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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06
Josh Billings on Silence.

Silence IL still noise.
One Of the hardest thangs fora man to do
il to keep still
Everybody wants tew be heard fust, and
this il iist what fills the world with non
sense.
Everybody wants few walk few want to
think, and nobody wants to listen.
fla man amt sure he liz right, the best
kard he kan play IL blank one.
| have known many a man tew beat in an
argument by just knodding his head once in
q while, and simply saying, "jess so, jess So"
1t takes great many blows to drive in a
nail, but one will clinch it.
Sum men talks just as French pony trots,
all day long, in half bushel meazzure.
Silence never makes eny blunders, and al
wuz gets as much credit as IL due it, and oft
times more.
When see a man listening to me cluss, i
always say to myself, "Look out, Josh, that
fellow is taking your meGzure."
have heard men argy pint two hours
and half and not get any further from
where they started than mule in tread
mill they did good deal ov going round
and round.
| have sat on .jurys and had a lawyer talk
law, takts and evidence of the kase all out ov
me, besides starting the taps on mi boots.
Brevity and silence are the two CRATE
kards, and next tew saying nothing, saying
a little il the strength of the game.
One thing IL certain, it il only the CRATE
thinkers who can afford few be brief, an
thare has been but phew volumes yet pub
lished which could not be cut down two
thirds, and menny ov them could be cut
clean back few the title-page without hurt
ing them.
1t il hard tew find man ov good sense
who kan look back upon emmy occasion and
wish he had sed sum more, but it is easy
tew find menny who wish they had sed
lees.
A thing sed IL hard to recall, but unscd
it kan be spoken at emmy time.
Brevity IL the child ov silence and il q
great credit tew the old man.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06
The Two Lieutenants.

Not very long ago, two young men grad
uated, with differing distinction, at the
Academy of West Point. Each obtained
a Lieutenant's commission in the army.
The one was son Of President. The
other of private citizen. How, different
their career and fate have been, let the
history of the last few weeks tell He OF
the lucky star has, since his graduation,
never for an instant swerved from the
pleasurable path his parentage secured for
him. He goes to Europe in the suite, if not
on the staff, of the Commanding General,
to be welcomed and .feted and honored, al
most as the sons of royalty are. Obsequious
Admirals give him side-boys, and if they
dared, would give him salutes. Anxious
Ambassadors and Consuls, uncertain OF
their tenure, coddle him. He is presented
at Court of Queen and President Qor French
Presidents have Il kind of Court, of Gar
and Kaiser. In short, he has good time
generally. Hecomes back, and his frontier
regiment needing young officers, expects
him but the holiday is not yet over. He is
put ON the staff of one who now at least, is a
fur niente General, with nominal high rank,
and really high pay; and when last heard
from, was adjoining, if we mistake not, the
fashionable society of SanFrancisco, his au-
gust parents, without solicitude for him,
enjoying themselves at home.
About hundred and fifty miles from
where Lieutenant Grant was waltzing for
days and weeks, under shelter tent, on
the edge of blood-stained lava beds, and
with the Modoc war-hoop in his cars, lay
the other young West Point graduate, his
life slowly ebbing away. the apprentice
ship of his professional career had hot been
spent in ease and pleasure, but in actual,
perilous frontier service. There he brave
ly fought, and there in battle, whose lau-
rels, had there been victory, would have
been very questionable, he fell. In his dy-
ing hour there came to him consolation.
While, as we have said, the Presidents son
was reveling in California, and the Presi-
dent himself, unmindful of Modocs, was
iunketting in Missouri, there passed West
ward heart-broken Philadelphia mother
fastening to the death-bed of her gallant
son. She travelled almost alone across the
Continent, and then, as we happen to know
seventy miles further by stage and eighty
on horseback (what will mother not do 2
to General Davis's camp. Thence to the
edge of the lava beds she sped, reaching
there just in time to see her gallant boy
breathe his last. The scene is too sacred
and too sad to dwell upon. We draw thu
curtain, and, as Americans, think proudly
of the dead, heroic youth; and solemnlE O.
the heart-broken parents. Such is the con
trast of the young soldiers of to-day !
Baltimore Gazette.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06
VARIETIES.

-Upholsterers complain that hangings
have gone out of fashion.
-Candle-makers urge that their wicked
work ought to be well paid for.
-Paper-makers say that their business
brings them to rags.
Receipts that never fail-To destroy
rats-catch them one by one, and tlatten
their heads with lemon squeezer
An unfortunate calf has been born in
Indiana without a tail and is as yet all I'M
conscious of the joys of fly-time.
Said member of a church to another:
" l can give five dollars to this object and
never feel it." "Then," said his companion,
"give ten and feel it.
"A grocer is willing to admit that honest
tea is the best policy, but when it comes to
coffee, he doesn't believe in running the thing
into the ground.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06

SMALL HoRsEs.-The Southern Farmer
says: "The arguments may all be in favor of
great size, but the facts are all the other
way. Large horses are more liable to stunt
BILE and be lame than those of the middI%
size. They are clumsy, and cannot ftS
themselves so quick. There is nothing
more surprising to Western men thee
visit Montreal and see the small bit stout
Canadian horses hauling large two seated
carriages, full ofpeople, with apparent ease.
A horse weighing 900 pounds in Maine
takes chaise or Concord wagon, with two
men in it, and makes fifty or sixty miles
day over hills that might have terrified
Hannibal. But their weight is where it
ought to be. 1t is compact, and not living
around loose. 1t is muscle, not pulp, that
we want in q horse.'
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06
i Q t 1 G al
GOLDEN WORDS FOR THE YOUNG.

The Thomas Randolph who wrote the follow
ing "precepts," was wit, poet and playwriter
in the early portion of the 18th century, and n
great favorite with Ben Jonson. He was pro-
life, but is now an almost forgotten writer.
From his own history, we judge he keenly felt
the worth Of the "precepts:"
pRECEPTS.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06

An Illinois farmer who kept striJ
count with his corn crops for ten veg
ports that the average cost was 29j
bushel. s.
The best adhesive label you can
your luggage is to stick to it yours
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06
RosEs.-An experienced amateur, long
devoted to rose culture, gives us his csti-
mate of the best varieties, as follows:

RosEs.-An experienced amateur, long
devoted to rose culture, gives us his csti-
mate of the best varieties, as follows:
Best sac euer-6l blooming Roses for general uss.
Il. Giant Of Battles, crimson. 2. General
Jacquimenot, scarlet crimson. 3. Indica
Alba, white daily. 4. Gloire de Dion,
yellow, copper centre. 5. Appolne, bright
rose. 6. George Peabody, purplish Grim
son. These are all fine blooming roses,
and hardy here, Baltimore county, Md,
which is great thing for standards. There
are, however, numerous others equally
fine, which other people would designatSl
as their favorites.
Best three Roses for circular beds for per-
manent effect and continusus 6loom.-1. Sa-
franc, (reaO apricot color. 2. Hermoso,
(Bourbon,) pale pink. 8. Washington,
(NoisctteD white. These are fine bloom
ing roses, but those who like darker colors
would prefer Lord Raglan, dark crimson,
but not free bloomer; Charles Martel
another superb crimson, and Card;nal q q
trizzi, very dark crimson, good bloomer.
Too 00rieties for a Rose b;t1ge.--1. Herbe-
mont Cluster, bears profusion of white
clusters, and blooms till December. 2. APP
poline, a most lively fall rose, growing in
good ground from 10 to Is feet, and glori-
Gus from September to November, 1t
blooms protusely during the summer, but
as the fall advances its color is of the most
vivid pink.-Amertc0,a Farmer
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06
Wit and HnnOr.

Water-A clear and harmless Guild once
used as drink. -
There was once an old Iadywho kissed
cow, though lots ofyoung ladies kiss calves.
-Forty-fo thousand three hundred and
ninety-nine years from now the sun will
burn out, says the Monthly Scientist,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06

concentrated manures are now used in q
very wide range of farming districts, both
North and South. This has always been
the case In the cotton growing States, and
when the articles are pure the planters say
the results warrant the outlay. The same
thing has also come to be true in those
parts OF New England where the staple
production is tobacco. Unable to procure
enough yard manure for this exhaustive
crop the growers are forced to resort to
bone dust, superphosphate and guano. In
the vicinity OIL large cities where trucking is
carried on, more or less of these fertilizers
are employed for the second and third
crops-that is, heavy dressing of yard
manure is used in the spring for cabbages,
beets and onions, and when these are taken
OIL and the ground prepared for celery or
spinach, Peruvian guano, bone dust, or
superphosphate is applied in the drill.
Now, either of these special manures
is expensive, and when farmer pays $50
to $40 for u ton he ought to see to it that
no loss arises from any cause. But there
is general carelessness in this matter
which amounts simply to q wanton waste.
II is quite common, for instance, to see
farmers, usually shrewd and economical,
sowing dry guano of a windy day, when,
of course, large portion of the particles
are necessarily carried off in the atmes-
phere and deposited in adjoining fields
This is all the more ineXcusable when We
remember that this loss can be readily pre-
vented. The manure in question should
always be mixed two or three days in adj
vance, with at least three times its bulk of
moist soil, or in case there is want of
leisure for this mix in the field just before
sowing. The mass should be so damp
that when handful of it is thrown on the
ground no fine dust can be seen to rise, and
under no circumstances should -apE-aas-
these costly manures be applied without
such treatment.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-06-06

Loss OF HEAT IN CooKING.-It has been
computed that, in common domestic fires.
seven eighhts and even more of the heat
capable of being evolved from the coal
passes up the chimney unappled, so far as
mere warming is concerned. About half
the heat generated by the fire is supposed,
to be carried off with the smoke, aboJs
one-fourth in the constant current of tE&
warmer air of the room into the chimndS
between the mantelpiece and the fire, ~
the remainder of the loss of heat is ref
sented by the unburned particles of
bonaceous matter in the smoke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25
THE WEATHER.

WAR DEPARTMENT, O&ce Of Chtsf Sissal QHcey,l
WASHINGTON, August Is, 1873, 1870 o, m, Z
SYNOPSIS FOR THE PAST TwENTY-FoUR HouRs.-
The temperature has risen slightly in New England
ana the middle states. where light northerly winds,
diminished pressure and generally clear weather
reported. Continued high barometer, light northerly
winds, low temperature and increased coudiness in
the south Atlantic and eastern Gulf states Gener-
ally clear weather, higher temperature and light
southerly winds in the Ohio valley and southwest
ward to Arkansas. Light southeasterly to south
westerly winds, with generally cloudy weather and
light rain, in the lower lake region. Partly cloudy
and clearing weather, with light rains and variable
winds, in the upper lake region.
PROBABILITIEs.-For the south Atlantic and Gulf
states, slowly diminishing PRESSURE rising tempera-
ture, with light variable winds and partly cloudy
clear weather, except on the coast where light rains
may prevail. For New England and the middle
Atlantic coast generally clear weather, with rising
during the day the wi nds bac king to westerly and
For the St. Lawrence valley and the lower lake
region slightly rising temperature, with generally
cloudy weather and areas Of rain. For the Ohio
valley and thence southwestward to Texas, high
temperature, light southeasterly to southwesteriy
winds and partly clear weather. For the upper lake
region and thence westward to the lower Missouri
valley high TEN peraure, with cloudy weather light
variable winds and areas of light rain Reports have
not been received from the upper Mississippi and
Missouri valleys, the southwest and southern
FLORIDA.
LOCAL RECORD.
The Thermometer in the business room Of TIE
STAR ONCE registered to-day fOlows-e O. m, 81
10 "a. m. 10, IL m, "a; 2 d. m. 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

Judge Calvin, of the court of criminal cor
rections Of st. Louis, has decided the law regu-
lating the social evil, in force in that city,
TO be unconstitutional. This was test case
brought by W. G. Elliot under the state law
making prostitution a criminal offence. The
defense was that the present amended city
charter authorizes the city to regulate prostitu-
ton; that the amendment authorizing the regu-
lation was supplemental to a special act and
virtually repealed the general state law bearing
on the question. The defense alss introduced
an amended city charter, the social evil orli.
nance, and the permit OF the board of health.
The prosecution objected to the two latter on
the ground OF their illegality and this objection
was argued at great length by the counsel. The
decision was looked for with great interest in
st. Louis by both the advocates and opponents
Of the license system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

The findings and sentences of the military
commission in the cases of Captain Jack and
the other Mo 'oc murderers are approved as
just by a healthy public sentiment, and the
Presidents frmness in opposing the pleadings
Of the so-called peace men for clemency is like
wise commended by those who regard the pro-
lection of society against asssssns-civilized or
savsge-as one of the first duties of all good
governments. Some fear is felt that the sickly
sentimentality of the peace men may interfere
effectuslly before the time of the execution
October 3d-but the President is not likely,
after approving the death sentences, to yield to
any powerful pressure to set aside the record.
There is little doubt that the hanging of Cap
tain Jack and his guilty accomplices in assas-
sination will have a wholesome effect by example
on other bloodthirsty savages; but the lesson
would have been more effective las in hangings
of white .en) if the punishment followed the
crime little closer. Still it is only fair that
the red men should have the same chance to
prepare themselves 10 "'enter the pearly gates"
as the white men and black men who have re-
Gently made, or professed to have made murder
means Of salvation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

In speaking of the operations in the gold mar
ket the New York Herald of yesterday says
Judging from the temper of the gold market
there Is no present fear of a "lockup" or panic.
The disposition of the operators seem to be in
favor of a gradual rather than a sudden rise
Secretary Richardson himself having given
currency to the thought that the interests Of the
country would be benefited by an advance.
AS people we are living too fast
We are spending more than we make. Our re-
sources are swallowed by monopolists. Our
earnings are sunk in the grave of common
debt. Our profits are extravagantly distributed
everywhere but at home, and until the cure
comes in the shape of a healthy, national con-
family lives within its means, there is no hope
worth entertaining that America, great and
grand as she Is, can escape the responsibilities
which attach to sudden vibrations of values or
avoid the rocks and reefs of speculation that
may be controlled by any half dozen citizens
bold enough to place the mselves in antagonisn
TO the general government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25
Government secuTtt,e..
The Markets.

BALTIMORE, August 25.-yirginia skies, consoii
dated, 52's; West Virginia's, Ia, bid to-day.
BALTIMORE z, August 3.-Cotton frmer-iow mid
dlings, Fsl@l5. Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat
dull and weak. Corn steady for conference.-the
southern, 7ld75: yellow southern, 90; mixed west
trn quiet, 6s1 ,@59 Oats fIm-souihern, 46d4s;
western mixed, 4i@45; do, white, IS. Bye dull,
meats-shoulders, 9; clear rib sides, 10. Bacon
sh'u iders, ga clear rib sides, ll@ll4. SUGAR
cur'd hams, I5dl61s. Lard, 81 ask. Western but
ter steady-Rood to fancy, 20625. Whisky firm and
scarce, %,a@sl. Hay unchanged. Sugar un-
EEw YOBK, August 25.-Money easy. Exchange,
long, "a; short, SIS. Gold active, Is. Governments
dull.
NEW YORK, August B.-FIour quiet and steady
Wheat quiet and unchanged. Corn steady.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

William g. Kennerly, an independent candi--
date for representative from Clarke county in
the next legislature Of Virginia, has discovered
that debt is the great evil Of the age and there
upon announces his platform of principles con-
sisting of one plank-that is the enactment of a
statute which will "extinguish and wipe from
existence all credit in Virginia, public or
private" William thinks this the one import
ant thing, and hopes IT will earn him the proud
epitaph OF "he-e lies one more of Clark's dis
tnguished sons, statesmen and patriots, who
nobly fell battling for the spoils Of Office and the
rights Of man."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

Ofan the cheap advertising lodges conceived
by Sothern, the actor, that one relating to his
terrible fight with a gigantic Nevada rough who
insisted on riding in his private car on the Cen
trail Pacific railroad has probably had the best
run And now that il has thoroughly gone the
rounds, we are very properly treated to the an
nouncement from California that the victim of
Dundreary's muscle has died from the effects of
ms awful drubbing. Theatrical managers who
want to engage Mr.. Sothern had better do 80
before he is triumphantly acquitted by the
unanimous voice of judge and jury and carried
out OF court on the shoulders OF the excited and
admiring populace. After this thrilling episode
gets circulation he will be very apt to raise
his prices for next winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

1t will be bad news to business people in
Washington to know that the damage to the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal is much more
serious than at first reported, and IL is doubtful
whether It can be put in operation again before
the close of the season. Eleven schooners and
eighteen barges were hopelessly wrecked, while
twenty eight schooners and thirty-seven barges,
two tugs and one propeller steamer are stranded,
and most Of them more or less injured. The
canal authoritieshope to get them ont in fort
night. Many OF the schooners and most of the
barges are loaded with coal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

The New York courts are now agitataed by
dog stealing case, in which the general ques-
ton is raised whether that animal can be made
the subject Of a larceny, and the particular
point made whether, in this case, the dog not
being muzzled as required by city ordinance,
1t was not therefore public property. Judge
Daniels, before whom the case was brought,
alluded to the point as to dogs being the subject
Of larceny. He said that when larceny uu-
der the old English laws was made punishable
with death, the theft Of dog was specially ex-
cepted, but that since the courts had held that
dogs were the subjects of larceny. Owing.
however, to the peculiar complications of the
present case he adjourned the case over till
Monday, to allow the district attorney to put in
further affidavits as to the ownership and iden-
tity of the dog in question
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Largest Circulation in the District
WASHINGTON CITY:
...........August %, 1878.
About steam boat Disasters and the
Way to Avert Them.

In reply TO a communication In the Baltimore
A~eriean, which gave the management of his
boat as an instance Of the general lack on such
vessels Of appliances to save passengers in case
OF disaster, Captain Davis, OF the steamer Iron
sides, plying on Delaware Bay, states that he
has q system Of drill by which, on a recent test
by CRY of fire, he had five streams Of water
going inside Of two minutes, and in the same
time Hfe-preservers were strewn all over the
hall. He then sung out to lower boats, and in
two minutes after the order was given the boats
were lowered to the rail.
Captain Davis suggests, however, difficulty
under which steamboat men labor In drilling
his crew to the necessary perfection he finds an
obstacle in the system of shipping men which
permits them 10 leave at any moment. The
consequence il that the crew must always be
partially composed of green hands. If his vessel
takes fire, there will inevitably be in his crew
some who have not been properly instructed.
They will be an element OF confusion at the
time when they should be working under or
ders, and they will impair the efficiency of the
others. To remedy this defect, he proposes
that men shall be shipped for six months at
least. An application to coastwise and interior
navigation of the laws under which sailors
are taken on the regular ses-going vessels is,
perhaps, what would suit the emergency.
Ii is impossible to have a thoroughly drilled
crew while its members are always changing.
They are not bound to serve any specified time
and may leave at any moment. On an ocean
steamer or sailing vessel they would be COM
PEELED to fulfil their engagements for a speci-
fed time under such penalties as they do not
care to incur If they desert. If the same condi-
tons were applicable to steamboat men, much
of the tr uble in securing thorough discipline
would be Obviated. They could be held long
enough to instruct them in the system which
might be found most desirable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

The Richmond Wing, also, feels called upon
70 repudia1 JEFF. Davis late speech and says:
"The people of Virginia were and are as true
70 tne south as Mr.. Davis ever was or can be,
but they are content TO abide in the Federal
enacted with due regard to the NIGHTS ana in
ferests OF every section, and fairly and Justly
administered, indeed, we believe the peoble Of
the entire South are sick OF this tvaidIe IN 81
might be becoming in garrulous old women
The war is happily over. II In the estimation Of
some unfortunately ended. Let Us now have
peace"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25

The third party men, notwithstanding their
failures elsewhere, are going to try how it will
work in Pennsylvania. The liberal republican
state executive committee have decided to in
yite the d. mocratic state committee TO concur
In q call for . peoples convention, and If their
overrures should be rejected IL Is believed that
the nbers committee will issue call for such
, a convention on their own hook
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-08-25
BOARDING.

EOR BENT-FURNISHED ROOMS, with or
without board, at 423 4th street northwest, op-
posite City Hall square. augls-2ws
ROARDING-The attention Of ladies' aud gentle.
= - men desiring quiet boarding house, is called
the northeast corner of Massachusetts avenue and
10th street northwest. Entrance on 10th st. ais 3