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The Press., 1902-09-11

MRS. MURRAY SHOWED EDITH SMALL
BOUQUET OF FADED FLOWERS.
chose them. Perhaps, as you don't
care for them, may take fewr
Take them, of course said nom
chalantly.
"'No; l want you to give them to
me-
"Wonderingly l selected a small
bunch and handed them to him. Then
I laughed nervously.
"'Dear me, Langdon, you look as Sc
rious as if you were going to a fu-
neral
""To something worse than that,
Marcy, dear; to-war. And these will
remind me of the sweetest girl in the
world, my slender, blue eyed violet,
who is going to be brave till come
back
"a chill crept over me. l saw my
pettish folly, my one sided quarrel, in
their true light. What penitent girl
I was, and how complete was our
reconciliation, how tender our parting!
Then, when he had kissed me goodby
for the last time, took what was left
Of the violets and pressed them in this
book"
Mrs. Murray opened an old fashioned
collection of verses and showed Edith a
small bouquet Of withered flowers tied
with white ribbon.
"You of today cannot realize the hor-
rors of the civil war Mother and /
sewed necessarily for the soldiers. 1t
was all we could do. This labor of
love. with frequent letters from Lang
don, who was with the western army,
kept me alive. Separation had taught
me how deep was my love for him.
"After the battle Of Stony Ridge
came word that Langdon had been ter
riblS wounded and left on the field un-
til aid could be sent to him, but when
the hospital corps arrived he was not
to be found, and the messmate who
wrote the letter had been able to learn
nothing of bis fate. nor could the in
quiries instituted by my father solee
the mystery. l rallied at fate. prayed
to die. If only | could visit his grave,
know where he was sleeping with my
violets over his heart, as he had said
they should always lie.
'"The weeks dragged into months, and
then suddenly came news from Nash
vile that he lay there in the govern
ment hospital; with other Federal pris-
oners he had been recently exchanged,
and If l wished to see him alive must
come at once. or the horrors of that
trip and the days among the suffering
and dying you can never know, but I
nursed LangdOn back to life, and when
we reached our northern home it was a
more sensible, thoughtful woman that
lie led to the altar, and, my dear, in the
first few years of our married life
whenever the old thoughtless words
rose to my lips l recalled the violets
which he had worn over his heart
through the battles and the marches,
and whenever | became selfish and
thought my husband was not doing
everything he could to make me happy
would steal away to my room and
look into the pages where these with
cred flowers lay. Violets may be mod
est, but they can recall memories which
no naughty American Beauties can
boast"
The Press., 1902-09-11

A sick dog took up his abode in the
field behind our house, and after see
ing the poor thing lying there for some
time took it food and milk and water.
The next day it was still there, and
when l was going out to feed it saw
that small pug was running about it,
so took a whip out with me to drive
it away. The pug planted itself be-
tween me and the sick dog and barked
at me savagely, but at last drove it
away and again gave food and milk
and water to my protege.
The little pug watched me for few
moments, and as soon as he felt quite
assured that my intentions toward the
sick dog were friendly it ran to me
wagging its tail, leaped up to my
shoulder and licked my face and hands,
nor would it touch the water till the
invalid had had all it wanted. I sup
pose that it was satisfied that its COM
panion was in good hands, for it trot-
ted happily away and did not appear
upon the scene again.-Cor. London
Spectator.
The Press., 1902-09-11

There is more Catarrh in this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable, Sci
ence has proven catarrh to be a constitutional
disease, and, therefore, requires constitutional
treatment. Hairs Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to q teaspoon
full It acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case 1t fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address,
F.J.C CHENEY q CO., Toledo, o.
eW-Sold by Drug lists 7bc.
Halls Family Pulls are the best.
The Press., 1902-09-11
A Rows Wild Ride for Life.

With family around, expecting him to
die, and son riding for life, Is miles, to
get DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds, W. Fl.
Brown of Leesville, Ind, endured deaths
agonies from asthma, but this wonderful
medicine gave instant relief and soon
cured him. He writes: 81 now sleep
soundly every night" Like marvellous
cures of Consumption, Pneumonia, Bron-
chitis, Coughs, Colds ana Grip prove its
matchless merit for all Throat and Lung
troubles. Guaranteed bottles soc and 81:
Trial bottles free at W. P. Fuller's store,
Somers, and at Eaton's drug store, Stat
ford Springs.
The Press., 1902-09-11

A CERTAIN CURE FOR DYsENTERY AND
DIARRHoEA.-"Some years ago was one
of party that intended making long
bicycle trip" says F. L. Taylor, Of New
Albany, Bradford County, Pa. II was
taken suddenly with diarrhoea, and was
about to give up the trip, when Edit, +
Ward, Of the Laceyville Messenger, sug-
gested that take dose of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
purchased bottle and took two doses,
one before starting and one on the route.
l made the trip successfully and never
felt any i'll effect. Again last summer
was almost completely run down with an
attack of dysentery. I bought bottle
Of this same remedy and this time one
dose cured me.
For sale by e. K. Taft, Ell. f. Cady,
Stafford; Gardiner Hall ,Jr., & Co., South
Wellington.
The Press., 1902-09-11

The economy which is practiced in
the average boarding house has be-
come proverbial, but it is extrava-
gance to the standard of economy prac-
ticed at a bone MILL" The chief prod
uct from bones is glue. and among
other materials which are obtained
from them are soap, glycerin and fer
tilizers. Nothing is wasted. Even the
most economical boarding house has a
few parings and husks to throw away.
There are no parings and husks in the
disposition of the bones.
The Press., 1902-09-11
saved by His Wits.

The Duke of Wellington once met by
accident an officer In a state of inc
briefly.
Look here, SIR" said the Iron Duke.
"What would you do If you met one of
your men in the condition In which I
find your
The officer drew himself up. gave the
military salute and replied with great
gravity, II would not condescend to
speak to the brute!' His wit saved
him his commission.
The Press., 1902-09-11
Obeyed Orders.


"What was the cause of that awful
racket and disturbance in your Office
just before you Gamer" asked one of
the tenants OH the third floor
You know that young cowboy that
came yesterday to begin the study of
law with me?" said the other
Eyes"
"Well, thought he might as well be-
gin at the bottom, and told him that
when he came down this morning the
first thing for him to do would be to
clean out the office. He found half a
dozen fellows there waiting for me,
but he did it. all right" -Chicago Trib-
une.
TAKE CARE OF THE SToMAoH.-The
man or woman whose digestion Is perfect
and whose stomach performs its every
function Is never sick. Kodol cleanses
purifias and sweetens the stomach, and
cures positively and permanently all
stomach troubles, indigestion and dys.
pepsia. 1t is the wonderful reconstruc.
ton tonic that Is making so many sick
people we'll and weak people strong by
conveying to their bodies all of the nour.
ishment In the food they eat. Rev. j.
FL. Holiday, of Holiday, Miss, writes
Kodol has cured me. I consider 1t the
best remedy ever used for dyspepsia
and stomach troubles. l was given up
by physicians. Kodol saved my life.
Take 1t after meals. w. d. Heald.
The Press., 1902-09-11
A Parsons Noble Act.

81 want all the world to know" writes
Rev. G. J. Budlong, of Ashaway, r. l.,
"what thoroughly good ard reliable
medicine l found In Electric Bitters.
They cured me of jaundice and liver trou-
bles that had caused me great suffering
for many years. For a genuine, all
around cure they excel anything ever
saw" Electric Bitters are the surprise
of all for their wonderful work In Liver,
Kidney and Stomach troubles. Don't fail
to try them. Only so cts. Satisfaction
Is guaranteed by w. P. Fuller, Somers,
and A. G. Eaton, Stafford Springs.
The Press., 1902-09-11
Tricks of the Fahyahs.

The Fahyahs have a trick which Is
performed in this manner: They take
a small cup, put it on the ground-all
feats are performed in the open air
and place in it a small bulb. which Is
then covered with sand.
Taking small fan from their waist
and standing about two feet away,
they fan rosebush from the cup at
least two and half feet high. bearing
quite a number of roses, one Of which
they will give for piece Of silver.
The flower withers away into ether In
twenty minutes.
have seen peach, a pear and a
plum tree grow from seed, bear fruit
and wither away again in five hours.
l have seen these Fahyuhs throw
themselves upon broken glass held in
large box that it would be impossible
for any one else to touch without re-
ceiving wound and never get a
scratch.
The Press., 1902-09-11

JIMMY say. daddy, | want you to
answer question.
His Father-What is it?
Jimmy-Well, if the end of the world
was to come and the earth was de-
stroyed while a man was up in bal
loon, where would he land when he
came down?
The Press., 1902-09-11
Home Life I'm England and America

Home Life I'm England and America.
The decay Of the home life is to be
attributed partially to the influence on
society of the invasion of Americans.
In the United States home life is al
most unknown. The meaning of the
word home" as understood to Brit
ishers, is mystery to Yankees. To a
certain extent we have always envied
you your home life. and l certainly
agree with some of your correspond
ents that it would be disastrous for
your country to lose the elevating and
refining influences of the hOme-An-
glo-American in London Mail.
The Press., 1902-09-11

Gc"Cr;:l Gram. WAS asked why he
Ervcr swort. He replied: well. when
Il 10y had an aversion to swearing
1t seemed Useless. an unnecessary hab-
It. and besides l saw that swearing
Usually aroused a mans anger. l early
had desire to have complete com.
mand of myself. | noticed when q
man got angry his opponent always
got the better of him. On that account
also ! determined to refrain from
swearing. Then the swearing men of
my acquaintance when boy were not
the best men knew. l never saw any
reasons for swearing. All were against
it."
The Press., 1902-09-11

LINGERING SUMNER CoLDs.-Don't lei
cold run at this season. Summer colds
are the hardest kind to cure, and If neg.
lected may linger along for months. A
long siege like this will pull down the
strongest constitution. One Minute Cough
Cure will break up the attack at once
SAFE, sure, acts at once. Cures coughs
colds, Group, bronchitis, all throat and
lung troubles. The children like 1t. W.
D. Head.
The Press., 1902-09-11

Benedict Give me a few pointers on
how to manage a wife, old chap.
Meeks-Can't, old boy, but l can give
you no end of advice on how to be
managed by wife so that you'll think
you are tho manager Brooklyn Life
The Press., 1902-09-11
Ambitions.

II have no room for you at my Of
fee. my boy"
"Don't yer want somebody dere when
yer goes on yer vacation ?"-New York
The Press., 1902-09-11

If some owners of horses would
spend more for feed and less for whips,
they would have more spirited ami
mals.-Atchison Globe.
The Press., 1902-09-11

Il am using box OF Chamberlain's
Stomach Il Liver Tablets and find them
the best thing for my stomach / ever
used" says T. W. Robinson, Justice OF
the Peace, Loomis, Mich. These Tablets
not only correct disorders of the stomach
but regulate the liver and bowels. They
are easy to take and pleasant in effect.
Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by E. K. Taft, Fl. f. Cady,
Stafford; Gardiner Hall, Jr., & Co., South
Wellington.
The Press., 1902-09-11
Out of Proportion.

Benham-l try to believe the Bible,
but find that story of the ten virgins,
five of whom were wise and five fool
ish. little perplexing.
Mrs. Benham = What's the matter
with that?
Benham-Judging from the women l
have known. the proportion of foolish
ones vas altogether too small.-New
York Times.
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ARABIAN coURTsH1p

An Arab loves as none but an Arab
can love, but he is also mighty ex-
citable and easily won. An Arab
sees a girl bearing water or brush
wood and in moment, almost at a
glance, is as madly in love as if he
had passed years of courtship. He
thinks of nothing else, cares and
dreams of nothing else but the girl
he loves, and not infrequently, if he
is disappointed in his affection, he
pines and dies. In order to COM
mence his suit he sends for member
of the girls tribe and, first insuring
his secrecy by solemn oath, con-
fesses his love and entreats his conf
dant to arrange an interview.
The confdant goes to the girl,
gives her flower or blade of grass
and says:
"Swear by him who made this
flower and us also that you will not
reveal to any one that which I am
about to unfold to you.''
If the girl will not accept the pro-
posal, she will not take the oath, but
nevertheless keeps the matter per-
fectly secret from all. If she is ia
vorably disposed to the match, she
answers:
IT swear by him who made the
flower you hold and u.s. and the
place and time of meeting are settled.
These oaths are never broken, and it
is not long before the ardent lover be-
comes the happy husband.
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A BAD TENDENCY.

Women are progressive as well as
men. An uptown lady said the
other day:
when / was a girl we didn't care
how poor a man was if we thought
he was honest and true. The girl
today is willing to take her chances
81 0RR pQnssty .ag aads SIZE 81 man bshf
account. If a man was pale and
thin, we thought him consun1ptive.
Nowadays such man is called inter
esting, and the girls rave over him.
We didn't care to accept an invita-
tion to place like Atlantic City for
fear somebody we(knew would see us
there. The modern young women
doesn't care togo to any place where
everybody won't look at her. If we
got into the rhen's smoking room by
mistake, we grew embarrassed and
retired. We didn't crowd into the
smoking seats on the open cars and
scowl at the md En- who were enjoying
their cigars. when we had photo
graphs taken, we gave them only to
our intimate friends. We didn'tsend
them to newspapers, with a descrip-
ton of Our costurI Ihe when we went to
a ball"
The above isl taken from an ex-
change, and while not applying uni
versally, there is constantly increas-
ing class to whom it may be applied.
The tendency of the times is toward
more freedom and unrestrained man.
ners, which when it passes certain
line, BODIES no good to the individual.
The fruits of such 1axness are appar-
ent in every community. With some
girls it leads to speedy ruin with
others to unhappy marriage, life Of
wretchedness, desertion, divorce, or
often suicide. Progressive" of the
right sort and in the right direction
is not to be condemned. 1t is the
other sort we have reference to.
If these cases were rare and ex-
ceptional it would not be worth while
to mention them, but they are not,
and the number is constantly increas-
ing. The courts are busy grinding
ont divorce cases, and the papers are
filled with the sad and shocking ter
mination of such lives by the scores
and yet these are only small por-
ton of the lives that are lived in
misery because of domestic infelicity.
Thousands upon thousands shrink
from public gaze and bear their trou-
bles in silence until life is worn out
and they drop into the grave. And
they can date their trouble back to
the time when they thought it
Smart to throw off the restraint of
parents and go their own way. They
were sowing to the wind, then now
they are reaping the whirlwind.--
Moth Wales ReoO,d.
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TELLING A LIE.

DR.. Benjamin D. Andrews makes
this assertion: "a lie is not lie if
actuared by a good motive. Veracity
is an attitude of the mind rather than
an absolute quality"
There is nothing more foolish than
to preach outside of juvenile classes
that truthfulness is necessarily vir-
tue in itself. Virtue consists in do
ing your duty, and very often the
telling of lie is duty. In nine
cases out of ten lying is despicable
because the liar lies in order to shield
himself. He lies through cowardice.
He lies because he wants to deceive
and swindle or to escape the conse-
quences of his misconduct.
But lying is sometimes noble, and
it is very often necessary. Every
doctor must lie every day. If he
told nervous invalid the truth, he
would simply destroy his chances of
recovery. If he told a trembling
mother the exact facts about her
child's illness, he would often render
her absolutely unfit to care for it. If
he told the support of family the
truth about himself, he would divert
that mans energies to hypochondri-
acal introspection and ruin his useful
ness.
Galilei was compelled on his knees
to deny that the earth went around
the sun. He did deny it, knowing
perfectly we'll that at that very mo-
ment the earth was going around the
sun and that he and his judges were
making the journey with it. He
knew that between the beginning and
the end of his recantation the whole
farce of which he was the center had
moved great many miles through
space.
But he denied that the earth moved
to please those who exceeded him in
physical force. He lied. He knew
that he lied, and he lied nobly. His
was a useful lie. He had very i'm
portant work to do. It was right
that he should tell a lie, forced upon
him, in order to save his life aud to
give to the world the full benefit of
the magnificent intelligence which
God had given him.
The man who knows that he is dy-
ing with consumption will smile ten
times day and tell his anxious wife
that he feels much better. The daugh-
ter caring for her sick mother and al
most exhausted with fatigue declares
that she is not tired and that she was
asleep while her mother was sleeping.
Those lies are written on the right
side of the recording angels book.
If you lie to save youself, you are,
of course, coward and liar of the
ordinary kind. If you lie to spare
the feelings of others, and if you real
ly spare their feelings and do not en-
courage them to useless effort to 9TH
erwise injure them in the end, you
are US@DlE a sS dGipg BPsssiags BPas atv those are
greatest of which he knows the least
and to which he pays least attention.
Perhaps the very greatest piece of
good luck in all our human existence
is this:
That we cannot read each others
thoughts and that it is possible for
each of us to make the lives of others
little more bearab1e by presenting
things kindly if sometimes untruly.
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WHEN BILL WAS BoRNED.

When Bill was borned. they say tn stars
Was crossed-op Jupiter with Mars,
An 'twixt 'em Pallas an the rest
Was sartain mighty bad distressed;
Young Juno, Vesta, Ceres crashed
Th' hull blamed heavens sorter smashed
When Bill was bornedI
When Bill was borned th' people said
That they was curses on his head,
An all through life he'd have t. GO
A-tOtin' or load o. woe;
Wall, p'r'aps, tn stars want t. blame,
But trouble started, all tn same
When Bill was bornedl
Fust. thar was Parson Blimber's pup
Grabbed Williams heel an chewed it up
An then he fell an broke his nose,
An later on shot of two toes;
An then was gored by Perkins steer.
Oh he begun warm career,
When Bill was bornedl
He filled th' stove with powder-poof!
He went kihootin' through the roof,
An half an hour later he
Was found suspended in tree!
Next day he killed a neighbor's cow
1t seemed to be ordained, somehow,
When Bill was borned!
Then Bill growed up. How he got growed.
An lived to see it. no one knowed.
But somehow he jest did. and they
Elected him to Congress Say
We swear by what the stars porteud-
We knowed he'd come to some bad end,
When Bill was borned
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gaIisce11a1ren11s.


GEORGE BOURNE,
T. SIDNEY carp.
Officers Registration. I'd Precinct, 18th District.
JOHN Il. SHUBBARD.
GEORGE +. YEAGER,
Oficers Registration. Sd Precinct. 18th District.
CHARLES HERMAN,
PLEASANT SEITZ,
Officers Registration, 1st Precinct 14th District.
JOHN L. PFEIFER,
r. HOWARD MCCORMICK,
Officers Registration. I'd Precinct. 14th District.
GEORGE H. WEMPE,
SEBASTIAN B. REGISTER,
Officers Registration, Sd Precinct, 14th District.
JAMES H. MCNICHOLAS,
GEORGE s. WEBSTER,
Officers Registration 1st Precinct, 18th District.
JAMES MITCHELL.
GEORGE H. GIESSER.
Officers Registration, I'd Precinct, 18th District.
ALBERT III. WOOD,
WILLIAM T.. ROLLINS,
Officers Registration. Sd Precinct, 18th District.
FRANK KIRK,
JOHN T. IRWIN,
Officers Registration, 4th Precinct 18th District.
WILLIAM ]. GREEN.
BENJAMIN r. SNAVELY,
Officers Registration, 9TH Precinct 18th District.
WILLIAM A. SLADE, President,
CHARLES H. WISE,
GEORGE E. LYNCH.
Board of Supervisors of Elections
THOMAS ]. HUNTER, CLERK. .'' S'''''
Sept. St.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-09-13

A Cambridge professor whose fits
of mental alteration were as frequent
as they were amusing, was one day
out in heavy rain, with his umbrel-
la held high over fiis head, when he
met a friend who stopped and ex-
claimed
Dear me, Professor M, why
don't you put up your umbrella.
You'll be drenched."
"Put up my umbrella? ?" said the
Professor. cts up"
For half an hour, more or less, the
professor had been walking the streets
with closed umbrella held above his
head.
At another time the same scholar
was riding down town in an electric
car, and lost himself in book he was
reading. Suddenly he noticed symp-
toms of merriment among the other
passengers. What could they be
laughing at?
The mystery was explained when
he discovered that, having been an.
noyed by something between the plate
of his artificial teeth and the roof oi
his mouth, he had removed the teeth
and was holding them up to view be-
tween the thumb and finger of his
hand