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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-11-19
Pnetical.
For The H'giS dnd intelligence,
ROCKS OF DEER CREEK.

ROCKS OF DEER CREEK.
Gray sentinels for many years thy walls,
Deep scared, have lowered above the sons OF
Not like Mont Blanc, with icy summit crowned,
But like Il friendly guide. to point us TO
That better land, which thy fair scenery
Seems to foreshadow here.
What changes yo have seen, since first there
dwelt
In the surrounding shades, red Indian kings,
Whose royal seat was on thy highest crest
So runs the legend, Now the white men come
, no visit thee they come, and bring with them
There runs story that horseman once
Forced up thy mountainous side his trembling
steed,
On to the very verge, and sought to plunge
Down to certain death mid Deer Creeks pines.
His horse refused to leap, and therein proved
The wiser animal. What was the cause?
Why should this man have sought fearful death?
Because his heart, mind, soul, all, were enthralled
by the dread power of cursed htemperdnce.
Aye! Rocks of Deer Creek oft there is the sound
OF wanton revelry upon thy heights.
But We have sweeter memories. once there STOOD
Upon thy highest peak, sad,eyed girl;
Far from the citys clash, and din and strife
She sought for peace and rest, and found them
not.
Her life had been so sad. She was the child
OF wealthy parents, but there came time
When riches took their flight, and with them,
friends.
Gifted and noble, talented and brave
Was this man who had won her womans heart,
But oh so weak, so very weak slave
10 lntcuTStu Oh
With prayers and tears she sought, and sought
in vain
To save him from himself. 1t was too late,
And the proud daughter of prouder race
Could never link her name with his; nay, more,
She held it sin to give herself to one
Who had insulted thus a loving God.
Farewell was said bravely she tried to bear
The bitter pain, but heart and mind alike
Were overtasked. and the far shadow land
Almost received her crushed and wounded soul.
But at the eleventh hour her woman's pride
Saved her from death; she walked with us again,
But pale and changed so sad and cynical.
She must have change our wise old doctor said,
And so she sought the shades of Deer Creeks
Rocks.
The pale young student, with her aching heart,
Here looked from mature up to natures Gods
And found sweet relief. Oh Rocks hold fast
This sweetest memory, that thy granite pile
Has served to point wandering soul to Christ.
Boast, proud Virginia, of thy Shenandoah!
My English brother, praise thy much loved land,
But Maryland, my Maryland. can boast
OF greater things, for on thy heights, oh Rocks,
This suffering human soul was born again.
LOUIS.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-11-19
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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
Curious Facts,

Iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburg
(Pa.) iron mills that TO- 900 sheets are re-
quired to make a single inch in thickness.
Chocolate, the -four of the cocoanut,
was first introduced into England from
Mexico in the year 1920, and soon after
became a ~favorite beverage in the Lon
don coffee houses.
Armorial bearings became hereditary
at the close of the twelfth century, and
took their origin from the Crusaders,
who were accustomed to paint their
banners with various devices.
Tho first piece of artillery was in
vented by a German soon after the in.
vention of gunpowder, and artillery
was first used by the Moors at AL.
gesiras, in Spain, over 500 years ago.
The most ancient manuscripts are
written without accents, stops, or separ-
alton between the words, nor was it until
after the ninth century that copyists be.
gan to leave spaces between words.
Mr.. Hanney, who has made diamonds,
that his experiments show
that the equalization of silica Quartz,
amethyst, etc., and of alumina (ruby,
sapphir,) may be carried on SO as TO be
a commercial success.
The Japanese make a very curious and
handsome kind of copper by casting ii
under water, the metal being highly
heated and the water also being hot.
The result is a beautiful rose-colored
tint. which is not affected by exposure
to the atmosphere.
A record of the weather kept nearly
three centuries ago by the famous astron-
omer, Tycho Brahe, on the coast Of Dem
mark, has lately been published at Co.
penhagen by the Royal Danish academy
OF sciences. The manuscript had found
its way into the Imperial library ut
Vienna, where it was discovered a few
years since.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEH JLD.



A writer, in a recent number of the
Mich Zetang on the danger to German
agriculture from foreign competition,
says that his own experience Of fifty
years has taught him that regular soil
ing OF cattle is best for the farmer and
for his fields, bringing in greater profit
and maintaining the fertility of the land
at a higher point-that twice as much
fodder can be produced on a given sur
face when the forage plant is allowed
to grow as q cultivated crop and reach
a certain degree of maturity, than when,
as In pasture, it is continually cropped
off and trodden down. He believes, as
do all the best German writers on the
subject, that the most successful system
OF agriculture in the long run is that in
which a large quantity Of stock is kept
and fed well, and a careful rotation of
crops is followed, in which the same
crop is never put twice in succession on
the same land. The soiling system
makes it easier to carry out the second
part of his programme, and the greater
variety of crops that can be raised on a
long rotation provides a greater var ETY.
OF fodder for the stock. so that these
two features ofthe best modern agricul-
tural practice work admirably to-
gether. The soiling system provides
a more uniform ration in respect to
quantity, and avoids much loss of
manure 1t may be pretty safely af-
tirmed that the droppings of cattle in
the pasture are more than half wasted
by drying in the sun, or by too strong
dosing with manure in isolated spots
here and there. Where land is cheap
and abundant, and cannot be profitably
cultivated and carried up to a high de-
gree of fertility, pasturage over a large
portion of the farm may be allowable,
but when high farming pays, pasture
land is a poor investment, and may eat
up a large part of the profits from the
cultivated fields.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
The Word IS NegrO.'S

The Standard Bearer, edited by 8
colorcd man, says: We are afraid that
some Of our readers among the colored
people misunderstood the word NEGRO"
as applied to their race, and one of our
correspondents has most vigorously pro.
test against our use of it. He probably
considers it synonymous with Niger"
a vulgar, meaningless epithet, that no
people on earth use SC frequently as the
colored people themselves.
The word NEGRO" is the proper race
designation of the colored people in
America, and is rightly applied to the
descendants of the tribes along the coast
of Africa. The lanes our young friend
alludes to with so much pride were
African, but not negro. The word
African" has no relevacy as a race
designation any more than the word
" American; !" and American may be
Esquimaux, Sioux or Anglo-Saxon ac-
cording to the blood in his veins; an
African may be Egyptian, Moor o.
Negro tor the same reason, and we have
never thought the word African a prop.
erly descriptive adjective when applied
to our race.
The term "colored," while generally
used, is rather meaningless, and strictly
speaking, the word Negro with q big
NJ is the only correct term, and we see
no improperly in using it. tits neither
low nor degrading, unless our actions
make it 80, and it is open to no more OBJ
lection than the words Irish or German.
Our ancestors were negroes and NJ more
barbarous or uncivilized than the an.
cestors of the whites, and it is only a
false idea of its meaning that makes our
people object to its use. In these days
of fine phrases, it will be well for us to
use the shorter and more expressive
term, American citizens OF African
dpscentO
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
Faahion FancIea.

Ivory white is the favorite shade.
Red mitts give a brilliant effect to a
black costume.
AshY blonde is the new shade of fash
ionably dyed hair.
Ladies on all occasions] adorn them
selves with flowers.
Spotted and small figured fabrics grow
in popular favor.
Capes OF white cashmere embroidered
in flowers and lined with satin are the
last symptoms of the mantle fever in
Paris.
Sateen and cotton sunshades seem to
be used quite Unfortunately with
every and any dress, no matter how
rich; but red ones do not accompany
anything but black or red costumes.
Small ~casaquins, of dark green velvet,
opening over waistcoats of q Turkish
material, and trimmed with cascades of
yellow lace, r among fashionabl
tri1es prepared for gay watering places.
Velvet leaves and flowers without
any mounting are nov prepared for
embroidery. They are stitched upon the
material to be decorated, and the APP
propriate stems and tendrils are EN-.
broidered. The effect is better than
that of satin-applied work.
Neither hoops mol large bustles are
worn. Clinging skirts are quite as
fashionable as the more bouffant styles.
The fullness about the sides of dresses is
merely formed by folds and shirrings of
the dress material or some kind of trim
ming. This especially appears on very
dressy toilets.
Has everybody forgotten the dismal
time when a Gounce OF lace was fastened
10 the brim of every girls hat, and when
the poor things all seemed to be growing
~cross-eyedP The Aounce of lace is com
ing once more, and once more the fea-
lures of the girls will only be discernible
through a cloud of black lace.
If the blondes and brunettes would
but cease trying to wear the clothes
meat for persons of different COM
plcxiOn! Are there no crimson roses, no
purple spikes ofspicy lavender, no white
lilies in the world that a yello V-haired
girl must deck herself with buttercups,
while u girl with blue black tresses
wears purple larkspurF
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
The Mlnd.sNept wheat.

FAINT, faint and clear
Faint as the music that dreams we HEAR
Shaking the curtAin-iold OF sleep
That shuts away
The worlds hoarse voice the sighsand sounds
oidAy,
Her sorry joys, her phantoms, ialsean M heet-
20 softly, softly stirs
The winds low murmur in the rippled wheat
The warm breath blows, the slender heaii
droOp low.
As il in prayer.
Again, more lightly tossed in merry play,
They bend and bow and sway,
With measured beat,
But never rest. Through shadow and through
sun
Goes on the tender rustic OF the wheat.
Dreams more than sleep,
Falls on the listening heart, and lull its care,
Dead years sent back
Some treasured, hali-forgotten time.
All, long ago,
When sun and sky were sweet,
nhappy noon,
We stood, breast high, mid waves Of rpened
grain
And heard the wind make music in the wheat
Not for to-day
Not for this hour alone--the melody,
So soft and ceaseless, thrills the dreamer'l
earl
OF all that was and is, OF all that yet shall be.
1t holds a part
Love sorrow, longing, paini
The restlessness that yoarns;
The thirst that burns;
The bliss that, like fountain, over1owsi
The deep repose;
Good that we might have known, but shall
not know;
The hope God took, the Joy emade complete
Lies chords all answer from the wind-sweps
wheat. Christian Union.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
FOR THE A / SEX,


The London Pail Mall Gazette saysi
England can no longer furnish her own
butter. The cheaper kinds come from
America. for Americans. even with
their rich pastures and improved stock
Of cows, cannot make the best grade.
The high-priced grades come to South
amptOn from Normandy and Brittany.
And why Is good butter not made in
England7 Because the dairymaid With
her pail is a thing of poetry and the past.
Because farmers wives and daughters
now think dairy work adegradation."
The Gazette proceeds TO state the
enormous income which dairy farming
carried ON by women has brought TO
France; the daughter Of a dairy farmer
often receiving a dover Of twenty thou
sand dollars on her wedding day. Much
of it is the product of her own work,
skill and management.
We might 60 on with the inquiry.
Why cannot Americans make the best
grade of butterp Because the business
has gone out of the hands of the farmers
wife and daughter, and is done by ma
chinery. Near Philadelphia, in the
rich hill-farms, there are a few old
Quaker danes and their daughters who
are not ashamed of this old-time craft (;
whose yellow fragrant pats Of butter,
wrapped in cool leaves, and packed in
tubs ~dslicately clean, are known all
over the country, and command 81 or
$3.50 per pound in any city market.
But" says the farmer, care our
daughters, who have received a modern
education, to go back to the old drudg.
cry of their grandmothersP"
We question whether the modern edu-
cation has not made them despise too
much the old ~drudgeryP
In the majority OF cases, these daugh-
tiers are still compelled to work for their
living. They crowd. into the cities, as
poor artists, china decorators, clerks,
s~hop-girls, or they besiege editors with
mawkish verses.
In this sighted dairy work is a paying
business which belongs to women, and
which, could they master it, would yield
them rs certain an income as it does the
Breton or Norman girl. 1t is a business
which requires intelligence, s~crupulous
cleanliness and delicacy of manipulation.
A roll of clover-scented butter of the
best grade is a higher work of art than a
bad picture or are trashy verses. Our
girls who are looking from their coun-
try homes, pining for a career, should
dig under their own hearthstone to find
if the pot ofgold be not waiting for them
there.-Youth'S Communion.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
Household Hints.

Scotch snuff put into holes where
crickets come out will destroy them.
French mode of purifying rancid and
tainted butter: Let the butter be melted
and skinned as for clarifying, then
put it into a piece of bread well toasted
all over, but not burned. In minute
or two the butter will lose its offensive
taste and smell, but the bread will be-
come perfectly fetid.
1t is well known that many articles
made of rubber are liable to become
dry after a considerable time, and to
crack, grow brittle and lose all elastic.
ity. According to a Russian journal
this may be remedied by the use of a
simple mixture composed of one part of
aqua ammonia with two parts Of water,
in which the articles should be i'm
mersed until they resume their former
elasticity, smoothness and softness-the
time required varying from a few
minutes to m hour.
Bran or oatmeal will soften hard
water. The bran should be sewn in a
muslin bag and kept in the water all
night. The oatmeal should be treated
as follows: Put two tablespoonful in a
saucepan and pour n quantity of hot
water upon and boil it q quarter of an
hour; strain and mix the water as
needed,
RAW CABBAGE.-A nice way to pre-
pare raw cabbage is as follows: Select
a fine good head; chop finely ina bowl
what you think will be needed, and to
every quart add one-half teacupful of
thick, sweetcream; two tablespoonful of
strong vinegar or lemon juice; one cup
full of white sugar, and mix thoroughly.
Hot Cross BUNs.-Take two cups of
milk, three Of sugar, two eggs, half tea
spoonful soda, half a cup of yeast, a
little nutmeg n Aour to make stiff
enough TO roll; let it stand over night;
in the morning roll out small, set them
close together in a pan, let them stand
and rise again and bake in a moderate
oven.
APPLE CHEEsE.-Peel and quarter a
quantity of apples, stew them with a
little water, n good deal of sugar, the
thin rind of a lemon and a few cloves,
or n stick of cinnamon. When quite
done pass them through a hair sieve;
and to one quart Of the PURGE thus OBJ
tanned add half q packet of gelatine, dis
solved in water; mix well, pour into q
mold, and when set turn 1t out and serve
with q custard poured about it. 1t is
well to remember that the PURGE must
be thoroughly well sweetened and fla
vored to carry off the insipidity Of the
Eelatine.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
LIOness and Rats.

The following incident about ON old
lions last days is taken from the last
report of the Dublin Geological Garden:
The closing weeks of her useful life
were marked by a touching incident
worthy of being recorded. The large
cats, or carnivores, when in health,
have no objection to the presence of
rats in their cages. On the contrary,
they rather welcome them as a relief to
the monotony of existence, which con-
stitutes the chief trial of a wild animal
in confinement. Thus, it is a common
sight to see half a dozen rats gnawing
the bones of which the lions have dined,
while the satisfied carnivores look on
contentedly, giving the poor rats an oc-
c~asional wink with their sleepy eyes. In
illness the case is different, for the UNI
grateful rats begin to nibble the toes Of
the lord of the forest before his death,
and add considerably to his discomfort.
To save our lioness from this annoy
ance, we placed in her cage a fine little
rat tan-terrier, who was at first re-
Ceived with a surly growl, but when
the first rat appeared, and the lioness
Jaw the little terrier toss him in the air,
catching him with professional skill
across the loins with q mar as he came
down, she began to understand what
the terrier was for; she coaAed him to
her side folded her paw around him, and
each night the little terrier slept at the
breast of the l%ioness, EMBODIED with her
paws, and watching that his naturNl
enemies did not disturb the natural
rest of his mistress. The rats had o
had timed urinp those x weeks.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
A Medicnl Testimonial.

A man in Rhode Island was cured of
a bad case of rheumatism by being
struck by lightning. He was not killed
either. We may now expect to see a
Testimonial " something like this:
"Mr. Jove-Dear Sir: 1t is with a
grateful heart that l can recommend
your Thunder Bolts for the cure of
rheumatism in its worst stages. Fol-
seventeen years / was a sufferer; | lost
the use of my lower limbs, and spent
five hundred and forty-two dollar in
medical attendance. Life became a
burden, and / prayed for death, when
one of your bolts came along, and wen.
right to the spot. l was knocked in
sensible, but soon recovered, and now
| am well enough to run for n political
office. Your bolts contain no mercury,
and don't have to be well shaken before
taken. For sale by all druggists."-
NorriStown Herald.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05
American GLASS Making,

The first glass factory IN America was
erected in 1909 near jamestown, Va,
and the second followed in the same
colony twelve years later. In 1889 some
acres of ground were granted to glass
men in Salem, Mass, probably the first
years of the industry which was prose-
cuted there for many years. The first
glass factory in Pennsylvania was built
neal Philadelphia in 1853, under the
direction of William Penn, but it did
not prove successful. The first glass
factory west of the Alleghenies was set
up by Albert Gallatin and his associates
in 1885, at New Geneva, on the Monon-
gahela river. A small factory was
established on the Ohio river, e
Pittsburg, in 1890, and another in 1895.
The earlier attempt failed, the later
was quite successful. In 1910 there were
twenty-five glass factories in the coun-
try, with an annual product valued at
@l,047, 900. There are now about five
times as many factories, producing
eight times as much glass. According
TO the returns received under the recent
census, our flint glass factories turn out
9l0,554 tons of table and other glass
ware; and the window.glass works pro-
duce 3,644,44 boxes. The total value
Of the product is nearly $45, 759, 900,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05

A little boy named Brown was
drowned n short time ago at Moberly,
Mo. His father, James II. Brown, was
hanged at Huntsville two months be-
fore, and the mother committed suicide
just prior TO the execution. The family
is now extinct.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05

Things n nan never forgets-his first
snub, the first girl lie ever kissed, his
first night at a theater, his first pair OF
pautaloons, his first cigar, and how
much better he might have done in the
world had he followed some other oc-
pupation.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05

Massachusetts, with her 1900 square
miles of territory now supports a popu-
lation of more than 29S to the square
mile, which is nearly equal to the den
sity of the population in Italy, and infe-
rior only to Belgium, Great Britain,
and Italy among the countries of the
world. The population now reported
as 1,7s3,sl2 has increased 326, 46l in
ton wears,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05

Dan Mace can tell almost to the frac-
ton of a second how fast he drives n
horse, without consulting q watch, and
some other drivers have the same
faculty.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05

Cremation has found a champion in
Mr.. w. Robinson, F. L. S., who assumes
to discuss the subject from an esthetic
point of view, in his book, Goods Acre
Made Beautiful; or, the Cemeteries OF
the Future" He urges that the present
form of burial is painful to the feelings
and prejudicial to public health, and
that urn burial would afford ample
scope for the art of. the landscape gar
dener, and more securely perpetuate the
memory of the dead.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-05

An old English miser named Rhodes,
who began making money Is a rubbish
gatherer and died ia squalor, has be.
queathed 100000 between the Royal
Free hospital, London, and the National
Lifeboat institution. leaving his relations
penniless. The will stands, bet the
charities have given the five next Of kin
$3.50.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-02-27
The jess In Palestine.

A correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian write from Jallain contra
diciion Of the sia.cment which has been
widely made that the population of Pal
eslinc has more than doubled during
thc past ten years by the incomirg of
the Jews. Instead of an Immigration
OF L. POO, 600 Jews, as would ,c / &C. r.
ry II thr statement were true, only
about 1000 Jews have settled in the
country IN Tie ten years. Nearly all.
he says, live in poverty, and from time
to time make appeals TO their wealthy
breihern in Europe and America. in
order 10 maintain themselves and their
families. The immigration IS a matter
OF fact, ga pauper influx" people who
expect to live in idleness on the oencr-
Osiiy of their co-religionsts abroad.
The correspondent admits that a num-
Der u new houses have been built ont
slde the walls of the city by botn Jews
and Christians, following the example
OF the Russian and Protestant missions.
which first began to do so. but he adds
that these houses, being built over els
terms of rainwates, are Tor the most part
nests of tvphus and malarial fevers.
and instead ofcontributing TO the health
oi tho city, have materially added to the
prevalent lnsalubriOusness of Jerusa-
lem" In the city itsclf the soil is so
saturated with the impurities of past
Generations that any disturbance of the
ground for building purposes invaria-
Dly engenders malignant fevers.