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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03
1NoUIs1TIvE EDWIN.

"Say, maw."
'Well, Edwin"
"Why do little boys have to go to
school?"
"To get an education, dearie."
"How long do I have to go to
school?"
"Till you are grown up"
"Then do / get my education ?"
mo. You get it while you are
going"
"Get it all the time 1 am going?"
eyes"
"Huh, I'd rather get it now and
not go to school,"
"But you can't"
"Did you get one, nav? :"
81 did, but have no use for it. F"
"What's the matter with you CIV
ing me yours, then ?"
"Tut, tut, child. Every person
has to get his or her own education. !"
"Hum. Who's got paw's?"
"Why, he has.
Gee, nobody'd think he had one,
would they?"
"Your father conceals great many
OF his attainments, son."
whats an attainment, maw?"
Something one has acquired in
the way of learning or accomplish
ments, I believe"
''I think I know about accomplish
ments, nav. l heard Mr.. Bingle say
paw was accomplished
care you sure? Mr.. Bingle is or
dinarily very accurate. in his state
ments."
eyes, I'm sure. He said paw was
an accomplished liar"
"Ah, well, Mr.. Bingle hasn't gone
back on his record. Now, run away,
Edwin, and let me finish reading "A
College Girls Unhappy Wifehood /;
or, She Was Taught More Higher
Mathematics than Housekeeping
"But, maw."
"But bother What now?"
"'Spose I don't get an education ?"
"Then you wouldn't know any,
thing when you become man."
90, that's all right, NAV; could
be Juror. ."-Chfcago Journal.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03
sELF-P0ssEssION ESSENTIAL.

One of the most expressive of cur
rent terms is "rattled," which signi-
fes combination of confusion, be-
wilderment and embarrassed excite
ment, resulting in a total loss of self
possession. The boy or girl, no matter
how shy OF nervous, who makes self
possession a matter of discipline, will
never in later life merit the opprobri-
Gus title bestowed upon the Saxon
King of old, Ethelred 1.-The Unready."
As a writer in The Globe observes
"It is easy enough to maintain
ones equilibrium when everything Is
running smoothly. It's when things
commence to develop all sorts of de-
grees of perversity that man is in
danger of losing his nerve. tits then
that he needs to remember that every
thing depends upon his ability to re-
frain from getting ratified, for the
man who once loses control over him
self puts an almost impossible handi-
cap upon all his endeavors.
"In case of accidents, those who
keep their nerve escape to tell the
story of the disaster, while the people
who get ratified throw themselves
into all kinds of new and greater dan
gers. If one has good control over
all his faculties, he is reasonably able
to meet any ordinary emergency with
out fear of the possible results.
"The necessity of maintainingone's
nerve is one of those conditions that
govern almost everything we do.
There are few of us who are so fortu-
nate as to have things run smoothly
for us all the time. The only saliva
tions is in keeping absolute control
over ones self, for whoever loses his
nerve loses at the same time all sense
of proportion, so important if one is to
exercise good judgment.
Gone who gets ratified makes all
Kfnus ur mfsraKc5 rinat nc w0utd uSv-
er dream of making if he could but
force himself to view the situation
calmly. There are few difficulties
from which there is no avenne of es-
cape. 1t sometimes requires calm
ness to find it, however, and the one
who is ratified will hurry round and
round, always in a circle, without be-
ing able to discover the alternative
which would so quickly give the long
ed-for relief.
"In this respect life is just like a
game-a game of chess or whist-tor
there are many games in which calm
nerve will count for more than the
best of technical knowledge of the
rules of play. And it is the same III
business, in social life, or in any posi-
ton of emergency. tits always nerve
that counts. 1t is nerve that wins IN
the end. Only those who are self
possessed can be calm in the midst oi
excitement, strong when others are
weak, and brave always. Self-posses'
sion IS the faculty of heroes"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03
HOW THE WEATHER Is FoREToLD.

To the general public the Weather
Bureau is probably best known
through the medium of its daily fore
casts and weather maps. These fore
casts are based upon simultaneous OBJ
servations of local weather conditions
taken daily at 8 A. M. and 8 r. M,
seventy fifth meridian time, at about
200 regular observing stations scatter
ed throughout the United States and
the West Indies. Each of these sta
tions is operated by one or more
trained observers, and is equipped
with mercuria1 barometers, thermom-
eters, wind vanes, rain and snow
gauges, and thermometers, and many
of them with sunshine recorders, bare
graphs, thermographs, and other de-
vices which register automatically a
continuous record of the local weather
conditions and changes as they occur.
The results of the twice daily OBJ
servations are Immediately telegraph
ed to the central Office at Washington,
D. c., where they are charted for
study and Interpretation by experts
trained to forecast the weather condi-
tions which may be expected to pre-
vail during the following thirty-six
to forty-elght hours.
A complete telegraphic report in
cludes the following data:
Temperature pressure, precipita-
ton, direction of wind, state of wealth
er, current wind, velocity, maximum
or minimum temperature since last
observation, and kind and amount of
clouds, with the direction of their
movements. From these data the
forecaster, by comparison with prece-
ding reports, is able to trace the paths
of storm areas from the time of their
appearance to the moment of observa-
tion, ,and approximately determine and
forecast their subsequent courses and
the occurrence of other weather con-
ditions.
Weather services similar to that of
the United States are maintained by
the Canadian and Mexican govern
ments, and by system of interchange
daily reports are received from num-
Der of stations in these countries.
Daily observations are also received
from Honolulu, the British Isles,
Germany, France, Portugal, and the
Azores, so that the field represented
by the daily reports extends over the
greater portion'of the North American
ea1lcn, S1asllRcsnHer rRe hsy Nort6 Rfalamffc 8cean
and the west coast of Europe.
The system for the collection and
distribution of telegraphic reports Of
observations is so arranged that all of
the principal stations in the United
States receive A. NJ. reports from a
sufficient number of other stations to
represent the general weather condi-
tions over considerable portion of
the country.
Within two hours after the morning
observations have been taken, the
forecasts are telegraphed from the
forecast centres to more than 2, 100
principal distributing points, whence
they are further disseminated by tele-
graph, telephone, and mail. The
forecasts reach nearly 100000 ad-
dresses daily by mail, thegreater part
being delivered early in the day, and
none later, as rule, than 6 P. M. Of
the day of issue, and more than a
million telephone subscribers, mainly
in the rural districts, receive the fore
casts by telephone within an hour of
the time the prediction is made.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03
Roy BUILDS A PIPE ORGAN

Building a pipe organ of the ordina-
ry church size and installing it in his
fathers home is the accomplishment
of William Barnes, the I5-year-old
son of Charles o. Barnes, of Chicago.
More than FIVE years ago the boy
showed a taste for music, coupled
with an aptitude for mechanics. He
learned 70 play the piano well when
10 years of age. When he was II,
after much study, he started to work
to build an organ which would comply
with the limitations imposed by pri'
vate residence. The building took
three years. All cf the instrument
with the exception of the ornamental
pipes, the celluloid keys and a small
portion of the outer woodwork, wa:
handmade and fitted, no aid from ex
perts being employed.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03

end by knowing nothing that can be
of the smallest practical service to
them in real life. They have pinch
beck, superficial education. They
can talk about hexameters and quail
tiles and films and shale and horn
blende, without knowing what they
mean, but if put to the test of the SIM
plest civil service examination they
are lamentable failures"
Under such regime the country
boy has nothing to regret, even if he
is being treated to High Schools which
may citify him to his undoing. g.-Lan-
caster (Pa.) Examiner.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03
PETER AT THE PHONE.

"I left my dog accidentally at a
friends house yesterday" said a
girl, as reported in the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin. "My friend tried
to get him to run after me, but he
would not leave. He plainly held
that would soon return that since
1 had gone without him, I would
come back inevitably for him, and he
stuck to the room where had parted
from him, feeling that it was his duty
to do so. Finally my friend called
me up on the telephone.
Your dog won't CO. she said.
He thinks you will be back, and we
can't drive him out
"'Hold him up to the 'phone,' I
said.
'She held him up.
"'Peter,' said 1, come home I
am waiting at home for you. Come
straight home, Peter, good little dog.
"Peter wagged his tail, wriggled
down out of my friends's arms and
set off homeward like a flash of light
ming"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03

CLARA-At Jennie's wedding last
week, owing to misunderstanding,
she had to wait at the church thirty
minutes for the bridegroom. Maud
oh, we'll, thirty minutes isn't any
thing to a woman who has waited
thirty years.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03

THE average PERSONS way of for
giving anybody Is meaner than re-
fusing to do it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03
A SUBSTITUTE.

Mrs. Millsap's new girl, who never
had gone out to service before and
had had scarcely any experience as
cook, appeared to be willing and in
dustrious and was quick to learn. In
view of her inexperience she had
readily agreed to work for $3.5
week. Mrs. Millsap, who was an ex-
pert cook, had taken much pains with
her education in that line, and at the
end of FIVE or six weeks Jemima was
equal to any demands upon her in the
line of kitchen work. The mistress
was greatly surprised, therefore, when
the maid one morning gave her
weeks notice.
"What does this mean, Jemima 7"
she asked. Haven't treated you
fairly?"
eyes, ma am," answered the girl,
"but I've learned how to cook now,
and I've found a place where I can
get SIS a week right at the start"
"You didn't ask me to raise your
wages. Do you think you are act
ting fairly with me 7"
"Oh, I'm going to do the square
thing with you, Mrs. Millsap," said
Jemima. "I've got sister about
year younger than 1 am, and she's
perfectly willing to come here and
work for So. .5oa week-till she learns
cooking anyhow" : Youths Com
banion.
A BEAUTIFUL young girl ano her
mother were discussing the eternal
marriage question.
"Well, there's Charles Adams"
murmured the mother, thoughtfully,
after long pause.
! "Charles Adams !" sneered the
girl. "He is old, he is ugly, he is
mean, he is coward. Charles Ad-
ans Why, he has nothing in the
world to recommend him except his
wealth."
"You forget his heart disease"
said the mother, softly.-Sphere.
THEY had been married seventeen
years.
eff there ever was an utterly worth
less travesty of man, you're it, she
told him.
Six months later she was suing the
railway company whose train had run
over this worthless husband for $25,-
900.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03
STAY ON THE FARM.

That farm life is the independent
life is only to be realized by short
season of transplanting to the city.
The cramped condition ofthe ordinary
dweller in flats will soon convince a
country.bred man or woman that the
country is the place. To be obliged
to have the ready cash for every egg
or bit of greens becomes exasperating.
And one trial of boarding house life
is enough to send the country boy who
has ambitions for the city back to his
quiet and peaceful and innocent sur
roundings. AS for a girl, it is i'm
possible to think how one who has a
home to stay in should ever dream of
giving it up for a pitiful clerkship or
Office. Stay on the farm and make
the life there ideals. In the State of
Illinois a movement is said to have
been inaugurated with the view Of
making farm life more attractive to
the beys.- The idea seams to -ha to
hold farmer boys conventions and
encampments; to have professions
and prizes; to have addresses by
prominent men and social clubs and
lectures showing that the safest and
surest way to a life of independence
and competence lies in tilling the soil.
Anything that tends to keep boys
on the farm is a wise movement and
the suggestion is one which the fathers
might do we'll to study. Make the
farm interesting and worth while to
the boy. Farming is noble busi-
ness, and it is mistake whenever a
youth deserts it for cheap job In
town. There are so many things now
which make farming more to be de-
sired as a calling than ever before.
Educate and organize the boys and
keep them on the farm.
SPoNGEM-"I say, old man, in case
I should die suddenly, will you make
sure that 1 am really dead before they
bury me?" Knox-"Yes; you may
depend on me. I'll ask you to have
a drink, and if you don't sit up and
take notice, I'll tell the undertaken
to go ahead and plant you."
IT ISN'T every man who can tell
good story when he sees it.
IT is easy to make resolution fol
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03

"POP p
eyes, my son.
when person saws wood it means
they say nothing, don't it?"
eyes, my boy"
"And do women ever saw wood 7"
"No, women believe that saving
wood is mans work"
He IS a lucky man who doesn't be-
lieve in luck.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03

IT ISN'T every man who can tell a
good story when he sees it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03

IT IS easy to make resolution for
a reform.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28

The rain fell ia buckets. the thun.
der racketed terribly. and the light
ming drew zigzag lines Of bright gold
upon the violet sky
SO You, too don't know what an
inch OF rain is exactly" said the
weather clerk. az be looked at his rain
measuring instrument Very few
people DO, it seems. IN explain il TO
you.
An acre is G.272 $40 square inches
An inch Of water on an acre is there
fore G.272540 cubic inches That
amount. AZ 20 cubic inches to the
gallon. equals 22.00e gallons. or ESQ.,
900 pounds. OF 100 ions
An inch Of rain Is. in other words,
rain falling al the rate Of 100 tons
10 the acre
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28
K Ray Dernatitis,

Mr.. Hall Edwards, who was recent
ly granted civil list in recognition OF
his services in the development OF
medical photography, underwent a
further operation at his residence.
Bristol road, Birmingham, recently.
In February last the left arm, which
had been violently attacked by what
is known as Xray dermatitis. was am
putated below the elbow This did
not give the relief hoped for how
ever the wound failing to heal, and
the patient suffering almost as acute
pain as before. The operation Was also
unsuccessful in arrestiug the progress
OF the disease, which developed Sc
riousiy in the right hand The last
operation involved the removal Of the
fingers OF the right hand II was per-
formed by Mr. Gilbert Darling, assist
ed by Mr.. Macardle and Mr. Vickera
Nhitby. On inquiry it was stated
that the patient had recovered from
the effects OF the anaesthetic, and was
in as hopeful a condition as could be
expected. MIR Hall Edwards has lat
terry been engaged on work dealing
with dermatitis which. II is under.
stood. he has practically completed -
London Times
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28
PROUD OF ONE OPERATION.
Great Surgeons Description OF His
Record Achievement.

DR., George +. Shrady once was
asked what he considered the star
achievement of his long professional
career. The great surgeon thought for
moment and then said, with a
twinkle in his eye: ITS an operation
that I'll warrant you never heard Of
III fact | don't know the name OF the
patient and never got any fee for
1t, | was summoned, saved boys
life and drove away, all in very few
minutes.
one summer, years ago, | was out
driving IN the country up the state
was going by farmhouse when
man rushed out waving his arms at
me. Drive for a doctor, quick. he
yelled. Ny boys choking to death
| pulled up my team. shouted to the +,
man to hold the horses and dashed !
INTO the house. A boy about ten years !
old was lying on couch in the dining I
room. His face was purple and did I
not have TO look twice to see that he
was choking to death His mother
was kneeling beside him, crying
Ihere was not time for questions or,
anything else, but the quickest kind of
quick work, | saw that | would have
TO perform the operation Of tracheo
tony without moments delay
mad no instruments with me | felt
In my pocket for my penknife opened
IT, made the necessary incisou in The
boys windpipe and fixed him up tenn
porarily until | could send a note to
he nearest doctor TO complete the
Job
I heard afterward that the boy got
well, and that my penknife operation !
vas as complete a success as If it had
'een performed in a hospital with all .
ne appliances | have often looked J
ack on that operation with distinct =
leasure. because | worked so SWIFT. :
7, surely and we'll without seconds :
reparation-automatically, In fact !
hat is why feel like calling It my :
tar achievement
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28
Psychology 81 Dress.

Or Thomas Claye s. a% q London.
speaking on the subject II he special
psychology Of women. says that there
is a psychology fn clothes d Is USE
less to sag that they dress as they
do 20 please oshsr uan.-a 81 please
men They dres sD1lg because
they have 90 ia -.lr atH Uay and
10 their oun satisfaction. The Isy-
cholosy Of dress is That SO appears 10
make sou De- shat Jon profess 10 be.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28
Mrs, Joyce's Happy Thouuht.


They had met In the home-gona
train, and the talk had drifted to thel
neighbor5
fe-es" Mr. Billings said. reluctant
~ In repl to his friends remark that
Mrs. Joyce was an awfuly sweet lit
Tie woman.
So cheerful! Always sunny! Al.
ways looking on the bright side Bill
linss friend continued enthusiastic
cally
There's such a thing as overdo-
ing the bright side business. though. e
said Billings The other night / was
up there, and Joyce-you know how
absent-minded he is?-put the lighted
end OF his cigar in his mouth. lie
Jumped three feet, and was a little
noisy for minute Right in the midst
of II all Mrs. Joyce smiled blandly.
and said
How fortunate you are, dear. to
discover it at once."
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28
TODAY IN HISTORY
septemher %.


1850 Americans under Gen. Mari d
attacked a party of Tories at
Black Mingo
lSI5--Americans defeated the British
In Battle of Lake Ontario
lS39-William Dunlap. portrait ami
historical painter. died in New
York.
1S5i-U 5. sloop Albany sailed from
Apinwall and was never more
heard Of.
lSC3-C Confederate troops attacked
General Burnside at Knoxville.
1SGN-Goy Warmouths veto Of the
negro equity bill was sustain o.
IN the Louisiana house.
lS9G-A strike began on the Canadian
Pacific railway.
l9o"-A 100000 FIRE in stockton. Cal
l95l-Lafcalio Hearn. author died
in Japan born in Ionian Islands
June y. 1850.
lsaC-Mayor Mcclellan. CT New York
announced that be would not
support william r Hearst flrI
governor.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28

there was no report from them at
Saturdays luncheon. nor Is IL likely
that any report will be made next
Saturday. because there will be no
council meeting till Tuesday of next
week. There can not be much specll.
iation as to the form in which the
subject will be presented TO the conn-
Gil, There probably is no difference
Of opinion as TO the need of very radi-
cal reform and development in the
citys fire service-~u systematizing of
what service we have as speedily as
possible certainty of proper water
from the water company and
sach changes and extensions In the
service as the exigencies Of the case
may demand. Much of the improve
lient sought for will not require any
money outlay. and perhaps there will
20 enough wisdom in the council TO
lrcviae the money for such improve
nents as demand it, Anyway, the |
acumen Of our executive and |
: eislative departments could not EN-
10y itself at anything that is
lore important TO he community
ttSf rnW
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28

A remarkable soldier has just died
az Budapest in the person OF Gen
Stephen Turr. one OF the bravest reyo-
lutionaTy generals that ever lived. He
commenced his military career as a
lieutenant In the Austrian army Then
he fought for the Hungarian reyolu-
tiOnary government helped to queu a
German revolution. and joined Carl
baldl In his great struggle On the
outbreak Of the Crimeau war he served
as 4 volunteer In Omar Pasha's
army against Russia, and finally re
ceived a commission in the British
transport service Il was while
buying horses for the British
army az bucharest in 1855
that the general ess seized BIZ the
Austrians as a deserter and sentenced
20 death But both the British and
French governments made such EN-
phatic protests against this sentence
that IL was committed TO Punishment
Finally. the old soldier settled down
fu Paris
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28
JUST AWHlL E. "
LRN G. Henri DLanceHl

Wy : ileii'i = ''df'teyi
~ 9o" manu- ~ NINE ana siHIie
- ''''s 1i'e o'tSS lef Just a"hlIe,
~ ut gaze INTO 'hose eyes
~ = "'i4 gray as - nlhs skies
On my aoo"iaet iofai q crown.
lI'5i'o thS us re court OF bliss
.,'iss "oS oi'e-one feetIh4 kiss
r'l 'oihs deep within my soul
! '''s OF passion sargins roll.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28

Each one OF aH ahyc.io4a:e couple
may be willing as So So r, die ior
the other. yet unwilling 10 utter The
agreeable word 10 the ri.h. moment;
but If the wits were suiHsirniiy quick
Tor them 30 perceive that they are ia
comic situation a. aEcCiiOnate
couples must De when they quarrel.
they would not wait for The moon or
the almanac. To bring back the Hood
tide of lender feelings. that hey
should Join hands aud iips.-Geo g
Meredith. "Au Ee7ay u1 Comedy"
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28

According to news item elsewhere
Rev. Kicks enc Of the old-time negro
preachers of Cairo had his watch
stolen out OF his pocket yesterday by
another negro who claimed to have
got religion" and was embracing the
preacher by way OF expressing his
gratitude for helping him onto the
straight and narrow path" Rev.
Ricns shows his inconsistency i'm an
plying TO the police for aid TO re-.
cover his time piece It was he who.
IN recent political campaign. al.
dressing large audience of negroes
ri the court house boldly advised
them to be dishonest. you takes de
odder feller's money" said he. "ycu
takes 1t round, you takes it square an
you takes 1t fiat an den you goes
an votes 70 our man" And that's
what hundreds of them did.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-09-28

Rivers dry, crops dying. forests
afiame, rain due water famine caus.
Ing untold suffering, plants suspend,
ed, damage in the Adirondacks 81.
0nl 0G0 a day, $4,000 acres ablaz
New York enyeloped in smoke. ship.
ping retarded on the great lakes,
transatlantic liners delayed a day by
smoke off Sandy Hook, Montana
Minnesota and Maine woods burning
say the headlines. But, as Mr. Can.
Ton has wisely said, when there's no
more wood SOMEBODY Will invent a sub.
stitute,' and as for water, there's Just
as much as there always has been
only IL has not been well distributed
Il late.