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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21

When Irving was reproached for describing
an English Christmas which he had never
seen, he replied that, although everything that
he had described might not be seen at any
single house, yet all of it could be seen
somewhere in England at Christmas. He
might have answered, also, that the spirit of
what he had described was visible everywhere
in Chrstendom on Christmas-day.
"Some say that ever gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning Sngeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time"
This is the Christmas sentiment of to-day,
as it was of Shakespeare's time. 1t is the
most human and kindly of seasons, as fully
penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of
human brotherhood, which is the essential
spirit of Christianity, as the month of June
with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
Santa Claus coming down the chimney load
ed with gifts is but the symbol of the gracious
influence which ut this time descends from
heaven into every heart. The day dawns
with benedicton it passes in holiday hap
piness and ends in soft and pensive regret
1t could not be the most beautiful of festivals
if it were doctrinal, or dogmatic, or theologi-
cal, or local. 1t is universal holiday, be-
cause it is the jubilee of universal sentiment,
moulded only by new epoch, and subtly
adapted to newer forms of the old faith
Hdiper's Magazine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21
Christmas Day.

Christmas never grows old. The beautiful
legends clustering around the name are fresh
to young ears, and the old listen as to fami-
liar tales that grow more charming with
every recital. Each year rs Christmas tide
comes near we realize how curiously blended
are old memories and youthful feelings
They do not interfere with each other, and
the union is very beautiful. Christmas day,
now generally regarded as the conventional,
not the true, date of the birth of Christ, was
celebrated in very early times, although the
origin OF the special festivities of the day is
obscure. But its celebration seems to spring
from spontaneous and wide spread desire
to commemorate an event so Important
Many popular Christmas customs doubtless
had their source in an age prior to the birth
of Christ, a fact which will make some ofthem
more easily understood, But kindness, gen.
erous charity, and grateful joy are the feel
ings which the very name of Christmas in.
spire.
christmas saw old wrongs forgiven,
FRIENDS long parted recsonciled...
MANY one that night was merry
Who had toiled through all the year.
Joy and plenty in the cottage,
Peace and feasting in the hall,
And the voices of the children
Ringing clear above it ALL"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21

JUST LIKE HER FATHER.-A Somerville
young man, who is employed in Boston
retail dry goods store, was accosted the other
day by friend who asked how times were.
pretty fair" was the response.
"Getting ahead any?"
"Well, I've been promoted to floor walker ?"
"IndeedW
Eyes; we've got new baby at our house"
Don tyou think she's pretty2" said the
fond mother to the fathlr, as she stroked the
babys silken hair.
The father was in sullen mood, some
thing had disagreed with him, and he replied
somewhat CURLY:
"Oh, oil babies are about alike. They look
like little monkies."
Just then neighbor entered, and taking
the baby on her lap said
mercy on us, how like its father that child
isp-SomerUflle Journal.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21

Your memory is bad perhaps, but l can
tell you two secrets that will cure the worst
memory. One is to read a subject when you
are strongly interested The other is not
only to read but think. When you have
read a paragraph or page, stop-close the
book-and try to remember the ideas on that
page, and not only recall them vaguely to
your mind, but put them into words and
speak them out Faithfully follow these
two rules and you will have the golden keys
of knowledge Besides inattentive reading,
there are other things injurious to memory
One is the habit of Swimming over news
papers, all in confused tumble, never to be
thought of again, thus cultivating habit of
careless reading hard to break. Another is
the reading of trashy novels Nothing is so
fatal to reading with profit as the habit of
running through story after story; and for
getting them as soon as read. know n gray
haired woman, a lifelong lover of books,
who sadly declared that her mind had been
ruined by such reading.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21

Dyspepsia is BAD.
BAD IN its effects nkhe disposition.
The man who can't comfortably
digest his dinner is not delightful
companion.
BAD IN its effects on tile household.
ltsetspeople at variance with each
other and makes them irregular
and unreasonable.
BAD IN its effects on Tie Purse.
A dyspeptic business man can't
manage his affairs as prosperously
as one with a healthy stomach.
Browns Iron Bitters is GOOD.
GOOD mis effects on tile dysbebtic.
1t gives him a sound digestion,
and enables him to enjoy the food
he swallows.
GOOD IN its effects on tile family.
1t drives dyspepsia out, and with
il the whole company of little de-
mons that make home unhappy.
GOOD IN its effects on business.
With sound digestion a man can
face and overcome worries and
troubles which would wreck dys-
peptic.
Try Browns IRON BITTERs.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21

THERMOMETER TALK.-"See here, Mr..
Druggist, did you not say that the thermome-
ter you sold me for $3.50 was good one ?"
"Certainly; it is one of the best ever
had"
Then you keep mighty poor stock, that's
all"
"Why, what is the matter Pr
Matter enough. Neighbor Brown got
twenty five cent one in the city the other
day, and this morning when l was blowing
about how cold it was, and told him what
my new thermometer registered, he laugh
ed at me-"
"Well ?
Then got mad and we compared them,
and hope to freeze if his thermometer was
not ten degrees lower than mine Now
you've got to take it back and give me one
that will beat his on cold mornings or you
lose my trade; d y hear?"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21
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For the 1Eqis and Inteliigencer
THE Dogs CHRISTMAS.
BY WILLIAM NJ. MARINE.

BY WILLIAM NJ. MARINE.
They say that dogs have got no reason,
/ cannot tell how that may be;
But I've a tale to suit the season,
Wheh the snow lies upon the lea.
DecemberS days were dark and dreary,
AS the merry Christmas came,
An humble home was sad and weary,
And its hearth threw out no flame.
Gaunt hunger dwelt within that cot,
While fervently the father prayed;
All poor and humble-sad his lot,
His board with scanty food arrayed,
With common food to eat, at last,
When Christmas festive day was here,
he could not even serve feast
10 hush bis crying children dear.
His thriving neighbor DER the way,
noble Newfoundland possessed,
or gentle temperate would play
With the poor children he loved best.
1t was upon this Christmas day,
When old time feasting, had begun, :
Inc dog went DER the fields away
Just at the rising Of the sun.
And, ere the orb was high above
The tree-tops, he came with prize:
The creature heart was filled with love,
And charity beamed from his eyes.
He brought fine fat rabbit home,
And laid 1t down upon the hearth
The children thought good luck had come,
And gave full freedom to their mirth.
The father had just finished prayer,
With solemn and submissive air,
Their hearts pulsating, ill at ease.
When they beheld what had occurred,
They meekly thanked the God above,
And felt that He the prayer had heard,
And answered with this gift of love.
The kind dog waited not for thanks,
But onward to the woods he passed
The children said he'd some new pranks
To do before he'd broke their feast
Long for another glad surprize
They waited with oerfiowing heart =
A squirrel gladdened then their eyes,
And tears of joy were seen to start.
The neighbor who the dog espied
On his kind errands to and fro,
Followed the creature with long stride
TO find out why he labored so.
And, as he gazed in wond' rous awe
His heart gave way to feelings touch;
His pride came down at what he saw
Twas but dog-would he were such.
Forthwith to his bright home he went,
And from his ample larder took
A load of food, then quickly sent
To the poor man by his cook
And there was JOY in that poor home,
The CLOUDS of trouble had pass'd away;
The feast was rich,-the dog had some,
1t was his merry Christmas day.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-12-21

w. L. Thornton. Esq-Dear Sir l use
Laroque's Bitters in my family, and think it
valuable and excellent medicine for all de-
rangemenls both of Stomach and Liver. 1t
gives me much pleasure TO endorse its merits,
which you are at liberty to make use of in
any way you may think proper. Very res
pectfully yours, Mrs. II. E, Kettlewell, 1853
Hanover street.
Baltimore, Sept. 3rd, 1880.
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Gan Street Column.

Comfortable Omnibus will be found
waiting ~ the Mary land Central Depot,
In Baltimore, to convey passengers Free
10 the station will be furnished by any
member OF the Old Town Merchants As
sOeiatiOn.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
Fine Berkshire.

Mr.. B. III. Logan, who lives at
the old Bowman Mill place in this
county, has just received from up
per Kentucky very fine registered
Berkshire Boar. He was purchased
from Mr.. w. T. Hill, of the blue
grass country. He is only six
months old, and has taken the first
premiums this season at the Bards.
town, Shelbyville and Louisville
fairs. He weighs between two and
three hundred pounds, is perfectly
formed and bears the genuine Berk-
shire marks. While he was in town
Wednesday afternoon, he attracted
considerable attention from stock
men and was much admired.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
TOO MUCH wHISKEY.

Theirs is too much whiskey in
Dyersburg and it is killing the town :"
so snys Meals State Gazette The same
thing might be said of the whole coun-
try. There is toomuch whiskey in the
United States and as a consequence
there is too much crime, too much
poverty, too much suffering. But tine
reason there is too much whiskey is
because there are too many whiskey
drinkers; the supply is only equal to
the demand. 1t is only a joke for n
gentleman to get tipsy and only a
misfortune when he comes to be q
sot. 1t is a social custom to ink and
the whiskey seller is only a caterer to
the public taste, he don't create the
taste. 1t IS the social custom and
public sentiment in this regard that
needs reforming, and nothing is going
to be accomplished towards stopping
the liquor traffic until those things are
entirely altered. We don't wish to be
understood as opposing temperance
legislation of a prohibitory nature, but
We don't believe such expedients will
ever be efIectual without tie radical
change of which we have spoken.
Drunkenness should be disreputable
and the public must be made to con-
slider it so. 1t is a greater crime against
nature and against society than larceny
and should be us severely condemned.
When that fact comes to be generally
recognized drunkenness will be reli-
gated To the criminal classes.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
The RnILronG.

There is nothing of special inter-
est to report in regard to the I. A. 4
L. railroad except that the work is
progressing as satisfactorily as any
one could wish. The trestle work
at Red river has been completed to
the waters edge, and one span OF
the bridge proper, has been erected.
The road bed has been graded for
nearly ten miles out of town, and
the surveyors are at work up in
Kentucky. AS soon as the Red
river bridge is finished, cross-ties
and rails will be laid, and an engine
put to work to assist in the con-
struction. The work goes 0ravely
on and the road will be carried to
Princeton as soon as persistent and
unceasing labor can take it there.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13


A WAsHINGroN correspondent
says: Everybody was at the
Circus the other day with thechil-
dren-the more the better. Yes,
there is Senator Bayard with his
children, and Justice Stanley Math-
ews with his, large as they are.
and Senator Don Cameron with his;
and then there are the French,
German, japanese, Chinese, Span
ish, CHILEAN, Russian and Austrian
ministers, their suites and their
families. There is the jaunty Peru
Wan minister too, with his old eye
glasses and older manner. There
are some more senator's, and there
are shoal of representatives and
ex- representative that you would
not know if | were to name them.
And there are the generals and the
admirals. Poor Gen. Sherman had
to go down to Fortress Monroe the
day the circus arrived, on an in.
specting tour. lie wanted to wait
until the circus came, hut as he
himself slid, "naval Vessels m,tii
for no man." and he dill mol want
to pay his fare to Norfolk. There
are Mr.. Blaine and George Bancroft
and all the historians"
| s. II. Barrett & Co.'S. Mammoth
Railroad Show will exhibit al
GAINESVILLE on Monday Oct. 10.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
PRIVILEGED RoGUERY.

The 8 Heterogeneous table" establish
ed at the Fair was permitted to run
until Saturday at noon when it was
broken UP, and the owners arrested by
the city authorities. They paid 81 900
for privilege Of running it during the
Fair, and up to Friday night deposited
5000 in bank. Some men who dali
lied with the fascinating dice lost as
high as 500 in a few minutes. The
parties arrested were placed under a
small bond of $3.50 each and per-
mitted to go their way Sunday
HoDki1lSVille South Ke1ltuckidn. i e.
That is some very nice news from a
law abiding and Christian community.
These licensed thieves, otherwise call
ed gamblers, were privileged by the
managers of the fair to steal $1,000
from its visitors, for the consideration
of one thousand dollars of the ill-got-
ten .pelf. An accommodating city
court placed the miscreants under Il
nominal bond which they can easily
afford to forfeit, and the penalty of the
law was thus avoided and the law it.
elf rendered nudity. If the mana
gers of the fair chance to be indicted
for their completely in the transaction,
they will probably be fined about $25
apiece, and will consider it, on the
whole, quite profitable speculation.
1t is a crying shame that petty thefts
should be punished by imprisonment
in the penitentiary while such whole
sale robbery as this goes unwhipped
of justice. Our last Legislature passed
n wholesome law, which makes such
gambling in Tennessee afelOny, but we
have reason to believe that it is not
everywhere rigidly enforced. Cases
testing the constitutionality of the act
are pending in the Supreme Court,
but until some adverse decision is
rendered by that tribunal, indictments
can be found under the act, and every
good citizen in the State should exert
himself to ferret out all such violaters
of the law and present them to the
grand juries.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13

The reunion of the survivors OF
the First Tennessee Regiment was
held at the fair grounds in Nash
Vile Monday. About 200 assem-
bled Mt the armOry at o'clock and
marched through various streets
to the depot, Maj. w. ID. Kelly in
command. Gen. Nancy, Its first
Colonel, Frank Sewer, Thos. Ill.
Malone, w. ID. Kelly and other
officers were present. A letter from
Col. IL. r.. Field was read, express
ing deep regret that he could not be
present. A bountiful barbecue was
spread in Floral Hall and heartily
enjoyed by the large crowd. Capt.
Thos. Malone was called to the
chair and permanent organization
effected. 1t is ascertained that only
about 300 survive. After speeches
and the presentation of a medal to
each by Gen. Cheatham, the yari-
Gus companies were photographed
and diSbanded.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
THE OHIO ELECTION.

The news from Ohio is far better
than we dared to h pc for; HoadIey
is elected by over 1900 majority and
the Legislature is largely Democratic.
The Ohio Democracy have triumphed
not only over their arch enemy the
Republicans, but they have gained a
victory over the traitors in their own
ranks, and while they turned the Re
publican rascals out they also purged
their own party of bossism and cor
rupt machines. Foraker has gone,
Charley Foster has gone, the Ohio Re
publicans have all gone to explore the
brackish waters of a certain melan-
choly river and Johnny Mclean is
the pilot of the boat in which they
travel. The Democrats rejoice in the
righteous result and the defeated enc
my who claimed that the State was his
by large majority, is engaged in ex-
planning how it was done while he
moodily munches his dish of crow.
There is deep significance in the
Ohio election, a national significance.
1t indicates that the Democratic boom
which set in year ago was not an
ephemoral and transitory boom, but
radical and permanent change i'll
popular mind. 1t demonstrates that
the effete Republican party has served
its mission and no longer has reason
to live. 1t proves that the people are
tired of whiskey rings, Dorseyism and
star-route roguery that the rascals will
be turned out and the grand old par
ty" must go. 1t shows, too, that the
tariff position which the Ohio plat
form imbodied was sound one and
is certain to become the national ut
terance on that much discussed topic
We are satisfied with the Ohio election;
considering the disadvantages that the
Democrats labored under, they have
done nobly and we'll
Ohio has long been Republican
though sometimes going Democratic
in OIL years. The indications now are
that it will hereafter be Democratic
State, not altering its vote in presi-
Dental contests. 1t was swept by the
tidal wave last fail and has now gone
Democratic in two consecutive elec'
tiOnS tf ...s ,t-.stlr AHA ..f... ....f
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
vi ---- --------------
THE SOUTH AND TIE PRESIDENCY.


The Nashville American unwilling
ly started the Southern presidential
boom, but to Col Heating, of the
Memphis Appeal, is to be charged the
prominence that the matter has as
summed. He'managed to get himself
interviewed by the New York Herald
on the subject and has since been
urging it.through the columns of his
paper. lJ lls
The friends of this movement say
that the South should be represented
on the Democratic presidential ticket
of 1884 in order to allay sectionalism,
but to our way of thinking, blatant
demand from any portion of the Union
for such recognition, is in itself the
very purest sectianalism. i: South
ern man should be chosen by the
Democrats next Year as their candi-
date for Vice-President, it would be a
very mean sectionalism that would
object to the ticket on that account.
There is really no reason, unless it be
the expediency of choosing a candi-
date from a doubtful state, why the
Vice-President should not come from
the South as well as the East or West;
but at the same time it is in exceed
ingly bad taste for the South to raise a
clamor, and, as some have put il, a
demand for the Office II some prom
inent Southern man should become a
candidate for the place,q his claims
might be urged by himself and his
friends with all due propriety, but it
i'll accords with the boast of the South,
that she has gone out of politics and
into business to set upa howl for the
Vice Presidency, or any.other national
office.
1t will probably always be impolitic
to place a prominent ex-Confederite
on the National Democratic ticket.
It's useless to reason against the
prejudice that makes. it so, the fact
still remains that it is bad policy and
policy is always Il weighty considera-
tion in politics. We don't suppose
any ex-Confederate aspires to either
the Presidency or the Vice-Presiden-
cy. When the war was over, and the
carpet-baggers had been disposed OF,
the Southern people elected these sol
diers us their representatives in Con-
gress; no other set of men would have
been true representatives of the
Southern people. In this capacity
they have deported themselves with
admirable conservatism and many of
them have become distinguished for
their statesmanlike abilities, but they
have no desire to stir up forgotten
strife and degrade themselves by a
scramble for national offices.
The Southern presidential boom is
all bOsh, and must 90. .atf. ....
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
TIE WORST DEVIL OF ALL.

The Temptations of st. Anthony
is a poem that in rather graphic style
shows the susceptibility of man to the
charms of the fair sex. The good
saint could not be induced by all the
deviltry that legion OF imps could
perpetrate to lift his eyes from the
holy book he read But when the
tcmpter came in female form
And while with whisper his check she
pressed" I...
the good old man at last succumbed
For he knew that the thing had lovely
And he could not choose but loOkg'
The concluding stanza of the poem
is us follows:
There are many devils that walk the EARTH
Devils large and devils small;
Devils SO mcagre and devils so stout;
Devils with horns and devils without
Sly devils that go with their tails upcurled,
Bold devils that carry them quite uufurled
Meek devils, and devils that brawl;
Serious devils and laughing devils;
Inns for churches and impS for reVclS;
DEVILS uncouth, and devils polite;
DEVILS black, and devils white;
DEVILS foolish, and devils wise,
But n laughing woman with two bright eyes,
Is the woTsest devil OF all.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13
WE favor a tariff for re,e,,,,c lin,it,

WE favor a tariff for revenue limited
TO the necessities Of the Government eco
TlOnsicGlly administered, and so adjusted
in its application as 10 preuerat unequal
burdens, to encourage productive indus
tries at home, afford a Just compensation
to labor, but not to create or foster nso7aop-
lies.-Ohio Democratic Platform, June
2lS.-Virgi'aia Democratic platform,
July 25th.-Substantially, Pennsylvania
Democratic platform, Aug. Isl.
We taUOr a tariff for revenue, limited
to the necessary expenditures Of The GOO
er1tmeilt, and so adjusted as to giUe pro
tection and encouragement to hOnae
production, industry and labor, a0ithOatt
Predicting or fostering Dao1sopoiies.-
Nelg Jersey Democratic platform, Sept
1871 s5isi
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13

MurfreesbOrO News: Mr.. James
Jenkins, 4 prominent cotton planter
of this county, has ON his farm near
Murfreesboro, a very remarkable
stalk of cotton. The stalk is well
formed and fiourishing and full of
hollis of ordinary size, plump and
full, but there is absolutely not a
fiber Of lint in any Of the bolIs. For
tunately this is the only stalk of the
kind which Mr.. Jenkins has been
able to find. ..s d..
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-10-13

WE haven't any faith in the Butler
hoom and think all the talk about old
Ben's being the next Democratic NOM
inee is transparent bosh. Butwe want
90 remark in time that if the party
docs commit itself to any such folly
we nropose to bolt The Editor OF
,he CERoSIcLE has never in his life
voted any other than the straight
ticket, he has always swallowed the
roaular nominee dose, no matter
whether it was gall or honey; but he
nronoses to draw the line somewhere
and INST now he draws it at Ben Butler
or President.