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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02
FORMER FIREMAN ARRESTED.
N. Sleight Charged with Stealing Bras
from Mamma Cturers.

N. Sleight. the man who was discharged
from the fire department for turning In the
wrong number at the time of the fire in the
DR.. Haas residence which resulted in the
death of Nathan Morris, was arrested yes
terday afternoon and locked up at the po-
lice station on a charge of petit larceny.
Sleight, IL is said, has been for some time
stealing brass from a number Of manufac-
turers and selling II to local junk dealers.
He was arrested by Patrolman w. p.
Smith.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

to provide for His wife has been cared for
at the Home of the Friendless, but friends
will secure employment for her until Ward
is out of Jail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

TO attempt to no
stomach is dis
eased is like try
ing to fill the
sack with the
hole in it. When
the stomach and
other digestive
and nutritive or
ga ms are dis
eased, there is q
constant loss of
nutrition.
Enough is eaten
but the bod y
loses flesh, -plain
ncnof that fhe
food eaten is
largely wasted
because 1t is not
digested and as
simulated.
DR.. Perce's
Golden Medical
Discovery cures
diseases of the
ct omach and
other organs OF
digestion an d
n TRITON. II
stops the leaks
by which nutn-
ton is lost, and
enables the
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
HOW WE GET OUR TIME.

The following description of how
the National Observatory at Wash
ington determines the exact time we
take from an exchange:
The fixed stars have no motion
that can be measured by any instru-
ments known to science, and certain
of these, known as 'time stars" are
made use of in ascertaining and re-
cording correct time. Every clear
night an astronomer, at the National
Observatory in Washington, lies down
on a mattress, with his eye fixed to
an instrument called transit. This
instrument points exactly north and
south, and it is so set that it can be
raised toward the zenith, or lowered
toward the horizon, at the will of the
observer. At the astronomer side
is telegraph key, which connects by
wire with an instrument composed Of
WHICH
is wrapped paper with evenly spac-
ed lines running each way. This in
strument is also connected with the
pendulum of the ''time clock" and
each beat of the pendulum S is record
ed on the revolving cylinder. In the
eye-piece of the transit are FIVE deli
cate lines made of spider webs, and,
as the particular "time star" crosses
each of these lines, the observer
touches the telegraph key, and lit
tie notch is recorded on the slowly re-
volving cylinder, which is recording
the pendulum beats of the clock.
Calculations are then made and the
exact time is ascertained and the
time clock" set to that time.
Every day at three minutes and fif-
teen seconds to twelve, a switch is
turned on at the observatory in Wash
ington, and the beats Of the pendu-
lum of the "time clock" are sent over
the telegraph wires all over the coun-
try. Every operator in the United
States, when he hears the signal,
stops all business and prepares to re-
ceive the correct time from Washing
ton. These beats continue until ten
seconds before twelve, when they
stop. This is to give the operators
notice that the next "tick" will be
noon, and, when that comes, the
time of the Office clock, or operators
watch, is carefully noted and the diff
ference between it and the Washing
ton clock is adjusted. Some of the
clocks are connected directly by wire
with Washington, and are so arrang-
ed that, the instant the noon signal
comes the hands will jump to twelve
O'Clock, no matter what they may in
dicate at that instant.
The above process also describes
the observations made at Washing
ton University Observatory, St. Louis,
at certain times. The observatory in
St. Louis for some years past has de-
termined the exact time for the rail-
roads in the Central Time Belt.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
A HOPELESS CASE.

The next case on the docket was a
small man, with nervous aspect and
rolling eye, who clutched convul-
sively in his hand a large bundle of
papers and muttering to himself.
whats the case against this
man 2" inquired the Judge.
eve have not decided, Your Hon
or. He was found last night wander
ing around aimlessly in side street,
apparently in an irresponsible condi-
ton, talking in strange tongue, in
terlined with some familiar phrases. "
Prisoner" said the Judge, severe
ly, "what were you saying?"
81 was saying" remarked the pris-
oner as he looked wildly about him,
"that passementerie is all right with
renaissance when it is all bias, but
what is the use of an organdy trim
med with accordion plaits? Is a
straight front worth SIS equal to a
sheer huted- d-edged nuns yelling, and
why should two dozen hemstitched
handkerchiefs be made Up with
founces down the side and hips? A
fcck Of white-duck skirts is all right,
but I'll be hanged II see the value
in pongee kimona with a corded
back, and who would care to trim an
acre of hats with only two crates of
material, what"
"The Judge, examining the papers
that the man had held, gazing at him
pityingly.
"Take him away to the asylum, :"
he said to the officer. "Don't you
see that this miserable wretch has
been ass enough to try to solve the
mystery of his wife's personal bills for
the last month ?'-70m Mason, in
LITE
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
ADJUSTABLE COURTESY.

In spite of the fact that so much
stress has often been laid on the i'm
portance of the little things-the lit
tie acts of politeness-there are still
people who neglect them. I fancy
the persons who forget the signif-
canoe of the little acts of courtesy are
those who do not use them constant
ly, to whom they are as ornaments, to
be put on and off at pleasure. And
IN their homes the small sweet cour-
tesies are folded away as are the dress
shirt and lawn tie that are donned
with the evening suit. I have in
mind one man whose manners, when
he is on his guard, are irreproacha-
BILE. When it is worth while" he
can be the soul of courtesy. When
he is calling upon a comparative
stranger upon whom he wishes to
w6hfdatf eiftefse e4ie areensyy ifaS.ashep.a-
the door for her to pass out, remains
standing until all the ladies present
are seated, and springs to his feet to
receive cup of tea from the hand of
his hostess, bowling graceful thanks
as he receives it. But in his home,
or when the only persons present are
those with whom he has nothing to
gain or lose, it is another story. Then
he 1olls in an easy-chair and does as
he pleases. Consequently he some
times forgets his adjustable courtesy
AS once, when absorbed in conver-
sation with lady who was to the
manner born, he drew his knife from
his pocket and proceeded then and
there to trim his nails.
my DEAR" said the amused OBJ
server afterward to a friend, the
only kind of hair that never comes off
is that which grows fast to the scalp.
Our friends manners are like false
front. They are evidently put on
with invisible hair-pins, but close
scrutiny reveals the fact that they do
not grow fast"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
THE ART OF LISTENING.

One of the busiest of the many
busy women with whom I am ac-
quainted is also the most charming
woman with whom to converse. She
is not brilliant, perhaps hardly clev-
er talker, but one loves to talk with
her. After mature and thoughtful
consideration, I have come to the
conclusion that her charm lies in the
fact that she is an admirable listener
By her evident interest in and SYM
pathetic attention to the matter of
the conversation. she brings. ont all
that IS best IN the one with whom She
talks. Dif6dent people forget their
shyness in her presence, and leave
her with the comfortable and novel
conviction that they have, after all,
acquitted themselves rather we'll.
Few persons cultivate the art Of being
good listeners, and yet to listen we'll
is perhaps even more desirable than
for one to talk well. The good talk
er IS often over-eager to say his say,
to utter his witticism, to tell his
anecodote, and his conversation is
often a monologue. The good listen
er inspires the talker by strict atten-
ton to all he says and, above all, by
looking at him while he speaks.
There is nothing more trying than
to find that your putative listener is
giving only partial heed to your ut
terances. 1t is strange that we'll
bred person should be guilty of the
gross rudeness of picking up book
or magazine and looking through"
it while pretending to pay heed to
the talk of friend. The assurance
"I am only looking at the picture in
this magazine, not reading, and hear
every word you say" is no palliation
of the offence. The speaker would be
justified in declining to continue the
conversation until the pictures have
been properly studied. If speech
is worth hearing, it is worthy of
respectful and earnest attention.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
DARKENED sLEEPING-Ro0Ms.

It is claimed by some physicians
that the brain cannot rest perfectly
unless all light is excluded from the
sleeping-room, and whether in going
to bed at night or simply lying down
for half-hour's rest in the middle of
the day, this precaution should be
taken. Where a house has an east
ern or southern exposure the rooms
will be filled with light long before 1t
is time to get up, and unless some
means be taken to prevent, the morn
ing rest will be more or less broken.
Especially is this true in the case of
little children, and it is we'll to accus-
tom them from the first to sleep in
the dark.
In the absence of outside blinds
there is no better way to secure this
pleasant twilight so conducive to rest
than by the use of inside shades made
of the darkest green holland, and they
have a great advantage VvcI either Iu-
side or outside blinds in that they are
so easily adjusted.
They supplement but do not take
the place of the ordinary shades, but
are set somewhat inside, so as not to
interfere with them, and are rolled
up and quite out of the way when not
in use.
The best grades of this goods are
durable, and with reasonable care will
last for years, and from her own ex-
perience the writer can recommend
them as most desirable investment.
If the bedroom windows have up
per panels of stained glass in which
so many modern houses abound, the
green shades should be set so as to
cover these also, as an exceedingly
unpleasant glare pours down from
them, very trying to eyes which are
trained to sleep in darkness as COM
plete as possible.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17

Se10ed the county o0e, S5 years and
haze collected from the county ove,
$50, 900 IN salaries and fees. The
"boss" pays well
There is absolutely no reason whv
any Democrat should hesitate to vote
against this ticket, especially as the
party organs are endeavoring to i'm
pose upon the voters by falsehood and
imposture. The Democratic mana
gers are claiming credit for economy
In reducing the county debt, which
they say was accumulated by the Re-
publicans. Personally I believe the
best county government is Demo-
cratic government, but 1 can see no
excuse for lying about public records
in order to elect ticket, even if it
were good one. The Democrats
have spent as much, if not more, than
the Republicans on the county gov
sFnmsnt in Baltl@9Es 9aan4z Tzte and tbs
enough to pay off the debt, whi1h tax
rate has been higher undey tie Demo
c1aks than 1t eyer zUaS unde1 tie Re-
bu6kioanS IN recent years, and lowey
nnder the Republicans than 1t e0er aVaS
under Democrats, and the county debt
zVaS oeated BY kozU tasr rate andwib-
ed out 6yG high one. The Democrats
have, for the first time since their
late accession to power on the eve of
an election, reduced the county tax
rate and Notwithstanding an increas-
ed basis they have not even now
brought it so low as the Republicans
had it.
There is no reason, therefore, why
any Democrat should hesitate to vote
against this ticket, and to free the
party in the county from its load and
once more to enfranchise the party.
For at present it is dumb, and speaks
only through Talbot and representa-
ton can only come through him.
Therefore 1 say, once and for all
time, tear off and throw away this
smothering and unclean rag of "Tal-
bottism" that has been wrapped about
us, and until we can belong to the
Democratic party in Baltimore coun-
ty without belonging at the same time
to Mr.. Talbot let us endeavor to do
all that clean, decent and honorable
citizens can do to purge our county
of this, its shame. Very truly,
7. SCoTT OFFUTT.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
EXERCISING FOR BEAUTY.

me Io1Iow1ng EXERCISE IS rrr0nr-
mended for filling out the chest and
throat: Take the usual erect posi-
ton with chest out high and fine,
heels together, and hips back. Bring
the arms directly forward with the
hands tightly clinched and palms up
permost then draw the arms back as
if you were pulling at reins, keeping
the arms directly at the sides and
sending them back as far as you can.
All this time the chest must be KEEP.
forward. Never allow it to relaxt
With every pull at the make believe
reins take deep inhalation, exhaling
when the elbows are far back, and
take rest of four or five seconds.
This exercise means muscular devel-
opment. 1t should be started slowly,
and increased gradually. First day
repeat only five times in week in
crease to ten. As you get stronger,
you can make it fifteen.
Hollows at the base of the neck is
an aff1iction with which many women
suffer.
A tiny little scoop is considered
pretty, much prettier indeed than a
neck that is layers upon layers of fat.
However, for an actual hollow in the
neck this exercise will be found ben
efcial:
Heels together, hips back, chest out.
Close the teeth tight together, turn
the head SO you will look straight
over the right shoulder, then, with
the fingers anointed with skin food,
gently massage the left side of the
neck, sending the finger tips about in
tiny circles, always with an upward,
outward pressure. Massage while
counting five; turn the head the
other way, count five again, and con-
tinue for six or seven minutes-never
any longer.
Beware of fatigue when exercising.
Remember that as soon as you are
tired you are in no condition for ex-
ercise. Drawing upon the strength
of the muscle is an exhilarating pas
time, not task, and you should
think of your exercise in that way.
Whatever is bore is not mental
stimulus, and when the mind is con-
genially centred results are much
speedier and more lasting.
An exercise for the nervous girl
who can't sleep and who thinks she
is the biggest of martyrs and the sad
dest of mortals is to stand erect and
very slowly relax every muscle of the
body. Drop the shoulders forward
and let the chest cave in {; head must
fall forward on the bust. Then very
slowly and gradually raise the chest,
letting the shoulders and head go
back until the head rests on the back.
Sway the shoulders forward, and in
that way bring the head in position
without any force or tension. There
must be no muscular movement of
the neck. 1t is the swaying of the
shoulders that takes the head from
one position to another. Drop right
shoulder and lift left, allowing head
to drop to right. Back slowly to
position. Of course all the muscles
of the face must be completely re-
1axed.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
ADJUSTMENT.

The word adjustment gives an idea
of parts fitting into one another, each
part doing what it can to accommo-
date itself to every other part.
So the word expresses well the con-
ditions most of us assume during our
temporary Punishment from home in
the summertime. We submit our
selves to new adjustments; and un-
less we really do this, with all that it
implies, we do not thoroughly enjoy
our summer circumstances or get the
most good out of them. We, as parts,
do not do our best to put ourselves in
harmony with the rest of the parts,
and therefore there will be discords.
Some of US, alas take position
and hold it dogmatically and arbi-
trarily. We think it is for others to
adjust themselves to us. But a place
taken in such a spirit is more often a
wrong one than a right. If we are
square, we will see that we have
probably forced ourselves into round
hole, and until we change we cannot
expect the rest of the parts to get
placed properly.
The most charming person upon
earth is the adaptable person, the one
who gets along in all places and suits
people of all sorts. He fits any
where; there is no stiffness, no ag-
gressiveness, about him. He is rath-
er like luminous ether, which sur
rounds, perfects, and illuminates all
the rest, and finds its beauty and its
aim in so doing.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
HE WAS JUST A LITTLE BIT CAUTIOUS.

The girl who had fallen into the
water screamed frantically for help.
"Save me Save Inc !" she cried.
The man on the bank hesitated.
"I'm a married man, he said,
land 1 have seven children. 1 want
that distinctly understood.
eyes, yes; but save me !" cried
the girl.
"I can't marry you if I do" urged
the man.
"No, no; only save me-"
eff any girl falls into my arms and
calls me her preserver ttere's going
to be a whole lot of trouble"
IT won't"
"Well, I'll tackle the job" he
said as he threw aside his coat. "You
see, I was caught on one of these
preserver deals once, and that's how
/ come to be married, so I'm disposed
to be Just little bit cautious.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
AGRICULTURE IN COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

In some States the agricultural col
leges have been giving a summer
course in agriculture and horticulture
10 teachers of country schools with
splendid results. It said that every
State normal school i'll Missouri now
mas a professor of agriculture. This
IS sOmething in which farmers every
where should take an interest.
We are constantly bemoaning the
tact that our boys are leaving the
farn for the city, but can they be
blamed when they have the hard
grHdlng life of the farm before them?
II tne youngsters could be interested
III tae bright side of agriculture while
goirg to school, how much easier it
would be to interest them in the
sclelce of farming later. Nature
STUDY IS the main work that will go
course ofagricu1ture IS taught, and It
will open possibilities i'll farming to
the mind # the boy which will de-
termine hislife occupation later. In
terest yourself in this, and by letter
to your Stae legislators see if this
plan of teaching agriculture cannot
be put in fore, in your State.
Agriculturalcolleges of some states
are also providing a course by mail.
If one is locatedso that they can take
the short winter ,ourse in agriculture
at the State college they should do
it; if not try the mail course of some
agricultural college. This is not a
free advertisement ior mail courses of
instruction, but simply an attempt to
show farmers, young and old, how
they may add to their stock of in
formation and make their work on
the farm less difficult and more profit
able.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
WHICH WILL YOU BE, pUPILs

Not long ago Rev. DR.. George A.
Gordon, of Boston, talked of "the
educated youth, with his gifts, his
intellectual habits, his culture, his
superiority over thousands" Where
upon some wicked scribe took these
words up and described the average
graduate in the following somewhat
exaggerated pleasantly: "Take a
composite photograph of the Ameri-
can undergraduates, and the result is
no budding Emerson, no ascetic BURN
er of the midnight oil, but a jolly,
noisy, rather queerly dressed, highly
clannish young man or boy, whose
greatest enthusiasm is for athletic
sports. He has wide culture in
such various and difficult subjects as
briarwood pipes, bull-terriers, ANA
teur photography, scarf-pins, sign
collecting and variety shows. His
art gallery is collection of pictures
of actresses, goddesses whom he wor-
ships ignorant1y and from afar-un
less he marries a chorus girl and
scandalizes his doting parents. His
literature is the sporting page and
the harmless, unnecessary contem-
porary novel. His science is boxing
or golf or tennis or lacrosse. His
heroes are not Homer, Dante and
Shakespeare, but those greatest men
in the world, the captain of the elev-
en-, the captain of the crew, the cap
tain of the nine. He is a perfectly
good fellow. He is a simple, manly
fellow, with very apparent down on
his face of sophistication. But he is
not an educated youth, except inso-
far as he knows that he isn't" AS
we said, this is a sarcasm or the usual
exaggerations found in our American
humor. Still, it has so many grains
of truth in it, and its broad outlines
are SO suggestively drawn, that it is
not out of place to call attention to
them now, it being the apropos sea-
son, for soon our college, High School
and Normal School will open. An
other year will bring another gradu-
ating class, and the question is, will
the diploma winner be of the type de-
scribed by the reverend or like the
one the humorist presents? 1t is be-
cause the schools are opening that we
call attention to the two extracts.
HE wHO has health has hope. and
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17
HABIT OF ORGANIZATION.

eve are organized to DEATH"
complained one of the speakers at an
Epworth League meeting, "and yet
everybody in the church from the
board of control down cries for more
organization. This is an age of or
ganization, and there are few of us
who are not engaged either in organ
izing something, or in managing some
thing that somebody else has organ
lied. Everything is organized
everybody is organized. There are
societies for the accomplishment of
everything in the heavens above, the
earth beneath and the waters under
the earth. All the religious creeds
are organized all the agnostics are
organized all the righteous are or
ganized and most of the sinners are
organized. All trades, business call
ings, professions, occupations and en-
ployments have organizations. Even
persons of melancholy temperament,
with a tendency to suicide, are organ
lied. Human society never before
had SO much machinery to assist it in
existing, and it will be only ques-
ton of time until there will not be
enough energy to operate the ma
chinery. Then, perhaps, we shall be
allowed to fall back into the good old
shiftless ways that prevailed before
all of us had mission to regenerate
society. Such good luck sometimes
befalls undeserving man.