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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-09-19
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VARIETIES.

~ A fact is stubborn thing; SO is mule.
That is a fact
Two heads arc better than one, particu-
larly in barrel.
Positive, cash; comparative, cashier; SUI.
perlative Canada.
beware of green fruit. The fruit cannot
help being green but you can.
"A Cambridge youth wrote the following
in young lady's autograph album: I'm the
chain OF friendship regard me as missing
link" and after signing his name he added
by way OF postscript but do not mistake
me for Darwin's missing one"
doctor, want to thank you for your
great medicine" at helped you, did it ?"
asked the doctor, very much pleased. at
helped me wonderfully" "How many bot
ties did you find it necessary to take ?" "Oh,
didn't take any off it, My uncle took one
bottle and am his sole heir"
-"Sometimes," said the conductor of a
western railroad "a passenger gets on that
hasn't purchased q ticket, and that gives the
conductor quarter of a dollar, or maybe a
half. Well, in accordance with the rules of
the profession, we sorter flip that coin up
heads for the conductor, tails for the com.
pany, see ?" 81 see, replied the deeply in.
terested and completely instructed passenger,
still, sometimes, the coin may come up tails,
and what then" "Oh," answered the con-
ductor, with look of contempt at the sim.
again See?"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-09-19
UWith0uf Earnpstnnss -

Without earnestness there is nothing to be
done in life; yet even among the people whom
we call men of culture, but little earnestness
is often to be found; in labors and employ
ments, in arts, nay, even in recreations, they
plant themselves, if may say So in an atti-
heap of newspaper only to be done with
them. They remind one of that young
Englishman at Rome, who told, with a con.
tented air one evening in some company that
to-day he had dispatched six churches and
two galleries" They wish to know and
learn multitude of things, and not seldom
those things with which they have the least
concern; and they never see that hunger is
not appeased by swapping at the air When
l become acquainted with a man my first
inquiry is; with what does he occupy him
self, and how, aud with what degree of per-
severance? The answer regulates the inter.
est take in that man for life.-Goette.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-09-19
WOman's Influence for Good,

SO great is the influence of a sweet minded
woman on those around her that it is almost
boundless. 1t is to her that friends come in
seasons of sickness and sorrow for help and
comfort. One soothing touch of her kindly
hand works wonders in the feverish child a
few words let fall from her lips in the ear of
a sorrowful sister do much to raise the load
OF grief that is bowling its victims down to
the dust in anguish The husband comes
home worn out with pressure of business
and feeling irritable with the world in general;
but when he enters the cosy sitting room and
sees the blaze of the bright fire and meets his
wife's smiling face, he succumbs in moment
to the soothing influences, which act as
balm of Gilead to his wounded spirit. We
are all wearied with combating with the
realities of life. The rough schooboy flies
in rage from the taupts of his companions
to lind solace in the mothers smile; the little
one, full of grief with its own large trouble,
finds haven of rest on its mothers breast !;
and 80 one can go on with instances of the in
huence sweetminded woman has in the
social life with which she is Connected
Spri,lafieM ReDpbkcdn.
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VOL. XXIX--NO. 81.
to conquer. the other

to conquer, the other.
After while it came out that Uncle Phil
was worth at least fifty thousand dollars
Doubtless the church and the mission will
get some of it; but it is probable that Charles
Dykes will be remembered, though both he
and his wife sincerely hope that the good man
will live till he is hundred. -Good Cheer.
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REST.
oh ! for pencil dipt in light,
In light, dear Lord, from Thee,
To paint in colors, clear and bright,
In tints of purity,
The perfect peace, the perfect rest,
OF those who lean on Jesus breast!
The clouds may gather, pillows swell;
In grief we seem to sit;
But Jesus whispers ut Is WELL"
In loving tones and sweet
And clouds dispense, and waves are DER.
And dove-like Peace descends once more !!
oh ! like the minister's painted glass,
Outside all dull and dim,
Men see no beauty as they pass,
But lol once stand a0ittin,
And iridescent luStre streams,
And light from Heaven in glory gleamsI
Dear Jesus all the love and light
Our earth bound spirits see,
Is radiance holy, pure. and bright,
Reflected still from Thee!
Thy radiance is around us thrown,
Thy comeliness is all our own!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-09-19
Another Dream Dissipated.

They were watching vessel coming up
the river, and he remarked:
Think, darling, of what an immense ex-
panse of ocean that vessel may have passed
over. 1t may be that she is laden with pre-
cious stones and ambrosial perfumes from the
fiowery East. Is it not like a dream when
you contemplate ii? Wait, will call to
them, and see how nearly have guessed it.
Hello, where do you come from and what is
your cargop"
Voice from the vessel: "New London on
ions and bricks"
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DROPPING HIS PRDE.-A gentleman who
owns fine tract of cedar land not far from
Austin, Texas, few days ago was told that
some negroes were cutting down the timber,
SO he rode out to see about it. To'his aston
ishment he found wealthy white neighbor,
with team and wagon, hauling off the tim
Der.
"Why, am astonished, colonelr' said the
owner of the land. ~ beard that a lot of
negroes were stealing my timber, and here l
find you, a white man, cutting my timber
You ought to be ashamed of yourself"
"Well, to tell the TRUTH" responded the
other party, II do hate to steal timber like a
darkey, but these cedar trees make such bully
fence rails that | concluded TO drop all pride
of race"-Austin SJaings.
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goetica1.
THE LAND OF NOWHERE.

THE LAND OF NOWHERE.
Do you know where the summer blooms all the
year round.
Where there never is rain on pic mic day.
Where the thornless rose in its beauty grows,
And little boys never are called from play
oh ! hey it is far away
In the wonderful land of nowhere.
Would you like to live where nobody scods,
Where you never are told ut is time for bed -
where you learn without trying, and laugh with
out crying, s.~ -fs-.t. H--.f# r.-..s..
Where snarls never pull when they comb your
head2
Then oh hey, you must HE away
To the wonderful land of nowhere.
If you long to dwell where you never need wait,
Where no one is punished or made to cry,
Where supper of cakes is not followed by
aches,
And little folks thrive on a diet of pie,
Then no hey you must go, say,
To the wonderful land of nowhere.
You must drift down the river of Idle Dreams
Close to the border of No-man's land,
For year and day you must sail away,
And then you will come to an unknown strand.
And no They IL you get there-stay
In the wonderful land of Nowhere.
-Hatpe,'S Young People.
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USED TO IT.-"Are you hurt?" shouted
dozen picknicing females as young man
was tossed over a neighboring fence by an
angry bull, and landed on his head in the
middle of the road
"Hurll' he answered. "Why of course
not; am used to coming down that way"
Used to itp exclaimed the fair chorus,
"Why, how can that be?"
81 own bicycle" was the reassuring re-
ply.-p PHILADELPHIA Cal. 1eG
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CT. GEORGES HALLE FOR BOYs.

school. Prepares for any college or business life.
$3.50 to $500 year. Large buildings, beautiful
grounds. Eight trains daily. No malaria. Books
free Circulars sent.
PROF. ]. @. KINEAR, A. M, Principal.
11ju2m
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
A Meaning.
Mistress Mary, quite contrary;
How does your garden grow?
Silver bells and cookie shells


|
Most of us children, little and big,
have recited this verse; but compare
lively few know there is q meaning at
tached to the last two lines. At the
time when this rhyme was made there
were really silver bells ana cookie
shells, ! and in rows, too, though not
growing in gardens.
/ In those days-some hundreds of
years ago-there were no coaches.
Ladies travelled and visited on horse
back; sometimes riding on a saddle or
pillion behind gentleman or man
| servant, and sometimes managing their
own horses. with the gentleman riding
alongside, or the groom following be-
hind. The equipments or trappings of
these horses were very rich and costly.
Generally, the cloth which half covered
them, and on which the lady rode,
would be of finest wooden or silken
material, handsomely embroidered. On
grand occasions, or when the lady was
very wealthy or noble. crimson velvet
or cloth-of-gold would be used, edged
with gold fringes and sprinkled with
small pearls, called seed-pearls. The
saddles and brides were even more
14SI1J ACGCIdlGu5 DGliA O1LGu SGT VIII
jewels or gold and silver ornaments,
called goldsmith $ work" One fash
ion, very popular in the times of Henry
the Seventh and Henry the Eighth, of
England, was to have the bride
studded with a row of tiny silver cookie
shells, and ITS edge hung with little
silver bells, which, with the motion of
the horse, kept up merry jingle.
Bells were also fastened to the point of
the stirrup, which was formed like the
toe of q SHOE. And this partly explains
another old nursery rhyme, made, no
doubt, about the same time:
Ride gray horse to Danburv Cross.
To see q fine lady go on white horse;
Rings on her fingers and hg!iS on hert9ss,
So she shall have mus wherever she goes
There IS q very old book preserved at
Skipton Castle, in England, the account
book of Henry Clifford, Earl of Cum
berland. In this book, among a great
many other entries, little and great, is
one of the purchase by the Earl of ga
saddle and bride for my lady, en-
bossed of silver cookie shells, and hung
with silver hells;'' and on the same
page is another entry of "a hawk for
my lady. with silken iesses, and silver
bell for the same. 1t was the custom
for noble ladies to ride with a hawk
perched upon their wrists; and this
COUNTESS of Cumberland, who is said
to have been beautiful and stately,
must have looked very grand when
thus equipped st. Nicholas.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN

"A cows best work is done from her
third to her tenth year. = Prairie
Farmer.
The want of pure and fresh water
accounts in many instances for the lack
of eggs during the winter season.
| Fowls require a constant supply of
water, and without it will not lay.-Ak-
bang Journal.
"A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
says that peach trees raised from the
seed on the spot where they are to
grow, and budded there, live longer
! and produce more fruit and are surer
bearers than those transplanted.
Lemon Pudding; Three-quarters of
. pound of grated bread, six ounces of
suet, one-quarter of a pound OF moist
sugar. the peel OF lemon grated, and
the juice. two eggs and a little milk to
mix it. Boil three hours.-M. Z. Her.
aid.
IA frost-proof vegetable-house is de-
scribed as made with walls fifteen inch
es thick, double-boarded, the space be-
tween the boards being filled with saw
dust. The ceiling is also boarded with
about ten inches of saw-dust between
the boardS.-Irou Times.
"A writer in Gardeni71g Illustrated
says that if young shoots Of the tomato
are taken off and propagated like bed
ding plants. they will make less ram
pant growth than seedlings, and be
more fruitful. Cuttings prove best for
pot culture; they are then to be kept
near the glass with a temperature of
about fifty degrees. They will make
fine plants by spring.
An exchange suggests, if farmers
would 60 to their barn on q wet day
and spend their time in making an
eaves-trough for the barn or stable, and
thereby carry away the drip which
would otherwise fall on the manure
pile, causing . waste of the elements of
plant food contained therein. they will
make more money that day than they
could any fine day in the field.
Bitter milk is q matter of frequent
occurrence every fall and winter, or
soon after the cows are of from graz
ing. 1t is caused first by bitter herbs
in the hay, such as May-weed, Johns
wort, etc, and also by the use of too
much oyer-ripe food, such as straw, corn
stoyer or late-cut hay. Itneyer occurs
when COWS are fed on good food and
are thriving or even holding their own,
and are kept comfortably warm. -Bos-
ton Globe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
honestIy?' 1 answered. This, at the

honestIy?' 1 answered. This, at the
worst. only makes US square.
The prizes were to be presented pub
icly that evening, but before | left the
classroom [ was warmly congratulated,
and saw Howard disappear full of rage.
"Well, boys. went to my room, and
then came this battleI tell Of. There
was no cannon-roar or streaming blood,
but no conflict since ever cost me the
mental struggle that one did.
''At last conscience won the day, and
! said | would SO and tell the Professor
the whole story.
"And you lost the prize, after alp"
eyes, Ned. J"
Howard got, and kept bothP',
eyes"
$50 your battle was a regular defeat,
after all. How mean in him!' said Tom.
Il am not sure of that; there are de-
feats, and defeats. Self and Satin de-
feated means victory for truth and hon
or. "-E'orDGfd.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
why lie Goes on Clutches.

Mr.. Gazely, travelling salesman for
the well-known liquor house of Gum
! cane & Racket, now wears a pair OF
| crutches. not for ornament, particular
| y, but mainly for use. Several DAYS
| ago Gazely, while en- route for rural
seat Of trade, fell in with a lot of young
| fellows, representing many trades and
| profess ;ons They exchanged cards,
| TASKS and compliments, old Jokes and
wearisome stories. When Gazely ar
rived at the small town where he was
to transact business, If possible, he pro-
ceeded at once to the house whose wants
| in the whisky line he had ever supplied;
but upon entering the store he saw that
q change in proprietorship had taken
place. The proprietor came forward.
Good morning, sir
tHGood morning. see that this place
has changed ownership. i used to do
considerable business with your pred
ecessor and hope to merit your CON
fidence. =
Your name?'
Gazely handed him q card, not his
own commercial pasteboard, but I'M
fortunately the name and swo-line adj
vertisement of a young undertaken he
had met on the train. The merchants
looked at the card for a moment and
said:
Il am thankful to say, sir, that | need
nothing in your line. y
But you soon will, / hope" replied
Gazely.
The merchant knit his brows, dropped
a stitch, picked it up and proceeded to
knit a while longer.
/ hope may not soon need your
services, sir. / don't know why you
say that my predecessor ever had any
dealings with you, for he is young
man
81 know he's a young man" said
Gazely, looking sharply at the ner-
chant, "but what difference does that
makee He kept his cellar well stocked
with my goods, but that $ neither here
nor there. I've got the best in the
market, and Just now we are selling at
strikingly low figures. You'll never
have a chance to do better and I advise
you to lay in a stock at once. Now, for
your own individual use, can do the
nice thing by you.
"Do you take me for g fool?n
Certainly not. I'm only advising
you 20 buy in time. Such reasonable
figures will not be open to you many
days longer. can fix you up in nice
style, so that when your friends and
neighbors come in''-
s.You heartless scoundrel!'' exclaimed
the merchant, wheeling Gazcly around
and kicking him from the door. The
fall injured the young man, hence the
crutches. The mistake has been dis
covered, and both parties, young Gazely
in particular, are sorry that such ln-
dicrous misunderstanding should have
occurred. -ArkGnSaa0 Ir0Ueler.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
Our Young Readers.
"BAD CHILLUN."

"My muzzer's almost tray,
Her chillun is SO bad,
An my drate bid sisser Daisy
Does mate her drefful sad,
So sc says.
And Daisy is a norfuI dirl:
Her nice new froclE she tored,
An tause she had her hair to curl
Why she-why she just roared
Yesterday.
"When baby cwyed, an muzzer said:
Go an wrock yittle Clair,
She put truEns in his trade spread,
An cheW-dums in his hair
TozzGr day.
"What you sint ono time she did?
Why ruined away from me,
She went and ruined away an hid,
didn't know where she be-
Touldnt fine her.
"Dess Use sometimes norful, too-
OF tourse / is 1 know;
But what's y1ttle dirl to do
When she don't wort or sew
Tause she tarnt?
Z tshe's dot to try; be tross, too,
When she's SO small as me;
That's all the way she has to do
When she's tired-don't you see?
Tourse you do.
&c When Use WEAKLY dood and nice
Through all the drate long day,
Papa tells me a pearl of price,
An m,1zzer's dad to say:
She was dood.
Good Cheer
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
A Fine Morning.

'Fine morning, your honor" affably
remarked the man who was arrested the
night before for being drunk and disor-
derby.
YES, indeed, heartily responded
the Justice; .'guite fine-morning; in
fact ten-dollar- fine morning. Z
After this little pleasantly the gentle
man was booked for the BLACK Maria, y
and the business of the court went on as
usual. Philadelphia CGll.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
The Peril Of Wiltcr Fishing.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin pro-
nounces the great loss of fishing vessels
during the past season . a horror oil the
sea even greater than the wreck OF the
City of Columbus and says there is
mo need of the annual sacrifice of life
and property which is now made 1t
furthermore declares that I" it is more
hazardous to engage in Georges Banks
fishing than to work in poWder-mill. -
The high rank OF the Bulletin as a
commercial newspaper gives much
weight to its words on this sub
iect, and the remedy it proposes de-
serves earnest consideration. 1t is bet
ter to abolish winter fishing on
Georges than to have yearly loss of
more than one hundred lives, but it sug-
gests that the use of deeper vessels with
an improved outfit would remove much
of the peril Of the industry. The city of
Gloucester is chiefly interested in the
winter-fshing, and Of its fleet sent out
in 1888 seventeen vessels and two hum
bred and nine fishermen never came
back. The record for 1884 may
be still more terrible, for already two
vessels are known to be lost and seven
more aresupposed to be.
The Newfoundland seal industry is
said to be the greatest and most profit
able ocean fishery in the world, but the
introduction of steam-vessels for fishing
gives especial interest to the inquiry
whether winter fishing is necessarily so
periIous that it ought to be prohibited.
for it is thought that steam-fishing
smacks will be extensively used to take
cod in the winter months, Steam
smacks can also be advantageously
used for mackerel- fishing, catchingmore
fish and taking them to market much
more rapidly than sail-vessels. At pres
ent much ofthe fish eaten in winter is
taken from the water in the fall and
kept on ice until it passes from the mar
ket. The demand for fish fresh from the
sea is increasing so fast that general in
terest attaches to the discussion of the
methods by which the perils of winter
fishing be reduced. Nv Y Ma1 and
Express.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23

The highest and dryest ground is
the best for grapes. Chicago Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23

their goods in their stores and awoke Satur-
day morning to find them under water.
The appeals sent out by our relief commit
tee are being generously responded to and
will probably enable it to promptly relieve
he immediate distress.
NASHVILLE, KY, Feb IL.
The river is Eve feet higher than last
year and rising half an inch an hour.
More than thousand people are homeless.
The public schools are dismissed and the
buildings occupied by the sufferers.
ASHLAND, KY, Feb. IL.
A number of furnaces and manufacto-
ries are compelled to stop and hundreds of
houses are flooded.
CATLETTsBURG, KY, Feb. Il
The river came to stand at A. NJ.
Looking at hundred or more buildings
removed from their foundations, the place
looks like destroyed town. Provisions
are running short aruong the poorer
classes.
LAREsCEBURG, IND, Feb. II.
The condition is growing worse. More
houses are floating away. Only one days
rations of bread; plenty has been sent, but
the only mode of access is by boats from
Blasdell's. The people at last have been
compelled to make an appeal 80 the general
public for help. They say 1900 have been
driven from the houses. Fully 1000 must
be fed daily, while hundreds of houses have
been swept away.
PORTSMOUTH, o., Feb. IL.
The river is nearly on q stand. There is
great distress. Many houses doated away.
Two children were drowned. The fire on
Sunday burned from Shay's corner to Sec
ond street, Loss $50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
RELIEF NOTES.

Governor Hoadley OF Ohio has issued a
proclamation calling upon the people of
Ohio to contribute to relieve the dire dis
tress brought upon thousands of their fel.
low-citizens by the foods. A central com
mittee has Er4n organized at Columbus
with T. y Huntington as chairman.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-23
THE OHIO RIVER DELUGE.

age to Property Almost Incalcu1able-
The Homeless Thousands at the Inun-
dated Points Appeal for succor-The
People of the Nation Awakening to the
Urgency of the Situation-NationaI, States
5t,n cipaI and Private Measures for Re-