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We will make it worth your
while to call on us.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
Didn't Want to WASTE II.

An old sea captain, well-known in the
days OF Havre packets, who sailed the seas
over for fifty years and more, used to tell
that in the early part of his voyage as cap
tain, when he had but just turned twenty
one, his cabin-boy complained of lame
back. There was medicine chest aboard,
whose contents it was the captains duty
to dispense according to the best of his
knowledge and ability. In shallow
drawer at the bottom of the chest were
three or four Spanish-hy plasters ready
spread on kid, and one of these the captain
was done, and the little fellow went to bed.
In the morning he was on hand bright and
early but the captains usual cup of coffee
was missing.
Cook isn't up, sir" was the boys ex-
PLANTATION.
why not ~ asked the captain.
Says he can't get up, SIR"
"Why not 2"
"Says his back hurts him, sir"
Back what's the matter with his
back 2"
"The plaster, SIR"
"What, do you mean ~ exclaimed the
captain ~ didn't put the plaster on his
back"
mo, sir; but I did," whimpered the
boy.
"You did, you young rascal" howled the
captain jumping from his berth, "what on
earth did you do that for 2"
"Well, sir" answered the boy, getting
we'll out of the range of any stray boot
jack or other missile that might chance to
be within the captains reach, "when l
woke up in the night it hurt me so l had
to take it off. The cook was in the next
bunk asleep, and just clapped it on his
back. did not want to waste the plaster,
sir"
And he didn't. 1t worked to perfec-
tion, keeping the poor cook in bed with a
sore back for over week and in the next
bunk, keeping him company, was the boy,
also with sore back, but it wasn't the
plaster that made it 80. A ropes end was
favorite prescription in those days.
Boston Transcript.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
MORNING, JANUARY II, 1879.

experienced on receiving her watch was
not to be compared with that now felt In
parting with it. From the jewelers. she
went to the bootmaker's and paid the bill
OF twenty-five dollars; from thence to the
milliner's, and settled for her last bonnet
II know you're dying to see my new
DRESS" said Mrs. Whitman, gaily, as she
drew her arm within that of her husband
on his appearance that evening. "Come
over to our bedroom, and let me show it,
Come along! Don't hang back, Charles, as
if you were afraid"
Charles Whitman went with his wife pas
sively, looking more like man on his way
to receive sentence, than in expectation
OF pleasant sight. His thoughts were
bitter.
"Shall my Ada become lost to me 2" he
said in his heart-"lost to me in a world
of folly, fashion and extravaganza Z"
"Sit down, Charles" She led him to a
large, cushioned chair. Her manner had
undergone change. The brightness of
her countenance had departed. She took
something, in hurried way, from drawer,
and catching up footstool, placed it on
floor near him, and sitting down, leaned
upon him, apd looked tenderly and loving
ly into his face. Then she handed him the
jewelers. bill.
''It is receipted, you see." Her voice
1uttered little.
ADA ! how is this2 What does it
mean ?" He flushed and grew eager
~ returned the watch and Mr.. R. re-
ceipted the bill. would have paid for
damages, but he said it was uninjured, and
asked nothing"
"Oh, Ada"
"And this is receipted also and this !"
handing him the other bills which she had
paid. "And now, DEAR" she added quick
ly, show do you like my dress? Isn't it
beautiful z"
We leave the explanations and scene that
followed to the readers imagination. If
any fair lady, however, who, like Ada, has
been drawing too heavily upon her hus-
bands slender income, for silks and jewels,
is at loss to realize the scene, let her try
Adas experiment.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
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For THE -lEgis Dc Mtelligencer.
A Snow Song.


A Snow Song.
| Whisking and frolicking to and fro;
| Floated the airy, feathery snow,
Down to the earth in fairy train,
| Till beautiful robe all free from STAIN
| Covered the ground and chung to the trees,
And drifted about in the cold, cold breeze;
| Spotless, delicate stars of snow
| Hitler and thither scurrying go,
Languidly whiting, or rushing by
In fierce white clouds from the sullen sky.
| With smiling face, and extended hands,
Our village welcomed each dainty guest,
She chained her hills with their pure whit
bands,
And gathered the wee fakes close to her breast
| All day long they filled her streets,
Blocking the paths with their wondrous feats;
Still in the twilight's purple light,
And silently on thro' the darksome night
Till morning smiled and her crimson glow,
Sparkled down on banks of snow;
Beautiful pure, as a dream of love,
White as the gates that lead above;
And the fair earth smiled like any Queen,
Meath her ermine mantle's crystal sheen.
And out on the air the echoes flung
Light measured chimes that sweetly swells,
The happy sprightly cadence rung
From the silvery hearts of merry bells.
Tender bells, how they juggling play
And mnging with their voices clear,
Sweet song and laughter tell he cheer
OF happy hearts, that far and wide,
Throw for time dull care aside;
Gliding over the sparkling snow,
Bright eyes beaming, and cheeks aglow;
A rare elyXir of fun and mirth,
The snow flakes give to the welcoming earth.
And our village IL bright with the jaunty sleighs
That throng her streets and swiftly glide.
bplS a "
The echoes pipe from the smooth hillside.
Over the snow in the hush of Night,
Gliding swift thro' the drifts So white,
Filling the echoes waiting free,
With joyful burst of melody
Are happy groups of rogush girls,
From whose red lips soft laughter curls,
And joins the louder note which flows
From the mustached ones of attendant beauX
Over the snow while nothing mars,
The lovely ride meath the twinklng stars.
Over the snow, thro' the streets of the town,
On to the country lying white,
And pure, and fair, meath its snowy crown,
Serene and still in the perfect night.
To the beautiful snow, joyous song
OF welcome, floats with the bells along;
Our gentle ladies and merrie girls
Smile when the snow-king his flag unfurls,
And sends the white flakes drifting DER
Till the earth CLEANS white as some ghostly
shore;
Our sportsmen bow to pleasures sway,
With thoroughbred horse, and dainty sleigh
While happy children dance to see
The snow flakes falling tirelessly.
Drifting silently soft and light,
Wee little gems float to and fro,
Covering all with a mask of white,
Beautiful, welcome, airy snow.
Jamaica, L. l., January Z, 1879.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
VOL. XXIII---NO. 8.
The Bread Wants Of Europe.

The quantity of breadstuffs which Great
Britain and France will require of us dur
ing the next twelvemonth is q subject of
deep interest, not only to the farmers who
have raised the crops and to the transport
tiers engaged in handling them, but to the
country itself, to whose foreign credit the
sales must be placed. The prospect now
appears quite certain that the demand of
the two countries will considerably exceed
that OF last year, and that the increased
purchases must be all made of the United
States. None ofthe sections which supply
grain to Western Europe are in n situation
to send more than their average quantity
in Russia, besides the disturbance to agri-
cultural operations caused by the heavy
military drafts. the crops have been shor-
tened by droughts in some quarters and
excessive rains in others Turkey has been
devastated by war and has nothing to
spare for market; Egypt has but wretch
ed yield of wheat this year and will sell
little or none, while India is not vet full
filling the high English expectations other
importance as a grain producer. To
America, therefore, the English and French
demands are directed, and the present es-
innate of good authority is that they will
sixteen millions of bushels-in excess of
the year 1S77.7s. The French grain crop
is exceptionally bad, the harvest having
been delayed by continuous and heavy
rains, SO that whereas the deficiency of
that country last year was reckoned at two
millions of quarters, it is now believed
that this year it will reach four millions or
even more. The London SATURDAY Reoieao
makes an estimate so high as five to seven
millions, and to meet this heavy want
French agents are already buying freely in
the ports of the Black Sea.
An increase in our wheat export of six
teen millions of bushels will go far to slim
ulate the outward trade of the United
States during the year now opening. The
great crops we have harvested will ena-
BILE us to meet the foreign demand with
out difficulty and to realize all the oppor-
tunity which the shortness of the French
harvest offers to the grain-selling nations.
Peace within our borders, the development
of the Northwestern wheat lands and the
prodigious increase of our crop-producing
capacity by improved machinery are ele-
ments of enormous advantage which we
possess over the primitive and war.harrass-
ed agricultursts on the old lands of Eastern
Europe. We shall send to Great Britain
probably fifteen millions of quarters and to
France two millions, total of over one
hundred and thirty millions of bushels of
wheat-counting the -four as in the form of
grain. The balance to our account abroad
must continue to increase during the COM
ing year as far as bread-stuffs are concern
ed, and the growth in this particular is un-
likely to be offset by any falling off in
other exports.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
VARIETIES.

An Indifferent pleader asked Catullus
"Have l not succeeded in making a very
moving speech 2" Certainly" said he, "for
some of the audience pitied you, and the
rest moved out"
AN American traveller in Galway saw
a pig in PEASANTS house and he said -
why do you have pig in there 2"-
"Shure," said he of Galway, 1.-THE house has
all the convayniances that reasonable pig
requires"
"A forty-day husband, on whom the
memory of his honeymoon already seems to
have become powerless, wants to know why
his wife is like small pie. Do you give
it up? Because" says the unfeeling
wretch, "she is now a little tart"
"A Sunday School pupil of tender age
being asked how he liked the gentleman
who had addressed the school, remarked
He was funny man. He told about the
hand writing on the wall, and said it was
Minnie, Minnie, tickle the parson.'n
-"Come, it's of no use being too nice,
my hearty" said the captain, when he found
himself and crew wrecked and starving on
a desert island. "Oh, pray don't cali me
nice, captain" replied the little MILDLY,
those fellows have such tremendous appe-
tites."
-"Get right out of this" shouted an
irritated merchant to mendacious clerk,
"this is the third lie / have caught you in
since 10 o'clock this morning." ooh, well,n
said the new man, don't be too hard on
me. Give fellow time to learn the rules
of the house."
"A father, in consoling his daughter who
had lost her husband, said, 81 don't Won
der you grieve for him, my child; you will
never find his equal" 81 don't know as
cam" responded the sobbing widow, "but
I'll do my best" The father felt comfort
ed.
"A good name is best won by good
deeds. There is no sure way of being well
thought ofas by deserving well. "You have
little world around you," wrote Daniel
Webster to an early friend; "fll it with
good deeds, and you will fill it with your
own plOryn
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
Walker Bootsl Walker Boots

II AM NOW PREPARED to serve my customers with
h all kinds Of Boots and Shoes including the cele.
brated Walker Boots, of which have always kept a
complete assortment.
Testimonial from Residents of Balti-
more County:
We the undersigned having tested the quality of the
Walker Boots sold by Samuel s. Ely, No. 1872 N. Gay
street, hereby recommend them to friends as pos
sessing all the qualities he claims for them.
Signed, SAMUEL B0SLEY, 10th District,
JOHN 1. ANDERSON, 9th District
ELISHA CHRISTOPHER, 18th District,
SHELTON PRICE, 9th District
JOHN II. sCARFF, 9th District,
]. NJ. MCCOMAS, Jr, 10th District.
aud many others. 1 claim that the leather of which
the genuine Walker Boots made Is water
proof; it will wear softer it will wear l.nger it will
wear squarer on the bottom it is the best fting the
heel will be less likely to run over;' they hand
pegged every pair are saddleseamed and cannot rip.
Mr.. Walker offers ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS RE-
WARD to any one who will frd one of his Boots in
which there is counter inner SOLE slip SOLE piece
OF heeling that is not cut from good thick piece Of
sole leather.
BOOTS, SHOES and CATERS. Give me u call and ex-
anime my stock aud prices. intend to keep up the
reputation have gained by always giving fair return
for money invested,
Best quality Walker Boots $500 Remember, ono
price all for best quality $4OO.
NOTICE! NOTICE!! NOTICE
Owing to the superiority of the Best Walker Boots
all Others INSCRIPTIONS dealers selling
second quality aud inferior goods for Best Walker Boots
l warn all my friends and the public that the best
quality Walker Boots Stamped on the sole BEST
QUALITY WALKER BOOT y and can be found at
1872 North Gay street.
There two Elys in the same square. TO get in
the right place rememl or the number 1872
Ladies' aud Childrens Shoes, aud fine, at all
prices.
o19 SAMUEL s. lily
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17

Poison FOR INsECTs.-C Cyanide of po-
tassium is well-known to be an intensely
deadly poison. 1t is used by entomolo.
lists to kill insects and tenth part of a
drop of the solution on the point Of pin
will destroy the life of beetle or butterfly
in second. 1t has been employed to ex-
terminate ants nests in gardens by dissolv-
ing an ounce in pint of water and pour
ing it in. 1t requires extreme care in u.s.
ino,-L0 xntrU Gentleman,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17

TRANSIENT ADvERTIsEMENTs.-one Square, two inser
tfons S100 Each subsequent insertion, % cents Lo
geradvertisements in the same proportion. spac
equal to six lines makes square.
~ Yearly advertisements at special rates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
Old 81 on Blaine.

Old 81 waded through Blaine's speech
with the patience of a martyr.
"On de face oh de returns" SAYS he, "ez
lade down in dis speech, de niger hez los
his grip on freedom, to besho !"
at does look rough when you don't care
what you say"
"Dats hit But den, yer mus 'skuse er
man OATS ben sunstroked an run ober on
de way ter de white house by de whole
State OBJ Ohio! Yer hez to make 'lowances
for dis man kase he's jes paddlin' round
sarching for er onokerpied life-presarver.
"You don't agree with him, then 2"
swell, does in de konklushun, but yer
see, don't cline up ter hit de same way
he do 2"
"How is that 2"
"Why, he sez dat somefn's got ter be
done, an done in er moughty hurry, else,
why, dar won't be huff niggers votin' in dis
country ter elect DELIGHTS ter er konvenshun
'gainst de hog law OATS what SEE my
self! But, den faint no use ter say dat hits
'kase dar's bulldozin' an entimerdashun-
dat done played out long ago."
"What is the cause ~
"Der principal cause are dat freedum
fotch on taxes, an eff yer don't see de tax
kollector, de managers at de ballot-box
kant recognize yer no how. Somehow er
'nudder, yer seems not to be yourself An
jes so long ez de niger buys mo- Ticker
dan he do tax receits, jes SO long is dis
'skrepency 'gwine ter pear in de 'leckshun
returns p
"That sounds like sense"
"Dat's what hit is-mark dat An eff
Mister Blaine, er emmy udder oh dem pub
licans wants ter see niggers swarming
at de polls down hyar, all dey got to
do are ter envent er mersheen ter pay
niger taxes wild. an 'stribute dem round
| through de Souf'! Antel den de tax kol-
ectors is gwinc on wild de bulldozin'.
Yer beah me 7"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17
Bows on the Farm.

1t is proud day when the average boy
get on his first pair of boots and trudges to
school by the side of an older sister. He
does not care any longer to take her hand.
The leading strings are cut. But this car
ly ambition to be man is entirely eclipsed
when he has taken charge of his first pair
| of steers, and started for the fair Has he
not raised them, broken them to yoke,
taught them to pull and to back, to haw
and gee2 They are evi ience of his skill in
subduing brute muscle. He is going up
to the exhibition to display the fruits of
his triumph, and, as he hopes. to wear the
laurels of victory. He is no longer merely
a spectator but an exhibitor, an entertain
er of spectators. There is difference of
native tastes in boys. Some have natur.
al aptitude for one calling and some for
another, but most men have calings deter
mined by early circumstances, sometimes
ny incidents too trivial that they have hard
ly place in the memory. 1t is not diff
cult for father, who loves the farm, to
determine the calling of his children. II
be makes it business of thrift, and pro-
vides comfortably for his family, they will
respect his calling If he is discouraged
and continually shifting his work, or his
home, they will not be very likely to make
tillers of the soil. One can hardly begin
too early with his boys to incline them to
the calling that is to give them bread, and
the means of their future usefulness. II
the boy is to be farmer, he must begin TO
have a personal interest and venture in
farming while he is yet boy. Filial af-
fiction, in a happy home, is very strong
motive to industry and fidelity, but it does
not shape boys plans for life like an in
vestment of his own brains and muscles in
his daily work He should have crops
and animals, not only that lie can call his
own but that are his own, to keep, to enjoy
and to sell for his own pleasure and profit.
The trusts may be small at first, but they
should be absolute, and let him have his
own experience of success and failure in
managing them. Let him manage poultry,
a lamb, calf or a colt, and exhibit his
own stock at the fairs. We notice with
great satisfaction the increasing attention
paid to the boys at the fall fairs. Boys
did some of the best work at recent
blowing match at one of our fairs. One, a
boy of fourteen, held the pillow and drove
his own team, and made as good seed
bed as his older competitors. These pre-.
miums for boys work are in the right d.
roction; let them be noted in making the
lists for next year.-American ARiculturist
for December
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17

INHERITANCE OF DISEASE The predis.
position to certain diseases, like govt or
insanity, often developed after maturity, is
transmssibe; and also liability to die
about certain age. The famous Turgots
for more than a century rarely exceeded
fifty years of age; and insanity often APP
pears after the meridian of life in several
successive generations of a family. The
remarkable faithfulness of reproduction in
the majority of cases is fact somewhat
parallel to the growth and maintainence OF
an organism, wher' in, with the constant
succession of cells, each of brief existence
substantial identity is kept up. There do
not seem to be very marked differences in
babies, yet from the same food one will be-
come man of muscle and energy, another
OF nerve and brain, third portly man OF
ease-loving habits. All the original pc.
cularities of each tiny human nucleus pick
out from common pourishment elements
like themselves, rejecting the rest.--Popu'
lar Science Monthly.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17

An invention comes to England, from
New Zealand in the shape OF "gun" for
driving nails. 1t is not unlike a gun in
shape and size. The nail is inserted in the
muzzle and slides to the bottom, when q
rod falls upon it and drives it in with one
blow. By this method one man can do the
work of half a dozen. ........
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17

One of the midshipmen from the Uni
ted States irieate Constellation, at New
port, is particularly bashful. On being in
troduced to one of the bellies of the day, h,
seemed to think it necessary to apologize,
for so astounding piece of presumption
and modestly stammered, ~ beg you
pardon, Miss 1T is not my fault but
all the captain ordered me to ask you t,
dance"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17

A MAN WITH THE TooTHACHE.-A
man with the toothache doesn't care about
anything else. The glories of the world
pail on his taste, the wonders cf creation
seem as naught. The tooth becomes a vol.
cano Of belching fury, and the rest of life
hidden in cloud of its billowing smoke.
You can't borrow anything of man with
the toothache. You can't instruct and
improve him. You tell him that the world
travels at the rate of thousand miles a
minute, and it doesn't starte him in the
least. He simply groans. You say to him:
my friend, there are stars so far off that
their light has not yet reached this world"
but he doesn't mind it. He only howls.-
You tell him that some of the sun spots are
1O0, 900 miles in diameter, and that one of
them would take in Jupiter at one mouth
full, but it is nothing to him. lie goes on
swearing and weeping. Sometimes mans
tooth aches so hard, the pain is so agoniz-
ing, that several strong men have to hold
him down by main force while some inn
portant fact is being communicated to
him.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-17

"A young man objected to the girl that
his rich uncle wished him to marry. you
mustn't be so particular" said the exasper-
ated uncle. Il tell you she's we'll enough"
$50 she is, uncle" responded the nephew,
"and you know you've always taught me to
leave well enough alone"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-03
THE FIRST SLAVE CASE IN
ENGLAND.
TFraZer's Magazine

A planter brought to London siave
called James Somerset. in 1772, and
when he fell i'll, inhumanly turned him
out of doors. Mr.. Granville Sharp, a
philanthropic barrister, found him in the
street, placed him in hospital, where
be recovered his health, and then got q
situation as servant. Two years after
his old master arrested and imprisoned
him as a runaway slave. Mr.. Sharp
brought the case before the Lord Mayor,
who ordered Somerset TO be set at liberty.
But the master sliced him violently in
the presence of the Lord Mayor and Mr..
Sharp, on which the latter brought an
action against the master for assault.
The question of law was finally referred
to the twelve judges, in February and
May Of that year. who decided unanl-
mously that no man can be counted a
slave on English territory. This decis.
ion is often quoted. as though the soil
of Great Britain made slave free; but
that is legal fiction. Evidently, it is
only when a slave (so.called) comes
within the reach of an English court that
his freedom il declared. At that time
the American colonies were beginning
their quarrel with Great Britain, but had
not renowned allegiance. All the col.
onies were subject to the common law OF
England; and if in Virginia and Jamaica
there had been a judge as upright and
able as Judge Mansfield and philan-
thropist as jealous as Granville Sharp,
it would seem that slavery might have
been dissolved by few Judicial trials.