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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
SMALL FARMING PAYS.

The experience of a man who leaves
business to get back to the land and
make living possesses peculiar in
terest, especially if he is successful.
The following narrative of a New
Hampshire man given in the Clare
mont Eagle is a case of bringing up
the production of small farm to a
profitable basis:
81 was a city man, but FIVE years
ago my business was so dull l thought
I would try farming. I had very
little money, but have been success
full. I have paid for my farm and
own all my stock and tools and think
if all farmers did as I have done they
would not be preaching that farming
doesn't pay.
II began the first year to work out
for my farmer neighbor, but soon
found this would not pay. I and all
the men I worked for were no better
off than when we started. Thought !:
I have farm as well as they. Why
can't get living at work for my
self if they do and can afford to hire
help?
"After the first year 1 began to
work for myself and found better re-
suits. have small farm of fifty
seven acres, which cuts double the
hay it did five years ago. think
man can do better on a small farm
than he can on a big farm, for he can
not cultivate the whole of big farm,
and one acre Of good land is better
than five acres of poor.
eff farmers would work as hard
for themselves as they have to when
working for others, they would get
rich. l do all of my own work and
hire man only few days in lay
ing. 1 have kept dairy of six cows,
young stock, and poultry and raise
between 400 and 500 bushels of
onions a year besides a variety of
other vegetables. I find the onions
the most profitable.
''I think it unwise for man when
he starts on farm to begin fixing the
buildings. He should do it gradual
ly as he can afford then he will be
more apt to hold his own.
"There are 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-
Bile to NOW within fifteen or twenty
feet of them"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
SOME ADVICE FOR THE 1NsoMN1Ac.

Sleep is the restoration of life-call
it, if you please, the governor of the
engine.
With the right sleep, and enough
of it, the body comes up to its work
every morning new born.
But this is not so if the sleep has
not been sound and steady. Follow
these rules if you would have sound
and restful sleep:
Do not work the brain for six hours
before you go to bed.
Business women are apt to violate
this rule. They think they must
give daylight to their employers and
then spend their evening in memoran-
da and calculations about their own
personal affairs.
All this is wrong.
You may get out of bed as early as
you please and work your brain then.
But you are safest, if after S in the
afternoon, you give it no hard work
at all.
Do not work this poor old brain,
which has stood by you so Loyalty
since you got out of bed in the morn
ing, until late at night.
Remember what your bed is for
and why you are in it.
You are there to sleep, not to add
up figures in your head. Not to lay
plans for tomorrow.
If you have been working the poor
old brain too late, or if you have been
eating Welsh rarebit just before un-
dressing, and if your head burns SO
that it almost sets the pillow on fire,
crawl out of bed and sponge your
head with cold water. If this fails !;
bathe your feet in as hot water as they
will bear.
You want to draw away the extra
blood from the brain.
In natural sleep there is less blood
on your brain than when you are
awake.-.St. LOuis PoSt-Disbateh.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
THE EDUCATION OF A FARMER.

Now the farmer dons his go-to-meetin' suit
And he hies him to a grangers' institute,
There to hear, in learned lectures,
Agricultural conjectures
And to bark to PROFESSIONAL dispute.
On the platform sit the experts, wise, sedate,
Each with boards of useful knowledge meath
his pate,
And they tell the farmer how
He should milk the speckled COW
In the fashion most approved and up to-date.
There are papers on Rotation of the Crops"
Dissertations on "The Proper Poles for Hops"
And long intense debate
On the question grave and great,
"Should the Barn be Cleaned with Pitchforks or
with Mops?n
"How to Trace the Willy Weasels to Their
Sources"
Helpful Hints on PainlessD Dentistry to Horses" !"
"How to Build q Stack of Oats
AS Winter Shed for Goats''-
There are many more such edifying courses.
Now the farmer sagely mods at all they say,
And at sundown, having spent pleasant day,
Homeward hastens to his toll
And proceeds to till the soil
In the very good oldfashioned Maryland way.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
her FIRST 500.

How she acquired it it does not
really matter-possibly by teaching
school, painting fire screens or wash
ing. Anyway when she found her
self in possession of the sum she set
about to see what she could do
with it.
Certain amiable friends told her it
would be very nice to buy some new
dresses, hats, gloves, shoes and such.
But she had full assortment and
didn't require anything of the sort.
An aunt told her to invest it in a GER
tain telegraph stock that would bring
in good interest.
''But 1 want my hundred dollars
all to myself, you know"
''Poor, foolish dear, it will all be
yours, just the same. You can use
the interest just the same. l know
where you can draw-why, 6 per
cent"
"Wh-at? That is only Sc year |!
Six dollars is awfully small by the
side of this. I'm going to count it
,gain. Maybe some of it is gone. !"
The very thought of such thing
made the little creature chatter. For
th. tenth time that day she sat down
anccounted the talismanic roll of bills
four twenties, one ten and two
fves 1t was all right, and her pulse
resumed its normal beat. Suddenly
she gave little shrek of delight and
jumped up and cried:
i know just what I shall do !
I'll get it-busted. I think that's
what thez call"
"Child, what are you talking
about"
"Talking about finance, auntie.
I'm going to make this stingy little
roll into big one. 1t doesn't show
off at ALL"
"You are queer, dear"
"I'm going to get it all in FIVE dol
lar bills. I think the pictures on the
fives are ever so much prettier." Life
seemed more rosy after the delight
ful creature possessed twenty nice.
crisp fvers. She counted and re-
counted them when another fancy
came.
"I'm tired looking at these common
bills. They don't jingle and ring.
I'm going to get five nice, clean, new
twenty dollar goldpieces." No soon-
er was it said than done. The table
rang for two days as she tossed the
bright yellow pieces about like jack
stones. Even then she wasn't quite
happy. The little pile of twenty dol
lar yellow boys looked SO small. Then
she secuted about and got together
100 silver dollar. She polished every
one daily and played with them.
Next she got 200 fifty cent pieces.
But life was still an aching void. She
at last owned 500 in twenty FIVE cent
coins, Surely she must be satisfied
noWBut. no she broke into one
OF the quarters, felt discouraged after
that and was quite unlike her old self
until she found one little nickel left,
the very last coin of the hundred dol
lars that had caused her so much
trouble.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
GOOD THINGS TO KNOW.

To make scrap book get pencil
tablet and a bottle of mucilage and
paste the receipts in it.
When you step on nail or when
your finger hurts you can't see
any swelling nor nothing on it, take
a raw potato, CRATE it and put it on
the sore. 1t will take all the fever
out of it. When the poultice gets
dry put fresh one on.
To make a good 1iniment take a
pint bottle and put one ounce of gum
of camphor and one ounce of turpen-
tine into it and fill it up with alcohol.
Shake we'll and it will be ready for
use. 1t is good for cuts, swellings,
sprains, stiff joints, bruises, tooth
ache, headache, etc. Whenever you
have the headache rub this liniment
on the forehead and the temples.
For toothache rub it on the gums
and tooth.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
THE AMERICAN GIRL OF THE FUTURE.

The women who are most valiant
1y anxious to get their rights seem to
forget one thing. They forget that
the party of the first part-by that I
mean our brother is today right
where he was in the beginning. He
has the same number of advantages
he always had. The woman of today
has all these and about 753 more,
and yet her shoulders are no broader
and her back no stronger than it ever
was. The girl of the future will be
obliged to choose between her present
privileges and her rights. If this
evolution continues I should advise
young girl who asked me what to
choose to hang on to her privileges
and let her rights go.
If you cannot in this generation get
your vote, you always can get your
voter. Women have always inauenc-
ed man, and don't see but what that's
just as good. There is some danger
of women getting what our brothers
call the big head" If the young
girl isn't careful her brother may turn
like the worm. Whatever we do we
should leave him two things. One
of these is the conviction that he
knows and can do more than we can
Gas, for instance, looking up our
trains for us, and we should leave
him his handbook. He may give tI5
everything else, including his latch
key.
think there is a great deal of un-
necessary twadd1e these days about
the increasing strenuousness of the
young girl. 1 don't think she has
changed so much. Idon't think much
of these little fads of the modern girl
and modern woman, such as physl-
cal culture, or vegetarianism, or Greek
grammar, to which she must devote
at least a morning week. She has
no more mind. She may use her
mind little differently, but it's the
same old mind, the same energy that
she uses.
There are two things which women
must always have had since the crea-
ton to be successful, and those two
things are the same in the far off is
lands of the Pacific and in the high
school in Massachusetts. A woman
to be successful must be good and she
must be charming. You may think
of her charm as her parliamentary
ability, her oratorical power or her
excellent canning of peaches, but she
has got to have it. And if she is not
good the world can't progress. There
may be something interesting in the
bad woman but she can't perpetuate
nations, and after all that was the
main purpose of our creation, | think.
If woman is good and nothing else,
she will be as dull as anything the
world ever made, but if she can be
good and charming her heritage and
posterity can ask absolutely nothing
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
THE TELLER WE MET ON TIT TRAIN.

When me an my pa took trip on tn cars
From here clean t. Kansas one time.
We slep in sleeper both nights on tn way,
An pa gIved the porter dime ]
We done lots o. things that big folks does,
An pa wasn't ratified grain;
But one thing member tn best of all, wuz
A feller we met on tn train.
That feller had travelled tn awfulest lot
He'd been t. Tacomy an back.
He'd been to FL Paso one time when his train
Ruined into another. right smack;
He'd ct in tn diner till things didn't taste
No good, cause they served 'em too plain,
wish was half as we'll posted as him
The feller we met on the trainl
He set an told pa of th' times he had bluffed
Conductors an brakemen an all,
An made 'em take tickets t wasn't no good
"Jist done it." he said. ION my gall"
He'd fooled tn train robbers-it wasn't no trick
These skeered people give i'm pain,
My pa sit an looked an jist listened t. him,
This feller we met on tn train.
said t. my pa when tn feller got off,
l wisht we'd been places that way,
An pa he jist smiled kind o. pitiful
An didn't have nothin' t. say.
But when we got home was tellin' tn folks,
An pa said: Let up on that strain,
When you git as old as your pa you'll forgit
Th' liars you meet on tn train"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
RICHEs 8.

His Golfers hold the sunsets gold,
A crimson cloud his f1agon fills;
In terms of beauty wealth is told,
In good, man gathers as he wills.
Beyond the bar, behind the star.
Beneath the flood. he peers with ease
Whose hidden eyes all-seeing are,
Whose wish has power to pain or please.
A choir invisible, he owns;
The hills lift high his evening hymns;
Dawn chants his Joy in sacred tones;
Mid MONDAY silence music swims.
His nearest friend is farthest of.
His fOeman's hate his best defense,
He stays to pray who comes to scOff,
And goes within to travel hence.
He, sleeping, wakes to false alarm,
And waking, sleeps to danger great;
That which he has there's naught can harm,
That he has not he still shall wait.
He is life's master and its slave;
Gramercy tits that he may fall;
A blessing, he may blessing crave;
And giving nothing yet gain all.
Hope is hoard that never flies;
Trust never fails to earn content;
Who gathers wisdom want defies;
He borrows least who most has lent.
His Golfers hold the sunsets gold,
A crimson cloud his f1agon f1lls:
All values are in virtues told.
All fortune as the finder Wills
Charles ". Stecenson.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
Jimmy Blakesly, an they'd have

Jimmy Blakesly, an they'd have
given me at least FIVE years in the
jug if you hadn't handled my case so
well. I paid you for it all right, but
I've always had feelin' of gratitude
over the way you talked to the jury
about my old mother an because of
the tears you shed. You worked the
emotion racket till you had the crowd
cryin'."
Five years before 1 had defended
Jimmy Blakesley on the charge Of
burglary and got him off. If the
press was unanimous in saying that
he ought to have been sent to prison,
that is not my fault.
And in return for the emotion, as
you call it, you come here to rob me, "
l said, sitting down.
''But l told you it was all mis-
take. How was to know you lived
here: Don't make the mistake of
thinkin' Jimmy Blakesly's a duffer.
I'll just put everything back as !
found 'em an say good night, an
we'll let it go at that. What's the
matter, governor? You're lookin'
worried p
You will think it curious thing
that l did, and 1 agree with you.
Although l had caught Jimmy red
handed, the idea of giving him over
to the law never occurred to me.
was worried over the Nash case and
felt like talking to some one, so 1 in
vited the fellow to sit down and told
him all about it. He caught on in
great shape, and when 1 had given
him all the points he said
"Why, governor, the old man
ought to be in crazy house. That
mine sharper has got him dead to
rights. No such case as mine was
no chance to work in poor old moth
er on a jury, no tears ner emotion.
You haven't one chance in a hun
dred."
"Not one in thousand"
THAT is unless"
''Unless what?" I asked.
Dunno, but-but if you'll excuse
me, governor, I think there's a little
business waitin' for me down street.
On the square, I didn't know this
was your joint. S'long."
He took his departure by the door
instead of the fire escape, leaving me
dazed and speechless. Next morning
/ was an hour late at the office, and
on my desk found large envelope
which had come by messenger. It
contained not only the copy of the
agreement that had been filched from
Nash, but his promissory note for
$4,000. The afternoon papers came
out with glaring headlines. Phil
bricks Office had been visited the
night previous, his safe broke open
and valuable papers carried away.
Nash was never called upon to pay
for his worthless stock, and have not
seen Jimmy Blakesley since that
again, I must warn him that he is
clearly in line for scrape where emo
ton will not save him.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
CLOTHES AND THE GIRL.

"When girl comes to woman's
college she usually decides upon the
character of her unknown classmates,
Judging not by their voices, nor by
their faces, nor even by their actions,
but by the way they wear their
clothes" says woman's college stu
dent, who thereupon proceeds with
her classification. "She ingeniously
places these unfamiliar girls in four
families, the Dowdies, the Prims, the
mother1ess Miss Fortunes, and these
delightful friends, the Ladies de Bon
heurs.
"The first family and its relations
are met everywhere. Their clothes
are badly or indifferently put on 4;
buttons are missing, tears are fire.
quent several loose pins hold the
hair in place. One has no need to
enumerate further. The inky fingers
could not but hand in smeary paper
with sentences loosely constructed,
and the thoughts strung together.
No use to inquire into her character /;
the thoughtfulness, the carelessness
reflect the indifferent, don't care ma
ture.
As her opposites, the Misses Prim
are pleasant contrast. Their clothes
shine with constant brushing but
tons and fasteners are abundant and
yet there is a stiffness, oftentimes
amounting to hardness, in these de-
mure sisters. Like the shoulders of
their dresses their work is narrow.
They do not come enough out of their
shells to show their nature.
""The old toast runs Here's to
Dame Fortune, may you never meet
her daughter, Miss Fortune Yet
there is something pleasing about
these girls with the startling bands
on their arms, and with their we'll
groomed appearance. Their English
papers may often be careless, their
moods changeable; in fact, it is hard
to distinguish between these girls,
who fatter themselves on living Ia
mode, but they are clean-and clean
illness is next to godliness.
"And now, those girls and women
who are extreme in nothing except,
perhaps, in kindness. Their clothes
are genial and friendly; if stylish
they seem to have been made to give
you pleasure if unneat, you knowit
is a mistake. The cheerful attrac-
tiveness exhales loving, thoughtful
disposition. Their work cannot but
be broad and sympathetic, their aim
to help others.
psychologists say that habits
formed before the age of twenty-one
are not easily broken. The way girls
dress during the years they spend in
college is the keynote of their after
character, at least the note sounded
by the ordinary passer-by."
WHAT IS your name2" inquired
the justice.
"Pete Smith, F." responded the va
grant.
What occupation ?" continued the
court.
"Oh, nothing much at present;
just circulatin' round"
Retired from circulation for thirty
days." pronounced the court, dryly.
NOTHING IS too small to escape the
notice of the country editor-not even
the man who tries to get his paper for
nothing.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07
NOT IN THE CONTRACT.

Speaking of the Missouri river
and its habit of changing its course" !"
remarked the man in the macintosh,
says the Chicago Ti6nne, reminds
me of curious thing that happened
to me once while l was hunting along
that river. 1 got into my skiff to
row to the other side, and you may
believe me or not. just as you please,
but the blamed old stream cut new
channel while I was doing it, and
when got across, found I was on
the same side l had left"
There was silence for few mo-
ments and then the man in the cor
duroy suit spoke up.
1t seems to me have heard some
thing like that before he said. l
don't doubt the story, of course, but
I'd like to have it explained little.
If you found yourself on the same
side when you landed the river bank
must have followed you. Then how
can you be said to have got across 7"
"And if the river bank followed
you," said the man with his feet on
the table, "it seems plain to me that
the other side must have been NOV
ing away from you all the time. OF
course, l can't doubt that you rowed
across, but 1 think you ought to ex-
plain how it was"
Gentlemen" said the man in the
macintosh, with some irritation of
manner, eff there's any explanation
you'll have to think it up. / don't
know of any. I am merely telling
you the facts"
There was another brief pause, and
then some one in the group passed
the hat around.
The collection amounted to six
cents, one button and one beer check.
This was handed in silence to the
narrator of the story, and the assem-
bly, broke up.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07

this is my new colt. After he's
properly broke he'll be a flyer"
Indeed? You should call him Bill,
or, better still, Five-Dollar Bill"
Nonsense /! That ridiculous name
for horse "But it's appropriate.
Did you ever see anything go faster
after it's broker"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07

THERE IS no man more lonely in
the world than he who distrusts
everyone and attributes an evil motive
to every action.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07

ISN'T 1T strange that we never
know what we can do until someone
does it for us?
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07

A GOOD name is more to be priced
than great riches, but it's much the
same thing on check.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07

LAZY MEN are like theories. They
seldom work.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-02-07

NOTHING IS too small to escape the
notice of the country editor-not even
the man who tries to get his paper for
nothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-14
DIVORCED COUPLE RE-MARRY
Two Bright Little Boys the Attraction
which Draws EstranEed Pair
Together.

HUMBOLDT, Neb., May 13-(special.)-
This section Of the state was the scene last
week of a wedding which smacks some
what of the romantic, particulars of which
have just been made public. A couple once
married. twice separated and once divorced,
become reconciled and begin life over again
by appearing before a minister and again
plighting their vows. The ceremony took
place on Tuesday Of asst week at Tecumseh,
and only the most intimate friends and
relatives were a~pprised OF what was trans
piring. Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. DUNCAN hava
been for many years residents of this sec
ton, making their home for a time at
Auburn and later on a farm near this city.
They have two sons, bright little fellows,
and these youngsters may be credited with
bringing the couple together after their
separation. About three years ago domes-
tic difficulties caused a separation and the
husband disappeared from sight and has
not been seen in this section again until
within the last few months. The wife pro-
cured a divorce, and a year or so ago
opened up a millinery store in this city,
living a portion of the time with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Outer. When
DUNCAN showed up at a hotel recently mu-
tual friends arranged a meeting between
the two and the interview resulted in a
reconciliation and remarriage.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-14

use of fertilizers and to give the soil ex-
tremely careful cultivation, alternating
crops, in this country. he said. they raise
corn one year and they keep on raising
corn without decreasing returns"
Two things that were remarked by all the
party we're the activity and energy OF
Americans and their ability to control in
terests of gigantic proportions. The great
private industries. where single men or COR
porations control interests that seem too
vast to be managed by a single controlling
power. were things that 1t was hard for
men who can form such industries seemed
a wonder.
Many were made on the thrift
and good practical sense shown by the
American farmer. One man said that among
the changes that he Intended to ~inaugurate
on his estate would surely be buildings of
the convenient and wholly simple type that
grace the farms Of the United States.
The party seemed well pleased at the re-
ception rendered them by the college
faculty and students and by the represen-
tatives Of the town. and said they had been
struck during their entire trip by the
friendliness that had been shown them by
the American people. The party left here
Wednesday morning for Odebolt, Ia, where
they will investigate some experiments
being conducted by the college there; then
they go to Omaha, through Kansas, to Dem
ver.to San Francisco. back to Salt Lake city
and on the Northern Pacific to Minneapolis
and st. Paul. which cities they reach about
June 20. They reach New York June Is and
leave for their own country July 2