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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04
FARMING as AN OCCUPATION.

Here is list of the advantages of
farming recently submitted by an up
to-date farmer. 1t is healthful, inde-
pendent, manly, varied, insures
a good living and brings one close
to nature, develops good hard sense,
patience, endurance and industry,
and is free from many of the special
temptations Of town and city life.
This is quite lengthy catalogue
of benefits to which every tiller of the
soil has claim, and we do not BE-
lieve the advantages of farming have
been overstated. This being the case
the question may we'll be asked, why
do the boys leave the farm, and why
is it so difficult to secure good farm
help? The inducements of health, in
dependence and good living are not
to be thrown lightly to one side, and
as farming undoubtedly offers these
attractions, why don't young men
stick to it, and why do not more men
follow it as an occupation
Josh Billing once said that agricul-
ture has been discovered to be an hon.
est way of getting hard living, and
Josh undoubtedly had the correct view
of the matter. Farming is hard work.
Modern machinery and methods have
done much to tighten the burdens OF
farm life, but the farmer who expects
to make his business financial sue
cess must make up his mind to work.
Small profits may also be mention
ed as one of the drawbacks to farm
ing. It is true that dollar will go
much further in the country than in
the city, but this apparently makes
no difference. When boy sees a ten
dollar a week job in the town he COM
pares it with his three or four dollar
a week on the farm, and he straight
way becomes dissatisfied.
We believe, however, that the great
est drawback of all to farming as an
occupation is the isolation OF farm
life. Human beings are prone to
herd like sheep; they crave society.
The average man will work all day in
smoke begrimed shop with plenty
of companions and be much happier
than he would if his only company
was the trees and birds. The city is
full of temptations, but it is also a
a place of life and swing and go.
These things are attractive to the aver
age boy and man, which accounts for
the fact that the cities grow faster in
population than the country. There
are men who enjoy communion with
nature and their own thoughts, and
such men remain on the farm; there
are more, however, who prefer the
company of other men and these nat
urally drift to the shop, the factory
and the Office. The railroad, the troll
ley, the telephone and better roads
are doing much to make farming a
less lonesome occupation, and eventu.
ally the isolation of country life may
be only an experience to be remem-
bered. When that time comes farm.
ing. which in many of its aspects is
noble calling, will be much more pop
ular than it is at present.-Kennett
Advan0e.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04
A sLEIGH-R1DE MORAL.

Young Enoch Simpkins, of Sorrow
Hollow, son of old Enoch Simpkins,
of the same place, and Miss Matilda
Gookins, of this City, had narrer
excape from certain if not inevitub-
bic deth last Saturday ev'g wich
they will long remember with horrer
and loathing.
Enoch he driv into Bingville about
6 P. M. in new pung and that sorl
mare of his n and he hitched in front
OF Matilda S residence and went inside
and asst Matilda how she would like to
take slay ride and Matilda said she
didn't care, so he told her to come
ahead then and Matilda she bundel-
ed up and got in the pung and they
driv off together like durnashion out
the pike with the slay bells jinglin
merrily and making every yung man
in Bingville what hadn't no horse and
pung wisht he had one.
1t was after 8P. NJ. when Enoch and
Matilda approached Bingville again.
They had went durn neer halfway 20
the county seat and back and had
had a aturrible Mise ride. As they was
a-comin down the hill west of town,
however, the pung pusht forrard
agin the mare and she skeered and the
next minnit she had tux the bit into
her teeth and was a lickin out lords
Bingville like a streak of creased
lightnin. When she started to run
Enoch Lad one arm around Matilda
like durn fool and befoar he could
extricate hisself the mare was beyont
control. They come into Bingville
hell bspt for the eleckshion. Matilda
was hollerin for some kind hearted
person to save her and Enoch was
saying "Woah" to the mare in
loud, commanding tone of voise, but
the critter didn't pay no attenshion,
but KEEP right on past Hen Weathers-
by's store. When she got to the
Publick Square the mare turned
around the corner tord's Milan Hen
derson's and in doing so the pung up
set aud rolld eileen over, throwing the
okkupants about 20 feet into snow
bank across the road from the post
office. Enoch was the furst to git on
his feet and he lookt around for Ma
tilda and saw her feet stickin' outen
drift and he grabt bolt of her and
pulld her out and she was turrible
skeered, but not hurt none, thank
goodness.
When the pung upset the shafts
broke and the mare kickt loose and
KEEP right on runnin until she got to
Sorrow Holler and Enoch had to walk
home.
This experients ort to be valluble
lesson to US ali. It is all right tohug
a gurl providing you are setting on a
settee or somethink, but its turrible
dangerous in a pung when your drivin
a skittish boss. Look at Enoch and
Matilda-they went out full of joy
and anticipashion and how did they
come back? Enoch hasn't took the
pung home as yet. We calkilate he's
afeard to come after same less the
Bingville boys will rig him SO about
it.-Fyom tile Bimg01lle BAgle.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04
sMARTY (!

O, Sarah Jane, you think you're smart
Cause you learn PONIES and things by heart
An multiply by more'n two,
An read a sentence right straight through,
An STAN up there so big an proud,
A-speakin' pieces. awful loud
That's sh0win' on |! Don't you suppose
That you know half my aunty knows!
You never imagined half the tales
She tells an 'en she never fails
To answer Questions-all you please
Bout birds or animals or trees.
Err what's inside of you-er what
Is in the earth. She'll know it-but
She wouldn't think of maxim showsl
No one can tell how much she knows!
So, when're talkin' loud again,
Jes' you remember, Sarah Jane,
That. though you're higher up an me,
You've got heap TO leare an see
don't care If you are ahead.
Cause aunty knows 80 much She said
That real smart people don't make shows;
She don't an ms ! what aunty knows!
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04
A QUESTION OF SCIENCE.

''I remember when was student
at Wyoming seminary said cler-
gyman, "a farmer came to Kingston
to visit his nephew, whom he was
educating.
THE farmer had no urban polish.
His tea when it was brought was very
hot, and he poured it in his saucer, to
his nephew's great modification.
Finally, unable to restrain him
self, the nephew was so rude as to
say:
"'Uncle why do you pour your tea
in the saucer?
"The old farmer looked up in sur
prise. Then he said in loud, hearty
voice
ITO cool it, to be sure. The
more air surface you give it the
quicker it cools. These here modern
seminaries don't teach much science,
do they?'"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

A WELL-KNowN artist overheard
a farmer and his wife ridiculing his
picture, which represented farm
scene. The artist was so indignant
that at last he interposed with the
remark: "That painting is valued at
FIVE hundred dollars. Allow me to
ask if you are familiar with works of
art?" "Not very familiar with art,
but know something about nature,
young man. When you make cow
that gets from the ground by putting
out her fore feet first, you do some
thing that nature never did,"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

THE following notice was recently
found tackled on the door of local
church "There will be preaching in
this house a week from next We'd
nesday, Providence permittin', and
there will be preaching whether or
no on Monday following upon the
subject, He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, and he that
believeth not shall be damned at $3.50
in the afternoon.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

"YEs," said the fireman, "there
were two men in the building playing
chess, and one of them is in the ruins
yet. We couldn't get him out. I"
"Why, how was that9 "He lnsls-
ted that it wasn't his move"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

"After ALL" said the husband,
''there isn't one of the lot to be COM
pared to Gerty r.
And so his tendency to Irritation
died out by degrees, without his be-
ing aware of it, and Gertrude had
conquered.-Wey York Meas.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

R1cHARD-"Why amt you mar
ried, Rebecca?"
"Oh, statistics show there are not
enough men to go around, and / never
was good at any kind of scramble. "
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

PATIENr-Great Scott Doctor,
that's an awful bill for one week s
treatment Physician-My dear fel-
low, if you knew what an interesting
case yours was and how strongly |
was tempted to let it go to a post
mortem you wouldn't grumble at a
bill three time as big as this.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

IT IS said that man is only appre-
ciated after he is dead, and this i
doubly true if he carries heavy life
insurance.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

THIS WOULD be a pleasant old world
if men would pay their debts as cheer
fully as they pay grudges.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

"PoP -
eyes, my son."
whats the difference between a
public servant and any other kind ?"
"Why, the public servant tries to
hold his job longer than the other
kind, my son."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

CHoLLY-D'ye know, Miss Pep
per, 1 deahly love horses ! Miss Pep
perl imagined so when I saw how
you hugged the neck of the one you
were riding yesterday.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

THE average man has a better
opinion of himself than the Lord has
of him.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

A BUSY person isn't necessarily in
dustrious. Gossips are always busy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-02-04

In a pleasant, CHEEKY room de-
cidedly glum-looking man sat, his
feet firmly placed on the floor instead
of resting several inches above his
head as was their usual wont. Be-
fore him lay a pile of books and
periodicals. He ought to have been
busy, instead of idly dreaming, for
he was the critic on The Wave, New
York's most popular and high-class
review paper.
81 wish I dared write what feel
about it p he said to himself. "She
wouldn't care, of course, but very
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
Resume 81 the neWS.

August Schimpf, an American en-
plOye, is sick with yellow fever at
Panama, and William Cox. an Amer
lean employee Of the Panama Railroad
company, is dead
The engagement is announced of
Paul Nash, the American consul at
Venice, and the Baroness Ina Mayneri
of Piedmont. The baroness, who
moves in the highest society, is at
present residing in Venice.
The French senate passed the bill
providing amnesty for those con-
demned in connection with the revo-
lutionary conspiracy in 1899, and Paul
de Roulede, former deputy, who is in
political exile in Spain, will be permit
ted to return to France.
The cotton growers of Mexico are
holding meetings for the purpose of
formulating petitions to be presented
to President Diaz asking that he issue
a decree increasing the duty on cot
ton, as Mexico now imports about 40
per cent of her cotton from the United
States.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
Casualty.

Fire of supposed incendiary origin
has destroyed the business portion of
Gridley, Col Loss 100000.
Fire swept large area of the bust
ness portion of Guntersville, Ala, and
loss is estimated at $4,000 with about
one-third insurance.
August Droes was instantly killed
by lightning and his two daughters
SCARED for life during an electrical
storm near Loganville. Wis.
Two blocks of Goldfeld's CNev)
business and residence section have
been totally destroyed by fire, entail
ing loss of 100000.
Frank Hall, aged twelve years, and
Charles Rice, eleven years of age, the
sons of farmers, were drowned while
bathing in Simons creek, near Dover,
Del.
Two brothers, Fred and Justin Finn,
aged fifteen and twelve years respect
lively, were drowned in the Winnipe-
saukee river at Laconia, n. H, while
swimming.
Nine persons were injured, one of
them fatally, in Detroit, when Trum-
bull avenue car crashed into wagon
load of people returning from drive
about Belle Isle Park.
A score of fremen were seriously
fire which destroyed the upper floors
of a seven-story factory building in
New York. The total loss is estimat-
ed at s25O,OOO
Fire in F. P. Wright's art and paint
store on Riverside avenue, Spokane,
Wash, caused losses estimated at
S115,000, and for time threatened
widespread destruction in Spokane's
business district.
While running at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, east-bound New York
fast mail train collided with west
bound freight at Greencastle, Ind,
Fireman Tippy was fatally, and En-
gineer Garner seriously injured.
Forest fires are threatening the Lick
observatory, in which is located the
famous Lick telescope. The corps OF
professors there have telephoned
asking that the governor call out the
militia of San Jose to fight the flames.
Mores Maui, a well-tO-dO mining
man, lost his life in the Minnesota
mine near Corbin, fifteen miles south
of Helena, Mont. He descended into
the shaft of the mine, carrying a can
die. which ignited gas that had es-
capped from a gasoline tank. An ex-
plosion resulted, causing the shaft to
cave in.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
DEATH PLUNGE IN AERoPLANE
Daniel MaIoney Falls 5000 Feet and is
Killed.

San Jose, Cal, July 20-Daniel Ma
loney, who had made numerous sue
cessful ascensions with Prof. Mont
gomery's aeroplane, fell 5000 feet to
his death at Santa Clara yesterday.
Maloney made an ascension from the
grounds of Santa Clara college in hon.
or of the League of the Cross Cadets
At a height of 1000 feet Maloney cut
loose and began maneuvering the
aeroplane. He sailed gracefully about,
then essayed a deep dip. Suddenly the
machine swerved, hesitated and then
turned completely over. 1t righted
itself, sank down considerable dis
lance and turned over again. Again
the aeroplane turned in the air, the
wings came together, and the man
and the machine plunged straight
downward, while the Mortified specta-
tors gazed helplessly. A number OF
cadets carried Maloney to the college
hospital. His head was fractured and
blood was flowing from his ears and
mouth. He expired within short
time. The aeroplane was smashed
into fragments.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
General.

Andrew Morrissey has resigned the
presidency of Notre Dame university
at South Bend, Ind.
A deal has been closed for the con-
struction of a 100000 hotel, ten
stories high, in Detroit.
Mrs. Helen K. Johnson, mother Of
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio,
died at her home in Brooklyn.
William B. Lyons, former chief of
police of Baltimore and one of the best
known detectives in the country, is
dead.
The 10000 ton battleship Kansas
will be launched at the yard of the
New York Shipbuilding company at
Camden, N. j., Aug. 8.
Sailing master w. Fl. Houghton of
the Arctic exploring ship Roosevelt is
authority for the statement that John
D. Rockefeller is the mysterious mill
ionaire who gave $4,000 to complete
the fund necessary for the expedition.
That 12-inch shell loaded with on
Iy a small charge of dunnite, the
worlds most effective explosive, will
crumple in the side of the heav-
lest armor clad vessel, though the
shell fall short of it's mark by twenty
feet, has just been demonstrated at
the beginning of a series of test2 at
the government proving grounds at
Sandy Hook.
"Picketing is as bad as lynching,"
said Judge Mcpherson of the federal
court at Des Moines, in decision rem
dered holding the Santa Fe railroad
pickets guilty of contempt OF court
in violation of a strike order issued
a year ago at Fort Madison. No pun
ishment was fixed.
That the punishment for forgery
melted out in court sentences is in
creasing is the opinion Of the detect
ives of the American Bankers asso-
citation, in a report made by James
r. Branch, secretary Of the associa-
ton. covering bank robberies and forg-
cries since Sept. i. 1904.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
HEAT CAUSES MANY DEATHS.
Eastern and New England States Are
Scorched by Old Soils Rays.


Scorched by Old SOILS Rays.
New York, July 20.-An area of OPP
pressive heat that brings to mind
with unpleasant vividness the record
breaking summer of 1901, has settled
down over the Eastern and New Eng
land states, already numbering hun
dreds among it's victims and causing
indescribable sufferings to thousands
in this and other cities. From all
points came the story of the hottest
day of the summer, attended with fire.
uuent prostrations and not few
deaths
Philadelphia reported maximum
temperature of 1873, the highest figure
officially noted. In this city the wealth
er bureaus high mark was Sc, while
in Boston, where the suns rays are
wont to be tempered by an east wind,
a mark of 80 was recorded.
Forty-Seven Deaths Reported.
Following are the maximum tempera-
lures officially recorded in the large
cities with the known cases of pros
tration and DEATH
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
WASHINGTON.

w. j. Calhoun of Chicago has been
selected special agent of the govern
ment to visit Venezuela and examine
the claims of the New York & Bermus
DEE Asphalt company.
Mr.. Adee, second secretary of state,
who has returned to the United States
| from France, in which country he
| made tour on his bicycle, has as
sumed the duties of acting secretary
of state.
immigration Commissioner Sargent
has returned to San Francisco from
the Hawaiian Islands. In his speech
es there he favored attracting such
immigration to Honolulu as now
comes to the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Although Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Metcalf is reported to have
denied that he contemplated resign
ing, there are many indications point
ing toward a new head of that depart
ment. The statement is published
that Metcalf is to be succeeded, and
that the trades and labor unions all
over the country are taking much in
terest in the appointment of the new
secretary.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
issued an order which will bring JOY
to rural carriers. Hereafter the rural
service will be suspended on New
Years day, Feb. %, Decoration day,
Fourth of July, Labor day and Thanks
giving day. The rural carriers have
petitioned for holidays for two years,
but have only now succeeded in Sc
curing them.
Edward S. Holmes, associate Stairs
tician of the agricultural department
has been summariIy dismissed by Sec
rotary Wilson on the charge OF fur
nishing advance information from the
government cotton report to brokers
and spectators and manipulating the
reports in order to affect the market.
Holmes is the only public official in
volved in the scandal.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
Foreign.


The furniture of the Korean lega'
ton at st. Petersburg is being sold
and the legation is closed.
The German bark Aphrodlte, 40
tons. was wrecked in the Nicoya gull
at Costa RIGA, and Capt. Hauenstein
was drowned.
More than 100000 deaths from bu-
-bonic plague occurred in India last
wear. according to the latest reports
from the marine hospital and public
health services.
duel with swords was fought at
Panama by Rusebio Morales, proml-
nent attorney, and Julio Arizona, well
known newspaper man. The trouble
arose over the publication of an ar
ticle by Arizona. Arizona was slightly
wounded.
The house in which Juliet is said
to have lived, and in which she is said
to have received Romeo, has been sold
at auction at Verona. The bidding
was begun at $1,000 and the build
ing was finally bid in by the city OF
Verona for $4,000.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
Criminal.

Beverley Letcher prominent club
man of San Francisco, is dying from
opium poison, self-administered with
suicidal intent.
John L. Markle, vaudeville actor,
whose home was at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, committed suicide at a New
York hotel by shooting.
Paul Lorel1e killed himself and his
stepdaughter, Blanche Lorelle, at Ca
YOUR, Wis, because of jealousy OF the
girl. who wished to. marry.
John w. Woten, lawyer of New
York, was sentenced to Sing sing
prison for grand larceny in the first
degree for stealing $1,000 check
from David Rothschild.
To escape the camera OF the rogue
gallery photographer, Sam Levine, ac-
cused of attempting arson, 1umpeo
from the sixth floor of police head
quarters at Brooklyn, sustaining prob
ably fatal injuries.
John Costello merchant OF New
York, has been fatally stabbed at his
summer home on Staten Island. He
was entertaining a number or guests
and. it is said, left the house to re-
sent remarks made by passers-by, one
of whom, it is believed, stabbed him.
After killing his wife with butcher
knife cutting her throat and slash1ng
her body in a most terrible manner,
Edward H. Mitchell, mining ma
chinist, committed suicide at his home
in Salt Lake City by hanging He is
believed to have been insane.
A. Keith Dargan, until recently
president of the Darlington Trust
company and the South Carolina indie
pendent Oil company, drank carbolc
acid at Columbus, S. G. He left
statement saying that he had appropri-
ated the company's funds. Loss, $780,
900.
Henry Weidmann and his brother
John. living six miles from Waverly,
Iowa. on farm, had a quarrel. Hen
nv stabbed John several times in the
back and neck. Fearing he mad killed
his brother Henry committed suicide
by hanging. Henry was thirty-tye
wears old and John is twenty
John will recover.
After writing the following pitltul
note to his wife, Gill Neal, Moulton,
Iowa, blacksmith, blew out his brains:
."Tobaco has driven me to this. 1t
has eaten out the walls of my stomach
and made me a physical wreck.
could live only short time. Tell my
bovs the cause of my fate and warn
them never to use tobacco or intoxi-
cants. Goodbye"
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-07-22
Suffering Is Intense.

Last night no relief was in sight and
the roll of fatalities must be neces-
sarily increased by many who, having
thus far withstood the ordeal are Sc
weakened as to leave them more sus-
ceptible of the heat.
Yesterday all records for the sum-
mer were broken in point OF high tenn
perature. but mercifully the humidity
was correspondence less, But for this
the total prostrations and deaths must
have been double.
In New York the suffering was in
tense, especially in the crowded tene-
ments, where scarcely a breath of air
reached the sitting atmosphere.
It was a busy day for the hospitals
and the ambulances were continuous
ly on the street.
To add to the unavoidable physical
suffering, Brooklyn was threatened
with a water famine, while the whole
city was startled by the prospect of a
strike of the icemen.
Four Deaths in Chicago.
Chicago, July 20. = Yesterday was
the hottest day of the year for this
city, the mercury registered 95 de-
grees for two hours yesterday after
noon.
Four deaths and seventeen prostra-
lions were reported to the police. Ser
eral of the latter cases may prove
fatal.
No Relief in Sight.
Washington. July 20.-There will be
no material relief from the present
high temperature throughout the coun-
try for three or four days according
to the weather bureau.