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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08
A HYporHEr1cAL QUESTION.

"Miss de Smythe," began the
young man, "I want to ask you a
hypothetical question"
The girl nodded assent.
eff a young man of good family
and sound health, and an assured in
come of 81 900, were to meet the most
charming of girls and feed her ice
cream for year if she had COM
plexion like rose, hair crown OF
golden glory, the hand Of a fairy, the
bearing of queen if she knew how
not to play the piano, how to induce
her small brother to absent himself !;
was versed in cooking, competent to
superintend home, and if the young
man, auspiciously catching the girl
alone, were to murmur into her ear of
pearl, will you marry e9'' what,
in your estimation, would be ber con-
dition of mind, and what her answer 7"
"While not an expert alienist, !"
responded the girl, coyly, II think
she'd believe him chump for being
so slow, but she'd say yes.
With the preliminaries thus settled,
the naming of the day was a simple
matter.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08
THE BARGAIN SALE.
Half a block, half a block

Half block, half block,
Half Q block onward,
Packed into trolley cars
Rode the six hundred.
Maidens, and matrons hale,
Tall spinsters. slim and pale,
On to the Bargain Sale
Rode the six hundred.
Autos to right OF them,
Hansome to left of them,
Flying trains over them,
Ratified and thundered.
Forward through all the roar,
On, through the crowd they bore,
To Price and Sellers store
Rode the six hundred.
When at that mart of trade,
Stern-faced and unafraid,
0, the wild charge they made
All the clerks wondered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to pacify
All the six hundred.
On bargains still intent
HomeWard the buyers went
With cash and patience spent,
And friendships sundered.
What though their hats sport dents,
What though the gowns show rents,
They have saved thirty cents;
Noble six hundredl
Womdn's Home Companion
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08
MANNERS.

Writing upon good manners, Emer-
son remarked: Manners are the hap
by ways of doing things, each one a
Stroke of genius or of love, now re-
peated and hardened into usage, they
form at last rich varnish with which
the routine of life is washed and its
details adorned. If they are superb
cial. so are the dewdrops which give
such depth to the morning meadows.
Manners are very communicable men
catch them from each other. No man
can resist their influence. There are
certain manners which are learned In
good society of that force that If a per-
son have them he or she must be con-
sidered and is everywhere welcome,
though without beauty or wealth or
genius. Give boy address and ac-
comp.ishments, and you give him the
mastery of palaces and fortunes where
he goes. He has not the trouble OF
earning or of owning them; they So
licit him to enter and possess.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08
TO CURE A COLD.

Anything that will set the blood into
active circulation is good for a cold.
Bathe the feet in hot water and
drink hot water or hot lemonade on
going to bed. Take a salt water
sponge bath and remain in a warm
room.
Bathe the face in very hot water
every five minutes for an hour or SO.
Snuff hot salt water up the nose
every hour or two.
Four or FIVE hours exercise in the
open air is often effective.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

SruBB-"Do you notice how the
keeper of this hotel promotes love
making among his guests?" Penn
Eyes, he has found that people lose
their appetites when in love"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

"AFTER ALL" said the philoso-
pher, "the real JOY of thing is in
the anticipation of it" "Well. f" re-
piled Henpeck, eff there's any joy in
matrimony that must be it."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

New socks should be rinsed in salt
water to set the color. They are never
boiled. Black socks are better when
washed in separate water from the
others. They are also improved in
color if, after rinsing, they are put
through a deep blue water. This helps
to preserve and restore the black dye.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

A VO-Ye1I- Old MOTQlge.

Some time ago attention was called to an old
mortgage or the Hamilton Easter property. on
Baltimore street-a mortgage made In 1854 which
bought the property in ignorance Of the mort
gage, causing loss of about 5000.
More remarkable still is a mortgage which the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company has just re-
ported.
In 1884 mortgage for $4,000, conveying land
on Baltimore street. was made to a certain per-
son, who sold it to A. In 1843. A.. died In 1858,
leaving the mortgage to B.. who died In 1885,
leaving it TO c. who died In 1890. leaving 1t to D..
who died in 1Sg3 leaving it to E., who has since
collected the money, seventy years after the
mortgage was made.
From l843 to 1904 period of over sixty years
there Is not a word about the mortgage on the
Land Records.
Sometimes it is thought safe to assume that an
old mortgage has been paid OF, but that by over
sight q release has not been recorded. This
seventy-year rold mortgage shows the danger Of
assuming anything In title examinations.
The only proper way to examine title Is TO
make the kind of exhaustive examination the
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

"Then cried, too, John. I just
broke down and cried like a baby.
She got me into the house, hugging
and kissing me, and then she went to
the back door and shouted:
"'G 'Georgep
"Father called from the kitchen !:
"'What do you want, Mary?
"Then he came in. He knew me
in moment. He stuck out his hand
and grasped mine, and said sternly :
We'll, young man, Go you pro-
pose to behave yourself nowF
"He tried to put on brave front,
but he broke down. There we sat
like whipped school children, all
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

MISTRESS "Did the fisherman
who stopped here this morning have
frogs legs?" Nora-"Sure mum,
dinnaw. He wore pants"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

"I NOTICE, major" said the in
quisitive man, THAT you always take
your whisky straight. Don't you
Kentuckians ever put water in your
liquor 7"
"Some Kentuckians do, SUBJ" re-
piled Major Bluegrass.
Indeed 7"
eyes. sub: but they sell it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08
HER SORROW.

Young Widow (tearfully)-Yes, 1
loved my husband, but Icannot stand
this cherries life, and l must marry
again.
Friend-You are in comfortable cir
cumstances, with plenty of servants
and
Young Widow = Servants ! Yes,
that's it, my friend. 1 can't go on
keeping house and squabbling with
servants without husband to tell all
my troubles to.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21
American chlvaIry.

Toward women the American mans
attitude is fine. She is neither his
deity nor his doll. He simply treats
her with Difference His chivalry has
as little to do with saccharine utter
ances, scraping feet, and bended
knees, as has his patriotism with hys-
terical shriekings and the waving OF
ensanguined flags. He is stronger In
his silence and apparent submission
TO the ladies OF his household than the
most blatant vulgarian who prates OF
domestic domination. Place aux
Danes is more than a phrase to the
American man. His Unborn respect
for her rights" often causes him to
sacrifice his own God-given privileges
Upon the face of the earth or upoL
the waters thereon, says Minna
Thomas Antrim In Lippincott's, exists
no more chivalrous being than the
American gentleman
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

The burning OF the art treasures In
John Wanamakers home. of manu-
script Lincoln and Washington letters.
of rare books and pictures impossible
to replace. is public as well as q
private loss. OF such objects no man
can be more than a trustee for poster
ity, remarks the New York World.
The loss of the manuscript letters re-
calls the burning of Major Lambert's
collection of similar treasures is
Philadelphia only short time ago.
MIR. Wanamaker had reason to sup
pose that he had protected the greater
part of his collections by fre-wall
cutting Off the art galleries from the
rest of his house. but the galleries
went with the rest when the blazing
wall of the house crashed through
their roof.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21
Antprtratt mnrktltRlt
Natural Nnatlrra
BY CHARLES NJ. BRUCE,
Electrical Worker.

still claiming however, w not far behind.
Coming country years because of dissatisfaction with
have learned that the claims made
founded The American do better and work
thanth workman of other countries
frequently searching for the have reached the conclusion
that the naturally hustler and that foreign
hurry order keep with his eowworkman
then comes haste good finally work that is superior
work in Lynn, Mass while the tools the
same could up the Others Orders flying thick
the shop everybody seemed hurry accu
toned to taking my time and turning thought good
wanted hurry and found
working much rapidly than before and turning out
better work. too.
It's Americans, for now, in hurry
good things We do not waste time gur
what do but ahead and accomplish things We beat the
all energy and disposition ahead not being
with things they but trying to improve Then conditions
are said that foreign wormen live
well better than American know this not With the best
the world the children and little home the skilled
| workman takes a interest and thus beats ~
his foreign competitor t~>s@~ r. "~<>S>~e~
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21
PING" in Europe.
M. nj. SWEET, Publisher

Tripping" IN Europe
According to immemorial usage, Eu.
ropean servants are entitued to tips
rs an assured part of their income
At the hotels the theory is that the
landlord furnishes a guest a private
room and the use of the public rooms
heat and light, food and dishes, but
not mental service. For convenience
he keeps at hand corps of servants
who will respond to the guests sum
mons. but at his expense. In olo
times. says Travel Magazine, travellers
we're attended by their own servants
to wait on them. The modern custom
echoes the ancient The traveller no
longer carries with him a retinue OF
servants, because he can hire temper
arily those of the landlord. The Gus
fomary fees are the payment TIC
avoid feeling is really to cheat the ser
wants, who need all they can get
heaven knows. A chambermaid at the
best hotels receives as wages only
about two dollars month. Tipping
servants in America is regrettable
imitation of the European custom
without it's resting on the reasonable
basis of the foreign institutions.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

AT the second line. had wheeled ana
now came thrusting their lances freea
Nv into Cossack backs. These last
thus taken in the rear, turned and ned.
Hey, Werner, good lad, do not Stay
vour comrades! Down blade, old
Thirsty. Hast thou not drunken
enough blood this morning?" So cried
the war-captains as Werner dashed
the blood and tears out of his eyes.
"Back! back!" he cried, as soon as
he knew with whom he had to do. go
back! Conrad is slain or hath BROS
en- head. They were thrusting at him
as he lay to kill him outright. Inc
beaten ours of CORTLAND broke at the
first attack. Get him to horse! Quick,
I say. My Lady Joan! what do you
in this placer"
For even while he spoke Joan had
dismounted and was holding Conrad's
head on her lap. With the soft white
kerchief which she wore on her helm
as a favor she wiped the wound on his
head. 1t was long, but did not appear
to be very deep.
Werner stood astonished, gazing at
his mistress.
"He is not dead! Lift him up, you
twoi" Joan cried suddenly. mo, l
will take him on my steed. 1t is the
strongest, and l the lightest. I alone
will bear him in"
And before any could speak she
sprang into the saddle without assist
arce with all her old lightness of ac-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21
Her Mother Wanted the News.

"The habit of moving the lips when
reading is a good deal more common
than people suppose. But speaking of
that habit, queer thing happened re-
Gently on train on which | was rid.
ing. was sitting by man who NOV.
ed his lips when he read. While he
apparently made no sound he really
shaped his lips for each word. He
was reading newspaper and SO was
l. | was seated next to the aisle
After we had been reading a little
while l felt some one touch my arm
Looking around saw a little girl
seated by woman across the aisle
was smiling at me.
Please, sir she said, would you
hold your paper lower?'
"Of course was surprised at the re
quest and asked her why.
Because, she replied, my mamms
here, who is deaf, wants to be able ia
watch your friends lips so she car
get the news. She can tell what he IL
reading that way. 1t hurts her eyes
to read print on moving train ~
Kansas City Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

ton, most like that of 1.-THE lad who
chages the colts in his fathers croft
that he may ride them bareback.
So Werner Won Orseln lifted the
head and Boris the feet, bearing him
tenderly that they might set him upon
Joan's horse. On either side walked
tall Boris and sturdy Werner, who
steadied the unconscious Prince with
the palms of their hands.
Meanwhile the Palace Guard, with
Jorian at it's head, defended the slow
retreat, while on the tanks Maurice
and his staunch Kernsbergers checked
the victorious advance of the Musco-
vites. Yet the disaster was complete.
They left the dead they left the camp,
they left the munitions of war They
abandoned the Margraf's cannon and
all his great store of powder.
Only the Kernbergers bit their lips
and watched the eye of Maurice, by
whose side slim page in chain-mail
had ridden all day with visor down.
And the men of the Palace Guard pray
ed for Prince Hugo to come.
1ao Abl JOaAAy oAAC SotS AOlAinS lOf
victory or defeat, loss or gain. because
the man she loved lay on her breast,
bleeding and very STILL
Yet with great gentleness she gave
him down into loving hands and after
ward stood marble-pale beside the
couch while Theresa Won Lynar
unlaced his armor and wash.
| ed his wounds. Then, nerv
ing herself to see him suffer, she
murmured over to herself, once, twice,
and a hundred times, God help me to
do so and more also to those who have
wrought this-specially to Louis Of
CORTLAND and Ivan of Muscovy."
abide ye, little one-be patient.
Vengeance will come to both!" said
Theresa. II, who do not promise light
ly, promise it you'll"
Ito be continued.)
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

Again comes a statement going to
show the great access of prosperity
that has come to the farmers of the
country, notably In the west from q
succession of big crops. The receipts
from this source have enabled the
farmers to Jay off an enormous
amount of mortgages and to put great
sums of money In the banks, which
explains the abundance of funds IL
some western quarters and the lack
Of need of drawing on the east for s
supply. The latest movement by the
farmers IL toward forming combina'
ton, or trust, for maintaining and
regulating prices. Is 1t possible that
the lair of the octopus is to be re
moved from Wall street and other re
sorts of high finance and located on
the boundless prairie?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21
consumptIon EffectualIx Rout.a.

An extraordinary man is Galeu
Clark, the discoverer of the Mariposa
grove of big trees in California. He
was threatened with consumption in
San Francisco in 1853 and sent to the
Sierra by physician, where he went
bareheaded and drank only water for
more than thirty years. During the
past three weeks, at the age of 81.
he has visited the General Grant
grove and the sequoia grove In FIRES.
no and Tulare counties, riding 294
miles in stage coaches, forty in the
saddle, and one day walking twelve
miles. returning to the Yosemite val.
ley last week none the worse froaa
his travels.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

The amazing thing In connection
with the endless chain system OF
prayers, begging letters. etc, which
cause so much annoyance to their re
cipients and to postal authorities lis
that anyone can be influenced by the
dread of i'll fortune Detailing him IL he
falls to obey the injunction to con.
tinue the chain by writing nine other
letters. The simple and effective way
of stopping the nuisance is for the
recipient to drop all such mail into
the waste basket and then to forget
IL.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

Upon the higher level
curiosity is a noble and
serviceable quality, with
out which no great thing
can be done in science or
literature. 1t was intel
lectual curiosity which
sustained a man like
Darwin in his long and
patient labors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

ing incident and eaten hold OF every Suggestion IN
conversation
BY and by the history of every one, old and
young, win be in the mans possession of course, if
he be an gnoble man then his knowledge will be in
tolerable, if he be sympathetic it will be most
valuable.
In the same way physician or a lawyer will be
greatly helped by legitimate and regulated curiosity
about his fellow-ereatures. And it must be said that
if curiosity of kind makes man detestable,
curiosity Of another kind makes him most popular.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

There is in Pitsburg magistrate
who thinks mince pie is likely tc
make people commit crimes. Why
does he overlook the crime-breeding
properties of the Welsh rarebitf
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

Consul M. K. Moorhead, reporting
from Belgrade, says that minister OF
agriculture has presented TO the
skupshtina. or national assembly, fol-
ratification concession to be granted
to an English company for building a
packing plant at Paratchin. about 10C
miles south of Belgrade, on the rail
road to Constantinople.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

"Cowardsl Cowardsl Cowardsi"
listen. He was clicking his dagger
In its sheath, but from his next word
II was evident that his mind had not
been inactive.
what excuse could we make to
Hugo, our Prince?" he said at last
Scarcely did he believe us the last
time. And on this occasion we have
his direct orders"
Are we not still Envoys?" queried
Boris. "And as ENJOYS of great
principality like Plassenburg-repre-
sentatives OF the most noble Prince
and Princess in this Empire, should we
not ride with retinue due and fittingl
| That is not taking the Palace Guard
into battle. It is only afrording pro
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

The tailors have decreed that eve
ming clothes must be either blue or
Oxford gray. Hat, shoes and linen
should conform, of course.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

The English workman
has heard that the Amer
leans beat them and he
takes exception to the
statement. | was a
strong believer that no
workman could do better
or more more work than
my countrymen, b u t
have learned differently,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21
BY MRS. CHURCH,
Cashier of Bank of Joplin. Mo.

g~#~mmaIE qualification Of occupying official positions
~ / a bank many.
The first prerequisite for any bank official is that Of abso
sga lutte honesty believe justified in saying that
EszfM women, rule possess this qualification very marked
E4 aH degree
mAFfA Sterling integrity is most certainly another qualification
kElEIW Official and right here again claim for
ks possesses this qualification its highest form As
reared and trained to bear themselves above
repoac would condescend anything that would
estimation Of their friends acquaintance in the
business world.
all bright all be wise and sagacous but
can will faithful be faithful in the performance Of
imposed upon bank official of the qualifications abso-
ue essential and surely will deny that of all the quaca
that possesses that Of fathunes her highest and best
To be aab polite civil courteous most essential for bank Off
especially who with the the bank
and hold it to be that by nature emodes this characters
tic and that exceedingly hard and unusual for her to be otherwise
than aabe polite and extremely courteous all with whom she
in contact
If time permitted could give other qualifications that pos
make good and safe officer of bank will
in just other and that is believe peculiar herself
speak intuition and while speak Of it and dare to call
perhaps her chief asset in business life yet acknowledge inability
describe anayze it, to have the power divine
the purpose that acaes the nsncery lurking behind aabe
smile cordial hansake and having this power of dscernmen she
declines what many would accept and what would and has been
the unaton only Of but of the institution they represent
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21

In order not to lose sight OF your
object In life. 1t may be well to have
sne that Ii not too far away.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-05-21
Snnte If tlrr nnrH
nf Gnrtnatty
BY IAN NfacLAREN.

Remains bographer tells that to the last he still questioning
the universe still asking what the meaning of things and how they
pass Without curiosity the scholar would lose half his interest
and the thinker would fail by the 1t this instinct which makes
get the bottom Of things If it be the affairs of his neigh
if it be the affairs of the world it When curiosity
dies within achievement hopeless and hope itself dead
Curiosity be valuable in the equipment of professional
Without the parish clergyman will have intimate know
the affairs of his people, for he will take the trouble to learn
What he told he almost certainly will forget while touch of
curiosity will store of information and watch
uaid Aontah hold of uarrrns tinni
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-11
.LASTERS' CHARTER REVOKED RESULT OF DISSENSl0N Members Who Opposed Seces- sion Still Belong to Ma
 tional Organization.

Brockton, Mass, Sept. 10.-The gen. eral executive board of the Boot and Shoe Workers union to-day notified the officials of the lasters' local union 192 of Brockton that its charter had been revoked on account of "refrac- tory and rebellious agitation on plans for voting on the question of secession from the general union"
 The action of the executive board of the Boot and Shoe Workers union is the outcome of the election contest which has been going on in the or ganization for more than a year,
 Thomas R. Hickey of the lasters' union
 of this city claimed to have been elect ed general president of the Boot and Shoe Workers union over John F. To-
 bin. The recent convention of the boot
 and shoe workers at Toronto decided against Hickey's claim. Since then an agitation in favor of secession has been carried on and the matter was to have been acted on by the local union at it's meeting tonight.
 Those members of the local lasters' union who were not in favor of seced- irg from the boot and shoes workers have been invited to reorganize, and Iuntil such reorganization is effected they will be known as members al large