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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-20
DISCOVERED THE SECRET.

He is a young man, with blase
air, who would not let anything sur
prise him for the world. As a matter
of fact, he has travelled enough about
the States to be impervious to sur
prise. The other night was the ex-
ception, for when the young man
boarded the train which was to take
him to New York he found himself
on a compartment sleeper.
The young man knows about buck
ing broncos and how to eat asparagus
vinaigrettes and what is the proper
thing to say when you tread on a
woman's gown, but he didn't know
about compartment sleepers, for he
had never been in one before.
He was very much attracted by
the prospect, however, and he looked
over the ground with great satlstac-
ton before getting ready to retire.
"This beats an upper berth all hol-
1ow," he muttered to himself.
Then the porter passing near, he
called to that functionary, Come
here" said he, "and tell me how to
turn this on" pointing to a handle
in the wall near the washstand. i
have entirely forgot how to screw the
thing, and I'll be sure to want it in
the morning"
The porter came as near smiling as
a porter ever does. "Yessir, said
he; "yessir, yo' turn hit dis way.
Hits not a water spickett, yo' know,
hits place to heat curling irons. "
And after this the sophisticated
young man went straight to bed but,
he tells the joke on himself with
much glee.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-20
THE FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

A certain fellow who answered adj
vertisements in cheap story papers,
has had some interesting experiences.
He learned that by sending 81 to a
Yankee he could get cure for drunk
enness. And he did. 1t was to
'take tie pledge and keep it."
Then he sent so two-cent stamps to
find out how to raise turnips success
fully. He found out-"Just take
hold of the tops and pull"
Being young, he wished to marry,
and sent "a one-cent stamps to Chi
cago firm for information as to to how
to make an impression. When the
answer came it read "Sit down on
a pan of dough-" 1t was a little
rough, but he was patient man and
thought he would yet succeed.
Next advertisement he answered
read: "How to double your money
in six months" He was told to con-
vert his money in bills, fold them and
he would see his money doubled.
Next he sent for II useful house
hold articles and he got package of
needles.
He was slow to learn, so he sent 81
to find out chow to get rich" Work
like the devil and never spend a
cent" and that stopped him.
But his brother wrote to find out
how to write without pen or ink. He
was told to use lead pencil.
He paid 81 to learn how to live
without work and was told on pos
tai card, "Fish for suckers as we do"
IT HEAR there was some romance
connected with your marriage"
Nothing romantic about it. Our
religious views differed, my wife
maintaining that the only hell there
is is upon earth, and she married me
to prove it."
WHEN YOU fish for compliments,
lob o11t for walls
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-20
MD, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1908.
THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY.

There is road to yesterday
A wonderous thoroughfare,
Where wanton breezes idly play
And blossoms scent the air.
1t stretches long and far and straight;
1t wanderS up and down;
1t passes many an open gate
And many little town.
There is a road to yesterday;
The grasses grow beside
And trees that spread and swing and sway
And shade the pathway wide.
Its flowers are goodly sight,
And it goes on and on
And leads to many starry night
And many cloudless dawn.
There is road to yesterday,
And we may trace its CLEAN
In fleeing shade or dancing ray
Upon some little stream;
Or we may see it, when, with eyes
Half-closed, we hear song
That calls up many glad sunrise
And many twilight long.
There is road to yesterday.
And each one knows its start
The portal to this wondrous way
Is held within the heart;
From there the pleasant courses lead
AS far as one can see
1t rests on many q golden head
And many memory.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-20

THE TROUBLE with human cranks
is that they can't be turned.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-20

GWEN All sees er man han'in'
sugah T. er mewl," said Charcoal
Eph, as he heaved a brick at the off
steed, "Ah wondahs eff maybe he
don vary de monotony wen he am
at home by lickin' his wife, Mistah
Jackson" /"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-20
ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF
The Expenses Of Baltimore County
FOR THE
Fiscal Year Ending May 81, 1908.

Published by order of the County Commission
ers of said county, in pursuance of Section IL
of Article % of the Code of Public General
Laws, which provides that
'The County Commissioners shall make out
and publish annually, in at least two newspapers
be two, A DETAILED, MINUTE AND ACCU-
RATE STATEMENT of the expenses of their
said counties, specifying therein each particular
item of expense, and for what and to whom paid,
and shall also deliver to the Sheriff of their re-
spective counties as many copies of such State
ment as there are Election Districts of said
county, at least ten days before each general
election, and the Sheriff shall within six days
after the receipt of such copies set up one of
them at the place of holding elections in each
district"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

is now under consideration. The decision was
promised in April The applicant, whose
name is not divulged, seeks admission to
Gray's Inn, one of the four inns of court
the others being Lincoln's Inn. the Middle
Temple and the Inner Temple These inns
are governed by the benchers. who super
intend the admission and education of
students for the bar, the calling of
fession.
The benchers OF Li1cOll Inn have shown
liberal tendency in their attitude toward
women lawyers. They have given the use
of their books and library TO Miss Cornelia
Sorabji, Hindu lawyer, who is now i'm
London preparing herself for a notable
work among her own people Miss Sorabji
took her degree from the Bombay univer-
sity and has practiced as an advocate in
the Indian courts. Lately she propouuded
a plan for legal aid for prOperty-owning
women, widows and orphans in India,
which has been much discussed both in
India and England and receives the in
dorsement of a number of eminent men.
The helplessness of the native women who
live under the restrictions of the Purdah is
hardly conceivable In our civilization. All
OF their business must be done through a
man agent whom they are not allowed to
see. or even to converse with, except be-
mind screen II the agent Is dishonest
the PurdahnishIn can invoke the aid Of the
law only through the swindllng agent, GER
tainly no very satisfactory medium Miss
Sorabjrs plan Is for a corps Of women law
years to be attached TO the court of words
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

and hammer the ocean into acres of froth
with head, fukes and tail and never shake
1t of. His only chance for retaliation is
to run deep or to mill" Milling is the
act OF turning suddenly and so bringing
the boat within reach of fiukes or jaws.
The position of the bow oarsman is no
Joy in a Nantucket sleighride. The chauf-
four in racing automobile is in a paradise
of case and Taxation compared with him.
He must keep the boat in position by his
unaided strength. From the time he gets
the line until the ride is ended he drives
into a smothering sheet OF flying spray.
When the sea is high, every billow is hit
by the boat with a smash that wrenches
his arms. The strain on the wet line cuts
and burns his hands. And if he let's a foot
OF it slip he is disgraced. Once he is in it
he is in it for good with no chance OF help
or relief till the wild adventure is done.
Often the boat Is hauled so close on a
harpooned whale that the harpooner leans
over and steadies himself by resting one
hand on the butt of the harpoon that is
sticking in the great sea mammal, while
with the other he drives the killing lance
Again and again the long weapon is buried
deep in the black sides, until suddenly
thick, blackred clots of blood we'll from
the wound, showing that the "life" has
been reached.
Then it is back sometimes for dear
life. whale may take his death so quietly,
so passively, that 1t is pitiable to see so
mighty a swimmer killed thus easily by
man. Or he may fight till the boat seems
only black atom in the sudden uproar
that smites the ocean and sends tons of
water rising till they seem high enough to
wash tho sky.
Hn
only In the whale himself. The boat is a
perfect man-trap of keen, deadly tools.
Lances and harpoons, cutting spades, hatch
cts, knives and boathooks. all sharpened to
the finest edge the ships grndstone can
give them, fill the boat. If the whale gets
at it and hurls it into the air, the men
find themselves in murderous company
when the weapons come raining down on
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

couraging the attendance of women. In
Prussia, which has never made any Inn
portant concessions to the demands of wo-
men, the reaction is apparently stronger
than elsewhere. So severe have the condi-
tions for admittance been made at the Uni
Versity of Berlin that the enrolment de-
creased nearly one-half in a single SEM
ester In this university women are not
matriculated at all now, and can attend
lectures only as hearers" and that by
special permission. The example of the
leading institution in Berlin will no doubt,
be followed by others throughout the coun-
try.
Far from indicating the failure of the
women students to show themselves worthy
of the higher education. the attitude of the
German authorities is plainly one of defense
against an advance they little believed in
at the outset They frankly admit as much
Many Germans object to the presence of
women in lecture rooms, while apprecia-
ting erudition in those who have acquired
their knowledge elsewhere. A celebrated
professor of Sanskrit OF Berlin accepted
the assistance of an American woman in
certain of his works, but when she ex-
pressed a desire TO listen to one of his
lectures he replied that she might do So
and welcome-Oyer the telephone. She
declined.
English women have less liberty in the
professions than their great political and
social liberty would seem to warrant. They
have been excluded from the bar up to the
present time, but London woman recently
applied for admission, and her application
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

department to whom the widowed Pur-
dahnishin could have free access, and
thereby secure protection for her property
rights. 1t Is considered highly probable
that women lawyers will be appointed to
these positions within a short time Nat
urally, they will be native women as far as
they are available. 1t Is notable that the
educated Hindu woman has I'm a number
OF Instances, shown a decided leaning to-
ward the legal profession. Miss SorabJi's
attainments, it is said, would be notable
In any country.
Turkey is the last country where wo-
mans intellectual emancipation might be
expected, but there a few energetic
women and more than a few liberal men i'm
the Ottoman empire who are bent on i'm
proving the lot of Turkish women. Amonu
them are trio who are now lecturing I'm
European cities: Princess Halrie Ben-Aid.
her husband. who although of Swedish
Dirth' spent some years In the service of
the sultan, and an ex-editor of a Turkish
journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

ing in the sea the huge thing that is to be
attacked.
The ride begins after the whale has been
harpooned and when the boat header con-
siders it time to draw up alongside and
begin lancing. The first thing that is done
is to haul in upon tire harpoon line until
the, boat is brought as close to the running
whale as is consistent with the extremely
delicate margin that the whaler allows for
safety. safety" to the whaler really
means to remain just about an inch or two
beyond the reach of the vast flukes with
which the big beast is beating the sea.
Having hauled as far up on the whale
as possible, the boat header reaches over
the bows and lifts the line out CT the
chocks. Swiftly he brings it. around out
side of the boat and passes it to the bow
oarsman, who has faced around on his
thwart so that he looks forward.
He at once lays back on the line and
holds fast with all his might. And i'm
mediately the boat, dragged like a railroad
car by that mighty living locomotive, be-
gins to run parallel with the side OF the
whale and just q few feet away from him,
being prevented from running right on
top OF him by the oblique strain on the
line.
@NO"' II tno hdIpOOH Is Well FORWARD IN
the whale the boat hangs in a precarious
but sufficient arc of safety, for the swing
ing tail hammers the ocean behind it and
the wildly sweeping jaw unavailngly
searches the sea in front.
The boat header braces himself i'm the
bows until he is based firmly as the stem
post and begins to poise his long, keen,
razor edged killing lance, waiting for his
opportunity to thrust it into the whales
life. Sometimes the opportunity comes
within minute after hauling up on the
big fish" Sometimes it does not come
until the boat has been towed for many
miles. 1t does not require very much time
to tow mile when sixty-foot whale is
doing the towing.
AS long as the whale runs in a fairly
straight course, the boat will hang to him
like terrier. He may champ and bite
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

The harpoon line goes kissing out-a SER
pent of rope far more dangerous than any
cobra. for let IL but kink in the least and
catch man and he will fly overheard with
it and out of sight as IL he were q nero
splinter of wood.
So there are enough sporting chances in
the whale to excite and content the most
oxacting of sportsmen. And the size Of
the trophy IL he bags" a whale certainly
leaves nothing to be desired.
Captain Davis, one of the most famous
of the oldtime American whalers, gives
these as the dimensions OF right whale
yielding $50 barrels of oil.
THE blubber OF such a whale" he says,
'is half yard thick and If put together
in strip would be sixty-six feet long and
twenty-seven feet wide. The upper Jaw
would make a room nine feet high and
twenty feet long. The lips and throat Of
the brute, with the supporting jawbones.
will weigh as much as twenty-five oxen
OF 1000 pounds each. The tongue alone
will often weigh as much as ten oxen.
"The spread of the lips is thirty feet.
He can take in fifty barrels OF water at
each mouthful When feeding, whale
as big as that Sits track of sea a quarter
of mile long and fifteen feet wide in ono
run. Then he raises his head, forces mis-
mighty tongue into the cavity of his whale
bono sieve and drives the water out with
immense force.
THE tail of a right whale is twenty
five feet broad and six feet deep, and the
point of junction with the body is about
four feet in diameter. In 1t lie tendons as
big around as a mans leg.
"The greatest blood vessels are more than
a foot in diameter The blood that is
forced through them by a heart as big
as hogshead runs in torrents, heated to
104 degrees
THE respiratory canal is more than a
foot In diameter. The rush of air through
1t is as noisy as the exhaust pipe Of a thou
sand horse-p power steam engine; and when
the fatal wound is given. a cataract OF
clotted blood Is spattered over the hunters,
so hot and nauseating that the crew Of O
whalebOat often becomes helplessly sick"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

~0O MANY American whalers are
going to seek the big "fsh" in
the Baffln bay waters this season
that the Canadian government has
- decided to charter a sealing
steamer to cruise there to prevent the
Yankee from violating Canadian customs
laws" 1t looks as If the "prostrated Amer
lean industry" were about to awaken to
something akin to vigor.
Years of more or less desultory whaling
have given the sea-giants a chance to re-
cuperate; and that they were not guilty of
race suicide during their time of rest is
proved by the fact that whales are plenti-
full in all the seas again.
For a rich American, eager to try real
sport, there is great chance now. WhaI-
ing, one of the oldest forms of big game
hunting known, is the one field which has
not been fittingly exploited by the anna
teur sportsman. In time when lion and
tiger shooting are mere routine sporting
affairs TO hundreds of wealthy men, the
whale should appeal with great force.
To the man who has exhausted even the
delight of the sixty-mile hour auto
mobile, there is an unlimited field The
chances are that if he once gets an oppor-
tunity to taste the unbridled and terrific
pleasure of Nantucket sleigh ride" he
will view his auto machine as a tame thing
ever afterward.
The Nantucket sleigh ride is so common
an experience with whalers that they are
prone to speak of it in disappointingly
matter-of-fact language. But, for all that,
there isn't an old whaler of them all whose
nostrils will not dilate with zest when he
thinks upon it. And the landsman who
ever has had the rare fortune to expert
ence one is not likely to find anything else
in all the rest of his life that will not
seem tame compared with It.
Few landsmen ever have the opportunity.
When whaleboat lowers to fight a sixty
foot whale, the business is too important
to cucumber the craft with unskilled pas
sengers. And not many landsmen would
really care to go into the whaleboat even
If they could, when they behold, wallow-
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
Taking it Out on Family

Mrs Ferguson-George. what particular
failing Of yours did the preacher touch on
in his sermon this mornIng?"
Mr.. Ferguson-What do you ask me that
question for?
Mrs Ferguson-Because you have been
as cross as a bear ever since you came
home from church.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

American and English women, for
long time regarded as a scandal
on the continent i'm time came to
- be envied, and is now being emu
lated everywhere. All trades and profess
sions are being opened to women In such
conservative countries as Russia, Holland
and Germany reports the New York Even
ing Post. In Russia there are several
business firms conducted wholly by women,
and they recently rather startled the min
lister of finance, M Witte, by sending him
a petition requesting him to allow them to
do business on their own account In the
Stock exchange instead of employing
brokers'. The minister asked for time to
consider the petition.
In Holland a certain Miss Cremer who
has just taken her degree of doctor of
philosophy. applied to the general synod OF
the Reformed Dutch church. asking to be
admitted to serve as a duly qualified pastor
Her petition was refused by a majority of
one vote, but the discussion which was
aroused by her radical request showed a
liberal disposition on the part of many
members of the synod, and a willingness to
extend the field of work for Dutch women
Perseverance being an essential virtue of
the pastoral Office, Miss Cremer may yet
win her permission to preach.
In Germany the women have been apply
Ing for admission to the universities in
such numbers that the authorities Are
alarmed, and 1t is rumored that conditions
for admission will be made more and more
stringent in the future, in hopes of dis
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

7HE INDEPENDENCE of the
q American and English women, for
long time regarded as a scandal
on the continent, in time came to
. be envied, and is now being emu
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

D MANY American whalers are
going to seek the big "fish" in
the Baffln bay waters this season
that the Canadian government has
decided to charter sealing
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-24
ladies' Can Wear Shoes

one size smaller after using Aliens
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the shoes. It makes tight or new
shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to
corns and bu2ions. It's the greatest
comfort discovery of the age. Cures
and prevents swollen feet blisters,
caIlous and sore spots Aliens Foot
Ease is a certain cure for sweating,
hot, aching feet AT all druggists and
shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE
by mail. Address, Allen S. olmsted
lie Roy, n. Y.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-24

or the Distinguished nuthors OF Per
sln none pcrhaSe has enjoyed q widei
popularity thau Sadi. who lived in the
thirteenth century lie was a great
traveller and a close observer. ard bis
anecdotes and short stories are de-
scribed as being founced on his own
experiences and observations. In Fer.
sian Poetry For English Readers Mr..
8. Rob son quotes the following from
sadrs JTitlngs:
A pupil said to his Instructor, What
am / to do. for people incommode me
with the frequency OF their visits to
such a degree that their conversation
produces a great distraction Of my val
liable timer
The teacher replied: ITO every one
who is poor lend and from every one
who is rich borrow They will not come
about you again
Another example embodies excellent
advice: A silly fellow, having pain In
his eyes, went 20 n farrier and asked
him for a remedy. The farrier applied
TO his eyes something which he would
have given TO an animal and 1t blind
ed him, upon which they made an ap
peal to the magistrate. The magistrate
/ said:
"This is no case for damages. 1t Is
plain that this fellow Is an ass or h'
would not have gone 20 a farrier."
No man OF enlightened understanding
win commit weghty matters to one o.
mean abilities.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-24
Walkers Offer.

have a fifty-fOot front lot, witt
fifty feet Of trackage. within two blocks
of the pOstoffice. upon which vii
erect one or two-story brick buildinf
with basement for anyone who VII
agree 70 lease the same for a period o.
rot less than one year
w. T. WALKER
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-24

a wedding booked ior OeloOe, W. ~
fec,ions and the sewing clubs are busy
buzzlng with the particulars.
Right Rev. Bishop Brooke returned To-
day Yesterday at oklahoma city he con-
Quoted the services at the laying OF the
Lloyd Antlsdel will have charge OF the
American Express company's business In
this city
Flynn & Ames have rented the entire
second floor OF the American Express
building az Oklahoma city tof law oiiees
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'9 man 49,. -,
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The E,o,,ie, b-nnotists should close
tb.l,. c,,,b,ie snp3gep,ent w.itbout further
6ola. ror /, ,iebt n. two the knowles
nroyod noyeifv eut four uiehfs Is
~, much M, r,,a ching Moreover they
are liable 10 exhaust me willing boy
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-24

sumpn Hardware Co is in It's new
quarters NJ " Harrison ave. See
them for Sargalns In hardware and tin-
ware
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-24

Firai Published be- Daily Leader sept a.
1910
NOTICE or APPLICATIONS FOR
LIQUOR LICENSE.
TERRITORY of Oklahoma. Logan Couliy ~
N1ace = hereby given ihlt McCune and
McGuiu have thls day diei N ere onice -
the County Clerk ir and Tor said county
theIr petition. asking ihat license he
grarted them 10 sen at retail mais spiri-
tious ana vinoas lqaers on Lot o. hls 81
Fourth Ward chs ~ 9ntarie o 7.
n 40 pestesi be a'ed 81 or before the
sth day of oaoher. lisn AtF petition
VIII be granted ard ncense lsssaf
Witness my hsri an1 tae seal u rald
County hereto AFFIXED faa q aay of sspt
1919
III q Johnson
C9antg cletk
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