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The Detroit times., 1909-01-22

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The Detroit times., 1909-01-22
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published by permission OF Charles FrohmanJ (
The Detroit times., 1909-01-22

The wear 1908 rounded out thirty
years Of telephone service in New
York city. -
The Detroit times., 1909-01-22
CHAPTER xxl.-(continued.)

N NDER such conditions my duty
I'LL was clear. II seemed To me.
It'll stopped the panic and here
am. Had l continued and fol
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26

WE are apt to suspect people who
always agree with us and to dislike
them if they don't.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26

But, thought she, we'll enough to go,
he will certainly be well enough to re-
turn, and the day wore sullenly away.
He did return and for several days
following he hung on the heels of his
inseparable companion.
It was late in November when Rob-
inson put a collar around the dogs
neck, and with small rope tied him
in the shelter where he slept at night
and gave him food and water. He
refused to touch his food, and with
his last strength gnawed the rope, and
some time during the day was gone
again to the mountain side. They
saw his tracks along the path toward
the pastures, but the prints did not
show that he ran with the freedom
and strength of earlier days. They
were close together and uneven, and
here and there were traces of his hav-
ing lain down from sheer weakness
as he climbed the winding path.
The father and daughter went into
the fields and called the dog for a long
time, but in vain. Finally, going
across the pasture to the side of shell
tered slope, where the cattle often lin
gered, and where the COW that day
had fed, they found his dead body
lying among the withered grasses and
sassafras sprouts of the neglected land.
The wind among the pines on the
mountainside moaned a requiem over
the old watchman dead at his post of
duty. y.-Hu6eyt T. Houston.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26
JUDGING A CIGAR.

On no point is the average smoker
so i'll informed as that of judging a
cigar. Nine times out of ten, upon
being handed a cigar, he will hold it
to his nose, unlighted, sniff at the
wrapper with critical air and deliv-
er his verdict in self'satished man.
ner. This characteristic maneuver is
always source of amusement to any
tobacco man who happens to observe
it. There is only one way to ascer-
tain the quality of a cigar, and that
is to smoke it. No expert will pass
Judgment on a cigar until he has
lighted it and smoked it well down
toward the middle. The first and
most important point upon which he
bases his opinion is the "burn." To-
bacco may have every other virtue,
but if it does not hold the fire and
burn evenly it is poor tobacco. Next
in order of importance comes the
aromatic smoke must have a pleas
ing "smell" comes the havor-
the smoke must be smooth and not
"scratchy" or bitter. Then there is
the color-rich brown, indicating a
ripe leaf, we'll cured-and last is
workmanship-good if the wrapper is
put on smoothly and the "bunch" is
made so that the cigar "draws" free
" and is neither too hard nor too
spongy, bad if the everse.-Bohemi-
an Magazine.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26
"BLEsT BE THE TIE"

Not one in thousand of those who
sing that good old hymn "Blest be
the tie that binds" knows the history
of its homely origin.
According to the Church Eclectic it
was written by the Rev. John Fawcett,
who in the latter part of the eigh-
teenth century was the pastor of a
poor little church in Lockshire, Eng
land. His family and responsibilities
were large, his salary was less than
81 week.
In 1872 he felt himself obliged to
accept a call to a London church.
His farewell sermon had be n
preached, six wagons loaded with
furniture and books stood by the door.
His congregation, men women and
children, were in agony of tears.
Mr.. Fawcett and his wife sat down
on a packing case and cried with the
others. Looking up, Mrs. Fawcett
said:
ooh, John, John, cannot bear
this know not where to go p
"Nor 1 either" said he; "nor
will we go. Unload the wagons and
put everything back in its old place. "
His letter of acceptance to the Lon
don church was recalled and he wrote
this hymn to commemorate the cpl
sode.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26
BE YOURSELF.

Don't govern your thoughts and
actions according to the other fellow S
standards.
Think for yourself. Make your
own brain get busy. Make it record
its own impressions. Make it create
its own impulses and ideas.
The moment you say Il wonder
what people will think?" you admit
the superiority of the judgment of
others.
You've got brain of your own, or
you couldn't comprehend what all
this is about. You've got judgment
of your own, or you wouldn't agree or
disagree with what you are reading
right now. You possess the ability
to think for yourself, otherwise you
wouldn't know whether you agree or
disagee with what is printed here.
Why not exercise that brain !?
Why not put some confidence in that
judgment? Why not rely on those
thinking powers to steer the ship of
Self?
Being natural isn't hard. Trying
10 be unnatural Is. Thinking your
own thoughts is much easier than
thinking what you think the other
fellow thinks. And there's so much
more satisfaction in being ones own
self than there is in trying to be some
body else.
Be true to yourself. Believe in
yourself. What others have done,
you can do. You were made part
of the great Scheme of Things because
there is work for you to do. Do it !
Don't worry about what somebody
else will say when you take off your
coat and dig in. Just dig Dig like
forty And, above all
Make sure that you are you. Be
yourself Jerome P. EleisbmGn.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26
N, Md, SATURDAY, JUNE 26. 1909.
THE WINDING ROADS.

Where do they lead-the little roads that ramble
up and down?
They wind about the valleys where the noun
tains lift and frown,
With fragrant honeysuckie tangling all the
swaying trees
And rhododendron nodding in the gentle morn
o. down the valley do they go. where all is sweet
To wind about and turn about and hide behind
the hill.
clash and roar;
But high and high above them do the song birds
wheel and soar,
their wealth of bloom
Through which the sunshine spatters like jewel
Where do they go2 The little roads that find
the hidden ways
As memories that ramble down through misty
yesterdays.
Now there be many roads that run through sun
shine and through rain,
Broad highways that make thoroughfares across
the hills and plain;
But all the little byways-almost hidden in the
leaves,
That make marvel-pattern of a thousand min
They set us wondering of where they lead to,
Into the mystic shadows that are TREMENDOUSLY
STILL
They turn away from travelled roads where dust
clouds rise and drift;
They find the little hollows where the sunshine
seems to sift
Itself among the blossoms and the fabric of the
vines;
They wreathe themselves all lazily between the
solemn pines
And o, we fain would follow them would wan
der on and on
Until we knew the secret of the place where
they have gone.
Where do they lead-the little roads that ramble
in and out
And know the merry music of the brooklets
roundabout
They hail us and they call us as we journey
swiftly by;
They flash their signals to us as upon our way
we fly
And then we fall to dreaming of hush-held,
peaceful way
That was the little road we knew in some fair
yesterday.
-Wil6ur D. Nesbit, in Chicago Post.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26

"WHAT is it1" the druggist sleep
lily inquired from his bedroom win
dow. "This ish drug store, amt it -
said the man who had rung the night
bell. eyes. What do you want :"
"Want to look in your city directory
minute, an shee' where 1 live"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26
ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF
The Expenses Of Baltimore County
FOR THE
Fiscal Year Ending May 81, 1909.

Published by order of the County Commission
ers of said county, in pursuance of Section II
of Article % of the Code of Public General
Laws, which provides that
''The County Commissioners shall make out
and publish annually, in at least two newspapers
published in their respective counties, II there
be two A DETAILED, MINUTE AND ACCu-
RATE STATEMENT of the expenses OF tnelr
said counties specifying therein each particular
item of expense, and for what and to whom PAID,
and shall also deliver to the Sheriff OF their re-
ment as there are Election Districts OF said
county. at least ten days before each general
election and the Sheriff shall within six days
after the receipt of such copies set up one OF
them at the place of holding elections In eacn
district"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26

YOUTH is the springtime of hope;
when man gets little older he stops
hoping and begins to reach out for
something he can get his hands on.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26
SCIENTIFIC CAUSE OF BLUE MONDAY.

A question which recently puzzled
a number of medical men in friendly
discussion was: Why can man do
more and better brain work on a
Thursday than on a Mondaya Five
out of the six in the debate agreed
beyond doubt the brain did not
work as accurately and as quickly
Immediately after holiday Of fort
night or more.
The most plausible theory put for
ward presupposed that the brain pos
sesses a peculiar characteristic which
is best described as "brain inertia,
and that this inertia, even in the least
lazy mortals, must be overcome before
full brain activity and maximum out
put can be obtained.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26

THE difference between railroad
ticket and an egg is that the railroad
ticket Is good until used.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26

F. D. CoBoURN, secretary of the
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
says:
1.-The alfalfa growing in Kansas
approximates 600, 900 acres, and but
three cultivated crops exceed it in an
nual area, viz, wheat, corn and oats.
In combination with these. alfalfa
furnishes Kansans with the most
complete and cheapest rations any
where available for the excellence OF
which they are famed. 1t is a peren-
nial blessing to those SO fortunate as
to have an area devoted to its grow
ing"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26

"HE kissed her on the forehead.
The proud beauty drew herself up her
full height"
"And then 7"
"He could not reach any higher
than her lips, of course"
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23

ting, which landed them the game.
The score by innings is as follows:
Frizellburg 20 0 0 0 0 0 1 x-6
Uniontown ....0 O 0 0 2 O O-3
This Saturday our baseball team
will journey to Silver Run to play
the team of that town.
Daniel Dickensheets and family, OF
Wakefield, spent last Sunday with his
brother, Frederick w. Dickensheets.
Charles Maus and wife, of Balt1-
more, are spending a few days with
his brother Levi and other friends In
this place.
The festival held here by the Fr1z-
ellburg baseball club last Saturday
night was quite a success, both in at
tendance and financially.
Mrs. Lydia Maus returned home last
Saturday evening after spending sew
eral weeks with friends in Baltimore
and Virginia.
Harvey Freeman has had his out
buildings painted at his property in
this place. John Haifey & Co. did
the work. All our painters are very
busy at the present time.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
PATAPSCO.

Miss Ruby McCullom, of Baltimore.
is spending the summer with Miss
Naomi Chew.
Miss Olive Shipley has returned to
her home after spending a fortnight
visiting friends in Denmore Park, Ar
lington, Md. She was accompanied
home by her friend, Miss Myers.
Patapsco M. E. Sunday school viii
hold its annual celebration August Il,
on the lawn adjoining the church.
Miss Beulah Evans, Of Baltimore,
has returned to her home for the sum-
mer.
Miss Ruth Richstine Chew and Miss
Vera Oursler have returned to their
homes after ten days trip to Wash
ington, D. C. They also visited Mt.
Vernon and Alexandria, Va.
Mrs. John w. Flater. after spending
a month with her husband In Newark,
N. j., who is the star pitcher of the
Newark baseball team, Is visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Arnold.
Miss Margaret McCollom. of Balti-
more, is visiting Miss R. r. Chew.
Mrs. J. E. Burton has returned to
her home in Baltimore after visiting
Mrs. C. R. Chew for several weeks.
Rev. F. NJ Ambrose is having Pleas
ant Grove NJ E. church repaired with
a new metal ceiling, new pews, book
cases, and a fresh coat of paint inside
and outside.
Miss Helen Wisner spent several
days of the past week visiting Miss
Cook, of Westminster.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
Alfalfa Hay Crop.

Time and experience have proved
that alfalfa Is an unexcelled all
round stock food. 1t will make the
finest beef, mutton, pork and is one
of the best horse feeds known. 1t Is
also excellent for poultry. Chicks
and turkeys thrive exceedingly when
turned into a patch of green alfalfa.
It is most wholesome food for lay
ing hens. Hogs may be both raised
and fattened on it. Nothing makes
better pork than alfalfa, topped with
pumpkins or Egyptian corn. Alfalfa
is being "processed,'' so to speak,
and made into commercial products,
in which shape it is found to be an
excellent provender.
But one of the best features about
alfalfa as a farm crop is the benefit
grown. Alfalfa, by reason Of its
great roofing qualities, is one Of
those crops which do not run out
quickly. 1t not only roots very deep
ly, but it roots profusely, throwing
out into the soil, as it descends, a
myriad of shoots and tendrtls that
draw nourishment from regions that
are not touched by other crops that
root less vigorously. Thus its sources
of growth and sustenance are greatly
enlarged and permit the plant to pro-
duce abundantly, season after season
on the same soil without being re-
newed or the soil being fertilized
from outside sources.
So, the land that has been cropped
to alfalfa until it is thought best that
the crop be changed, the soil, instead
of being Impoverished, has been am
azingly enriched. 1t is always good
plan, when about to be changed to
another crop, to permit the alfalfa to
attain it's full growth and then plow
it under Then, with the rotting of
the plants that have been plowed un-
der and the millions of roots that per-
meate the ground, the soil is in splen-
did shape for any other crop that may
be put in In fact, the alfalfa raisers
of this valley have found that it will
not do to SOW wheat on alfalfa land
the first year or two after it is bro
ken up, as the soil is so rich in hui
mus that the grain grows exceeding
ly rank, falls down and rusts before
it is ripe. They, therefore, make a
practice of putting in other crops
that can stand the replenished
strength of the soil, such as root
crops, beans, peas, cantaloupes, sweet
potatoes, berries and other fruits
Fresno Herald.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
COVER.

The continued hot and dry wealth
er has a tendency to cause lots OF
sickness throughout the country. Ma
than Gosnell and C. Cover are still
on the sick list.
Frank Cover is threatened with
diphtheria at this writing.
Mrs. Sewall Easton, of Winfield,
spent few days last week with R.
Flickinger and family.
Mrs. R. c.. Conaway visited Mrs.W1
liam Gosnell Saturday.
Mrs. Harry Koontz called on friends
in and around UnionvilIe last week.
R. Flickinger spent Sunday after
noon with G. Cover.
Norman Buckman, of Sykesv1lle,
is spending his vacation here with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Buck
man.
C. Cover and family entertained
the following guests on Wednesday
of this week: Mr.. and Mrs. j. t.
West, Mrs. Charles Geiger, all OF New
Windsor; Mrs. J. Rudolph West and
daughter Olive, of st. Louis, Mo.
You are invited to attend the Beth
any festival this Saturday evening,
JNly "a.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
MELROSE.

A new mine containing excellent
iron ore has been opened up at the
Findlay ore mines west of here.
Don't forget that VENTS Union
Sunday school will hold their annual
celebration Saturday, September 4.
One evening last week our people
we're treated to a novelty in the Arab
music line. A musician who delight
ed our people with concert band,'
performed we'll, with the aid of his
hands and feet, upon an accordion,
drum, cymbals, and bells at one time.
The festival of VENTS Union Sun
day school on Saturday evening was
we'll attended.
Bucher Bros. are having their long
blacksmith and wheelWright sheds
painted, which adds much to the ap-
pearance of their property. Mr..
Bucher and his assistant are kept
very busy even in the dull summer
time.
H. C. Miller, our enIerprising mer-
chant has built a handsome porch to
his store and residence, which adds
much to the appearance of the same.
News reached us that a mule ran
away with John M. Zepp, of near
Nace's Mill, dragging him distance.
No bones were broken, but he was
bruised considerably.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
PRINTERS OF ANTIQUITY.
They Paid No Heed to Spelling and
Punctuation.

In the infancy Of printing its results
we're comparatively very crude. The
type used was intended to initiate
writing, and partook Of the character
of gothic and script
In punctuating, the early printer
employed no marks at first other than
the period and colon; an Oblique
stroke was afterward introduced, and
fulfilled the purpose Of our comma.
Pages had neither running title nor
number The divisions of words and
sentences were very Imperfect, and
the language was not divided into
paragraphs.
Capital letters were not used to
commence a sentence, nor in proper
names. No rules seem to have regu-
lated their orthography, which was
entirely without method, and their ab-
breviations were so numerous as to
cause the necessity, in time, Of pub
fishing a book, by the directions in
which they could be read. But one
kind of letter was used throughout.
A space was left at the beginning of
chapters for the illuminator, who
wrote in various -colored ink the in
itial letter. These were often elabor-
ately ornamented, and very costly,
being embellished with flowers and
figures, and sometimes variegated
with gold and silver.
The first presses we're fashioned
after the common wine-press. For a
short time the paper was printed on
but one side, the blank sides being
pasted together.
The only forms of books were the
folio and quarto. Two or three hun
dred copies were then considered a
large edition Dates were often omit
ted, and the name of the printer, when
given, was placed at the end Of the
hnOE
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
PARK HALL.

Miss Bessie Lewis, her mother and
friend, Ray Keefer, all OF Baltimore,
returned to their homes Sunday after
spending a week with the latter's sis
ter, Mrs. NJ o. Hollenbaugh and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Greene have
another little son.
Miss Edna and Roy Keefer accom-
panied Norman Hollenbaugh home
last Saturday. Norman had been
helping his uncle to harvest near
Union Bridge.
Masters Clyde and Wilbur Davis
visited S. F. Fleming and family on
Sunday.
Mrs. N. o. Hollenbaugh, Vera Owen,
Ray Keefer, Bessie Lewis and her
mother spent Wednesday with Frank
Keefer and family.
Frank ]. Russell, who is spending
some time at Mr.. and Mrs. John
Myers, spent Sunday with his parents
in Union Bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. w. o. Hollenbaugh
and family visited the formers par
ents last Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Ogle spent
Sunday with Mr.. Ogle's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Fleming were in
Tuesday.
Jarold Hollenbaugh spent' Satur-
day and Sunday with Earle Crowmer.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
MOUNT AIRY.

We are having quite a building
boom here. No less than fifteen dwell
lings have been erected recently. The
new bank building, nearing compile
ton would be credit to any city. All
of which denote thrift and prosperity.
The doctors say the community is
"distressingly healthy"
Mt. Airy has made complete sur
render to the Salvation Army With
Major M. E. Barter in command, they
propose to hold the fort for Is days
or more. There will be a number of
new features, including graphophone
concerts and a "Hallalujah" wedding
on Monday evening. Saturday, Sun
day and Monday the meetings will be
in charge of ''Col. Holtz," of Phila-
delphia. Saturday night the Colonel
and staff, assisted by other members
of the camp, will give musical pro-
gram. No services during the week
except the o'clock p. m. service. A
cordial invitation is extended to all
and a pleasant time is assured.
Farmers are rushing their grain
to market under the impetus of good
prices. Wheat today is bringing $1.15.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
MATERSNHLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Griffin are now
at their home, Oak Grove, and will
be glad to have their friends call
Miss Margaret Warfield, of Balti-
more city, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Allen Griffin, at Oak Grove, and will
spend portion of her vacation with
relatives and friends in Howard
county.
Miss Gatrell, one of Howard coun-
ties most popular young ladies, is Wis
iting her cousin, Miss Estelle Waters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Sellman spent
last Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Sellman of Mt. Airy.
The Misses Leila, Cordelia, Mary
and Alice England and Nellie Banks
and Marshall Warfeld, Howard Eng
land, Maui and Thad Crapster Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Sellman in
their new home last Friday evening.
Miss Ada Hatfield is visiting friends
in Baltimore.
Mrs Sarah A. Haines has just re-
turned from visit to her daughter
in Baltimore.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-07-23
BARK HILL.

Miss Nora Edwards spent Saturday
and Sunday in Westminster.
Jackson Ham has gone to Balti-
more, where he has employment for
while.
Harry Stitley and wife spent Sun
day with the formers parents in
Clemsonville.
w. H. Jones, wife and daughter
Ethel attended the family reunion at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gill
bert, of Roop's Mill. There were
about. thirty six persons present.
Among these were Samuel Gilbert,
wife and son Stanley, Henry Helwig
and wife, VIM. H.. Utermahlen and
wife, John F. Utermahlen and wife,
Clarence Blaxston and wife, Luther
Utermahlen and wife, Ernest Helwig
and wife, VIM. H. Jones and wife, Mrs.
Noah Reindollar, Mrs. Clara Tate,
Ruth Utermahlen, Lillian Sell, Ethel
Jones, Annie and Mildred Blaxston,
Grace Reindollar, Pauline Helwig,
Gertrude and Julia Utermahlen,
Johanna Helwig, Grace Helwig, Mary
Utermahlen, John ]. Utermahlen,
Hollie Helwig, Harry Reindollar,
John and Maurice Utermahlen, Den
mis- Reindollar and Harry Helwig.
Jesse Angel is spending some time
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Oliver
Angel, of this place.
We had quite nice rain last Fri
day through our section, but it soon
dried away owing to the high winds
which followed.
The Sabbath school of this place
will hold it's annual picnic July 81 in
Charles Haines' grove, afternoon and
night. Pleasant Valley Band will
be present.