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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
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by JOHN q. SAKE,

"He is sure loSSeesed, modaat" Trchn Night.
IF. when you hear a certain lady's name,
You feel you pulses give a sudden start.
Or blush, as IL some secret sense of shame
Had stirred, just then, the currents of youi
heart:
And If that namc-to put it rather strong
In euphony seems very much above
All other namos-I think can't he wrong
To venture the opinion, you're in lovc
If, when at last, by some suspicious chance,
You meet the lady at ball or play,
You shrink abashod before her modest glance
And quite forget tho words you meant to say:
And If moreover gazing at her hand,
You wish upon that hand you were glove
1t isn't very hard to understand
(See Romeo and Juliet, you're in love!
If with two ladies, on a summers day,
You sit alone, at luncheon or at tea,
And think, If one of them were but away
"a mile or soJ how happy you would be:
Yet md your wits in such giddy whirl,
You scarcely speak to her you're thinking of,
But prattle gayly with the other girl
There S reason for supposing you're in love!
If, all at once, your amatory pen
tWhich nicer before attempted lyric lines,
Anad ntttSd-bane of gods and menD
To fervid song and madrigal inclincs
Wherein you rashy rhyme of youth" and
truth
And cal i,yy Your subject darling" duck" or
Or sadly beg some cruel lady's ruth
inc symptom is unfailng you're in love!
If of her sex no other you can find
one half so bright or beautiful as she;
IL no, TO her inlllngs you are wholly blind
fIhe faults, mean, that other people SEGA
ii IN her pug you see II "Grecian nose
And never doubt the angel bands above
Are silent when she sngs-you may suppose,
Beyond the slightest question, you're in love!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
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Dry Earth for Cattle Bedding.

Ii one will observe when the cows choose
to lie down in the yard or pasture, il WILDE
seen that they choose the bare ground, rather
than the sod or bedding of straw The same
is true of sheep. We have taken this hint,
and furnished the cow-stables with dry earth
bedding. Leaves and straw are poor absorb.
entsin comparison. Inthe pig-pens dry EARTH
has no equal. In very cold weather we add
straw or leaves but until the weather is very
cold the animale will be more comfortable
with bed of fresh soil, or of soil changed
once fortnight or week. In the chicken
house we have learned its great value as
deodorizcr. Our roots are over sloping
floor, on which we occasionally scatter dry
earth. The droppings roll down into pile
of dry earth This is turned over with
shovel each week or oftener, and we can say
the chicken-house is free from any offensive
odor, and the bright combs and glossy feathers
OF the health of the fowls. Dry earth is a
good preventive, too, of vermin ON cattle,
pigs and poultry. 1t must be procured at
dry time, and stored under shed or in the
stables. 1t not only promotes neatness and
health but saves the very elements ofthe man
ures which make them most valuable, and
most of which would evaporate if not absorb.
ed by the dry earth. We do not like it as q
bedding in the horse stable, but it should be
found in every stable, to sprinkle the floor
with as soon as the bedding is removed
in the morning. When removed from the
stables, sites and coops, it should be kept
under cover for spring use, or for drilling
with the wheat in the fail.-Cincinnati Com
1D2p1i1T
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What an Old Farmer Saws,

This is the advice Ofan old man who has
titled the soil for forty years:
am an old man, upwards of three score
years; during two scores of which / have
been tiller of the soil. l cannot say that
am now, but have been rich, and have all
need, do not owe dollar, have given my
children good education, and when am
called away will leave them enough to keep
the wolf from the door My experience has
taught me that:
1, One acre of land well prepared and
well cultivated, produces more than two
which receive only the same amount of labor
used on one.
g. One COW, horse, mule, sheep or hog
well fed, is more profitable than two kept on
the amount necessary to keep one well.
3. One acre of clover or grass is worth
more than two Ofcotton where no grass or
clover is raised.
4. No farmer who buys OATS corn, wheat,
fodder, and hay, as rule for ten years, can
keep the sheriff away from the door in the
end
5. The farmer who never reads the paper
and sneers at book farming and improvements
always has as leaky roof, poor stock, broken
down fences, and complains ofbad seasons"
g. The farmer who is above his business
and intrusts it to another to manage, soon
has no business to attend to.
T. The farmer whose habitual beverage is
cold water is healthier, Weather and wiser
than he who does not refuse to drink.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
Salt on Wheat.

An experiment with salt on wheat. the
Indiama Farmer says, was made this year by
James A. McMurry, of Boone county. On
one tract he applied refuse SALT" which he
purchased for fifty cents per barrel, putting
it on at the rate of athousand pounds to the
acre on the tract on another 500 pounds; on
another $50 pounds; and the remainder of
the field, which contained better soil than
any other portion saltcd, was left untouched.
All the grain was sown on the same day,
and the blowing and narrowing was the same
in each case. The result was that the heads
from the tract not treated with salt were
shorter and grcencr than the other. The
heads from the land receiving 500 and 1000
pounds of salt per acre were from a.half to
three-quartcrs of an inch longer than those
taken from the unsalted land and had three
grains to the line, while the other generally
had two, the former grains also being heavier
The advantage of salt in soil Is thus made
apparent to the extent that each one may
figure out for himself
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
VARIETIES.

-"Havc you got the rent ready at last -
mo. sir, mothers gone out washing, and for
got to put it out for YOU" "Did she tell YOU
she'd forgottcn?" eyes, sir"
-"What did the Puritans come to this
country for ?" asked Massachusetts teacher
of his class. ITO worship God in their own
way and make other people do the same"
was the reply.
"A Norman onnlios to q ,od,, u,ho :. s,,,,,
mcrinr ut Etretat for cmnlovment 1P d V m,,
good man" rcnlies the iadv HI have nn ai my
for you to do" "Ah, madame. if Won only
knew how little work it would take to occ,i
py me-"
-Siy-vcor-old-"No wbot,s p,o,,ou, sr
Mothcr2"Rinen Siy.vcor.nIds ",rbon J Nv 10
ripc ?" Mothcr-"Why do oslt yp S;xln ,1 r."
old-"Causc the cook said to tho hano,b I,a
maid that pa came home rather mell"w Iast
nicht ''''''o" ''''
The late DIR Bethune ,sked q n,oroso o,d
miserIv man how Ln ,yos %ntt;n~ oio,n T nv
man rcnied "Wbot bnsinasSs "' is thot n nf
vours y" Said tbo Doctor @0,, civ 7 on y,
one of those who take nm intcrost nve,, IN t I
mcanest of Gods creatures" '>'' '''n III '"'
H., ~, -,
~. w. oiu partners were contemplating
sppaia.ioil VI business interests ana asked
, rnoii "noGit on'1l o!clk which STORE ne would
i iihc W Ho ih.o Qul.e innocently he SAID, "A
nous tVi1c" as hs itsei cannot make two
fecIcd '' >''''''o'' WIS iio' IL
"A tenant hau DGen aanclngal night over
thc neaa OF MS landlord. AT SIX in the morn
ing the lateeT comes up stairs and complains
bitterly OF tne ANNOYANCE: what annoy
ahce asks 'ne tenant. why, haven't
Sept WINK an night, IS the answer
| Neithcr nave !, says the tenant, land yet |
don make any fuss about It,"
Little Robby came home with his new
hat limp as "A dishcloth. "For goodness
sakeW cried his mother, "where have YOU
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
The Wagons.

But few people are aware that they do
wagons and carriages more injury by greasing
too plentifully, than in almost any other way.
A well made wheel will endure common wear
from ten to twenty-five years, if care be taken
to use the right kind and proper amount of
grease; but if this matter is not attended to,
they will be used up in five or six years.
Lard should never be used on wagon, for it
will penetrate the hub and work its way out
around the lemons of the spoke and spoil the
wheel. TallOw is the best lubricator for
wood axle-trees, and castor oil for iron. Just
enough grease should he applied to the spin
die of wagon to give it a light coating; this
is better than more, for the surplus put on
will work out at the ends and be forced by
the shoulder bands and nut washers into the
hub around the outside ofthe boxes. To oil
an iron axletree, first wipe the spindle clean
with cloth wet with spirits of turpentine
and then apply few drops of castor oil near
the shoulder and end. One tablespoonful is
iamply sufficient for the whole. Let the fifth
wheel of the carriage alone; if it CRATES
tighten the king-bolt, but keep grease of
from IT,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
Saying by Josh Billings.

Those who are too proud to enquire what
n thing kosts when they buy it, are the flst
ones to find fault when they cum to pay for
it.
There IL CRATE deal ov religion in this
world that liz lik life-preserver, only put on
at the moment ov extreme danger, and then
halt the time put on hind side before.
Pashence IL good thing for man to hav
but when he haz got so much of it that he
kan fish all day over the side ov boat, with
out eny bait on his hook, lazyness IL what's
the matter ov him.
most watching, couqcts are too kareless to
be dangerous. Most men are like hop vine,
if they don't hav sum kind ov pole to klimb
and then silk toit, they won't promulgate
much hops.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
GRAND
Tournament, Pic Mic
Democratic Pole Raising.
A Grand Tournament, Pic Mic and Pole Raising
will be held at Dublin, on
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18th, 1850.

A Grand Tournament, Pic Mic and Pole Raising
will be held at Dublin, on
WEDNESDAY,. AUGUST 18th, 1850.
The Programme is as follows A Lofty Hickory
Pole will be raised at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, at the
Dublin Hotel, James S. Chenworth, proprietor
splendid
HANCOCK AND ENGLISH BANNER
will be unfurlcd, and eloquent addresses will he
delivered by Hon. Stevenson Archer, William
Young, ESQ, Hon. Herman Stump, }. +. G. Hop
kins ESQ.,, G. w. Richardson, ESQ, aud Others.
The Tournament will commence promptly at one
o'clock, L. NJ IL will be held on the farm of Mr..
Harrison Hopper, near Dublin.
FOUR HANDSOME PRIZES
will be awarded to the successful knights, in adj
dition to the honor of browning the Queen of Love
and Beauty and her attendant Maids of Honor.
All those intending to enter the list are requested
to send their names to Mr.. James Chcnworh,
Dublin on or before the 18th instant.
Assistant Marshas-Geo. A. MARYLAND and John
ii. Haines.
;, JudgesDr. silas scarboro, Arch, Wilson and
Heralds- Marcus McCausland, Alfred STREET.
and Harry James.
Time Keepers-T. b. Daughcrty, j. Fred Crew
A Good Brass Bard will furnish Music for the
Iournamentand Lyle's Cotillion Band will supply
Music for the Dance.
Immediately after the Coronation Ceremonies,
Dancing will commence on fine platform, in
beautiful grove, near the Tournament Grounds
The festivities will commence with THE ROYAL
DANCE, in which the Queen of the Tournament,
her Maids of Honor and the successful knights
will take part.
Floor Managers--T. j. Ross and George W. Chen
worth.
Entrance Fec for knights 81. General Admis-
sion to the Grounds p cents, Children 10 cents. If
the day should be stormy the exercises will be
held on the next fair day thereafter. This affair
will be one of the ploasantest that has taken place
In the county for Il long time. The best order will
be preserved, and everybody will have Il good
Time Come one! Come all auG
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13

DON'T TRUST YOUR FRIENDs--lt is use-
less to expect public support If one says or
does things contrary to the current feeling
of society. Friends in private will pat one
on the back warmly enough, laud ones cour-
age, admire ones pluck, uphold ones views,
carry the torch Ofglorification all round ones
action and not leave square inch unillumin-
ated; they will even make whole lapful of
pellets for future shooting, and urge one on
ones grand career with all the power there
is in praise, all the strength there is in sym
pathy. But those very people will shrink
from one in public, and deny both the banner
they have bowed to and the friend they have
just encouraged.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
VOL. XXIVs---NO. SO.
3sar,,lers' Column.
Speed the PLOsU."

I'VE would be pleased to have, every week, for
this column, articles of practical nature from
the frmers of the county.l
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
so ACRES, More or Less,

composed of parts of several tracts called Neigh
boris Good Will -" First Allotment" being The
same and all the land devised to John +. Bull
by the last will of Elizabeth Bull, dated on the ID
day of February, 1859, and recorded in the Office
Of the Register of Wills of Hartford County, in
Will Book c. w. b., No. {, folio 2T2
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
TERMS OF SALE.

The terms of sale prescribed by the decree are
that one-third of the purchased money shall be
paid in cash on the day of SALE one third in six
months and the balance in twelve months from
the day of sale; the credit payments to bear in
tercst from the day of sale and to be secured by
notes of the purchaser, with surety approved by
the Trustee.
jy30 "a Trustee.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
Hollingsworth's Ice Cream,
FROM ...
ROCHELLE DAIRY.

1NHE subscribers now prepared to I'll all orders
l. large or small for lee Cream from Rochelle
by mail promptly filled and delivered to any part
OF the county in good condition.
MIR. Il. GitEENFIELD, Bel Air, will keep my
Ice Cream constantly on hand, and will receive
and transmit orders Immediately to me by tele-
phone. He will also take orders for Ice, to be
delivered daily. and have supply always on hand,
at A. ii. Greenfield store.
ID. p. H0LLINGSWORTH,
myH Fallston, Md.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
Us. RICHARDSON, Auctioneer.
-hl IL o CIUCh, NJ, III IFS
PERSONAL PROPERTY,

consisting in part rs follows:
l Very Fine Horse, for riding, driving or work
purposes, perfectly safe for lady to drive and
good traveller: l very superior half-Alderney
Cow, which makes at this time nine pounds of
butter week. and will make eleven pounds Il
week when fresh 2 Hogs, Carriage and Harness
Sleigh and Bells, Cutting Box, 2 tons of Clover
Hay, lot of Chickens, Hoes, Shovels, Forks, Az
Chest of Carpenters Tools, l Double-barrclled
Gun, together with
HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE
One complete suit of Cottage Furniture. Bed
stcads and Mattresses, Cano-seat Chairs, Rock
ing Chairs, Lounges, Extension Table, Sew
ing Machine, Large Cooking Stove, small Cook
ing Stove, Parlor Cook Stove for coal; Churn,
Milk Pans, Square Tables, and variety of other
articles.
TERMS OF SALE.-All sums of $40 and under
Cash on the day of sale; on sums over that
amount a credit of six months will he given plir-
chasers To give their notes., bearing interest from
the day of sale, with approved security.
aus CHARLES BEVARD.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-13

return thanks to the people of Hartford and
Baltimore counties for the kind patronage be-
slowed upon my father and myself for the past -
years, and ask continuance of the same promis-
ing you fair dealing ut all times
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
Hugo's Definition of Evil.

Victor Hugo is reported to be inveter-
ately fond of coffee, taking it not only
after each meal but at intervals during
the day. He works only during the
morning, never after the midday meal.
He writes on large-sized Holland paper,
made expressly for him, and works stand
ing before high desk. When he gets
tired he PAGES up and down his study,
swallowing now and then a little coffee
or sugared water, but never by any
chance sitting down. His evenings are
nearly always devoted to guests, whom
he takes great pains to entertain. 1t is
related that one evening worthy Protes-
tant divine who had had philosophical
discussion all to himself, suddenly turned
round to Victor Hugo, in whom, no
doubt, he expected to meet with success,
and said in grave tone, "Wn you give
us your definition of 'evil?" EVIL"
sharply replied Victor Hugo, Sc at the
present moment consists in talking of it,
and not amusing the ladies'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
Life in MADAGASCAR.
[From the Saturday Review.l


Everywhere tn Madagascar life is
with forms which have lost their mean
ing. Thus there is the hereditary no.
blesse, the Andrians. They are buried
IN tombs different from those of the COM
monality. Some of them may carry a
scarlet umbrella. The highest grades
may marry out of their Cwn rank, though
the inferior grades may not For others
the point of honor is that they may not
mend fence. None of them have any
more prescriptive right than German no.
bles or Magyars to occupy state offices.
The present prime minister, for instance.
is not an Andrian, though his family has
been wealthy and powerful for several
generations. Andrians are often Door
enough to be day laborers. One set of
them monopolizes the craft of making
tinware. The sovereign is the single sun
and centre of Malagasy society. When
bricklayers' work has to be done in the
queens palaces, call ranks of people,
from the highest to the lowest,
take pride in doing with their
hands some of the actual labor, under
the eye of their queen, who sits on
raised seat looking on" The sovereign
Is an autocrat. The lives and property
OF all her subjects are at her absolute
disposal. 1t is death even to block the
way to her cattle. But she is as much
slave to the ceremonial which environs
her as her subjects are slaves to her
caprlces. She may not move except with
an enormous retinue to escort her. On
her progresses 1000 to 10000 attend
her. To walk is almost forbidden.
From the great New Years festival which
she celebrates by majestically bathing in
silver bath, only screened from view
of her court by the silken mantles
her attendants hold, to the moment when
her royal corpse is yet more majestically
inferred, she is figure in an often
rehearsed pageant. The punctiliously
regulated life of the sovereign is only an
extreme illustration of the minute OBJ
servances which encompass Malagasylif
In all ranks. The best part of Mala-
gasy's year is robbed from him by a
division of days into lucky and uulucky.
Out of the % days of a month - only are
lucky. Some months are altogether un-
lucky. Children born in one month, or
Oh certain days of others, were, until the
missionaries interfered, put to death.
The newborn infants head was placed
head downward In shallow wooden dish
filed with lukewarm water" In one
Malagasy tribe child born on day of
ll-omen is buried alive in an ant-hill.
The Hovas love their children, yet all
infants born in an unlucky month had
formerl y to be laid down at the entrance
of the village caitle-fold, that the oxen
might be driven over them. The present
prime minister survived this ordeal of
hoofs and horns.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
WASHINGTON Irvinu's Love

But before this humorous creation was
completed, the author endured the ter
1ble bereavement which was to occur
his whole life. He had formed deep
and tender passion for Matilda Ogden
Hoffman, in whose family he had long
been on a footing of the most perfect in
timacy; and his ardent love was fully
rec1procated. Irving was restlessly cast
ing about for some assured means of
livelihood, which would enable him to
marry-perhaps his distrust of literary
career was connected with this desire
when, almost without warming, Miss
Hoffman died in the 18th year of her age.
Without being a dazzling beauty, she
was lovely In person and mind, with most
engaging and playful humor. The loss
was crushing blow to Irving, from the
effects of which he never recovered, al
though time softened the bitterness of
his grief into a tender and sacred mem
DRY. He could never bear any allusion
to her, even. from his most intimate
friends. After his death, in a private
of which he always kept the
keys, was found O lovely miniature, a
braid of fair hair, and a strip of paper,
on which was written, in his own hand,
Matilda Hoffman," and with these
treasures were several pages of memo
randum in ink, long since faded He
kept through life her bible and her
they were placed nightly
under his pillow in the first days of an
guish that followed her loss, and ever
after they were the inseperable compan-
ions of all his wanderings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
hold KObberias.

bold and successful robbery of gold bullion
occurred at Sidney, Neb., on the 10th inst,
while the Union Pacific express agent was at
dinner. The amount taken is variously esti-
mated from 100000 to $500, 900. An entrance
was effected through the floor of the express
Office, where it was stored. The immense
weight of the treasure, 400 pounds avoirdupois,
prevented the robbers from carrying 1t off, and
they were compelled to conceal it at the first avail
able spot, the coal pile. Atraclman saw them con-
ceal it, and subsequently all but $4,000 was
recovered. The country is beng scouredfo for the
thieves.
Postmaster W. o. Bigelow of Annapolis, Md,
has been arrested on the charge of robbmg the
Office. On the morning of March LIST the back
door was found broken open and $4,000 worth
of stamps gone. Investigation resulted in the
arrest of Bigelow. He denies the charge. The
Office has been turned over to the bondsmen,
who placed the assistant postmaster in charge.
On the night of the 9Th instant, burglars
broke into the store of Johnson, Rogers & Co.,
at Mariana, Ark, and rifed the safe of $1O,-
0OOin currency, state and county warrants.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
Fatal Railroad NIishaDs.

During heavy snow storm at an. early hour
on the 18th inst the overland passenger trains
Nos. and collided at Red Desert station. so
miles west of Rawlins, w. II. Martin, engineer
of train No. 4, will probably die from his in
juries. No passengers injured.
A freight train consisting of an engine and
nine cars, was wrecked near Chillicothe, O., on
the Scioto valley road, On the 18th inst. The
engine struck three horses which were on the
track. Edward Gates, a fireman, and man
named Beery, who was riding on the engine,
were almost instantly killed.
A collision occurred on the 18th inst at Engle-
wood, Ill.,, between an express train and freight
train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
road. Jacob Seiber, brakeman, was probably
fatally injured. and his son, aged Is, killed. 4
few others were slightly injured.
An engine and eighteen coal cars were wrecked
on the 7th inst, by the giving way of the trestle
at Little Lake, near Seattle, W. T. A man
named Stewart was killed and several others
wounded