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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-02-02
5Farmers' Column.
"Speed the PIOlU."
Management of Farm Horses In Winter.

There are few subjects relating to farm
economy, upon which there is so much diver
| sity of opinion, as upon the care of farm
work horses during winter. 1t must be
generally conceded that the expense of keep
ing the necessary number of horses is among
the heaviest of expenses of the farm. The
manner of feeding farm horses during winter
when there is comparatively little for them
| to do, as is the case on most farms, varies
so much among good farmers that single
| opinion seems oflittle value. Horses heav-
| ly grained, and supplied also with hay each
| day, will prove costly animals by spring, un-
less they have performed profitable work dur
| ing portion of the time. 1t is q question if
horses, kept fat will prove more efficient for
the work given them than those which have
been kept on less grain. If this is fact,
there is evidently great saving in feeding only
us much as is necessary to keep the animals
in good heart and flesh
This topic was brought up at q recent
meeting of our Chemung Valley Tobacco
Club, and was surprised to note the variety
of views expressed The opinion was quite
general, however, that too much hay will be
eaten by most horses if given in large guam
titles. 1t was also generally agreed that the
cutting of coarse fodder was an advantage
because it avoided wasteage and caused the
fodder to be more readily eaten. Clean oat
straw was considered superior to hay by some
if accompanied with proper allowance of
grain. Several members, including myself,
practice the plan of feeding rather lightly of
grain and hay until few weeks before the
opening of spring when the grain allowance
is gradually increased to 10 or more quarts of
oats per day.
In regard to the kind ofgrain best for win
ter feeding there was general agreement that
the feed should consist of at least one-half
corn. Corn and oats ground together, half
and half in quantity, is excellent feed for all
seasons. Some members, in consequence ola
scarcity of oats, had practiced the feeding of
corn in the ear with good results. In
spring the corn was soaked in water from 10
to "a hours previous to feeding it. Corn
alone was, however, considered too concen-
trated and heating for steady diet in warm
weather, and for animals performing labor.
Plenty of dry straw for bedding, and careful
and thorough grooming, were advised at all
times.
Growing colts need some grain every day
for their best development. There is no
economy in scrimping colts of grain needed
to promote healthful growth, for the age at
which they will attain their full size and
strength will depend largely upon the method
of feeding Country Gentleman.
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VARIETIES.

A callow youth asks Il Philadelphia
paper where he shall "put his kiss" When
a young man doesn't know where to put
kiss, he should keep it in his head lift doesn't
make too much noise rolling round in the
vacuum.
"A small boy of four summers was riding
on hobby horse with q companion. He
was seated rather uncomfortably on the
horses neck. After a reflective pause, he
said: 81 think if one of us gets off can ride
better"
Encourage newspaper reading among
your children, and You will soon discover
what fondness they will have for their
family journal, and how rapidly they will
improve The newspaper is the poor mans
library family should be provided with
good newspaper.
-"When yon were last here" said the
magistrate to the prisoner, "you promised
me that if I released you you would go to
work Why haven't you kept your word ?"
Judge" returned the victim meekly 81 didn't
want to be breeding any disturbance and l
was afraid if | went TO work that / would
get on strike"
81 am sorry to hear ofyour uncle having
drowned himself at sea-" said Gilhooly to an
influential citizen of Austin, who wore sad
look and Grape on his hat Eyes it was very
sad" "Did he have any grounds for 1T"
GLOW in the mischief could he have any
grounds for it out at sea, where the water is a
mile and half deep?"
An editor once Owned three Hundred
thousand dollars worth of Railroad stock,
twenty One Thousand dollar Government
bonds, six white Shirts A Country Residence
on the Hudson, farm in Illinois, q span OF
IIprcnc and Wnnnp Snitc of (1ptbnc
and Plug hat. This fable Teaches that
all the Liars are Not Dead Yet.
$50 you are back in the city again ~
said one laboring man to another; Thought
you found employment in the country ~
$50 did, but you see the old farmer went
to work and strung the whole farm all over
with barbed wire, and so / quit and come
| home There is time to work and time
to rest, but you can't rest on barbed wire
fence"
81 am sorry TO inform you" said mar
| to an Arkansas gentleman, 'that your sor
has been killed in n balloon ASCENSION
"How?" asked the gentleman. "Well, you
see he went up with the professor and tn,
balloon dropped suddenly and killed both o
them" ut was the descenson that killed
him. My friend, when you come into thi
neighborhood with piece of information
give it straight"
A gentleman in village in New Yorl
State has family of three or four little girls
Not long since the children were talkin!
about pair of twins. One ofthem, an eide
one. turned to her father and said:
papa, what do they call it when tire
babies are born at once?"
4 little one who was much interested in tn
conversation, and who had heard talk abou
the smallpox, at once interrupted and SAT-
with much animation
81 know, papa"
"Well, what do they call it?' said the fl,
ther.
"An epidemic" said the little one, proud
displaying her knowledg.
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Smiles That Don't Assimilate.

What strange SMILES people do make use
of, to be sure! They say that thing is MS
black as the ace of spades, when their com
parison would be much stronger did they
say as black as the ten of spades, which is
ten times blacker than the ace A man tells
you that he has been working all day like a
dog, when you know and he knows that n
dog doesn't work at all He tells you that
the sky last evening was rs ink, leaving your
mind in state of uncertainty whether the
sky was blue or red, either of which it might
have been according to his smile. Then he
tells you that so and so is as mad as a halter
as though matters were more prone to anger
than the average human. When he says
that somebody has been acting like sixty
however, you know that he is only speaking
figuratively, and of course, nobody can take
exception to that.
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Live Cattle Weight by Measure.

The only instrument necessary is a meas
ure with feet and inch marks upon it. The
girth is the circumference of the animal, just
behind the shoulder blades. The superficial
feet arc obtained by multiplying the girth
and length. The following are the rules to
ascertain the weight of the animal:
If.less then one foot in girth, multiply super.
fetal feet by eight.
If less than three and more than one, null
tiply superficial feet by eleven.
Ifless than five and more than three, null.
tiply superficial feet by sixteen.
If less than seven and more than five, null
tiply superficial feet by twenty-three.
If less than nine and more than seven, null
tiply superficial feet by forty-two.
Example: Suppose the girth of bullock
be six feet three inches; length, five feet six
inches the superficial area will then be thirty
four; and in accordance with the preceding
table, the weight will be seven hundred and
eighty-two pounds.
Example: Suppose n pig TO measure in
girth two feet, and length one foot nine
inches. There would then be three and a
half feet, which multiplied by eleven, gives
thirty-eight and a-half pounds as the weight
of the animal when dressed. In this way
the weight of the four quarters can be sub
stantialy ascertained during life.
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gnetical.

HE SCHOOLMASTER'S SLEEP.
The schoolmaster was weary,
Was weary, old and gray;
And heaviness came DER him
Upon that sunny day
The merry days of childhood
Returned he saw again
The faces of old playmates,
Who now were white-haired men.
And then he saw his scholars
An air OF study feign;
He heard the buzz of insects
Against the window pane.
The drowsy school-room murmur
He heard, and, in his trance,
He saw the urchins Watching
His face with stealthy glance.
lie saw, and for moment,
He reused his dreamy brain
To loose the sluggish letters
OF stupor's leaden chain.
In vain; for with the effort,
His head dropped on his breast.
His breath came faint and fainter,
And soon he sank to rest.
And then arose an uproar!
And boundless was the glec
Among those little scholars
The schoolmaster to see.
Their youthful, hayward spirits
Took many merry freak;
They boldly rolled their marbles
Or romped at hide-and-seek.
The study-hour was over,
And still the master slept;
And greater grew the tumult
These thoughless scholars kept,
Until little maiden,
Who watched the pallid face,
With grave concern and wonder,
Stole softly from her place
Stole softly to the master,
And gently touched his head,
And started back in terror
The Sct0OiRlaSter lCdS dedd!
Ben Wood DdriS.
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-Bright's Disease of the Kidneys, Diabetes
and other Diseases of the Kidneys and Liver
which you are being so frightened about, HOP
Bittters is the only thing that will surely and
permanently prevent and cure. All other pre-
tended cures only relieve for time and then
make you many times worse.
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Mrs Eliza Willard, Baltimore, Md, says
"Brown's Iron Bitters has done me much
good in malarial fever"
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Mrs. II. b. Stewart, Baltimore, says
"My daughter has used Browns Iron Bitters
and it has done her q great deal of good"
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Why do Animals Need Salt.

Professor James E. johnson, of Scotland,
says:
Upwards of half the saline matter ofblood
(57 per cent consists of common salt, and
this is partly discharged every day through
the skin and kidneys. The necessity of con-
tinual supplies of it to the healthy body be-
comes sufficiently obvious. The bile also
contains soda lone of the ingredients of salt)
as a special and indispensable constituent,
and so do all the cartilages of the body
Stint the supply of salt, therefore, and neither
will the bile be able properly to assist diges-
ton, nor the cartridges 10 be built up again as
fast as they naturally go to waste. 1t is bet
ter to place salt where stock can have free
access to it, than to give it occasionally in
large quantities. They will help themselves
to what they need if allowed to do so at plea
sure; otherwise, when they become salt
hungry they may take more than is whole
some or good for them.
How TO TELL DIPHTuERIA.---"I was called
out of bed past midnight to go four miles in
| the country and attend what the messenger
stated was a bad case of diphtheria." "And
you went ?" "Had to. When ! arrived
found ten year old girl crying 18th the fore
throat. looked into it, asked the girl few
| questions and found that she had done big
washing that day. Had n little cold-nothing
else" GLOW can you tell the difference ?"-
"Pll give you rule by which you can always
determine" was the response. "lf the throat
is red and smaller, no fear of diphtheria; but
if it looks as though some one had thrown a
handful of ashes into the throat-a dull gray
color-look out. It's diphtheria's danger sig
nal."-Lincoln (No6) Journal
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JUST THINK OF IT!

Dress Goods, 8 to Ct Cents. Beautiful Dress
Goods 10 to 124 Gents. Doube-width Black
Cashmere as low as 20 Cents. Handsome
Black Silks, so Gents and upwards. Cheviot
Shifting Gents. 1914 White Blankets 81 so
and upwards. Remnants of Prints many of
them beautiful and all desirable, at only
Cents. Good Prints mot remnants) Cents
Bleached and Brown Muslin, 5 Cents and
upwards. For your Husbands and Sons, we
have Cassimeres and Kerseys, 25 Cents and
upwards. A full line of Black Cloth and
Doeskins.
Our stock of Goods for Mems Clothing
will be sure to please your taste. We have
lots of other goods equally low Remember
we guarantee satisfaction or will refund your
money.
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Having purchased the business of John j. NJ.
Alexander, in Bel Air, we are prepared to make
and will keep on hand all kinds of
Fine Carriages, Buggies, Dayton Wag-
Ons, Express Wagons, svc.
Having had ample experience in first-class city
manufactures, and with irst-class workmen, we
can guarantee work equal in style, finish and
durability to any in the country.
Careful and prompt attention paid to repairs of
Light Work; and Blacksmithing in all its
branches.
We propose to build up a reputation for the
best work at the lowest prices, and respectfully
ask those in want of Carriages, now or hereafter,
to call and see us.
A. WILLIAMSON a. BRO,
Cor. Main and Bond Streets Bel Air, Md.
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observation-disclosures and Administrators who
IN have not settled their accounts according to
law, will at as early a day as possible, with the
vouchers, report to the Register for the settle
ment of said accounts. All delinouents will he
called on to appear before the court By order
of the Orphans Court.
WIN. s. RICHARDSON,
ap1O Register of Wills of Hartford 90.
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Cor. Main and Bond streets, Bel Air, Md.
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Useful Hints.

Feeding stock in the barn yard on the
ground is wretched economy. More will be
wasted than is eaten. If you have no stab
ling for cattle, make racks.
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Tax the Sale of Whisky.

Ro the Editor of the indianapolis journal:
In your paper of the I'd inst. is an editorial
advocating the restraint or hedging of the
liquor traffic. This writer is, or tries to be,
radical on the Temperance question, yet he
has never held and does not now claim to
have his way or none. Governments, to be
successful must admit of compromise of
opinion among the governed. That there is
no choice between evils-no half way be-
tween virtue and vice-is a nice theory but
in the practice of life it is rarely seen. 1t is
submitted that in all the business and social
relations there is a continual choice being
made between seeming or real evils. 1t
must ever be so until the human judgment
shall attain to perfection. Half loaf is
better than no bread" Every restrainst
you put upon an evil is that much gained
toward its final overthrow. Because We may
not DESTROY it furnishes no reason why we
may not endeavor to lessen its influence, or
why we may not, if it will exist, endeavor to
turn it to good account. If we cannot
totally prohibit its sale; if we cannot have
local option, and it seems we can
have neither, then let us have a stringent Ii
cense system as the next best thing. | agree
with you in the article referred to-as be-
tween license and the unrestraiued traffic.
By all means let us have the sale of
it taxed Ii men will SELL if men
will drink and degrade themselves,
let the traffic be so arranged by
taxation as to yield enough into the treasury
to pay at least the actual court and peniten-
tiary expenses of their self-nflcted madness.
BY this means we may force part of their
earnings also into the educational fund. 1t
is not improbable that high tax would less
ell the number of drunkards among the class
of men who are dependent on small wages
for living Just as it places extravagant and
luxurious living out of their reach or wants
It's possible that thus the appetite might be
starved out l would like to see it tried
VINCENNEs IND. SENEX.
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A Defense of Annapolis Lying.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The recent performance of the cadets at
Annapolis recalls to my mind another item
in connection with that institution, which,
although it is seemingly disconnected from
anything bearing upon the present case,
may tighten the weight of blame which the
American public always throws upon our
cadets, whether naval or military, if they
show any independence.
Annapolis has been grinding out good
many graduates; indeed, so many that our
navy, cramped as it is with restricting laws,
and choked as it is with impeding legislation
is no longer able to contain them, die the
old officers as fast as they can. Our philos-
optical statesmen saw this trouble, and
with a praiseworthy celebrity passed in
the last session of Congress, or in the session
Just preceding, law STIMULATING that only
the ten highest-marked graduates should be
retained in the service of our country, and
that the others should be allowed to go back
TO peaceful avocationS and wander around
trying with the education of a soldier-sailor
to make their way as preachers, lawyers
merchants and farmers. Fully fitted for
nothing but life on the deep. with all the
time that is best for preparation gone, the
graduate who stands No. IL is, withall those
below him. told by this law that he must
commence over and look at life with an en-
tirely new aspect, assume new responsible
ties and try to con jure up new ambi-
tons out of the ashes of the old
dreams of naval glory. Instead of
providing for this law to take effect, not with
any of the classes already in the school, but
with the new class that entered next, and
which would go in with its eyes open, Con-
gress said the act should take effect i'm
mediately hence it was in fact an ex post
facto law, for the members of the present
first class entered with the promise of having
business, an occupation, for which the
school would give them a special training.
With this view they have remained in the
academy. Now, the government has broken
its promise and trifled with Its word.
May not this action of Congress have served
to have made all below the tenth man more
feokIose enI more inclined to insubOrdina-
ton than otherwise?
l was talking with the mother of one of
the first classmen land he is one of those who
have been sent on board ship for safe keep
ing), and she told me that ne had written in
letter to her about this law, saying it had
taken away the great incentive for hard work
and good conduct, and that he had lost about
all of his ambition. This young man is nc
exception. The law of Congress was foolish
and unjust, and the knowledge of the exist
ence of such law ought 10 paliate the of
Tense of the boys GEMP.
New CASTLE Ind, Feb. 3.
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History of the License system.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Jonrnsa:
Prohibitonists recognize that it is an
erroneous principle and an unwarrantable
and assumptiye prerogative for government
to legalize crime by licensing it, the high or
low qualification being of like indifference
to them The theory of license government
becoming particeps criminis to crime by au-
thoriziug it) originated in England at time
when a gluttononus tyranny enslaved the
minds as well as the hands of the people,
and it met with favor in the sight OF the
earlier fathers of our country more because
it was the readest than because it was the
better or more popular procedure,
1t was once the policy of Parliaments, and,
to a certain measure, of Legislatnres-and
sometimes of even clique or ring Of these
bodies-to adopt just whatever method
touching matters of legislation that best
suited them, well knowing that the com
mon people neither inquired nor cared any
thing about their acts, unless especially cited
to them. In this way many evils were
given statutory sanction which if fully exam
ined and decided by the people would have
been swept away entirely The license sys-
tenn is a relic of this kind. That system was
introduced during the territorial existence
of our State, and no doubt only a small
proportion of the people of that day under
stood it before it was adopted. The people
of that day never authorized it, and we of
this day don't sanction it. But still they
were unmindful of its erroneous and crim-
nal nature, and so it slept in our statute
books undergoing many changes but no i'm
provement) until disturbed, just as hundreds
of errors have slept the sleep of centuries
until something called the attention of the
masses to them. Inquiry has developed the
grossness, falsity and assumption of the
license system, and prohibition offers the
only correction thereof. V. II. MONROE.
SEYMOUR Ind. Feb Z.
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through their influence over the Legislature
nearly always increasing their fees and
adding the burden to the taxpayers. We
humbly request of the Legislature to allow
the people to have a voice in this matter.
Let them fix a reasonable salary for all pub
lie officers, and if said public officers don't
like the size of their salaries, allow them to
resign. There are always plenty of compe-
tent men to be found that are willing to take
the offices at a reasonable salary-no fear of
them going begging.
The clerks Office in this county at the
present time is paying between $1,000 and
Sc, 900 per year; the auditors between 81, 900
and IS, 000pe year. This is at least three times
as much as the same kind of labor would
bring in any regular line of business A
competent man. with deputy hire of 5000
per year. can run either our clerks
or sheritfs Office. A competent man.
with $780, deputy hire half of the year, can
run either our auditors or treasurer's office.
One man can run our recorders Office, and
have leisure time. Any OF our citizens that
see this work going on all the time can testify
to this. We cant see why it should be such
difficult thing to regulate this matter by
population. We are unable to see why the
same number of population in one county
of our State should give rise to much more
legal business than the same number in an
other county. Human nature and the death
rate, which gives rise to most of the legal
business we take TO be much the same the
State over
Let the fees that litigants and administra-
tors, ETC., are to pay into the treasury be
largely reduced, and abolish a large number
of the one, two, three and fve-cent fees
that officers charge every time they write
a half-dozen lines
We hope to hear through the Journal from
people in other parts of the State concerning
this matter. Let us keep it agitated.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"
WINCHESTER, Ind, Feb. 7. C1vIs
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Di.honoring the pead President.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Sentries with guns patrol the tomb day
and night relieved at intervals with all the
military forms and under the command of
officers of the guard Their orders are to
guard the body and there must be an official
verification that they have done their duty,
and that each officer of the guard has re-
ceived that which he is to guard. To verify
this, whenever the officers of the guard are
changed, they open the coffin, identify the
corpse, and exchange the receipts for it,,
Thus have we put the body of the slain
President into daily morgue, and con-
tinuous post-mortem examination, violating
all the sanctity of the grave and forcing the
soldiers into this repulsive duty, in the name
of honoring and guarding the remains.