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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13
More Pointed Than Polite.

Mr. Webster used TO tell story at the ex-
pense of Peter Little, who had in early life
repaired clocks and watches, but who had
for some years represented Maryland dis
trict in the House, One day he had the te-
merity TO move to amend resolution by John
Randolph on the subject of military claims
Mr.. Randolph rose up after the amendment
had been offered, and drawing his watch from
his fob, asked the Hon. Peter what o'clock it
was. He told him. "Sir," replied the ora
tor, "you can mend my watch, but not my
motions. You understand tictics, sir, but
not tactics"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13
Thread from Wilk Weed.

American inquisitiveness and ingenuity
united, have produced thread made from the
blossom of the common milk weed, which
has the consistency and tenacity of imported
flax or linen thread, and is produced at
much less cost. The fibre is long, easily card
ed, and may be readily adapted to spinning
upon an ordinary flax spinner. 1t has the
smoothness and. lustre of silk, rendering it
valuable for sewing use The weed
is common throughout this country, but
grows profusely at the South. The material
costs nothing for cultivation. and the gather
ing is as cheaply done as that of cotton,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13
WIN. j. III. CLUCK,
SO, IS and 100 N.GAY Street.
BALTIMORE, Md.
LOUIS RUSSELL,
has just opened first-class
GROCERY STORE !
TO IN' IfH . ItEE
Four doors from Front. baltimore.

Four doors from Front, Baltimore,
And will sell goods at the following astonishing
low prices
Best Lump Starch, 3G cents pound Blue Soap,
A. cts. per cake; Ivory Soap cts. per cake; Gin
cinnati OIene Soap, cents per cake New York
Olene Soap, ~ cts. per cake; Every Day Soap,
AZ cts. per cake; Eagle Brand Condensed Milk,
ID cts; per can; Bakers Chocolate, IS cts. per
pound Bakers Cocoa, 3S cts. per pound Best
Sugar Corn, s cts per pound ;Tumbler Mustard, s
cts per tumbler; Duryea's Corn Starch, pound
package cts, and l ID. package cts. large
size Bottle Blue, 3 cts; 10 cts: size Sweet Oil, s
cts, ID cent size II cts; Best Cider Vinegar, 90
cts; BestWhte Wine Vinegar, 20 cts. Best Safe
~ OIL . cts; Best Golden Syrup, 81 cts.
Best Sugar Drips, 30 cts. 5 Ct, size Pear
line. ,Soapine and Ivorine, AZ cts. per pack
age; Best Carolina Rice, cts. a pound Best Bar
ley, 4, and cts. pound; Imported Limburger
Cheese, lG cts a pound full line of Teas,
Coilees and Sugars at equally low prices. Our
Sadie Brand of Minnesota Patent Process Flour
is the true friend of all good housewives. Pure
spices at rock bottom prices. German Produce
especially and everything appertaining to first
class Grocery will be found complete at very low
prices. You are cordially invited to examine for
yourself. Try our celebrated Nachona Flour, a
first class family ut $3.50 per barrel or 70 cts a
sack. sB Please mention this paper 3OapGm
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13

are sold by nearly every nrst-class responsible
dealer in your county, and will be sold by them
at city prices. Therefore it is not necessary to
come to the city to make your purchase for their
goods. However, should you come to the city to
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13
Oau Street Column.
NO T ICE.
my STOVES AND rINwARE

After the expiration of this advertisement
there will not appear any future advertisements
from me in this paper.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13
Vacations in Life,

There is growing tendency to escape
from all labor that is hard and unpleasant
In the choice of an employment the youth
discards without hesitancy all those which
will tax his physical strength or soil his hands
and clothing, even though through them may
be the straight path to his highest success
and usefulness Surely successful career
in any honorable occupation must be far
more satisfactory to the performer, as 1t GER
tainly would be far more beneficial to the
community.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13
Going A-Fishing.

The fishing season is thoroughly in force
at present, and the efficient and experienced
liar energies from his lair and takes advant-
age of the occasion.
He sits there patiently all day amid the
mosquitoes and rattlesnakes and anacondas
and poison nettles and red ants that chew
holes in him and lizards that crawl into his
boots until he wishes be was dead and over
him big trees bend, from the branches of
which green worms fall on him and crawl
down his spine, and he throws rock at
COW which is coming towards him, and the
rock falls in bees nest, and the bees follow
him up and camp on him and dig caves in
his eyes until he stands on his head ard
bowls.
And at night he gathers up the three-inch
scrub fish he has caught and rubs mud in his
ears to take out the bee stings, and shakes
the snakes out of his pants, and fishes the
lizards from under his collar and starts for
home.
He swears by Saint Bugo that he will
never 60 fishing again, and he doesnt-until
the next time. And then the same old circus
occurs again, and it is followed by the same
stern VOW
Young man, if you must go fishing, use
some judgment. Don't go to the woods or
to the water; go to the fish market.
Weighty Words for Girls.
Never marry one who has only his love
for you to recommend him. 1t is very fasci-
mating, but it does not make the man. II he
is not otherwise what he should be, you will
never be happy. The most perfect man who
did not love you should never be your hus-
band. But though marriage without love is
terrible, love only will not do The days of
life are many, and the husband must be
guide to be trusted-a companion, friend,
as well as lover. Many girl has married
man whom she knew to be anything but
good, "because he loved her So" And the
flame has died on the hearthstone of home
before long, and beside it there has been sit
ting one she could never hope would lead
her heavenward. Marriage is solemn
thing-a choice for life; be careful in the
choosing.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-08-13
STOVES AND TINWARE
Housekeeping Articles,

you will receive n very cordial welcome and re-
ceive all the bargains that are offered. The few
dealers VINO DO not buy from me now are solicit
ed TO write for my new prices, and am sure they
WIN buy aLLGr llGY see the nricns and rnnds
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
Illustrious Book Agents.

Mark Twain and Bret Harte had
their first association with literature
as humble canvassers. ll8
James G. Blaine began life as a
book agent in Washington, Pa; SELL
ing "Life of Henry Clay"
The poet Longfellow was a book
agent before his verses began to at
tract the attention of the public.
Jay Gould made his first public
money peddling books in the rural
districts Of Central New York when
a mere boy.
Rutherford B Hayes footed it all
over Southern Ohio when a mere lad
getting subscriptions for Baxter's
"Saint's Rest"
Daniel Webster paid his second
years tuition at Dartmouth by act
ing as local agent in Merrimac Coun-
ty, N. H., for De Tocqueville's
"America."
When Napoleon Bonaparte was a
lieutenant in the army and unem-
ployed at Paris, he canvassed a sub
urban Partisan ACCOMPLISHMENT for a
work entitled "L'Histoire de la Rev
olution."
General Grant after his resignation
from the army and before his VEN
lures on the Dent farm, took part of
the territory Of a general agent of
Putnam's to dispose of Irving's eco
lumbus."
George Washington, while survey
ing Fairfax county, in. his youth,
canvassed for Rydell's american
Savoys: How he May be Tanned by
the Weapons of Civilization" and
sold over 200 copies in Alexandria,
Va.
Bismarck, when at Heidelburg,
during the winter vacation, having
his allowance cut short by his father,
the baron, canvassed for Blumen-
bach's "Aufgeschichte die Vessel
gung in der Spelgeleisen," and made
enough to pay for his beer and tobac-
co.
This is a suggestive hint as to the
disciplinary value of the profession
of book and periodical canvassing.
We see above the eminence to which
it leads, though these examples af-
ford hardly a hint as to its general
public utility.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
He'll Do.

In the autumn of 1880 a travelling
book peddler, who afterward became
a successful publisher and at the head
of a firm whose name is we'll known
in the United States today, came to
the door of a log cabin on farm in
eastern Illinois and asked for the
courtesy of a nights lodging. There
was no near inn. The good wife was
hospitable but perplexed, "for," said
she, 1--WE can feed your beast, but we
can not lodge you unless you are
willing to sleep with the hired man."
Lets have look at him first" said
the peddler. The woman pointed to
the side of the house where a lank,
six-foot man, in ragged but clean
clothes, was stretched on the grass,
reading a book. "He'll do" said the
stranger. "a man who reads a book
as hard as that fellow seems to, has
got too much else to think of besides
my watch and small change" The
hired man was Abraham Lincoln,
and when he was President the two
men met in Washington and laughed
together over the story their earlier
rencOntre.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
A School for Candidates.

western Pl0Wman.
We have literary colleges, medical,
law and business colleges; we have
so-called agricultural colleges, and
schools intended as a preparation for
all the various walks oflife, with one
eXception-we have no school for
candidates. In view of the fact that
the average American citizen is
at any time liable to be called upon
to serve the people in some official
capacity, which with all proper hui
mility and a sense Of deep response
bility he feels that he cannot be so
ungrateful to his friends as to decline,
it is quite evident that our great edu-
cational need is a school for the train
ing of candidates. The course of
study ofsuch an institution should en-
brace the following political sciences
Buncombe speech making.
CultlVatng the press.
Packing caucuses.
Straddling doubtful issues.
When, how and where to admins
ter taffy.
How to capture the saloon interest.
How to capture the foreign vote.
How to capture the American vote.
How to promise with no intention
to performing.
How to secure the influence of labor.
How to secure the influence ofcapi-
tai. "'i
How to run in voters on election
day.
How to spring up a damaging re-
port against the opposite candidate.
How to take the stains out of a bad
record.
These are merely suggestions out
lining some of the branches of study
which is OF the most importance to a
candidate.
There are many ex-members Of
Congress whose services could be Sc
cured in filling the Professorships Of
such an institution, and the instruc
ton they would impart would be
valuable, because derived from ex.
perience. With educated candidates
in the field, political campaigns would
not be conducted in a hap-hazard
manner, but on scientific principles,
and those old fashioned notions about
honor, honesty and dignity would
have give way to more progressive
ideas. There is a void in our educa
tional system which a school for can
didates alone can fill. This conclu.
sion cannot be avoided.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
Gentlemen, Excuse Me-"
Youths World.

Youths World.
A public dinner had been given
General Harrison on one occasion.
AT the close of the dinner one of the
gentleman drank his health. The
General pledged his toast by drink
ing water. Another gentleman offer
ed toast and said, General, will
you not favor me by drinking glass
of wine"" The General, in very
gentlemanly way, begged to be ex-
cused. He was again urged to join in
a glass of wine. This was too much.
He rose from his seat and said in the
most dignified manner:
"Gentlemen, ! have twice refused
to partake of the wine cup. / hope
that will be sufficient. Though you
press the matter so much, not a drop
shall pass my lips. | made resolve
when / started in life that l would
avoid strong drink. That VOW l
have never broken. | am one of a
class of seventeen young men who
graduated at college together. The
other sixteen members of my class
now fill drunkards' graves, and all
from the pernicious habit of wine
drinking. 1 owe all my health, my
happiness, and prosperity to that res
olution. Would you urge me to
break it now?"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
To Make a Happy Home.

Intelligencer.
Learn to govern yourselves, and be
gentle and patient.
Guard your tempers, especially in
seasons of ill-health, irritation and
trouble, and soften them by prayer
and a sense of your own short-com-
ings and errors.
Remember that, valuable as is the
gift of speech, silence is often more
valuable.
Do not expect too much from
others, but remember that all have
an evil nature, whose development
we must expect, and that we should
forbear and forgive, as we often de-
sire forbearance and forgiveness our
selves.
Never retorta sharp orangry word.
1t is the second word that makes the
quarrel.
Beware of the first disagreement.
Learn to speak in a gentle tone of
voice.
Learn to say kind and pleasant
things whenever opportunity offers.
Study the characters of each, and
sympathize with all in their troubles,
however small.
DO not neglect little things, if they
can affect the comfort of others in the
smallest degree.
Avoid moods, and pets, and fits of
sulkiness.
Learn to deny yourself and prefer
others.
Bewareof meddlers and talebearers.
Never charge a bad motive, if a
good one is conceivable.
Be gentle and firm with children.
Do not allow your children to be
away from home at night without
knowing where they are.
Do not allow them to go where
they please on Sabbath.
DO not furnish them with much
spending money.
"Can February March," asked the
punster with sickly smile. "Per-
haps not" replied the quiet man,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27

Note 6y tile PU6LiSher.- have re-
cieved the above interview from H.
II. Warner & Co., Rochester, n. Y,
with the request that we publish it
for the good Of suffering people. In a
foot note to their letter they say:
"The experience Of DR.. Clark isnot
strange to us. In our correspondence
we have found that many thousand
of people are suffering from what
they think is Consumption, whereas
the real difficulty is with the liver
and kidneys, proven by the fact that
when these organs are restored to
health by the use of Warmers safe
cure, the consumption disappears, and
so does uremic or kidney poisoning
which causes so many symptoms of
disease that the human system is
subject to. The same may be said
of rheumatism, caused by an acid con-
dition of the system. We insist up
on what we always have claimed, if
you remove the cause, the system will
soon perfect the a0ork already begun.
Mrs. Rev. DIR. Theodore Wolfe, of
Gettysburg, Pa, wife of the editor of
the Lutheran Quarterly, said her
friends thought her star gone with
Consumption but after a thorough
treatment with Warmers safe cure,
she says: Il am perfectly WELL We
can cite thousands of such cases, but
one is enough. If you publish the
above article, kindly send as q marked
copy.
We gladly give place to the article,
for if we can in any way stay the
ravages of Consumption, which car
ries away so many million yearly, it
is our bounded duty so to do. Pun.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
Color in Horses.

Scottish Agricultural Gazette.
A good horse is never a bad color,
it is said. Still color has its impor-
lance, especially asindicating temper
and purity of breed. Thus, black col
ored horses are of hot and fiery tenn
per and disposition; the chestnut and
brown bay are reckoned to have
strength and spirit; and the whiteare
always tender. AS to gray, it has
been observed that those which tend
the most to black are stronger than
the brighter gray. There are besides
these other colors in horses, as a roam,
which seems to be the offspring of the
bay and white or the bay and gray.
The sorrel and white seem to be the
author of the dun and cream color,
and as for those horses which are call
ed strawberry, they may probably
proceed from a coupling between a
bright gray and bay. There are also
some horse notified or red Common
ly called piebald), either black or
white in spots, or chestnut and white.
AS to the choice of color in stallion,
a person of great skill saysthe dapple
bay, the white bay and the dapple
gray are to be preferred; but does not
object to horse of pure black, pro-
vided it has a white star and white
foot. In the judgment of others, how
ever, he should be all one color. We
find in many cases that horses of a
bright bay color, with a black name
and tail, are good as well as beauti-
full, and these have commonly the
tips of their ears and the extreme
parts of their legs black. 1t is also
common for dapple gray to have a
white name and tail, with the several
extremities white, such as the tips of
the ears and the extreme parts of the
legs; for other colored horses, except
the dun, we seldom find their names
and tails of color different from that
of the body; but in dun horse the
long hair in the name and tail iscom-
monty black, and for the most part
there is also black stripe down the
back, which is not a little remarka-
BILE, as il is not observed in any other
creature, except the ass, mule, zebra,
etc. In horse, indeed, it is only a
plain, straight stripe; but in the ass
there is always cross stroke of black
over the shoulders, so that if the skin
was to be opened and spread, the
black would exactly represent the
figure of the cross. Some pretend to
tell us, as to the cross upon the ass
skins, that asses were not thus mark
ed before the Christian era, and that
none are now without the sign; but
upon what authority they assert this
we do not know. The produce of a
white horse and a white mare will be
white, and by keeping the breed con.
stantly without any intermiXture OF
color, the color of the original may
be maintained: So, a black horse and
a black mare will produce black, a
brown horse and a brown mare
brown, etc.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
A NEW VIEW OF CONSUMPTION.
And One which Appeals to Common
Sense. Many Durable Gases.


Medical Stilus.
"Many persons die ofConsumption
who could easily be cured" says DR..
S. G. Clark, of Watertown, N. Y,
!''if they would go at it right. Ihave
new view of the disease. Con-
sumption is not always of lung ORR
GIN"
"How so? What is it then?
"Many cases of consumption are
secondary. The disease itself pre-
walls everywhere, but the best prac-
tictioners refuse to attribute it entire
ly to inheritance or the weather. If
a person lives in the most favorable
climate in the world and has any
tendency to lung weakness, if certain
conditions exist in the system, that
climate, however favorable, will not
prevent development Of the disease.
The disorder in such cases is only a
secondary symptom in the lungs of
some other ailment, and can never be
cured until approached through its
source" Ela iiiie af
"Yes, doctor; but what is the
method of approach? y
eff you dip your finger in acid you
burn it; do you not?
eyes"
eff you wash this burnt finger
every second in the acid, what is the
result ?'
"Why, constant Inflammation,
fostering and eventual destruction of
the finger"
Precisely! Now then for my
method, which commends itself to
the reason and judgement eff every
skillful practitioner. You know GER
tain acids are developed in the body.
Well, if the system is all right these
acids are neutralized or utilized and
carried out. If the system is run
down by excess, anxiety, continual
exposure, or overwork, these acids
accumulate in the blood. If there is
any natural weakness in the lung,
this acid attacks it, having natural
affinity for it, and if the acid is not
neutralized or passed out of the sys-
tenn, it burns, ulcerates and finally
destroys the lung. Is this clear?"
Perfectly! But how do you pre-
vent the accumulation of these acids
in the system ?" r,r.
irregularities of the liver and
kidneys create this excess of acid
and the supply can be cut off only by
correcting the wrong action Of these
organs. The kidneys alone should
carry out in quantity, in solution,
enough of this acid daily, which, il
left in the blood, would kill four men.
When the stomach, the liver and the
kidneys are all conspiring to increase
the acid, the wonder is that weak
lungs resist death as long as they don'
"But you have not told us how you
would treat such cases."
"No, but Twill. The lungs are only
diseased as an effect of this acid OF
kidney poison in the blood. After
having exhausted all authorized rene
dies to correct this acid condition,
was compelled, in justice to my pa
tients, to use Warmers safe cure:
though proprietary remedy, it is
now recognized, / see, by leading
physicians, by Presidents of State
Boards of Health and by insurance
physicians, as scientific and the only
specific for those great organs in
which over ninety per cent. of dis
eases originate or are sustained"
els this form of treatment success
ful?"
at is wonderfully so, and for that
reason | am only too willing that you
should announce it to the world OF
| pOnSumDtiVaS -
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
DREAM FANCIES.

Whence are we that come to us
In the Silly night?
Wherefore do you torture thus,
Phantoms of delight?
Say, if we are only fancies,
Why your presence so entrances
To deceive our sight?
Where, oh, where's your stronghold, tel
In what fairy land?
Over what meads of Asphodel
Sport your elfn band?
Tell me truly, fitting fancies,
Where you hold those fairy dances,
On what sunny strand?
When you, with your subtle spell,
Hold our senses fast,
Absent comrades with us dwell,
Present seems the past,
Say, if ye are idle fancies,
Why, when overpast the trance is,
Its impressions last?
Wherefore bring before us still
Those from whom we sever?
Mean you that you tyrants will
Grant oblivion never?
Say, if ye are dreams and fancies,
Why, in dreams young Cupid's lanSes,
Strike as deep as ever?
Tell me who your power confers,
Say from whom We borrow
All your magic-harbingers
Ushering joy or sorrow;
Why, If ye're but tickle fancies,
These dream-faces, these dream.glances
Haunt us so tomorrow?
Mortal mind may never know,
Mortal wisdom cite
Whence we come or whittier go,
Spirit of the night;
Yet your mystery enhances
And your witchery entrances
More than pen may write.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27

"More labor troubles" sighed Cos
tigan, putting on his coat, "more la
Dor troubles; when will the laboring
man in this land have peace and his
honest rights ?" "What's the mat
ter" asked his wife, "another lock-
out 2" NO." said the laborer weari-
ly. "the boss has yielded and I've got
to go to work again."
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27

Mother.-"Are you going to take
Bobby to the circus this afternoon q"
Father.-"No; these circuses are all
nonsense. He will be better off by
not going" Mother.-"The poor
little fellow will be disappointed.
But what made you so late to dinner,
dear?" Father.-"I have been down
at the depot watching them take the
elephants off the train. New York
Sun.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27
%~~
Bad Boy.

"I'm afraid that son of mine will
bring my gray hairs in sorrow to the
grave, if I live so long," said lady
to a sympathetic friend. "Don't be
afraid, ma" said her young hopeful.
"Sooner than have that happen I'll
take your hair out of the drawer some
night and burn it,"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-27

"Can February March >" asked the
punster with a sickly smile. "Per-
haps not" replied the quiet man,
"but April May"