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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-16

pickles, canned and dried fruits, &c.
I am inclined to think they would
Just as willingly sell for thrifty wo-
men, if their wares were desirable, as
for the canneries, with their delete
rious preservatives. I once had a
knowledge of woman who earned
snug sum of money by making GIN
ger snaps. She made ginger cakes a
study-talked to housekeepers, read
cook books and home departments of
papers, until she knew all that was
worth knowing about them. Then
she practiced on snaps until they
were perfect. She knew how and
was careful always to dc her best.
Then she offered them for sale and
they were we'll liked. To eat one
was to want more. Trade grew, and
the storekeeper kept box for his
customers, which had to be refilled
every two or three days. She had
them on the market stand, and they
sold we'll, for people are not yet so de-
praved in appetite that they would
not prefer a good homemade article
to any other if they can get it.
Instead of letting our girls go out
to sell indigo and soap at high price
for tride of profit, it would be far
more to their advantage to teach
them TO make the things they sell.
That girl who comes to my door with
a basket of good biscuit, pies, snaps,
fruit buffers, jellies, jams, pepper
hash, piccalilli or any other we'll
made eatable would be very likely to
find a customer in me. The young
could thus serve the old, who are past
the heyday of life and have need to
tighten their tolls, or those who have
so many duties they can not find
time for all, and thus, while helping
others, could be helping themselves.
Help in time of sickness will al
ways be needed, and that farmers
daughter who can be spared from
home for short time now and then
can earn something for herself in this
way. The trained nurse is not for
farmers; they can not afford to pay
her fabulous price and hire another
woman in the kitchen to wait on her.
Any bright woman can train herself
into obedience to the doctors orders,
and to helpfulness in the home be-
sides. Taking in babies and small
children to care for them while their
overworked mothers go for little
outing once in a while would be a
pious and profitable thing to do.
There is money in laundry work.
That girl who can launder fine dresses,
shirts, shams, collars and such skill
fully and at something under usual
laundry rates will be sure of patron
age. People are tired of having their
linen destroyed by the high polishing
and starching of the Chinese and
steam laundries. The needle also is
source of revenue not to be over
looked, and countless other employ
ments that space forbids allusion to.
A word to the wise is sufficient. Let
us seek for the gift that is in us, and
cultivate that gift; by so doing we
can earn money, and yet remain, for
the most part, in that best of all places
-home.-Nayy Sidney.
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1897 alone. Yet so expert is the
bookkeeping that all of these books
are kept by one clerk, who, in addi-
ton, prepares the bonds for transfer
and reckons up the interest to be paid
to each holder each quarter. Inas-
much as the holdings are constantly
changing, the interest due frequently
alters in amount.
The most luxurious of all occupa-
tions is supposed to be the clipping of
coupons from Government bonds-an
employment commonly attributed to
the envied multi-millionaire. AS a
matter of fact, however, rich men do
not bother with coupon bonds; they
prefer to have them registered, mas
much as they are much safer and
equally negotiable. If you lose
bond anybody can convert it into
cash as easily as if it were Treasury
note. A registered bond, on the
other hand, is non-negotiable except,
by its proper owner, and if lost or
stolen will be promptly replaced by
the Treasury.
For generations past the Wander
bits have been large holders of gov
ernment bonds. William H. at the
time of his death owned $48, $50, 900
worth of 4 per cents. One of his
quarterly interest checks, cancelled,
for $3.50, 500, is exhibited today as
curiosity at the Treasury. He got
one like it every three months from
Washington. The interest on his
personal loan to Uncle Sam amount
ed to SIS, 265.75 every day. For every
hour of the day and night the Treas
ury paid him $2Io.4o He drew
$3.65 for every minute, or little
more than six cents a second, through
out the year. The registered bonds
held ten years ago by Cornelius and
w. K. Vanderbilt ran up to thirty
odd million dollars.
Quite large sum now due to bond
holders is held by the Treasury of
the United States in the shape of
checks. Interest on registered bonds
is paid by check in every case to the
person whose name appears on the
face of the security. But people are
constantly changing their addresses,
and frequently fail to notify the
Treasury, SO that their checks do not
reach them, and are returned to
Washington. There they are fled
away and kept indefinitely, being
good forever, deliverable and casha-
bic on demand. Knowing that they
are always good for the money they
represent, people often keep these in
terest checks, putting them away and
boarding them just as if they were so
much cash. Every now and then
somebody dies, and his executor finds
a lot of old interest checks in draw
er or tin box, and sends them to the
Treasury for redemption.
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A STORY WITH A MORAL.

Not every story that reads like fc-
tion is fact, but the one here quoted
is quite true. The man who told it
was for many years an officer of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
road Company in Illinois, and had
annual passes over all the important
railroads in the country. His duties
took him to Springfield, the State
Capitol, and as he generally went by
Chicago, the conductors on that line
knew him SO we'll that they never
asked to see his pass.
One day he received telegram
summoning him to meet one of his
company at Aurora the next morning.
He had only short time to catch
his train to Chicago, and in his haste
left his pass book behind. He did
not find this out until he reached
Chicago, and was about to take the
last train for Aurora that night.
Then he saw that the conductor,
man brought over from the Iowa
division, was a stranger, and the fact
that he would need his pass remind
ed him that he did not have it.
What followed is best told in his own
words:
"I told the conductor the situation,
but he said he could not carry me on
my mere representation that had
pass.
why, man. said I, I am an Of
icer of the company, going to Aurora
on company business, and this is the
last train that will get me there in
time. You must take me.
He was polite, but firm. He said
he was a new man on this division,
and could not afford to make any
mistakes.
when I saw that he was deter
mined rushed off to the telegraph
Office; but it was too late to catch
anybody authorized to issue passes,
so I settled it in my mind that I
must go by carriage; and the pros
pect of an all-night ride over bad
roads through the dark was anything
but inviting. Indeed, it was SO for
bidding that I resolved to make one
more appeal to the conductor.
"'You simply must take me to
Aurora 7 I said, with intense earn
estness.
"'I can't do it, he answered. But
1 believe you are what you represent
yourself to be, and I will lend you
the money personally. 1t is only one
dollar and twelve cents. -
"Well, sir, you could have knock
ed me down with the fiat side of
palm leaf fan. I had more than two
thousand dollars in currency in my
pocket, but it had never for an in
slant occurred to me that could pay
my fare and ride on that train. I
showed the conductor wad of money
that made his eyes stick out.
Il thought it was funny, said he,
that man in your position couldn't
raise one dollar and twelve cents.
1t was that that made me believe you
were playing trick to see if would
violate the rule. ,"
The simple truth was, the railroad
officer had ridden everywhere on
passes so many years that it did not
occur to him that he could ride in
any other way.
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THE MULES GOOD POINTS.

In many respects the mule is the
noblest beast that has been place.
under mans dominion, but unjust
ridicule for some unaccountable rea-
son marked the long suffering brute
for its own and by obscuring his
many virtues and playing upon his
few defects and idiosyncrasies has
compelled him since the day he was
discovered by Anah in the wilderness
to live under the torture of a false
and slanderous report. At last, how
ever, he is being restored to his prop
er position in the social and economic
world.
In truth the mule, if he happens to
be Missouri product, is valuable,
beautiful and lovely beast. For gen
eral all around purposes, in compa-
rison with horses, mules are supe-
rior. They are easy and cheap to
raise, easy to sell and hard to blem-
ish. They go to the market early
and bring bigger profits for the time,
work and money expended in grow
ing than any other kind of flesh.
Diseases rarely touches them. Ad-
versity and hard knocks make them
stronger and tougher.
A mule does not wither or weaken
with age. The process of years sim
ply turns his coltish friskiness to con-
templative sedateness, his silverv
voice to a raucous roar and his OBJ
streperous heels to the path of peace.
His habits as they are better under
stood are less feared and more appre-
ciated. He is tractable, gentle, SYM
pathetic, and very intelligent. When
we'll treated he loves his master, as
Sancho, the companion of Don Quix-
ote, and many old Negroes in the
south have proved.
He eats little and requires no shell
ter and tolls to the bitter end without
complaint or fatigue. He quickly
understands the wnims of his driver
and will go and can be guided with
out whip or rein. He is dynamo in
hide, an engine in hoof-a perfect
machine in flesh and blood which
rarely gets out of order or temper.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-16
A WORD WITH COUNTRY BOYS.

Parents who are raising boys in the
country should be thankful that their
boys have not the environments OF
the city, and yet it does sometimes
seem that the country youth, when
he does come under the influence of
the saloons and other evil resorts, is
more susceptible to them and yields
more readily to them than does the
average city boy. For some years
past the writer of this has spent sew
eral months each year with country
boys. And it must be confessed that
there is as much, if not more, profan-
ity among the average class of coun-
try boys than among the same class
Of city youths. And with beer and
whisky drinking the same applies.
The reason for this is due, probably,
to the fact that the country youth
E54 tiIe city boy1in high esteem as
an example of a gentleman-probably
because of his better attire and more
stylish clothing. The country boy
hears we'll dressed (but 1ow-bred)
city 10y swear, and he at once emu
lates the city boys example. He sees
the well-dressed city youth drink,
and hepatterns after him and thinks
it smart. The country boy probably
sees moe of the disreputable side of
city life than he does of the moral
side, and, because he observes so
much of the evil side, he imagines
that the evil predominates, and ia his
blindness he apes the city youth and
thinks it manly to do so but he never
makes a greater mistake in his life.
The writer has heard more profanity
among country boys in proportion to
number than among city youths. This
is sad commentary upon country
youth, but it is true. The boy who
is reared in the pure ozone of heaven
and away from the dens of evil which
infest the city, ought to have mind
filled with pure and noble thoughts
and ambitions. When he comes into
contact with the leprosy of evil which
issues from the city, he should shun
it as he would smallpox. If he does
not he will soon be pitted with evil,
which will mark him for life deeper
than the pit of the smallpox will mar
the smoothness of his skin.
O, boys you who live in the glo-
ri6ed atmosphere of rural life; who
dwell with nature, open your lives
and breathe in the Intoxicating breath
of clover, and the wild flowers and
the scent of the new-mown hay !;
drink in the juice of the rosy-cheek-
ed apples and the purple grapes, as
you pluck the fruit from the foliaged
trees and the spreading vines, but for
the sake of your mother, your man.
hood and your own souls welfare,
breathe not into your life the impure
odors from the evil resorts of the
teemed cities and touch not the ac-
cursed cup which ruins more lives
and wrecks more happy homes than
all other influences combined. Pro-
family and filthy language are no
manly accomplishments while beer
and whisky guzzling is bur the quaf-
fng of distilled dew from the darkest
corner of hades. T0wn and Country.
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cOvEr0UsNEss.

Follow the word 'covetousness"
using concordance through the New
Testament. 1t goes in loathsome
company, marshalled by Paul and
John and others between the most
foul and destructive vices. Why is it
so terrible? Because it is germinal
sin, the seed of all sorts of deadly
wrong. Not only as "the love of
money is it ''the root of all kinds Of
evil" but in each of its many forms
it sows sinfulness. This because of
its two characteristics-it is selfish
and atheistic.
Covetousness is selfish. "Thou
shalt not covet x \ anything that
is thy neighbor' :" It wants what
God has given to others. 1t longs
and plans and tries to get it. 1t
disregards, more or less, the rights,
of others. The covetous mind, dwell
ing on what it wants, gets sophisti-
Gated conscience what it once knew
to be wrong, it comes to look upon as
permissible, even praiseworthy, and
actions which it condemns in others
it performs itself without a tremor.
The character disintegrates.
Covetousness is astheistic. 1t comes
to regard the getting of what it wants
as more important than obedience to
Gods laws. If Commandment looks
unimportant if the covetousness is
lustful, the Seventh Commandment is
forgotten f; if pleasure is the supreme
desire, the Fourth Commandment may
be disregarded, and SO on. The In
PRODUCTION to the Commandment says,
"God spake all these words. Cow
etousness picks out one or another
commandment and asks, "Yea, hath
God said," this or that?
The Tenth Commandment is not
another, like the nine, added to them
it is law thrown about them all,
and thrown about the child of God
to hold him to them all. 1t requires
such faith in God, in his wisdom,
goodness and power, that the soul
would rather keep his command
ments, every one of them, than to
have anything else in the world. 1t
requires such love to men that the
soul would rather others should have
their rights, and would rather do good
to others than to have anything else
in the world. In short, it requires us
to have that attitude toward the COM
mandment that Jesus Christ had, II
come to do Thy will, o Cod"
Covetousness, the opposite and op-
ponent of love to God and man, would
destroy the soul and the world, and it
would destroy heaven if it could get
in there. God hates it, because it
destroys his children, and therefore,
| in this commandment, forbids it,
| Mew York Observer.
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When we were boys together, Bill, you were my
bosom friend;
We used to flsh together up the creek, around
the bend.
And you and were wont to tramp DER many
Armed with those rusty muskets, fifty years be-
hind the style.
You were a born romancer, Bill, and well do
How, when you told your yarns. / used to greet
you with this stall:
Gross your heart,
Black and blue
Show me, now,
That it's true ]"
Trecollect the readiness with which you crossed
And told another story with the same convincing
art.
OF course, I could not doubt you after you had
And traced the sign asked for on your sum
burnt, blstered breast,
And thus you used to get away with many
weird old tale
One time you even made me think that you had
Gross your heart,
Black and blue
Show me, now,
That it's true ]"
Tonight 1 sit alone and conjure up those happy
When you and 1, barefooted lads, roamed wild
among the flowers;
And, looking back. love to think never doubt
For under all your fancies beat heart coura-
Both day and night Tvs seen that sight-the boy
the cracking ice
The cries for help-the brave response-and you
you paid the price
Gross your heart
Cold and still
Lay your hands
Dear old Bill ~
W. n. Kirk In Mtl1C0ukee Sentinel.
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o1D.srYLE MANNERS.

Mrs. Martha Foote Crow, dean of
women at Northwestern University,
is reported to have informed the
young ladies under her direction that
she does not approve the phrases
Eyes, SIR" and "Yes, ma 'am," be-
cause they are "old-fashioned."
With reference to eyes, ma'am, +"
Mrs. Crows condemnation will be
generally approved. 1t is merely an
impolitely slipshod rendering of eyes,
madam" and never was in good taste
or fashion, old or new. And doubt
less Mrs. Crow is correct in condemn
ing Eyes, sir" and Eyes, ma am
as old-fashioned."
Yet few who remember the old
style manners as practiced by those
to the manner born can regard YER
dict which records the passing away
of those phrases without natural
sigh of pensive regret.
There was something in the tone
in which a gentleman of the old
school said Yes, sir" or eyes,
ma am" whose place in social inter-
course those who remember it can
hardly believe will be supplied ade-
quately by any other forms.
In his utterance of these words
such a gentleman recorded convic-
tion of the equality of all gentlemen,
regardless of the accident of wealth
or station, and of the Difference due
to all women, simply because they
were women, SO simple, natural and
instructive that no explanation or ar
gument was needed to support or de-
fend it.
In his use of those words he re-
corded his instructive conviction that
politeness, whether to equals, supe-
riors or interiors, was neithersa tribute
of respect to power nor condescen-
sion to weakness, but was made ne
cessary by self-respect in himself, and
was just tribute to the self-respect
of others.
Standing thus upon the broad
foundation of mutual self-respect, the
old-style manners smoothed the path
of life because they implied real
equality between all we'll men,
and a real Difference of such to all wo-
men that is not apparent when the
name of the person addressed is sub
stituted, and that vanished altogeth-
er when plain eyes" and "No" are
used.
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THE CRY OF THE DREAMER.

l am tired of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men;
Heart-weary of building and spelling,
And spelling and building again.
And long for the dear old river,
Where l dreamed my youth away;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And t0iler dies in day.
am sick of the snowy seeming
OF a life that is half q lie;
OF the faces lined with scheming
In the throng that hurries by.
From the sleepless thoughts endeavor
would go where the children play;
For dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in day.
1 can feel no pride, but pity
For the burdens the rich endure,
There is nothing sweet in the city
But the patient lives of the poor.
Oh, the little hands too skillful,
And the child mind choked with weeds
The daughters heart grown willful,
And the fathers heart that bleeds
No, no from the streets rude hustle,
From trophies of mart and stage,
would fly to the woods low rustic
And the meadows kindly page.
Let me dream as of old by the river,
And be loved for the dream alway;
For dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a dayl
John Boyle O'ReiLey.
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WHAT OLD AGE IS LIKE.

The noted French advocate, Maitre
Labor, who defended Dreyfus and re-
Gently the Humberts, is noted in Paris
more for his polish and neatness of
his speeches than for his eloquence.
An American journals who heard
Labor in court one day say the ad-
vocate's address was full of grace,
wit, tenderness. He quotesa passage
relating to old age, wherein Labor,
with smile, said:
"Old age-we shall none of us
quite understand that until we have
attained to it-for no one of US here
is old. But the other day / visited
my uncle, very aged man.
"'What is it like, unclef / said,
to be old1'
"And my uncle answered :
"'It's like this: When one is
young ones polite attentions to wo-
men are taken for declarations of love,
but when one is old ones declara-
tions of love are taken for polite at
tentions. ,"
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TO A FAITHFUL LABoRER.

This is the field you plowed this springtine |;
This is the grain which you have sown,
You worked for me, unwearied tOiler,
AS If it all had been your own.
Next came the merry month of haying;
plenteous harvest filled my store,
But could take no joy in either
Because you can rejoice no more.
Of all the fruitful years rich treasure
Which is the outcome of your toll,
Only wreath of wheat ears bring
To place above you on the soil.
But in my memory will keep you
Through life, and till my latest breath
In gratitude will recall you,
Nv servant, faithful unto death.
From the German of II. Aknsefs
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DoN'r BRING up your children to
think they are better than other peo-
pie unless you intend to leave them
money enough to support that belief
without working. The world is full
of poverty-stricken fools who bank on
family and are never able to draw a
check.
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LITTLE TOMMY and his younger
sister were going to bed without a
light. They had just reached the
bottom of the stairs, when Tommy,
after vainly endeavoring to pierce the
darkness, turned round and asked:
INA, is it polite for a gentleman to
precede lady when they have to
walk in single fle?"
mo, my son." replied the mother,
"the lady should always take the
lead. -
~ thought so," said Tommy de-
lighted; "go ahead, Sue
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-16

EMPLOYER (fercely)-"See here,
told you yesterday when you came
in half an hour late that you would
have to get down earlier"
Clerk-''Well, I'm only twenty
nine minutes late this morning"
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EDcAR-"You wear pink all the
time; should like to see you in
lace-like white frock. Z"
Ethel-"How awfully -awfully
sudden r.
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GRACIOUS, Mr.. Halton, you have
eaten all the bird seed. =
"You don't sayl Thought it W
a new breakfast food"