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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
A BALAMBING LOVE STORY.

A rich woman of Balambing fell in
love with handsome young slave
belonging to Moro in a neighboring
town. After some difficulty she ef-
fected his purchase and married him,
despite the fact Of his being so far be-
meath her in the social scale. Not
long after this the happy couple went
to Bongoa on market day. The
lady being an inveterate gambler, re-
paired at once to the cock pit, where
she lost so heavily that she found her
funds. inadequate for the return trip
to Balambing. Then a happy idea
struck her. Why not pawn her hus-
band? Although she was married to
him, he was still slave in the eyes
of the law; and she could redeem him
on her next trip to Bongoa.
Acting on this happy inspiration,
she sought an audience with the Gov
ernor, explaining through the inter
prefer her predicament, and offering
her husband as a security for the loan
of $3.50 gold. The Governor, being
a bachelor, was sceptical as to this
marriage transaction, fearing he might
have the bridegroom permanently
upon his hands if he advanced so
great sum. This was made plain
to the bride, who protested that life
would be quite uncomfortable without
her liege lord, or, more properly
speaking, liege subject; but the Gov
ernor was unrelenting. How the lady
finally managed to reach Balambing
in not told.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
BUCKwHEAT CAKES.

Stir the thick and creamy batter, heat red-hot
the ready platter,
Put the well-greased griddle on and see the fire
is burning bright.
I'll be waiting at the table long before you
cooks are able
To turn out for me starter on my breakfast
that is right.
I've void that's simply aching, so please set
about your baking,
For to satisfy my hunger quite little pile it
takes,
It's no diet to be scorning on cold and frosty
morning
Is fragrant, hot and steamine. well-browned
batch of buckwheat cakes.
That's my good old winter staple, with the syrup
of the maple
Sweeter than Hyblaean honey to my simple
Yankee taste.
Bring on, say, fifteen or twenty-just be sure to
And I'll guarantee that none of them win need
to go to waste.
Yes. my appetite is hearty I compose good
When it comes to this, myself; my fast takes
time before it breaks
So, If you desire to please me, with delay you
will not tease me,
Please get busy with your baking of that pile
of buckwheat cakes
All ] 1 thought in time I'd get 'em. No. don't
care where you set 'em,
Just so you kindly put 'em somewhere not be-
Now. if you Win pass the butter not another
word I'll utter;
I'll proceed to make hole while you prepare
to mend the breach.
This is what call good living. grow milder,
With each monthful. Nothing know more
full up and thankful makes
Ne, at least, or more kind than when
get fairly started
On fragrant, hot and steaming, we'll Drowned
batch of buckwheat cakes.
Chicago Daily Times.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
LINC0LoN's OFFICE CHAIR.
BY EMMA A. oscoHNE.


''Grave Lincoln came, strong handed from afar,
The mighty Homer of the Tyre of war;"
If it were the custom among Amer
leans to set upon high pedestals OBJ
jects which have been closely associa-
ted with the greatest men of the coun-
try, and then fall down and worship
them, much after the fashion of some
other nations, that honor would un-
questionably be accorded a homely,
old, wooden armchair, which is now
one of the treasured objects among
the collection of the Lincoln National
Museum, of Washington. 1t is hous-
ed under the roof and within the walls
on Tenth street, N. W., where the
martyred President breathed his last,
on the morning of April 18th, 1865.
AS years 60 by the memory of Lin
coin grows rather than decreases, and
on each anniversary of his birthday,
February 18th, the museum is crowd
ed with visitors, who come to view
the objects contained therein, which
tell in their mute ways of the charac-
teristics of the great and noble Lin
coin.
No object in the entire museum at
tracts more attention than the old
Office chair. To all appearances its
origin was as humble as its owner,
who, in 1892, in making his first po-
litical speech, introduced himself with
the words, II am humble Abraham
Lincoln ;" and later, upon being ask
ed for a sketch of his early history,
made one of his characteristics replies
by quotion a single line from Gray's
Elegy: "The short and simple an
nails of the poor"
But if the old chair, which has
served its purpose and taken its place
in history, could talk, what stores of
information on the inner life Of Lin
coin might be disclosed. 1t was
while sitting in this chair, at Spring
field, Illinois, that Lincoln sketched
much of his first inaugural address,
and formed his cabinet, as nearly as
he could, before leaving for Wash
ington. What his thoughts were
during those moments may we'll be
imagined.
Some of the saddest times Of his
life were spent while in Springfield,
and at such times he would go to his
Office, sad-faced and detected, drop
into the old armchair, and sit with
his face buried in his hands as if in
deep thought. When in these moods
no one questioned or interrupted him,
for all knew of the melancholy vein
that ran through his life, side by side
with his love of fun and mirth. 1t
might have been that, looking into
the future, coming responsibilities of
his administration appalled, him. And
yet, who knows but what seated in
that rude Office chair, premonitions of
future tragedies came to him.
Other and pleasanter scenes, in
which the homely old chair figured
were when Lincoln, leaning far back,
with his long legs crossed, would spin
yarn after yarn to friends who had
dropped in to enjoy that boundless
fund of anecdote, for which he was
famed. Tour Track Meas.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
THE ETERNAL QUESTION.

From the San Miguel, a mining
camp in the copper country of south
ern Arizona, come the glad tidings
that the great problem of the CEN
turies has at last been solved-and by
women, of course. The recent cele-
bration of its fourth anniversary by
the San Miguel Cooperative Cook
ing Club calls attention to the man
ner in which the servant question has
been robbed of its inauguration Of
community of interest" plan.
The club consists of forty-6ve fam
lilies, accustomed to refnements and
pleasant surroundings. Some four
years ago the women of the camp,
after unsuccessful individual attempts
to procure and retain proper domestic
service, put their heads together and
organized the club, leased suitable
house in the central part of the town,
engaged a matron and hired num-
Der of capable Chinese servants.
Each family has its own table, and the
unmarried ones have table to them
selves. The purchase of the supplies
is intrusted to an executive commit
tee of three. Experience shows that
the families have saved on an average
fifty per cent. in living expenses since
the formation of the club, the service
is better and the food is of higher
quality than could have been afforded
under the old system.
1t is apparent at glance that the
conditions which made the San Miguel
Cooking Club a success are not COM
mon to all parts of the United States.
Chinese servants, for instance, are not
generally procurable, and there is a
feeling of comradeship, engendered
by the sharing of hardships, in the
less thickly settled communities, that
is not so apparent in those sections of
the country which have been longer
inhabited.
But the relief experienced by the
housekeepers of San Miguel from the
haunting fear that Bridget may "give
notice" any day, or exact a few ad-
ditiona1 privileges" from her long
suffering employer, must be delight
full, and the success of the San Miguel
experiment will at least serve as a
valuable object lesson in the solving
of this most vexatious problem. - The
HouSekeeber.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
THE MAN AND THE BOY.

He was plain, ordinary citizen
with smile, and friend asked him
why he laughed.
Because 1 am happy" replied the
Man. "I'll tell you about it. My
boy needed new overcoat, and had
$40 laid away, and was afraid that
the ten wouldn't cover the need.
What do know about boys over
coats? His mother buys his clothes,
and, God bless her, she pinches along
and makes So do the work of 81, and
how am to know? I didn't think
I could do much with less than $I2,
and I couldn't spare $I2 very we'll.
''The Boy and his mother came to
the Office, and the Boy and l went to
clothing store. 1t was new ex-
perience for me. / saw 'I2' in red
figures on some boys overcoats, and
almost had heart failure fnrnd later
that the figures meant age, not dol
lars.
"Well, he tried on one. 1t was
gray and warm and had a belt and
came down to the tops of his shoes,
and he was so tickled he just giggled.
He kept finding new pockets, and he
threw his chest out and said: If I
could just have this one, papa. /
asked the clerk and he said five dol
lars Five dollars for all expanse of
coat l gasped like drowning man
and said: Boy, don't you want
something else?' He looked shy,
and said he always wanted pair of
golf gloves. Got 'em, too good ones
for rs cents, and the Boy said that
mamma was going to get him a new
sweater some day.
"'We'll get it now,' I said, and
the clerk flung out daisy white and
blue for $1.5o and I paid. Say, I
guess Boy thought l was going to
die right there, and when / told him
that he ought to have one of those
tasselled caps to go with the sweater,
he absolutely scared and said he didn't
know he could have it. 1t was a
beauty-5o cents-made of merceriz-
ed silk, they said. The Boy kept the
coat on. You couldn't have pried it
off him. He giggled again and want
ed me to feel in the pockets, and then
he wanted to kiss me on the street
He said he guessed the boys at school
would think he had a pretty good
father.
"When we got back to his mother
he was so excited that he couldn't
talk plain, and he mixed pockets and
loving his father and mercerized silk
cap and golf gloves up scandalously.
Then she glanced around to be sure
that nobody was looking, and said:
You make me so happy, dear.
"And it all cost 81. "a, and figure
that there was one thousand dollars
worth of good feeling in it. l am
happy, and yet I feel like cheat
when 1 think that l ever begrudged
my family anything"
A thousand dollars of Joy for 81. "a.
Yes, there are bargains for those who
will look for them.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
AN HEREDITARY CONTRACT.

Since 1885 all the machines by
which postage stamps are Cancelled
and envelopes marked, with the name
of the postofice, the date and so
forth, have been made by one family.
In the year named the Postmaster
General entered into contract with
Benjamin Chambers, a citizen of
Washington, to furnish a device by
which postage stamps might be can
celed so that they could not be used
again, and although there have been
a multitude of competitors on several
occasions, that contract has been re-
newed year after year for IS years
with Mr. Chambers, his son and his
grandson, who have secret process
by which the dies are made of mallea-
bic iron and carbonized into steel at
cost of from so cents to $2.75 each.
1t is certainly the only government
contract, and probably the only con-
tract in the United States, that has
been renewed so often and continued
SO long. The department buys about
$25, 900 worth of new cancelers every
year. Bids are advertised for annual
ly, and every now and then some am
bilious manufacturer who thinks he
has good thing offers proposal, but
the Chambers family are invincible.
They have improved the device until
it is now almost perfect.
The stamper is circular cast-steel
box with screw thread, one end
of which is closed, and is provided on
the outside with square shank to
secure it to the hardwood handle.
The cover of the box is a disk of
steel. A portion of its thickness en-
tiers the box by means of a screw
thread around its periphery of almost
20 threads to one inch. This permits
of space between the inner face Of
the disk and the bottom of the box,
while the remaining thickness of the
disk forms a fange with the edge,
which is coarse milled, so that the
disk may be turned with the hand or
a wrench. On the outer face of the
disk are characters of the body of the
cylindrical die. These combine the
marking and the capcelling devices,
one being situated on one side of the
disk, inciosing the name of the post
office in a circle. There are three
slots for removable type, for month,
date, hour and half hour. Diametri-
caliy opposite the circle is the cancel
ing device, the side of which is par
allel with the edge of the disk. Any
required number or letter is cut in re-
lief in the centre, while three grooves
are cut intaglio. The removable
type are of steel and have on the ends
opposite to their faces projections
from their edges, SO that when in
serted in the slots the projections can
be clamped and held in place.
Until 1880 Capt. Chambers manu-
featured the cancelers here in Wash
ington, and he is still required to
maintain repair shop in the neigh
borhood of the postohice department,
but he moved his factory to North
cumberland county, Virginia, on leg
of land at the mouth of the Potamac,
where he has little village composed
exclusively of his employees and their
families. No one can enter his
grounds without permission, and those
who have been there say it is quite an
ideal little village, safe from the spies
of competitors who would like to get
the contract away from him.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
ESTABLISHED 1850.
CARE OF FINGER NAILS.

Nothing betrays the careless wo-
man sooner than her nails, and moth
ing shows refinement better than the
same possessions. Hands with beau
tiful nails always please, and those
who desire good, firm, bright nails,
cleaning and polished, at their fin
ger tips, should see to it that the food
they eat contains abundance of the
nail-making substances. Oatmeal is
one of the best of these foods good
for nail making and hair forming
alike.
The nails become impoverished,
chalky, liable to break through de-
6ciency of gelatine and excess of lime
deposits. Anything that interferes
with the health of ssthe whole body
will interfere with the shining ap-
pearance of the nails at once.
A piece of lemon used once or
twice a week is nearly a necessity if
nails are to except Alright. The acid
acts on the nail substance with a
wonderful effect of polishing and it
softens the skin marve1ously that is
apt to drag itself forward over the
shining nail surface. Any dirt about
the nail, any stain of ink or fruit the
lemon will dispose of at once.
A little oil rubbed over each nail
after the lemon treatment continues
the polishing process, nourishes the
nail and skin, eradicates the last lin
gering atom of suspicious marks. A
little wad of soft flannel is used when
applying the oil. After the oil the
hands are laved in soft water wiped
and the nail polishing continued with
a tiny bit of chamois leather. Violet
powder or fine chalk on the chamois
is an aid to great success. Brushing
rather roughens the nails and should
be avoided.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
HOW THE FARMER GOT EVEN.

Farmer Elkinton was jogging along
homeward, behind his old gray mare,
after day of peddling garden
truck" among the summer cottagers,
when he overlook a young man in a
sea blue shirtwaist, purple checked
golf trousers and red shoes, who was
smoking cigarette.
"Hello p he cried loudly. "Say,
uncle, can you give fellow lift to
Harbor Breeze? ?"
Without waiting for assent he
jumped into the wagon and took a
seat alongside the farmer. "Might
as we'll ride with you as walk" he
said these country roads of yours are
horrible. Why don't you wake up in
this section and get descent road /?
heb? Makes me wish 1 was back in
the city. Ever been there, old chap?
Have cigarette?
The farmer looked at him little
sharply. "You a real city man 7" he
asked.
The young "city boarder," who
united the fascinating grace of floor
walker with the manners of Wash
ington Park barker, but whom the
cows were still missing in his native
village, said he guessed he was all
right, all right, and the farmer lapsed
into silence and touched up the old
gray mare. The old man was said to
be nigh and ''close" in most mat
ters, but he was always ready to give
foot passengers ''lift J" he rather
liked, however, to be asked for the
favor a little more politely.
After two or three miles had been
traversed the youth in the sea blue
shirtwaist stopped relating the charms
of Broadway to remark:
"Seems more of distance to Har-
Dor Breeze than / thought"
"Its quite ways, " said the farmer.
Another half hour passed and the
city youth asked:
81 say, old Turnips, how far is it
to this blamed Harbor Breeze, any
way %
WALL" responded the farmer, in
his slowest drawl,' keeping on
this way we're goin' noaw I'd
say twas a matter of about $4,000
miles or so, clean around the world
but eff you could jump aout of this
wagon and hoof it back the road it
amt much-no, not much, I guess
above ten miles,"
And, speechless, Blue Shirt Waist
got out and hoofed it.
IT calc'late," said the farmer to
mother" later, II calc'late his way
of talking to the next man he meets
| will be some different -
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-05
THE AMERICAN GIRL.

The real typical American girl is
not a society girl. Portraits typify-
ing her as such are untrue. She has
her social diversions she has her
parties and picnics and her social
merry-go-round of pleasure, but they
are not her life, they are mere incl
dents of her life, for her work. Of
course, there are girls who have moth
ing to do but to amuse themselves
year in and year out. Pictures of
these girls, with their kind, in festive
gear, in full dress, in golf-clothes and
in yachting rigs are doubtless typical
of the class. But the entire class
does not number one hundred thou
sand among seventy million people,
and members of this leisure class are
merely flies on the wheel. Typical
Americans must be drawn in their
working clothes if the drawings rep
resent the type. So the typical
American girl will not be found in
her party dress, though she wears it
becomingly and with real grace when
the occasion demands, but rather she
will be found in her working clothes.
In her working -clothes-be they of
the kitchen, the factory, the shop, the
office, the household or the school
room-she is as real as God intended
her to be. But mark you, even then
the chief point about her is that she
knows how to wear her frocks, knows
how to dress tastefully at small ex-
penditure, and that whatever her
work, she is at pains and is ambitious
to make herself look we'll. And she
succeeds. Whatever her station, you
will be pretty sure to find girl worth
looking at. The true type of the
American girl will always show a
pretty young woman attractively
dressed.
The typical American girl, then, is
one who is charming and cookbook
ing, who lives in the spirit of frater-
nifty and who works for living. But
in this connection the word living"
does not mean board and keep" 1t
means living in the broadest sense OF
the word-growing, aspiring, becom-
ing. The American girl who works
with her hands does so only that she
may rise to better condition of soul
and mind and heart. 1t is not the
bread butter problem that is max
ing a wage-earner of the American
girl. Fathers and brothers can take
care of that. 1t is the soul problem
how to live; how to get all the best
out of civilization how to grow in
grace. Young men are not the only
beings who shall "see visions" !" The
American girl also sees visions, and
she is fired with an ambition as re-
sistless as her brothers..