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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01
gelecteh Miscellany.
From the Hearth and Home.
A Farmers Thinking and his Time for it.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.


There is good reason for not expecting
tho greatest iuteiievSa.lSo :..4--vurs
achievements from the farmer who works
all day with his hands. There is no rea-
son to condemn him 70 ignorance and to
declare him incapable Of mental culture.
The reason why we must not. expect
him to be the intellectual rival of the man
who lives in his study, is physiological
one. 1t is fair to him that it should be
stated.
There is one great fountain from which
all the living organism gets its sustenance
and its stimulous, the heart, with its vi
vifying and kindling outflow. There are
three principal fields to be irrigated and
enriched-the low-lands Of the epigastrium
and its dependencies; the scattered domain
of the muscular system; the imperial realm
of the great thinking centre, the brain.
The supply of blood is limited, and il
one part gets more than its share, another
part must hare less. It follows that the
glutton is not likely to have muscular OF
intellectual activity, that the athlete is
pretty sure to be temperate in his calls on
the digestive organs, and little developed
in his mental faculties. and that the pow.
erful thinker is not often a great feeder
or man of excessive muscular develop
ment.
There are exceptions, as we all know,
but this is the rule. Here is head o.
| Vinellius from an ancient bust; here is a
full length figure Of Tom Cribb from
Borsa'aa, and here is side-face of Pasca
on French medallion. You have only
to look at them to see that the crapulous
despot would outfeed the boxer and the
thinker; that the champion of England
would knock his imperial majesty out O
time with single blow, and kill the fra.
gile, hypochondriacal philosopher with
one clutch of his iron fist, as an eagle
squeezes the life out of rabbit; but you
feel that the thinker will live immortal il
his thought when these others are botf
become mere clods with the dead brute.
they most resembled..
These extreme cases illustrate the doc
trine that great development in one range
Of powers draws away the sustenance
more or less. from the rest. The we'll
known method of medical treatment callee
derivation or revulsiom proceeds from th'
same principle. When great write1
used to put his feet in hot bath afte1
hard mental labor, it was to get back tht
blood to them of which they had been rob
| bed bv the brain.
The principle holds true in the case o
each days efforts in each individual, as i
does between one man and another. Th'
brain is at its maximum of efficiency whel
the digestive powers are moderately taxe(
and the muscles have not been recent,
exercised to any great extent. Their
must be food of the circulating curren
to supply the enormous quantity of gas
tric-juice required to digest hearty meal
There must be rush through all th
channels that reach the muscles to suppl,
them while at work, they suck up th
blood like SO many sponges. All thi
must be at the expense of the brain, which
if it is to work hard, must have torrents
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

int on the pretence
1.ll not get a chance
a any serious study
ved abstinence from
he capacities, the
ions of the Ameri-
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01
A Marriage Ceremony.

Nothing, we calculate. could be moro
edifying to our dusky- hued friends than
the remarks made BY sable parson 1t /
negro wedding which took place reesasly
near Montgomery. Alabama. Thus spske
Here is couple who have walked ont
tonight, wishing to be jined In aud thro
love, and wishing all dem dat have any
| ting twixt dem come toward and. .spesk
now; if not, let dem hold dar peace now
and for evermore.; WANTS every oar to
hear, and every heart to enjoy, |. 81 yi,sa
"Mr. Jim. Thompson, .vhomspeyer
stands fastly by your left side, Do you take
her for your beloved wife, to 'wait on hef
through sickness and through heslth, safs
and be safe. holy and be holy, loRing and
be loving; do you love her, mother, DO you
love her father. do you love her brothers,
do you love her sisters. do you love her
master, do you love her mistress, but ID
YOU love God de best2''se4l a.!, ssyfazJa
Answer. Il do q.,ss4ia svea ssss
miss Mary. Thompson. ,wbomsoevef
stands fastly BY your right side, do ,you
take to be your dear beloved husband. u
wait on him through health and through
conaution, safe and be safe. holy and be
holy, do you'love bis mother, do you love
bis father, do you love his rbrothesss do
you love his, sisters, do youg love God d
best 7" 81. - .-..;. 3. = ,,.s.~ ..:,a:. :.
o'.I shall pronounce MI. Jim to hold
Miss Mary fastly by the right hand ssd
shall pronounce you both to,bs man end
wife, by the commandments Of God. We
shall hope. and trusting through God.
that you may live right, that you may
die right, nov. and for evssmore. Now.
Mr.. Jim, sleao your bride. Let rs sing q
Ehime: r.a..; .s,t. ,,,..,1r a..4> e.ose.e.
"Plunged in gulf @ Of d'F dark despair ), ,s ets ),
| DRAWER, Harper's Maaazine. !.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01
gelerteh puetry.
From Every Month.
NEW YEAR FANCIES.

The New Years morn. The solemn chime
Rings from the belfry o'er the snow,
And echoes through the rivers flow,
Amid the rocks that frown at Time.
The New Years morn. The golden stars
Are cleaning in their solemn calm,
As though their majesty was balm
For ill that wounds, and thought that jars.
And oh the memories that rise
As peal the far-off bells-they wake
Visions whose sleep no power may break
And bring the light to long-closed eyes.
And oh the memories that cling
Around this old oak-panelled room;
The pine-logs flashing through the gloon
Seem sparkles from life's early spring!
"After long years p l rest again;
This ancient home, it seems to me,
Wearied with travel o'er the sea,
Holds anodyne for carking pain.
The bells are pealing out as sound
The voices OF blessed dream,
That float athwart life's hurried stream,
And hold the eager hearer bound.
Oh bells ring on. The music sweet
That quivers DER the snow-felds bright,
In the full moon will put to flight
Ny bitter thoughts, and bid me greet
The yelled New Year with hope and peace,
That in its secrets may find
The influence that bids the mind
From sorrow take its just release;
And learn to stud this life of ours
With gems of purity and truth;
That-as in sunny dreams of youth
We plant the path with deathless flowers
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

%The way to be happy is not to try
too much to be so. You can't catch sun
beams if you try, but you may enjoy their
light and warmth by letting them shine
unsolicited upon you. a''sao ~, % -1o.r
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

-1a~"Wife," said msn,i looiisg lloe
his boot-jack, II have places sheRsI
keep my things, and you ought to lnoy
it." Eyes" said she, II ought to know
where you keep your late Aodrs-bus I
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

Father, !" said roguish boy. II
tea for mot6eg. why not BE
cause every time she drinks IL shy 6loxs
me up" '2F.dss = u
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

~Love, the tootbaohe, cough and
tight boots,a are things which cannot long
be kept secret. @i31-r' .8S7<''. ! ='e.i-
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

the eight hour ar
that they, of all ms
to employ their miu
without a. rule of enfo
labor, is to underrate
duties, and the aspirs5
can farmer. !
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01

t3esl,-t--E-s s,.s- -2.s--.1--~
moves as he guides the share through the
furrow, or handles the hoe or the rake!
Are not two hours or two and half
enough for his meals in the busy season?
Are not eight hours enough for his sleep?
Frederick the Great was busy man, and
found five enough; John Hunter was an
unwearying worker with mind and hand.
and asked no more; General Pichegru
left the record of busy life, and managed
to get along with four; and cannot the
steady-going cultivator of the peaceful
fields, with no kingdom to govern, no liv-
ing universe to reduce to system, no foes
whom the blunt weapons and the inexplo-
sive compounds of agriculture will not
subdue, find rest enough in third of the
whole twenty y-four hours? There remain
three and half or four hours, portion
of which may we'll be given to mental cul-
ture. The man who wants it will find
time enough, with such programme as
we have given. The man who does not
want it will not find it any better if he
has six vacant hours instead Of four.
What shall the farmland do when his
days labor is over? Smoke and bouse
and play checkers with corn and beans on
the top Of the bellows? Talk, with moth
ing to talk of but the days little accidents?
We know too we'll what the social con-
verse of vacant minds soon comes to-
The pipe and the mug and the checker
board were all very well-no, not very
we'll, but in keeping with his other condi-
tions-when the farm-laborer was a serf,
a boor, but he is here and now the lord of
creation, if any man is, and it is time for
him to remember that noblesse oblige.-
Every hand with vote in it is thrust
from sleeve of purple, if we could but
see its color.
That farmers Of any vigor or ambition
are going to work less than ten hours a
day on the average is not very likely, un-
less some Jack Cade shall decree it to be
felony for the almanac makers to give us
fourteen and fifteen hours of summer sun
light. Who, then, shall condemn that
great body of citizens, whose intelligence
is the safeguard of the land, to the curse
OF idle brains because they enjoy the bless
ing of busy hands? We do not ask of
them to make our literature for US; though
Burns. following his plough upon the
mountain-side-a frst-rate farmland, if
we may trust his own testimony-sang
the songs which we might almost say Gre
ated nation out of a province and a Ian
guage out of a dialect. We do not look
to them to form science, though Fergus
son, long honored in the Royal Acad emy,
after working all day on the farm, used,
when youth, to 60 out into the fields
and lie on his back, and take the apparent
distances of the stars by sliding beads
upon string. SO as to lay them down on
paper and thus map the heavens. But
we do say to them that they are just as
much bound, and just as able to use their
brains in thought and study as scholars
are bound to keep their muscles from
wasting or turning into fat by taking a
reasonable amount Of exercise. To force
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-01-01
NOTICE,

TlHE undersigned has on hand, for sale, a
i good lot of Hogshead Siding, Hoops
and Heading. Also Plank and Wheel
wright STUFF. P. A. SASSCER.
je 30-tf
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20
The Doom Of the Radical Party.

The more sagacious and honest newspapers
OF the Republican party openly admit that
the power of the organization is broken, and
its rule almost at an end. The New York
SIN says:
The Republican party seems to be passing
through most dangerous crisis. The South
ern elections are all against it, and if the cur
rent is not changed, its doom is certain.
Three causes are working for the destruction
of this great party: the conspicuous failure
of Grants Administration the universal am
nesty notions of the Hon. Horace Greedy !;
and the instability of the negro vote.
After exposing the utter imbecility of
Grants Administration, showing how i'm
possible it is for the Republican party to
hold control of single Southern State except
by keeping the whites disfranchised and al
luding in mournful terms to the unreliable
character of the negro vote, the Sun makes
this emphatic assertion:
The recent elections in the South, therefore,
do not more clearly indicate to the Democra-
cy the road by which they are to achieve a
national victory in 1872 than they point out
to the Republicans the men and the meas
ures whereby their doom is already sealed.
That the predictions of the San will be
fulfilled to the letter, no sagacious man can
doubt. The days of Radical rule of this
country are almost at an end. The election
of Asa Packer in Pennsylvania will be the
finishing stroke, the coup de grace.
"Why the Republican party increases
is attempted to be shown by radical pa
per in Alabama. The writer however,
fails to recite the result of the Virginia
election, and the hubbub and disaffection
created in the radical ranks by the distri-
button of the spoils of office, the enforce
ment of the Prohibitory Liquor law among
the German republicans, and other signifi-
cant incidents that presented themselves
recently upon the political horizon as
evidences going IS show "why the repub-
lican party inc1eases." The fact is, the
republican payty is split essentially upon
the question of the spoils-and it is not ne
cessary to 20 out of the limits of the city of
New YoK to prove the fact.-Herald.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20

OF former days utter neglect of sanitary precau-
tons. No efficient adopted for the prevcn-
ton of sickness. Sewerage unknoan in the cities
drainage rarely attempted in the country. Heaps
of oal e to rot in the public streets. and domes
tic cleanliness the great antidote to icbre diseases,
sadly neglected. 1t is not now. Wise laws phi
anthropc institutions and vgilan sanitary police,
have to great extent, remcdied the evil Nor is this
all. Preventive medication las helped materially to
lessen the rates Immortality 1t not too much to say
that tens of thousands escape sickness in unhealthy
in consequence of having invgoratcd their sys
TEN in advance by course Of lIOSTETTERS STOMACH
BIrTERS. This pure and powerful vegetable tonic aud
Alternative comprises the extracts and essences of vure
ty oroots and herbs renowned for their strengthening.
soothing, vitalzing and purifying properties. These
medicinal agents Incorporated with spirit abso-
lutey free from the acrd poison which deles, more
less, all the liquors of commerce, and their effect diff
fused through the whole frame by this active, yet harm
less stimuant. The result is such condition of the
system renders it all but mpervous to the exterior
of disease such damp fog sudden alterations
Of temperature &c. Strength, and the perfect regulari
ty Of all the functions Of the body the best safe
guards against atmospheric poison and the effect of
wholesome water, and H0SrETTER'S STOMACH BIT
TIERS the best strengthening and regulating medi-
cine at present known. For dyspepsia and blousncss
they n specific absolute.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20

Nor DEAD YET.-Andy Johnson's return
to the United States Senate, in view of the
result in Tennessee, is almost certain. This
is not the least satisfactory result of the con-
test in that State. Andy is bold, positive
exponent of that class of political ideas that
is least agreeable to the blatant radical rulers.
He has the one grand virtue that he will not
be put down, and, therefore, discussion in the
Senate will be the less monotonous for his
presence. He has Union record that no
man can impeach. He is q Southern Senator
not open to the carpet-bag objection nor as
uine in all senses, absolutely fearless and hon
est, and will snake Rome howp' from his
place in the Senate with much better, effect
than ever he did in his messages. He is the
first President since John Quincy Adams
whose political vitality has not been exhaust
ed by the Presidency .-HeraM.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20
SPECIAL NOTICES.

lEXTRAcT FROM PRIVATE LErrER FROM HAWAII, SAND
wIcn ISLANDS AIlnough the
eruption is noEso violent now, the volcano is fearful
sight to behold The rivers of lava still low ana the
smoke ON the ascends in awful majesty. During
lhis volcanic upheaval il has been very sckly here.
peculiar of low malarious fever, which has grown
out of the foul condensed vaors Of the volcano, has
prevailed to alarming extent and ut one time it was
feared it would depopulae the island. But fortunately
captain Calling here for supplies) distributed
PLANTATION BITTCRs to the suffering, and quick and
thorough cures were the result The news spread like
will-lirc. Messrs. Ching Takn Co., Commission
Merchants, had these tters for sale. III short time
their Office besieged and their supply exhausted
steamer dispatched to San Francisco by order of the
Hospital Department, and new and enormous supply
obtained possible. From that momeut the
scourge staye Not another fatal case occurred and
the epidemic has entirely disappeared.
Is this wonderful remedy known in our city! / hope
So for it is for all fevers and miasmatic
sickness. ion may tell your friends SO for me:
ii. NC.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20
TO OWNERS OF HORSES AND
CATTLE.

FNOBIAS DERBY CONDITION POWDERS ARE war
i ranted superior to any others, or pay for the
cure of Disemper, Worms, Bots, Coughs, Hide bound
Colds, &C.. in Horses and Colts Coughsi Loss of Milk
Black Tongue, Horn Dstemper, &c, in Cattle. They
are perfectly safe and innocent no need of stopping the
also increase tho milk Of cows Try them aud you will
he without them. The late Hiram Woodruff eel
ehracd trainer Of trottng horses used them for years
Col Pho. p. Bush of the jerome Race Course, Ford
ham, n. Y. would not use them unril he told OF
what they composed since which he is with
out them. He has twenty running horses in his
charge and for the last three years. has used other
medicine for them. lie has kindly permitted ne TO
refer any one to him, Over 600 other references can
be seen ut the Depot
Sold by all druggists and sadders. Price, 2j cents
per box. Depot, 10 Park Place, New York.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20

THE Advertiser, having been restorec to health in u
few weeks, by very simple remedy, after having suffer-
cd several years with severe lung affection, and that
dread discsc, Consumption-s anxious to make known
to his fellow sufferers the means of cure.
To all who desire it, he will send copy of the pre-
scription used free of chargc with the directions for
preparing and using the same which they will find a
SURE Cure FOR CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, etc
The oe of the advertiser in sending he Prescrpti
is to benefit the afflicted and spread information which
he conccives to he inyaluablc and he hopes every suf
fcrer will try his remedy, it will cost them nothing,
and may prove II blessing.
Parties wishing the prescription will please address
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON,
my2l-y Williamsburg, Kings County, New York.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20
MISULER'S HERR BITTERS

This celebrated tonic and stmulant will restore the
digestive organs to perfect healthy state. 1t will
thoroughly eradicate ali morbc matter from the blood
cleanse the entire system and produce the most vgor
GUS action Of the different organs of the human body
II is the great Blood Purifier and allble Remedy for
Dyspepsia, Cholera, Cramps in the Stomach Headache
resulting from deranged stomach and also that harras
lug disease Sick Headache, Blliousness, &C. The fact
that in all parts Of the land the medical faculty prescribe
MlSHLER'5 HERB BITTER5 for their patients who
are afflicted with these diseases, should convince the
most skeptcal that this proprietary compound is a
medicine upon which they rely absolutely eica-
cious in curing such diseases we have enumerated
tie. aul3
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20
HENnY Z Io1INsoNl

HENRY E. Johnson SgE
and wife In the Circuit Court
VS.. for Hartford county
GEORGE w. WEBB as Court of Equity.
and others. -.....
THE object of this suit is to obtain sale
= of certain lands, situate in Havre
Grace, Hartford county, Maryland, of whiche
John N. Lane, late Of Lancaster Co.,
Pennsylvania, died seized and possessed.
The bill states that on or about the 31st
day of January, 1856, the said John N.
Lane departed this life intestate, leaving
neither father nor mother, brother nor sis
ter surviving him, the heirs-at-law to the
real estate therein described being the
children and grandchildren of his deceas-
ed brothers and sisters, viz: Geo. w. Weeb,
Geo. w. Webb ofEdwin, Geo. w. Webb of
Jno., Jas. r. Webb, Geo. w. Cooke and
Susan E. his wife, all residents of Carnie,
Illinois, VIM. L. Webb and B. H. Webb,
of Georgetown, ID. c., Isaac N. Carter, of
Alexandria, Virginia, John Martin and
Mary his wife, James S. Lane and William
N. Lane, Alexander H. Richie and Rebecca
Richie, Hubbard Taylor and Alice II. his
wife, all residents of Winchester Kentucky,
John N. Lane, James B. Lane and Elliott
y, n
Kennedy and Mary Ann his wife, David
Nicklin and Mary N. his wife, all of
Charlestown, West Virginia, Henry E.
johnson and Harriet Lane, his wife, of
Baltimore city-all of whom, excepting
the two last mentioned, are made parties
defendants to this suit, together with a
certain Martha Hay, of Carmi, Illinois,
who has lately came possessed by assign
ment of the equitable interest of the sa id
George w. Webb of Edwin, certain
William A. Atlee, of Lancaster Co., Pa,
administrator of the late Madison Richie,
and trustee of the heirs of William L.
Richie, and a certain Rachael S. Jenkins,
of Camden, New Jersey, guardian of the
said John N. Lane, James B. Lane and
Elliott e. Lane who are also made parties
defendants as aforesaid.
The Bill further states that the said
Real Estate is not supceptible of division,
and could not be divided without mate.
rally injuring the same, and should
therefore be sold. The Bill further states
that all the defendants are non-residents,
and prays for the usual order of publica-
ton against them.
1t is thereupon, ordered and adjudgcd,
this 9th day OF July, 1869, that the COM
plainants, by causing copy of this order
to be inserted in some newspaper printed
and published in Hartford county, once a
week for four successive weeks before the
first day of January next, give notice to
the absent defendants of the object and
substance of this Bill, and warn them to
appear in this Court, in person or by soli-
citor, before the said 1st day of January,
1870, to answer the premises and show
cause, if any they have, why decree
should not pass as prayed.
A. l.. JARRETT, Clerk.
True Copy, Test,
ju30 A. L. JARRETT, Clerk.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-08-20

The chemists have out in two leading scientific
journals against the lead and sulphur poSS for The heat
Tor that is their proper desgnation) with which the
country is infested DR.. Chiffon, the first annay teal
chemists in America, announces to the world that
CRISTAD0R0'S DYE is UTTERLY PoIS0NLESS,
and that lie knows to lie because he has analysed
it. "Cristadoro's Hair Preservative," Dressing
acts like charm the Hair after Dyeng. Try it.