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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-16

Carleton, Mich, March 13.-A warm
fight was put up at the village election
at Maybee between the citizens and
the peoples parties. The citizens
elected their entire ticket as follows:
President, John HerZog; clerk, Rich
ard Vivian; treasurer, Lenard Reider;
assessor, Clarence Wehrung; trustees,
r. H. Smith, Henry Liedel and Dan
lei Harley.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-16

Newberry, Mich, March 13.--Jomes
c. Foster, a republican, was elected
village president.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-16

Allegan, Mich, March 13.-At the
annual village election held here, Pro-
bate Judge F. H. Williams was elected
president by the republicans over his
opponent, T. M. Cook, by majority
of 14S. The entire republican ticket
was elected with the exception Of the
assessor, who had majority of rs.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-16

Chelsea, Mich, March 13.-With the
largest majority that any one ticket
ever held in this village, the working
mems party won out over the citizens
party for every Office. The new Of
flcers are: President, f. p. Glazier;
clerk, II. Felerdt; treasurer, John Sar-
rell; assessor John Hummel; trus-
tees, w. j. Knapp, o. G. Burkhart
and J. w. Schenk.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-16

Rochester, Mich, March 13.-Only
one ticket, the peoples progressive
party, was in the field for the village
election. The successful ones are:
President, o. J. Lasengry; clerk, Geo.
Newberry; treasurer George A. AK
ford; assessor, ]. w. Horn; trustees,
w. H. BRACE, John F. Jackson and j.
w. McCormac. A proposition to raise
$4,000 for an addition to the water
works reservoir was carried.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09

that the child is not brought up in
the way it should go?" Is it the
child's fault? If not, why then the
Jail and degradation?
The boy returned to school. He
brought good reports for over two
years, and with them he brought Joy
and gladnees. We had, in a poor
way, tried to supply what was lack
ing in his little life, but to do this
well spark had to be struck some
where, or heart-string had to be
sounded that would respond clear and
true.
One day his mother came at the
end of weary, toilsome day to tell
me that Harry was a changed boy.
She told me how thoughtful and low
ing he was and that once when she
had been sick lie had, with the ten
derness of woman, waited on her
and given up all the pleasures of the
street. Finally the tears came into
her eyes, and she said: Judge, ]
never knew just why Harry changed
so much till one day while / was i'll
and he had been so sweet and kind /
asked him how it was he became good
for the Judge, and looking up into my
face with tear in his eye, he said !:
Well, mother, you see it's this way,
if 1 ever gifts bad, or swipes things
again, the judge-the judge will lose
his job-see ?-and he is my friend
he is-and 1 am goin' to stay with
him."
Loyalty, responsibility, trust, con-
fidence, and love-all the ennobling
instincts of the soul were there; and
these were played upon rather than
hate and fear, despair and gloom.
That they responded sweet and pure,
clear and true, the boy and the mother
knew. And God knows, and know,
and thus to know is one of the sweet
est joys of ife.-EbWorth Herald.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
GOING BAREFOOT.
BY BURGEs JOHNSON.

It's more fun goin' barefoot than anything
There ain't a single mother thing that helps yer
feelin's so.
Some days stay in muver's room gettin' in
An when I've bothered her too much, she sez,
"Oh, run an play !"
say, Kin 60 barefoot ~ En- she says, IF y
Non aiwuz wants ter holler when I'm pullin'
of my shoes /!
It's fun a-goin' barefoot when yer playin' any
Cause robbers would be noisy an Indians awful
tame
Unless they had their shoes of when they crep'
An folks can't know they're comm till they get
right close in sight.
An I'm surely goin' barefoot every day when
An haven't got nurse to say I'll catch my
death o. cold
An if yer goin' barefoot, yer want t. go out
Y can't stretch out an dig yer heels in stupid
hardwood floors
Like you kin dig 'em in the dirt. An wnere the
Th' blades feel kinder tickly an cool between
So when I'm ,pullin, OF my shoes. I'm mighty.
Cause then know mad stop me fore got
my stockings of.
If " often go round barefoot there's lots o.
things to know
OF how t. curl yer feet on stones, so they won't
An when, tn grass is sticky an pricks y at
Jes' plunk yer feet down solid, an it don't hurt
half so much.
1 lose my hat most every day. wisht did my
Err else wisht was SO poor hadn't none to
lose -HG,pers Magazine.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
WOMAN ON THE STAND.

"Now then, madam" said the at
toruey for the defense, as he began
the cross.examination, will you
please tell the Court how you know it
was a sealskin purse?"
"How do know it? Why I know
it because that's what it was"
Eyes, but how do you know that's
what it was? You had nothing but
hearsay evidence to convince you
that it was sealskin. You merely
took the word of the clerk who sold
it to you, didn't you? You didn't
see the seal killed and the hide turn
ed and the purse made, did you?'
"Look here, Mr.; Smarty," replied
the witness, Twill you let me ask you
a question? What day"
''I must insist upon"
eyes, I'll answer your question in
a minute, but will you please tell me
what day of the week this is?''
"This is Thursday. Now if you
will kindly"
Thursday? How do you know
it's Thursday? Were you present
when this day was created, and did
you see it labelled? Haven't you
merely accepted heresay evidence
that"
"Oh pshaw! If the Court please,
the witness will be excused"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
UNCLE SAM a MONEY MAKER.

A million pennies a day-that is
the capacity of a strange machine
which Uncle Sam uses in the Phila-
delphia mint to count the coin of
smallest value made by this govern
ment. The machine, known as a
counting machine, was exhibited in
the government building as part of
Uncle Sans $500, 900 display on the
peninsula in Guild lake at the Lewis
and Clark exposition.
The counting board is about as
large as big kneading board, such
as housewives use. The surface is
wide enough to hold row of forty
pennies. When the pennies are TO be
counted several thousand are heaped
onto the board, which is placed above
a hopper. Then an operator tips the
board backward and forward and side
ways so that the pennies slide about
and finally settle in the grooves made
by the brass partition Slips When
the board is full there are 900 pen
MES on it. 1t is then dumped into a
receptacle just outside the hooper and
the pennies which have slipped off
the board into the hopper are caught
by a box underneath. Pennies are
coined al the Philadelphia mint, and
the government finds the coming of
them profitable, because the value of
the metal they contain is only about
three-fourths of cent.
The upsetting machine is another
interesting mechanical contrivance.
1t is used for turning the edges of
coins. The coin disks. of the proper
size and thickness, but with their
edges still rough, are placed upright
beside round topped, revolution
table. At each revolution Of the
table one of the disks drops into a
groove between the table and an outer
she'll, and the pressure on the edges
makes them smooth.
Stamping the coin is the last pro-
cess, and this is done by means of
great machine which weighs fifteen
tons and costs SIS, 1000. There are
twenty-four such machines in the
Philadelphia mint. The disks which
are to be coins are placed in tube,
as in the case of the upsetting ma
chine. Two steels fingers take hold
of the bottom disk and move it over
the die. Then the die above presses
down on the disk, SO that the impress
siou is made on both sides. At the
same time the edges on the disk are
milled, and when the upper die raises
the steel fingers push the finished
coin out of the way and bring disk
into position.
The machine at the Portland expo
sition, which is used in stamping $40
gold pieces, has capacity of ninety
a minute. A pressure of $50 tons is
necessary to stamp silver dollar, and
13o tons pressure will stamp a dou-
bic eagle. Smaller coins require less
pressure.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
THE HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY.

How many households have at
hand carefully compiled inventory
of household goods? Not one in a
hundred. Yet such an inventory
protects the householder in settle
ments with insurance companies and
helps the adjuster to make fair
settlement. A residence inventory
way be worth hundreds or thousands
of dollars to the insured.
The compiling Of an inventory is
by just right the duty of the man of
the house, yet if accurate records are
to be kept it will be advisable for the
women to attend to the matter. In
large towns and cities it is customary
for furniture dealers to supply their
customers with printed inventory
blanks bound in booklet form. These
little books usually contain valuable
suggestions and burglary insurance.
lists of articles commonly used in a
house or apartment and resume for
totals. There are pages in the book
for a complete record of articles in
reception hall, front and back parlors,
library, dining room and buffers
closet, kitchen and pantry, guest
room, three bedrooms, servants
room, bathroom, barn and carriage
house.
Special pages are provided for an
inventory of books, brio. a-brac, glass
ware, china, jewelry, silverware, pic
lures, linen and clothing and full
page for miscellaneous articles. Col
umns are provided on each page for
the number and names OF the arti-
cles, date of purchase, cost aud de-
scription.
Where these specially printed in
ventory books are not obtained It
will be easy from the description
given above to make such a book.
Purchase a blank book with thirty
ruled lines on page or, better still,
buy loose leaf booklet, which will
allow for frequent revision of the in
ventory, and thus keep it always up
to date. Then in case of fire a COM
plete inventory of the property de-
stroyed or damaged can easily and
readily be made. 1t is always advisa-
bic to keep inventory with insurance
policies together in safe place
Good HonSekeebing.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
CONSIDER THE CLOCK.

Did you ever take time to consider
the clock? You should have done so
if you have not, seeing the clock gives
YOU the time whenever you ask it.
(No, this is no joke. 1t is plain
statement of fact.
The clock is so sensitive that it con-
stantly keeps its hands before its face.
This is due to the fact that though no
fault of its own it has been doing
time for many years in the most pub
lie manner. 1t may be that as the
face of the clock has no eyes, nor
mouth, or nose, nor chin, nor cheeks,
nor any of the usual facial appurte-
nances, keeps its hands over it to hide
these defects. But this can scarcely
be, we fancy, because its hands have
no fingers nor thumbs, nor has it any
arms, and any attempt to conceal one
defect would only expose another.
Most clocks have only two hands,
but many have three, and it is some
what remarkable anatomically as
we'll as numerically, that the third
hand is the second hand. 1t may also
be remarked that the minute hand
is not the minute hand, for it is lon
ger than the hour hand.
The clock has neither feet nor legs,
but it runs just the same. 1t may be
fast or slow, but it does not walk. It
always runs, but it never runs up.
It runs down unless it is kept run
ing round. Providence wisely did
not give feet to the clock.
The clock has key, but no lock,
and for that reason even the most ig-
norant person never tries to open
clock with the key.
Some clocks strike and some do
not, but no clock ever strikes with its
hands. Just why clock should be
so peculiar is no affair of ours.
(Of course this is no joke. The
striking of clock may be an affair
of hours, but it is not spelled the
same way. We are not trying to be
funny. This is a dignifed article.
Please do not interrupt US again.
That passage in Scripture which
says, "By their works shall you know
them," does not refer to clocks, but
it might we'll have done SO, because
that is the way good clock is
known.
The clock speaks universal Ian
guage, and no matter whether it is a
German clock, or French or Spanish
or Italian, it can tell you the time
Just as distinctly as if it were plain
Yankee.
The clock differs from all other hu-
mau affairs in that while their opera
tions end when they are wound up,
the clocks do not begin until they
are wound up.
There are no clocks in heaven, be-
cause there is no time there. Neither
is there any night, and an eight day
clock would not know when to stop
San Francisco Call.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
THE LOST WATCH.

"Naow, l mind th' time" drawl-
ed old Hank Calkins from the coun-
ter as he applied match to the sput-
tering bowl of his pipe and stared at
the smooth shaven face and cropped
mustache of the stranger through the
smoke. IT mind tn time, three
years ago this June, when I had a
purity good gardin, tn seed all plant
ed in th' moon. I was grubbin' tn
cabbage that day when lost my
watch-one O. tn most ackret time
pieces. Mandy an me hunted nigh
all TIL mornin' but next day I had
to swap ca'f with Deacon Vedder
fer another watch.
"Waal, it run along till about
Thanksgivin', when tn ole woman
says fer me to git head O cabbage
fer tn billed dinner. I brought up
out'n tn celler big head an some
cider"
eyer alwus do when ye go down
celler," interrupted Deacon Vedder
maliciously.
"You shut up an let me alone
AS was a-sayin,' I brought up th'
head an was cuttin' it in ha'f when
my knife struck somethin' hard.
Cuttin' keerful, 1 opened it, an out
dropped my watch from tn center o.
tibet cabbage, an still a-runnin an
only two minutes behind tn right
time"
"But how in the name of time could
it be running" queried the drum
mer, latter being lost five months ?"
"Waal, ye see," answered Hank,
"it was one O. them curly heads O.
cabbage, an tn leaves had kept
CROWN an twistin' around tn stem
an windin' thet watch till she was
most wound tight when I picked it
up, by hen p
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
COVERING GLASSES.

In these days of microbes the care
full woman never lets liquid stand un-
covered for a moment, since it is we'll
known that both milk and water
quickly absorb impurities from the
air.
When the liquid is in fairly large
quantities in pitcher or water bottle,
the covering presents few difficulties,
but often is it necessary to leave a
glass half full, or medicine must be
protected.
A clever housekeeper, tired of hav-
ing cards slip off these glasses or ex-
ira doilies to wash, hit upon the
scheme of using small individual but
ter plates for covers.
She keeps about a dozen or more
of the butter dishes-the inexpensive
white variety-in convenient places,
half in her medicine cupboard, the
rest slowed away in different rooms.
Thus, when any one is i'll or a glass
Of milk is to be kept over night, a
butter plate is simply slipped, bottom
down, into the top of the glass, rest
ing on the edge.
The ordinary butter plate just fits
exactly most glasses in common use,
and keeps the contents perfectly air
tight.
THE PASTOR, who was calling upon
a member of his congregation, asked
the name of the sprightly little daugh-
ter whose winning ways had attracted
his attention.
''We call her Elia," said the little
girls mother.
"That is a good name, Mrs. Don
ley,' remarked the minister. 1T
has been made classic by Charles
Lamb"
"Well, to tell the truth. explain
ed Mrs. Donley, cher name is Corn
nelia, but it's easier to call her
Ella"
"I see,' he rejoined. "And she
probably likes it better. 1t is pain
less extraction of corn.
PAssENGER-Wh Whatever became OF
the Bulger family?
Bus Driver-Oh, Bill turned out
fine. Got to be an actor Toms an
artist Mary's a music teacher. But
John never amounted to much. 1t
took all he could earn to support the
others.
THE virtue lies in the struggle, moi
| in the Drize.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09

Colorado Desert in 1916. What
changes have taken place in the nearly
sixty years that have elapsed! His
trails were followed by the gold
seekers of '4o, and these by the stock
and cattle men who came to make
the Golden State their home. Then
came the railway, and now this des-
ert is banded from one end to the
other by the steel rails. and swift ex-
press trains whirl across it at almost
incredible speed, and with all the dis
comforts and dangers eliminated.
Then came the scientific irrigation
ist and farmer, and under their hands
large sections of this once terrible
desert have changed and are now vast
tracts or bloom and fruitage. To the
uninformed the transformations are
as unbelievable as they are mirac-
ulous. By means of irrigating canals,
some of them eighty feet wide, the
water from the Colorado River is
being conveyed to thousands of acres.'
All this is Government land and any
citizen of the United States desirous
of having a farm, can take up 100
acres, the only condition being that
he live upon it and improve it. A
small sum per acre is charged for the
water, however, with period of years
allowed in which to pay and, in the
meantime, the farmer is in full and
actual control. He can grow corn,
wheat, maize, alfalfa and a thousand
and one plants and vegetables, and
raise stock that always finds ready
market at good prices.
Thus modern methods have made,
in short space of time, well-set-
tied region where over 5000 people
are now living in one of the most
healthful climates in the world, even
though it is very hot in the summer.
Slowly but surely, the desert, as
Kearney saw it, is Disappearing
Fou,- Track NewS.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
Be CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.

In speaking of a persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with homes of glass
Should seldom throw stone.
If we have nothing else to do
But talk of those who sin,
'Tis better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults-and who has n0tr
The old as well as young
Perhaps we may. for ought we know.
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell you of better plan,
You'll find it works full well;
To try my own defects to cure
Before of others tell.
And though sometimes hope to be
No worse than some know,
Ny own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us all when we commence
To slander friends or foe,
Think of the harm one word would do,
To those we little know.
Remember, curses. sometimes, like
Our chickens, "roOst at h0me."
Don't speak of others faults until
We have none of our own.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
CASUAL PHILOSOPHY.

What one goes into debt for nine
times out of ten is luxury.
A man always making excuses
leaves himself no time to make any,
thing else.
Business based upon friendship
threatens both friendship based upon
business strengthens both.
That man can best ignore the en-
nifty of those who don't understand
him who goes home to a wife who
does.
1t is a good deal easier to pray for
mems souls than to pour balm into
their wounds, not to mention that it
costs less.
The supreme court has not yet de-
cided which is the weaker mamie
who is not able to see his own weak
ness or he who has no faith in himself.
From an intellectual point of view
that time of ones life is most wanted
when he tries, in a spirit of dumb 10y
atty to admire all those things that
are popularity considered admirable.
--.SucceSS.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09

PAT-They do say thot young DIR.
Callahan is no good.
Mike-Perhaps. But Oi'll say this
fer young DIR. Callahan-he hasn't
killed anybody yit but phat wud hov
died anyway some tonne.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
STILL SMILING.

The visitor in the South was offer
ing his sympathies to the old colored
parson.
cts a shame, uncle" said the
visitor, "that the congregation should
drop buttons in the plate when you
were collecting your salary"
"Dat doan match, sab" replied
the old man with a luminous smile.
"Ah kin use dem on dat old path OBJ
trousers de kernal glib me"
"Well, they dropped nails in the
plate also."
"Just what All need, sab. Yo'
see Ah'm guine to build cohnhouse
en- Ah'll need de nails to drive in the
shingles"
"But the lead nickels. What are
you going to do with them, throw
them away?"
"No, sab; Ah'm guine to make
sinkers foh nah fishing lines"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09
WHAT A LETTER WILL DO.

A proofreader, anent the impor-
tance of trifles, read from his note
book these absurd sentences, each
made by the omission of single letter:
"The conflict was dreadful and the
enemy was repulsed with great laugh
ter.
"When the presidents wife enter
ed the humble sitting room of the
miner she was politely offered hair.
GA man was yesterday arrested on
the charge of having eaten a cabman
for demanding more than his fare.
can employee in the service of the
government was accused Of having
stolen small OK from the mail. The
stolen property was found in his vest
pocket"
PLEASE, pa" pleaded Bobby,
"just one more"
"All right" said pa, closing his
book.
"Wen, say, pa" began Bobby,
"who is going to bury the last man
that dies?"
THE SMALL boy and the knothole
in the baseball fence now get to-
gether.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09

FLoss1E IS six years old. MAN
ma" she called one day, 'if get
married will have to have a hus-
band like pa?"
"Yes," replied tie mother, with
an amused smile.
"And if I don't get married will |
have to be an old maid like Aunt
Kate ?'
eyes"
Mamma, '-after pause-"it's s
a tough world for US women, ,ain't !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09

WHAT is the difference between a
sentence and a cat? One has its
pause at the end of its clause, and the
other its claws at the end Of its paws.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-06-09

THE virtue lies in the struggle, not
in the prize.
The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1906-01-10
Ladies' Underwear COrsets
Dry Goods, Etc.

25c Vests and Pants cut to &c.,
SOC Vests and Pants cut to 39c
$100 Underwear cut to zoe.
ChiIdren's Union Suits soc for 395.
Ladies Corsets, special lot $100, cut to so.
The above embraces good line.
Big lot of Remnants, Embroider1es, and
Laces.
Big lot of Mating Remnants. Prices very
attractive.
Children's Flannelette CIoaks, pink, grey,
ages to 5; price Coo, cut to 800.
Lace Curtains $1.o0 for 79c; the $1.50 for
$1.19.
Sacrifice prices on odd pairs of curtains.
Ladies and Misses Sweaters
$500 for $3.50 $500 for 1929.
$500 for $1.49 $1.50 for $1.15
Fancy Scrim 1oc, reduced to &c.
Fancy Drapery 14c, reduced to &c.
FIannelete Sc, reduced to 615c.
81 bleached Domestic as low as 4c.
"A heavy Bro. Domestic, short lengths,
&c, cut to 5H.
Special quality Flannellette 10, cut to 81.
20 and 45 in. heavy Blea. Crochet Towel,
Ioc.
Linen Huck and Linen Damask Towel,
1870.
Mattress Ticking at 41kc.
Mattress Ticking, good quality, SIC.
IS in Blea Damask, cut to 20c.
Special 81 in. Plaids at Sc
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