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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
Our Queer American Ways.

He was taking pleasure trip through this
country and was unused to the ways of it's
citizens, which may explain his action. He
met friend showed him q card, and asked
him to go with him to the address on it.
whats the matter ?" asked the friend.
"Why, this gentleman" explained the for
eigner "helped me out of a very embarrassing
position. You see, through carelessnees, /
got caught on street car with nothing but a
draft in my pocket, and he paid my fare. I
insisted on having his card, and now I'm 60
ing around to thank him again and pay him
the money"
The nickel ?"
Certainly"
Don't do it,"
"But owe it 10 him." tf
at makes no difference; he'll be angry"
And he was. He said the stranger must
have thought him mighty hard up or close
listed to come chasing after him with nick
ell, and he Indignantly refused to take it.
"But, sir" said the stranger. with surprise,
Il owe it to you. don't wish to have other
people paying my street-car fare"
"Offer him a cigar" whispered the friend
The foreigner promptly followed instruc.
tons. r;g
sWil you join me in a smoke then ?" be
asked, putting away the nickel and taking
out handsome cigar case.
why, thank you,' was the reply, and in
few moments the three were smoking. a
ASK him to have something," suggested
the friend again
Again the foreigner followed instructions
and they promptly adjourned TO a place
where something could be had Here each
man felt it incumbent upon him to buy
round" Then the foreigner and his friend
started for the hotel, and the former remark
ed:
Queer ways you have here" t4t.s.-#
How SO ?" asked the friend.
why, he was too proud to accept cents
that was due him, but he would take cigar
and drink that were not. And because he
did me favor | had to take three drinks
that did not want and smoke cigar that
was saving for after dinner. If l paid my
car fare that way I'd be drunk and broke all
the time"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
Ears.

If your ears burn, people say some one
is talking about you. This is very old, for
Pliny says, when our ears do glow and
ringle, some do talk of US in our absence"
Shakespeare, in "Much Ado About Moth
ing" makes Beatrice say TO Ursula and Hero,
who had been talking of her, "What fire is in
mine ears ?"
Sir Thomas Browne ascribes this conceit
to the superstition of guardian angels, who
touch the right ear if the talk is favorable,
and the left if otherwise. This is done to
cheer or warn.
One ear tingles, some there be
That are snarling now at me.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
2oetiGa1.

Spinning Song.
She sang a-near the hearthstone, and piled her
spinning wheel,
And blithely went her little foot as il she danced
the reel.
watched her lissom fingers as amid the flax they
And as she lithely drew the thread felt my heart
go too.
o love, love. love.
TO sorrow near akin,
| dread your wies,
Bring naught but smiles
Or Shun me as spin.
She sang beside the ingle; no lay of bird was
Sweeter;
Her song had swing OF daisies and wild rosebreath
i'll its meter,
The happy embers seemed to glow the brighter for
her singing,
And merry shadows round the wall in silent flight
went winging.
o love, love. love.
To happiness alvin!
The SaddeSt room
Bursts into bloom
When love peeps in.
She sang amid the freight and gently bowed her
head;
1t may have been the glowing head or something
that said
Her gay voice caught culver, and her wheel went
slow and slow,
And as leaned to listen the words came sweet
and low:
o love. love. love.
fear the worlds wide din.
Defend from fears
And griefs and tears
The trembling heart you win!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
VARIETIES.

In what key is that song, Home Sweet
Home, written ?" asked Blykins of his wife.
"The night key, should judge" replied that
lady with affable emphasis
She is now-"Was that your sister saw
you with last night" "Not when you saw
me; / hadn't asked her then"
is this old latch key relic of your
grandfather's days?" mo; of his nights"
The hen-pecked husband who misses O
train he has promised his wife to return ON
catches" it when he gets home.
An inventor at Stuttgart is said to have
perfected machine for deadening the sound
of piano. 1t will not be q success. The
only sure way to keep piano quiet ia to
deaden the pianist
Small favors are thankfully received but
they are often unthankfully remembered
-"This," observed the ragweed to the sun
flower as it looked over the tops of the corn
and saw the farmer and his family climb into
the big wagon and start off to an Alliance
pic mic, sis good day for US to get our work
in"
"A Kansas boy who earned Bible
by memoriZing verses traded the book for q
shot gun and then accidentally shot bis aunt
in the leg.
-Clara-"How do you like my friend ?"
Fapny-"He is borrd creature Is he mar
RED" mo; he is not married. How
happy is the lot of the woman who did not
get him for husband"
-"Can you bear sorrows with fortitude?"
"You bet l can--at least can if they're other
peoples sorrows."
-Wife-"Dd you post that letter gave
you?" misunderstanding" Wife-"I
wish you hadn't. There is something wish
to add to it. Husband (producing letter.
"Why didn't you say so before? Here it is"
-Wife-'l must have new chimney
piece" Husband-"But 1 can't afford it p'-
Wife-"But l must haveit! I" Husband
swell, get it. We must have peace, W neither
we can afford it or not"
There are four thousand women en-
ployed in the government departments at
Washington and. when they are all talking
at once Uncle Jerry Rusk creeps down into
the cellar to see ifthe cider barrel has burst
its hoops.
Vegetation in the Alps recedes down
ward from year to year. Formerly Alpine
roses grew at an altitude of 1900 feet. and
are at that height stunted. Beeches have
gone down 1900 feet. Various berries, which
once fourished 800 feet above sea level, do
not grow in higher attitudes now than $500
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
HARDwARE.-F. II. DA'

BUILDERS HARDwARE.-F. H. DAv-
ID IDSON & CO, 500 Franklin Street, Balti
more, dealers In Hardware, Tools, &c. Bank,
Store and Prison Looks, Wollensak's Patent
Transom Lifters, Bell Hangers and Locksmiths'
Supplies, Weather Strips Builders Hardware
speciality. Everything needed by the builder in
the Hardware line can be found at our estab-
1shment. All the latest improved and patented
Hardware novelties In stock Housekeepers can
secure all the necessary Hardware here at the
very lowest prices. Builders are respectfully
invited to give US a call and inspect our stock
Second to none in Baltimore. 27sep
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
Business lirecturll.
=. kSsN ER,

y ;. At9N NH,
De PHOTOGRAPHIC ART STUDIO
Main strGet, adjoining ~ P. Church. All het
attest styles of Photographs. from IS cents TO 50
per dozen Life-siZe Portraits in Oil and Crayon
speciality Copying. Viewing. l7jau1y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
IToUsE FURNIsHINe GOODS Will.

Il son Browns Popular House Furnishing
Store 1,6 and 1873 N. Howard Street. Baltimore,
NJ. The largest and best variety of House
F,4rp shing Goods, Kitchen Utensils. Family
siardware, Crockery and Chinawsre, Glass, Cut
lery, Wooden. Tin and Japanned Wares in the
City, together with most complete line of Fancy
Goods tor Wedding and Anniversary Presents,
ETC., at Low Prices. Please call on US. Catalogue
furnished on application. Mr.. Amos H. Green
Geld, formerly of Bel Air, is engaged with this
House and would be pleased to see his friends
here 6sepy
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07

r. KAUFMAN, manufacturer of Hand
Made Saddles, Harness, Brides, Collars, Blank
etc, Robes, Trunks, Satchels, &C., No. 3S2 N.
Gay street, between Front and High, Baltimore,
Md Fine Hand aDd Track and Buggy Har-
ness a speciality. All orders promptly attended
to- 10jan1y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07

BUSINESS!
BUSINESS!

BUSINESS. We have heard a
~ great deal about Business,
read a great deal about Business,
had a great deal of advice on
Business, seen a great many adj
vertisements of Business. attend
to a great deal of Business, but
the best thing we ever learned
about Business was to keep
Busy and Wide-Awake to our
customers interests as we'll as
our own. The dull season of
the year has now struck us, but
we don't intend to let it get dull
here. To keep Busy we must
offer some extra inducements to
buyers. We are not so much
concerned just now about profits,
but we must be Busy. Fortu-
nately for US and on, customers
this dull trade struck the Job
Der first and he showed us goods
so low that we made him Busy.
Now if you will just give us the
chance to show you how cheap
we can sell you, you will see
everybody Busy at
J. G.. Rouse & Son S,
BEL AIR, MD
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
CURED

DIR. C. W. Benson, specialist In Skin Diseases
and Diseases OF the Nervous System. Verne
Electric Baths and Electricity used in any form,
Il desired. Superfuous hairs and blemishes re-
moved permanently, at Or. Benson's Dermato-
logical and Neurotic Institute. which was estab-
lished solely for the treatment and cure of these
special diseases, SCI N. Howard St., opposite
Academy of Music Baltimore. 10myly
IL q. FOSSETT k SON, Gentlemen's Fur
It nishers, AL e. Baltimore ST., few doors
west of Gay St.. Baltimore, carry a large and
varied stock of Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Collars,
fact every requisite for gentleman's wardrobe.
Shirts to order a specially. All sizes and grades
of shirts always on hand. Call on us. Hmhly
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07

CLINTON =. PAINE, President.
LLOYD l.; JACksoN' Vice Presidents.
GEORGE W. BISHOP, Treasurer.
HERMAN K. BosLER, Secretary.
WIN. A. HAMMOND, General Counsel.
N. WINsLow WILLIAMS, Assistant Counsel.
?7mh1y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07

NHcAFEE BROS. d CLINE" Bel Air Ex-
nj change "-Commission Merchants, Gamers
and Manufacturers, and dealers in flour, feed, &c.
Having established branch house at above
named place, for conducting our long standing
Hartford trade we are now in even better posi-
ton than formerly. to receive farm products di-
rect from the producer. We continue to otier for
sale and in trade, our " Standard Bone Fertili-
GERS" We are also entering into contracts for to-
matoes, at 20 cts. per bushel. Soliciting the pat
ronage of the farmers of Hartford and their con-
signments on commission of grain, hay, ETC., we
are, respectfully, McAfee Bros. Cline cor. M.
G. r. R. and Main Street, Bel Air, Md 29mhy
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-08-07
rIDELITY AND DEPOSIT co.
OF MARYLAND,
No. z N. Calvert st., Baltimore.

Is the only Company in Maryland that make
speciality of going on the bonds of
Executors, Administrator Guardians,
Trustees, DC.
1t does not act as Guardian, Administrator
Executors or as Trustees except for Corpora
tions, but leaves that TO the lawyer or friend OF
the parties interested.
1t also goes on bonds of Saaried Officers,
Clerks and Employees.
Receives money on deposit subject to check.
Makes Loans on approved collateral.
Is Legal Depository for Court and Trust
Funds.
Manages Estates for Executors, Adminstra-
tors, Guardians, Trustees, etc. collects Rents,
Incomes, etc.
Acts as Trustee or Registrar for Stocks or
Bonds of Municipal Railroad or other Corpora
tons.
Receipts for Wills and assumes their safe GUS
tody without charge.
Special facilities afforded ladies and lawyers in
the transaction of business.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-05
AN EVIL AND ITS REMEDY.

A correspondent quotes from Mr.. Swetts
September report to the effect that the rem
edy for complaints about the course of study
in our public schools is for parents to take
their children out of school and then enter
complaints TO the Board of Education or to
the press, and comments as follows:
Why, when Mr. SWEET sees plainly and admits
freely the existence OF so great an evil in our
public schools, should lie be poweress 10 correct
II? ! do not fully understand the respective
duties and preIOgalyes Of the Committee on
Classification and OF The superintendent but l
do know that the public look TO Mr. SWEET
to make The wrong rlgh. and The crooked
straight In our schools. Surely. with his lnti-
male knowledge of these institutions from their
very Infancy and with his close study OF every
thing pertaining TO education. he Is emlnently
fitted to formulate and supervise course OF
study for any department.
Our cor: espondent touches q point in
which our school law is defective. The
Superintendent has little power, except to
report to the Board of Education. He can
do little except as he can take the board
with him. In cases this check upon the
Superintendent might work well, but with
so well equipped and well mentioned man
as Mr.. SWEET at the head Of the department
greater power would, in our opinion, be well
used. Our correspondent continues:
am among those who have been driven 10
the utmost limits of human endurance" and
instead of removing my chi!dren from school and
then entering complaints prefer fist complain
ing, not to The Board of Education Tor am not
familiar with Ihe approved methods OF obtaining
consideration from that honorable body, but To
the r ess, which, Notwithstanding corruption has
sometimes "plumed itself" within its precincts,
tffT nd bTybO NJ
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-05
A BRAVE WOMAN.

How Mrs. FaIk Saved Her Husband From
Suicides Grave.
Mrs. Max Falk is a heroine. She has
faced the fall from comfort to want without
a murmur. She has met grim poverty with
a cheerful face, and she saved her husbands
life when he tried to commit suicide. Then,
when assured by the doctors that he would
recover, she took her two little ones in her
arms and wept over them for gladness, as
true women Will. Hunger ana fear of the
future had driven her husband to despair
and crime. 1t had not shaken her for il mo-
ment, but joy that his life was safe COM
pletely unnPrved her.
All week Falk was walking about the city
looking for work. but none could he get, and
he was very Respondent. Twice he and his
wife started 10 appeal for aid 10 the Society
OF Hebrew Charities, but they did not 90 in
they were too proud to beg.
Falk got up at o'clock determined Cd
suicide He had obtained a cupful of paris
green somewhere, and this he mixed with
water and began TO eat the paste. His
wife saw him and asked him what he was
doing, and he told her he wanted to die.
She snatched The poison from him, and
then, though she Is forty pounds lighter
than he is. she overpOweTed him and forced
her finger down his throat until he got rid
Of the greater part of the poison. So deter
mined was he that in the struggle be bit her
hand badly. The neighbors came in, a
doctor was summoned and the rest of the
poison gotten rid of by an emetic. Later
the police arrested Falk, and he was sent
to the Gouvernenr Hospital There the doc
tors say it was only the prompt action of
his wife that saved his life, and that he will
recover.
Falk saws he tried TO kill himself because
he could see no way to earn bread for bis
family, and he could not bear to see them
suffer. He was very sorry when he heard
he had hurt his wife'S hand.
When the neighbOrs took possession Of
the Falk rooms, after they had heard the
story, Mrs. Falk and the little ones had
plenty to eat She is a small, slight woman,
not yet "A years old. the same nationality
as her husband, and bright and intelligent
loOkinp-N Y Press
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-05
IN COLD TYPE.

In 1884 the Hon. Roswell Pettibone
Flower, the present Democratic candidate
for Governor Of New York was an aspirant
for the nomination which Mr.. Cleye land
carried off. TIE Herald and World, which
now support Flower, then Tdieuled his
pTetensOns. In the vehemence of their
opposition they made a record which the
Republican papers are using as contrast
10 their present advocacy of tile man they
then reviled with considerable effect. The
World is quoted as saying: do you, Mr..
Flower, think that a Wall-street man can
successfully meet and overthrow Mr.. Blaine
in the coming contest? Do you think the
Democratic party can afford to nominate q
Wall-street man for President this year, even
though he be rich ana liberal and robust in
healtb?" The State Democratic Conven-
ton evidently thought that Wall-street
man is good enough for New York. 1t is
not claimed of Flower that he is states
man.. His experience does not lie in that
direction. But he is a good fellow. with a
fund of animal spirits, rich and liberal. He
has a weakness for coats of arms and other
show things, but still he is personally popu-
lar The County Democracy are out
against him. They declare that "the Demo-
cratic party of to-day, like the Democratic
party in those dark years prior to 1871, is
absolutely dominated and controlled by a
combination between Tammany Hall and a
oopai rinu -
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-05
HEAD ALIVE, BODY DEAD.
James Giblau Survives a Broken Neck fol
TnrelHa DaYa.

James Giblau Survives a Broken Neck for
Twelve Days.
James Giban, a teamster of $50 West
Forty-sixth street, died at Roosevelt Hos
piial. He had lived for twelve days with
broken neck. Giblan was 26 and leaves
wife and family.
He struck his head violently against the
bottom of bathing-tank at the foot OF West
Fiity-sixth street on September 9th. The
blow crushed the fifth cervical vertebra and
severed the spinal cord. The injured man
was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where Drs.
Schultze and Blair, the house physicians
and hospital staff attended him.
Giblan was conscious for nine days. he
conyersei with his attendants and received
nourishment. Below the collar bones his
whole body was paralyZed and insensible to
pain. he could not move muscle except
ing the fieX1rs of one arm, but he continued
to perform the functions of digestion. 1t
was like a live head on dead body. The
injured man continued to exercise all the or
gans of his head almost as well as any time
during his life. He heard the physicians
consulting together about his case; lie con-
yersed readily and with vigOr about what
was going on about him; he recognized his
wife and children when they came to see
him, and babe them ell an aifectiOnate fare
well.
His remarkable condition awakened great
interest among the hospital physician
and they spent many hours by his side.
There was something weird, fascinating
and strange about the case. The head
slept at night. The man experienced no
pain. 1t was six days before the faculties
that were exercised so easily began to be
impaired. The temperature of the body
then began to rise. StupOr came upon the
faculties, slowly at first, and on the ninth
day Gblan was unconscious. He lived for
three days after that in cOmatose condi-
ton. Pneumonia proved too much for the
impaired organs, and on the twelfth day
alter he was injured Giblan breathed his
last
Twelve days is about as long as men
with broken necks ever live" said one of
the hospital physicians to Press reporter
yesterday. Most men who break their
necks die instantly. When they linger the
spinal cord may not be severed, or else
there is communication of some kind be-
tween the nerve centers near the base of
the skull aud the body. The farther from
the base of. the skull the injuries are the
less the vital nerve centers are affected,
aud the longer the victim will linger.-N.
Y. Press.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-05
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

It costs the Prince of Wales exactly $500
for the cigars he smokes in go days.
The Duchess of Connaught quite equals
Richelieu in her fondness for cats. Her fav-
orite pet is one of these little animals I'M
ported from the land of tho Shah.
Louis Cartigny. the last French survivor
OF the battle of Trafalgar, has just CON-
pleted his one hundredth year.
Frederick Douglass heartily dissents from
Bishop Turner'S policy of improving the
American negroes condition by shipping
him off to Africa.
Mrs Dodge, the editor of St. Nicholas,
occupies the prettiest of the OnteOra cot
tages in the Catskiils. 1t is exquisitely fur
nished and appeals more to the heart of the
owner than does her winter home in New
York City.
Emperor William has subscribed $4,000 to
the fund for the relief of the food sufferers
in Spain.
1t is reported that Queen Regent Chris
tina Will lay the first stone of new town
at COnsuegra in October.
1t is florist in Vermont who has secured
the permission of President Harrison to call
a new double white pink the MRS. Harrison
pink"
Athanasios, the Greek brigand, enjoys a
larger income from the railroad company
than the shareholders, in addition to which
he compels the Sultan to pay him tribute in
whom he seiZes.
Jesse Grant is on his way east to visit his
mother, and bring her back to Chicago to
witness the unwilling Of the statute of her
illustrious husband.
DR.. Ruth, the handsome surgeon who has
ruled Washington society for so many years
aud broken no end of susceptible hearts, is
seriously i'll at Carlsbad.
Ex-senator Saunders reports that p0lyg-
amy is gradually but surely dying out in
Utah. This is conspicuous feather in
Edmunds' cap.
Mr.. S. V. White once incurred a good deal
of serious censure by having private wire
run into the cloak-room while he was a
Member of Congress
One Of General Harney's old soldiers says
that the famous Indian fighter, who was q
finished athlete. was remarkably fond Of
pugilism, and used frequently to get into
rows beneath his dignity simply TO display
his pugi!istic skill.
Rev. DIR. Burchard, who died recently, is
said To have declared, while exhorting at a
revival meeting in Poughkeepsie fifty years
ago, that he had huge carbunces Oh his
knees, caused by the hours he had spent on
his knees for the conversion of sinners.
After that he went by the title Of Car
bunele Burchard."
Patti has very elaborate precautions
against burglars in her Welsh castle. I'M
less a certain lever is raised it Is impossible
to open a window at night without causing
the ringing Of innumerable bells in the
cottages of the gardeners and in the stables,
while the same current of electricity re-
leases a large dog from his kennel.