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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
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WOMAN AND HOME.

1t is wrong to waste and all should
remember that willful waste makes
Woeful want. 1t is mean thing for
a woman who depends upon the earn
ings of man, man who works hard
and long to earn the money for the
support of his family, to waste that
money by being extravagant in buy
ing and using. 1t is her duty, and
should be her pleasure, to get all for
the money that is possible by honest
and just dealing. 1t is equally her
duty and should be equally her pleas.
ure, to makesure shat nothing bought
is wasted.
Every dollar wasted through inn
provident buying and through waste
full use of food and materials, means a
certain amount of her husbands life
wasted through her fault. If that
dollar was not needed, he might have
been resting during the time required
to earn it. As he thought she needed
it and worked instead of resting. she
does great wrong and mean one,
too, when she fails to make the best
of it.
Buy what's needed, and ifpossible,
take advantage of the market and buy
when goods are at their cheapest.
Buy no more than can be used to
advantage.
Do not be tempted by bargains to
buy more than will be used, to buy
unsuitable things, to buy stale food,
to buy a quantity of materials for
which you have no use. Materials
can always be bought and money in
hand is always convenience.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
a CATCH QUESTION.

The civil service examiner was de-
termining the fitness of a score of ap-
plicants for the police force. He
questioned them in arithmetic, SPELL
ing, and other standard subjects, and
then said he would test their hearing.
He took his watch from his pocket,
and held it to the ear of tall, hand
some young man.
"Do you hear that tick?' he said.
Eyes, perfectly" the young man
answered.
He held it foot from the appli.
cant's ear.
"Still hear it?"
Eyes, SIR
''Now stand back three PAGES"
The young man did so.
Now" said the examiner, edo
you hear it from that distance?"
The applicant listened intently.
Then he smiled and nodded. "I still
hear it, sir" he said.
'You have the most wonderful
hearing ever came across, f" said the
examiner, enthusiastically. "That
watch hasn't been running for three
weeks"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
LINCOLN AND THE LAD.

While officially resident in Wash
ington during the civil war, once
had OCCASION to call upon President
Lincoln with the late Senator Henry
Wilson, upon an errand of public
nature in which we were mutually
Interested, writes ex. Governor Rice
in his memorial volume. We were
oliged to wait some time in the ante
room before we could be received,
and when at length the door was
opened to us, a small lad, perhaps ten
or twelve years old, who had been
waiting for admission several days
without success, slipped in between
us and approached the President in
advance. The latter gave the sena-
tor and myself cordial but brief
salutation, and turning Immediately
to the lad, said, "And who is the
little boy?" The boy soon told his
story, which was in substance that
he had come to Washington seeking
employment as page in the House
of Representatives, and he wished
the President to give him such an ap-
pointment.
To this the President replied that
such appointments were not at his
disposal, aud that application must
be made to the door-keeper of the
House at the Capitol. But, sir, !"
said the lad, still undaunted, II am
a good, boy, and have letter from
my mother, and one from the super
visors of my town, and one from my
Sunday school teacher, and they all
told me that I could earn enough in
one session Of Congress to keep my
mother and the rest of us comfortable
all the remainder of the year." The
President took the lads papers and
ran his eye over them with that pene-
trating and absorbent look so fami
liar to all who knew him, and then
took his pen and wrote upon the
back of one of them: "If Captain
Goodnow can give a place to this
good little boy, shall be grati6ed, "
and signed it "a Lincoln"
The boys face became radiant with
hope, and he walked out of the room
with a step as light as though all the
angels were whispering their con-
Rratulations.
Only after the lad had gone did the
President seem to realize that Sena-
tor and another person had been some
time waiting to see him.
Think for moment of the Presi-
dent of a great nation engaged in one
of the most terrible wars ever waged
among men, able so far to forget all
as to give himself up for the time be-
ing to the errand of a little boy who
had braved an interview unlimited,
and of whom he knew nothing but
that he had story to tell of his
widowed mother and of his ambition
to serve her i Young Folks Catholic
WeekIy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
REST AND SLEEP.

Sleep is the best and cheapest med
icine, and is within the reach of every
body. We require as much sleep as
we can procure. We may work at
high pressure if we sleep enough, but
if we overwork and undersleep irrita-
bility, insomnia and neurasthenia are
almost certainly in store. One of the
prime causes of i'll health among men
and women who have to work with
their brains is neglect of sleep. The
woman who curtails her sleep begins
to worry.
insufficient sleep in the first instance
is common cause of insomnia. Rest
and sleep are the only rational cures
for brain fag and nervous exhaustion.
1t is the highly developed mind that
is liable to worry, the alert, highly
strung individual who is prone to
suffer from sleeplessness. The coun-
try yokel can always sleep, and no.
body ever saw neurasthenlc COW,
but the higher the type the greater
need for rest and sufficient amount
of sleep.
Neglect of sleep is perhaps the
most fatal error made nowadays by
busy people. Sleep is the only ra-
tional cure of as it is the natural safe
guard against brain fag and nervous
exhaustion. It is always the highly
developed, energetic individual who
is the first to suffer from worry and
sleeplessness. .-McCaH'S magazine.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
PRIZE FISH STORY.

The prize fish story of the season
comes from Atchison county. A GER
tain Mr.. Smith, descendant from John
Smith of Pocahontas fame, cast line
into the Missouri, baited with large
minnow. He left it there over night.
Next morning he hauled in catfish
that weighed I4o pounds, When the
catfish was cut open it was discovered
that it had swallowed perch that
weighed a little over six pounds.
And when the perch was cut open the
further discovery was made that the
the latter had swallowed club that
weighed nine ounces.
Unfortunately, no one thought OF
cutting the minncw open to ascertain
if it had swallowed a saw-mill before
it was taken into port by the catfish.
The fact that perch in this State sell
dom weigh above half a pound was
not allowed to interfere with the SYM
metry of this story. st. L01fS Re-
bubLic.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
RICHES.

What to a man who loves the air
Are trinkets, gauds and jewels rare?
And what is wealth or fame to one
Who is brother to the sun
Who drinks the wine that morning spills
Upon the heaveu-kissing hills,
And sees ray of hope afar
In every glimmer of star?
What to a man whose god is truth
Are spoils and stratagems. forsooth--
Who looks beyond the doors of death
For loftier life, sublimer breath;
Who can forswear the state of kings
In knowledge of diviner things,
The dreams immortal that unroll
And burst to blossoms in his soul2
-CosmOpolitan
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

nobody knows how many lives, to say
nothing of the property involved
And the frightful catastrophe was
averted by this young man here, who
has been unjustly and shamely treat
ed by the company whose good name
he has just saved from the disgrace
of an awful calamity. And yOu"
The superintendent turned abrupt
ly to Winston without finishing his
sentence to the operator.
Your father. my boy, it is safe to
say, never received the orders this
man claimed to have given him. He
was probably asleep, as he was found
tonight, and by a falsehood covered
up his own criminal negligence y
X X
Winston Kilgore is now in one Of
the principal Offices of the 7. c. &
L. Railroad Company, growing daily
more indispensable to the manage
ment of the road. And while re-
joicing in his well-deserved success,
he takes greater satisfaction in feel
ing that his fathers good name is no
longer dishonored by even the sus-
picion that he had neglected his duty.
For the operator confessed that it was
his oversight that had caused the
freight accident at Colfax. -Ebwo,M
H<HnIH
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
THE BACHELORS REvERY.

Sweetheart, never knew loved you So"
The lover said, and bent to watch the grace
OF loves exquisiteness and light and glow
Bloom there again upon the maiden face.
The treasury of years gives back to him
The jewels and the gems of loves requite:
And through the misty tears that come to dim
His eyes he looks upon the old delight.
And there beneath the jasmine and the rose,
Entwined upon the trellis and the vine,
They plight the troth no ending ever knows
Sighed he Sweetheart. forever, ever mine y
The cuckoo echoed In the shady grove:
Forever and forever. and for aye ~
He kissed her lips, and passed the treasure trove
Along the glimmer Of the leafy way.
The cuckoo murmurs from the coppice dark.
The leaves fall clustering upon the walk;
The lover bends his ear. alas to hark-
But silence, only silence comes to mock.
No low, sweet accents greet him-he's alone
Then the old lover. wrinkled, bent and gray,
Kisses the face as chill as chilest stone,
And puts the old daguerreotype away.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

1t doesn't hurt clothes particle to
wait week to be washed, if they are
not put into close place when damp.
Some women of small families only
wash once in two or three weeks, to
save getting about it SO often.
Some one may say would take the
bread out of the mouths of the wash
erwomanin advocating home washing.
Many of the women whom l have
known who took in washing were the
wives of idle or drunken men. Iftheir
wives could not, or would not support
them, these men might have to go to
work and keep the earnings out of
the saloon till 1t doesn't pay for wives
to spoil men by working them
selves to death to keep them from
starving. The world would be the
gamer if such men did starve.
1t pays the housekeeper to look we'll
to the washings of the family, aud to
see that the clothes are not abused in
washing or in drying, and that they
are properly starched for ironing.
Profitable work in young years
means comfortable rest in age.-Mayy
Sidney IN Fam Journal
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
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FALLING OF THE HAIR.

Falling of the hair is one of the re-
suits Of failure of nutrition of the scalp.
The nutrition of the scalp may fail
prematurely; then the hair will fall
prematurely. Sooner or later in the
majority of men the hair gets thin
with advancing age. Women do not
suffer as much in this respect as men,
for the reason that they treat their
scalps better they do not cover the
hair so much, and consequently the
head is not 50 often overheated.
The reason the hair falls out at first
is because the roots of the hair become
too weak to hold the weight of the
hair. With some people the root is
so strong that the hair may grow un-
til it lies upon the floor. Some wo-
men have hair so long because the root
of the hair is very strong. In one
person the normal length is two feet
another has hair three feet long an
others hair is four feet long. Some
have hair only a foot and half in
length, because when the hair has
reached that length, for each individ-
ual, the weight of the hair is sufficient
to pull it out by the root ; it drops
away and another grows. in to takeits
place.
Hair is continually falling out, but
in health it is being continually re-
newed, like the leaves on an ever
green tree. The important thing is
to encourage nutrition of the scalp, SO
that the roots will be stronger and
will support greater length of hair.
One way to accomplish this is by ex-
posure to air and sun. You never
saw bald headed Indian. Rubbing
the scalp with the fingers dipped in
cold water and shampooing the scalp
very thoroughly, SO as to bring the
blood into the scalp, isa good practice.
| There are no medicines of any great
value for this purpose except few
germicidal fluids which are good for
cleansing the scalp 1vrna~tisaa~1- thy
root of the hair is weakened by para-
sites which grow about the root, and
and when this is the case, remedies
which will destroy these vegetable
parasites will discourage the growth
of the hair. A prescription consist
ing of twenty grains of resorein and
two drops or castor oil to the ounce
of alcohol is very good for this pur-
| y,oea CooI Hon/fL
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

"DoEs your son profit by your ex-
ample? Does he initiate your suc-
cesses and avoid your mistake 7"
NAV. He wants to get married. "
-CzeysLand Leader.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

TEAcHER-"Johnny, don't be-
lieve you have studied your geogra-
phy." Johnny-"No, mum; ] heard
pa say the mapof the world was chang
ing every day and I thought I'd wait
few more years till things got set
tied"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
WHINING HIS PLACE.
BY A. F. CALDWELL.

Winston Kilgore slowly tore open
the yellow envelope bearing the off
cial stamp of the superintendent of
the T. c. & L. Railroad. 1t was so
like the one his father had received
only a month and half before-con-
tanning that concisely worded docu
ment, the order for his discharge
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

A GIRL may be as pretty as a picture
but some pictures are fierce.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
Senate and House in Brief.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Senators paid
tribute to the memory of the late Sen
ator German. All business for the day
was suspended at 2:3O p, m. and
eulogies were delivered Before this
several bills Of minor interest were
passed, the most important a bill reg
ulatjng the salaries of city mail car
riers, making them from 5000 to 81 200
a year. and a bill increasing the pen
sions of Indian war veterans to $40 a
month.
Appropriations for rivers and har-
borS continued to occupy the attention
of the house In the main the speeches
dealt with the proposed canal from
Chicago to ST Louis and the deepening
Of the Mississippi river from st. Louis
to the gulf to fourteen feet. Some bills
Of no general interest were passed.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02

bed, and mOurned the lack of variety
in my grandfathers library. I moved
about from shelf to shelf, taking down
one book after another, and while thus
engaged came upon a series of large
volumes extra illustrated in water col
ors of unusual beauty. They occupied
a lower shelf, and l sprawled on the
floor like a boy with a new picture
book in my absorption, piling the
great volumes about me. They were
on related subjects pertaining to the
French chateaux.
In the last volume I found a sheet
of white note paper no larger than
my hand, forgotten book mark, as
sumed. and half crumpled it in my fin
gers before l noticed the lines Of a
pencil sketch on enc side Of it. l car
ried 1t to the table and spread 1t out
1t was not the bit OF idle penciling
It had appeared to be at first sight. A
scale had evidently been followed and
the lines drawn with a ruler. With
such trif1es my grandfather had no
doubt amused himself. There was a
long corridor indicated. but of this l
could make nothing. I studied it for
several minutes. thinking it might
have been a tentative sketch of some
part Of the house In turning it about
under the candelabrum I saw that In
several places the glaze had been
rubbed from the paper by an eraser,
and this piqued my curiosity.
brought a magnifying glass 10 bear
upon the sketch. 9he drawing had
| been made with hard pencil and the
eraser had removed the lead, but q
we'll defined imprint remained.
I was able TO make out the letters
/ n. ". q to ca reference clearly
enough to points of the compass ana
a distance. The word ravine was
scrawled over q rough outline Of Z
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT JAPAN
Perkins of California Sees Another
'Irrepressible Conflict"

Washington, Feb I'm an address
delivered before the National Geo
raphic society, Senator Perkins, Of
California, dwelt at length upon the
probability of a conflict between the
United States and Japan, countries
containing 1.-TWO irreconcilable races"
as he pronounced them. After speak
ing of the difficulties overcome in the
past dealing with the Chinese Perkins
said: Hawaii has the japanese on her
hands, as we in California will soon
have, and as this people is more ag-
gressive, more tenacious, more cunning,
and more determined that the Chinese
it will never do to permit long delay
before settling the question once for
all.
Tor the people of Japan have start
ed out on a course Of commercial de-
velOpment which will soon bring the
United States and Japan so close to-
gether that it will be difficult to settle
the question at all" The senator's idea
seemed to be that we had laid our
plans to be supreme on the Pacific
ocean and Japan would not submit
and there you are.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
7our nights exploring secret pass

your nights exploring secret pass
ages?"
This free expression of opinion
startled me, though she seemed who'll
ly innocent of impertinence.
Who says there's any secret about
the house," 1 demanded.
"Oh, Ferguson, the gardener, and all
the girls"
4 fear Ferguson is drawing on his
imagination"
Well, all the people in the village
think so. I've heard the candy shop
woman speak of it often"
Shed better attend to her taffy,"
1 retorted.
oh you mustn't be sensitive about
1t! All us girls thenk 1t ever so TO
mantle, and we call you sometimes
the lord of the realm, and when we
see you walking through the darkling
wood at eyenfall we say, My lord is
brooding upon the treasure chests
This, delivered In the stilted tone
of one who was half quoting and half
improvising, was irresistibly funny,
and laughed with good will.
Il hope you've forgiven me"
kicked the gate to knock off the snow,
and took the key from my pocket.
But | haven't, Mr. Glenarm. Your
assumption is, to say the least, I'M
warranted-I got that from book, "
TT isn't fair for you to know my
name and for me not to know yours, "
said leadingly
You are Mr.. John Glanarm-the
gardener told me-and l am just
Olivia. They don't allow me to be
called Miss yet. I'm very young,
sir"
You've only told me half'-and ]
kept my hand on the closed gate
The snow still fell steadily and the
short afternoon was nearing it's close
1 did not like to lose her-the life
the youth, the mirth for which she
stood. Lights already cleaned in the
school buildings straight before US
and the sight of them smote me witt
loneliness.
OLIVIA Gladys Armstrong" she
said, laughing, brushed past me
through the gate and ran lightly over
the snow toward St. Agatha's.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
RENSSELAER, NEWS

Mr.. Haggins is home for a few days
again.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Forsythe re-
turned home yesterday from a visit
with relatives at Fairfield, Ia.
Mr. Ketchum, who is about IS years
old, Is pretty low at present with a
complication OF diseases.
Mrs Roy Saylor arrived today from
North Dakota for a visit with 4. w.
Baiiy and family.
Harry Shorts house was quarantin-
ed today. His little girl has the scar
let fever very bad.
Many rabbits were Killed Friday. as
all the hunters took advantage of the
first real good snow to set out for a
day of real sport.
Thomas Robinson Will move back on
his farm. Mr. Robinson has good
property here but likes the farm bet
ter than city life.
Five cases of scarlet fever have
broken out in Rensselaer, and this warm
and damp weather is anything but en-
! courasing.
The Chalmers checker team was
BADLY beaten last night. Rensselaer,
beating by four points. This IS the
second contest and Rensselaer, was vic
torious in both.
James II. Chapman and Frank Folt7
went TO Chicago today to settle. il
possible, the suit OF Wood brothers
| against the estates of A. Mccoy & Com
! pany.
/ Deputy Sheriff Joe O'COnnor took
prisoner to Kentland yesterday. Jas
/ per county is keeping the prisoners fo1
/ Newton county until its court hous,
and jail are finished
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

Charles Marvin, one Of the most IA
nous drivers and trainers in the Unit
ed States. is dead in a hospital at Lex
ington, Ky, aged 68 years.
1t is reported at Washington that
an extra session of the senate is like
" after March to ratify the new
Santo Domingo treaty.
In the Missouri senate a bill has
been introduced providing for the erec-
tion of a new capitol at Jefferson City
to cost 100000.
a severe blizzard has swept from
the northwest on Aberdeen, S. D., and
the region round about.
A six-story brick building, owned by
the Troy Waist Manufacturing COM
pany, Troy. \. Y, and used as a store
house, burned. Loss, 100000.
The first reballot in the German
reichstag elections took place at Brem-
Ell. the radical candidate defeating the
Socialist.
Miss Isabel Urquhart, the actress, is
dying Of peritonitis at Rochester, \. \.
Four thousand men and 700 women
employed in the hat factories Of the
Orange On. j. district have been called
ont on strike.
A cold wave has descended on Ne
braska, covering a large section of the
state
Judge Holland, in the United States
district court at Philadelphia. has fined
the Camden Iron Works company, OF
Camden. \. J.. $4,000 for accepting re-
bates from railway.
Ernest G.. Krause. one of the wealth
lost men of Cleveland, O., is dead fol
! lowing a stroke Of apoplexy, aged %
years.
The Russian imperial finance com
mission has sanctioned the issuance OF
a new internal loan of So, 100000 fol
relief of the famine sufferers.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
WEST PULLMAN

Mrs. John Anders Of Howard avenue
returned from Niles. Mich. Thursday
Mrs. Olson Of Chicago Heights visit
ed at the home of Mrs. W. P. Flory
Friday
A class of eighteen pupils graduated
ct the school Friday. Most of them
will attend the Curtis high school in
Roseland.
William Morehouse moved his fam
lily from 1909 Wallace street to 11Sth
street and Harvard avenue, where he
has bought property.
Raymond, the 12-year-oEd son of Mr.
and Mrs. Morehouse. is confned to his
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
improvement for Special Delivery.

Washington, Feb. "A bill has been
favorably reported by the house com
mittee on postoffices providing that 10
cents worth Of postage stamps Of any
denomination may be used instead Of
a special delivery stamp providing the
words special delivery" be written on
the letter.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
Foraker's Daughter Slightly Hurt.

Washington, Feb. miss Louise
Foraker, daughter of Senator Foraker,
was slightly injured when a street car
collided with a carriage in which she
was returning from the theater. Miss
Foraker was assisted to another car
riage and proceeded to her home.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
Won't Talk of the jap Issue.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Secretary Root
positively refused to make any state
ment touching the Japanese situation
in its relation to the conferences which
took place at the White House Wednes-
day evening, but he denies the authen-
ITCHY of interviews in which he
is quoted on that subject