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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21
THE POWER OF ELECTRICITY.

One of the best known electrical
engineers of England has prepared a
table of statistics showing the work
which can be accomplished by kilo-
watt-hour, or the consumption of T.
900 watts of electricity per hour. On
the regular lighting circuit the kilo-
watt-hour of electricity costs about
IL cents, and where it is, used for
heating and power or in large guam
titles the consumer pays considerably
less.
According to the Englishman's
figures kilowatt hour will
Saw 800 feet Of timber (dead).
Clean 5000 knives.
Keep your feet warm for FIVE hours.
Clean rs pairs of shoes.
Clip five horses.
Warm your curling tongs every day
in the year for three minutes and
twice on Sundays.
Run a mechanical sieve for two
hours.
Run an electrical clock for 10 years.
Iron 80 silk hats.
Light 5000 cigars.
Knead 8 sacks of flour into dough.
Fill and cork $50 dozen pint bot
ties.
Supply all the air required by an
ordinary church organ for one SER
vice.
Pump 100 gallons of water or other
liquid to height of rs feet.
Run plate-polishing machine for
2I hours.
Run an electrical piano for 10 hours.
Give you three Turkish light baths.
Keep four domestic irons in use for
an hour.
Keep you warm in bed for 81 hours.
Warm all the beds in the house by
a warming pad for a fortnight.
Give you heat in your bedroom for
an hour while you are dressing or
undressing.
Boil nine kettles each holding two
pints of water.
Cook IS chops in IS minutes.
Run a small ventilating fan for FL
hours.
Keep your breakfast warm for FIVE
hours.
Warm your shaving water every
morning for month.
Run sewing machine for 2I hours.
Carry your dinner upstairs every
day for week.
Garry you 80 times from the bot
tom of the house to the top, 80 feet
each journey.
Keep your coffee pot warm at the
breakfast table every day for week.
Garry you three miles in an elec-
tric hrOi1Oharu
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

my crop at good figure. Perhaps
in the course of time there may be an
over supply, but don't look for it
in my day.
Coffee planting is not work that
many people rush into, because to
most beginners FIVE years seems a
long time to wait for your first pay
ing crop. Most people wish to put
their money in something that will
give quicker returns.
"As for buying a ready to wear
coffee plantation, we'll, they are hard
to get. 1 don't know of good one
on the market. If I did I would
gladly take the money have invest
ed in railroads and government bonds
out and put it into it.
Gas business for women, it is
like everything else, all depends on
the woman. While many women
might not care to go to Mexico to
give it trial, can see no reason why
a woman shouldn't make good liv-
ing as coffee broker.
"In almost every other field there
seem to be women acting as middle
men between the producer and the
consumer. Personally should think
very favorably of selling my crop
through a woman. Being a New
England woman, I believe in every
woman making the most Of her life.
At the same time I would not en-
ploy woman if she did not do her
work as we'll as man."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

So deftly are thoughts conveyed by
the arrangement of flowers in japan
that often verbal messages are un-
necessary, says the New York .Snn.
In November the coquette SENDS to
her lover leaf or branch of maple.
"Like it," he translates cher love
has changed"
On farewell occasions those are
called returning flowers" because
they bloom twice year are used to
subtly express the hope of safe re-
turn.
Before people that are i'll blossoms
of a sturdy, vigorous growth are
placed, that health and strength may
be suggested.
Only very gay flowers are strewn
in profusion when supplications are
made for those in aff1iction.
Prayers for rain are accompanied
by large floral pieces so arranged as
to point from right to left, that the
east wind bringing rain may be hon
ored, and very naturally the reverse
order, typifying the west wind, is
employed when fair weather is de-
sired.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

WHY SHE SANG THE HYMN.-A
well-known bishop relates that while
on recent visit to the South he was
in small country town, where, ow-
ing to the scarcity of good servants,
most of the ladies preferred to do
their own work.
He was awakened quite early by
the tones of soprano voice singing
Nearer, My God, to Thee" AS
the bishop lay in bed he meditated
upon the piety which his hostess must
possess which enabled her to go about
her task early in the morning singing
such a noble hymn.
At breakfast he spoke to her about
it, and told her how pleased he was.
"Oh, law" she replied, that's
the hymn boil the eggs by; three
verses for soft and FIVE for hard"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21
GIVING HIM A PUFF.

"Talk about journalism" an old
newspaper man recently scofed, when
a reference was made to cup to date"
methods. "Why, the Arkansas B~s-
ger, the sheet on which I got my train
ing--my real insight, you know--'way
back in ~, had anything in New
York beat a block, easy. This is the
way the BugseY handled things:
Zone day the editor was out, and
an old fellow came in and left a water
melon for him. When the editor
came in 1 called his attention to it.
Say, isn't that buster ! he ex-
claimed. We will have to do some
thing handsome for old Jones on the
strength of that. Write him up a
nice notice, calling him prominent
citizen and prosperous agriculturist,
and head it with that cut of the fell
low who was cured of something
you know, the one we were saving
TO illustrate thearticle on Threefnger
Ike If he is ever caught. You can
pound it some with the hammer If it
isn't battered up enough. '"-Har-
bey's Weekly.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

Two young misses about fifteen
years of age were walking in the
park, and all the seats seemed to be
taken. Two would-be smart young
fellows were sitting on one of the
seats. As the two girls passed, one
of the young men called to them
"Here girls, there's plenty of room
on this seat" "No Doubt see
there is nothing on it now" was the
quick retort.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21
W o K.


Some men work for honor,
Some men work for fame;
But they take the money
They may justly claim,
And are glad to get 1t,
Just the same.
Some men labor daily.
Urged by gainful lust,
Some because the doctors
Tell them that they must,
Some because they cannot
Buy on trust.
Some men work for others
Who are near and dear;
Some men work for arts sake,
So it would appear,
Some displaying courage,
Some in fear.
Some men labor nobly
For the public good,
Some because the Bible
Tells them that they should
But If no one had to
No one would.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

HUsBAND.-"You say this is veni-
SON? What induced you to buy 1t 7"
Wife, We'll, the butcher said it was
cheap and" Husband-"H he
had told you it wasn't deer he would
have been nearer the truth"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

MRS. NEwwED-Bridget, l saw
you kiss that man.
Bridget-Shure, mum, an yez
wouldn't have me resist an officer av
the law, would yez, mum
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

Two countrymen went into shop
to buy hats. They were shown a
hat In the crown of which was piece
of looking-glass. One asked what
that was for. The other replied /:
"Why, for the man who buys the
hat to see how it fits, to be sure I'
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21
WAITING FOR A JURY 10 GROW.

'tI have case still pending in a
south Georgia justice court that has
been there since 1872" remarked
Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, former
justice of the supreme court, to a
group of friends at the capitol.
"Soon after 1 began the practice Of
law took case for a client involving
a verbal contract for building log
cabin. The amount involved was less
than 500, so suit was brought in the
Justice court of the little country dis
trict where the defendant, the owis1E
of the log cabin, lived. BY consent
Of all parties the matter was referred
to ajury. The first jury camein with
a mistrial.
Another jury was called. and there
was another mistrial, and so it went
on for six or seven terms of court, each
successive jury failing to reach a ver-
dict.
"Then, one day, just before it was
time to call the case up for submission
to the seventh or eighth jury, l Ireceiv-
ed this note from the justice Of the
peace:
"Dea, Sir write this to let you
know the case of Beckham agin Lyles
cannot be tried no more in this court.
You have used up all the juries in the
district and it won't be possible to get
no more juries until some grows up or
some new folks moves in. / have
wrote the same notice to the other side.
"Your truly, P. WILLIAMS,
Justice of the Peace, 4o7 dist. G. NJ.
"With that we dropped the case by
common consent and have been wait
ing ever since for new jury to grow"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

"WHEN your mother-in-law fellinto
the water why didn't you help to get
her out 7" "My dear madam, you
must know that nothing I've ever
done has pleased her."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

LARRY cautiously-"W Would you
say Yes if ! asked you to marry me1"
Anna (also cautiously -" Would you
ask me to marry you if you thought
I'd say yes 7"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21
AMETHYsTs AND WINE.

The amethyst, according to tradi-
ton, was a good stone to have about
when one wishes to patronize the
flowing bowl without paying the
usual penalty therefor.
Wine out of an amethyst cup was
warranted not to intoxicate. At any
rate the meaning of the name was
said to be, ''I do not intoxicate.
There is another story according to
which Diana transformed boy favor
ite of Bacchus into stone, where
upon Bacchus gave the stone the color
of wine and endowed it with that
anti-intoxicating property referred to.
Pliny was pretty sensible old
party, and he said the name meant
that the color never quite reached
that of wine. Sceptical Pliny assert
ed that "the lying Magi pretended
that these gems prevent intoxication,
that they are also advantageous to
persons having suits to monarchs,
that they keep off hailstorms and
flights of locusts."
But it is also asserted, says the Lon
don Globe, that the amethyst protects
from strong passions and insures
peace of mind it is useful against
poison it gives soldiers victory over
their enemies. It is the jewel of
Venus, and according to the Rosicru-
clans should be worn on Thursdays,
set in copper.
The old Roman matrons are said,
to have highly priced the stone, not
so much for its intrinsic worth or in
herent beauty as for the fact that it
acted as charm to retain the affec-
ton of their husbands. The time was,
and that not so very long ago, when
we'll matched amethysts were thought
the equal of any stone, and a royal
necklace of any sort is mentioned as
being worth some G2, 900.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

HIccoUcHs are said to be messa-
ges from departed spirits.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

HOTELS are places where good dol
lars are exchanged for poor quarters.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

BLoBBs-Why does Subbubs hate
his next-door neighbor so? Slobbs--
The man built a high spite fence.
Blobbs-Well, I must say that ism an
easy thing to overlook.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

$50 YOU say that no woman can
fill mans placer Well, you're mis-
taken. Only this morning met a
woman who was filling two mems
places" SIS that so? Where was
she2n "In a street carr
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-21

PATIENcE.-"How do you know
Peggy is alone2" Practice-"Because
I hear her singing" ''But that's no
sign" eyes, it is. If there was
anyone with her she'd be talking"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
Budding Fruit Trees,

Budding is not the deeply mysterious
art that most amateurs think it is. II
you have a small fruit tree in your garden
that has run down." or that produces an
unsatisfactory variety of fruit, you may
improve it very much by getting buds
from some other tree that bears good fruit
and grating them here and there on your
tree. This grating operation is called
budding
Budding is done anywhere from the end
of June to the end Of August. The bud
which you insert must be dormant leaf
bud, and you remove it from it's native
place with a very sharp knife-inserting
the knife half an inch or more below the
bud and drawing it upward SO as to take
with the bud a slice of bark and very
little of the pith of the stem.
Now with the point of your knife make
horizontal cut where you wish to insert
the bud, cutting through the bark to the
wood. Across this make a perpendicular
cut about an inch and a half long, With
your knife or a budding tool raise the
edges of the bark until you can slip the
bud neatly inside. Press it downward until
1t sits Arm; fold the bark neatly over it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
An Old Garden Friend

1t Is to be regretted that the trumpet
vine is so old-fashioned that no one
seems to appreciate it sufficiently to bring
1t UP to its really magnificent possibilities.
When grown as a shrub no finer plant for
a hedge could possibly be desired. For this
purpose the plants should be set about
three feet apart, or even closer, If 1t Is
desired that the hedge should be useful as
well as ornamental.
Set in an even row where the hedge is
desired, tie each plant to q stout stake,
and allow only one branch to grow, cutting
this back when three feet high to form
the head. which should be made to branch
freely. By the time the stake has rotted
away the plant will have made a trunk
as large as ones wrist and perfectly self
supporting.
All dead and weak branches should be
trimmed out each year and the hedge kept
pruned back to symmetrical growth. If
the seed pods are not allowed to form the
plant will be in bloom nearly all summer
Such hedge will be thing to bequeath
to posterity along with old oaks and fine
elms.
The trumpet vine is equally desirable as
a climber. and on some surfaces is self
supporting, but on others. as the side Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19

quarters at Bridgeport at one time and a
herd of sixteen being shipped to Europe
in exchange for other animals.
The mechanical sensational act was in
troduced by Farin. The first of which
had personal knowledge was an act by a
trapeZe artist, who stood on concealed
trap on the ground. 1t was sprung at a
signal, throwing the performer, like jack
in the box, directly up in the air for about
trapeZe, where he did the usual aerial
exercises. 1t was a startling Innovation
and caused distinct sensation.
Farini's next success was the woman
shot from a cannon-"Zaze the Human
Cannon Ball." The principle was the same
as in the former act, only the springs were
in a big wooden cannon into the muzzle of
which the young woman was loaded.
Both Of these acts were first produced by
Farini at the London Aquarium, Of which
I-he was manager, and subsequently were
performed here and in other countries In
each case the performer was known by the
same name, SO there were several "ZazeIs''
being fired daily in as many different
countries. 1t was supreme success, as
these facts indicate.
This act was performed in New York
and, being leased from Farini, was taken
on the road the following summer En-
PEASANT, l may note that women were the
first figurantes in the mechanical thriller
Even before the war woman who slid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19

band wagon was the principal feature of
the Turner show at that time. OF course,
with the combined menagerie and circus,
fractions. The first elephant to reach these
shores was brought over by Capt. Crown
ingshield and landed at Philadelphia. No
travelling show was enterprising enough
to buy it, so 1t was exhibited singly in
Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
The first hippopotamus was secured by
Avery Smith and also was exhibited alone.
1 have heard it said that Smith cleared
$4,000 on his animal-a comfortable for
tune in those days.
Subsequently the elephant became the
leading attraction of all the tent shows
and always was brought out In triumph
at the close of the performance and SOL
EMMY parade around the ring. 1t was
always brought into and taken out Of town
in the night so the people couldn't see it
for nothing.
The elephant was the thriller Of the men
agerie. Whenever a show had obtained
some animal which a rival show did not
have, like the elephant the rhinoceros,
the hippopotamus, ETC., that feature was
dwelt on In the most extravagant terms.
The elephant was, in public interest, the
king of beasts, and in measure Is so to-
day. Finally, however, SO many elephants
were brought to this country that they
became drug in the market, no less than
forty-four of them being in the winter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19

at the stem into a sort of bladder that
supports the plant on the surface of the
water. The roots trail in the water until
the plant is ready to bloom, when they
enter the soil. The flowers are a pleasing
shade of lavender with a yellow center
and form in spikes like a hyacinth.
A few water peoples holding their bright
yellow cups well above the surface of the
water. are always attractive, and parrots
feather trailing over the sides of the tub
gives bit of tender green through the
summer, but the rokework, with ferns and
plants and tall reed or two, makes a
much tidier appearance. The papyrus-the
plant from which our first paper was
made-is very effective for edging aquatic
gardens and will grow wherever a Gamma
thrives, though it prefers a low, damp
SOIL 1t must be wintered in greenhouses or
cellar. A well-developed clump will grow
to height of ten feet.
Several varieties of bamboo, to be had
from south Florida nurseries, will do well
in the north in summer and stand a con-
siderable degree of cold. Bambusa arundin-
acea is magnificent Quick-growing sort
from forty to sixty feet tall at maturity
and will stand considerable frost. B.
aurea and B. metake are hardy with good
protection at the north. B. metake is a
handsome evergreen species of considerable
decorative value for indoor culture growing
six feet tall with large handsome foliage,
while A. falcata is a pretty variety with
the tiniest of leaves. Bamboo requires an
abundant water supply, and is therefore
most suitable for the borders of natural.
ponds, or low, damp spots on the grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19

down a wire suspended by the hair OF her
head in the old Van Amberg show was the
sensation Of the day. This field seems to
Farinis next thriller Lulu, the Human
Meteor" a young man was disguised as
woman
This Lulu act, in my opinion, has never
been excelled as a sensation. A huge
wooden arm about ten feet long, hinged at
the bottom, was drawn back SO that it
rested fiat upon platform, two stout rub
Der springs being compressed by this opera
ton. The artist, Lulu would lie full
length on this arm
The springs were released and the per-
former would be hurled through a curved
trajectory of about 100 feet. Two somer-
saults were turned during the fight, at
the end of which the performer landed
safely in net raised a few feet from the
ground.
This Lulu was generally supposed to be
young woman, but a matter of fact
it was the brother-in-law of Farini himself
who performed the feat. So well was the
secret of his sex guarded that even his
colaborers of the sawdust arena didn't
know it, and the young man was the re-
cipient of many amorous missives from
his own sex in England as we'll as in Amer
lea.
AS the act was in the height of its popu-
larity in 1880, many people of today will
remember Lulu, the daring young lady
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
Plants in Bloom Now

From this date till June the more COM
mon plants that bear blossoms are alys-
sum (bothargenteum and saxatile), column
bine, sweet shrub, lily of the valley, deutzia,
almond, Towering crabapple, pearl bush,
burning bush, genista, snowdrop, haythorn,
bush honeysuckle, Siberian iris, phlox subj
lata, polyanthus, primrose, rhododendron,
Towering currant, spireaca (dlipendula,
thunbergi and Van HoutteD, lilac, snow
ball, myrtle, weigelia and valerian
June's blooming plant will be rose,
monkshood. lilies (most kinds coreopsis,
deutzia, digitalis. hollyhock, honeysuckle,
sweet peas, sweet alyssum, spirae (most
varieties), rhododendron. poppy and del
phineum.
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turbing the plant

and then tie 1t in place either with strips
of cloth or bark.
Now you must smear this with wax suf-
ffciently to prevent the bark from drying
and to keep out the rain Union will take
place within two or three weeks, after
which the branch may be cut off just above
the bud and the inserted bud will be left
to form the new branch. If a bud has failed
to adhere, it is still possible to repeat the
process the same season. The success Of
the operation depends a. on smooth cuts,
(2) on nicely fitting the bud into the in