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Middletown transcript., 1908-06-06
THE WOMAN'S PAPER

TEE Sum is the best type of news.
paper, ,orally and intellectually. In
addition the news of che day, it pub
fishes the Jest features that can be pre-
sentad. anch as fashion articles. and mis-
cellaneous writings from men and women
of note and prominence. It is an educa-
tor of the highest character, constantly
stimulating to noble ideals in individual
and national life.
The SUN is published on Sunday as
well as every other day of the week.
By Nail the Daily sun, ss 3 yssr. in
sun alone, III year.
Address
A. 8. ABELL COMPANY,
Publishers and Proprietors,
BALTIM0RE, ND
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SHE TOOK THE HINT.

At home stations the private SOL
6ier's washings is usually done by the
married soldiers wives, who are ex-
pected to sew on missing buttons and
do little repairs, for which small
sum is deducted from the private's
pay.
Private McGinnis had a great deal
of trouble with his laurdress. Satur-
day after Saturday had his shirt come
back with the neck button off, or else
hanging by single thread. He had
spoken to her on the subject and she
had promised to see after it; but still
the button was not on properly.
He got out of patience one Sunday,
when the missing button had made
him late for parade, and exclaimed j:
"Bad cess to the woman, I'll give
her hint this time, anyhow" He
took the lid off his tin blacking box
about 3 inches in diameter-punched
two holes in it with his fork and then
tied it on the neck of the shirt that
was next to be washed.
Next Saturday when his washing
came back the whole room gathered
round him to see if she had taken the
hint; she had-she had made a but
tonhole to fit it
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THIS TREE GROWS RAPIDLY.

The so-called North Carolina pop
lar, tree believed by some to be a
distinct form of poplar and by others
to be merely a staminate cottonwood,
has the reputation of being the fast
est growing tree in America.
It is common to find trees that
have attained heights of so feet in IS
years. But even this marvelously
rapid growth is both literally and fig
uratively put in the shade by the black
or Norway poplar (Populus nigra) OF
Europe. According to Forestry and
Irrigation, tree of this species has
been known to grow to height of 20
feet, with diameter of four inches al
the base, in three years. The tree has
been called the sudden sawlog" and
comes pretty near deserving the name
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25
TWO HOMES OF DOLLY MADISON.

There are two houses in Washing
ton around which linger special rem
iniscences of beautiful Dolly. The
Octagon House, which the Presiden
tial family occupied while the White
House lay In ashes, is filled with
memories of the brilliant ball in cele-
bration of peace, where the bitterest
of partisan rivals dropped their an
cient antagonisms and embraced each
other with sudden affection. The old
mansion is the most celebrated OF
Washington's many haunted houses,
aud among its ghostly visitants the
most gracious and beautiful, we may
suppose, are the spirits that return
to the sparkling assembly held by
Queen Dolly that night.
The tenderest memories of her are
woven about the old Dolly Madison
house on H street, now held by the
Cosmos Club. In that house, secur-
ed to her by the liberal compensation
paid by Congress for the papers ol
Mr.. Madison, she spent the last year:
of her gracious and beautiful life
Sad years they were, made sorrowfu
not only by the loss of those most deal
to her and of her magnificent South
ern home, but by the dissipation and
misconduct of her son. That youth,
having been brought up as piece o.
Venice glass, naturally went to piece:
the first time he came In contact will
anything hard. But hers was alway:
a bright home because other Cheerful
spirit and loving nature, that attracted
to her the best of friendship and de-
votion to plant the flowers of affection
on the many graves in her heart
LiPbinootf MagGsfne.
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THE EDITOR REGRETS.

"When 1 was editor of the Virgin
ia City Enterprise" remarked Mark
Twain at dinner in New York, "a
fine turkey was one day left at the
office.
Turkeys were rare in that high
altitude, and we all hankered after
this bird. The proprietor, though,
claimed it for his own. He took 1t
home and had it cooked for dinner.
"The next day, as he was expatia-
ting on the turkeys richness and ten
derness, letter was handed to him.
He opened it and read:
"'Mr. Edito,-.SW:-Yesterday
sent you a turkey which has been
the cause of much dispute among us.
To settle a bet will you kindly ask
your agricultural editor to state In to-
morrow issue what it died of. F."
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wOMAN's LOOKS.

Some one once asked woman how
it was she kept her youth SO wonder
fully. Her hair was snowy white,
she was eighty years old, and her en-
ergy was waning, but she never i'm
pressed one with the idea of age, for
her heart was still young in sympa-
thy and interests. And this was her
answer: "I knew how to forget dis
agreeable things. tried to master
the art of saying pleasant things. 1
did not expect too much of my friends.
I kept my nerves we'll in hand, and
did not allow them bore others. I
tried to find any work that came to
hand congenial. l retained the illu-
sions of my youth, and did not believe
every man liar, and every woman
spiteful. 1 did my best to relieve the
misery 1 came in contact with and
sympathized with the suffering. In
fact, 1 tried to do to others as / would
be done by. aud you see me in con-
sequnce reaping the fruits of happi-
ness and peaceful old age. ."-HealkH
Culture.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25
DEEP MUD IN LONDON.

Congressman Longworth at din
ner told a story about mud.
can American in Liverpool, wait.
ing for boat home," he said, "ate
his last dinner on foreign soil with an
Englishmau.
"The Englishman complained of
the mud in America. He told
number of tall stories about the ex.
ecrable roads of America and the
scrape they had got him into, both
walking and driving.
cat the end of a particularly tall
story of this kind the American
said:
eyes, we have lot of mud in
America. 1 admit it. It Is nothing
to the mud over here, though
Nonsense, said'the Englishman.
"'Fact,' the American replied.
why, this afternoon, on a walk out
Chester way, I had remarkable ad-
venture-came near getting In trou-
BILE with an old gentleman-all
through your accurSed muQ.
"Some of the streets are little
greasy at this season, I admit, said
the Englishman. What was your
adventure, thought
We'll, said the American, as
was walking along Bold Street I no.
ticed that the mud was thick and pre-.
sently saw a high hat ahoat on a
large puddle of rich ooze.
Thinking to do some one kind.
ness, 1 gave the hat poke with my
stick, when an old gentleman looked
up from beneath. surprised and
frowning.
Hello I said, you're in pretty
deep
" Deeper than you think he said
I'm on the top of an omnibus
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WINE TASTING UNHAPPY JOB.

Though professional wine tasters
are highly paid the occupation has its
drawbacks.
One may wonder, at first, at the
suggestion that there Is anything un-
pleasant about the job of slipping wine
occasionally, but when one hears
about the things to which the wine
faster has to resort to keep himself in
trim for his work, it becomes evident
that his lot is not happy one.
While they follow the profession,
the wine tasters must always keep
themselves in training for the work.
Through every minute of the day
they must keep one thought in mind,
"Will this or that food spoil my abil-
ity to appreciate the flavor of "a wine 2"
In the end it is said all who make
wine tasting business become ex-
ceedingly nervous and dyspeptic as
the result of slipping without swallow
ing and the never-ending dieting,
which causes tremendous strain on
the digestive organs.
The wine faster must never take
highly favored foods at his breakfast
and he must refrain from smoking in
the forenoon hours. The best time
for sampling the wines is midway be-
tween breakfast and luncheon, and
the greater part of the work is done
about that time.
The wine faster always shakes the
wine before he tastes it. This brings
out the aroma to the full extent and
if it does not suit him when he smells
it, he simply puts it aside and tasting
is unnecessary. In order that he may
shake the wine without spilling it,
he has special glasses.
He always allows ten minutes to
elapse between his sips Of the wines.
Sometimes he eats small fragment
of bread. But never by any chance
does he allow himself to swallow any
of the wine which goes into his
mouth.
When very careful choices of wines
are required the sampler restricts him
self to about thirty sips, but when the
selection is simply to be trough" he
can try at least sixty varieties of wines.
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OLD MOTHERS.

1 love old mothers-mothers with white hair,
And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet
With murmured blessings over sleeping babes.
There is something In their quiet grace
That speaks the calm of Sabbath afternoons;
a knowledge in their deep, unfaltering eyes
That far outreaches all philosophy.
Time, with caressing touch, about them weaves
The silver threaded fairy shawl of age,
While all the echoes of forgotten songs
Seem Joined to lend sweetness to their speech
Old mothers Las they pass with slow timed step,
Their trembling hands cling gently to youths
strength;
Sweet mothers Las they pass, one sees again
Old garden walks, old roses and old loves.
Charles II. Ross In Century.
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MAKE A BLUFF.

If there isn't any pleasure
Waits for you beside the way
If there's not thing to grin at
In your journey day by day,
If you've got excuse for kicking
And for stirring up row,
Don't you do It'll Don't you do 1t
Just be happy. anyhow.
Just be happy. just be happy;
Take the fiddle and the bow,
Snuggle it against your shoulder,
Timber up and let her go,
Till the world is full of music
And there's joy in every string,
Till you get all outdoors laughing
And you make the echoes sing.
It's duty you are owing
To the world to shake your feet,
And to lift your voice in singin'
Till the music fills the street;
If the world is dark and gloomy
And you haven't got friend,
It's your duty to dissemble,
It's your duty to pretend.
II you meet the world a-grinnin',
Then the world will grin at you;
You can laugh the clouds to flinders,
Till the blue sky glimmers through;
If you Just pretend you're happy,
With your whole heart In the bluh
Then, almost before you know 1t,
You'll be happy, sure enough
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25
HIGH SIGNS OF TRAMP WORLD.

Anyone who lives in a small town
or upon farm should be very care
full about the character of the chalk
marks which may be found on the
fences.
In some cases it is good thing to
let them stand, in others, the wisest
course is to get them off just as soon
as possible.
It Is with the chalk mark upon the
fence that the tramp passes the word
along to his fellows regarding the
character of the people who live in a
house and the treatment which may
be expected.
Now, if you see circle with cross
inside of it, erase that mark as soon
as you can. It means that sometime
you or someone within the house gave
meal to tramp and he is passing
the word along that flood is given
here" That sign Is an invitation
that no tramp will overlook.
The best thing you can do Is to
rub that symbol out and draw another
circle with an arrow running out of
it. That sign means "Get away as
quickly as possible" :"
You may also draw a box and In
side of this chalk two "N's" which
run together. This is the high sign
that there is dog in the garden.
Or, if you want to be put entirely
beyond the pale of annoyance and
molestation just draw wavy line
which looks like snake with an up
raised head and three curves in its
back. That will mean to the tramp
whose eye looks upon it: "Poor
people in this house."
Or you can simply make a cipher
mark. That means Nothing doing. "
That these signs are accurate is
vouched for by Inspector George Pat
terson, of the Bureau of Criminal In.
spection of the Boston Police Depart.
ment. He has made special study
of tramp signs.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25

GEORGE Washington Grant Lee
Jackson, diminutive negro was in a
local police court, charged with hav-
ing thrown stoEe and broken win
dow glass. He was running away
when caught.
"But if you didn't mean to break
the glass why were you running
away 7" asked the judge.
"I was a-runnin' home foh to gel
de money to pay foh it, suh."
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OPTIMISTIC CLUB.

The Optimistic Club of America
was recently organized, with head
quarters at Salt Lake City, Utah,
with Charles A. Quigley as its presi-
dent, and the desire of the organiza-
ton is to create local club in every
hamlet, village, town and city in the
United States. Col Charles Arthur
Carlisle, of the Studebaker Bros.
Company of South Bend, Ind, is back
of the Optimistic Club and is pushing
it forward to success in every direc-
ton.
The philosophy of the club, subject
to modification and additions, is as
follows:
God reigns, the Upion still lives and
the sun still shines, even though the
clouds obscure it.
There are more people dying each
day for the lack of kind word, pat
on the back and little encourage
ment than there are from disease.
A smile is potential, magnetic and
dispels trouble.
The man who never makes any mis-
takes never makes anything else.
Hard luck stories are like overdue
notes.
Go bury thy sorrow the world
hath its share. Just smile.
Before money was invented some
people were happy.
Shake hands as though you meant
it, and smile.
Nobody can compute the value of a
smile; frown has cost kingdom.
Nobody can really harm you but
yourself.
You are under real obligation to
every man on earth.
You can't put influence in a glass
case.
When in doubt take Optimism.
In darkness, in light, in sorrow, in
blight, be an optimist ever, and things
will come all right.
Optimism is the frst-born of hope,
the mother of confidence, the execu-
toner of adversely and the undertaken
of pessimism.
A frown is renegade smile that Is
afraid to look itself in the face.
On the faces of the happy aged it is
a well-known fact that wrinkles are
only the footprints of smiles.
On the vehicles of modern progress
the creak of the wheel is the pessimist
protest little Optimistic lubricant
will silence both the creak and the
croak.
The Optimist wins.
The greatest smiler is the greatest
healer.
Smile and the world delights with
you croak and you croak alone.
A smile is Gods own medicine.
A grin is counterfeit smile, and
does not pass current because the
heart stamp of genuineness is not
upon it.
Optimism and pessimism have
fought many bloody battles If Op-
timism hadlnot been victor up to date
hope would have died years ago.
In the realm of the birds the lark Is
the Optimist, the crow is the pessimist.
Why be a crow?
Clearing house certificates and
tight financial conditions have afford
ed more people who never had dol
lar an excuse for their hard-luck sto-
ries than anything since the civil war.
Let Optimism and the Optimist
destroy the last hope of the pessimist,
and perfect confidence will again pre-
vail, with peace and plenty for all.
Fall into line and the sunshine of
the home and the glory of trade will
reflect the delight of gracious per-
sonality.
Organize local club, improve upon
the philosophy quoted above if you
can print and spread your work,
and let the motto of your club be:
Not until every man and woman has
been successfully enlisted will we
haul down the unconquerable flag Of
determination.
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"There we found him a little later,

"There we found him little later,
just as he lay, in sort of stupor.
His yellow hair was stiff with flying
drops of tar. His white face was the
face of man grown old.
"The head oiler and I carried him
along the shaft, and up into the en-
CINE room. The torn wire and the
dislodged wheel told us what had
happened. And later, when we ex-
amined the electric signal, we found
the batteries burned out.
"While we were waiting for the
company's surgeon the lads mind
began wandering, as 1t had through
the long, weary dawn. It's only a
little way farther he was saying,
family, only just little bit farther
now. And yet 1 can't seem to mas
ter the problem. All life is prob
lem, SIR
"He talked just like that, and we
all stood round in our dirty Jumpers
and whispered. Each one of US was
thinking of the day when old Farrell
ley came back to the power house
hobbling on those crutches.
"Well, the boy pulled through all
right. And he had US all at his feet
when he came back from the hospital,
those of us who had believed in him.
and those who hadn't. And so I
say, you can never tell what kind of
stuff there is in a man until he has
been given chance to show 1t.
Big Callahan threw his oil soaked
waste into box and crawled out of
his overalls. The machinery had
started again.
"And young Farrelley-where is
he now?" asked.
The boy wiper smiled, and pointed
out across the city to where the main
office building loomed gray among
the sky scrapers. "If you will go
over there to the main Office and ask
the superintendent for Tim Farrelley,
you can see him for yourself" he
answered.-Yo Youths Combanion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25

THERE are nervous women (; there
are hyper-nervous women. But wo-
men SO nervous that the continual rus
tie of a silk skirt makes them nervous
no there are no women so nervous
as that.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25

PRINCIPAL. of School-"What are
your views on the subject of corporal
punishment Do you approve itF'
New boys mother-"No, indeed, sir.
I think when they're bad you should
just give 'em good thrashing."
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MRS. A. Cover phone)-Can you
send me cook today, Mr.. Dwyer?
Head of Intelligence Of6ce-Sorry I
can't accommodate you, Mrs. A., but
we have only one in the Office. Mrs.
A.-But why mayn't / have her
Head of Intelligence Ofice-Oh, we
have to keep her as sample!
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25

THE time to mulch strawberries Is
Just after a good freeze, when the
ground is hard enough to hold up a
wagon.
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THE avarage man Is dissatisfied
either with what he has or with what
he hasn't.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-12
S. H. LEWIS AT REST,
Well Known Member of the State
legal Fraternity Buried Yesterday.

The funeral yesterday afternoon. of
Samuel H. Lewis was largely attend
ed at Evans chapel on State street,
many mmbers of the bar being present,
Rev E l. Goshen conducted the ser
vices The speaker said In part:
Zone by one the children OF men
lay down and die: one by one they
start on the long journey that stretches
from the shores of time into the great
unknown No one comes back to tell
The world what there he found, and
that world stands fronting the Journey
that 1t soon must make, saying that If
n man die shall he live again? To an
ever that question mathematical dem
unstration or chemical test cannot be
employed. To answer that question no
dogma. no creed can avail. No priest.
no minister, can here have the final
word. and the nobler the soul the bet
ter the mind, and less Is any final word
desired. The argument that Will al
ways mean the most to the noblest
souls must be one of analogies and
a. connection that transcend all the
dog1natism OF the schools and fats of
the creeds No future events can be
scientifically demonstrated. The fu-
ture 10 the scientific man, as we'll as TO
the religious man, Is the domain OF
faith not OF knowledge
The choir of the First Congrega-
tionaI church furnished excellent mu-
sic. The pail bearers were Judge n. p.
Henderson, A. L. Hoppaugh. w. l.
SNYDER W. M.sBradley, Charles Bald
win. and P. l.. Williams. The burial
was at Mt, Oliyet-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-12
FIRST POLITICAL TALK,
Y. NJ. Q. a. Series Opens With Will
Ray as the Speaker.

Tho first of the fall series of Y. Nj.
c. A. Sunday afternoon talks was given
yesterday afternoon by VIII Ray OF
Political Parties" He said In part:
There seems to be no doubt In the
minds Of most of us today that poltic-
ally we are bad On every hand we
hear the cry, Corruption. corruption,
when will It end? Almost any man
would give as his final conclusion that
IN this line our virtues are fast slipping
from us and becoming sad and dim
memory of the past, But wish to say
that IN my opinion the reverse Is true.
Never have we had at the head of the
affairs OF state and nation men of purer
purpose than we have today. We are.
as a nation advancing socially, rcli-
giously and politically. We are making
progress for good.
THE organization of a political party
Is not necessarily an evidence of unan-
unity of opinion on certain questions
that concern government. Indeed, there
are as many Ideas of what Republican
ism ought to be as there are Repubil-
cans. The same Is true Of the Demo
Gratis, the Socialists and the Prohibit
tionlsts. 1t Is necessary. however. that
party organizations be effected. other-
wise political progress would be impos-
sible. The secret of political life and
virility In every question of issue is tho
fact that there Is always an organized
vigorous minority
"Wherein lies the duty of the honest
citizen? How much should he sacrifice
for his party? In the first place he
should be Informed on the questions at
issue. He should know his own mind.
Herein lies the danger Men are care
less; they do not inform themselves
and man who dares express an opin-
Ion is branded as a demagogue. the
citizen who rcNgiously attends his party
primaries is called a ward heeler' and
a CRATER. Yet on the whole we are bet
ter informed today on the political Is
| sues paramount in party and nation
| than ever before in the history Of the
| country. IT may be that in the few
| years Immediately following the Amer
| lean revolution the people were more
| keenly alive to and more personally
| interested In the affairs Of state than
| now, but / believe it an exaggeration to
make that statement
Il do believe that we suffer more
| from political corruption In times OF
! peace than in times of struggle. The
| citizen grows careless and Indifferent
| allows power to pass into the hands OF
selfish and corrupt men, whose only
| purpose liz personal gain. 1t Is tie duty
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-12
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