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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

By EDWIN HIGGINS.

The naples climbing to the sky,
Clasp hands with graceful branches;
And winged shadows downward hy,
Like sheen from silver lances.
There's beauty in the arching limb,
There's music In the branches,
In grateful shade the light grows dim;
The shade with sunbeam dances.
The cedars with the naples grow,
Sweet In all kinds Of weather;
Glad In the sunshine and the snow
They live and sing together.
Through the long day the children play;
The sun to westward marches,
The weary often love to stray
Meath maple-cedar arches.
The happy home of bird and song,
The lengthening shadows linger
To greet the stars when day hath gone;
When star land opes her culver.
Then Cynthia brings q snowy veil
For nodding boughs and branches.
And hears the oft recited tale
Of Love to one he fancies.
To music Of the sylvan seas.
One morn Art erstwile drifted,
And walked beneath the stately trees;
Fair. beautiful and gifted.
In deepest thought transflxed he stood
In long aisle of archinR trees;
In IL beheld the holy road.
Glory crowned, with precious wreaths.
"I'll build aloft," aloud he cries,
Temple fair, with aisle like this,
It's glist'niDg spires shall touch the skies,
Cedartipped, with cloudless bliss"
"I'll take from breast of mountai stone
Angels for its towering dome;
God will bless it for His own,
Heaven or earth will have home"
Art is Loves graceful, agile child
Scanning earth, beneath, above;
The storm swept sea, the star realm wild,
Carving semblance-all for Love.
oh, builder of q nobler selfI
Seeking far for loftiest gain;
Times richest gifts are joy and health
Meath the trees of shady lane.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08
A PROVISIONAL NAME.

A girl baby was brought to Seat
tie clergyman to be baptized. He
asked the name of the baby.
"Dinah NJ" the father respond
ed.
"But what does the M. stand
for? asked the minister.
"Well, don't know yet. It de-
pends upon how she turns out"
why, I do not understand you, "
said the minister.
"Oh, if she turns out nice and
sweet and handy about the house,
like her mother, shall call her Di-
nah May. But if she has a fiery
temper and bomb-shell disposition
like mine, 1 shall call her Dinah
Might"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

HE HAD been courting the girl for
a long time. 1t happened on Sunday
night after church. They were sit
ting on the sofa, and she looked with
inefable tenderness into his noble
blue eyes.
"Tom," she murmured, with a
tremor in her voice, didn't you tell
me once you would be willing to do
an act Of heroism for my sake?"
eyes, Mary, and I gladly reiterate
that statement now," he replied in
confident tones. "No noble Roman
of old was fired with a loftier ambi-
ton, braver resolution than l."
"Well, Tom, I want You to do
something really heroic for me-"
"Speak, darling! What is it!"
"Ask me to be your wife. We've
been fooling long enough"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08
TIE WOMAN WHO wEKPs.

Though to few mem there is
something pathetic in the sight of a
woman's tears, to the majority the
emotional female is an adherence.
Therefore, good tap of brine is a
great weapon in the wife's armory,
should she be desirous of securing
her husbands dislike. She must
not cry and have done with it, how
ever; she must continue to whimper
with infinite patience and on every
occasion, and between whiles must
season her drip, drip, drip with a
resonant sniff.
Should she go about her work in
this condition, with the air of a mar
tyred angel, knocking the furniture
over and jabbing down pieces of
crockeryware calculated to make a
good row, at the same time carefully
leaving the door open so that he may
be eplayed upon by the savage draught
during her frequent passages from
sitting room to kitchen, she may
couns upon her conquest as secure.
Some husbands appear to dislike
more than the weeping wife the nag
ging ore. To nag successfully you
must let no opportunity go by of
finding fault. Suppose you are
taken to he theatre; you must COM
plain that your seat isn't a good one
and that YOU can't see.
When you change houses you
must make odious comparisons be-
tween the small one you have left
and the big one his industry has
provided for you, always to the dis
advantage of the big one. Husbands
are quite chilled by systematic dis
approval, therefore the nagging pro-
gram is to be recommended when
haste is matter to be considered.
A written guarantee to succeed in
six months at the outside is given
away with the next recipe. There
are men so exquisitely patient and
long suffering that day or two at
time they may hold out, but dislike
of the most pronounced type invaria'
bly, rewards the persistent practitioner
of the reproach prescription. Do not
be overscrupulous in this quarter.
You must reproach your husband for
everything without reserve. If your
grandfather in Boston falls down
slippery bit of pavement, or your lit
tie brother in Chicago gets the
whooping cough, you must make it
perfectly clear 10 your husband in
New York that both disasters are
traceable to him.
Supposing your husband to be one
of those open-hearted and confding
specimens who longs for sympathy,
and pays you the compliment of tell
ing you he values your opinion aud
advice, grant him no attention when
he talks to you about his business
affairs. Such subjects you may in
form him, DO not interest you one
bit. 1t may occur that he will even
then persist, and should he do So
your best plan is to go away and
sulk. Few men admire sullen wives.
Among these hiuts every wife
should find something useful.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

"Now," said the teacher, ''sup-
pose your father gave your mother q
IS note to take out $2.75 for herself
and return to him the balance ; what
would be left?
"Pop," promptly replied Tommy
Turf.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

The ideal colors are brown, bay,
chestnut and gray, in the order
named. Blacks, it is pointed out, are
no louger in vogue, being reserved
for formal occasions. High action,
though not to the point of absurdity,
is desired.
With these ideals in view the ex-
perts at Fort Collins and Washing
ton are working toward the develop
ment of carriage horse that will be
typically American.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

"I'M GOING up to interview your
wife," said the society reporter.
"Do you suppose she'll talkl
"Do II" replied the husband.
why, she'll be talking when your
twenty-second edition comes out"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

AN IRISH railroader once had a
wreck, in which his engine was de-
rallied. He sent long message to
headquarters. The manager told
him to write his messages as short as
possible. In few days he received
the following: ;,
"Of ag'in, on ag'in, gone ag'in
Finnegan."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

"WHAr sort of a woman is your
friend madame the countess?"
"She is a woman of sixty, who
looks fifty, thinks she'sforty, dresses
like thirty, and acts like twenty"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

AN FRESHMAN, recently landed.
entering an undertaker's inquired
the custom of mourning in this coun-
try. eff it's for a near relative,
wear wide Grape band around your
hat. The more distantly related,
the narrower the Grape" was the
reply. "Bego-ra, give me a shoe
string It's me mother-in law !" said
PAT.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

THE contingent that would rather
be right than be in Jail is considerably
larger than the one that would rather
be right than be president.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08

MEN WHO are always attempting
to kill two birds with one stone never
bag much game.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08
CHATS WITH GIRLS ABOUT THIS, THAT
AND THE OTHER.

nv Dea, G1rZs.-I have told you
that coal attracted little attention until
about 1920. Mysterious rumors were
beginning to prevail that this new
substance called coal emitted more
heat than wood, and made a more
durable fire. Several wagon loads
had been brought to Philadelphia
and exhibited, but the public bene-
factor was denounced as a swindler.
Coal wagons were not seen on the
streets until 184o in any number.
One bold gentleman in 1924 had an
open CRATE put upin his house, which
was the talk of the town, and many
visitors thronged to see the novelty.
All the thoroughfares were paved
with cobble stones (now becoming
things of the past generally with us.
1 have several of them in my garden
now as curiosities they will be shown
in future years, by my posterity I
suppose) and jolting work it was
hauling over these rough stones. On
Sunday the traffic was stopped in the
neighborhood of churches by a stout
chain drawn across the street, and
such was the sanctity of the town
that driving on the Sabbath was not
considered respectable. How little
this idea prevails today, we know,
and poor, hard driven specimens of
horse flesh would be thankful for one
days rest in the stable or the open
pasture field.
Oil and wax lit up the houses of
the rich, and tallow candles were con.
sumed by the rest. Was it not ex-
traordinary that through numberless
centuries so little progress had been
made in artificial light? Looking
back, my dear girls, still further, we
find that it was also wax and oil that
threw their pale lustre over the feasts
of Sardanapulus. Gas made its ap-
pearance in London in 1876 and after
wards. long time, here, for lighting
the thoroughfares. All the best C)
families kept negro servants. They
were free, but retained the civility
and Difference of their former condi-
tion. They did not dream they were
the equals of the whites, either So
cially or politically. Ihave mention
ed before the venders who went along
the streets crying their wares. Brick
dust was one of the ''cleansers" en-
ployed, and sand. The brick dust
venders passed away with the sand
men, who sang
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-08
"Sand your kitchens,
Sand your floors,
Polish your tins
But paint your doors. y

No one today buys floor sand, but
everyone wanted it then, when there
were more sanded floors than carpeted
ones. Milkmen carried milk pals on
neck yokes to supply customers {; and
baker, boys delivered cakes and bread
from trays and baskets carried on their
heads, a bunch of tally sticks" dan
gled from their waists, on which they
scored the numbers of loaves taken.
The baker still comes with his bread,
biscuits and buns, but the tally"
has disappeared and the "charge up"
account has taken its place. "Readin
and writin" had not fallen to the ac-
complishments of all at that time 1
write of, and an education was only
for the few. Another familiar sight
in the old days no longer meets our
eyes-the sweep OH" He was a
chimney sweep-a man accompanied
by two or three small boys of differ
ent sizes. Wood-burning produced
SCOT in the chirnneys, aud these small
boys went up the chimney with their
brushes in hand to brush them down
clean of the SCOT about twice year.
Sometimes the little fellows got
caught in the turn of fue and had
a hard time. 1t seems to have been
anything but an alluring avocation,
and those l have seen always i'm
pressed me with their apparent sad
ness. They were sights to behold.
Black by nature. black with SCOT,
with the whites of their eyes gleam-
ing like burnt holes in blanket. !"
"Ohl OIL Sweep-oh - was their
cry in unison.
The soap fat and hickory wood
ashes man with his unsavory push
cart is no longer with US. His voice
salutes us not at our doors, and there
fore our ears and olfactories escape.
But few of the fish women of other
days, with the we'll poised fry of fish
on their heads, their arms akimbo,
are to be heard. One of then passed
my house on Friday about q A. NJ.
and her musical cry "Fresh catfish, "
mounts high in the scale (no pun in
tended here of a ishy nature, girls)
and is heard a block away. 1 often
rise from my bed to take look at
her. She has no tray well filled, but
a basket on each arm instead. These
trays were placed on a rounded pad
on the head and never seemed to be
in danger of falling or slipping aside
1 have seen in these days many oi
our Italian immigrant women going
along the streets away from building:
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
ODD BITS AND BREvITIES.

President Roosevelt does not like au-
tomobiles. He has been importuned
many times to buy one or accept one
as a gift, but he refuses even to ride
in them. He sticks to horses.
MacMonnies has been appointed
sculptor of the proposed $4,000 bronze
statue of Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van
Wrinkle, which is to be mounted on a
granite pedestal in Central park, New
York.
Maj. Charles Gantz, a resident OF
this country, claims the unique distinc-
ton of being the smallest man in the
world. He is SO years of age, weighs
only 80 pounds and is Is inches in
height.
Several English song birds, including
the lark, nightingale, %blackbird and
thrush, are thriving in an outdoor fly
ing cage in the New York 700, and
make themselves quite at home with
American birds.
In a sped contest on typewriters in
Chicago, Miss Elizabeth Baker made
the record for the smallest number of
mistakes in her copy. In half an hour
she wrote 4,085 words, making mis-
takes in only So of them.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
WHAT ALLIED JACKS sTEED.
He Had "Trimmed" the Old "Craftn
Shipshape to Facilitate
Navigation.

With many a hitch Of his trousers and
pulls at his forelock in respectful salute
to Justice. Jack Collins, able seaman. was
~navigated up to the courtroom railing by
q policeman on a charge of cruelty to
animals.
"He had a p~aving-stone tied to the tail
of the horse he was riding, your wor-
ship" said the officer who had arrested
him.
What wal that or?'sternly asked the
magistrate.
well, admiral, that wasn't no cruelty
to animals, as this officer says, at ALL
blurted out Jack. Il hired that bony craft
outside for a short cruise ashore. Soon
after getting under way l found the
bloomin' old packet wouldn't steer a little
bit. She was all down by the head
and tackled about the street when the
wind was fair astern. Try as l would l
couldn't get steady storage way on her,
as she did to leeward. Then, thinks l,
she's too light by the stern, as her heels
were constantly liftin' and racing lust
for all the world like our propellers on
the ship when she losses on a big sea.
She wants more weight aft, says an old
shipmate of mine that l met, and then
l Just got him to help me come to an
anchor while I shipped q little ballast aft.
That's all, your worship. All shipshape
and above board, and no reason in the
world why this blue and brass-bound cor
vette here should have overhauled me
at all"
Dismissed" said the justice, after Jack
had agreed to ~jettison the ballast and take
the craft home in tow" which meant
lead the ancient steed back to the stable.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
A BUSY OMAN
Can Do the Work of 3 or 4 If Well Fed.

An energetic young woman living
Just outside of New York, writes:
Il am at present doing all the house,
work of a dairy farm, caring for 2 chill
dren, a vegetable and flower garden, a
large number of fowls, besides manag-
ing an extensive exchange business
through the mails and pursuing my
eral newspapers and magazines (de-
signing fancy work for the latter and
all the energy and ability to do this l
owe to Grape-Nuts food.
ut was not always so, and a year
ago when the shock Of my nursing
deranged my stomach and nerve SO
that l could not assimilate as much
as a mouthful of solid food, and was in
even worse condition mentally, he
would have been a rash prophet who
would have predicted that it ever
would do SO.
prior to this great grief I had suf-
fered for years with impaired diges-
ton, insomnia, agonizing cramps in
the stomach, pain in the side, consti-
patton, and other bowel arrangements,
all these were familiar to my daily
life. Medicines gave me no relief
nothing did, until a few months ago,
at a friends suggestion, I began to use
Grape-Nuts food, and subsequently
gave up coffee entirely and adopted
Postum Food Coffee at all my meals.
''To-day I am free from all the trou-
bles I have enumerated. My digestion
is simply perfect, / assimilate my food
without the least distress, enjoy sweet,
restful sleep, and have a buoyant feel
ing of pleasure in my varied duties. In
fact, I am a new woman, entirely made
over, and ! repeat, / owe it all to
Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little
book, .sThe Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
TALES ABOUT WRITERS.

The late Henry Harland is said to
have received $4,000 from one Of his
novels, but his manner of working
killed him.
M. Jusserand, the French ambassa-
0 to this country, is a voluminous
author, whose works abundantly show
n thoroughness Of the writer.
DR.. William Henry Drummond, the
poet of the French-C Canadians, has
given up his medical practice and gone
into copper mining in the dominion.
A volume by the well-known Italian
tenor, Signor Caruso, containing carlo
atures of members of the company as
well as the staff is attracting much at
tention. The singer will give the prof
Its of the sale of the book to the TIA
liam Benevolent institute and its hos
pital.
Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic
Monthly, is appointed to a. professor
ship in English literature in Harvard
college, a chair which has remained
vacant since 1866 and which before
that time was occupied by George
Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfel-
low and James Russell Lowell.
The poets corner" in the cemetery
of the Alexander Newski cloister in st.
Petersburg has been augmented by the
grave Of Myrrha Lichwizkaya (Yibert),
one of the few Russian women who
have attained eminence for their poet
Nr \ A. la,~1<1r cf ~ pr0nNi-
nent lawyer in ST. Petersburg, where
she was born in 1869. In 1896 her first
volume of poems was issued; three
other volumes followed. Her verse is
characterized by oriental touches. and
her ~favorite theme is love.
The hitherto unpublished love letters
of Nine. de Stael to Benjamin Con-
slant, which are to be printed soon,
promise to awaken interest in the le-
gal ownership of letters of Importance
In the world of literature. The publ
cation of the letters in question has
been authorized by the Baroness de
Nolde, who is a descendant of Con-
stant's wife, the Baroness o Mahren-
holtz; but the de Broglie family, Nine.
de Stael's direct descendants, are said
to be strongly opposed to it.
James Branch Cabell, h author,
has been SO annoyed lately by inquiries
from strangers as to how he works
that he has adopted a form of reply
which he declares to be eficacious. 81
find l do my best work." SO runs Mr..
Cabell's statement, Lying at full length
In a marble tank filed with gold fish.
with the water at a temperature OF 80
to lessen the heat of inspiration" AS
a matter of fact, Mr.. Cabell admits
that he does not know his method of
composition further than that he rare
ly averages 1000 words at a sitting and
that he works only at night.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
Cures Cancer, Blood Poison and
rheumatism.

If you have blood poison producing erup-
tions, pimples, ulcers, swollen glands,
bumps and risings, burning, itching skin,
copper-colored spots or rash on the skin,
mucous patches in mouth or throat, fall
ing hair, bone pains, old rheumatism Or
foul catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B.
B. b.. 1t kills the poison in the blood;
soon all sores, eruptions heal, hard swell
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perfect cure is made of the worst cases
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For cancer, tumors, swellings, eating
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Blood Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga. Describe
trouble and free medical advice also sent
in sealed letter.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
One Too Many for Them.

A short time ago a gang of riveters
was sent to do some work on a bridge
in course of construction. They got
lodgings and started to board them
selves; but they began to think the
landlady was helping herself to their
food, SO they thought they would try
and catch her. Seeing new potatoes
exposed for sale at a grocer's they
bought some, and having counted
them, they gave them to the ~landlady
to cook for their dinners. Each man
was to count how many he got; but
to their surprise, when they lifted the
cover off the dish, they found the
landlady had mashed the potatoesl
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27

in life when womans great change
may be expected.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was prepared to meet the needs
of woman's system at this trying
period of her life. 1t ~invigorates and
Strengthens the female organism and
builds up the weakened nervous system.
For special advice regarding this i'm
portant period women are invited to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass,
and it will be furnished absolutely free
of charge. The present Mrs. Pinkham
is the daughter-in-law Of Lydia E. Pink
ham, her assistant before her decease,
and for twenty-five years since her
advice has been freely given to sick
women.
Read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Com
pound did for Mrs. Hyland and Mrs.
Hinkle:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 had been suffering with displacement of
the organs for years and was passing through
the change of life. Ny abdomen was badly
swollen: my stomach was sore; l had dizzy
spells, sick headaches, and was very nervous.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
Copyright, 1905, by W. $. Edson.)
Scripture Authority.-Exodus 5:1-l9.

was in q
fever of excite
ment. Rumors had
reached the city
that there had
been an uprising
among the Hebrew
slaves in the clay
pits and brick
yards, that many
of the Egyptian
overseers had e e
killed and that the
Hebrews W e e
swarming over the
la n n Numbering
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
A Laxative.

If you must take a laxative, take a harm.
less one. Lax-Fos does not grippe, therefore,
does not ~irritate. Irritation is what does
the harm. Price SO cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
Flashing,

May-Miss Shove said at one time she
did not care to sing in the choir. Now
she seems more than anxious.
Eva-Yes; she has just had her teeth
filed with gold.-Chicago Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27

There is hardly anything as hard as be-
ing as nice to your wife's relatives as you
expect them to be to you.-N. Y. Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
She Was Qualified.

Mistress-Above all, / want a servant
who has some refinement.
Applicant-Well, madam, I've been OPP
Grated on for appendicitis and had pto-
maine poisoning twice. Meggendorfer
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27

Bad
Days
Appalling Effect.

The struggling author opened the let
ter the postman had just brought.
1t was from his publisher and contained
a check for a large amount.
"Well," he chuckled, Il seem to have
found the secret of write living at last!"
Chicago Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27

Give a man a musical voice, long hair,
high. white forehead and a dreamy person
ality. and he can read a department. store
al. to an audience of women and make
them exclaim: "How divine!"-lndian-
apolis Star.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27
You Don't Have to Wait.

Every dose makes you feel better. Lax
Eos keeps your whole inside right. Not one
grippe in a full bottle. Sold on the money
back plan everywhere. Price so cents.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27

It is human nature to wonder how 20
many incompetent people succeed where we
can't.-Judge.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-04-27

The conscience of some men never
hurts them until they are found out.