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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
I Can't Help It.

That was what Harry Day always said
when he was told of any OF his bad habits
can't help > which really meant, "
'ion't wish to help it )" because we knew
we'll enough that we can every one of Us
help" doing wrong if we try in the righ
way.
Once Harry came upon an old story in
worn, soiled book which he routed out
of a chest in the lumber closet, and this
story set him thinking, as it may, perhaps
set some OTHER young folks thinking abou
the reason why it is necessary to resist what
is bad in its earliest beginning
Long ago there live an old hermit who
had left the busy world for cell in the
DESERT and who was reputed to be learned
and wise.
MANY people used to visit the lonely
man that they might receive his advice,
and once youth came to him who begged
to stay with him for time as his pupil.
1.-THE hermit consented, and the first day
he led his young companion into small
wood near to their humble dwelling
Looking round, he pointed to very young
oak tree just shooting from the ground.
Pull up that saplng from the root"
said he to his pupil, who obeyed with.
out difficulty. They went on little far.
ther, and the old man pointed to another
tree, but also young one, whose roots
struck deeper. This was not 80 easy to
pull up as the first had been but with sew
eral efforts it was accomplished.
"The third had grown quite tall and
stong, so that the youth was a long time
before he could tear up; but when his
master pointed to a fourth, which was still
larger and stronger, he found that try as he
might, it was impossible to move it.
"'Now, remember and take heed to what
you have SEEM said the hermit. The bad
habits and passions Of men are just like
these trees of the wood. When young and
tender they may be easily overcome, but
let them once gain firm root in your soul,
ard no human strength is sufficient to get
rid of them. Watch over your heart, and
do not wait till your faults and passions
have grown strong before YOU try to up
root them.'"
That was the end of the story; but, us
have said it set Harry Day thinking and
when | can't help it" was rising to his
lips he was ashamed to utter it. So he sci
himself 10 the work of mastering his tenn
per, his idleness and all that conscience
told him was amiss. Though this is ii
work that is not done in an hour or day,
month, or even a year, it will be Effected
at last (perhaps after many failures) by
prayer and by perseverance,, nay, it must be
Gone unless we wish to become the servants
and the slaves of sin.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29

If an increase of eggs is desired in the
poultry yard, before large sums of money
are expended in the purchase of eyerlast-
ing layers, we would recommend the keep
ing OF no hens after the first, or at most,
their second year. Early pullets give the
increase, and the only wonder is that poo
pie persist, as they do, in keeping up q
stock OF old hens, which lay one day and
stop three, instead of laying three days
and stopping one in some parts of Eng
land it is the invariable rule to keep the
pullets only one year. Feeding will do
great deal-a surprising work indeed-in
the production of eggs, but not when old
hens are concerned; they may put on fat
but they cannot put down eggs. Their
tales are told, their work is over, nothing
remains TO be done with them but to give
them smell of the kitchen fire, and the
sooner they get that the better. Ofcourse
there arc some Old taTorites whose lives
can be spared as long as they can send
forth their representatives. Judicious
mating, by which we mean the advantage
of a comparatively youthful cockerel may
be the means of even exhibition poultry
making their appearance from the eggs OF
the good old hen, and here we have the
exception to the rule upon which we in
sist.-LondOn Agricultural Gazette.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29

TRIM THE HooFs OF CoLTs.-In many in
stances the insensble portion of the hoofS
of colts and young horses will grow out so
round and fiat that fragments sometimes
will be broken off. This is more particu-
larry the case if colts are allowed to run
at large occasionally on hard ground and
gravelly and stony lands and hard roads !;
the hoofs will wear fast enough, as nature
evidently intended they should. But il
young horses are kept on smooth turf,
their feet must be kept short by artificial
means The most convenient way to trim
long hoois is to let one person hold block
ofhard wood against the hoof, or hold the
hoof on the square end of the wood while
an attendent cuts off small pieces with
sharp chisel and mallet. Use an inch finer
chise rather than larger one,as twoinch
chisel will require heavier blows with a
mallet. :. pair of sharp nippers (some-
times vulgarly called snips) may often be
employed for such u purpose when colt
is so FESTIVE that the chisel and mallet can
not be used.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
farmers' Column.
speed the PtOpC.''
Manure in Fall--TOp Dressing VIII eat.

We have long since made repeated OBJ
servations confirming the truth that for
many purposes manure is worth at least
twice as much spread in the autumn as
the following spring. Yet the practice
is not uncommon with farmers, who may
have manure lying in their yards through
summer, to omit the drawing out until
wanted the next season. Those who feed
cornstalks for fodder find it too long and
coarse to apply in the spring next after
should be thrown will be rotted by Sep.
TENDER. 1t it then in perfect condition
to be drawn out and applied. 1t does
most good on grass lands; and if these are
intended to be inverted next spring for
corn, it will give at least double the results
produced by spring application. 1t will
impart vigorous start to grass intended to
remain in pasture and meadow. The advan-
tage will be two-told. 1t will increase the
grass all through the growing season of
autumn, and thus produce u good winter,
mulching for the roots, and the wash III
the manure by rains will run down the
roots and become ditfused in more per-
feet manner through the soil. than could
he accomplished hy any mechanical means.
The same principle will apply with some
variations to winter wheat. The roots
should be protected where the soil and
climate require it. In some places thes
natural growth of the leaves, if strong, So
sufficient, Top dressing with manure,
the time of sowing, answers two-fo.ss
purpose, namely, imparting vigor and
shielding the surface of the soil If grass
seed is sown the manure confers the same
double benefit on the young grass. Wheat
growing on land which is sufficiently
drained, is sometimes winter killed by the
sweep Of sharp winds over the surface in
the absence of snow. In such cases
sprinkling of straw applied in autumn or
as soon as the surface is hardened by freez-
ing in winter mabe of much use On q
field of wheat fully exposed we directed the
man in charge to spread straw over the
whole surface early in winter. He did 80
ON part only. This part gave over TWEEN
bushels per acre; the crop was not
worth harvesting on the other part. This
was an extreme case but as the labor and
expense is small, it is well worthy Of
trial even for small results Country GEN
tlemen.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
VARIETIES.

"A man writes to an editor for Jour dol
lars, because he is so terribly Short" and
gets in reply the heartless response:
"Do us do-stand upon a chair"
"A grumbling car-drivcr said to passen-
ger. you always want me to stop when
you get off" "No, SIR" said the passenger
who had no jumping potions, don't care
what you do. only want the car to stop.
You can go on
"A woman hearing a great deal about
"preserving autumn leaves concluded to
put up Jar of them. She told a nei9 hbor
yesterday that she did not think they would
ever be fit to cat, and that she might Just
as we'll have thrown her sugar away.
"A Gentleman in Virginia city, Ncva-
da, whose Chinese cook left him, was una
bic to get in any of the numerous Johns"
for over day until he induced one ofthem
to explain that some apparently meaning
less strips ofred paper on the kitchen
wall contained the. Chinese inscription,
BOSS woman, long time tongue. Muchee
jaw, jaw"
"a pretty schoolmarm of Wisconsin
county," says an exchange, "to prevent
scholars from being tardy, promised to
kiss the first scholar who made his appear
ance at the school house. All went well
for few days, and the nineteen-yea
boys, anxious to participate in this fun,
actually got to roosting on the fence all
night in order to be at school the first in
the morning. This became monotonous,
and the teacher gave the idea up
In the latter part ofthe eighteenth CEN
fury, Droz invented clock which exceled
all Others in ingenuity. Upon it sat a
negro, shepherd, and dog. When the
clock struck the negro played six tunes on
his tlute,and the dog approached and ca
ressed him. Thistle inventor exhibited to
the King Of Spain, who was greatly pleas
ed with it. "The Centleness of my dog"
said Droz sis his least merit. Ifyour ma
jesty touch one of the apples which you see
in the shepherds basket, youwill admire
the animals fidelity"
The King took an apple, and the dog
flew at his hand, barking so loudly that
the kings dog which was in the same
room, barked also.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
A COntented Spirit.

A New Hampshire boy, now resident
of Wisconsin, called at Manchester on his
way home to his native town the other day
He was fine scholar, graduate OF Dart
mouth, and law student in Merrimac
county. Just previous to his admission to
the bar he took severe cold, which rem
dered him very deaf, and no medical skill
was able restore his hearing. This atflic-
tion compelled him to give up his chosen
profession, and he went West very much
broken down in spirits. For ten years he
has been farming, cultivating about two
hundred acres of prairie, and, as he express
ed it, making good living and sailing
down something every year." And he de-
cared to us that if, knowing what he now
knows he was to begin his active life over
again, he would do just as he was compell-
ed to do so unwilingly ten years ago; that
is, he would throw aside his profession and
settle GOWN on farm. Said he to us:
"There isn't much glory on a farm, but
you get good, sure living. You are your
own master; you can't starve or be turned
out of business; and as far as work is con
cerned, in these days of horse power man
needn't kill himself farming any more than
at any other business. It's brains that win
on a farm as we'll as anywhere else, and the
smart man is going to ride while the stupid
one goes afoot, in the cornfield as well as
the bar or pulpit. should like to have
my hearing again, but would not leave
the farm if I had it,"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
Artificial Pearls.

The manufacture of artificial pearls is
now said to he extensively carried TN in
France, the material used for this purpose
being perfectly white solution of the scale
of the bleak, well known fish of that
country. The snlution-genuine-is a
mucus which lubricates the scales of that
fish lit coaguates by heat to thick. white
deposit and is obtained by carefully scrap
ing the fish over shallow tub containing
fresh water, pains being taken not to scale
the back or dorsal part. as these scales are
yellow, while the white scales possess the
value. The material is received on a
horsehair sieve, and the first water, mixed
with u little blood, is thrown away. Tie
scales are then washed and pressed, when
the mucus or essence, sinks to the bottom
of the tub, and appears az a very brilliant
blue white oily mass. 1t takes forty thu u.s.
and fish to furnish two pounds of the sub
stance it is sealed in tin boxes with am
monia and in this condition is sent to
Paris. If ii drop of the ,ssenoe be taken
up 10y straw and let fall upon the water,
1t floats, giving forth tie most brilliant col
ors Mere glass bulbs, in shape of pearls,
lined with this substance, initiate the real
gem with remarkable closeness.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29

WHAT'S A Overwhelmingly
car load is 90 900 pounds. 1t is also 70
barrels of salt. 20 of lime. 80 of -four, so
of whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of
soft wood, 10 to 90 head of cattle, SO to
go head Of hogs, 60 to 100 head Of sheep,
5000 feet of solid boards, 1900 feet Of
siding, 10000 feet OF flooring, 10000
shingles, one half less hard lumber, one
fourth less green lumber, one.tenth of
joists, scantling, and all other large tim
bers; 400 bushels of corn, $40 bushels OF
wheat $50 bushels of oats, 400 bushels Of
barley, $50 bushels OF fax seed, $50
bushels of apples, 430 bushels of Irish
potatoes, $50 bushels of sweet potatoes,
1000 bushels of bran.-Boston Transcript.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
Poetic al.
The Dying Year.


The year is dying, soberly the trees
Are mellowing-with dull sad face
They lean against the sadness of the sky;
The glory of the summer has gone by,
Gone is the smile of gladness from the place.
o sad to see the sun come later up,
And sad to see him pass betimes away,
And sad the pallid glints he throws across
The leaf-strewn garden; sad the sense Of loss,
The all-pervading fragrance of decay.
Yet at the open window, as l sit,
With closed eyes, and hear the gentle rain
Fall on the damp green earth like lovers signs,
And feel the breath of earth uprise
From far and near, from hillocks and from plain.
The same soft drip of lightly falling showers,
Upon the moss-greens growing everywhere,
The same strange Silly wannness in the lift,
The cawing of the rocks, the gentle drift
OF odorous distillings in the air.
Daffodils growing on the fields green breast,
Buds all blow, and the enchanted breath
OF violets peeping in the damp hedgegrow,
Kindled to being-O mystery, that so
Death looks like life, and life SO like to death
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29

DRESSING SHEEP-SKINs FOR ROBES,
MATS &c.-Makea strong suds, using hot
water. When it is cold wash the skins in it
to get the dirt out of the wool. Then
wash the soap out with clean cold water.
For two SIX ms dissolve alum and salt, Of
each half a pound, with a little hot water,
which put in IL tuD Of cold water sufficient
to cover the skins, soak NJ twelve hours.
Then hang over a pole to drain. When
well drained, spread or stretch carefully on
II board to dry, lacking down if necessary.
When yet u little damp, have one ounce Of
So ltpetre and alum, pulverized, and sprin
kle over the flesh side of the skin, rubbing
it we'll Then lay the flesh sides together
and hang in the shade for TWO or three
days, turning the under skin uppermost
every day, until perfectly dry. Then
scrape the flesh side with blunt knife, to
remove any remaining scraps of flesh, trim
of projecting points, and rub with pun
ice and rotton stone, and with the hand.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29

EXTRAORDINARY EvIDENCE.-A fat old
gentleman was bitten in the calf of the leg
by dog. He at once rushed into the of
fee of Justice of the Peace, and preferred
IA charge against man in the neighbor-
hood whom he supposed to be the owner
of the dog. The following defence was Of
fered on the trial:
1. BY the testimony in favor of the gen.
eral good behavior of my dog, l shall prove
that nothing could make him so forgetful
of his canine dignity as to bite calf.
2. He is blind and cannot see to
bite.
g. Even if lie could see to bite it would
be impossible for him to go out of his way
to do so, on account of his severe lame
ness
4. Granting his eyes and legs he good
he has no teeth
8. My dog died six weeks ago.
g Inever had any dog.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
Mr.. Benz. Lunt of Newburyport he

MIR. BENZ. Lunt of Newburyport has
q cat Of great sagacity. few days ago
mouse-trap had been set in the store
closet behind . flour barrel, which had
sprung upon mouse. The cat took the
trap in her mouth and went into the cellar,
where Mrs. Lunt was engaged, and laid it
ut her feet She opened the trap and gave
the mouse to the cat, who soon finished it.,
and then took up the trap, as before, and
placed it where she took it from, and
quietly waited for it to be reset.-Satem
(Mdss) Gazette.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29

THE PRICE OF SLEIGH RIDINe.-A gen.
teman walked into stable uptown the
other day, and asked the price OF horse
and sleigh for four hours. THE price"
said the livery man pointing out speci-
men, is ten dollars an hour, but you can
have it four hours for thirty-five." "Thir-
ty-fve ~ said the gentleman quietly, "Ob,
my good friend, you misunderstood me; ]
don't want to bug the horse and sleigh, ]
only want to hire them !"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
COnOwingO Bridge Meeting.
ecOnd Day, the 9Th
Month, 1877,
Bel Air Turnpike Company.

NOTICE is hereby given that there will
IN be meeting of the stockholders of the
Bel Air Turnpike Company at the Office of
the Secretary, in Bel Air,
ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 9th, 1877,
At 2 o'clock, P. NJ,
for the purpose of cecting President, six
Managers, q Treasurer, and such other Off
GERS as the Company many require, to serve
for the ensuing year.
By order of the President and Managers.
CHARLES w. NORRIS,
dec15 Secretary.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
lHE &GIS Il lN'IELLIGENCEk,
IsPUBLIsHED EVERY FRIDAY
F. w. B A K E R.
Terms-S so a Year, in Advance
Otherwise $500 VIII be charged.

TRANSIENT ADMINISTRATORS Square, two inser
tons $l.00. Each subsequent insertion 20 cents Lon
ger advertisements in the same proportion, space
equal to six lines makes square.
CO Yearly advertisements at special rates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
NOTICE.

yNyECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS who have
IL settled their accounts according 10 law will at
early day possible, with the vouchers report OF
the Register for the settlement of said accounts All
delquents will be called appear before the Court
By order of the Orphans Court,
WIN. 8. RICHARDSON,
jamie Registerof Wills Of Hartford 90. +,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29

1t Hurts the Old FOgy Dealers.
THEY SQUEAL AT THE LOW PRICES AT
WHICH WE SELL OUR STOVES.
MEssRs. EDITORS Gentlemen-We want
you to proclaim that we are ahead in LOW
PRICES.
Our foundry is right in the Coal and Iron re-
gions of Pennsylvania; therefore we can make
Stoves cheaper than any other foundry and we
PRICES.
We are ahead in QUALITY. We use none
but the best No. Iron and employ the best
mechanics we can procure.
We are Ahead in our "TlMES CJOK' for
quick baking. Ii took the Gold Medal over all
competitors, baking III lbs. of Bread in Al
minutes from the time of lighting the fire
and only used lbs of wood.
IF you ,cant the Best Baker, the Ldrges Oven
the Heaviest Iron, the Best Fitted Store, bty the
" TIMES COOK.
We guarantee every one. If it does not bake,
cook, draw or give satisfaction you may re.
turn it and we will refund the money.
The only place 10 buy them is al SO N Gay
ST., just above the Briuge.
rl4g- DO not forget the number. 81. 1t is be-
tween Front Street and he Bridge.
say"The No. is 96. So 96
w. j. H. GLUCK,
90 N. GAY STREET, Baltimore.
P. s. AS the city of Baltimore is being
flooded with stoves made in our Pententary
by Convicl Labor, we would particularly warn
and caution our friends 10 be very careful
where they deal, and where they buy to ask
who makes the Stoves In fact come direct to
No. 96 N. Gay Street for explanations. sel5
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-12-29
1872 Ell VS. 1872
Great Che p Boot and hoe House
No. 1872 North Gay Street, Baltimore.
Prices Reduced!
Buy your Boots and money. We are de
termined to give our customers the advantage of
STILL FURTHER REDUCTION

in prices We have in stock
Ladies' Lasting Button at sll prices.
Ladies' Lasting Lace at all prices.
Ladies' Kid Button ct all prices.
Ladies' Pebble Button at all prices.
Ladies' Kid Fox Button at all prices.
Ladies' Kid Fox Lace at all prices.
Gents Fine Boots at all prices.
Gents Coarse Boots at all prices.
Gents Nail Boots at all prices.
Misses Fine and Coarse Shoes of all kinds. Boys
and Youths Boots and Shoes In fact we have every
thing to be found in well assorted Boot and Shoe
House
ALLOW PRICES.
Everything warranted represented or the money
returned, at Ely Great Cheap Boot and Shoe House,
1877 N. Gay street. Remember the number 1872 Think
of ls2. Visit 1S2 and YOU will purchase what you
want in the Root Shoe line.
Mems Heavy Boots g. Shoes Specially.
Samuel S. Ely,
oct22 1S2 N. Gay st.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-01-20
- u. -.

RICHARDSON Brown Saturday,
jan s. 1915. atclalsnry Ghinuh ny the
Rev. Alex Marks, Hon. G w. Riehard-
son, Of sllgartoWils sislSsll of gitlcasieu.
to Miss Kate Brown, Of Arcola, In, No
cards 9enfaNae yiia1 l3iA
W. t8ndet oui coq Isltlations III 5uf
newly nshEfied geptesentltiye, ai,l liis
fait bride, and Wish them abandaiit
happiness
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-01-20

On Sunday evening q Doay Oh
masked men went to the ceeln 81
Faminla, and she co IS
having induce ca Mg
ia her son "a ~ ID ne
ehsk Of arinkinB
She was token heie4e q justice
of the peace, 8hese her confession
was taken iii wiring and pfopetiN
astested,
The woman and boy we're an
rested. and, together with Ara
minta, were on Tuesday taken to
Baton Rouge and turned over To
the authorities.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-01-20

~ sWEIL fKNDWN 0gfIzIlN DIES PROM
TIE BITE o. a PET DOG

ff.f4 IlNoI.t ~ III FsH
We were shocked tn leafn yes
terday III me ter pIe dehfha5f Mr..
GaRrge WNpgs sol long connected
with the railroad interests Of our
ag4i "a ~ ss5 81 fes 9t& g
It appeaps that somB thfee
weeks si1ce.ii6 Nas SEVERELY Bitten
Ia The h8nd 9y flepat dog and
though atahs time ii8tle attention
was paid ID Giie wound, tue death
of the deg afterwards from rabies
excited considerable 4llaian
About four days ago he was
tTke1 Isl tll ldos1 s8tefss 4s lg}lacLo-
iic3 and, Notwithstanding every
eHort, his Spirits sremgiued most.
ttepfessed
This prenlonit0ry system Of hyEl
drophobia was followed by others
infapid suc6eBelen sgiiad estelg
day, ia extreme torture, the unfor
tunat5 gentleman ex5ifed.
Mr.. Wang was for some time
past eonnPeted with the New Or
leans, ST Louis and Chicago Rail-
road Company Us ticket AGENT,
and vols universally estaempd.
THIS is Tie second. case 81 hys
dYpph9bia II our city withits the
last two months, aud the matter
deserves til 54 scientifically inves4
Ttigatetl! 4s tits knoWn tlsdisl
ease il can5ad BY bhe erotic desire
of the canine, it would seem TINT
it ought to DO readily oblite@ted
from tile list If terrible evils. M.
U. BnHetiis, llth a
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-01-20

The LOUISIANA LEGIsLATURE.-
The Tiegislattre III Lohisiana.
seems to b6 ut a dead lock under
tile co,npFoinise ifnslel6 iast sf1aing
=bY tie iliterlnrlJifiBg 81 STr, Vince
t@r Ahe Hoase h Dem q syio add
the Senate republican, and nov
unEler d provision Bf The Sthte
Constitution an apportionment al
81 q spiaI nl Bags Atalis !.
Districts il required to be mad
at this sassion bdfbredh6l egisla-
tnre can pass any law. The cen
.sus tnken l7et spfing and sdininef,
und,r whichatb6 aplg5rtionmont is
required "a. "a made, is VIGOROUSLY
INCORRECT aud fraudulent, and the
slemnoFaaio H6use Avill A5t agree
with The reppbtcan Senate % AL
cept this pilrtisan f.aud of cen
sus as the busis of4pp orti8Ament,
and ihe Senate viii not aggeag fO
what the House conceives to be al
fair adinstmeit, hence nothing
final can be doneton any meaaarc
prepared ngtilHhis apportiontnsnl
matter has been settled IN. o.
G0+OpsrAtive News.