mount Pelee shortly be-
fore the explosion, and, although
there were signs which everybody
can now see portended. the coming
eruption, they declared that there was
no danger. The governor of the is
land Immediately issued proclama-
ton to this effect, and the signs which
the kindling volcanic fires on the
mountain wrote across the face of the
sky at night went for naught. The
scientists and the governor showed
the courage and confidence of their
ignorance, and remained on the
ground and perished when the out
burst came. With them, and lulled
into false sense of security by their
words and acts, were the bulk of the
people of the island, who were also
destroyed in the tempest of fire.
Other cataclysms of this sort tell a
similar story. Science has hitherto
been of little service in the way of
foretelling earthquakes or volcanoes.
And, of course, science is powerless
as means of prevention. The peo-
pie Of Pompii, like those of Martin
ique and St. Vincent, were going
about their usual vocations, unsus-
picious of peril until destruction came,
although the portents were plain to
the birds and beasts. Macaulay tells
the story in an effective way of how,
when "Vesuvius groaned with wrath
supprest," the eagles, foxes, goats
and other members of the brute crea-
ton fled to places of safety, while the
higher order of beings remained, as at
the islands in the Caribbean, until
the crash and blaze of doom swept
them away.
Man only mocks the. Man alone
Defes the sulphurOus flame, the warning groan.
While instinct, humber guardian, wakes and
saves,
Proud reason sleeps, nor knows the doom it
braves.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
EQUINE INTELLIGENCE.

There are people who deny that
the horse is able to plot, to conceive
or reason. Some horses are duller
than others, and some apparently are
better equipped for thought than the
men in charge of them. You teach
horse to start or stop at word, and
acts of kindness or cruelty are seldom
forgotten by him. At a farm that
we visit a little girl who has given
sweetmeats to spirited animals can
take the greatest liberties with them.
The stranger has to keep safe dis
tance from their heels, while she may
crawl between their legs. They re-
member her acts of kindness and
carefully avoid doing anything to
harm her.
We have in mind a stallion who
was harshly punished. He treasured
UP the act of injustice, and the author
of his humiliation was compelled to
keep aloof from him. His manner
plainly indicated that the man would
get hurt if he ventured within strik-
ing distance. This stallion trusts
those who have shown him consider
alton and in the main is nor a bad
tempered horse. He appears vicious
only to those who have treated him
viciously. His knowledge of right
and wrong suggests thought. 1t
shows capacity to reason from cause
to effect. Teach horse as you would
child what to fear and what to do,
and the lesson will never be forgotten.
Some horses cunningly open their
stable doors by removing pegs with
their teeth and thus put plan into op-
Grafton. Their Imagination is fired
by beautiful scenery. Put one in a
paddock where he can look out upon
the hills and hear the birds sing and
you will quiet his nervous system.
In moments of contemplation he has
the dreamy look of poet.
About the only time that horse
forgets to think is when he surrepti-
tiously finds his way to the we'll filled
oat bin. He then does not eat in a
rational way, but gorges himself to
the danger point. This is an unmis-
taxable evidence of weakness. And
yet there are men endowed with in
tellect who have little or no control
over their appetites. Absence of re-
straint at the feast marks the devel-
opment of the human as we'll as of
the equine race. In our judgment,
the horse sometimes thinks. TINT,
Field and En>nu.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
CARE OF THE FEET.

We may congratulate ourselves
that more and more and more, as time
goes on, custom and fashion move to-
gether in the direction of the proper
care of the feet, says the YOUTHS
Combaniom. In shoes the extremely
narrow-pointed toe is for the moment
tabooed as vulgar. But fashion, alas /!
only repents of her sins to commit the
same over again, and the pointed toes
will probably be forced upon us again
long before the feet crippled by the
last batch can be cured. In the
meantime, while common sense and
fashion go hand in hand, we must
make the best Of our day of oppor-
tunity.
Many insults are offered to these
faithful, Woodworking servants, the
feet, besides confinement in narrow,
cramped and ill-ftting shoes. We
talk learnedly of the necessity for
ventilation, and then expect them to
bear up the weight of our bodies all
day long without a grumble and
without a breath of air. Or we take
pains to have our shoes long enough,
and then put on socks or stockings
half an inch too short, and wonder
where the corns come from.
Almost as necessary as the proper
clothing of the feet is the proper toi-
let. At least morning and night they
should be bathed and then manipula-
ted to keep them smooth and supple.
Stockings should be changed very
frequently, because the feet owing to
their constant confinement and the
hard work they are called upon to do,
are always perspiring. The same
pair of shoes should not be worn two
days in succession. 1t is an easy
matter to have two pairs in use on al
ternate days, and is excellent econo-
my besides, as it gives the shoes a
chance to become perfectly dry, and,
consequently, they keep in better
shape and last longer.
Very hot water, unless ordered for
medicinal purposes, should not be
used, as it has tendency to soften
the feet and make them too tender.
A little alcohol, well rubbed in after
the bath. is good, especially for those
who are much exposed to bad wealth
er, as it gives tone and prevents too
profuse perspiration.
Finally, there should be no amateur
corn-cutting. Badly cut corns are
apt to spread, to say nothing of the
dangers of blood-poisoning, gangrene
and other dreadful accidents that oc-
casionally follow clumsy, ignorant
surgery on the feet.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
TOO TICKLIsH.

At dinner given by the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick at New York on
the 18th of March Rev. DR.. Joseph
Twichell told story which won him
the hearty applause of the 400 Irish
men present.
II was making my first trip about
Dublin" said DR.. Twichell, land I
had engaged a jaunting car. While
/ went into a store my ''jarvie" fell
into conversation with another carter,
who was the most tattered specimen
of humanity I ever saw. When we
started driving again 1 asked my
.jarvie' if the other carter was a
friend of his.
'Shure, an he is, yer honor
he's me best friend, was the answer.
Isn't he a bit ragged? I asked.
'Shure, an he AIM nawthin else.
Is 1t because he's poor?'
Nav, yer honor, he's plenty of
money
why doesn't he buy some decent
clothes, then?'
Why, yer homer, I'll tell yer
he's that ticklish there amt tailor
in Dublin that can measure him, SO
he has to wear what he has on
IT'S THE woman that is never ready
xx,1,<ea xr@~1e 0a~-~
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
OFFICE SEEKING.

went a-office seekin'. 1 had alters thought till
then
That was one o. these general average sort of
men,
But my friends they took the matter up. They
showed me as prize,
felt jes' like an angel that had wandered from
the skies.
An then the other fellers got to work an
turned pale,
Expectin' any minute to be carried off to Jail.
1 never broke the law, nor captured no dishonest
pelf.
But jes the same, they made me right suspicious
of myself.
I never was no dandy but on lookin' in the glass
Jes' after Mandy cut my hair, kind o. thought
I'd pass
But when my managers got out my campaign
pictures-well,
You couldn't tell the difference tween me and
Beau Brum-mell
But when the opposition took a-hold they made
me look
Like some fierce combination of hayseed an a
crook.
One day I'm so conceited that my manners is a
frost,
An the next day I'm as humble as yaller dog
that's lost. -WGshington Star.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
A CONVERTED SENATOR ON WOMAN sUF.
FRAGE.

Ex-senator Frank G. Cannon, of
Utah, has this to say regarding wo-
man suffrage: 1T is idle to discuss
whether suffrage is the right of wo-
man it was her right as soon as it
was mans right. The only question
is, is it her duty? Has man so dis
charged the right to vote as to need
no help from woman? A brilliant
man, with whom I walked down the
street said, the trouble is that when
woman votes she descends into the
slums.' Who dragged politics into
the slums? Those who did so should
not continue to be trusted with the
exclusive use of the ballot.
"I was not always in favor of wo-
man suffrage. l was once strongly
opposed toit. We had quiet elections
with little friction we voted the way
the women wanted us to, and I saw
no need of women having the ballot.
1t took the lesson of New York City
to convince me that men were not
exercising the suffrage sufficiently
we'll to dispense with the help of wo-
men. All the efforts made by men
alone to put stop to the corruption
failed. At last the women got to-
gether, and then every proud police
captain trembled. When 1 saw how
much woman could do by her indirect
influence, it occurred to me that it
would be infinitely better if she could
use her influence at first hand.
women will not degrade politics.
We find in our State that they up
lift politics and they either uplift
the politician or they destroy him. 1
have seen women go to the polls for
years, but never heard one of them
swear, or saw her offer a cigar to an
other voter, or stop to take drink.
Women will discharge this duty in
the same high way that they do all
their other duties. The ideal man
ner of exercising the suffrage is when
a man goes to the polls with his
mother or wife,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
For "THE UNION.
OUR PRESIDENT.

The year in which our story dates is 1901,
Happily had the new century begun,
Enjoying prosperity on every side.
Our interests expanding far and wide
Did suddenly an awful sorrow reign,
Our President, our honored Chief was slain,
Recalling former terrors griefS untold,
Each heart was caused to suffer, young and old.
Reviving power soon lent helping hand,
Outstretched in wisdom unto all the land;
Once more in him comforter we find,
Speaking peaceful words to all mankind,
Each fearing heart is strengthened by his coun-
sci wise,
Voices in eulogy of him begin to rise,
Echoing back as though from distant Skies
Let every individual DER whom our flag may
wave,
Thank God for duplicating him who fills mar.
tyr'S grave.
CHESTNUT RIDGE. June I'D
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
sUPERsTITIONs AT SEA.

1t is mistake, according to we'll
known young naval officer, to sup
pose that the sailors of our present
navy are free from superstition. "I
remember" he said, only five years
ago when I was i'll the training ship
that the old salts there were as full of
old superstitious beliefs as any of
their ancestors could have been.
when at sea in a dead calm, the
swaying of the masts in the notion
less atmosphere sometimes causes a
peculiar wailing sound like distant
cries. This, the old seamen assured
us, was the moaning of the souls of
sailors lost at sea.
Another one of their pet beliefs is
that all sailors that die by drowning
are at once transformed into Cape
Horn pigeons, or, as they are also
called, Mother Carey's chickens. Of
fcers are supposed to find their REIN
carnations in sea gulls and news,
while the big, solitary albatrosses,
following the wake of passing YES
sells, are the souls of captains who have
gone down with their ships. These
are the reasons why sailors never kill
these birds.
I remember that these tales i'm
pressed me great deal in those days
when I was still a mere boy. On one
occasion 1 was sitting i'll the forecas-
tie on my watch below, chatting with
the boatswain's mate, real old tim
er, when Our conversation was inter
rupted by low wall of agony, loud
er than that usually produced by the
wind. We listened in a deep, awed
silence.
Boy said the boatswain' S mate,
'ye hear that? That's seaman's cali
wot's been drownded.'
Again the wall disturbed the ST.
lence.
" Yes said the old sailor in an
anxious whisper; that's some old
salt wot's lost his life on board this
vessel. Likely he's come for some
thing he's forgot
After awhile l ventured out on
deck. The walls were coming from
the roof of the forecastle. l climbed
up and there found the captains lit
tie son tugging away at the cat tail,
which the poor animal was resenting
with the full power of its lungs. -
Mew York Tribune.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
RAIN ON THE ROOF.

Wnen the humid shadows hover
over all the starry spheres,
ana the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
Wnat bliss to press the pillow
VI cottage-chamber bed,
Ano 10 listen to the patter
VI the soft rain overhead!
Every tinkle on the shingles
has an echo in the heart;
ana Thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start,
And thousand recollections
Weave their air-threads into wool,
As listen to the patter
VI the rain upon the roof.
Now in memory comes my mother,
m as she used, in years agone,
10 regard the darling dreamerS
Ere she left them till the dawn;
80 see her leaning DER me,
AS list to this refrain
which is played upon the shingles
by the patter of the rain.
Then my little seraph sister,
With the wings and waving hair,
And her star-eyed cherub brother
A serene, angelic pair
Glide around my wakeful pillow,
With their praise or mild reproof,
AS listen to the murmur
Of the soft rain on the roof.
And another comes, to thrill me
With her eyes, delicious blue;
Am mind not, musing on her,
Tlat her heart was all untrue;
l remember but to love her
With passion kin to pain,
And ler hearts quick pulses vibrate
To he patter of the rain.
Art hsth nauQht of tone or cadence
Thatcan work with such spell
In the ,oul's mysterious fountains,
Whence the tears of rapture well,
AS that melody of nature,
That ssbdued, subduing strain
Which isplayed upon the shingles
By the 1atter of the rain.
Coates Kin
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
TREES ARE TREASURES.

Time changes all things, and time
is changing the public and private es-
innate of trees in this country. When
the pioneers came upon vast wilder
ness the trees were as much opposed
to their making comfortable liveli-
hoods as were the copperskinned saw
ages. They made war upon the for
est with more zeal than judgment;
they slaughtered and laid waste.
With such beginnings of the people
their constituted authorities have
been slow to make laws for the pro-
lection of mere trees, though gradual
ly the worth of the latter have come
to be understood by many.
Old trees soon will be held, as they
should be, to be sacred, and the young
trees as something to be encouraged,
fostered and trained in the way they
should go. 1t is only few years
since DR.. Marshall, of this State, as
tonished the public by bringing suit
against a telephone company for hack
ing branches off some stately trees
because they interfered with the
stringing or proper insulation of its
wires. The courts sustained the Doc
tors contention that ancient trees are
treasures. The telephone company
will not soon forget the fact, for it was
compelled to pay smartly for the de-
struction it wrought.
In Peekskiil, N. Y, the owner of
some fine old trees cut down to facili-
tate some alleged road improvement
has sued the municipality for $1,000
damages, which he says cannot COM
pensate him for the severance of old
associations, but covers only the prop
erty loss. The people of Vineland,
N. j., have made war upon a trolley
company, which, when given the
privilege to occupy a certain street
graced by spreading branches, at once
ordered the trees cut down. It ap-
pears probable the courts will sustain
the people.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
SEEKING HER AFFINITY.

W" WASASu W DC complimentary
you would say that she was buxom
If you wished merely to make plain
statement of fact, you would say that
she was fat. In either case YOU
would have to admit that she was
easily 40, and in consequence there
was something 1udicrous about her
giggle and smirk when she opened
the door of the Office, writes Elliott
Flower in the Brooklyn Eagle.
'Is this the matrimonial agency 7"
she asked.
"No, ma'am," replied the sedate
young man at the typewriter.
"Do you know where it is? she
ventured, with coy giggle..
81 didn't know there was one in
the building" he answered.
"Maybe it's the wrong address, .
she said, still standing in the door
way with a airtatious indecision.
''I've been looking for a husband,
you know"
eyes? 7"
ooh, yes. Been corresponding
with likely man, and it's most all
settled, but 1 sort of wanted to see
him"
"Quite natural"
eyes, it is" with increasing con-
fdence. "a girl kind of likes to
see man she's thinking of marry
ing, you know. A photographs all
right as far as it goes, but when it's
only the head you can't be sure the
feller's all there. He might have an
arm or leg gone
"That's possible.
"And most of us girls want a whole
man all to ourselves. The saying
that half a loaf's better's no bread
don't apply to a man."
81 can readily understand it, and
I'm sure I hope you get one complete
in every detail"
''You bet I will or I won't take
him. No bargain sale, damaged
goods for me. You're rather a like
ly looking man yourself"
cam II"
"Well, you're not so bad. Ever
try matrimonial agency?"
Never"
well, some would rather take
chances without, but there's nothing
like making sure"
The young man was getting good
deal of amusement out of the conver-
sation by this time.
cts too much of lottery" he
suggested.
Marriage is?" said the zoe
pounds of coyness, inquiringly.
"No; the matrimonial agency
method of selection"
"No more than any other kind, "
she insisted. tYou don't have to
take it till you see whether it's what
you want, and it don't take year or
two to find out. / can size a man up
mighty quick, and if it's real 1nan
why, that's enough, ain'tit? Same
with woman"
ST suppose so."
II don't care so much about the
feller I've been writing to" she re-
marked, after a most affecting and
effective giggle.
"No?"
''No. Any good man. S good enough
for me. How is it with your"
"Ma am" replied the youth, star
tied by the pointedness of this ques-
ton, "I've already been caught and
tanned I"
WHAT"
"I'm married" "
ooh p with evident disappoint-
ment. "Well, there's others"
"Unquestionably.''
"And you don't look like much of
a prize any way. The feller I've
been writing to has mustache twice
as large as yours. If he's all there
as good as his face he's all right, and
he's to meet me at that agency, if I
can only find it,"
She backed out and closed the
door, leaving the young man to rumi-
mating on the strange things that hap
pen in large city, for this is no
fancifu1 sketch.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07
SMALL FARMING PAYS.

The experience of a man who
leaves business to get back to the
land and make a living possesses a
peculiar interest, especially if he is
successful. The following narrative
of a New Hampshire man given in
the Claremont Eagle is a case of
bringing up the production of small
farm to profitable basis:
I was a city man, but FIVE years
ago my business was SO dull I thought
I would try farming. had very lit
tie money, but have been successful.
I have paid for my farm and own all
my stock and tools and think if all
farmers did as have done they would
not be preaching that farming doesn't t
pay.
I began the first year to work out
for my farmer neighbor, but soon
found this would not pay. and all
the men 1 worked for were no better
off than when we started. Thought |:
"I have farm as we'll as they.
Why can't 1 get living at work for
myself if they do and can afford to
hire helpl"
After the first year I began to work
for myself and found better results.
I have small farm of fifty-seven
acres, which cuts double the hay it
did FIVE years ago. l think man
can do better on a small farm than
he can on big farm, for he cannot
cultivate the whole of big farm,
and one acre of good land is better
than five acres of poor.
If farmers would work as hard for
themselves as they have to when
working for others, they would get
rich. 1 do all of my own work and
hire a man only few days in hay
ing. have kept dairy of six cows,
young stock, and poultry and raise
between 400 and 500 bushels of
onions a year besides variety of 9TH
er vegetables. / find the onions are
the most profitable.
1 think it unwise for a man when
he starts on a farm to begin fixing
the buildings. He should do it grad
ually as he can afford then he will
be more apt to hold his own.
There are a good many ways of
telling a good farmer from shiftless
one-by the buildings, the bushes on
the walls and line fences, the apple
trees untrimmed, making it impossi-
bic to NOW within fifteen or twenty
feet of them.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

NELL-"Why doesn't she try to
improve her mind 7" Belief sup
pose she's too busy trying to improve
her complexion. ;"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

CUsToMER-"Here. waiter, there
is button in my salad" J"
Waiter-"That must have come
off in the dressing, SIR"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

IT DOESN'T necessarily follow that
because the sins of the fathers are
visited upon the children the mothers
haven't any.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

THE MAN who hands around the
collection box in church may be said
to have passing interest in religious
matters.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

"YEs," said the conductor, "I re-
member it very well. That was in
1897, the year of the big fire."
''What big fire ?" asked the other
man.
"Don't you recollect? Twenty
nine fellows on our line were bounc-
ed for knocking down"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

A WOMAN may be said to have
reached the years of discretion when
she no longer tells her age.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

"Do YOU know" said the scientif-
ic sharp to the plain citizen, ''that
ice IS actually warmer in summer than
in winter 7"
why not" asked the citizen,
evidently unimpressed. Everything
else is warmer. Why should ice be
an exception ?n
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

HIGH LIFE doesn't necessarily fit a
man for celestial career.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-07

BUNco BILL-"Say, desc country
geezers is all on ter de old games,
and dey don't bite no more. We'se
got ter frame up ter bunco de city
folks"
Slippery Steve-"How yer going
ter do that ?"
Bunco Billion, dat's easy.
Well open up an antique furniture
store"
PoET-"This little poem is all my
own. 1t is my first, and I worked
hard" Editor-"Indeed I would
not be so cruel as to take it from you,
then. Good bye"