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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
VARIETIES.

Dexter, king of the trot,ng turf is in
his sixteenth year. Lucy was eighteen years
cd last snring. Goldsmith Maid was seven
teen years old last spring.
A Massachusetts merchant las been in
business forty seven years, and never advcr-
tised and never means to. He commenced
on capital of $500 and has run it up to S805
A bad little boy in Aberdeen rubbed
cayenne dust all over the back of his jack
ct. The school master thrashed him brisk.
ly, but dismissed the school Immediately
to run to the nearest chemists for eye water
Cicero, who was born t0G years before
Christ, wrote: 81 consider this world as a
place which nature never intended for my
permanent abode and l look on my depar-
turc from it not as being driven from my
habitation, but simply as leaving an inn"
On Wca Prairie, near Lafayette, Ind, is
n little hut four feet high, with forty foot
lightning rod on it. The proprietor, being
asked if he was afraid of lightning, replied
Not bit ; but it keeps those cussed light
ming rod fellers from striking.
"A benevolent physician in Laporte coun-
ty, Ind. gave q Fourth OF July pic mic to
seven hundred children, not even such deli
cacies as cake, strawberries, and ice cream
being omitted He got back his outlay in
colics, however before the week was over.
-"My poor dear john" said u widow
Smith az never can forget his dying words
He was so pious. We had few harsh
words before he went to single the
barn and the poor dear fell off and broke
his neck and he lived sixteen days after
it, and held my lips close to his ear, and
| said, "Joln have you any dying request
to make, and the dear pious soul said, "go
thou and do likewise" Il can never
forget the affec tin words"
The late Edward Everett condensed
into single brief paragraph his estima-
ton of what constituted good education.
Here it is:-To read the English Ian
guage WE'LL to write with despatch neat,
legible hand, and be master of the first
four rules of arithmetic, so as to dispoe OF
at once, with accuracy, every question of
figures which comes up in practice-I call
this good education. And if you add
the ability to write pure grammatical Eng
lish, | regard it as an excellent education.
These are the tools. You can do much
with them, but you are hopeless without
them. They are the foundation and UNI
less you begin with those, all your ilashy
attachments, little geology, and all other
ologies and osophies, are ostentatious. rub
bish. That education is imperfect which
stops short of the full development of the
moral, intellectual and physical powers,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
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How to Make Good Butter.

At an exhibition of the Chester county
Agricultural Society in Pennsylvania,
Isaac Acker received the first prize on but
ter, who being called on for his mode of
management, remarked as follows ole
feeds ten quarts of corn meal and bran to
each COW per day, with hay; does not
think that corn fodder makes good butter.
The temperature of the cream at churning
was tifty-seven degrees, and was churned in
from twelve to twenty minutes; uses six,
ounces of salt and three ounces n yhi.2
sugar to twenty pounds ofbuttcr; us.1 :, a
Embree butter worker, with sponge and
cloth, and did not wash the butter with
water. Mr.. Acker believes that the essen
tials to make the dairy business pay, are
good cows, well fed and we'll taken care of,
good and convenient dairy houses and APP
planes, and then produce good article
and sell it at high price. One year his
cows averaged $50 pounds each"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14

We advise all our friends who own
garden or farm, to plant bed OF this most
delicious vegetable. There is no crop more
sure, and ho vegetable more palatable at
the same season of the year. Once planted
it continues to yield freely for many years,
aud if well cared for, will produce large
and fine stalks. There is said to be sever
al varieties we think that the soil and
treatment makes the difference, rather than
the variety. Formerly the one or two year
old roots were set quite deeply, say one
foot deep in the trenches; but within II
few ars the practice has somewhat
changed, as it cannot be lad so early by
deep planting. We should not advise
planting it more than four or six inches
deep, preferring on many soils four inches.
The young plants should not be covered
more than two inches deep when set, or
they will be likely to decay. The earth
can be drawn in gradually during the
summer. The rows may he three and
half or four feet apart, and the plants in
the row about one foot apart. Latterly,
some of the gardeners have adopted the
plan of planting in stools some two feet
apart, and treating these stools MS a stool
or hill of rhubarb. We doubt not larger
stalks can be raised in this way than by
the old method. Salt may be used to adj
vantage on the beds, We have seen salt
applied so freely as to cause the soil to
turn red, and to prevent all weeds from
growing, yet the asparagus would flourish
finely
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
A Story of the Curi'ew.

To many hearts in the old country that
cherish its traditions, the curfew recalls
story of loves devotion.
In the time ofCromwell, young soldier,
for some offence, was compelled to die and
the time of his death was fixed sat the
ringing Of the curfew." Naturally, such
doom would be fearful and bitter to one
in the years of his hope and prime; but to
this unhappy youth death was doubly ter
riblc, since he was soon to be married to
beautiful lady, whom he had long loved
The lady, who loved him ardently in re-
turn, had used her efforts to avert his fate
by pleading with the judges, and even with
Cromwell himself but all in vain. In her
despair she tried to bride the old sexton
not to ring the bell, but she found that i'm
possible. The hour drew near for the exc
cution. The preparations were completed.
The officers of the law brought forth the
prisoner and waited, while the sun was set
ting, for the signal from the distant bell
tower.
To the wonder of everybody it did not
ring Only one person at that moment
knew why. The poor girl herself half
wild with the thought of her lovers peril,
had rushed unseen up the winding stairs,
and climbed the ladders into the belfry- loft
and seized the tongue of the bell.
The old sexton was in his place, prompt
to the fatal moment. He threw his weight
upon the rope, and the bell, obedient to his
practiced hand, reeled and swung to and
fro in the tower. But the brave girl kept
her hold, and no sound issued from the
metallic lips.
Again and again the sexton drew the
rope, but with desperate strength the young
heroine held on. Every movement made
her position more fearful every sway of the
bells huge weight threatened to fling her
through the tower window, but she would
not let 60.
AT last the sexton went away. Old and
deaf he had not noticed that the curfew
gave no peal. The brave girl descended
from the belfry, wounded and trembling.
She hurried from the church to the place
of execution. Cromwell himself was there,
and was just sending to demand why the
bell was silent. She saw him
And her brow
Lately white with sickening horror, glows with
hope and courage now
At his feet she told her story, showed her hands
all bruised and torn
And her sweet young face, still haggard with the
anguish it had worn,
Touched his heart with sudden pity, lit his eyes
with misty light
"Go; your lover lives" cried Cromwell; curfew
shall not ring tonight"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14

Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary that you should do so,
and hold your tongue when it is prudent
that you should do ST..
Have the courage to own that you are
poor, and thus dsarm poverty of its sting.
Have the courage to tell a man why you
refuse to credit him.
Have the courage to tell a man why you
will not lend him your money.
Have courage to cut the most agreeable
acquaintance you have when you are con-
WINGED that he lacks principles friend
should bear with friends infirmities but
not with his vices.
Have courage to show your respect for
honesty, in whatever guise it appears, and
your contempt for dishonesty and duplici-
ty, by whomsoever exhibited.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new ones.
Have the courage to prefer comfort and
propriety to fashion in all things.
Have the courage to acknowledge yolr
Ignorance, rather than to seek for know-
edge under false pretences.
Have the courage, in providing an en-
tertainment for your friends, not to exceed
your means.
Have courage to insure the property in
your possession, and thereby pay your
debts in full
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14

THE MIGRATORY NoTE.-In order that
professions may safely cross large suspcn-
sion bridges, it is necessary that they
should break step in order to insure safe.
ty and it is now told, in illustration, that
when the first suspension bridge was build
ing in England, "a fiddler offered to demol-
ish it with his fiddle Striking one note
after another, he eventually hit the vibrat-
ing note or fundamental tone, and threw
the structure into extraordinary vibrations.
Only recently q bridge went down in
France under the tread of a regiment of
infantry who neglected to break step on
entering it, Three hundred persons were
drowned. The experiment of breaking Il
tumbler or other glass vessel by frequent
repetitions of some particular note of the
human voice belongs to the same class of
phenomena.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
Poe &c al.
THE FIVE KNAvES.

AN ORIGINAL TALE by JOHN G. SANE.
Once on time, in Indostan,
thief conceived cunning plan,
$50 potent is the voice of Hope)
10 save his throttle from the rope;
Though now the day was drawing nigh
When he by laws was doomed to die.
lie babe tho jailor tell the King
lie fain would show wondrous thing
A precious secret, fairly worth
The ear of any prince ON earth
And now the culprit, being led
Into the royal presence, said:
"This golden coin which here YOU see,
fplanted, will become tree
Whose fruit-increased hundred fold
VIII be like this, the purest gold.
lpray your majesty to try
lfthis be true before die.''
With this the king and courticrs went
Into the garden with intent
10 plant the curious coin of gold,
But now when all was ready, Hold"
Exclaimed the thief, "this hand of mine
Would surely spoil our whole design;
The hand that plants the gold must be
elise all is naughty entirely free
From stain of fraud; and SO pray
Your gracious majesty will lay
The seed i'll earth" 'Yes-no-in sootl I"
The king replied, ''for in my youth
lpitered from my sire; some stain,
For all my sorrow, may remain.
My good prime minister is here;
His hand, no doubt is wholly clear
Ofany faint" "Nay," he replied,
That's more than | can well decide,
AS xreceiver-now-I may
Have kept tritle. So pray
To be excused for prudence sake,
And let our commissary take
The coin in hand. Sure that were best,
For he, no doubt, can stand the test.'
Faith" said the commssary, 81
Would rather not. | can't deny
My good intent; but since pay
Large sums of money every day
For soldiers, sailors, and q herd
OF spies-I wouldn't give my word
have not kept small amount
Not entered in my book account.
Since an error-e'en the least
Would spoil the charm, pray let the priest
Proceed to plant the coin of gold"
may, that | fear would be DER bold
Despite my prayers and pious zeal"
Replied his reverence, 81 deal
In tithes and sacriicial dues;
And so beg you will excuse
My sharing in q work like this,
Where nothing must be done amss."
Then ~ said the thief, "sincc no man her
(As we have learned) is wholly clear
Ofknavish tricks, ask you whether
We should not all be hung together 2"
The monarch, laughing, made reply:
why yes, if every rogue must die!
Well, since We are five knayes confessed,
| pardon you, and spare the rest ~
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14

A STRANGE SIGHT AT SEA.-In the year
1886, the captain of Greenland whaling
vessel, found himself at night surrounded
by icebergs, and "lay to" until morning,
expecting every moment to be ground to
pieces. In the morning he looked about
and saw ship near by. lie hailed it, but
received no answer. Getting into IL boat
with some of his crew, he pushed out for
the mysterious craft. Coming alongside
the vessel, he saw through the portfolio a
man at table, as though keeping log
book, frozen to death. The last date in
the log book was 1762, showing that the
vessel had been drifting for thirteen years
among the ice. The sailors were found
frozen among the hammocks, and Others in
the cabin. For thirteen years this ship
had been carrying its burden of corpses-a
drifting sepulchre manned by frozen
crew.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
Moral Courage In Daily Life.

Moral Courage" was printed in large
letters and put as the caption of the fol-
lowing items, and placed in conspicuous
place on the door of systematic merchant
in New York, for constant reference, and
furnished by him for publication
Have the courage to discharge debt
while you have the money in your pocket.
Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it.
Have the courage to speak to friend in
u seedy coat, even though you are in COM
pany with rich one, and richly attired.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
The Scientific Outlook.

The widest Imagination is unable to
predict the discoveries of the future, For
all we know families in the next century
may pump fuel from the river and illumi-
nate their houses with ice and electricity.
Iron vessels, properly magnetized, may sail
through the air like balloons, and trip to
the Rocky Mountains may be made in an
hour. Perhaps within fifty years American
grain will be shot into Liverpool and Cal
cutta through iron tubes laid under the sea.
BY means Of condensing air and cold vapor
engines, excursion parties may travel along
the floor of the ocean, sailing past ancient
wrecks and mountains of coral. On land
the intelligent farmer may turn the soil of
thousand acres in a day while his sons
cut wood with platinum wire and shell
corn with electricity. The matter now con-
tanned in New York daily may be pro-
duced ten thousand times a minute on lit
tie scraps of pasteboard, by improved pho
Biography; and boys may sell the news of
the world printed on visiting cards, which
their customers will read through artificial
eyes. Five hundred years hence u must
clan may play piano in New York con-
nected with instruments in San Francisco,
Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans and 9th
err cities. which will be listened to by half
a million Of people. A speech delivered in
New York will be heard instantly in the
halls of those cities, and when fashionable
audiences in San Francisco go to hear some
renowned singer she will be performing in
New York or Philadelphia.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
Don't Kill Your Best Fowls.

1t is the worst possible policy to kill all
the best and handsomest fowls, and save
only the mean and scraggy ones to breed
from. This is precisely the way to run out
your stock; for like tends to breed like,
and the result is, that by continually tax
ing away the best birds, and using the eggs
ofthe poorest, your flock will grow poorer
every succeeding year. 1t would seem as
though this was too plain to be insisted
upon, but in fact, cline upon line" is need
cd. It's the crying want of the poultry
upon the farms the country through, this
careful and intelligent selection of the best
for breeding. Nothing is lost by little
self denial to start with. TIE extra pound
or two Of poultry flesh that you leave ON
its legs, instead of sending it to the mar
ket, is as good seed, and will bring forth
tcn-iold and twentytold in your future
broods. Save your best stock for breed
ing.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14

CURE FOR WuoopING CoUGH.-A writer
in the Medical Journal, London, states that
in cases of whooping cough in the last stage
that is after the third weck-he has had
one ounce of the strongest liquid ammonia
put into gallon of water in an open pan
and the steam kept up by means of half
brick made redhot throughout, and put
into the boiling water containing the am.
monia, The pan being placed in the middle
of the room, into which the patients were
brought as the ammonia steam was passing
off, The i ethod, he says, was used in the
evening, before bed time, and it proved so
eflicacious in abating the spasmodic at
tack, and after three or four days termin-
atng the malady, as to establish, beyond
doubt, the value of this mode OF inhal-
ing ammonia as a therapeutic agent in
tranquiizing the nervous system in the
whooping- cough.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14

WHY PoTAToEs RUN OUr.-Some one
asks why it is that potatoes so soon run
out There are two grand reasons. There
are but few potatoes in hill that are fit
for seed. Some are overgrown, coarse,
rank, and will not transmit the original
quality. Others are undergrown, and not
fully developed seed. A potato of medi-
um size, perfect in all its parts, with
change Of ground, will produce its like
al iahAitum. One other reason cutting
potatoes between stem and seed end CON
tinually is wrong. 1t requires the stem and
seed end to make perfect seed. Ii cut,
cut lcngthwise. Single eyes will run out
any potato. There is no other seed that
will bear mutiation like the potato; the
only wonder is, that it docs not run out
completely.n
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-08-14
Terms-S $50 a Year, in Advance,
Otherwise $2.O0 VIII be charged

TRANSIENT ADvERTIsEMENTs.-0ne Square, two inser-
tons, sl01 Each subsequent insertion, 25 cents. Lon.
ger advertisements in the same proportion space
equal to six lines makes square.
So Yearly advertisements at special rates
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SPEDDE.E s. GODDIA,
AWNING and TENT MAKERS,
aa LIBERTY ST., BALTIMORE.

sag Plain and Fancy House and Window
Awnings, Business Banners and Flags, Horse,
Wagon and Dray Covers. Tents of every de-
scription made with neatness and dispatch.
Business Banners, Flags, Awnings, Curtains
and Transparences neatly lettered in new way.
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THE EGIS & INTELLIGENCER.

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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-06
Dyspepsia Dyspepsia. Dyspepsia,

Dyspepsia is the most perplexing of all
human ailments. Its symptoms are al
most infinite in their variety, and the for
lorn and Respondent victims of the disease
often fancy themselves the prey, in turn, of
every known malady. This is due. in part,
to the close sympathy which exists between
the stomach and the brain, and in part al
so to the fact that any disturbance of the
digestive functions necessarily disorders the
liver, the bowels and the nervous system.
and ELECTS, to some extent, the quality of
the blood
4. 4. Kunkers Bitter Wine of Iron is
sure cure. This is not new prepare
ton, to be tried and found wanting it has
been prescribed daily for many years in
the practice OF eminent physicians with
unparalleled success it is not expected or
intended to cure all the diseases to which
the human family is subject, but is war
ranted to cure Dyspepsia in its most obsti-
nate form. kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron
never fails to cure symptoms of Dyspepsia
or loss OF appetite, wind and rising of the
food, dryness OF the mouth, heartburn. dis
tension of the stomach and bowels. consti-
patton, headache, dizziness, sleeplessness
and low spirits. Try the great remedy
and be convinced OF its merits. Get the
genuine. Take only kunkers. which is
put only In 81 bottles. Depot, 259 North
Ninth street, Philadelphia.
John Bengston agent for Book Island.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-06
The Abandoned Child,

There is an interesting prelude, belong
ing on this side of the river, to the adven-
lures of the woman who left the babe at
the side of the railroad track in Rock Isl
and, on Thursday. Early on the morning
of Wednesday, Mr. Baker, gardner near
Duck Creek, north of Davenport, saw a
woman leave child near his fence, and
then hurry away on the road; he gave
her to return and take charge of the little
one she had abandoned. She took the
child in her arms, and went away with it.
About two hours after, she approached the
house of Farmer Williams, not far distant
from Mr.. Bakers, and asked to be guided
to the city Two little daughters of Mr..
W. then went along the road with her, and
directed her to Mercy Hospital, at which
institution she stopped, and asked the sis
tiers to take the child The sisters told he1
that if the child was i'll, or if she could
satisfy them that It's mother was dead, they
would receive it. She said that it was the
child OF rich doctor at Maquoketa, and
again, that it belonged to her daughter
and SO saying she gathered it in her arms
and left the premises. The same after
noon she appeared at the Ackley House
with the child, registering her name Miss
Smith. She was given a room and re
manned in the hotel till Thursday morning
when she asked directions to the Western
Union train, saying she wished to go t,
Fulton, Iii. She paid her bill, took hel
breakfast, and left at I A. NJ with thu
child, walking in the direction of thu
bridge. That was the last heard of he,
until the report of the abandoned ohil'
reached the hotel.
She was dressed in plain black, and Dor,
the appearance of respectable woman
The impression is that she was new to tn
business she was engaged in, and that sh
had been hired by the father of the child
to take the little one and dispose OF it a
best she could She has fulfilled her mis-
sion-thats certain-and ascertaining o
her present whereabouts is what the par
ties who have possession of the child ar
now engaged in, -Gaeette, 9th.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-06
The Amended LIQUOR Law,

There seems to be an impression that
our legislature, at its late session, so amend
ed the liquor law as permit town or eoun-
ty authorities to fix the rate for license at
any sum they may please. But we have
recently seen in one of our exchanges what
purports to be the amended law, which
goes into effect on the first of July, the Sd
section of which reads as follows:
3. The county boards of each county
may grant license to keep SO many dram
shops in their county as they may think the
public good requires, upon the application
by petition of a majority of the legal voters
OF the town, if the county is under town
ship organization, and if not under town
ship organization, then of a majority of the
legal voters Of the election precinct or dis
trict where the same is proposed to be To-
Gated, and upon the payment into the coun-
ty treasury Of such sum as the board may
require not less than fifty dollars nor more
than three hundred dollars for each license,
and upon compliance with the provisions OF
this act Prorjded, such board shall not
have power to issue any license to keep any
dram-shop in any incorporated city, town
or village or within. two miles of the same,
in which the corporate authorities have au-
thoritiy to Incense, regulate, restrain or pro-
hibit the sale Of liquors, or in any place
where the sale Of intoxicating liquors is
prohibited by law