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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-05-21
VARIETIES.

"A Reflection.-"'Tis strange" NUT
tered young man, as he staggered home
from q supper party, show evil communi-
cations corrupt good manners. Here, I've
been surrounded by tumbers all the even
ing, and now l am tumbler myself"
"A rich man sent to call physician for
slight disorder. The physician felt his
pulse, and said, "Do you eat we'll 2" "Yes,"
said the patient. "Do you sleep we'll 2"
81 do" "Then," said the physician, 81
shall give you something to take away all
that"
"What q nuisance ~ exclaimed gen.
tlemen at concert, as young fop in front
of him kept talking in loud voice to a
lady at his side. "Did you refer to me,
sir ~ threateningly demanded the fop. "Oh,
no mean the musicians there, who keep
up such noise with their instruments that
can't hear your conversation" was the
singing reply.
I dropped in at u grocery store a few
nights ago, and found old Chopper sitting
with his feet on the stove talking to cir
Gle of friends. He said: "You didn't know
that l fit in the WARE Well, sir, had a
splendid company and l was the most
popular captain as ever went from Sussex
county. All the women wanted their hus-
bands and sons to 60 with me. They
knowed as l was strategist. ! didn't
skeet round after fgbtin' men when was
recruiten.' hunted up fellers that had
long legs, fellers that could run. What was
the result Whenever there was fight
other companies would go in and after a
while come out all cut to pieces. But
pledge you my word of honor that never
got into fight all through the war that
didn't bring out one-third more men than
tool in!
l ought to We been Brigadier-G General.
l could have doubled the army after bat
! tie or two.
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The VEsPER BELL.-To the traveller in
Spanish America the striking of the vesper
exercises potent charm. AS the usage re-
quires every one to halt, no matter where
he may be, at the first stroke of the bell,
to interrupt his conversation, however i'm
portant, and listen without stirring until
the conclusion of the chime, the singular
ity of a whole population surprised in q
moment as it comes and goes, held in a
state of petrifaction, and paralyzed as if
10y an encounter, may be imagined. On
every side you see gestures interrupted,
mouths half open for the arrested remark,
smiles lingering or passing into an ex-
preston of prayer; you would fancy them
notion of statues. A town in South
America at the tinkle of the Angelus re-
sembles the city in the arabian Nights,
whose inhabitants are turned into stones.
The magician here is the bell-ringer; but
hardly has the vibration ceased when a uni
versal murmur arises from these thousands
of oppressed lungs. Hands meet hands,
qustion seeks answer conversations resume
their course; horses feel the loosened bri-
die and paw the ground; dogs bark, ba-
bies cry, the fathers sing, the mothers chat
ter. The accidental turns thus given to
conversation are many.
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Ounce Culture.

Almost every good housekeeper who hss
garden wishes there were ounces in II
NO fruit seems more desirable in the kitch.
en-, but 1t 10 seldom that it 10 seen there
ihey are planted in the garden time and
again, but seldom seem to do any good
lhey just live, growing but little, and that
little seldom of the vigorous hsalthfnl
Kind. The whole plant is knottv and
scrubby, and though they may flower free.
ly, the young fruit drops prematurely. and
bush of dozen years old will often met
give dozen sound fruit.
Now, some say that the trouble ia in the
SOIL, that 1t is very peculiar and particular
in this respect but we think this ia an
error. Certainly we have now and then
seen ounce trees doing well in all sorts Of
SOL ana many sorts of situation. It il
more than probable that much of the fail
ure comes from injuries by the borer, which
saps the strength OF the whole tree. The
oorer enters the stem at or near the ground.
ana boring into it cuts off large portion
OF Its supplies. Some trees like the an.
pie and plum, when attacked by the borer
soon die; but the ounce roots out 60
readily from every part of its bark, that.
unless every badly attacked, it will man
age to live on in lingering sort of w.y
lor a good many years without any but a
practiced eye suspecting what the real
matter is.
But sometimes the ounce gets what
gardeners call hide-bound. The bark has
hard, scrubby look, and the growth ia
puny and not at all what We expect TO see
ON healthy tree. Whether this hide.
bound condition is the result of some di.
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THE SPELLING MANIA.-Says writer
1t is terrible, this manial You are stopped
upon the street and invited to spell ped
die, or peddler, or some other word
Your wife wakes you up in the middle Of
the night to spell "sarcophagus )" your
children hasten to the breakfast table to
ask you to spell "corymb," and devote all
their spare time to the dictionary your
eldest boy comes home late at night in a
weeping mood and explains it thus: ~
went to see Mary (his sweethearD this even
ing she met me at the door with Spell
erysipelas, Tom = l spelt it with two IFS
and no " and she said Sir, our engage
ment is at an end; cannot more love a
bad spcller' Her father on being appeal
ed to, says: Give Tom one more trial
Spell consanguineous, SIR spelled it with
four MS and two is and he babe me leave
the house and never hope to be his son-in-
law. The spell of weather is a bad wea-
ther of spell surely.
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! for, as we said before, it was hard for her
to speak out her thoughts; but presently
she added:
"And that promise, it seems to hold q
sort of special tenderness for all sinful
people who repent on that day, whose
hearts are then resurrected, as you might
say, from lives of sin into lives of virtue
through the power of Him, the Life, who
gives new life; and it seems, too, spe-
cially easy time to begin new life, when
all over the worlu flowers and green things
are about waking up into life; and so
kinder thought I'd send a lily-they be
such pure, washed-from -sin-like looking
tlowers-over to Hester NJ; she
came home last week, and her mother has
let her in"
After these words the two old friends
did not speak for long; there was silence
in the room, except the clicking of their
busy shining knitting needles; silence while
both pondered over the story of Hester
Nj. A sad pitiful story, of one who
had wandered out from the protection of
the dear home hills that shut in that valley
village like wings ofguardian angels. Yes,
Hester M--had wandered out, but we
need not picture her sad career; enough
that only brief week before Miss Grace's
talk with Miss Greggs, on wild, stormy
night, the ever.listening ear of Hester M. s
mother had heard sound that was not the
moaning of the wind among the tree tops;
enough that that mothers hand had opened
wide the home-door and let her child in.
This is all we need know of the sad story
that enveloped Hester Ms life like dense
cloud. And it was this couded life that Miss
Grace Hinsdale planned lighting up-not
by words of reproof not by words of coun-
sel-but just by sending the wandering
girl on the Resurrection morning, that lily
so pure and tsainless.
Would it open in time? and if it did,
would the girls heart read its meaning?
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farlMers' Column.
POULTRY YARD.
RAISING CHICKENS.

We copy the following from an unknown
source. The suggestions seem to be good
ones, when applied with judgment:
Inc raising OF a brood Of chickens seems
az nrst glance to be an easy matter, and 90
IL 10 II you know how. From this time
until harvest, or later, on every farm, large
or small, In all south eastern Pennsylvania,
Will be seen chicken coops scattered about.
IN olcnaros, lanes, roadsides and yards;
ana hocks' larger or smaller, as the case
may be, of young chicks, running ana
foraging in all directions. ~
Many farmers COLOMBO their 6oct. in
lanes and in the edges of fields, and by the
side of woods at some distance from the
buildings. They do this for two reasons:
hrs1' 70 escape the .gapes In the young
crowding.
On premises infested with the oane
worm, (SctorostoneG iSyngamus) this pr'yes
the most difficult trouble to overcome in
the business. More chicks die from tbi.
disease than from all others combined,-
Inc disease consists of parasitic worms
LOGGED In the trachea or windpipe.
some persons cure the gapes by r,ixinp
q nttie kerosene in the feed. In this case
1t Is the odor that effects the cure. The
kerosene cannot come in contact with the
worms except In volatilized condition In
the act OF respiration. Some use as a
remedy morsel of camphor, the size of
small wheat grain, given daily in pill, and
put small quantity of camphor into the
drinking water. Some put shavings in a
oo8 and saturate them with spirits of tur.
Pentlne, and then confne the chicks in
the box Tor short time. In this case the
remedy acts on the worms by the respira-
tory act, and 10 said to answer well. We
nave never tried it, but Judging from the
known therapeutic effect of the article we
40 not doubt its efficacy. 1t might posi-
Dly inJure the chick too long exposed to
the tunes, whereas carbolic acid is perfect
~ harmless. Many people cure the chick
ny removing the worms by means of a
norse-halr or some similar instrument.
lhls method is effectual in the hands of
an expert, but not very successful In other
hands.
10 prevent gapes, then, have clean, dry,
warm coops. Do not let the chickens out
IN the morning before the dew is off,
Guard the brood carefully against cold
rainy weather. Mix a few drops of kero-
sene in their mornings feed. Use carbol.
&c ACID as above recommended. A cheap
acid in solution 10 as good as the pure
crystallized article. Set the coops on the
ground not before used by broods, if it
can be done. Chicks should be literally
ted until the foraging season for insects
sets in. They should be fed very early in.
the morning, as they are always hungry
and restless until fed. Keep their coops
clean. Give pure, clear water three times
a day, in clean vessels shaded from the
sun.
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"A pedler, with his cart, ovcrtaking
another of his clan on the road, was thus
addressed "Halloa, what do you carry 2'
"Druus and medicines" was the reply
"Good !" returned the other, "you may go
ahead carry grave-stones !"
The man who spelled the word buz.
card, "b-u-double- lizard -a-r-d-buzzard, ,
and was consequently retired with from
bone requiem, is now going around with
an open volume of"Webster" in his arms
beseeching the privilege of proving that
his spelling was correct.
When George II. was once expressing
his admiration of General Wolf, some one
observed that the general was mad. "Oh
he is mad, is he 2" said the king, with great
quickness. "Then wish he would bite
some other ofmy generals"
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Po q tic al.
Boss Bagsf,aw.


p, The following punning poem is worthy c
iood's pen, and may be called particular
'iquant array of jeur de mot 4:
Boss Bagshaw was a cobbler,
Once Twin at Bulls Head,
Where long he waxed stout and fat
AS well as his shoe thread.
And though he sowed not what he reaped
lie ripped what he had sewed;
And almost apostolic care
For way-worn soles he showed
The boss doctor never was,
Though often did he heel;
And kips and calls he did cut up,
AS for the public veal.
Though he could neither write nor read,
The shoeless were aware
That for the understanding he
Did exercise a care.
No evil fortune, small or great
Could make his spirits fall;
He even sang right merrily
When once he lost his awl.
And even to his dying day,
OF Bagshaw be it told,
He never sold q leaky boot,
Though such he oft halfsoled
Once he, from too much drink, was in
A state of lether-gy,
When thieves made booty of his shoes,
And with them they did flee
When he came to, says he, if
Get once upon their tracks,
For havin' stolen of my stock
They'll get shoemaker's whacks
That afternoon one thief he ketched.
Which quickly came to grief,
For boss he went from weltin' shoes
To weltin ofthe thief
The M. Prs ketched another one,
maxim out of town,
And when the thief was taken up
He seemed quite taken down.
Boss piled his trade for thirty years,
Or somewhere thereabout,
For he, though long peggin' in,
Was longer peggin' out.
But Bagshaw couldn't always live
Like cobbers in the past,
lie one day from his last did go,
To come unto his last.
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CHAPTER II.

Yes, it opened in time, for on the Easter
morning, upspringing from the green pro-
tecting leaves, the white lily, on its slender
stem, stood ready for its culling and
Miss Grace, SHE lowered about it as though
the mute thing knew the very word she
prayed the Resurrection Lord that it might
do, and then tenderly, as though it was a
sacred task, Miss Grace severed the pure
blossom, with cluster of green leaves,
from the stately plant, and twisted about
it tiny paper, on which, in letters crook
ed and Informed she had traced the
words: Jesus said "Come unto Me :"
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
re as white as snow" 81 am the Resur-
rection and the Life y "Him that cometh
to Me, l will in no wise cast out"
Then, wrapping the flower and leaves in
soft cotton wool, that the frosty morning
air might not mar their beauty, Miss Grace
went out into the Easter day sunshine,
passed down the garden walk, crossed the
village street to the widow Ms door, and
with never a word more than, 81 have
brought your Hester q flower" she left the
little parcel with the mother who had
let her child in.
Two hours later, just as the village
church bell was ringing out its glad sum
mons, calling from all the countryside the
people to come and worship the Lord of
life, in the widow Ms home there was an
Easter service; for, alone in her little room,
bowling over that spotless lily, that was
not stained by her tears, the tears of sin
full girl, Hester M. prayed, and the Lord
of life heard and answered that prayer.
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Old Letters From Two Great Men.

We are indebted to the Rev. E. D. Fin
ney, of this place, for showing us fac
smile copy of letters written by Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. This
document was presented to Mr.. Finney by
Mrs. Sarah Jackson, the widow of General
Jackson, at the Hermitage, Tenn, in June,
1867. 1t was written under the following
circumstances:
Peter A. Grotjan, Esq, Of Philadelphia,
and his lady had for many years enjoyed
correspondence with Mr.. Jefferson in
December, 1928, Mrs. Grotjan wrote Mr..
Jefferson requesting him to bestow his
name on her infant son, and write him
letter of advice as legacy to him.
On the evening of the 9th of June, 1888,
Mr.. Grotjan introduced his son, now ten
years of age, to General Jackson, and re-
quested him to add his sentiments; he re-
tired to his room and returned in few
minutes with his sentiments written on
MIR. Jefferson's letter. The letters are as
follows:
7H. jefferson to TIL. Jefsrson GroGan:
"Your affectionate mother requested
that | would address to you, as a name
sake, something which might have ia
vorable influence on the course of life you
have to run. Few words are necessary,
with good dispositions on your part.
Adore God, reverence and cherish your
parents, love yourself; and your country
more than life, be just, be true, murmur
not at the ways of Providence, and the
life into which you have entered will be
the passage to one of eternal and ineffable
bliss, and if to tie dead it is permitted to
care for the things of this world, every &C.
ton of your life will be under my regard
Farewell
"Nonticnllo Inn 10 'Q4n
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The Rochester woman who expected
the world to end the other day and gave
away her preserving kettle is now the mad
dest woman east of Detroit river Detvss
Free Rs@
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Monticello, Jan. 10, "a"

although requested by Mr.. Grotjan,
yet can add nothing to the admirable
advice given to his son by that virtuous
patriot and enlightened statesman, Thorn
as Jefferson. The precious relic which he
sent to the young child, contains the pur-
est morality, and incucates the noblest
sentiments. can only recommend rigid
adherence to them. They will carry
him through life safely and respectfully !;
and what is far better, they will carry
him through death triumphantly; and we
may humbly trust they will secure to all,
who in principle and practice adopt them,
that crown of immortality described in
the Holy Scriptures.
"ANDREw JACKSON.
"Philadelphia, June 9th, 1897
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CHAPTER TIT

L
1t is years ago since all this happened :
years since Miss Grace Hinsdale watched
and tended the plants she loved so we'll :;
years since, to the story of Miss Grace's
early life, "Finis' was written. But, in
that same village, in the very old brown
house where Miss Grace used to live, there
is still q window in which flowers bloom,
there is still u broad leaved Gala, that
every Easter time opens wide its lily bios
SONS; and the mistress of that house, the
woman who cares for the flowers, is as sad
eyed woman, with hair gray before its
time, a woman whose face tells the blend
ed story Of bygone full of deep heart
grief, and yet of bygone forgotten now in
the running of that race, the seeking of
that prize which is all before, needing no
backward looks, needing only that the
runner be "looking unto Jesus" woman
who, as she sits day after day, patiently
stitching the slowly accomplished shop
work, by which she wins bread, daily
bread, the material bread, for her mother
and herself, even sings at the work. And
1t was she, this woman with the face where
sorrow and joy are blended, who told me
the story of that long ago blooming lily,
and what came to her through it, adding ::
you may tell it, if you wish, in words
such as people who write tell such life
stories, for"-and soft as music was that
woman's voice-'perhaps it will make
some wandering one, as they look on pure
flowers, think of how as out of the dark
earth the flowers grow and blossom be-
cause the sun shines on them, so out of
their sinful hearts pure thoughts and deeds
love in-poor hearts !"-Neo York O6serO-
, 1875-07-03

The FRENCH REPUBLIC.-The latest
news from Paris shows the difficult
ties under which France now labors
in the process of consolidating the
Republic. The merit of the French
Republic is that it has grown slowly,
steadily, surely-1e might say almost
geologically. The mistakes OF the
old republicans have been avoided
Their crimes have become lessons.
The spirit Of Lafayette has taken the
place of that of Robe,pirrre. / 10
seen that q new republic should not
begin with The guilIotme. The mod
ern French politicians have learned
that liberty cannot be born IN day
that II must reach the perfection Of
true democracy by natural processes.
The danger which rtFubIlcanlsm IN
France must avoid is the anarchy OF
the Commune and the deSpntIsm OF
the Empire On one side Is a Wild,
unrec> mug, socialist influence, with
maj nudoGS about religion and prop
erty and the rights of man, believing
that Liberty is only form OF chaos.
On the other side Is mighty military
influence, stimulated by the splendor
of a great name, organized, disciplined,
with skilled leaders in It's councils.
These are the two enemies which the
Republic has to fear-the Commune,
which is anarchy, the Empire which
is despotism. The legend of Napo-
leon is giving place to the legend of
liberty-or as We should.say the faith
of democracy. "Divine rights" and
the grace Of God" as the warrants
for throne have become as obsolete
as the feudal tenure or the ordeal of
fire. Henry Y. has about as much
chance of becoming the firmly seated
ruler of modern France as Joan of
Arc would have in leading the French
peasants against the veterans of
MoItke. The Republic grows every
day-in wisdom, moderation, strength.
The Republic means peace to France
and to Europe. 1t is the only soIu-
tion of this grave problem which now
distresses civilization by keeping the
great civilized nations of the world
under arms, ard ready at pistol shot
to deluge Europe with blood.
, 1875-07-03

THE SUccEssIoN.-The Washington
correspondent OF the Cincinnati Com
mercidL writes Of certain significant
things in connection with Senator
Morton's Eastern visit Among them,
that he visited Long Branch at the
Presidents special invitation that
the assurance was given him a: this
interview that such influence as the
President could properly give should
be exerted in securing Morton's nom
ination to the Presidency, on account
of their similarity of views on the
Southern questions and that the re-
suit of this interview has placed Nor
ton openly in the field as a Presiden-
tial candidate.