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The colored American., 1903-03-14

President Roosevelt has decided 10
e+and bv DR.. Crum, though his con-
firmation for Collector of Customs at
Charleston, S. c. was defeated DR..
Cum will be made a recess appolntee
and will retain his office and draw the
salary. Hip, Hip, Hurrah! for fresl-
dent Roosevelt.
The colored American., 1903-03-14

Prof. ]. A Landlord, supervising
arobitect and builder for the Granu
United Order of True Reformers, leI1
the city this week for visit to Az
tanta. Georgia. He is related TO
Rishon Turner by marriage, and Will
be the guest of the learned pre- ptelate
during his sojourn in the Gate City.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
KEEP a cHEERru1 MIND.

going well with, you is no great vir-
tue. The thing is to be cheerful
under disadvantageous circumstances.
If one has lost money, if business
prospects fail, if enemies appear tri-
umphant, if there is sickness of self
or those dear to one, then is it indeed
a virtue to be cheerful. When pow
erty pinches day after day, month
after month or through the years as
they pass and one has ever to deny
self of every little longed for luxury
and the puzzle of how to make dol
lar do the work for two has to be
solved, then the man who can still
be cheerful is hero. He is great
er hero than the soldier who faces the
cannon's S mouth. Such cheerfulness
is the kind that we need to cultivate.
To acquire this self command we
need to think of many things. We
need to guard against giving way to
irritation about little things. If we
can maintain self control in small
matters, we shall have less difficulty
in maintaining it when great matters
are to be- met. If we meet with ir-
reparable losses, we must readjust
our lives to fit the new conditions.
There is no great evil so bad but that
it might have been worse. Let us
congratulate ourselves that the worse
is not yet. There is truth in the
saying that "every cloud has a silver
lining Though it may for time
look SO dark we can see no CLINT OF
the silver, yet we know it is there.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
HOW HE WAS CURED OF LYING.

The Rev. DIR. Twining, when he
was pastor of the Congregational
church in Hinsdale, Mass, told of
the paradoxical way in which the
habit he had when little boy of tell
ing startling big stories to his mother
was once for all and completely broken
up. He had prevailed on his mother,
after much earnest entreaty, he said,
to buy for him half a dozen Shang-
hal hens -Kinsley giving as a reason
for the purchase that the Shanghai
was vastly better layer than the or
binary hen After waiting a good
while for some evidence of this great
er fecudity his mother said to him
one day: "How about your big
Shanghai, Kinsley? Instead of lay
ing better, they don't seem to have
laid at all. !"
eyes, they are laying, I tell you,
mother there's nest now under the
cows crib with twenty-three eggs in
it," "Well, Bridget, go and get
Kinsley to show you where they are
and bring them in
"Well," said the doctor, II did not
even know for certain that there was
nest there, much less that there
were any eggs in it. However, as I
was in for it, went to the barn with
Bridget, put my arm down into the
hole in the corner of the cows crib,
felt and took out an egg and put it in
the basket. Then I reached in and
took out another, and then another,
until took out in all just twenty
three eggs. Outwardly," continued
the doctor, II was triumphant, but !
was soon smitten with not only re-
morse, but terror-terror because ]
thought that Satan was encouraging
me to cast in my lot with him by help
ing me out with my mendacity.
That was the last of my wrong story
| telling %
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
A woMAN's QUESTION.

Do you know you have asked for the costlies
thing
Ever made by the Hand above
A woman's heart. and woman's life,
And womans wonderful love?
Do you know you have asked for this priceless
thing
AS child would ask for toy?
Demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of boy.
Yon have written my lesson of duty out,
Man like you have questioned me;
Now stand at the bar of my woman's soul
Until shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirt shall be whole;
require your heart shall be true as Gods stars
AS pure as heaven your soul.
You require a cook for your mutton and beef;
require far better thing;
shirts
look for man and a king.
A king for beautiful realm called Home.
And man whom the maker, God
Shall look upon as He did the first,
And say, ut is very good.'
1 am fair and young; but the rose will fade
From my soft. young cheek, one day;
VIII you love me then, mid the falling leaves,
AS you did mid the bloom of May?
Is your heart an ocean SO strong and deep
| may launch my all on its tide2
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made bride.
require all things that are grand and true,
All things that man should be;
If you give this all would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.
If you cannot do this, laundress and cook
You can hire with little to pay;
But woman's heart and woman's life
Are not to be won that way.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
BRoILING MEAT.

No other matter should take the
cooks attention while broiling meat,
because she should not leave it min
ute. The cooking school rule is an
excellent one; turn the steak when
ten is counted slowly until both sides
are we'll scared, then little less often
until done: Use a wire broiler like
a bread toaster and never stick fork
into the meat. If it needs turning in
the broiler use knife to move it, but
do not puncture the surface to let
out the juices. Have the platter
warmed and do not put the meat on
a platter and set it in the oven to
melt the butter and dry the meat.
For a good sauce take three table,
spoonfuls of grated horseradish, few
grains of cayenne, saltspoonful of
salt and a tablespoonful of vinegar.
Beat a quarter of a cup Of thick cream
and stir into the horseradish. Spread
over the steak and serve at once.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
ESTABLISHED 1850.

poled up the bitches for ten or twelve
miles from the fertile farm lands of
the outer world to the savagely lux
urlant beauty of the lake. Then at
the camp they spend night or two.
tlshing in the lake, polling along its
shores, doing little shooting, per-
haps, much dancing in the evenings
and merry-making, until they are
poled out again, often by a different
route. A real spring festival and one
that has been habit in that country
for many years.
The botanists and ornithologists
follow the merrymakers and dig and
press and skin and mount the curious
things the others had wondered at
a scientific post-mortem of the beau
ties OF the swamp. They slip out by
the bitches before the baking sun
dries up those waterways and the
long, hot summer comes in. Then
the the swamp lives l sits its ogn @ sG Ii5s The
feeder bitches run very low, and the
great black vultures, with their square
fringed wings, sail lazily over in lone
illness.
Those few persevering ones who do
work their way into the swamp at
that time of the year, who disregard
the long, hot tramp along the bed of
one Of the bitches, where the mud
and the water left from some shower
make an oozy footway inexpressibly
wearying, who brush aside the yellow
flies and plunge through short cuts of
interlaced vines and swamp weeds,
tall and supple az bamboo and tough
er those few who have the desire of
loneliness strong enough within them
to attempt this will find their reward.
Along the shores of shrunken lake
the old cypress stumps have risen to
the surface, crowded thickly togeth-
er, like an age-old abattis warning off
landing parties. Great heaps Of huge
white logs and branches worn to
smooth grayness and twisted into
strange shapes by time and the water,
lie tangled among and above the
stumps, making the shore like the
battle-ground of race of great an
tediluvian monsters. They are all
shapes and sizes, these logs, all gray
and very smooth Here and there a
cypress stump. rises far above the
water on long, stilt-like roots, so high
indeed that the chimney swifts build
the nests in its hollows. Sometimes
from the square tops of one of these
stumps there springs a feeble little
sprig of new growth its branches
spreading out like tiny green para
sol. 1t is only in the whitened stur Mps
around the lake that any men. -oi } =
left of the great woods of t,rnosJ D. Pas'
times when that water s,,rsaod $50 ploDaoiy ae
but little pond, il i'"oe eo'eieo
bv the forest.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE.

Take pint of water for each per-
son, and one tablespoonful of ground
coffee to each pint of water. Tie the
coffee loosely in a cheese-cloth sack
(clean salt sacks are excellent. Have
the water in a lard pail or can with
tight cover. When the water boils,
and fifteen minutes before coffee is to
be served, put it in the sacks. If
preferred the sacks can be put in
when the water is first put on and
served when it comes to boil. Use
a dipper to fill the cups from the can.
Coffee and tea pots become much
discolored inside in short time. TIC
prevent this, about every two weeks
put into them a teaspoonful of COM
mon baking soda and fill them about
thirds full of water, and let boil
two hours. Wash and rinse well be-
fore using. In this way they will al.
yavs he sweet and clean.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
JONES' TIMID WIFE.

Jones and his wife were going tc
the theatre the other evening. They
started out, leaving Mrs. Jones moth
er, an old woman of eighty, and lit
tie girl alone in the house.
Just as they went out they noticed
couple of suspicious looking men
lettering about the corner.
II wonder what those two tonghs
are up tol" said Jones. "It certain
ly isn't anything good. Perhaps we
had better go back to the house."
But Mrs. Jones laughed at it.
"That would be foolish, Tom, :"
she said. II don't suppose they are
going to break in our house anyway"
"They were certainly watching us
put on our wraps, F." said Jones, land
they're watching us now."
Jones and his wife turned corner
and started over to Indiana avenue to
catch car. One of the two suspici-
Gus characters followed close behind.
The other quickly disappeared. This
time Mrs. Jones was alarmed.
perhaps we had better go back
and telephone to the police station"
she said. II wouldn't care if they
weren't such desperate looking fell
lows"
Jones called up the police station
and told his story.
"All right" said the lieutenant in
charge. ''Just wait a minute.
There's couple of our men on the
wire now right near you, and I'll
send them over"
Presently the door bell rang and
Jones opened the door.
The two suspicious looking men
stood outside.
1.-The lieutenant sent us over to see
what was up" said one of them.
Jones almost tainted, but he finally
asked them in and told his story over
again. He didn't know what else
to do.
"That's queer" said one of the
detectives. Eve were on the corner
when you came out, and we didn't see
a soul. Then when you went round
the corner my partner walked that
way after you and I called up the sta
ton on the box. was talking when
you called"
"Well," said Jones, who had to
get out of it someway, II expect we
got little excited. / don't suppose
there was anv real reason for it Nv
CHicag0 Tai6Nne.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
THE MAN WHO KNOWS HOW.

Is it not strange that in every
county and in almost every precinct
that you may visit there is at least
one farmer known as corn grower
He rarely or never fails. The dry
and the wet seasons come and go, but
he "makes corn" and "sells corn"
So in every county there is found the
man who grows his own meat" and
regardless of cholera and bad crops
keeps his smokehouse on his own
farm. This peculiar man is some
times a successful truck grower or
fruit raiser. He may assume one of
several forms, but we may safely call
him "Mr. Know How" The aver
age farmer often looks upon him as
somewhat ofa conjurer, but at the bot
tom we find his success due to intelli-
gent effort. Intelligence can insure
crops in the face of disease, chinch
bug, boil weevil, bollworm, drought
-veS and floods too
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
n.r,v1 M ME TO JUDGMENT.

s1+ a;a.,. urn out as Jones fgur-
e-.e..- ~ ut tta tszr~ .rs- 7Ss. s.-sikh .
visit at his suns lner home in the coun.
try, and 1 accel pied without any idea
of what he had ln store for me. No
sooner had l arrived than he inform
ed me that he had me booked to act
as Judge of baby show that was to
take place the following day. I
laughed at him and fold him that all
babies looked alike I'd me, and that I
would have to be excused. But he
pointed out the fact that had been
advertised to act, and that it was now
too late to withdraw; SO Kconsented,
although with good maily misgiv-
ings concerning the outcome.
"Well, when I stood up on the
platform and saw twenty-seven proud
mothers holding as many babies be-
fore me l came near losing my nerve
and boiling. However, took a
brace and told them to form in line
and march past me. They did, and
the sight made me dizzy, and for the
life of me 1 couldn't tell white baby
from a colored one. To catch my
breath and gain time to collect my
thoughts, l told them to march around
once more, the result being that /
was more ratified than ever. | was
about to ask them to parade once
more, when 1 saw Jones grinning at
me from the rear of the hall, and l
realized the hand that he had had in
getting me into the present situation.
Like fash l saw way out of the
trouble and a chance to even up mat
tiers with Jones at the same time.
Clearing my throat, addressed the
expectant mothers as follows
"'I have asked you to pass before
me more as a matter of form than any
doubt concerning the winner of this
contest. That the little babies are
all dears l think you will agree with
me, and also think you concur with
my judgment when state that there
is one baby here so much prettier
than the rest as to place it in class
of its own, and to that baby it is my
duty to award the prize But to save
the heartburnings of the other moth
ers think it best not to publicly an
nounce the winner at this time. If
the mother who holds the winner at
this instant in her arms-and she
knows to whom 1 refer-will call at
the home of Mr.. Jones tomorrow
morning at eight O'Clock she will be
awarded the prize that she so justly
deserves.
"Then 1 left and caught the first
train for home. I gather from the
somewhat warm and incoherent re-
marks that Jones has made in my
hearing since that there was wildly
exciting time when twenty seven fond
mothers called in bunch to demand
the prize that 1 had awarded. Jones
refused to tell how it ended, but as he
appears afraid to go back, rather
imagine that the end is not yet. I"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
VALUE OF cREosorE.

In the course of a paper read be-
fore the Dublin section of the Institu-
tion of Electrical Engineers, A. T.
Kinsey made the following statements
relative to the efficacy of treating tel
egraph or other poles with creosote !:
Timber is used for poles in prefer
ence to iron or steel, chiefly on ac-
count of its lower cost, which may
be one-third that of iron. Some
means of preparation of the timber so
as to render it capable of resisting the
attacks of dry and wet rot are, how
ever, necessary; various treatments
have been tried and abandoned, creo-
soting being the only method of any
practical value and the only one much
in use today.
One of the best timbers for poles is
Norway red fir, but any timber that
IS used must be thoroughly seasoned
aud uAf~d L~rS.~ .4~ssl.44~--.- nri--
quantity of the preservative injected
is eight pounds per cubic foot. 1t
does not penetrate to the heart of the
pole, but when the timber is very
dense an inch or two inward only.
There is an unprotected portion
viz, the heart and the interior mar
gin of the zone through which the
creosote penetrates. 1t is in this tln-
protected zone that dry rot usually
sets in, taking the creosoted zone and
heart more or less intact, with the
outside skin of the pole unbroken or
marked. But dry rot is comparative
ly rare. tits found that in the course
of time the creosote sinks from the
top to the butt of the pole, forming
thick crust on the surface of the lat
ter, where it is most needed as pro-
lection against wet rot, which attacks
from without and proceeds inward.
In 1880, in England, the life of
treated poles was found to be thirty
years. Poles taken down in that year
which had been planted in IS4o and
1850 were found to be in all respects
as sound as when erected. Since
that date creosote had deteriorated in
quality, owing to the increased value
of some of its constituents, and the
author thought it time to investigate
the matter again. He traced the
erection of creosoted poles in Ireland
as early as 1858, and again in 1901,
but the systematic branding of the
date of creosoting upon the poles
with hot iron was not begun by the
department until 1873, and it is,
therefore, impossible to identify with
certainty poles creosoted before that
date. AS result of examination by
percussion of the poles thus branded,
at the butt and twenty-four feet up,
he is able to state that they are still
apparently quite as sound as when
first erected, and there is an unbroken
series of poles branded from 1873 to
the present year.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
P N z o M o n I A.

We wonder if the fact that patients
and their friends ignore the contagi-
BUSINESS of pneumonia is often due to
professional nalnegligence. An exagger-
ated conception of the contagiousness
OF tuberculosis is held by the lay
world, but pneumonia is far more con-
tagious. And patient and profession
alike have not realized the new fact
that the mortality of pneumonia is in
some cities and parts of the country
higher than that of tuberculosis. The
cRuse is a microorQanism in the sni1ta
o6 those suffering from the malady,
ano contracted by inhaling this germ.
Therefore, the same care should be
takento collect and destroy the sputa
that istaken in pulmonary tubercu-
losis orin diphtheria or influenza.
During the illness the greatest
pains should be taken to prevent soil
ing bed dothes, carpets or furniture
with the sputa, and after the illness
the patients room should be thor
oughly cleaased and ventilated. The
fact that the disease is most prevalent
in the winter season, when people are
most crowded together and live much
of the time in badly ventilated apart
ments, makes obvious the necessity
of thorough ventilation of houses, Of
fees, factories, theatres, churches,
passenger cars and other public
places, in order that the air which
must be breathed may be kept clean
and free from infectious matter.
People should be taught not to be
afraid of patient who has pneumon-
ia, influenza or tuberculosis, but to be
afraid of lack Of cleanliness about him
during his illness, Of failure to enforce
prophy1actic measures and of close,
badly ventilated apartments during
the season when these diseases most
prevail. Since pneumonia is most
fatal at the extremes of 1ife-the
young and the aged-special care
should be taken to guard children
and old persons against exposure to
the infection of those already suffer
ing with the disease and before and
against cold, privation and exposure
to the weather, which are potent pre-
disposing uses.-Ameyloan Medi-
~iup
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
HOW ARRowHEADs WERE MADE.

eve did not know until today how
the Indians made the flint arrows that
are very often found all over the
country" says the FL Dorado Repn6-
hcan. "They had no tools to work
with, and the question of how they
made them was not answered. Abe
Matheney, who was for many years
a heap big chief of the Wahoo tribe,
says the squaws broke flint rock into
small pieces by putting it into the
fire. They then selected a suitable
piece for an arrowhead, held. in the
fire till it got hot, then put drop of
water on it, which Clipped off a
small particle of the flint, and by this
slow and tedious process the squaws
shaped the arrowheads. A look at
an arrowhead will convince one that
this was the process adopted to make
them, as they all have rough sur
faces"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
INSTINCT OF ANIMALS.

An English periodical says: The
instinct whereby wild creatures detect
those of the human species who are
likely to be hostile to them and those
who may be regarded as harmless is
of SO subtle a quality that it almost
appears to partake of the nature of
metaphysics. In the nesting season
plovers will actually buffet the angler
who is fishing too close to their broods,
but by the date of the shooting sea-
son they would not allow him to get
withing two fields of them. The
wood pigeon seems to know exactly
the range of the modern fowling piece
and will fash boldly past at an inter-
val of 100 yards and upward, but is
careful quickly to put tree between
himself and sportsman if disturbed
at any range within gunshot. The
fox knows that he is sacred from guns
and will audaciously seize fallen
pheasant and decamp with it within
twenty PAGES of retriever. He IS
quite aware that the latter is no fox
hound.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
THE PL0wMAN.

With sturdy hands the plowman holds
The handles of his pl0w
His trousers hang in baggy folds
And burrows mark his brow;
But with the hope that toiling brings
He labors on, out there,
Where natures putting on the things
That help to make hersfair.
The plowman's shoulders droop, his eyes
Have no exultant fire,
And oft he straightens up and signs,
Perhaps for something higher.
he scrapes the damp earth from his boots,
And then goes plodding on,
And now and then bumps into roots
That jar him pro and con.
The plowman does not fret because
Some stock has had a slump,
But, gripping hard, he sets his jaws
And runs against stump;
Or worries till the rein is free
From meath the gray mares tail,
Or turns little while to see
The chipmunk on the rail.
The smell of burning wood floats by
Upon the tranquil air;
The crow sits with a watchfuI eve,
O'erlooking things out there.
The plowman scents the sweet, fresh earth.
He murmurs. Gee. there, Fanl''
And tolls away for all he's worth
To feed his fellow man.
There with tine nope Snav u0...... s,.4..e-,
The plowman works away,
And, maybe, dreams of splendid things
That he shall have some day;
But sweetest of the joys he knows
Is that which comes to sit
Within his breast when sunset shows
Him that it's time to quit.
IS. Il. hiSer, In CHICAGO Record d-HerdLd.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-16
NOTIFYING ADVICE.

A federal oficeholder tells of cam
paigning in Kentucky with another
stump speaker. The latter thought
to make good impression in the fa-
nous distillery town of Owensboro,
and in his speech there sounded the
praises of whisky. why, gentle
men," said he, "I have noticed in
my reading of history and biography
that all great men drank liquor. 1
tell you, whisky makes men smart 4"
whats that?'' said an old farmer
who was a noted teetotaler.
whisky makes men smart, reit-
Grated the orator, and l challenge
denial"
"Then," said the farmer, you d
better get couple of barrels and be-
gin on it at once"
NEW CLERK (anxious to show his
sagacity)-"This silver dollar you
just took in is counterfeit"
Proprietor (nervously) II was
waiting on the minister's wife"
"But you don't take counterfeit
money from women JUS because they
happen to be ministers wives, dc
you ?"
"No, of course not"
Didn't you see this was counter
feit?"
"Consarn it {! Young man, if yor
must know, that's the dollar I drop
ped into the contribution box las
Sunday.