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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-07-16
Keeping His Balance.

There is story, told among the Tartars,
which has moral for the civilized men of
the present day. 1t is to this effect: Robo,
cousin of the Great Mogul, was condemned to
death for participating in rebellion. The
most skillful swordsman in the empire was
provided for the execution, and the Great
Mogul and his court were present as specta-
tors.
The thin keen blade flashed in the sun
light and descended upon the bare neck of
Robo, who stood upright to receive the
stroke.
The executioner's work was so deity done
that though the head was severed, not a vital
organ was disturbed. Robo remained stand
ing
"What, Robo, art thou not beheaded ?" ex-
claimed the Great Mogul.
my lord, am" replied Robo, "but as long
as | keep my balance right, my head will not
fall OIL"
The Great Mogul was placated, a bandage
was put on Robos neck, and he recovered.
He afterwards became loyal subject and
was made Cashier of the Empire, because as
the Great Mogul remarked:
"He knows if he keeps his balance right,
his head will not come off"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-07-16
For The EqiS and intelligence,
What Was 1t =!

In the fall of the year 1886 a family, well
known to me- was living in an old fashioned
brick house, situated in one of the lower
counties of Maryland. A wide hall ran across
the house, separating it, on the lower floor,
into three rooms. One of these was occupied
as a bedroom, the Others as q sitting and q
dining-room. The upper story was one
room, the whole length of the house. This
was occasionally occupied, but at the time of
the occurrence which l shall relate it was
empty. The colored, hands on the farm
and servants in the house lived in quarters
short distance from the mansion.
The family consisted of the grandfather,
the father and the mother of my informant,
together with her daughter and her little
child, about three months old. The father and
grandfather were away from home.
The night was cold and frosty and the
stars were shining brightly. About o'clock,
after the servants had left and Just as the
daughter with her little infant got into bed,
three loud and distinct knocks were heard on
the old-fashioned chair-board. which was
close to the bed The lady was startled,
but thinking il was nothing that
need cause alarm she lay quietly for quar-
ter Of an hour, when the knocks were re-
peated, in a different part of the room, much
louder but near the bed. This time she was
thoroughly alarmed anu spranS from the
bed. About fifteen minutes afterwards some
thing. seemingly as heavy as thousand
pound hogshead of tobacco, started at one
end of the room up stairs and rolled across to
the opposite end, striking the WALL making
the house tremble and causing the glass on
the old-tashoned bureau in the sitting room
below TO shake and rattle.
| About this time the colored servants, men
and women, were called in. They made
search with lighted candles, up stairs and
around the house outside, but found nothing.
After all had become quiet again and all
were congratulating themselves that the
strange noise was over, suddenly the iron
latch began tremendous ratlling in the door
leading up stairs. This, with the knocking
and the rolling up stairs, continued the en-
tire night. When day began to break and
chanticleer announced the coming of morn,
the strange noises ceased They were never
heard again, in the memory of this family,
although others living in the house after
ward said they heard singular and unac-
countable noises.
OF course the family slept none that night,
and although tainted with being scared by
rats they always believed that the noises
were of supernatural origin. Both white
and colored people are living who will attest
the truth of the story. l got it from the
daughter, who with her infant is still living.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-07-16
The Fox and the Hares.

A Fox who was passing through the For
est one day heard great dispute among the
Hares, and he turned Aside to find several of
them engaged in Hard Knocks around Bur
row.
whats all this row about?" demanded
Reynard, as he fell among them.
"Why, sir" replied one of the Hares. "Our
Father is dead and we can't agree as 10 who
shall possess his Burrow."
"But it is large enough for all of you"
80 it is, but that settles Question of
Fact instead of Principle"
"Well, I'll take the Fact and you can keep
the Principle" said the Fox, as he took Pos
session of the Burrow.
MORAL: When the Heirs fight over the
old Homestead the lawyer comes to own the
farm.
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Some Very Funny Bulls.

We find ludicrous laundering by the
French and Germans when learning another
language, such as, MY boy bit himself nit a
little dog" &c; but there is Il neatness and
completeness of confusion in an Irish bull
which is inimitable and unapproachable, and
which constitutes at once its humor and its
innocence. The bulls of other nations have
the absurdity without the fun. The pure
bull is the coptradiction in terms, the asser-
ton of something which is denied in the
very terms of the assertion, or the denial of
something which is asserted in the terms of
the denial, sometimes apparently obscure.
A hat was passed round to collect shi-
ling from each person at q meeting; the dea-
con who counted the money exclaimed,
Heres shilling short who put it in ?"
A lady wrote to her friend, II met you this
morning and you didn't come; I'll meet you
tomorrow morning whether you come or
not"
A man remarked to his friend, IF | had
stayed in that climate till now, I'd have been
dead two years ago." His friend remarked,
"Ah, if l only knew where people never died,
I'd end my days there"
One said, II see no reason why women
should not become medical men,"
During the Irish rebellion, some of the in
surgents, being very angry at banker, de-
determined to ruin him. They collected all
his bank notes and destroyed them, thus
making his fortune.
An Irish paper publishes this item "A
deaf man named Taft was run down by a
passenger train and killed on Wednesday. He
was injured in II similar way about a year
ago."
will dismiss the Irish bulls by story
that was told me in Ireland:
An Irish gentlemen was entertained by a
party of Englishmen at hotel in n certain
town 10 England, and the conversation turn
ed on Irish bulls, and the Irish gentleman
being little nettled said, Bulls, bulls, what
are you bothering me about bulls for? You
can't talk about an Irishman without speak
ing of a bull. You have as many bulls in
England as we. In England you are bull
headed and bull-tempered, and bull-necked
you are John Bull; you are bull all over.
Now, you can't put up sign on public
house without sticking up bull. In the
very street where we are sitting now there
are six public houses with signs of bulls"
"Oh, no." said one of the gentlemen, mot
SO many as that"
"But tell you there are, just SO many"
mo, we have counted them, and we know
there are not six"
well, will wager the dinner for the COM
pany in the same place where we are sitting
now that there are six public houses with
signs of bulls on them"
Very well, let's hear them"
There is the White Bull, that's one; the
Black Bull is two; the Brown Bull is three
the Spotted Bull is four; the Pied Bull is
five"
"Ah, that's all, that's all"
mo, there's another onc."
"Ah, but we know better"
81 tell you there's another one. Black,
white, spotted, pied, and there's the Red
Cow"
"Ha, la That's an Irish bull"
every well, if the Red Cow is an Irish
bull, that makes six, and l have won my
wager"
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The Bestwheat and Grass from Listers.

u BEL AIR, MD, May I'd, 1886.
Listers A. @. Works, Baltimore:
GENTLEMEN: i used some of your celebrated
Ground Bone, three years ago, on a piece of
ground which was very poor, and the ground
was so hard thatI could hardly get the drill teeth
in the ground. 1t was the best wheat crop
ever had and also the best grass crop ever had.
/ think it the best bone sold in this market, and
Bone, as it is first-class article and intend to
continue using it and am using it now on my
corn. IACCHEUS DEBOW,
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A Case of States Evidence.

Arkansaw Traveller.
An old negro much alarmed, went to a
Judge and said
"Jedge, dar's er lot er haugs been stoled
down in my neighborhood lately, an fust
thing yer know somebody's gwine ter be er-
rested. l knows who tuck 'em an if you'll
let me turn States evidence I'll tell yer"-
"You were concerned, Ell ?" Eyes sab, an if
yer'll let me turn de States evidence I'll tell
yer zackly who tuck dem haugs." "All
right" won't do nothing wild me?" "Net
a thing" "Will yer sw'ar it," "Yes, if ne
cessary." But will yer put it in writin' ?'
Eyes" The Judge drew up an agreement,
and when he had read it the old negro said !:
Dat souns sorter like it. Sho' dis docu-
menrll Stand ?" "Of course it will. Now
tell me who stole them hogs?" Wont do
nothin' wild me?" "No" "Well, ledge,
stoled dem hogs merse'f Good-day sab,
thanks yer fur yer kinness."
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f. W B "A K Il r..
Tern1s-S so a Year, in Advance.
TRANSIENT ADvERTIsEMENTs.--O Square,
Insertions less 81. 80. Each subsequentinsertion
20 cents Longer advertisements in the same pro-
portion. Aspace equal to six lines makes square.
Figure-work double price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications will
be inserted at ten cents per line
kS- Yearly advertisements atspecial rates.
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first hill top, and half-mile below in the
village street | could see the ex-postmaster
of Blue Rock waving his sombrero after
me-
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l7S. NORTH GAY STREET. l7S.
Samuel s. E1y's
BOOTS! BOOTS! BOOTS!

Closing out our Winter Stock at greatly re-
duced prices. Now is the time to buy.
LADIES BOOTS AND SHOES at all prices.
Heavy Boots reduced TO $500; Mems Fine Calf
Boots reduced to $3.50; my own make of Gents
Shoes and Caters reduced to $3.50. Every pair
Warranted. A new pair given for every pair that
does not turn out asrepresented at
SAM JEL s. ELY'S,
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Calling Pigs in Different States.

1t is amusing to notice the different ways
people call their pigs. If your neighbor
comes from Pennsylvania he will commence
with pig. pig, piggi, pig" fla Hoosier, he
yells: "Who-ee, who-ee who-ee.' Our
Buckeye neighbor coaxingly cries, in sooth-
ing voice: $500, 500, $780," A North Caro-
linian halloes: "Pig-i, pg-i," prolongng the
L. Buta Kentuckan, with his deep bass
voice, cries; "Poo-hee, poo-hee." 1t will be
fun for the boys to initiate these different
ways of calling pigs.
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Pnetical.
NEW EVERY MORNING.

BY SUSAN COOLIDGE.
Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every morn is world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and SHINING,
Here is a beautiful hope for you;
hope for me and hope for you.
All the past things are past and over,
The tasks are done and the tears are shed,
Yesterdays errors let yesterday cover,
Yesterdays wounds which smarted and bled
Are healed with the healing which night has
shed.
Yesterday now is part of forever,
Bound up in a sheaf which God holds tight
With glad days and sad days and bad days which
never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and their
blight,
Their fulness of sunshine or sorrowful night.
Let them go since we cannot retrieve them,
Cannot undo and cannot atone
God in His mercy forgive, receive them;
Only the new days are our own;
To-day is ours and to-day alone.
Here are the skies all FURNISHED brightly,
Here is the spent earth all reborn;
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
10 face the sun and share with the morn
In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn.
Every day is fresh beginning,
Listen my soul, to the glad refrain,
And spite of old sorrow and older SHINING,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.
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6au Street Column.
MY Stoves AND TINwARE

After the expiration of this advertisement
there will not appear any future advertisements
from me in this paper.
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The Egis & Intelligencel

Is PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
f. W B "A K Il r
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Important Information.
Sitting.

A professor at the University of Texas was
explaining some Of the habits and customs
of the ancient Greeks to his class
"The ancient Greeks built no roofs over
their theatres" said the professor.
"What did the ancient Greeks do when it
rained ?" asked Johnny Fizzletop.
The professor took off his spectacles,
polished them with his handkerchief, and re-
piled, calmly:
"Thcy got wet, l suppose"
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ACCOMMODATING Landlord 81 like the
house" he said, "but it is too large for my
family, and would want to rent it in con-
junction with another party"
Il don't know about that, replied the land
lord, obviously. II would much prefer that
the house be let alone"
"Very well, then, will let it alone" and a
little later he was looking at another house.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-29

Mrs. .SARToRIs.-"A Apropos ofthe Grants" !"
says Long Branch letter to the Philadel-
phia Press, II may say that Mrs. Grant has
been very much panied by a newspaper
paragraph that has been going the rounds
giving alleged details concerning the mar
ried life of her daughter Nellie, Mrs. Sar-
toris, and setting out that Nellie was anx-
ious to separate from her husband, that
she had counseled her to do, so, and so on.
Mrs. Grant says that there is no substantial
truth whatever in the reports. Nellie, she
says, has no thought of leaving her husband.
So deeply had reports to the contrary dis
urbed her that she had given up a pro.
iected visit to her mother for fear that if
she came out to this country it might be
supposed that there was some shadow of
truth in the assertion so persistently made.
Neither is it true, Mrs. Grant declares, that
Nellie is in peril Of poverty, as some have
said. Although her husband has expensive
tastes and lives extravagantly, he has mon
ey enough, aud his children, after his death,
will come into large fortune that has been
settled on them.
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CLOTHING, &c.
.syxTE'vE GOT 'EM ON TIE LIST"
NOW IS THE TIME SELLING OFF BELOW
COST!

NOW IS THE TIME. SELLING OFF BELOW
COST!
We must reduce our stock ere this season closes.
During hot weather and the dull saason we in
tend to improve our spacious warerooms, and not
wanting to remove any stock to another place, VIC
must sell at any sacrifice. Our low prices have
given us wide reputation, an established fact,
which never ceases and we now sell CLOTHING
LOWER THAN EVER. Full Suits for Men,
Youths and Children; Odd Pants, Coats and Vests;
STRAW HATS selling out; SO dozen Japanese,
Mackinaw and Yum Yum Hats at Soc; Fur hats
and Caps equally as low; Silk Neckwear, finest
Bows, Tics and Putfs at s. 10 and 2Oc Mems finest
Linen. front Shirts I.aundried at 65c unlaundried
do. at 4Oc Boys unlaundried do. at 29c; Underwear
lower than manufacturers prices SHOE DE.
PARTMENT will be ready with our next issue.
In Notions, We beat the world Ladies Bordered
Handkcrchiefs at &c; Japanese Silk Handker-
chiefs at Sc. We have 2OOO yards of Superior
Crash for towels at 41sc. Household Goods too
numerous to mention: Furniture, Carpets, Mat
ting. Oil Cloth, Stoves, Tinware, Chinawarc, &c.
Trunks, Satchels, sc. Our immense Stock OF
Hardware and Harness, entirely, to be sold out to
increase aud complete our different other depart
ments. Hardware extremely low. Come and OK
pcct great bargains. Goods must be sold.
BERNHEIMER & EINSTEIN.
Cor. King and Lee streets,
je25 Alexandria, Va.
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EDUCATIONAL.
Richmond College,
RICHMOND. VA.

EIGHT S(lipUIS-Iatin.t Greek Modern Lau
guagrs. English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
aud Philosophy. Full corps OF eight professors
Every facility for selecting studies according to
previous preparation and future aims Several
courses of subsidiary lectures free. Ample
grounds, buildings and apparatus. Library, n.u-
scum. gymnasium, two literary societies all the
appliances aud advantages OF wellequipped and
prosperous college. Instruction thorough and stdml-
ards high Moral and social surroundings unsur.
passed. Terms for nine months session Matric.
ulation, t15; room ront, SO; tuition in three
schoos, SO; board, $50 TO 800; fuel light, :,
washing, &C. about $50. Next session opens SEP
TEMPER 23, 1856 For catalogue. with fuller
information, addros II. II. HARRIS,
ly26 eo6w Chairman OF Faculty
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HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
THE TONTINE.

i --
The subscriber having taken charge of this we'll
known hotel and restaurant informs his friends
and the public generally that nothing win bo
left undonc to maintain the high reputation
of the house The larder will he supplied with
every delicacy, and the bar stocked with the best
of Liquors. Meals served at all hours in the best
style and at reasonable rates. Arrangements can
be made for Receptions Dinner Parties.
SAMUEL ORRISON.
Also proprietor of JOHNS REsTAURANT, Cor.
7th and D Sts., Washington, D. C. apo
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EgNRTSTEE ALE.

ny virtue o. a dec. of trust, dated the 2Gti, day
ni Jun" 1877 aui Of record ia Dee! Book No :,
iuiu i'll. Of the land records of the city OF Alex
ardria executed by Charles i. Collins and Cath
ar NJ. hi vile. to Philip rctchford, now de-
cascii, the ',r';t gurd. ~:'" !y order of the
Corporation curt or the city Of alexandria. en-
tered on tho 9Th day of January 1886, was sub
stutcG trustee ii the said deed, in the place and
stead of tie said Philip Rotchfard will sell at
public auction in front of the Corporation Court
house, on Fairfax street, at II O'Clock IN, SAT-
UEfhf, the fjth day of August, 1886, Il TENk-
II Mt and L'!T OF GROUND on the west side
III Pitt street between Duke and Wolfe streets,
:.nd bounded - follows, liz Beginning OH Pitt
j;,6 feet. inches north Of Wolfe street. and run
ming thence south on Pitt street 20 feet; thence
west, parallel 70 Wolfe street. 100 feet; thence
north, parallel 10 Pitt street, 20 feet, and thence
cas-. to tbs BEGINNING.
Terms OF sale: Cash.
JAMES j. CATION, Substituted Trustee.
iy16 Is
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By John ". Graham, Auctionccr.
T!1RUSTEE'S SALE
LAND IN FAIRFAX COUNTY,

LAND IN FAIRFAX COUNTY.
BY virtue Of q deed Of trust from j. F. Shrevc
aud wife, dated March 31st, 1SS5, and duly TO-
corded in Fairfax County Court in libcr E, No. .,
folio 80, aud being thereto required by the party
secured thereby, the undersigned trustee in said
deed, will ohcr for sale at public auction. on the
premises, ut three O'Clock p. m, on MONDAY,
the 10Th dag Of August, 1886 tho TRACT OF
LAND conveyed to him by said decd and de-
scribCd rs follows "A tract Of land situate, lying
Ard being IN the county of Fairfax and State
aforesaid. lea. Falls Church. and containing about
twenty three acres more or less, bounded on the
north hy Henry Turner's land, on the west by the
land oi' Truman Brush on the cast by the land Of
Martins 4. Donaldson. and on the south By the
Ions. %: the Misses Ball. and being the sans land
assignee! t the said J. F.. Shrcvc in tho partition
uf the r.:a a::tc Of his father, the late Ben amin
i. Slrcvc.
Terms q: Sale: Cash 20 sufficient sum 10
,lCfrnr hr expense Of cxccling this trust and to
uay the sun cf 81 $50 with interest thereon
from March :; LIST. 1885, until paid anil if there
10 any residue Of said purchase money tho same
10 b, ni:ic payab, ut such time and secured in
such rranncr as the said j. !. Shrcvo. his cxccu.
tors. administrators lssiGna shall prescribe and
direct or in of his or their falur" To give
such ,lrrction at such time and in such manner
us the undersigned shall think fit.
jyl2 "ot IL a. VElIGH Trustee.
4 < ADMINISTRATORS OF CHAS. ]. HOUGH,
~ niTnr 1T private sale until SATURDAY,
August 7th 1856. the CONTENTS OF TIE
PRINTING oFFIEE OF the said g. j. ]iough in
the building \. f. corner of Lee and Prince sts.,
Alexandria, Va aud if not sold by then, I will
sell the same at public auction said day, com
lncncing Mt 10 O'Clock m. on the said premises.
There is in said office one Liberty Press No. 9,
two Baltimore .Iobbcrs, Nos. . and g, Type fonts,
Rules and all other appliances usually found in p
hrst-class Job printing office.
Terms nf Sale: Cash.
WIN. Fl. SMITH Sergeant
Administrator Of G.. J. Hough, decd.
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DAINTS of all kinds and of the best quality at
i lowest market prices. The TINTED.GLOSS
PAINT, in one gallon cans, has acquired high
reputation; also the READY MIXED PAINTS,
in one and two pound cans. We will BIO pleased
10 furnish sample cards. ALABASTINE, white
and, assorted shades, in powder, for washing in
side walls, is very much liked by all who have
used it. For sale by
my2S E. S. LEADBEATER & BRO.
DOR SALE AT SO KING, COR ROYAL ST.
Iron and Steel Cultivator Teeth of assorted
sizes, Plow and Wagon Traces. Stage Traces,
Shovols, Hoes, Rakes, Picks, Mattocks Forks,
Steel Plow Plates, Plow Bolts and other goods
suited to tho season, at low prices, wholesale and
retail.
ap1 T. T. CREIGHTON Il SON.
cE CREAM SODA
FIVE CENTS A GLASS
AT
je15 I'D, 81. LUNT'S.
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AUCTION SALES.

GALE-By virtue of a decree OF the Corpors
~ t'on Conrt Of the city of Alexand-ia, render
cd 1T tho June term 1856, in the chanrery caus'
of O'Rricn and wife vs.. 0'Bricn and others, tht
undersigned will Oh SATURDAY, the 14th da:
of August. lSSt at 12 o'clock m, in front of Iht
Corporation Court House, on Fairfax street, sci
AZ public auction q TWO-STORY FRAME -
DWELLING and I.Or OF GROUND, on the Ell Ell
east side cf Faycttc street, between King and
Cameron streets, beginning or Fsycttc street at
the centre of the square between King and Cam.
cron streets: then south on Fayette street %
feet, and 125 feet inches in depth.
Terms of Sale: One-third cash on the day of
sale, and the residue in two equal instalmcnts at
six and twelve months from the day OF sale; the
bonds Of the purchaser, with approved personal
security, to be taken for deferred instamcnts,
and said bonds to bear interest at per cent.
from day Of sale till paid. and the title to be
tanned until payment OF purchase money in full.
JAMES +. CATION,
Snnn;r'
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BAY RIDGE, ,sIHHR nrsf SSSFh Sf FHr


This popular summer resort will be open to tho
public on and after June 21st, 1886. Splendid
surf h,thiug. Finest fishing on the cosst. Ele-
CANT accommodation. The Marine Band Largest
and hest in the country plays every day and
evening. Restaurant pavilion, seating 2 1000 peo-
pie, open all sho time. Gravity railroad 900 #.
long. Sail boats on bay, lake and river, largo and
small row and fishing boats to hire for nominal
price, always ready. Over five miles of water
front Hotel and all buildings fifty feet above
nigh water Opera house open afternoon and
evening. Electric lights all over the grounds.
Flying horses, riding horses, pony and goat car.
riages swings, bowling alley, rifle gallery. and
thousands of amusements for the children High
est observatory in the State largest collection of
animals in tho South covered pier 1000 feet ont
in the bay. Special excursion rates for churches,
Sunday schools and societies, either by rail or on
the now and elegant steamer Bay Ridge" For
dates and charter apply Immediately to the
BAY RIDGE CO., 1873 West Baltimore St,
my27 :sm Baltimore. or Annapolis, Md.