davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13

Hostess-What portion of the chicken
would you like. Mr.. Dineout? Mr.. Dine
out-Oh. half of it will be ample. thank
you.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13

Fruit acids will not stain goods
dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
For children teething softens the gums, reduces in
na-umation, aays pain, cures wind collie 2Sc bottle
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-12-13

The following letter is from Congress
man Meekison, of Napoleon, Ohio;
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
A MIRACLE IN IRRIGATION.

If ever men worked miracles, they
have worked them here in these West
ern valleys. If ever something was
created from nothing, these men have
done it. Thirty-fve years ago the
Salt river valley, into which we had
driven, was all parched desert, un-
inhabited save by a few lean Indians
and two or three hardy traders, whom
the sand and cactus crowded down
close to the water of the river. It
was 900 miles from the nearest rail-
road-an unknown, desolate, forbid
ding land, part of the great Ameri-
can desert, which travellers said would
never support human life. Today
the Salt river valley contains popu-
1ation of over $4,000. 1t has three
cities-one, Phoenix, the capital Of
Arizona, having electric lights, an
electric car line, good hotels, churches
and other buildings, residences sur
rounded by trees, lawns and wilder
ness of flowers. More than I24, 900
acres of land round about with or
chards of oranges, almonds, olives
and figs and hay fields. Thousands
of cattle feed in the rich meadows
and there are bees, chickens, ducks
and ostriches unnumbered. Richer
soil than that once desert valley does
not exist in the world except in other
once desert valleys. Here one may
behold the startling spectacle of orange
groves in bearing, worth $Ioo an acre,
on one side of a fence and bare cactus
desert on the other, both having the
same soil, the same opportunities, but
only one having water. Here, when
a man builds his fence of cottonwood
posts, such is the soil and such the
water that the posts take root and
grow into trees, so that the wire OF
many old fences is seen running
through the center of large trees.
Here farming rarely needs to use a
fertilizer, for the river comes in bear
ing rich silt and spreads it over his
fields, and he may sometimes cut two
or three or more crops year from
his alfalfa fields and then pasture
them during the winter-winter
which is in reality continual spring.
Kay S. Baker, III tile Century.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
HOW TO TELL MUSHROOMS.

"There are," said the farmer,
'three ways of telling a mushroom
from toadstool. One way is to put
in an onion with your mess of mush-
rooms, and boil them all together.
If the onion turns black there is a
toadstool, and maybe a dozen toad
stools, in the mess. The disadvan-
tage of this test is that it comes too
late, and the presence of a single poi
sonous fungus may oblige you to
waste a quart or two Of mushrooms
of fine quality.
"The second test is to sprinkle salt
on the under part of the mushroom,
and if it turns black it is mushroom
really, but if it turns yellow it is poi
son. The fault of this test is that it
may only be used on perfectly fresh
mushrooms; those that have been
plucked few hours have discolored
independents, whether salt has
been applied to them or not.
"The third and best test is the
simplest. 1t lies in the feel. A
mushroom feels as soft and smooth as
velvet or satin or baby's cheek.
But a toadstool feels rough, harsh
and unpleasant. By the test of feel
ing you can never be mistaken"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
FACTS ABOUT PUBLIC MEN.

The Congressional Directory brings
out two rather striking facts about
men in public life. The first is the
comparatively large number with
more than a common school educa-
tion; the second, the predominance
of lawyers among them. With Del
aware's two seats vacant the Senate
has SO members. Forty-six of these,
or more than half, are college gradu-
ates. Others had an academic train
ing and only 2o-about 22 per cent.
had the advantages of the common
schools alone. One hundred and ff-
ty-nine of the representatives were
educated at colleges and IIo more at
academies, while only 79 report mere
ly the common school education.
The President and Secretary Moody
are both Harvard men. Secretary
Hay is a graduate of Brown, Secre-
tary Root of Hamilton, Attorney
General Knox of Mount Union and
Secretary Shaw of Cornell College,
Iowa. Postmaster General Payne,
Secretary Hitchcock and Secretary
Wilson received an academic educa-
ton. Seven of the nine Supreme
Court justices are college graduates.
Brewer, Brown and Shiras are from
Yale, Gray from Harvard, Fuller
from Bowdoin, White from George
town and Harlan from Center college.
Peckham and McKenna studied in
academies. OF the members of Con-
gress, the Supreme Court and the
Cabinet about 79 per cent. have re-
ceived an academic training. Forty
seven per cent. went to college. This
is an astonishing showing when the
fact is considered that an extremely
small proportion of boys ever get be-
yond the common schools. While it
does not prove that higher education
helps man in public life, it certainly
is good proof that "book learning"
does not hinder him.-RanSaS city
Star.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
AN OLD THEORY EXPLODED.

The old theory that water purifes
itself in running a certain distance has
no adequate foundation, SO far as bac-
terra are concerned. Some puri6ca-
ton takes place with time, but its ex-
tent has been greatly overestimated.
The quick-running river is as danger
GUS as the slow, because the time is
short, and it lands bacteria in an ac-
tive condition.
The death rate from typhoid is all
accurate measure of the purity of the
public water supply. American cities
having unpolluted water supplies
have comparatively few deaths from
typhoid, though the figures never go
SO low as in Europe, where nearly all
cities filter. The power of suitable
filtration to protect city from ty-
phoid fever is shown by the very low
death rates from this cause in Lon
don, Breslau, and other cities draw
ing from sources greatly contamina-
ted, and in which great reductions in
the typhoid death rates followed the
introduction of filters. Pittsburg,
using raw river water, has a death
rate of I27, and London, using filter
ed, rate of seventeen.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
USEFULNESS OF WOOD ASHES.

The value of wood ashes as gen.
eral fertilizer, replete in phosphate
acid and various oxides, is we'll un-
derstood but its usefulness for lawn
dressing alone is not so we'll known.
Beautiful turf is sure to develop where
wood ashes are used. Aside from
fertilizing properties, which increase
the luxuriance and quality Of root
growth, wood ashes seem to have the
power of awakening dormant life, and
white clover is sure to appear after
an application has been made. A bet
ter and surer foundation for a velvet
turf cannot be found.
My lawn was never 50 fine as the
present season, owing its beauty chief
ly to the semi-annual dressing of
wood ashes which it has received for
several years past. Although the
summer has been hot and unusually
dry, the clover, assisted by the gar
den hose, has prevented anything
brown and bare. A thick mat of
short-stemmed clover leaves serves as
a living mulch for the grass roots
which furnish the luxuriant pile
above their heads-ample work for
the lawn mower, even in a dry time.
All bare or weak spots visible in ear
ly spring should be reseeded and
raked in. Ashes must, of course, be
sifted out of Difference to the machine.
If bits of iron nails are found in the
rubbish it should be buried around
fruit trees or grape vines; one large
pear tree, by the way, never bore de-
cent fruit until old iron was buried
about its roots.
Wood ashes not only give a rich
ooloring to the lawn, but improve the
foliage of all vegetation. I use them
frequently to tone up plants in both
the flower and vegetable garden.
Potted tomatoes in the hot-bed OF
cold frame respond very quickly to a
dash of ashes. Belated transplanting
often induces yellowish foliage, which
will assume blue. green tone, some
times within three days of a single
application. There are few potted
plants, either indoors or out, which
are not benefited by this clean and
simple substance within the reach OF
all. = ConesbondenGe Of Ame'ican
| Ao1icultuylst
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
WONDERS OF THE COMMON LAW.

In way law is like Christian doc
trine The "faith. once for all de-
livered to the saints, may, by inter-
probation and development, assume
aspects with which the saints were not
altogether familiar. Similarly, the
common law of today, though identi-
cal organically with the common law
of yesterday, may reach conclusions
at which yesterday would be surpris-
ed. No one can tell what the law
will bring forth. Itseems to contain
within itself certain seeds or germs
which respond readily to cultivation,
but which may have seemed most un-
expected characteristics. Here, for
instance, is Judge Connorton, of Long
Island City, who says that married
women who are out after 10 o'clock
at night need not come to him when
they get into trouble. They have
put themselves outside the pale of the
law. If they had not been out after
10 they would not have got into
trouble. And they ought not to have
been out after 10. Who would have
suspected that any cobwebbed cocoon
in the repositories of the common law
would open out into a butterfly of
this kind? The thing was simply
incalculable. No one could have
foreseen it. The astrological alma
macs will inform us that Jupiter, being
in the seventh house, with Virgo
winking at him, portends an increase
in the marriage rate in India, but
they will never say what the election
of a new judge is likely to accomplish
with regard to the grounds for di-
vorce. There are some things that
are too much even for seventh sons of
seventh sons. Now, however, that
married women ought not to be out
after 10, can't the common law stretch
out another tentacle and lay hold of
the married men? There are more
of them out after 10 and more of them
who get into trouble. What is COM
mon law for the goose is common law
for the gander. Let there be no favor
tism.-LancaSteY { (Pa.) Examiner.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
CORRECT CARRIAGE.

With the introduction of common
sense shoes and common sense cloth
lug comes more graceful and natur-
al carriage, and careful, natural
manner OF walking, born of freedom
of movement. Whatever may be
said in praise of the girl of Our grand
mothers days, she could not have
been graceful, arrayed as she was in
hoopskirts, her stays tightly laced,
and her feet cased in slippers with
ridiculously high French heels.
There is nothing that distinguishes
a girl so much as an erect and natur-
al carriage, a good poise of the head
and grace of movement. Yet cor
rect carriage can be acquired with
ease, though it requires time and pa
tience to perfect it. It will seem diff
fcult at first, and may prove fatigu-
ing, but if one perseveres grace Of
movement will become second nature.
The correct standing position is one
in which the weight of the body is
tniown not on the heel, either wholly
or i'll part, but wholly on the ball of
the foot. The heel should rest light
ly on the floor. The hips should be
thrown back, the chest elevated as
much as possible, and the head raised
with the chin not thrust out but
drawn in. The most important thing
to remember-and the hardest 10 do
is to keep the weight of the body
on the ball of the foot. When the
weight of the body is changed from
the heel to the ball of the foot the
centre of gravity of the whole body
is changed, and it is necessary to
throw back the hips and throw the
chest forward to keep from falling.
So if one remembers simply to keep
her weight wholly on the balls of the
feet a correct carriage will follow as
natural consequence.
When a correct standing position
has been acquired, it is a compara-
lively simple matter to walk lightly
and gracefully. When the weight is
on the heel, heavy jarring walk is
the result. 1t conduces to headaches
and is ungraceful in the extreme.
Some people argue that the toe and
not the heel should first come in con-
tact with the floor in walking. This,
however, only makes matters worse,
for the heavy yjarring gait is exchang-
ed for mincing walk that is infinite
ly more ungraceful. The heel should
come in contact with the floor first,
but if the weight is on the ball of the
foot, the heel will come down as
lightly as thistledown. Even when
the heaviest of shoes, with thick welt
ed soles, are used, the step is light
and graceful. The girl who prac-
tises walking thus will soon become
unconscious of her feet, a state which
certainly approximates the perfection
of grace.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
A BOYS GRIEVANCE.

"What ails you?' asked police
man of boy who had brick in his
hand and was menacing a woman in
a door-yard.
"Look a-here," answered the boy,
as he dropped the brick and sat down
on the horseback, "she's been de-
ceiving me in the awfullest manner"
"How ?"
"She's my mother. Pap died two
years ago, and we've never been up
to see his grave since. Every week
she's promised to take me up on Sun
day, and every Sunday she's said
to me:
Never mind, sonny. We can't
60 today, but your pap's grave won't
run away, all the same. He's there
to stay"
"That's kind O. unfeeling like"
remarked the officer.
"You bet it is but it don't begin
with what she's said and done. She
took off the mourning and began to
drink lemonadeinside ofthree months,
and she keeps speaking of him as the
late deceased. Last Sunday 1 want
ed to go up and put some geraniums
on pap's grave, but she gin me clip
on the ear, and said:
"'Your pap's grave be hanged I
had to wash for dollar and a quar-
ter a day to buy his whisky and TO-
bacco, and I'll geranium you if you
don't quit your Fostering me-.
Il don't say as pap was perfection,
but I do blame nam for feeling so
kinder gay over it."
"Will she marry again - asked
the officer in a cautious voice.
''Will she? She dying to! She's
on the track of five or six different
men, and she'll run some of them
down onless they jump the town. l
guess that's why she don't want to
hear about pap's grave. Just afore
you come along says to her:
Nam, it's beautiful day, let's
you and I go up and see if anybody's
put sunfower on pap's grave
'And she wheeled on me and yell
ed out:
"'Pap's grave again Allus pap's
grave I'll have pap around here
in about fortnight who'll wallop
pap's grave out of you if it takes
leg p
"Humph p sighed the officer.
"And So" said the boy, as he
slowly counted the five nickels out of
his vest pocket, II guess I'll skip.
1 guess Til go and become a stage
robber. I'll learn to shoot with both
hands, and I'll rob everybody, and
when I get rich I'll come back and
mop him all over pap's grave and
pound him to jelly. You bet /
will p'
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And then-and then-she woke up


Woke up to hear mighty commo-
tion going on upon the stairs-a noise
like mighty host of men ascending
and descending. 1t was not host
it was Ananias. She had been dream
ing and had been awakened by Ana
MAS coming home.
Next morning at the breakfast
table she addressed him.
81 suppose, she said in sarcastic
tone of voice, "that you were kept
late at the Office last night"
Ananias looked everywhere but at
her face. eyes, my-my dear. I
you're right, my dear, was, and, !"
he continued, when I got through I
was called out of town by-by "a
telegram, my dear, on important bus
mess" His face suddenly brighten
ed. "And by the way, Maria" he
continued, spilling his coffee in an eff
fort to force some of it down his
throat, "you remember my telling
you the other day that man was to
pay me hundred dollars yesterday
-and-that you could have it when
it came to get some new clothes"
She still regarded him with an un-
compromisinglv severe glance.
"Well-well-my-dear," he con-
tinued, choking over a piece of bread
that he was forcing himself to eat,
Chat man he-he went through
bankruptcy just last week, and-and
and yesterday he-he dropped dead
in the street, in the morning-it was
heart disease, and," he continued,
"he-he never paid it, my dear, and
now," he added, seeing his way clear
to the end of the sentence, "he-he
never will"
Mrs. Ananias rose from her seat.
"You mean p she cried, regarding
Mr.. Ananias, with soul-searching
look :; "you mean, sir, that he never
will-again. How dare you, sir, to
Tell meme, sir, your own wife
such "a"
George Washington Ananias took
his hat and fed. He felt that he'd
rather tell his wife thousand lies
than have her know the truth.
But, then, he was not like other
men.-Wm. II. Osborne, in Balh-
more Eyenine Meas.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
MARY o'GRADy AND THE CENSUS MAN.

One of the census enumerators ap-
pointed to count the people of East
Orange, N. J., is above all things an
amiable man. He strives to please
aud is paiued when others suffer. He
telt that heavy trial was about to be
laid upon him when he confronted a
robust, mature person who had kind
ly consented to act temporarily as
maid of all work for family in Null
ford street.
Mary" said the mistress Of the
house, who was sitting on the front
porch, "this is the census man. He
wants to ask you few questions.
Mary placed her hands firmly on
her hips, gave her fiery tresses a me-
nacing toss and fixed the census mau
with a look of defiance. She re-
sponded with reasonable promptness
to the questions as to her name and
birthplace and the names and birth
places of her parents. Then the cen
sus man knew it was time to brace
himself. He grasped the piazza rail
firmly as he asked:
How old are you ~
All he wrath that lay so close to
the suface b1azed forth instantly.
SUE, n I'd like to know what
business that is O. yours. How old
am I? Th' impotence For two
pins T'd-"
"Mayl Mary !'' interposed the
woman Of the house, "you don't un-
derstand. This man is taking the
census. You must answer him or
you may be sent to Jail. Now tell
him how old you are,'
"Oh, we'll, if ye must know ye kin
put me down fer 23."
The census man, who is a good
Methodist, breathed a prayer for the
ungodly and set down the lie that
was to endure as long as the census
should stand.
Married or single" 7"
There were further signs of agita-
tion among the unruly auburn locks,
but the goaded spinster managed to
restrain her inclination to do personal
violence as she snapped out:
Single, of course. I'd like to
see the man that could make me any,
thing else"
so should To- responded the CEN
sus man, eager to fall in with her
views. "Are you a maiden or"
Gam a maiden ?" she screamed.
Gam I a maiden? Look here, young
man, I'll stand no more of this"
She was advancing upon him with
full intent to avenge her heaped up
wrongs, but he eluded her and plead
ed for an opportunity to explain.
Don't mistake my meaning.
Don't think 1 intended anything
wrong" he gasped, imploringly. 81
wouldn't insult a lady, indeed, I
wouldn't. was just going to ask
were you maiden or widow" )"
"Well, why didn't you say so.
then ?" said the woman, now some
what appeased. 81 sh'd think ye
could judge for yourself. Of course,
I'm not a widow"
"Now, as to your employment !;
are you generally busy?"
Busy? Well, 1 guess if yell
come in most any time O. day yell
find me So"
The census man, deeming it best
not to elucidate his meaning, shut up
his book and made his escape. Mary
O'Grady gazed at him intently till he
disappeared in the next house. Then
turning with snort, she started for
her pots and pans.
9TH nerve of tn divvle !" she ex-
claimed. II never heard any one
but doctor ask sich questions. It's
a wonder he didn't want to take ME
pulse and temperature.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
THE NEW COMMANDMENTS.

I. Thou shalt not complain of the
weather. God controls the winds
and waves.
2. Thou shalt have no fear con-
cerning thy food and thy drink.
"Fear hath torment and kills. .
3. Thou shalt not dwell in the
body and its sensations. Live in the
spirit. "The soul knows not deform-
ity or pain"
d.. Thou shalt not criticise thy
neighbor. He is Gods child and en-
titled to thy love.
s. Thy shalt not worry over thy
self or thy friends. "Trust in Him
and He will give thee thy hearts de-
SIRE"
6. Thou shalt not despise any liv-
ing thing. All is from God and
God is in all"
7. Thou shalt not "pollute the
morning" with doleful face. "In
His presence is fullness of joy"
8. Thou shalt not be in bondage to
weakness or doubt. "He is the health
of thy countenance. His trust shall
be thy shield and thy buckler."
Q. Thou shalt not be afraid to go
wherever duty calls. "He giveth
His angels charge over thee, to keep
thee in all thy ways"
10. Thou shalt lie down and rest
in peace. Underneath are everlast-
ing arms. "-Healthy Home.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18
IF THINGS COULD GO as PA SEE.

They'd be some orful changes here
II things could go as pa sez;
The sun would shine all through the year,
II things could go as pa sez.
1t wouldn't rain, 1t wouldn't snow,
The winds 'ud never howl an blow
'Twould jest be heaven here below,
If things could go as pa sez.
You'd have to pay to breathe the air,
If things could go as pa sez;
They'd be jest one big millionaire,
# things could go as pa sez.
The trusts 'ud be all overthrown,
Except the one what pa nd own,)
One man 'ud boss the world alone,
If things could go as pa sez.
They wouldn't be no girls er boys.
If things could go as pa seZ;
A-raising Sam Hill with their noise,
If things could go as pa sez;
They wouldn't be no babies, you
Kin betcher lifeI Ner wimmen, too,
A-allers kickin' up stewl
If things could go as pa sez.
If things could go as pa seZ;
/ dunno what boys would a-done,
If things could go as pa sez.
He alters acts jest that-a-way-
Won't never let us have our say!
We'd get q lickin' ev'ry day,
If things could go as pa sez.
dunno what some folks 'ud do,
II things could go as pa sez;
The big boys 'ud be mighty few,
If things could go as pa sez.
Wy you 'ud think, to hear pa tell
OF what big wenders he'd do-well,
'Twould bother folks, bet, spell,
If things could go as pa seZ
(But they don'tp
E ~ 4
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Cry EDIToR-"Your story is very
good, but you seem to be under the
impression that low temperature
means warmer weather, whereas it
means colder"
Reporter-"Beg pardon, but I
think l know my Bible. The lowest
temperature mentioned in it is gener-
ated by fire and birthstone.
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MRS. MUGGINs-"Are your new
neighbors sociable ?" Mrs. Buggins
mo, the stuck-up things They
haven't sent over to borrow anything
since they moved in"
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For 1.-THE UNION"
sURsUM C0RDA.

UplifS, oh, hearts look high;
Nor yield thee unto sorrow,
For "Jesus passeth by"
Tomorrow and tomorrow.
Lift up, each weary head.
Lift up, pale face of sorrowl
He Quickeneth the Dead
Tomorrow and tomorrow.
List not to jest or scorn;
Nor give one thought to sorrow.
The Christ of Life is born
Tomorrow and tomorrow.
ESMERALDA O'BOYLE.
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IT TAKES a genuine philosopher to
discover a number of good and sufh-
cient reasons why other people should
be satisfied with their condition in
life.
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"I WISH no pay for this poem, !" re-
marked the long-haired individual.
"I submit it as a compliment. ?"
"Then permit me to return the COM
pliment," replied the editor.
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NELL-"Who were the people the
Bible speaks of as having eyes, they
see not, and having ears, they hear
not?' Bell-"Chaperones, / sup
pose"