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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27
A Massachusetts Tramp.

He was travel-stained and weary, and
his eyes had Tar off wistful look, as
though he knew that rest was not for him
below, let his tired heart crave it never so
much. And as he humbly asked the lady
of the house for morsel of food, his vene-
rable appearance and evident want arous-
ed all her womanly generosity, and she
presently set the poor tramp down to the
remains of the family dinner.
"Poor old man." she murmured sympa-
thetically, as she saw him lean back in his
chair, leaving his food untouched on his
plate, "he is too weary to eat" and she
asked him ifhe felt ill.
mot exactly, num-" was the answer in
an humble voice, "but mos people cooks
their roast beef till it's overdone, and over
done beef don't gen'ally agree with me-"
"Y'haven't got any Wooster sauce, have
yea" continued the mendicant; II mos
generally use it when beef amt cooked to
suit me-"
Unfortunately, the house of Mccormick
was out of "Wooster sause," but Mrs. Nc
Cormick brought the mustard and plate
of nice pickles, observing with the faint
est trace of sarcasm in her tones that il
BIG u kuOW hC " 40 SHC u nave
looked out for something better
"Oh, l amt very pertick'le num-" said
the old man, as he helped himself to
another spoonful of gravy and q cucumber
pickle, sony jes' happ'n'd to mention it,
'cos where there amt no pie nor nothin'
sweet for desserts, overdone roast beef's
more like to disagree with me-" And the
meekness in the vagrants wrinkled face
was touching in the extreme, as he looked
humbly around the table, as though his
former glance might have overlooked the
luxuries of which he spoke.
But Mrs. Mccormick was rather too fal
gone with speechless indignation to frame
a suitable answer, and SO the weary old
man, with II mournful sigh, went on eat.
ing, and developed a most singular and
wonderful appetite, which was gradually
appeased as the four pound piece of bee
was reduced to mere shapeless fragment
and the last boiled potato had vanished
from the dish.
81 hope you've made dinner" eiacu
lated Mrs. Mccormick, in fine irony.
swell, yes'm; I've eat wuss vittels,
said the old mendicant, with deep humili
ty, as he pushed the chair back from the
table and appeared to seek something or
the floor
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

THE LATEST PATENT MEDICINE.-The
Tartar physicians, or Llama doctors, have
long superseded infinitesimal doses, as, if
they do not happen to have any medicine
with them, they are by no means discon-
certed, for they merely write the name of
the remedy they wish to give on little
scrap of paper, moisten this with the
saliva, roll it up into a pill, which the pa
tient losses down his throat with the same
perfect confidence as lie would aloes, ASA.
fntida, or any other remedy. To swallow
the name of the remedy, or to take the
medicine itself, say the Tartar physicians,
come to precisely the same thing. Ifpa-
per is not at hand, the name of the drug
is written with clay or chalk upon a board,
which is then washed off, and the patient
swallows the liquid.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27
War Horses.

War horses when hit in battle, tremble
in every muscle, and groan deeply, while
their eyes show deep establishment. Dur
ing the battle of Waterloo, some of the
horses, as they lay upon the ground, hay
ing recovered from the first agony of their
wounds, fell to eating the grass about
them, thus surrounding themselves, with
circle of bare ground, the limited extent
of which showed their weakness Others
were observed quietly grazing on the field
between the two hostile lines, their riders
having been shot off their backs; and the
balls flying over their heads, and the tu-
multi behind, before and around them,
caused no interruption to the usual in
stinct of their nature. 1t was also obscrv-
ed that when a charge of cavalry went past
near to any of the stray horses already
mentioned they would start off for them
selves in the rear of their mounted compan-
ions, and though without riders, gallop
strenuously along with the rest, not stop
ping or tlinching, when the fatal shock
with the enemy took place.
At the battle of Kirk, in 1745, Major
Macdonald having endorsed an English
officer, took possession his horse, which
was very beautiful, and Immediately mount
ed it. When the English cavalry fled the
horse ran away with his captor, notwith,
standing all his efforts to restrain him,
nor did it stop until it was at the head of
the regiment of which, apparently, its mas
ter was the commander. The melancholy,
and at the same time ludicrous figure which
Mcdonald presented when lie thus saw
himself the victim of his ambition to pos
sess fine horse, which ultimately cost him
his life upon the scaffold, may be easily
conceived.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

BREAKING HEIFERs.-A correspondent
in the american Farm Journal gives the fol-
lowing:
As good paper is made up of expert
ence ofmany,I will give ours in few small
things, that we have tried this year. We
had young heifer that came in about the
middle ofMarch. She has always been in
clined to be wild. We began early in the
winter to card and rub her, to get used to
being handled, but she would kick when
ever her teats were touched, when she be-
gan to give milk. We passed halfinch
rope around her body, just in front of the
udder, and drew it as tight as possible,
when we were milking. 1t cured her OF
kicking in about two weeks. She will
follow us around the yard now, to be milk
cd first, and is as quiet as an old COW. We
have near neighbor who is a milkman.-
He has some old, confirmed kickcrs. He
has a ring in the floor behind them, and
ties rope around the leg and fastens it
to the ring
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

Church debts are becoming u nuis-
ance and scandal; church loans an incu-
bus which none but the best saints have
grace enough to carry church finances are
more than match for an angels wisdom.
Better worship, we say, in an old barn or
under the canopy of Heaven, than where
the crowd congregate, for the sake of null
tiplying expenses and keeping up appear
ances and transmitting debts to the mil
lcnium. Better wait for the steeple, the
organ, the carpet and cushion, and why
not for the new and splendid edifce, itself,
until it can be paid for by those who en-,
joy it.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27
Poe tic al.
Losses.

Upon the white sea sand
There sat a pilgrim band,
Telling the losses their lives had known,
While evening waned away
From breezy cliff and bay,
And the strong tides went out with weary moan
One spake with quivering lip
OF fair, freighted ship,
with all his household, to the deep gone down
But one had wilder woe,
For fair face, long ago,
Lost in the darker depths of great town.
There were some who mourncd thci
youth
With most loving truth,
For its brave hopes are memories ever green
And one upon the West
Turned an eye that would not rest,
For far-GT hills, whercon its JOY had been
Some talked of vanished gold,
Some of proud honors told,
Some spake of friends that were their trust NJ
more;
And one of green grave
Beside foreign wave,
That made him sit SO lonely on the shore.
But when their tales were done
There spake among them one,
stranger, seeming from all sorrow free:
"Sad losses have We met,
But mine is heavier yet
For believing heart hath gone from me-"
"Alas ~ these pilgrims said
"For the living and the dead
For fortunes cruelty, for loves sure cross,
For the wrecks OF land and sea
But, however, it came to thee,
Thine, stranger, is lifes last and heaviest loss ,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

WHY Hoes EAT AsHEs.-Hogs when
confined are very fond of ashes and Gin
ders. This singular propensity is easily
accounted for. Poultry are very fond Of
egg shells, lime, sand, etc., and it is we'll
known these substances are necessary in
order to form the shells of eggs, and to
furnish material for the bone of FOWLS
Now it is not reasonable to suppose that
swine eat ashes and cinders for the purpose
of supplying the material for their bodies,
and this singular instinct in animals SO
low in the scale of intelligence, is truly
wonderful for ashes contain the ingredi-
ents which are necessary to form bones !;
viz: carbonate and sulphate of lime,
phosphate Sime and magnesia, clay, sill.
ca gelatinized, and made soluble by fire.
When hogs are at large, they take in clay
and silica with food, and eat bones and
roots which contain the necessary ingre-
dients but when they are shut up, they
endeavor to supply the materials necessary
for keeping up their frames by devouring
ashes and cinders. Let them have plenty
of them.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

CAN BIRDS CONVERSE 9-Dr. G. G. Alb
bolt cites the following occurrence to
show that birds possess some mode of con-
veying ideas to one another. In the spring
of 1872 pair of cat-birds were noticed
carrying materials for a nest to patch of
blackberry briers near by. To test their
ingenuity, DR.. Abbott took long, narrow
strip of muslin, too long for one bird con-
veniently to carry, and placed it on the
ground in such position as to be seen by
the birds when searching for material. In
few moments, one of the cat birds spied
the strip and endeavored to carry it off {;
but its length and weight, however he took
hold of it-and he tried many times, i'm
peded his flight, and, after long worrying
over it, the bird flew off for assistance. In
a few moments he returned with his mate,
and then, standing near the strip, they APP.
peared to hold consultation. The chirp-
ing, twittering, murmuring, and occasion
al calculations, were all unmistakable. In
few moments these all ceased, and the
work commenced. Each took hold of the
muslin strip, at about the same distance in
each case from the ends, and taking flight
simultaneously, bore it away. Soon there
was much gathering at the nest the birds
could not agree how to use the strip, and
it was finally abandoned /; but so, too, was
the nest, and the birds left the neighbor-
hood Popular Science Monthly.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27
TanSy for Bots In Horses.

A Washington Re0ieaO and Eraminer cor
respondent of the department of agricul-
ture says 1t appears from remarks of diff
ferent writers that none know of any GER
tain remedy. know of remedy, that is
safe and certain, discovered in this way
About 30 years ago friend lost by bots
very fine horse. He took from the stom-
ach Of the dead horse about gill of bots
and brought them to my office to expert
ment upon. He made preparations of every
remedy he had heard of, and put some of
them into each. Most had no effect, few
affected them slightly, but sage tea more
than anything else. That killed in fifteen
hours. He concluded he could kill them
by putting them into nitric acid; but it
had no more effect upon them than water
the third day they were as lively as when
put in. A bunch of tansy was growing by
my office. He took handful of that,
bruised it, added little water, squeezed
out a little juice, and put some in +; they
were dead in one minute. Since then l
have had it given to every horse l have
seen affected with bots, and have never
known it to fail giving entire reliet. My
friend had another horse affected with lots,
several years later. He gave him the tan
sy in the morning and dose of salts in
the evening the next morning he took up
from the excretions three half pints Of
bots.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27
Farmers' Column.
Speed the Pi0sc."
Forty Bushels to an Acre.

A writer in the Practical Farmer tells
how he gets big crops of wheat:
For the past five years / have averaged
lorty bushels per acre of wheat of the fin
est quality, always being over weight. |
think am still gaining every year, and
attribute this to the system pursued, and
especially to keeping sheep. My rotation
is corn, barley with clover third wear.
clover; and fourth year, clover plougbod
down for wheat.
have never missed a crop of clover by
seeding it with barley. 1t gives the grass
seeds chance which oats do not. | raise
full crops with barley, which do not at all
interfere with the grass, but think bar
ley rather helps by the slight shade. Al
ter the barley is cut the clover makes
astonishing growth, giving me superior
late pasture. Owing to danger from mice
pasture it down pretty close.
My soil is clay loan. l plough down
the rank clover about nine inches deep,
give it one narrowing, then haul out my
manure and spread. This 1 pillow down
shallow, as consider it important to have
the fertilizer near the surfuee for the roots
OF the wheat plant. use the drill. put
ting in one bushel and one peck To the
acre.
| had heser had a wheat crop hurt by
freezing and thawing, which | see you
sometimes suffer i'll Eastern Pennsy lvania.
One season, and one only, when we had u
very fine fall ofgrowing weather, the wheat
grew so rank that Ipasturcd it some du.
ring the winter. l have never had any
attacks of insect enemies on the wheat
crop, and feel as certain Of a crop of about
forty bushels per acre under my system as
that spring will succeed winter, 1t is ten
years since moved on this farm, and
believe nothing more recuperates a worn
out farm than keeping sheep. They spread
their manure evenly over tue field, and
have found the truth of what some one
said, that "the tread of sheep is golden"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

"A lady correspondent, who assumes
to know how boys ought to be trained,
writes us follows: ooh mothers hunt
out tho soft, tender, genial side of your
boys nature" Mothers often do-with
an old shoe.
My DEAR" inquired a young wife of
her husband, as she reached up her little
mouth to be kissed on his return from bus
mess, "Have you seen the magnificent set
of walnut furniture which the Jenkinses
have just bought 2" "Hem, no, my love,
but have seen the bill, which quite salts
fes me-"
"A man rushed breethlessly into law
ver's office in st. Paul, and approaching
the legal luminary hurriedly remarked :. :,
"a man has tied hoop to my horses tail,
can do anythinga" YES" replied the
attorney, "go and unite it." That was
good advice, and only cost tho man five
dollars.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

mo candidates allowed on this iarm,'
is the familiar sign that meets the eye of
one who travels up in Preble county.
The most attentive man to business on
record was he who wrote ON his shop door
"Gone to bury my wife; return in half an
hour" He was no relation to the lawyer
who put upon his office door: "Be back
in five minutes" and returned only after a
pleasure trip of three weeks.
"A Norfolk farmer purchased revolv-
er for his wife and insisted on target prac-
tice, 50 that she could defend her house in
case of his absence. After the bullet was
dug out of his leg and the cow buried, he
said he thought she had better shoot with
an axe.
"A pale man with long hair got into
the car. 1t was cold day, and the seat
near the stove was occupied by a man and
an inquisitive-l looking boy. The pale man
backed up to the stove and remarked: "Man
run over, just now" The inqusitive look
ing boy sprang to his feet and rushed out
of the car like maniac. The pale man
settled down in the vacated seat and ex-
planned HE run over the track ahead OF
the engine. He wasn't struck"
The term "grass widow" is said to be
a corruption of "grace widow" the former
expression being merely barbarism.-
"Grace widow" is the term applied to
one who becomes widow by grace of ia
vor, not of necessity, as by death, origina-
ted in the early ages of European civiliza-
ton, when divorces were granted but sell
dom and wholly by authority of the Cath
olic Church. When such decree was grant
ed to woman, the Papal receipt stated
"Viduca de gratia," which, interpreted is
"widow of grace" In the law of the
French it would read, "Veuve de grace
or sgrace widow" "veuve" being translat-
| cd as "widow."
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

Coal ASHES ON GoosRBERRIEs.-AN Now
York gardener has succeeded in keeping
his currant and gooseberry bushes free
from the currant worm by mulcLing heavi-
ly with coal ashes. The ashes also have
another value not expected, viz. keeping
the ground cool and moist, so that even
English gooseberries win bear heavy crops
without sign of mildew. We judge, also,
the use of coal ashes would be good for
asters, which need cool soil also.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

"What is it you're looking for ?" de-
manded Mrs. Mccormick, with snap in
her voice that reminded one of the slam
ming down of the lid of chest.
"Nothin' mum that is, nothing partick-
Ter; | didn't see no napkin an thought !
might dropped it"
But he never finished his speech, and
five seconds later his white locks vanished
through the doorway with amazing celer
ty, and IN infatuated female with u mop
followed so closely behind that he got full
ly half mile from the house before pur-
suit ceased and he was able to light his
cigar.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27

WALKING HoRsEs.-The Canada Farm.
En- recommends that those societies which
have not yet settled their prize list will
consider the propriety of giving premiums
for the best walking horses. Walking 10
the gait that is of most use to farmers, and
it is this pace which should be encouraged.
A horse that can walk three and one-half
or four miles Per hour, will not eat much
more than one which crawls along at half
the pace.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27
CANADA TursrLEs.-Dr. Warder. OF

CANADA THIsTLEs.-Dr. Warder, of
Cincinnati, in public lecture, said
that there was way of surely and
quickly destroying this plant and with
out great labor. Gentlemen who are
hesitating about attacking these pests,
because the more they are rooted out the
better they will grow, should try this mode.
1t is to pile straw thickly on the surface
where they are to be found, and let 1t re-
main there. They will die for want of
LIGHT and air.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-08-27
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