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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-09-11


PRocEEpINGs OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The County Commissioners were in session on
Monday, and passed orders to borrow $4,000
from Eliza w. Provost; $500 from Mary G. Sill
yer; 5000 from Euphemia s. Easter 81, 900 from
VIM A. Silver, of John A., through his guardi-
ans, Jeremiah P. Silver and VIM. T. Easter.
These sums of money are to used TO pay for
damages to bridges and roads by the flood of
August 3D. 1885.
The following letter was received from Hon.
Jacob Tome, President of the Cecil National
Bank, of Port Deposit:
PORT DEPOSIT, Sept, 9Th, 1885
John s. Ddllan,, Esq, President
Board of Co. Con,Da'rS Of Hartford Co.
DEAR SIR: your county wishes to borrow
any money / can accommodate you to the ex-
tent of ten thousand dollars.
Yours, truly,
j. TOME.
Mr. II, A. Nagle, Superintendent of Bridges for
Baltimore county, yesterday met with the Com
mssiouers of Hartford county, and awarded the
following contracts for iron bridges over the
Little Gunpowder, the dividing line between
I the two counties:
Bridge at Guyton's Mill, 30 feet in length, Is
feet roadway, to Wrought Iron Bridge Com
{, pany, of Canton, Ohio, l.. w. Finley, agent,
81, 727,55.
Bridge at Green's Ford, 30 feet in length, 1G
feet roadway, Pittshurg Bridge Company,
| S1,710.12.
MEETING OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,"
| The board of directors of the Hartford county
| Agricultural Society met on Thursday Present,
Messrs. VIM Baldwin, President; C. c. Kinsey,
j. f. Reasin, Jas. NJ, Cain, VIM. NJ Edelin,, H.
c. Lawder, s. G. Davis, Col. John Carroll
| Walsh.
Mr.. Edeiu reported the track at the fair
grounds in very good condition. Mr.. Edelin,
also reported that he had bought three tons of
bone and one ton phosphate for the wheat crop
to be sowed this fall.
! The Secretary was directed to issue hay
tickets, emitting every exhibitor of stock to 10
lbs of hay for every head of stock.
The Secretary was directed to furnish Mr.. r..
Sheridan family ticket and to buy him a share
of stock, ut the expense of the Society," for
services rendered.
The following bids for music were received:
Gen Rock Band, Sl75; New Freedom, $40
Beckleysville, 800; Stewartstown, $50; Henry
Beckleysville Band at 800, and board and lodg-
| ing for the men.
1t was determined to close the entry books
positivelyon Monday evening, October 18th, at G
o'clock.
The following bids were also received for the
restaurant and other privileges
For Restaurant.-Lyle & Little, of Bel Air,
SOB Hand II Spencer, SIS; J. r. Wetherill,
Sol Poff II Laird, $50; j. b. Wilson, $50
Geo. T. Parsons, $50. Awarded to Lyle Il Little
for $105.
For Soft Drinks.-Poff " Laird, $50 Jas. G.
Toner, 500; Hand IL Spencer, Sl15; J. B. vii.
son, SIG; e. r. Young, Sill. Awarded to
Hand IL Spencer, for S115.
For Ice Cream, &c.-Potf IL Laird, $50. 50
Jas. q. Toner, Sl76 Hand IL Spencer SIPS; j. B.
Wilson, S7S. Awarded to Jas. c. Toner, fol
SIG.
For Cigars and Tobacco.-Poff Il Laird
$780, JOS e. Toner, So Hand IL Spencer
S25; j. B. Wilson, s2G. Awarded to Jas. c.
Toner, for $40.
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Another Leak Stopped.

Mr.. j. A. ]. Creswell, government counsel
before the Court of Commissioners of Ala
bama Claims, certainly can testify that re-
pubics are not ungrateful. Ever since this
court was established, to adjust claims for
vessels destroyed by the Confederate steamer
Alabama, Mr.. Creswell has been receiving
the snug little salary of $4,000 year, for his
services before the court. There have prob
ably been no cases before this court for
years, but Mr.. Creswell has been drawing
$4,000 year all the same, without rendering
any services whatever. His salary would
probably have gone on until the day of his
death if the Democrats had not come into
power ut Washington. The first Comptroller
OF the Treasury refuses to pay Mr.. Creswelrs
salary for August, on the ground that the
law does not entitle him to fixed salary. It
provides that he may charge reasonable
compensation for his services and that his
fees shall not exceed $4,000 year. There
fore, if he performs no services he would be
entitled to no fees. The Republican officials
took another view of the law, and have been
paying Mr.. Creswel and other officers of the
court, including Mr. Blaines son, large
salaries for years for doing nothing.
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.ss-THE EGIs has more extended circulation
among the intelligent farmers and business men
The attention of advertisers is directed to this
fact.
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John Sherman still waves the bloody
shirt in Ohio. In speech at Lebanon, on
Tuesday, he declared that the South ought
to be deprived of that portion of her repre-
sentation in Congress TO the extent that that
representation is based on the colored vote.
Senator Sherman was one of those who fore
ed negro suffrage on the country and he
should not complain if it gives the South in.
islicd until every Southern State is under Re.
publican control, and in the South this means
the restoration of carpctbag rule or the dom.
nation of the colored race
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hartford COUNTY HISTORICAL So
IL CIEFY.-A meeting for the organization of
a Historical Society in Hartford county, will be
held at the Court House, in Bel Air, on SAT-
URDAY, September Goth. 1885, at IL o'clock, A. NJ.
The teachersof the public schools and all others
interested in the object are earnestly invited to
attend. DIR. W. STUMP FORWOOD
4sep Chairman of Committee.
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B f. l. A L r, M d.

Friday Morning, September II, 1885.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02

What This Relationship Implies.
How 1t May Be Secured and Mai"
tanned. >"'''
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
PLAYING MEMS PARTS.

Notable Instances Where Wom,n Have
Achieved Distinction by Unsexin: Them.
selves.
A woman entered a horse fol a race
recently in Belgium. but made TIA con-
dition that she should ride it lerself,
dressed as q jockey. This the poprie-
tor of the track refused to permit, but
the proposition produced a gooe deal
ef newspaper discussion, in which a
number of facts were brought to light
showing how many women hal as
sumed mems attire in order to iollow
mems pursuits. Lady Franklin the
wife of an English baronet, rode fam.
GUS race once. at which nearly 10, 600
persons were present, but she was
beaten by a rider named Flint, though
the odds were in her favor. She ran
another race, however, and with more
success, for she beat a famous Jockey,
named Frank Buckles, in a two-mile
heat race: but the victory was account
ed for by the fact that the jockey
gave her thirty-two pounds in weight.
The competition of women with men
where horses were concerned dates
back to Homer's time, for he tells of
the defeat of a woman warrior, a de-
fender OF Troy, whom Achilles pulled
from a horse and killed. 1t is during
modern times, however, that women
have assumed the garb Of men so as
to profit by the employments of
the latter. Not q month passes but
the newspapers tell the story of'some
woman in disguise arrested by the po-
lice, the excuse in every case being that
men were paid better than women
when following the same pursuits. 1t
is stated also as a fact that after every
battle, among the slain are found the
bodies of women who have fought in
the ranks. In some cases this was to
be near men to whom they were at
tached, but oftener for the more pro-
sale reason that they joined the ranks
of the army to make a livelihood. other
resources failing. Modern industry
discriminates less against women than
formerly. for now many employments
are open from which in the past they
were debarred. Nor is this change
confined to employment involving man-
ual labor, or even technical skill.
Newman College has recently sent up
two highly trained mathematical stu
dents, Miss Rochett and Miss Howells,
to compete with the Oxford graduates
for the position OF Senior Wrangler, a
distinction heretofore confined to men.
Democrats Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
Near Landmarks.

We must beware of Judging our rate
of progress only by a comparison with
objects very ear us. Seeing only how
the trees and posts and poles close be
side the track flash by the car window,
it almost seems that such speed would
bear us around the earth in a night and
a day. We lift our eyes-and, behold,
the mountain-peaks on the horizon are
almost keeping pace with us! Judged
by those distant landmarks. our speed
does not seem to be so tremendous
after all. Reckoning by the trees on|
the near shore, the steamer that bears
us down the river seems almost to fE|
reckoning by a distant headland, thd
steamer seems to do little more than
creep, after it has fairly put to sea.
Similarly, in our character and lives
We shall be deceived if we Judge ou1|
Christian progress by standards tha1|
are very near us. We may be 4 grea1
deal better than our neighbors, and moi
be nearly as good as we ought to be-
We must not make the failings of cua
fellow-sinners. or the backsljdings .
our fellow-Christians, any measure fN
our progress. Wemustno computeoa
Christian advancement by any EARTH
object whatsoever, or even, sailor-whJ
by the stars, but by the throne that
beyond the stars.-S. S. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02

grees. during the short time it took !
undresE roll my reindeer coat into \
bundle for q pillow, and crawl into M
sleeping-bag; but my movements paS
took more Of the character of q smdn
boy going to a baseball match thu
one saving wood.
Their most efficient method of kees
ing warm seems to be in the enormo3
quantities of fat they devour, and /
pecially during the winter season, al
of which so much has been written tilt
I will leave the subject for others Mt
SO we'll understood. Their clothig
made of reindeer skins throughout
have sufficiently, though very briety,
described above in brackets. Pers6s
looking at pictures of polar peqtle
clad in these swarthy furs, think fSm
their bulky appearance that they must
be quite heavy, but 1 think they are
lighter than III winter suits at hstne.
They are certainly lighter thai any
other clothing in the world calledupon
to protect their owners from suh in
tense cold.
A most peculiar fallacy Of Esqumaux
winter life is that, when they are living
in these odd little snow housess and
wrapped in furs and subsisting oBfats,
that their lives are sort of hibernNion,
rs near as human beings can be sup
posed to hibernate. On the CONTRARY,
the very reverse seems IL be the use,
and it is by far their ~liveliest seaAn,
despite the fact that their days Ire
much shorter, and all conditions, IS
we would view them. much more ui-
favorable for any great amount of ad
tive, out-of-door-life. L do not believe
l %exaggerate when 1 say, that for every
mile they travel in summer, with theil
hiaks Qittle skin c~anoes), or on foot
over the land, they can show from
dozen to a score in the winter with
their dogs and sledges. They killmore
game in this season, and their long
evenings are by far the most lively in
their acrobatic and superstitioVs exer-
cises. ]
A book could be written without Ell.
hausting the winter life in Esquinaux
land. but I have tried, in my shall
space, to give some of the most i4or-
esting themes thereon, and abovdall
something new and beyond the hfk-
neyed subjects of other polar travellrs.
Lieutenant +. SchwatEa, IN ~ Y.
Independent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
THE FRIEND OF GOD.

What This Relationship Implies.
How 1t May Be Secured and Ma,N
tanned. A""'h'
The world has changed in many ~
spects since the days of Abraham. and
even since the early days of the Chris
tian church; and yet the conditions .,
friendship with God are always wbs,
they have been. If we seek His favo,
rather than that Of the world He will
reveal Himself to us rs III friend. Ia
will love us because we love Him. And
this friendship is the essence of all truo
religion. AS in the days of Enoch, we
must walk with God. As in the dars
of Abraham, we must believe God and
go wherever He calls us to. We must
as David says: "Delight ourselves IN
the Lord" We must make Sacrifices
in order to be with God and to please
God as Abraham did. And we must
not do this expecting worldly success
as the result of our friendship, but will.
ing to be strangers and pilgrims-to
live in a hostile world as those who
seek a better country, even a Heavenly
We al not expect that God will be on,
friend unless we are his friends, and We
must show that we love Him. 1t is mt
enough to merely tell Him that we do
Professions of affection may deceive
men, but they can not deceive God.
If we who call ourselves the friends
of God were such friends as Abraham
was, willing to give up home and kind.
red and become strangers and pilgrims
in order to show our faith in Him and ia
enjoy communion with Him, we would
receive such tokens of His love as Abra.
ham received. While homeless in q
hostile land the word of God came to
him saying: ''Fear not, Abraham, |
am thy shield and thy exceeding GREAT
reward" These words were worth
more to Abraham than a crown and
kingdom. They assured him of protec.
ton here and of bessedness hereafter.
Abraham's was not a sad life. Paur's
was not, though filled with perils anG
Affections. God was with these codl1
men and they found in His presence
.'fullness of ioy."T The favor of God which
~isrevealed to us in proportion to uriidel.
ity is life, life now as we'll as hereafter.
But to win and keep that favor we must
give our hearts fully to Him. We must
love and serve Him as sincerely and
simply as Abraham did. .if thine eve
be single thy whole body shall be full
of light" The reason that so many
who call themselves Christians walk ID
darkness is they do not walk with God
as Enoch did; theydo not trust in God
as Abraham did. They are not willing
to give up all hat is hostile to God, Of
displeasing to him, and be known among
men as his friends under all circunE
stances and at any sacrifice. - Aiecy
Interior.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
A SHIFTING A
The Inevitable Destiny of An Interesting
Atlantic Watering Place.

The Inevitable Destiny of An Interesting
Atlantic Watering Place.
Old Manisees is bronzing more loiter-
ers this summer than ever before.
There are $500 strangers on the
island. Manisees is Indian, and ear
''Little Gods Island" and if Mr.. Block
hadn't happened along 200 years ago
the more romantic name would have
chung to it.
For nine months in the year the
island is plastered over with drying,
sailed Goldfish. The remainder OF the
season the natives devote to sailing
other peoples money. The soil is not
to be mentioned, for there isn't any.
For the present the island is c%ontenting
itself with travelling to the northwest
at the rate of about a foot a year. The
gray old Atlantic is grimly grinding
away the stately and pictured clay
cliffs on the southern end of the island.
In numerous spots along the southern
bluffs may be seen places where last
winters storms have ground out huge
cores of earth and swept them around
to the northwestern sand splits of the
island. where ~treacherOus bars are ever
forming toward the north. F~ootpaths
on the cliffs that were popular last year
o end abruptly on the brink OF
chasms thus formed, and new ones have
to be made. Keeper Clark, at the big
lighthouse on Southeast Point, says
the sea Is surely eating away the BLUFFS
wher0on the light is row perched, 200
feet above the sea level, and il is sim.
ply a question Of tine when the towe.
will have to be moved iaiand.-Co ~
+, Times
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
CHOICE SELECTIONS.
is only the Christian man wh

1t is only the Christian man who
the truly contented man.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worm
pound of sadness to serve God with
True charity makes no noise III u
world. A person who does good QUIZ
pure motives never spreads it aOroa
in the circle in which he moves Il.
makes it public through a newspspt
George Eliot.
Eternity is crying ont to y
louder and louder as you near :,
brink. Rise, be going! Count your \ =
sources; learn what you are not Ill r% nj
and give up wishing for it; learn Sr1
you can do, and do it with the en'7
of a man.-F. W. Robertson.
Young men, write on your cr.t
as with a diamond pen: "keh1cD an
the Sabbath day to keep it holy ,,s ID
whenever you are tempted to s@a
from the path it ~prescribes, 1epe nal
with all the courage OF a true
How much easier it is to keep ln'a
violate this great law! What stG }lr
evil does the Sabbath breaker r,E iM
for coming years. Aristia" MS.' nj
1t is related of General Grant IN, NJ
q young officer, starting to ten .aur.e
in hts presence. said that OF coG 1adie
could not be repeated beforc o,nO: d
and the General quickly ln'e1 beto]
with: well don't say it tnen sslr
gentlemen" If all who call tne ,u seq
81 propriety the congregation, v" "5
men do congregate might LOSE 1 ID I'd
fools call wit. but it woa ao,rupt
in purity. Many a youth IS cvi
by the talk in clubs and else nto 4
older men who have fallen thS
habit of telling stories wl ad daus
would not have their wives aDO CLiacq
tiers overhear for anything
Interior.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02

hoove him to economic in o,a..
make ends meet" he does not s,e 70
from the pinch of poverty or fe eall ~
sharpest tooth-the bite of huncer ' ~
good prayer for us all is that Of a
Give me neither poverty nor riSSar;
feed me with food that Is convaa i;es
for me; lest I be full and denv ' ThHt
and say, Who is the Lordp or last tI In,
poor and steal, and take the man, oe
AdUocdte. ''S'a0
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
S%ABBATH-DAY READING
NO CROSS, No GROWN.

"She began the cross. but, when she mad
nearly finished 1t, it occurred to her there
could not be a better foundation for a
crown. Nothing was needed blu to add q base
ali that was suggested in the idea of the cross
and the crowE-part of its very structure.
Yet, when it was finished. scarcely anybody
would notice that there was a cross there
Edluard Garrett, in Her Object an Life"
Who covets for gucrdon a crown
Should select at first as a CROSS;
All worthy and fadelcsS renOwn
Is blossomed OF conflict and loss;
The soldier courts honor in war,
The scholar tolls hard to flames height,
Long patience arrests the strange star,
And noontide lies hid in the night.
If this of earth-prizes is true,
How more shall the hOnors of Heaven
TIL crowns that are hid from u view
BE only to cro~ss-bearers given.
Earth's chaplets and bays are dcar-bought,
And won, often, only in strife.
But they who 1.-THE good fight" have fought
Through conflict and death enter life.
They fashion in crosses their crowns,
Unconscious of labor so grand;
And while, through their tears they look
dow
On burdens of heart and of hand,
IT comes to their thoughts, while they weep,
That the rude cross, girded with wings,
Can no more its old scmblance keep
And 10. to crown-likcness it springs.
oh, ye who are bearing the cross.
Like Him, who endured His to death,
There's infinite gain i'll your loss.
There's life in your sorrow.spent breath;
AID the wings-of patience and prayer
With the promise of God in it's scope;
You crown of fruitioni is there!
-Unlidm O.. Richards. in Youths Companion
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
LOVE AND CARDS.

The youth and maiden sat alone
Upon the pebbled strand
Beside the sea, and in his Own
He held her lily hand.
He gazed into her sapphire eyes
81 love you sweet he said;
The maiden answered him with signs
And blushing hung her head.
He pressed the hand so soft and white,
And kissed the dimpled chin,
And said. eff l played cards to night
know that / would win.
"You ask me why, you shall be told"
He pressed the fingers white;
81 know I'd win because l hold
A lovely hand tonight"
boston Courier.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02
WINTER IN THE ARCTICS.
Fall and Winter Sports in the Land
of the Esquimaux.

The Peculiar Architecture OF Esquimaux
Snow and Ice Houscs-The Food and
Raiment of tho Natiyes-How
They Bear Hardships.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02

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