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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-05-16
Domestic Experience.

Putting a hoop on the family flour bar
rel is an operation that will hardly bear
an encore. The woman generally attempts
it before the man comes home to dinner
She sets the hoop up on the end of the
slaves, takes q deliberate aim with the
rolling pin, and then shutting both eyes,
brings the pin down with all the force of
one arm, while the other instinctively
shields her face. Then she makes q dive
for the camphor and unbleached muslin,
and when the man comes home she is sit
ting back of the stove, thinking of st.
Stephen and the other martyrs, while q
burnt dinner and the camphor are strug-
Cling heroically for the mastery. He says
that if she had kept her temper she would
not have got hurt. And he visits the bar
rel himself, and puts the hoop on very
carefully, and adjusts it so nicely to the
top of every stave, that only few smart
knocks apparently are needed to bring it
down all right; then he laughs to himself
to think what q fuss his wife kicked up
over simple matter that only needed a
little patience to adjust itself, and then he
gets the hammer, and fetches the hoop
sharp rap on one side and the other flies up
and catches him on the bridge CT the nose,
filling his soul with wrath and his eyes
with tears, and the next instant that bar
rel is flying across the room accompanied
by the hammer, and another candidate for
camphor and rag is enrolled in the great
army that is increasingly marching toward
the grave.-Danbury Neacs.
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How We Bought.

We had heard of almost every machine,
Which claimed to be ''best that ever was
secn,"
SO we went round one day to examine
them all
And decide which was best for our sew
ing that fall.
One agent run much on his noiseless affair,
So quiet you never could know it was
there,
And he spun it to show us how gently it
whrled--
But it never had made much noise in the
world.
One made stitches like magic, but lie never
showed
You could rip them all out just as fast as
it sewed;
Another one talked of his needle alone,
1t was all in his eye, and it needlessly shone.
And this had hobby, and that one kink,
Which took with those not accustomed to
think,
But merit was what we were after, you
And we bought the HOWE because it
could SEW.
What we claim for the Howe is that it
is an honest machine, not subject to fits
nor constantly getting out of order; that
it will do your work perfectly and give
entire satisfaction. Messrs. Howard &
Jeffrey, Agents, West Main street, opposite
Female Pubic School, Bel Air.
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Planting Potatoes.

DR.. Hexamer, of New York, as result
of an experiment of planting the potato in
seventeen different ways, found that the
best results were given from one large po-
tato, whole, in each hill the next best
from two large half potatoes, cut length
wise; next the seed end of large potato :,
next from medium sized potato, planted
whole; the smallest from small half pota-
toes. A medium potato he planted whole;
large ones he cut in half and the largest
IN four pieces, each lengthwise, always
taking care to select his best and sound
estpotatoes for seed.
}. Il. Warder, of Ohio, in an experiment
with Harrisons, found that large seed cut
in halves gives the most salable potatoes.
He says: "This experiment, in connection
with one made last year, would induce me
to cut good salable-sized potatoes for seed
in preference to planting them whole land
in years of scarcity to use small potatoes,
with care not to plant them too closely
together"
Professors Daniels, of the Wisconsin
Agricultural College, in an experiment,
found that cut seed gave more from thS
same weight of seed, except where smalE
potatoes were used, than whole ones did,
The whole potatoes produced the most
vigorous plants; those cut, the least.
Each and all of these testimonials con-
firm DR.. McLaurin's theory. DR.. Hexam-
ers experiments are the most elaborate, and
bring him to the same conclusion that DR..
McLaurin arrived at, as the result of much
observation and experiment. Professor
c ahlels l49a aee an the crop 6y
were less vigorous.-Sciencc Of Health.
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Counting The Greenbaclis.

Years of experience have made the coun
tiers who have been longest employed mar
velously expert and almost infalliblc, their
fingers passing from one note to another
with the celebrity and regularity of some
wonderful machine. The lady who sits
nearest to the chief of the room, and who
has come to be considered sort of assis-
tant to him, having sometimes performed
his duties during his absence, has been en-
gagged in the division ever since its organi-
cation in 1862, and probably has no rival
in accuracy and dexterity in counting. On
many occasions she has counted fifty thou
sand notes in one day. AS the nominal
hours oflabor are from nine to three o'clock,
and as at least half an hour must be de-
Quoted from this for necessary Interrupt
tions and for lunch, the time occupied in
counting these fifty thousand notes was
five and half hours. This is at the rate
of nine thousand and ninety notes every
hour, one hundred and fifty every minute,
and two and half every second The
lady informs us that it is no unusual feat
for her to "pick up" a bundle containing
four thousand legal-tender notes in twen-
ty minutes We doubt whether this Can
be excelled. If any gentleman thinks it
can, let him try the experiment OF simply
tapping his finger on table at the above
rate, and we predict that at the end of half
hours trial he will change his mind -
There are other ladies who are almost as
rapid and accurate. They are sometimes
called upon, with others equally skillful
from the redemption division (Which we
shall visit presently, to visit other cities,
when the Treasury offices in those places
are to be examined, and to assist in count
ing the government funds there.
Through this division and under these
skillful fingers has passed every note,
whether legal-tender or fractional, which
has been issued by the United States since
the beginning of the rebellion, EVERY note
which we have ever handled or seen,-as
we'll as all the gold-notcs, and many mil
lions of imperfect bonds and notes, which
were never put in circulation. The total
value of the money which had been count
ed in this division previously to the first
day of July, 1872, was, according to the
Treasurer's last annual report, nearly two
thousand nine hundred million dollars
more than two hundred and twenty three
millions of which consisted of postal and
fractional currency. Just now, the counters
find full employment in counting new
legal-tender and fractional notes. From
"1n Hour among the Greenbacks,' Scrib-
ner's for april.
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To TEACH Horse TO STAND.-The
american Stock Journal contains the follow
ing directions: "Take your horse on the
barn floor and throw strap over his back
and fasten it to his right fore foot; lead
him along and say whoa at the same time
pull down the strap which throws him on
three feet and makes him stop suddenly
This is the best way known to teach whoa,
though you can put on the war bridleP,-aasl p
say whoa, and give him sharp jerk that
that will stop him about as soon as the
strap to his foot. Then put him in harness,
with the foot strap, as directed to do under
the head of training to harness. and drive
him up to the door. The moment he I'M
dertakes to move, take his foot and say
whoa. Get in your carriage and get out
again; rattle the thills, make all the noise
getting in and out you can; give him to
understand, by snatching his foot each time
he moves, that lac must stand until you tell
him to go; and after few times you can
put the whole family in the carriage and
he won't stir out of his tracks,"
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VARIETIES,
"A man who don't know anything will
tell it the first time he gets chance.

"A man who don't know anything will
tell it the first time he gets chance.
"A prudent clergyman, unwilling to ac-
cuse citizen of lying, said he used the
truth with penurious frugality.
Spanish wells are being much worn,
fastened in the hair with the bright red
rose, which is indispensable in an Anda-
lusian toilette.
An Irishman, on being told that o
newly invented stove would save just half
his usual fuel, replied, "Arrah, then I'll
have two and save it all, my jewell"
Tom Tit remarked that the Ohio River
had a remarkably long face. "How so ?"
inquired one. "Why it is twelve hundred
miles from its head to its mouth"
There is an honest man in Sanfrancsco.
He is tobacconist who has put out sign,
reading: Imported cigars of our own
manufacture"
"A negro was put upon the stand
derstood the nature of an oath. "For GER
ting, boss" said the citizen: "if I swear
to lie must stick to him.!
When Lord Eldon brought in his bill
for restraining the liberty of the press, a
member moved as an additional clause,
that all anonymous works should have the
name of the author printed on the title
page.
On the eve of battle, an officer came
to ask permission of the commander to go
and see his father who was on his death
bed. &C.," said the general, "you honor
your father and your mother, that your
days may be long in the land"
An English shopkeeper had, for his
virtues, obtained the name of the little
rascal" A stranger asked him why this
appellation had been given to him. "To
distinguish me from the rest Of my trade"
quoth he, "who are all great rascals."
The maddest man in Camden is Smith.
He wound up his clock regularly every
night for fifteen years, and then discovered
that it was an eightday clock. He muses.
on the work that he might have done in
those wasted minutes, and his profanity is
dreadful.
IRATE PARENT-O, yer don't want 10
90 into business, don't yer o, yer want
to be clerk in the post-hortice, do yer
Post-horfce, indeed. Why, all you're fit
for is to stand outside with your tongue
bout, for the people to wet their stamps
against.
AT the breaking up of a dinner party,
two of the company fell down stairs, the
one tumbling to the first landing place,
the other rolling to the bottom. 1t is OBJ
served that the first seemed dead drunk
EYES," said wag, "but he's not so tal
gone as the gentleman below"
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PROTECTING BIRDs.-A very pretty Gus
tom is that which prevails among the farm
ers of Norway, every one of whom consid-
ers it bounden duty to erect on his premi-
ses what are called Julenegs, which are
wooden posts with the tops covered with
heavy sheaves of oat ears. These julcnegs
are erected as thank offering to the birds,
which during the summer and autumn
protect the farmers crops from the ravages
of the noXious insects.
With us the majority of farmers, instead
of feeding their little feathered friends in
winter, set traps for or shoot them, and it
is not an uncommon thing to find farmers
in our markets with strings of robins,
larks, and other insectiverous birds ex-
posed for sale ON their stalls. Wenever sec
such sight without feeling that it would
be Just retribution if such farmers crops
were eaten up by worms, flies and grubs.
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What it is to be a Widow.

81 think it must be jolly think to be
a young widow ~ heard this remark the
other day in group of laughing girls.
think | remember saying such thing
myself in my girlish times. Do you know,
girls, what it is to be a widow 1t is to be
ten times more open to comment and criti-
cism than any demoiselle could possibly be.
1t is to have men gaze as you pass, first
at your black dress and then at your wild
owls cap, until your sensitive nerves quiv-
er under the intliction. 1t is to have one
ill-natured person say, ~ wonder how
long she will wait before she marries again!"
and another answer, Until she gets good
chance, l suppose" 1t is now and then
to meet the glance of real sympathy,
generally from the poorest and humblest
woman that you meet, and feel your eyes
fill at the token, 50 rare that it is alas I'M
looked for. 1t is to have your dear fash
ionable friends console you after the fol-
lowing fashion: ooh, we'll ! it is dread
full loss. We knew you'd feel it, dear"
And in the next breath, " You will be sure
to marry again, and your widows cap is
very becoming to YOU"
But it is more than this to be a widow.
1t is to miss the strong arm you have lean
ed upon, the true falth That you know
could never fail you though all the world
might forsake you. 1t is to miss the dear
voice that uttered your name with a ten
derness that none other could give it. 1t
| is to hear no more the well-known footsteps
that you flew so gladly to meet. You see
no more the face that to your adoring eyes
seemed us the face of the angels of God.
| To feel no more the twining arms that fold
ed you so lovingly; the dear eyes that,
locking into your own, said plainly, what
ever it might seem to Others, yours was the
fairest face earth held for him. 1t is to
fight with II mighty sorrow as a man fights
with the waves that overwhelm him, and
to hold it at arms length for a while only
to have, in the hours of lonlincss and weak
ness, the torrent roll over you, while, poor
storm-driven dove, you see no haven.-N
| Y. Home Journal.
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the steps waiting for me. He had run
away and come home to his first friend,
sure of u welcome.
1t was very tlattering, but also inconyeni-
ent; so he was restored to his master after
a scolding and a petting which probably
spoilt the effect of the lecture.
Three times did that dear deluded dog
come back, and three times he was bundled
home again. Then Charley shut him up
in an old shed, and kept him there except
when he led him out by chain for an
airing.
Bul Huckleberry's grateful passion could
not be restrained, and cost him his life in
the end. He amused his leisure hours
scratching and burrowing at the tounda-
ton stones of the shed wall, and being
loosely built, big one fell on him in some
way, hurting him so badly that there was
no cure for his broken bones.
A note from Charley came to me, saying,
"1f you want to say good-by to poor old
Huckleberry, come out and do it, for I've
got to kill him, he is so hurt"
OF course | went, and there found him,
lying on a soft-bed of hay, with his wounds
bound up, and tender-hearted Charley
watching over him. How glad he was to
see his "missis! How hard he tried to come
and meet me, and how satisfied he looked
when bent down to stroke him, and let
him ieebly lick my hand as much as he
liked
He could hardly breathe for pain, and
his eyes were already dim, but his dear old
tail wagged to the last; and when l had
said the tenderest good-by l knew, he laid
down his head with sigh that seemed to
say:
"Now I'm content, and can die in peace.
I've thanked her, and she is sorry for me,
so it's all right. You may put me out of
pain as soon as you like, Master Charley;
I'm ready"
1t was soon done. l heard shot, saw
my lad go into the garden with pickaxe
and spade, and then knew that doggie
was ready for his grave. We wrapped him
in bit of cheerful red carpet, and when
bed had been delved out for him, we laid
the little bundle in, covered it up, and left
the winter snow to spread a soft white pail
over poor lost Hucklcberry's home.
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THE ToILING WIFE.-There is no little
truth In the following, which we cut from
an exchange:
"a farmers wife on a large farm, with
six or eight children of all ages, from nine
teen to two years of age, has, without help,
a toilsome life of it-a life of hard labor
She is generally the first up in the morning
and to bed the last in the night, toiling in
cessantly from early dawn till late in the
evening The mother and wife, on large
farm, with large family, most of whom
a greater portion of the year go to school,
has laborious life of it-much more than
the husband and father. No wonder so
many of them are broken down in health
at forty years of age, literally worn out
with toll. What wonderment then, that
so many of the best wives are peevish and
cross. What some Of them pass through
is enough to sour the disposition of an
angel"
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FARMERS CoMFoRTs.-The Artizan says
We hazard the assertion that no class of
equal average means live so we'll as Ameri-
can farmers. One of these possessing a
farm and buildings worth say ten thousand
dollars will gather about him and enjoy
more real comfort than could be obtained
from the income of hundred thousand
dollars in New York. He may live in a
more commodious dwelling than metro
politan citizen having ten thousand dollars
annual income. He may have his carriage
and horses. His table may be supplied
with everything fresh in its season. His
labor is less wearing than the toll of count
ing rooms and offices, and he has more leis-
ure.-Naturo and Science, Seribner's for Oc-
tober.
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The experience of each passing season
adds proof that corn, as well us other
grains, can be more advantageously I'M
proved by selecting the largest cars and
best formed kernels for seed, and by care
full cultivation, and abundant manuring,
than ny taking pains to introduce new
varieties from distance. Corn is not de-
Perforated by long accumulation, but is
by careless husbandry and neglect to "se-
lect the fittest." An old author who wrote
before the Christian era knew how it was
himself, and said 81 have seen seeds for u
long time selected, and with NNuch labor
culled out, nevertheless to degenerate un-
less the largest were year by year carefully
chosen by the hand"
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fa1NIerG' Column
" Speed the EEOeU.o
How to Destroy NOxiOus Insects.

A small black flea in great swarms eats
the leaves ofcabbage plants after they come
up from seeds sown in the open grounFs-s
and also early cabbage plants, after bel
set out In the open ground from hot be-
slight busting of fresh slalled lime o.
the plants in the morning, while wet with
dew, Will drive them off or kill them.-
Dust the plants one morning, and again
the second morning after that, then the
job is finished. The flea is more fond of
pepper cress than cabbages, so that if the
cress is sown thinly along with the cab
bage seed 1t will save the cabbages. A
greenlsh, mealy louise, in vast numbers,
attacks cabbages when nearly full grown.
Two busting of fresh lime will kill them.
A black grub which lodges in the ground
eats through the stems of young cabbages
after beng transplanted, causing the heads
to drop oil. Whenever that is observed,
search around the plants cut off, and find
the grub and kill it. 1t is only quarter
OF an inch under the surface. After it eats
oil one plant it goes to another, so that
you must search among the neighboring
plants II not found where it has been dG-v
yastating. Many Of the insects that lodge
IN the ground may be destroyed this way
Dig or pillow up the ground in fall or early
spring, sow over it Peruvian guano, or lime,
or salt They are all poison to insects
Salt should not be used where cabbages
are to pc planted, as it makes them club
footed. When berry bushes, or shrubbery,
OF young trees are attacked by caterpillars,
two dustings of fresh lime over them, in
the morning while the leaves are wet with
dew, will kill them all. 1t will do the
same with large trees that are infested, but
it is difficult to dust them all over.-C0r.
Journal Of the Farm.
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Po g tic all
THE HEAVENLY SECRET.

THE HEAVENLY SECRET.
the grave theme of Immortality was written
by George Cooper:
Does the dark and soundless river
Stretch so wide
The homeward rolling tide
Over which have crossed
Our loved and early lost,
That their unsealed eyes may never see
The further side,
Where still amid this coil and misery
We hide?
isthe realm of their transition
Close at hand
To this our living land?
Nearer than we dream?
Can they catch the CLEAN
Ofour smiles and hear the words we speak?
And see our deeds?
And, looking deeper than ourcyes may seek,
Our needs?
Do they mingle in our gladness?
Do they grievc
When ways of good we leave?
Do they know each thought and hope !?
While we in shadow grope,
Can they hear the Futures high bchest,
Yet lack the power
To lead us to our ills or to arrest
The hour?
When they find us bowed with sorrow
Do they sigh?
Or when earth passed by
For them, do they forget
The cares that here bcsct
Their well beloved? Or do they wait
20, be it thusD
And watch beside the golden gate
Forus?
We are yearning for their secret;
Though We call,
No answers ever fall
Upon our dullard ears
To quell our nameless fears.
Yet God is over ALL whatc'er may be,
And trusting so,
Patience my heart! little while, and we
Shall know
We wait then, in patience, or
owe pant, we strain, like birds against the
wires,
With beating our bruised wing against the
rim
That bounds our utmost flying,
When we seek the distant and the dim.n
But-we wait.
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-"It is terrible thought to remember
that nothing can be forgotten. l have
somewhere read that not an oath was ut
tered that does not vibrate through all
time, in the wide-spreading current of
rounds-not prayer lisped that its record
is not also to be found stamped on the laws
of nature, by the indellible seal of the AL
mighty's will"
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Room ENOUGH AT TIE ToP.-On begin
ming the study oflaw, w ebster was told that
the bar was full. He replied. There is
room enough at the top;" and though
Hartford county may be over run with sew
ing machines, there is room at the top for
the Victor.
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Why is a lovely young lady like
hinges Because she is something;
q dore,
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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-06-13
HIGHLAND.

On Sunday last, little daughter Of Joe.
Horton, while climbing tree for the purpose
Of re-capturing her pet sqirrcl, lost her hold
and fell a distance Of thirty-three feet, and
narrowly escaped death. Moral Children
should remain on terra trina. Several Of our
neighbors are shipping large quantities Of tan
bark and lumber to the Louisville market,
and are obtaining fair prices. Living In the
midst Of an extensive chestnut orchard" your
correspondent can state from observation that
the prospect is very faiI for a good chestnut
crop next fall, and huckleberries will be album
dsnt From the present indications a large
council Of Good Templars will be organized
here in short time. Many Of our citizens
are anxious to join the order, and the Lodge
=. Stanford has prcPc=ed 10 visit " and assisi
in it, organization, when suitable place fol
meeting is procured, and few more names
added 10 the list now in the hands of one Of
our citizens. We are blessed with two good
Sunday schools, both aourishing.
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An Old Landmark Gomez

About eighty years ago, we are reliably in
turned, Ben Logan planted a young locust
tree in the Courthouse yard here. # grew
vigorously, and soon gave grateful shade
and shelter TO the people here for more than
three generations Beneath its strong and
growing branches, logan and Shelby, Mont
gomery and Dunlap, Pennington and others
Of our hardy old pioneers, who have long
since passed away, sought shelter from the
hot RAYS of the su.l and ben,ath its shade