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Storing and Keeping Potatoes.

OF late years the potato has been one of the
most profitable of farm crops in the East, and
this chiefly arises from the fact that it is
somewhat difficult to keep any great quaint
ty of them. Thus only SO many are grown
as can be preserved, and as the accommoda-
tions are limited there is no glut in the mar
ket as there are with things which are grown
| and must be sent to the market at once OF
course there are times when potatoes rule
low This is apt to be the case with early
ones, grown especially for early purposes, and
which follow the same law that rules in tran
silent vegetables. So also those who grow
| potatoes and have no conveniences for stor-
| ing them These have to market in the fall
and have to take whatever price may rule for
them Those who have good cellars under
their barns, or in any place safe from frost
and yet cool and dry, can generally make po,
tato growing pay very well and these are u.s.
ually the ones who do.
In old times a large quantity of potatoes
were stored out of doors in the open ground
| They were arranged in long ridges, not in
| great bulk, as even a mass of potatoes will
heat, and covered with earth sufficiently thick
to keep out the frost. But since the appear
ance of the potato disease, this plan is not
much followed, though the rotting has of
late been very much diminished. The infect
ed tubers will often rot especially if the mass
heats little, and the diseased ones will often
communicate the.disGase to the rest. In
cellar this can be seen and noted, but in Il
mound out of doors no one knows the trou-
bic till spring, when great loss has been found.
Besides this, it is so difficult to get at them in
winter that those who have no way to pre-.
serve potatoes except this, as n general thing
prefer not to grow at all rather than to be
bothered with this.
Dampness undoubtedly favors the spread
of the potato disease, and therefore where
there is any chance at all of the disease exist
ing in the roots, they ought to be stored as
dry as possible. Those which ARE to be kept
in this general way should be dry and cool
but this should be especially seen to in the
case of seed potatoes. Since the potato beetle
came among us it is clear that we have had
the very best results from early planting and
by the use of the earliest varieties. Now
these kinds are more easily affected by warmth
than the late ones. They sprout easily,
and GOODNESS is therefore the more essential
for them. Some people think it makes little
difference whether seed potatoes sprout or
not before planting. Wehave known people
tear off sprouts several inches long, and cut
up the tubers in full faith that they will
sprout out again and he none the worse for it,
They do generally grow but there is little
doubt they arc constitutionally weaker and
much more liable to disease than those which
do not sprout till ready to go in the ground.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-09-02

"A traveller in South Africa Witnessed
not long since Il singular combat. He was
musing, one morning, with his eyes on the
ground, when he noticed caterpillar
crawling along at Il rapid pace. Pursuing
him was host ofsmall ants Being quicker
in their movements, the ants would catch up
with the caterpiller and one would mount
his back and bite him. Pausing, the cater
pillar would turn his head, and bite and kill
his tormentor After slaughtering dozen
or more of his prosecutors, the caterpillar
showed signs of fatigue. The ants made
combined attack. Betalling himselfto stalk
of grass, the caterpillar climbed up tail fl rst,
followed by the ants As one approached,
he seized it in his jaws and threw it off the
stalk. The ant seeing that the caterpillar had
too strong position for them to overcome,
resorted to strategy. They began saving
through the grass-stalk. In few minutes
the stalk fell, and hundreds of ants pounccd
upon the fallen caterpillar. He was killed at
once and the victors marched off in triumph
leaving the foes body on the field
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-09-02

WHAT SCAREs A WoMAN-Noticea woman
when she receives a telegram. How it does
scare her She trembles like dish of jelly, and
imagines all sorts of things. Her husband
has fallen down the hatchway at his ware
house. Her Johnny has gone out sailing and
is drowned. Her sister Mary has been scad-
ed to death Nothing short of q fatal acct
dent quite fills the bill of her imagination
When she finally summons courage to tear
open the envelope she finds message from
her husband warning her that he will bring
a customer home to dinner and she immedi-
ately calls her children together and instructs
them not to ask twice for raspberries, as
there's just enough to go round and give
the visitor a few extra.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-09-02

A representative mans opinion on other
than political matters, is often of great use TO
his constituency. The Hon. S. II. Yoder, of
Globe Mills, Pa, has thus recorded his opin.
ion on n subject of popular interest have
been selling st. Jacobs Oil for the last year.
| have never heard person speak Oft except
as splendid medicine, and us the great spc-
citic for rheumatic affections, whether intlam-
matory, acute or chronic, swclings, sores,
spains, burns, wounds, etc sell more St
Jacobs Oil than of any other kind of lini-
ment and it gives universal satisfaction. |
will always keep il on hand. The farmers
say, that for man and beast, they find nothing
to equal it,
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Uncle Pleasant Batkins, of Richmond, Va,
is sixty and his wife seventy-two years old
The other day Il friend said Uncle Plea
SAINT, why in the mischief did you marry
woman nearly old enough to be yourmothcr?"
And this is the way he explained it You
see, boy" he replied with sigh, 81 was
wurkin for Long John Freeman in Hanover,
when was jest IS, and Susan Ann Russ, old
Mrs RUSS oldest daughter, was thirty if she
wur day. At every quiltin' she used to
chuse me for her partner, and everybody said
1t pearcd like she wur courtin me- She
gimme four pair cotton socks and Il heap of
things, but still didn't have no notion of her.
Well, one Christmas eve, went to the old
woman's, and had hardly sot down before
Sary Ann brought me some sweet perlato
pie, which she knowed | was monstrous fond
Of While was eatin' it heard the old
woman up stairs counting silver dollars. Now
thar was no plaster to the sealn' and the up
stairs floor had cracks in it as wide us my
finger. So you see could hear the Jingle of
lhe money just as well rs if had been up
thar myself. When she had counted COG
drawed up to Sary Ann and popped the qucs-
ton In course she said she'd have me, and
the next Thursday we was married Now,
what do you think found out the next day
Why, that the old woman didn't have hut
thirty Mexican dollars, and that she counted
en- over and over jest to fool me Don't
marry for money boy, specially for silver dol
lars
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" HHtWgtph
Archery in Fair Hartford,

We would blush for Hartford county, that land
of fat cattle lovely women, tournaments. archery
clubs and other delightful institutions, if its
brave did not deserve its fair and did not come TO
their defense, even il the lovely woman of llar-
ford is quite able to take the best care of herself,
and still not draw upon the great untouched bal
ance of her resources Therefore ii meets with
our appreciation when the Bel Air Times chides
The Morning NelCS for limiting that the Hartford
archers sometimes miss the target, and therefore
we are not surprised to see that lovely woman of
Hartford, where woman is brave as well as fair,
takes up the cudgels against the NetcS in her own
behalf, in the columns of the Bel Air 4fgiS. But
be it borne in mind it is not the Highfed arrows,
wood, lancewood, yew, greenheart, nor yet the
sweetheart beau, with all of which various kinds
prepare herself, that constitute her best weapons
offensive and defensive. Nay, not so. For ex-
ample: Now that the harvest of grain is over,
and the harvest of hearts has begun, lovely
woman in Hartford stands before the target set
upon one of those few places which is not hill.
Her left side is well advanced tothe front Her
head is turned little to the rigtt, leaving only a
clear cut and delicate profile exposed to the sum-
which, sinking behind one of those abundant
hills, wishes he could stay to look n little long
err The mock of her arrow is drawn close to her
car. Her steady eye is clearer than the limp,d
at the targets heart of gold, is swfter far than
any arrows flight. Save for her drapery, the
spectator might take her for statue Of Artemis,
and he thinks what terrible execution she might
do with that bow and arrow. Then she let's fly,
and where that particular arrow goes is problem
as hard to solve as the question, What will be
the music of the future? When the plowman
shall have turned the soil along the further slope
of the next hill for next years garden. he will
find arrows in abundance sticking up, waiting
for the pea vines to grow around them. The
small boy gathering next years crop of half ripe
cherries (the Small-boy Earlys) will find the cher
ry tree full of arrows, which will come handy for
hooks to draw in the limbs with. Sections of
these arrows shot by the Hartford Archery Club,
Wilmingtonians, New Workers and Philade-
phians will fin in their beef at dinner and the
carver will revile the butcher for leaving the
skewer in his meat.
There are Archers and archcrs in Hartford and
the heart of the target, at least they hit many
another heart and the warning of the particular
archer who, in the columns of the -Egts, warns
| the NegS man off all Hartford premises, comes
| like the trespassers' notice put on the garden
wall after the fruit is stolen.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-09-02

LIMEKILN CLUB PHMosoPHY.-As the
hour for closing approached, Brother Gar.
dener arose and said: Brothers in pacing
off our var'us ways to our varus homes, let
us remember dat de biggest windmill doan'
pump de moas water. De man who walks
right long takin in de mud wild de good
roads, 'cept de weather as it comes, an thank.
fully chawin' away on husks when he can't
get corn, will git dar jist as soon as any body
an feel jst as much at home when de hon
blows"
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Dangers 10 Iron workers.

Messrs. r. Esterbooll Il Sons, City Iron
Foundry Boston, Mass, speak on this point
as follows; Two or three of our men were
badly burnt in working They were, how.
ever, Immediately cured by using that valu
able remedy, st. Jacobs Oil. All our men
are highly pleased with it, and we shall
always recommended it to those afflicted witt
pains or rheumatism.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-09-02

L'octical.
For The .EgiS and IateHigeHcer.
ANTEROS.-PART SECOND.
[LOnciuSiOn.l
CANZONE VIII.
REMORSE.
L'pctical.

Of poisonous gases of the skies,
The Meteors treacherous fabric made,
The hollow sphere, in tangents, flies,
And bursts. when Order would invade;
So. thus the Nd, once adOred.
Became MetcOr-fase rs fair;
That fell to ashes, when it scared
In Loves congenial atmosphere.
II.
How could |, idly. once believe
That thou couidst e'er be true to me?
Or deem that she, who dared deceive,
Would spare me from her treachery?-
False to thy self, and false to all,
whom ever tie endeared to thee,
Thou like the Meteor, too, shalt fall
wreck, to reckless lcvity
And when those eyes, of heavenly love,
Shall fade beneath the hand of Time:
Nor, once seductive, more subdue
Thy dupes, unconscious of the crime:
Then let thy glances nwards turn
Where conscience must at last controul-
That, with remorse. thy heart may burn,
To view the treachery of thy soul.
While he, the victim of that smile.
Which all his soul could once entrance
Till learned too late, the fatal guile,
That turks beneath thy guilty glance
Consumed by flames that will not die,
Defiant OF remorseful shame,
Must mourn, in woe. the nfamy
Which desCcrates Loves holy name
V.
But, while he thus, to ARteToS,
His bitter sacrifice hath made
To find, too late, what hopeless loss
Revengeth love, to guilt betrayed
The sacrifice is not in vain,
If honest Love. which purifes
Shall teach some bosom to dsdain
The evil Loves deceptive guise
ALTON.
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POPPLEIN
SiIiCated Phosphate Co..
Office 1873 w. Baltimore St.,
Under ADaericdn Farmer, Baltimore.


BooTHBY HILL, HARFoRD Co., Md,
January 81, 1881.
Gentlemen: have used your Silicated Phosphate
ior the last Tour years upon my Egyptian Sweet
Corn trophy Tomatoes, Lima Beans and Pota-
toss and can truly say have never found any
other Phosphate to equal it.
1t produces the largest crops makes firmcr fruit
and of a better flavor, than any other kind.
On account of its fine mechanical condition, alb
and pleasant to handle.
used twenty-five tons upon my Sweet Corn
the past season, and never had larger or finer
yield. Yours, truly,
S.N. HYDE.
Nh Port DEPOSIT, MD, January 1, 1881.
Dear StF-This is to certify that have used the
Popplein Sicatcd Phosphate bought of YOU for
two years past on my entire range of truck and
the results have been highly satisfactory 1t is
decidedly the best fertilizer [ ever used, and /
have used several standard brands. | have tested
1t beside good compost from my hen house and
find where used the Popplein my crops mature
better and the vines especially tomatoes, bear
| much longer, and the fruit is of superior quail
ty., Where used it on cabbage they were twice
as large as where there was none put. Another
good thing can say in favor of this fertilizer is
That can put my plants or seed in the same hill
with the phosphate without any injury to the
plant or seed. This have tried to perfection.
very truly, JOSEPH STERLING.
DELAWARE COLLEGE EXPERIMENTAL FARM,
Newark, Del, April 5, 1881.
FOppteiR Sittcdted Phosphate COBlpdHy:
Gentlemen have used your Fertilizer for four
years past on the entire range of field and garden
crops, and always with the most satisfactory re-
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have found II especially adapted to the growth
of potatoes and Sugar Bets, and my crop last sea-
son OF over twelve hundred bushels of these roots
was gFown with this fertilizer, and their quality
may be inferred from the fact that in q strong
competition, | received six first premiums at the
last fair of the Peninsula Agricultural and Po-
biological Association for the largest and best dis
play of root crops. The splendid mechanical con-
dition in which your Fertilizer is furnished, and
Its uniform quality, as determined by annual
analysis in the State Laboratory of Delaware
COLLEGE, render 1t most valuable to our farmers
and fruit-growers. Yours, respectfully,
EDWARD d. PORTER,
Professor of Agriculture.
Dealers in FERTILIZING MATERIALS generally
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HAVRE DE GRACE.

The Officer of Registration for the Sixth
Election District will sit at
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RFGISTRATI
To the Voters of Hartford County.

TIME undersigned Officers of Registration
l. for Hartford county, in compliance with
the requirements of the Act of 1876, chapter
2G0 which makes it the duty of Officers of
Registration to sit at some place convenient
to The voters of their respective districts, for
five successive days, commencing on the first
Monday of September, in each year, for the
purpose of discharging their duties, hereby
give notice that they will attend as follows
The Officer of Registration for the First
Election District will sit at
ABINGDON,
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, The 9th, 9th, 9TH, 9Th and 9th
days of September 1881, from o'clock, A.
M. to o'clock, p, NJ.
The Officer of Registration for the Second
Election District will sit at
ABERDEEN.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the
9TH, 9th and 18th days Of September 1881, from
o'clock, A. NJ, to O'clock p NJ, and mt
MOPEwELL X ROADS,
On Thursday and Friday, the 9Th and 9th
days of September, 1881, from O'clock, A
NJ to o'clock, p. NJ.
The Officer OF Registration for the Third
Election District will sit at
BELAIR,
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the
9th, 9th and 9TH days of September, 1881,
from o'clock, a. NJ, to o'clock, p. NJ, at
FALLSTON.
On Thursday, September Sth, 1881, from 0
o'clock, A. NJ, to 6 o'clock, p. NJ, and at
CHURoHvILLE.
On Friday, September 9th, 1881, from
o'clock, A. NJ, to o'clock, p. NJ.
The Officer of Registration for the Fourth
Election District will sit at
FAYETTEVILLE.
On Monday and Tuesday, the 9TH and 9th
days of September, 1881, from O'Clock, A.
NJ, to 6 o'clock, p. NJ, at
WORTHWHILE.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the It'll and
9Th days of September, 1881, from o'clock,
A. NJ, to 6 o'clock, p. NJ and at
UPPER " ROADS.
On Friday, the 9th day of September, 1881,
from o'clock, A. NJ to 6 o'clock, p NJ.
The Officer of Registration for the Fifth
Election District will sit at
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the
9TH 9th and It'll days of September, 1881,
from . o'clock, A. NJ, to o'clock, p. NJ =,
and at
STEARNS' HOTEL.
On Thursday and Friday, the Sth and 9th
days of September, 1884, from . o'clock, A.
M TO O'clock p Nj
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STEARNS' HOTEL.

On Thursday and Friday, the Sth and 9th
days of September, 1881, from o'clock, A.
NJ, to O'clock, p NJ.
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factors" Scarcely an office in the
West Indies but was filed by the depu-
ties of of those who were the ostensi-
bic incumbents. The Post Office, the
excise and the four and halfper cent.
Leeward Island duties we're favorite
banks on which to draw. The Scotch
and Irish Civil lists were studded with
curious "public benefactors." Ameri-
can loyalists, Toulonsee and Corsican
emigrants, St. Domingo sufferers, and
Dutch naval officers were all heads un-
der which annuities were placed, and
the number of pensioned Spanish ref
ugees who had ''co-operated with our
armies in the Peninsula" was, to say
the least of 1t, highly creditable to
Iberian patriotism. These monstrous
misapplications OF the revenue have
long ago disappeared. The pensions
of civil servants are nowadays but
their deferred pay. Perpetual PEN
sions are now bestowed-the annuities
attached to the peerages of Yelling
ton, Keans, Combermere, Exmouth,
Seaton Hardings, Cough and Raglan
being either for the life of the first
holder or for those of a limited number
of his descendants.
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OLD JACKSON'S GHOST.
From the Easton (Md.) Star.

In tenement house on the estate Of
Mr.. George Shannahan, near Royal
Oak, there lived an old white man and
his wife named jackson. On Inherent
part of the estate in another tenement
house, lived Jack Skinner. Jack be-
longed to MIR. Shannahan, but his wife
ana children we're free-born. Jack had
daughter named Mamie, after her
mother. 1t was the delight of this girl
to make mouths at and mock and tor
ment old Jackson, always taking good
care not to let the old man get hold Of
her. 1t made him SO mad he swore that
when no died he would come back and
hau ut her. The war between them was
kept up for several years, until j 4ckson's
death. Some time afterwards, viii Q
the girl was sitting in her fathers house,
all OF sudden there came down the
chimney a chunk of fire, that fell and
scattered over the floor, the Goals hitting
the girl. After that the house, when
the girl would be In 1t, would be pelted
with chunks of wood, ciods earth,
brick bats, oyster shells, etc, and no one
could zee from whence they came, as
no one on the premises was visible ex-
cept the family and they could find out
nothing about it. They all believed and
declared 1t was old Jackson's ghost, The
circumstance created the greatest ex-
element throughout the DeighbOrhood,
ana, indeed, throughout the county, for
persons came from a long distance to
witness the phenomenon. We once
heard a gentleman of unquestiOned We.
racity say that he went there determin-
ed TO unravel the mystery If posi- ble.-
He took the girl alone out in the middle
OF a field, and to his astonlBhment, she
was pelted there with clods aud sticks by
some invisible agency, which he could
never understand as II was impossible
for any one to be In COLLISION with her. -
The mystery never was explained and
the throwing and tormentiDg of the girl
continued, until some of her relations
came from Baltimore and took her with
them to the city, when no further dis
turbance occurred. If was old Mr..
Jackson's ghost, IL seemed to have been
satisfied with driving her off the farm
IL is our recollection that the girl never
was bur. by any of the missiles HURLED al
her. If out of doors, she generally saw
them coming before they hit and lodged
them; If In the house, they would strike
the hearth, the walls or some article of
furniture, without hitting her. II was
not malicious ghost, but simply appear
ed to be full of deviltry; 1t was unceas-
ing in its prosecutions until it succeeded
in driving her of the premises. There
was an old woman in the neiRhborhood
named Katie Coburn, who had the rep
utation OF being a witch, and some
thought she was as the bottom of the
devilment, but she lived some distance
away, across a creek, and 1t Is not likely
that she coHld have had anything to do
with 1t. The general belief at the time
was that it was old Mr.. Jackson's ghost
inflicting on the girl just. punishment for
her impudence to him in his lifetime.
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h RTlzANs SAVINGS BANk-
E2 MARKET STREET, ,os,
sscoRpoRATED JANUARY 2tn, lsoi;
T. o1 IN Tereive deposits dairy from 4
l,W 70 f 70 N and on Tuesday and sai
Il svenings from7 10 o,clock;n
Z CENTENNIAL DIVIDEND,
ai n d n,d snds are not withdrawns
e en- e atc1d AS deposits. Thus per.
nt Seposits compound their Interest
i In each year. u,o
MANAGEhS.t -, o.h
az smyth. George w. Busn,
nv NJ n, 9 George 8. Capelle,
vi vi a Eenson. NJ. l.. Lichensteln,
N +. Dure, bS"aiu, 80 snn
"A PSsev. VIM. II. swift,
Anthony Higgins.
GEO. ". BUSH. President
4. CAPELLE, Vice President.
Nv EFT, TAYLOR Treasurer
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New Mexico Is perhaps the most
noted country in the world for research
The historian, the wealth seeker and
the "curlons" can here find a rich field
and reward for their lapor. The Aim
and Gran Q1ivira counties are perhaps
the most renowned in the Territory for
research. In the former there are ev-
licences of great volcanic erup- lions
which overwhelmed cities and buried
the bAbitanB In ashes and lava long
ages ago. 1t Is evident that these peo-
pie, who are perhaps older than the
Aztecs, were a prosperous race, with not
q little advance IN civilization, as 1.-THE
A be ruins in the Nauzlna mountains
Indicate; also some indications OF fine
art. rude figures aud the images of ami
mails being .fouAd upon the interior of
the walls Of the structures beneath the
depris. Ii ID evident that this nom
historic race wero seekers after minerals.
Mines are found with the timbers so
rotten with age that great difficulty is
experienced and danger Incurred in
going down into the old shafts, where
shafts are formed. One especially was
found where human hands or lava or
falling leaves and dust had d lied It level
with the earth. This was dug into, and
at depth of twenty feet man could,
In places, thrust his arm in up to the
elbow between the granite walls of the
mine and the earth which filled the cid
shaft.