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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-04

have noticed IL great difference in the
treatment that farmers give their cattle
when they 60 in at an open door upon the
barn floor where they are not wanted. 1t
is natural for animals to be looking out
for something good to eat and we cannot
expect them to show more judgment than
we do, and not 60 in at an open door when
we had not order enough to shut it. One
man will take a pitch-iork, perhaps, and
run for the animal with yell, frighten it
badly, and strike it with the fork or club,
perhaps cause it to slip on the ice at the
door, lame or seriously iDjure it. The far.
mer, in this case, is not only iniuring his
own property, but he is cultivating bad
temper, which is worse than the injury to
the animal. have seen others, in such
case. treat the animal kindly, call it out
with gentle voice, and, having nothing
to fear, it obeys without expecting pound
ing. Our domestic animals are given to US
tor our good, and We should treat them
with the same kindness that we should
wish from superior to us. Some mana.
gers of animals appear nearly as brutal as
the animals they rule over. The farmer,
whose cattle pay the best profit, looks care
fully to all their wants, and is never cruel
even to his brutes.-J f. in Lire Stock
Journal.
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we'll spelled, well written English articles
advocating its licensed sale and free use,
I feel that something is yet to he done in
this community.
That is good law adopted by some of
the Western States which makes the liuuor
seller give bonds to be responsible for all
damages resulting from his SALE which is
in effect selling licenses at price above
the means OF the majority who would
enjoy its traffic. Yet this seems
kind of mockery, when we con-
slider that wasted regulations, lives and
ruined homes are embraced in the cata-
logue, which the wealth of world could
not restore. 1t is to be supposed the old
topers, the temperate drinkers" whose
iron-bound stomachs have not yet given
in, will have their dram, let whatever pro-
hibition prevail, but sooner or later with
breath inflammable, stomach destroyed,
brain on fire, with every portion of the
whole organization soaked like sponge
with the perfectly indigestible unnourish-
ing, stomach-corroding infammable fluid,
they will go where, if we can credit the
belief Of many, combustibles ARE in de-
mand. The temperate drinker does not
swallow it for the taste, but for the effect,
to produce the same degree of exhlaration
he must certainly take little more every
day. The final result is just as certain as
that the last term of an increasing geo.
metrical series is greater than the first, a
thousand times.
Drinkers must have their dram, but let
the habit be held disgraceful and disgrace
ed. Let Temperance" be obliged to take
his sup not only in the retirement of his
home, but there in its darkest closet, till
the temptation be wholly removed, and
the young men learn to drink no more
The day will come when the laws will be
enforced. The steps are gradual but the
summit will be gained. Two thousand
years ago our forefathers burned human
victims in the woods of England.
CoMMoNwEAL.
Jan. 22d, 1876.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-04
THE DRUNKARD,s LAMENT.

My life indeed was once a chequered train,
Then JOY and grief alternate did control
Alluring hope would flash upon my brain,
Its echo, disappointment, jar upon my soul.
But now, the gorgeous parlor where sought
The social circle ofthe chaste and fair,
The free and mutual interchange of thought
Is not enticlng; once to me most dear
And even music, which could then destroy
The gloom of adverse fortune and could show
My heart though full of gref-as full of 10Y,
Now sounds discordant, aggravates my woe
Now beauty's self hath lost its power to charm
And Cupid's bow is drawn in vain. His dart
Tho tipt with gold, tho true Its aim and warm,
Rebounds with blunted point from my sad
heart
My pillow too, reflections dearest friend
Which used to share my sorrow and did calm
My troubled SOUL no comfort now doth lend;
That too, also, hath lost its soothing balm.
At times I've had that glimmering light within
Whose constant ray doth every care dismiss
would not look. 1t but discovered sin,
IT'S now withdrawn, that beacon light of bliss.
Throb on, throb on. o my abandoned heart,
The given number quickly beat, oppressed
BY constant, hopeless grief must depart
And seek refuge where the weary rest.
A horrid gloom with narrowing pangs prevails;
A second death awaits, see the brink
vi hope bereft, my totterng reason fails
The devil still suggests another drink.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-04
The Dew.

Comparatively few amongst the many
who profess to be careful observers of natu-
raj phenomena have attained to a moder-
ate knowledge of the formation of dew. 1t
is often-indeed COMMONWEALTH that the
dew "falls," and the observation is allow
ed to pass even by persons who know full
well that it does not fall the acauiesence
being partly due to the prevalence of en-
roneous notions on the subject and partly
to the difficulty of establishing better no.
tion in their stead. This is subject,
however, Of such great importance that it
should have some amount of attention from
all lovers ofthe country, and especially from
such as are employed in outdoor business,
whether in the forest, the field or the garden.
The most casual observation will convince
any one that between the dew and the rain
there must be an essential difference, for
rain certainly falls and we see the clouds
that produce it but we do not see the dew
fall, and its appearance is not accounted
for by clouds as the appearance of rain is,
for, in truth, the clear, moonlight night, is
the very time when dew appears most con-
spicuously, so that the early walker amongst
long grass may be properly warned to 90
out protected by means of water boots II
is the same in winter as in summer as to
the circumstances that accompany, and, as
will be seen, that not only accompany, but
cause deposition of dew; but the result
is different to this extent, that whereas in
summer the dew appears in the form of
globules of water, in winter its appearance
is that of hoar frost. Now, with the popu-
lar-and we must add with the very igno-
rant-description of the dew as falling"
to dispose Of it in these remarks, we shall
observe that, while the summer dew is not
rain, neither is the winter dew snow
Rain falls and snow falls, and both are dis
charged from clouds that are not only visl-
bio at the time, but often appear long be-
fore tie fall takes place, and give us no.
tice that it is coming. But the time to
look for heavy dew, or thick crust of
beautiful hoar frost is when there are no
clouds, and when the barometer is high,
the air calm, and comparatively speaking,
dry and cold-while the earth and its be-
longings, such as grass, trees, &C., are COM
paratively warm.-Gardener's Magazine.
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VOL. XX---NO. +. .
far,Mefs' Gnlmilll.
speed the FiOsp..
A Cheep Cellar Bottom.

In sections of the country where there 10
an abundance of cobble stones, collect a
few loads of them about four or five inches
in diameter, grade the bottom of the cellar,
lay the cobbles in rows, and ram them down
one-third into the ground, 90 that they will
not rock nor be sunk below the rows by
any heavy superintendent pressure, such
as the weight of hogshead of molasses or
tierce of vinegar. The bottom Of the Gel
lar should be graded 80 that the outside
will be two or three inches lower than the
middle. A mistake sometimes occurs by
grading the cellar bottom in such manner
that the centre will be two or three inches
lower than the outside. When this Is the
case, should water enter from the outside,
it will flow directly toward the middle
straight edged board should be placed
frequently on each row of stones as they
are being rammed, so that the upper sides
may be in line with each other. After the
stones are laid and we'll rammed down,
place few boards on the pavement to walk
on; then make grouting of clean sand
and water-lime, or Rosendale cement, and
pour it on the stones until all the inter
stices are filled. AS soon as the grouting
has set, spread layer ofgood cement NOR
tar one inch over the top of the pavement,
and trowel the surface off smoothly. In
order to spread the mortar true and even
on the surface, lay an inch board one foot
from the wall, on the surface of the pave
ment; stand on the board and fill the spaces
with mortar even with the top of the board;
after which move the board one foot, fill
the space with mortar, and trowel it off
smoothly. Such a floor will cost less than
board floor, and last as long as the super
structure is kept in repair. A floor made
in the foregoing manner on the ground in
the basement of barn, piggery or a
stable, would be rat proof, and would be
found cheaper and more serviceable than
plank f1oor.-Industrial Monthly.
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Annual Product of n Berks County Farm.

Mr.. Leonard Kapp, of Marion township,
this county, is acknowledged to be one Of
the NEST enterprising and active farmers
in said township. On II farm CT 1865 acres
of land he raised this year 1880 bushels Of
splendid wheat, so bushels of rye, 1910
bushels Of corn, 800 bushels of oats, 800
bushels of potatoes, 40 loads of hay. and
so loads OF straw. The weight Of all the
cereal crops aggregate 1870 tons, while the
weight Of hay and straw was about as much
more, thus making yield Of about 240
tons of grain, hay ard straw on this farm.
Mr. Kapp also raised and pastured during
the year, 81 head of horned cattle, II
swine, and horses. The value of the
crops was S5,S54 90, or over $35 per acre.
A considerable profit was also realized from
cattle, fattened for domestic use, or sold for
slaughter. Mr.. Kapp evidently under
stands the secret of "how to make farming
pay" Mr.. Kapp also owns several large
farms in Lebanon county which are man
aged as successfully as the above specimen
Berks county Misunderstanding, Pa, Times.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-04

CELERY AS A REMEDlAL.-A correspon-
dent of the Practical Farmer says: i have
known many men and women too, who,
from various causes had become so affec-
ted with nervousness that when they
stretched out their hands they shook like
aspen leaves on windy days; and by a
daily moderate use of the bleached foot
stalks of the celery leaves as a salad, they
became as strong and steady in limbs us
other people. have known others so very
nervous that the least annoyance put them
in state of agitation, who were in almost
constant perplexity and fear, and who were
effectually cured by daily moderate use
of bleached celery as salad at meal times.
have known others cured of palpitatien
of the heart by the use of celery.
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VARIETIES.

"A bald man was sadly astonished to
md his French BARRIERS charges SO high /.
"Ten francs," exclaimed he, "for cutting
my hair J" "Oh, no, monsieur, not for cot
ting your hair, but for finding de hair to
cot"
Harry: II wish were your aunt
Aunt: "Why ~ Harry: Because should
have such a jolly chap for nephew
Wouldn't give him a lot O. things at
Christmasn'
"A runaway thief having applied to a
blacksmith for work, the latter showed him
some handouts and asked him if he un-
derstood such kind of work. "Why, yes,
sir" said the other; "I've had hand in
'em afore."
DR.. johnson once silcnced notorious
female backEiter, who was condemning
some of her friends for painting their
cheeks, by the remark that sit is far less
harmful thing for a lady to redden her own
complexion than to .blacken her neigh
boris"
lone OF the young men employed in q
Danbury hat factory discovered brass
collar button in piece ofmince pie he was
masticating the other day. He is looking
for new boarding'p place. He says what
he wants are the comforts of a home, and
not the excitement and confusion of dol
lar store.
Not great while since pedagogue
in country school was examining class
OF pupils touching their ideas regarding
the sea. OF one bright little fellow lie
asked the question how he would like q
seafaring life. "First-rate," was the re-
ply, Except the fishing business" "And
why not that {" "Because don't like acha-
ling"
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Bees on q Small Scale.

There are many householders whose
means will not enable them to buy cow,
or provide keeping for her, were they in
possession of one. But they may be equal
to the purchase of colony of bees and
provide hives for the swarms resulting
therefrom. Bees, like other stock, requil-
ing pasturage, but, unlike horses, cattle,
and sheep. they are free commoners, rang
ing at will in search of stores, nor can they
be arrested and punished for their iutru-
sion upon premises alien to their owners.
A single colony of bees, in good condition
in the spring, may be counted upon to dou-
BILE or treble their numbers in single sea-
son, securing ample stores for winter con-
sumption, while supplying gratifying
surplus each autumn for household uses.-
This accumulation will prove most accep-
table in families, especially while theprice
of butter rules so high as to place it be-
You'd the reach of those not blessed with
elongated and plethoric purses. Try
colony of bees as an experimental Farmers
Union.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-04

Docs AND SHEEp-A bill something simi
lar in It's provisions TO the following it IL said
will be presented 10 the present Legislature
for It's consideration. To tax every house
where dog or dogs are kept, 80 cents, for
the first dog, $100 for the second, $200 for
the third, and so on, adding $1.00 for every
additional dog kept This money to be pla-
ced in the hands of the Commissioners of
each county, TO form a sheep fund, upon
which farmers can draw for the loss of sheep
by dogs. A law of this description would
add largely to the wealth of the State and be
a source OF much profit 10 many farmers -
annapolis Adrertiser.
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POetica al.
For The EBgiS & Lntelligencer.
A Song of the Sea.

fOf me ZEgtS IL IHtetttgehcer.
A Song of the Sea.
Sad. eyed and pale, woman paced
The pearl. white shore beside the sea,
The bounding foam.tipped breakers raced,
And sang aloud in noisy glee;
They kissed the land with laughing lips,
And reckless tossed their treasured Shells
And dashed the spray in tiny tips,
Which shining clung like fairy bells
To robe and face, and silky hair,
Of the lone figure musing there.
"Oh cruel sca'-shc softly cried,
Bring back my bright-eyed sailor boy,
"Bear safely on thy silvcry tide,
My only one, my hope and joy
Sadly and low, and mournfully,
The waves told DER tale of woe
OF storm and shipwreck far at sea-
But the pale woman could not know
The drear import-yet caught the tone,
And wondered at its sobbing moan.
The sun sank down, and twilight hung
Her purple curtains DER the waves,
The restless sea still signing sung
In weary tones ofwatery graves;
And still upon the sandy shore,
The lonely woman fingered long,
And shuddered at the sullen roar,
With which the breakers broke the song
1t seemed so like dirge of death,
She shiyering gasped with wavering breath.
Something the waves are bearing DER,
Upon the tides rough surging breast,
To the near, white and shadowy shore,
Their burden on the sands they rest
A human form-a dead still face,
Framed round by wet and glossy curls,
Where Shiny sea weed twines with grace,
Aud spray drops cling like glistening pearls
There lies the mothers hope and joy,
The sea gives up her sailor boy.
She clasps him closc-her kisses press,
The calm white lips, the dark wet hair
He wakens not to the caress,
But lies so mute, and icy fair
Within her breast her heart lies cold,
Hope left it when she turned to meet
The precious burden, which the fold
OF waters laid beside her feet
She silent kneels beside him there,
Her grief too deep for words or prayer.
The twilight depend into night,
And moonbeams glimmered DER the sea,
And fell upon the coast so white,
And on the dead most tenderly.
When DER the waves the dawn light spread
The fisherman in sorrow found
Mother and son-claspcd white and dead
Her arms about her darling wound.
Sad tears fell from the strong and brave,
As trembling hands followed their grave
And mourning left them reverently
In endless sleep beside the sea.
G.. NJ. A.
Jamaica, L. L., Jan. 2lth, 1876
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In Cincinnati recently physician died.
was buried, andan administrator was appoint
ed. Among the bills presented TO the ad
ministrator for payment was one from 10
Their of the deceased fer $3.50, expensesd In.
Cured in attending the funeral of his bead
brother.
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The phrase is variously accounted for
The following is, we believe, tine true his
tory of its origin:
In 1928, Andrew Stewart, M. c., said in
II speech, that Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky,
sent their hay stacks, cornfelds and fodder
to New York and Philadelphia for SALE
Wicklitfe, of Kentucky, called him to
order, declaring that those States did not
send hay stacks or corn fields to New York
for sale.
well" asked Stewart, what do you
send ?"
"Why, horses, mules, cattle and hogs"
"Well, what makes your horses, mules,
cattle and hogs 2 You feed hundred dol
lars worth of hay to horse, you just ami
mate and get upon the top of your hay
stack and ride off to market. How is it
with your cattle You make one of them
carry fifty dollars worth of hay and grass
to the Eastern market; how much corn
does ittakc at thirty-threc cents bushcl
to fattcn hog 2"
"Why, thirty bushels."
Then you put that thirty bushels into
the shape of a hog and make it walk off to
the Eastern market"
Mr.. Wickliffe jumped up and said
"Mr. Speaker, acknowledge the corn"
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We all within our graves shall sleep
A 10


hundred years TO come;
No living soul for us will weep
hundred years to come;
But other men our land will till,
And Others then our streets will fiji,
And other birds will sing as gay,
And bright the sun shine as to dav,
hundred years 10 come.
That was shrewd advice of a learned
lawyer to pupil: "Whcn the facts are in
your favor, but the law opposed to you,
come out strong on the facts and when
the law is in your favor and the facts op-
posed to you, come out strong on the law. :"
But" inquired the student, "when the
law and the facts are both against me, what
shall do - why, them" said the law
yer, talk around it,
You inquire, "IIow can prevent nv
little boy from wearing out the knees of
his pants ?" That problem has been in the
market ever since Eve asked about Young
Cain. We only know three ways. You
can Kill the boy, or you can make his pants
without knees; or perhaps the best way
would he to get sonic other little boy,
about the same size, to wear the knees out,
if you have such objections to your own
boys doing it,
-"Pa, are you in favor of the Bible in
the public schools 2" asked West Side
youngster ut the breakfast table the other
morning. g" ny, of course am" respon-
ded the father, pleased that such an impor-
tant subject should engage the attention
of his youthful offspring. "What makes
you ask such question, my son 2" 20,
nothing" rcjoined young hopeful; "only
thought maybe you wasn't, as you never
have had one at home" The urchin dodg-
ed, but he wasn't quick enough.
The following testimony to the virtue
OF patent manure was received by its
owner: Dear Sir-The land composing
my farm has hitherto been so poor that a
Scotchman could not get living off it,
and 50 stony that we had to slice our DO
tatoes and plant them edgcways; but hear
ing of your manure, put some on ten
acre field surrounded by rail fence, and
in the morning found that the rock had
entirely disappeared, neat stone wall had
encrcled the field, and the rails were split
into tirewood and piled up Systematically
in my back yard"
-Baulky Troops.-Thc other day n
Marcy street boy entered the house with
sob in his throat and bloody nose, and
when his mother demanded to know the
cause he exclaimed:
"Us bays was playing Revolutionary war
out there"
"Yes."
"And we got up the battle of Benning-
tom"
"Yes."
"And we went in"
"You whipped the British, of course"
said the mother"
"Yes-yes, sobbed the boy, "but hang
'em they wouldn't stay licked I"
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How MOUNTAINS ARE PARTEp.-The
contracting or shrivelling of the earth
causes the rocks near the surface to wrin-
kle or fold, and such fold was started
athwart the course of the river. Had it
been suddenly formed, it would have been
an obstruction sufficient to turn the water
in new course to the east, beyond the ex-
tension Of the wrinkle, but the emergence
of the fold above the general surface of the
country was little or no faster than the
progress of corrosion of the channel.
We may safely say that the river did not
cut its way down through the mountains,
from height of many thousand feet above
its present site; but, having an elevation
differing but little, perhaps, from what it
now has, as the fold was lifted, it cleared
away the obstruction by cutting canon
and the walls were thus elevated on either
side.
The river preserved its level, but noun
tains were lifted up, as the saw revolves on
a fixed pivot while the log through which
1t cuts is moved along. The river was the
saw which cut the mountains in two.
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CHOOSING HUSBANDS AND WIvEs.-Of
one thing girls may be sure, and that is
that the young men who make the best
sons and brothers will also make the best
husbands. And young men may be equal
ly sure that those girls who are the best
daughters and sisters will also, as rule,
be the best wives. If a young man, be-
fore he is married, is destitute of those af-
fections and principles which come out in
tilial obedience, courtesy, and controlling
sense Of duty, he will be equally destitute
of them after he is married. The mere fact
OF wedlock will not change the fundamen-
TIL principles ofhis nature. He will be
essentially the same human being after
marriage-or, at least after the honey moon
that he was before it. The same princi.
pies hold true with regard to women. She
who is selfish, and vain, and idle, and de-
ceitlul as girl, will be pretty apt to be the
curse OF the man who marries her. While
the girl who is dutiful to her parents, and
industrious, and unseltisli and truthful, will
be almost certain to be a blessing to him
who gets her for wife
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NAPoLEoN's HAPPiEsT DAY. When Ma
poleon was in the height of his prosperity,
and surrounded by brilliant company of
the marshals and courtiers of the empire
he was asked what day he considered to
have been the happiest of his life. When
all expected that he would name the oc.
casion of some glorious victory, or some po-
litical triumph, or some august celebration,
or other signal recognition Of his genius
and power, he answered without mo-
ment's hesitation. "The happiest day of
my life was the day ofmy first communion"
Att reply so unforeseen there was general
silence; when lie added, as if to himself, 81
was then an innocent child"