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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10
pRosPERITY PROMOTERS.

Push-The force by which ones
ideals are converted into realities.
Punctuality-A saver OF time and
temper. A creator of confidence.
Politeness-The golden key that
unlocks the doorto many opportunities.
Principle-A self imposed rule OF
right conduct which governs every ac'
ton.
Penetration-The ability to foresee
events and consequently to provide tor
them. !.
Poise-The power of self control
which often makes one master OF the
situation.
Precision-The habit of being accu-
rate and thus of averting annoyances
arising from error.
Prudence-The pratice of acting
with discretion and of wisely husband
ing ones resources.
Perception-The happy faculty
which enables one intuitively to say
and do the right thing at the right
time.
Perseverance-The characteristic
which impels one steadfastly to pursue
the object in view with an invincible
determination to triumph over all op-
position.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10
THE FAMILY UMBRELLA

People all know the family um-
brella of tradition, therefore It is
pleasure to read Walter Besant's
remarks on this subject. He says:
"The real old family umbrella has
gone out. Call that slim, stuck up,
affected, attenuated thing family
umbrella! Go way. I remember
the genuine family umbrella; it was
kept in readiness behind every front
door it was large, portly, heavy
instrument; as an emblem of respec-
liability it was highly esteemed in
middle class society; it was service
aD1e as a tout in ruiny vvsat1sos, asad IL
could be used as weapon OF otfense
and defense on occasion. Ihave seen
picture of an elderly gentleman keep
ing off a footpad by means of this
lethal umbrella-he made as if ne
would spear or prod the villain. Why
one prod would alone make hole OF
six inches diamater in that murderous
carcass.
The nurse used to carry it, with difh-
Guilty managing the baby and the um'
brella. If went out to tea with the
young ladies; the maid who fetch
ed" them home took the umbrella
with her. It succeeded the lantern
and the club formerly carried by the
prentice when he escorted his mistress
to the card party after dark.
remember it, say. There were
three brothers who came to the same
school where was but tiny boy
they lived at some distance and had
to pass on their way to school through
a stratum of inferior respectability
Every morning brought othese three
brothers the delight and the excite
ment of battle with the boys belong
ing to that inferior respectability.
To the eldest brother, who carried
the really important weapon. the un,
brella was exactly what his battle axe
was to Lion Heart. So he raised it !;
so he welded it (; so he swung it so
he laid his enemies low to the right
and to the left of him before him
and behind him while the other two
relying on the books tightly strapped
brought them to bear, with shrewd
knocks and ,thwacks and pounding on
head and shoulders and ribs. Twas
a family umbrella-green, too, II
remember Alright"
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A SPEEDY COUGH CURE.

My little boy had coughed inces-
sanity for two days and nights and no
cough remedies had the least effect.
AS l was putting him to bed on the
third night. with the prospect of little
sleep for either of us, visitor said.
Let me doctor Carl tonight and am
sure can help him. F"
She called for the bottle Of cam
phorated oil, some soft old linen and
large handkerchief. Turning the
child on his back after be was in bed,
she unfastened his nightdress and
shirts and poured oil in the little hol-
low of his neck, laying over it bit of
linen. Next his chest was covered
with the oil and larger piece oflinen
doubled and laid on that. A third
piece was fastened lightly around his
throat after being soaked in the oil.
Over all she laid the handkerchief,
folded diagonally, and brought it well
up about the neck.
had little faith in it, for his cough
was so severe, but thought II there
was any virtue in the treatment the
quantity of oil used should bring it out.
for the child was literally saturated
with it. In few minutes Carl was
fast asleep and slept all night without
coughing once. The linen cloth was
left on his chest through one day, and
each night the oil was applied till his
cough was entirely cured.
Since Their have tried the remedy
for croupy children and find it almost
magical. The one thing to remember
is to use the oil literally.
In case anyone be unfamiliar with
the preparation, 1 will say it is COM
posed of camphor gum dissolved in
sweet oil. and may be procured OF any
druggist for small sum. Virginia
miller tn Ame,idan AgyieHlfn,fst.
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at the end were also some silver wait

at the end were also some silver wait
ers of an oval form.
1t was the custom of General
Washington to go daily at 12 o'clock
to set his watch at Clark's stand,
southeast corner of Front and High
streets. There all the porters re-
moved their hats and remained un-
covered until he retraced his steps;
to such salutation the President al
ways replied by raising his hat in
acknowledgment.
Philadelphia more than any other
city in the country possesses cherish
ed memories of George Washington,
the one hundred and seventy-second
anniversary of whose birth was cele-
brated in February last. In Phila-
delphia he lived and governed as the
first President, and here are to be
found the greatest number of relics
of the great patriot. The autograph
lstteEs LETT El Pf the III he 9bBinyDTduf
city, his shoe buckles, spectacles, lot
terry tickets, punch bowls, account
books, portraits, toasting forks,
desks, candlesticks, and much else
besides, all of which, if collected to-
gether, would be well worth seeing.
The Historical Society, in its build
ing at Thirteenth and Locust streets,
has what is perhaps the best collec-
ton of autograph letters of Wash
ington in existence. The collection
was given to the society by Ferdi-
nand J. Dreer, who has for years
been an earnest student of the life of
Washington. There are many things
of interest to be seen in Independence
Hall that were once the property Of
our first President. Numerous Phil
adelphians have sufficient relics of
Washington to furnish an historical
museum. In the large case in the
museum in the east end of Indepen-
dence Hall, the spectacles of the great
man may be seen. They are heavily
framed in iron and must have been
found far from light in weight. In
the same case is Washington's toast
ing fork, which has a carved ivory
handle and looks not unlike riding
whip. There is also the Cox family
punch bowl, from which card tells,
washington and his staff drank of
ten" Washington's Masonic apron,
made of satin and painted oddly with
trowels, open eyes, hammers, the
hour glass and scythe, the hive, the
anchor, the ark and other Masonic
emblems; his little iron pocket COM
pass, in shape not unlike an old
fashioned watch; one of his drink
ing cups and other relics.
In the main building on the second
floor there is a huge hair-cloth sofa
which once stood in the house occu-
pied by Washington, on High street,
and which later was owned by Rob
ert Morris.-A. r. E. ~, in NeqO-
tOzUN (PG.) Enterprise.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10
LONG sERMoHs.

No English congregation would
have listened to such sermons as used
to be popular in the Presbyterian
churches of Scotland, says Bishop
Weldon, in Nineteenth Century.
There is a story told of dissenting
preacher named Lobb in the seven
teenth century who when South went
to hear him, being mounted up in
the pulpit and naming his text, made
nothing of splitting it up intotwenty-
six divisions, upon which separately
he very carefully undertook to ex-
patiate in their order. Thereupon
the doctor rose up. and, jobbing the
friend who bore him company, said
Let US go home and fetch our gowns
and slippers, for I find this man will
make night work of it. 30
But Mr.. Lobb himself was humane
in the pulpit as compared to GER
-se;ss- -srL<s,aaa- -Rnafas, r.. s.si,aea ea~ss.ans
Sir Archibald Geikie has lately drawn
attention in his fascinating Scottish
"reminiscences. Thomas Boston,
who wrote book called "Primitie
ct Ultima. - was a minister Of the
Gospel at Ettrick. In sermon on
Fear and Hope. Objects of the Di-
vine Complacency," from the text
Paslm cxlvii, II-''The Lord taketh
pleasure in them that fear Him and
those that help in his mercy"-Mr.
Boston. latter an introduction in four
sections, deduced six doctrines, but
the last doctrine required another ser.
mon which contained "a pratical i'm
provement of the whole arranged Tin
der eighty-six heads. A sermon on
Matthew XII, 2S, was subdivided into
seventy-six heads" On this text,
JUDGED, Mr.. Boston preached four such
sermons.
1t is more than doubtful whether
any brains or hearts south OF the
Tweed could have stood the strain OF
such discourses. But Scotch preach
er. not in the present degenerate age,
has been known to preach from five
to six hours at a stretch. and some.
times when one preacher had finished
his sermon another would begin, and
there would be succ ssion OF
preachers delivering sermon upon
sermon, until the unhappy congre
CATION were kept listening To the
Word" for as many as ten hours
without a break.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10
DANGER IN SHOOTING BIG GAME.

The disturbing element in hunting
elephant or seladang or rhino has
been always, to me at least, the feel
ing of uncertainty as to whether or
not I could stop the animal it l
wounded it and it charged me, as it
did on an average of once in three
times.
Based on my experience, therefore.
l should place the elephant first and
the rhino third after the seladang,
which is fully as formidable as the
Cape buffalo, and is miscalled the
bison all over India. Each OF these
animals is dangerous on different and
individual grounds the elephant,
though less likely to charge than any
of the others, is terrifying because OF
his enormous strength, which stops
at no obstacle, and the extreme difh-
Guilty of reaching a vital spot, espe-
cially if, with trunk tightly coiled,
he is coming your way.
l know of no sensation more awe
some than standing ankle deep IN
the Jungle crashing around you as
though the entire forest was topping.
as the elephant you have wounded
comes smashing his way in your di-
rection. The seladang is dangerous,
partly because of the thick Jungle
he seeks when wounded, but more
especially because of his tremendous
vitality and his usual, though not in
variable, habit of awaiting the hum
ter on his tracks and charging sudden
ly, swiftly and viciously. Itrequires
close and hard shooting to bring
down one of these six foot specimens
of Orient cattle.
The danger of the tiger and OF the
lion is in their lightning activity and
ferocious strength; but you have the
shoulder, in addition to the head shot,
if broadside or if coming on, the
chest, all sure to stop if we'll placed.
The reason the rhino is so formidable
is because its vulnerable spots are so
hard to reach. Its brain is as small
in proportion as that of the elephant,
and may be reached through the eye
if head on, or about three inches be-
low and just in front of or just be-
hind the base of the ear according to
your position for shot.-CHtsng.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10
TIE HOTEL CIzRrs STORY.

The queerest thing that ever hap
pe1ed to me-" said the hotel clerk,
came off when l was on the night
desk of a small hotel in a Connecti-
ctttown.
1t was second rate establish
nlent, frequented mostly by drum.
meB, and the situation was rather
lonely at night. There were stores
all about, and they closed early, so
thai after 10 O'Clock ours was the
only place on the block open. For
thai reason, kept a revolver in the
money drawer.
Zone night about half past II
pleasant spoken, well dressed young
fellow came in and asked for room.
WI talked for few minutes, then
tol him as tactfully as I could that
as he didn't have any baggage he
void have to pay in advance.
esAll right, he said. ,Foi.e it-
alr Of that He handed be $40
bill
'lpulled out the money drawer to
chang it. There was my revolver
In plan sight, and another one with
it. TIE second gun had been left in
his roon by a departing guest, and
I'd tucyed it into the drawer with
mine fol want of better place to
put it.
'Wha do you want with two re-
volvers? lsked the stranger.
"'Oh, aid I. joshing. suppose
some one slould come in and find me
with the tillout and get one gun and
start to holdme up. I'd have another
handy"
My God What's that?" yelled
the stranger, aid pointed to the win
dow. It's an oA trick. but it caught
me. / looked.
When l looked back, there was
the stranger standing with his back
against the wall and covering me
with the extra revolver, which he'd
reached over and got out of the till.
Suppose. said he. that l should
grab revolver while you weren't
looking and cover you as I'm doing
now-and tell you to hand over the
till and that if YOU make move to
get your gun I'll scatter your brains
all over the place-where "ould your
extra revolver be- then? Hey 7"
And suppose. said l, truthful
ly, that l told you that the gun you
are holding on me hasn't been loaded
for month and has broken firing
pin. And while that was being tel
graphed through his brain snatched
my own gun and covered him.
cit would show quick wit on
your part, he said, and he laid down
the unloaded revolver. And now,
if you will give me my change, I
guess I'll quit this game of suppose
and go to bed
well, I'll leave it to you if that
wasn't enough to puzzle any man.
Had he tried to hold me up, or was
it just fool game of his?
"Somehow, couldn't just make
up my mind. So gave him his
change and let him go to his room,
and l figured on it all night without
getting any nearer conclusion.
but next morning things happen
ed which cleared the matter up.
About II o'clock the chambermaid
reported that she couldn't get any
answer from the room to which l had
assigned the stranger.
"They unlocked the door. His
bed hadn't been touched. There
was an open window to the fire escape
in the hall. Furthermore, the boss
asked me to explain how I'd happen
ed to turn over a counterfeit ten dol
lar bill with my cash.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10
INTERESTING IsEEs OF INDIA.


Two interesting numbers of The
HgyscaTtEyut Ledger 1Anss~l,zsIl iz-.I
sued in Bombay. They are devoted
to description of two trees which
grow and are much priced in India
the eagle, or aloe wood, and the
Chinese tallow tree. Mr.. David
Hooper, the director of the industrial
section of the Indian Museum, who
is responsible for both these papers,
describes in an extremely readable
manner the various uses to which
the products of these trees are devot-
ed, how they are collected, and where
they are found. The aloe wood tree
is native of the mountains east and
southeast of Sylhet, in Burmah, and
in Bengal. 1t is valuable on account
of a dark, resinous, aromatic juice
with which the wood is sometimes
gorged. The resin, or agar as it is
colloquially termed, is used for its
perfume and supposed medicinal
properties. It is very costly and is
used both for incense in religious and
other ceremonials and also in the
preparation called agar altar, which
is practically as costly as altar of
roses. The most interesting feature
in connection with the aloe wood
tree is the uncertainty as to whether
any particular tree will be found to
contain the precious resin. A tribe
of hill men known to the natives as
agar kumiahs make it their business
to search for the resinous wood.
Their trade is secret which they
always endeavor to preserve from
all natives of other tribes. A party
of agar kumlahs goes off into the
mountains with provisions for as
long as three months, and they pros
ecute their tedious search in districts
where probably human being
is not seen from one month to
another. Trees have to be chopped
down and hacked to pieces before
it can be ascertained whether they
contain any of the resinous deposit,
and sometimes, after wearisome
search through half dozen trees,
young and old, not single piece of
agar is discovered. Again, it may
be that rich find is made, and then
the collector is repaid for half a
month of work. The Forest Depart
mert preserves the tree and collects
the agar. Some years ago the Off
cials of that branch of the service
were disposed to believe that the tree
was becoming extremely rare. How
ever, year by year the sales of the
department increase, so that it may
be assumed that as yet there is no
ground for the fear that the tree
may become extinct. The Chinese
tallow tree grows in the United
Provinces and the Punjaub. 1t is
valuable because Of species of vege-
table tallow which it produces. This
exudation is by no means so costly
as that of the tree just referred to,
but on the other hand there is not
the same difficulty in collecting it.
The tree is plant of the croton
tribe, and grows rapidly in this coun-
try. The fatty exudation is used
for candle making, and the candles
manufactured from it are greatly
valued in religious ceremonies by the
Buddhists because they burn with a
clear, inodorous fame and without
smoke. Apparently at the present
time there is not much promise of
commerce in this product, SO far as
India is concerned.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

They're comm from the city to the country
with their rides and their shotguns to hunt the
The law Is Oh the rabbit, an now I'm telIin you,
Them city hunters pear to think it's on the
Soon the landscape will be punctured with lot
An everybody viii be dodgin' TO save their pre-
ci0us souls.
For when city fellers go cavortin' with gun.
An plug scnebcdy full o. lead. they call it
An then somehow it seems to me they alters
To make . fair discrimination 'twixt farmer
For anythin' that rustIes. If IL shows tail or
head.
An isn't plainly Labelled. they'll pump it full O.
lead.
An when q charge o. double B has taken Oh the
or your old hat, they'll calmly swear they didn't
kown ou're 'rOun'.
An sometimes when you are absorbed in the
You'll Be Nightly surprised with bullet in
They'll come an board with you. then some
when they re out huntin' lions, they'll shoot
the brindle pup.
country jes' bout now.
An II 'twan't for new inventions we'd be hidin'
But don't you for rinnit think the farmer
hain't progressed,
An Travelled long In the procession with the
spirit Of the rest.
A country store these later days is fairly out o.
date.
Unless it keeps upon its shelves suits lined with
armor plate.
An now we're all a. waitin'. really want to gtt
To demonstrate the quality Of our anti bullet
pants.
So come along, you city dudes. with your gos-
giles an your gun,
We've got on our iron trousers. an we're ready
for the fun.
Don't hesitate second. but come out an help
US laugh,
While You ponder on the difference 'twix q
farmer and calf. -ClsCeLGRd Leader.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

HAVE you seen Henpeck' sporty
new clothes? I thought his wife al
ways bought his clothes for him"
80 she did, but he broke away
from her this once. The worm will
turn you know"
Huh ! the worm seems to have
turned into giddy butterfly"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

WHEN one of Mark Twain's
daughters was a small miss she gave
evidence of unconscious humor that
delighted her father. AS reward
for being good she was once allowed
her first peep at an evening party.
Apparently, of the many familiar
sights. the decollette gowns of the
women impressed her most. She
gazed at the wearers long and won
deringly, and then, pulling her moth
er aside, asked in an awe-stricken
whisper, Mother, what country did
they come from ?''
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

THERE are two periods in a mans s
life when he is unable to understand
women. One is before marriage and
the other AFTER
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

ToMMY-Ma, I wish you'd give
me some cake.
Mother-Tommy! Didn't / tell
you not to ask for any cake?
Tommy amt askin' I'm just
wishin' .-Paila. Ledger.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

WHAT makes you look so jolly,
old fellow 2"
.'I have just bought something for
nv wife that l didn't have to take
back and exchange. - ChicagO J0N,nHE.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

A MAN once berated his Hebrew
debtor for not having included him
among his preferred creditors. "But
it makes you a speshul creditor, "
was the answer. IA special creditor !
What's that 7" "Vy, a speshul
creditor, mine friend, knows that he
gets nothings. The preferred, he
Won't know that for three years.
Time list money-ain't it?'
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"OF COURSE you are glad your
country is so prosperous?'
"Of course. But 1 don't think
there's any necessity for making SO
much noise about it."
"What's the harm!"
"Why, every time my wife hears
the word prosperity she strikes me
for more money y
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-10

LIBERTY is the power Of doing
what the law permits.