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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06
gnetica1.
Living on n Star.

Light visits earth in may ways;
Among her clods the sunbeam plays,
Topaz and emerald giving back
For pebbles Of the wayside track.
Out of the black and heavy mould
The lovelieSt of her flowers unfold;
The jagged seams of cleft and ledge
fGlisten with many golden wedge.
Whence is her secret radiance won?
Her darkest caverns feel the suns,
And through the CLEAN of night, she turns
towards OrbS Wherein his splendor burns.
o. have we learned our errand high
We, chariOt-borne along the sky?
A lamp for other worlds we are;
Think we are living on star!
The stars are earths, with clog and weight,
Pacing through orbits small or great,
Self-hindered, while mighty thrill
Draws them forever sunward still.
And weighted. with them moves our earth;
In her own self how little worth!
Among the unnumDered stars, but one,-
A lifeless ball, without the sun.
The sun. that makes the day divine;
That shapes the gem within the mine.
And tlnts the blossom from its root,
And gives its sweetness to the fruit!
The sun among his brother-suns,-
Host upon host of shining onesl
Onward. with them, our pathway lies,
open to all those heavenly eyes.
Can We. in that bright cavalcade,
With sordid aims ourselves degrade?
Be wrong aud meanness put afar
From those who live upon star!
Dust are we, cIogged with dust. and yet
Our spirit birth cannot forget;
Like flowers, heart open to the light,
We live by keeping God in sight
Dust are we? Soul-sparks from on high;
Children of immortality,
Sent here to brighten Times dark even,
And live on earth as il in heaven.
In heaven. so near, so luminous!
o, when the cartwright weares us,
Let us remember where we are!
Think we are living OH star!
Lucy Ldrcons.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06
misee1lamruns.
FOR BETTER ROADS.
MEETING OF FARMERS CONVENTION.
DIRT ROADS MUST GO.-SOLID STONE
ROADS DEMANDED.

Excellent Address by Prof. Haupt-The
Legislature to be Asked to Place the Roads
of the State Under the Control of a Civil
Engineer.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06

ITO be finished neat soeek,l
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06
Producer and Consumer

ILfHEN money is scarce you
w want to get the best value
in exchange for it. Intel
ligent and shrewd buyers know
that when they can deal with a
reliable manufacturer direct,
they get better satisfaction as a
rule. Columns of delusive adj
vertisements of rs slaughter
Sales" MARK Down Sales" and
the like do not always argue
the best interest of the buyer.
None can offer you the solid
facts and guarantee their goods
like the maker.
We are now making up spring
goods in new and pretty styles,
and customers can confidently
rely upon our shoes as the very
best value for their money.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06

From this statement it will appear that If
an iron tram be substituted for an earth road,
one horse can do the work of 20, or 10 horses
would be saved; and as it is estimated that
the cost OF keeping horse is about 1925 per
year, the saving may be computed readily.
AS matter of fact, however, we do not
expect to go to this extreme, but would be
content to reduce this surface resistance, say
one half, or from earth to macadam. This
means one horse instead of two, or . saving
of $125 per year on every pair of horses, now
required to be kept to do the work Of hauling.
1t is evident, therefore, that h would be an
economic policy to pay this sum or Its equiv
alent, not every year, bu, occasionally, into
road fund for the purpose of increasing mere
ly the hardness and smoothness of the surface
of our roads TO say nothing of grades and
other distances.
But is in addition to improving the surface,
we also reduce the grade and shorten the dis
tances, the cost of overcoming the resistance
to traffic on common roads may easily be re-
duced from 15 TO b cents or less per mile.
But reduction to one-third means q saving
of &C per cent. OF the cost, and decreases to
the same extent the relative supremacy of the
other systems Of transportation, while the
tributary areas would be affected in proper
ton to the square Of this reduction.
Table l. would then stand thus, approx
masely:
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06

The result of the existing mode of working
out taxes is "a lot of muddy, treacherous
paths, denominated roads, dangerous to life
and limb, and causing, directly or indirectly,
by wear and tear of vehicles, and extra exer-
lion to draught animals, the loss of thousands
of dollars more than would make and main
tain a system of roads equal to those Of any
country In the world"
Although l have already given the actual
rates of moving freights over different
systems, at the risk of repetition, desire to
put these results before you in a different
form, and have therefore computed table Of
relative areas as affected by the cost of move.
ment, as follows: i.es4.
Table J., showing the relative economy of
movement of freight, based upon the cost per
ton per mile by various systems Of transpor-
tatton in 1891: : ia'7 rl
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06

Load for two horses.
No. of loads for the
$3.50, 900 tons...........
Cost at Sl.25 per load So.
Saving by reducing
surface resistance.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06
n A. LURMAN

VI a-4f -a fH -
Wholesale and Retail Wine and Liquor Dealer,
new No l06l tiilen street. corner Forrest, Balti-
more Md. California Wines and Brandies: we
Respectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens
Of Hartford county, Our stock will always be
found complete and consists of the best aud
most popular brands. Goods packed and de-
iiyered AT any railroad station and wharf free or
charge. Give us q trial and we guarantee to
OIeasa
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06
Bmsimess lirectnry..

ID =. ROM ERR
b. PHOTOGRAPHIC ART STUDIO
Main street, adjoining NJ. p. Church. All het
Attest styles of Photographs. from Is cents to SO
per dozen. Life-size Portraits in Oil and Crayon
& speciality. Copying. Viewing. l1janly
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-03-06

BUILDERS, HARDwARE.-FR H. DAv-
ID IDSON & CO., 500 Franklin Street, Balu
Store and Prison Locks. Wollensak's Patent
Transom Lifters. Bell Hangers and Locksmiths
Supplies, Weather Strips. Builders Hardware
specialty. Everything needed by the builder In
the Hardware line can be found at our estab-
lishment. All the latest improved and patented
Hard ware novelties in stock. Housekeepers can
secure ali the necessary Hardware here at the
very lowest prices. Builders are respectfully
Second ~ none in Baltimore. 27sep
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01
A Practical Solution OF the Aban.
dOned Farm Problem.

To the Editor of the Wdtchmdn:-About
forty years ago Randolph farmer began
an experiment upon piece of land which
was, perhaps, as near worthless as any five
acre lot that could be found in the region.
1t was rocky hill, broken by several little
springy ravines, so cold and wet, or so
burned up by the sun and by the barely
covered ledge, that an old neighbor says it
was not any better than his own old pas
ture is now, which isn't worth IS an acre.
With his boy, OF perhaps eight or ten years,
who is the present owner of the lot, for
driver, the farmer plowed two burrows side
by side here and there across the field about
two and half rods apart, making trenches
parallel with each other. Then, taking
some old meal sacks, long chain and the
oxen, they went to another rocky hill in the
woods, where was fine growth of young
maple trees. Winding the sacks around a
tree, they put the chain around 1t and the
oxen quickly tore it up. Carting them to
the pasture they put them into the ditch,
hoed dirt over the roots and left them.
Nearly every tree lived. Never of any less
value as pasture than it was before, as the
ground became shaded and enriched by
the falling leaves, the pasture improved.
After twenty years growth, the trees were
tapped and for these twenty years it is said
no sugar place in the region yields better
average. There are now about two hum
dred and fifty trees, averaging nearly
eighteen inches in diameter, in regular rows
and the distance is about two and one-half
rods between the trees in the rows. The
owner thinks the trees might have been set
twice as thick in the rows. But there are
now at least fifty to an acre. The season of
1890, from three hundred buckets. gave the
owner two hundred gallons of syrup, which
was sold for over dollar a gallon. Last
year was not good sugar year. so it seems
fair to call it an average year. Now let us
figure on it, First cost of one acre, So; esti-
mated cost of planting fifty trees SIS: in
terest of ten dollars for twenty years at six
per cent, (pasturing, paying taxes) $12.
Total cost of sugar place of one acre, trees
twenty years old 1922 At last years rate
three hundred trees yielding two hundred
dollars revenue-ffty trees give an income
OF $33. Or for each of these twenty years
the profit has equaled the total cost of the
first twenty years and paid all expenses Of
the year. How does that investment COM
pare with Tacoma and Fort Paine? b.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01

become very dry, the hot winds come, the
corn il cooked and that Is the end Of it,.
Now all the English grains can be raised,
and the different kinds OF grasses particu-
larry alfalfa, and secured before the hot
weather comes. have seen wheat in the
shock here the 9th of June, but the middle
of June is the usual time to begin the wheat
harvest. Oats are ready to be cut the last
of the month and the first of July. AT that
time corn is only half grown.
The railroads are largely responsible for
the emigration to western Kansas. They
had large land grants which they wanted to
sell. They knew the power OF advertising.
The Santa Fe railroad company got up a
gorgeous display of the products oil eastern
Kansas to exhibit at the centennial at
Philadelphia in '76. 1t was a great adver-
tisement. IL answered there for the whole
of Kansas. The losses of eastern investors,
of which we hear so much, in placing loans
on western farms are mostly due to igno-
rance of the value of the lands on which
they placed their loans. Some may have
thought quarter section in western Kansas
was worth Just as much as one in the east,
while in fact some quarters in the east are
worth about as much a. half township in
some localities on the western border. The
extreme western part of Kansas is some
what elevated. There is a scarcity of fuel,
a scarcity of water, and it is exposed to
northern billiards. in winter and southern
would not advise any one to migrate to this
region at resent.
A few words about Kansas in general and
| will close have never heard of swamp
in the state. There is an occasional mound
fifty or eighty feet high, but it is covered
with grass The growth of wood on the
banks of streams is very rapid. A man may
cut off all the wood and in very few years
he has another crop ready for use. Much
more might be said. 1 would like to tell
some big stories about raising corn, but no
more at present. A. q. NoYEs.
Madison, Kansas, March 81, 1891
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01
Personal.

CHAUNCEY Nj. DEPEw is mentioned in con-
nection with the republican nomination for
the governorship of New York.
COLONEL STEPHEN NJ. PINGREE of Hart
ford, who unfortunately broke his ankle
some days ago, is now at the Mary Fletcher
Hospital, Burlington.
II is reported at New York that Secre-
tary Proctor has been offered yearly sal
airy of $4,000 to take the presidency of
consolidated marble company, of which his
own company will be part.
Hon. JOHN M. THURsToN of Nebraska,
president of the Republican National
League, made rousing speech at the meet
ing of the Massachusetts league at Boston,
on last week Wednesday. Major Mckinley
also made speech.
1T is the gossip at Washington that Mrs.
Mckee and Mrs. Russell Harrison will 90
TO Europe about May /. They will visit
London, Berlin and Paris. 1t is also re-
ported that President Harrison will take
trip to California this spring.
SENATOR PEFFER's friends say that the
newspapers are entirely mistaken about
the position he will take in the senate. In
stead of acting with the democrats he will
act with the republicans, except where his
allegiance to the peoples party forbids.
Senator PETER Is described az an amiable,
good-natured man. Although the choice of
the Kansas farmers for senator, he is not a
farmer either by birth or occupation or in
appearance. He looks the prosperous editor
that he is. He is a gentleman, although he
defies 10 degree, the conventionalties of
modern customs, as regards manners and
dress His wife is a middle.aged woman,
and favorite in Topeka society His only
daughter, Nellie, is twenty years of age,
and leader in the society of the youth of
the capital. The new senator is the father
of two sons. They are strong, stalwart
young men, and both are printers.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, who has Just returned
10 Washington from the South was inter-
viewed few days ago by the correspondent
Oh the boston Transcript regarding the rumor
tnat ne was about to retire from the senate.
The senator said: "Well, you know, I can't
properly discuss that matter with you. But
let me ask: Did you ever know of man re-
signing from the senate except for the pur-
pose OF attending to neglected business in
terestS and making money by managing
some manufacturing establishment or en-
terprise of that sort? No? Well, neither
did |. And that is all can say about the
report that / am to resign the senatorship."
According to the transcripts correspondent
1t is the general opinion in Washington that
all the talk about Senator Edmunds' resig-
nation grows out of the fact that he has
rented his house there for four years to
Senator Washburn of Minnesota. This he
has done because his wife and daughter find
it necessary, owing to delicate health, to
spend the winters in the warm climate of
the South. 1t has also been rumored in
Washington that Senator Ednunds would
be appointed a justice of the supreme court
In place OF Justice Bradley, who is about
to resign. AS to this rumor the senator is
quoted as saying " Really, / never even
heard this thing mentioned before"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01
Barnard, Sumner &.C0.
WorM kN07Vtng.

Worlh ka'O5Vrng.
There never was a time when
dress goods were as pretty as
now.
There never was a time when
they were SO good.
There never was a time when
they were SO stylish.
An0 there Meier 7OaS q time
aOheu they could be bought for
so little money as today.
We will show you an AmerS-
can Saline that is good enough
to chase a French manufac-
turer out of the country.
1t can be bought, too, at a
price that no foreign maker
ever thought of touching and
can't touch.
You can have an Amer1cap
Bingham, the genuine Park
hill Zephyrs, for I5c yard
that no sensible woman would
pass by for the Scotch that
cost 4oc.
What we mean is that the,
American at I5c is better value
and a better bargain, will look
almost as nicely and will wash
as perfectly as the Scotch at
4oc.
At no other season before
this have we been able to put
on our counters goods Of
Ame,zeam make in quality
good enough to sell for 75c
a yard.
We felt compelled to 60
abroad for that quality in other
years.
This Year we give you for
75c, PAaaaS Of American make
that are really superior to the
foreign goods of other years,
and better than any foreign
goods to-day, held at that
price.
There's a good deal Of hum
bug in this question of foreign
superiority in dress goods
fabrics and designs.
American ladies are respon-
sible for most of it.
Why, it is enough to cover
us all with shame when we
have it PROVED to us that
the designs on our beautiful
French Flannels are nearly all
made in America and sent over
to the Frenchman to work out.
We have the handsomest
All Wool Dress Goods, this
year, ever produced for soc
yard, made in American mills,
too.
At no other time could goods
of the quality of now be sold
you for soc.
1t won't be long before
other lands will be boasting over
the excellencies of AMERI-
CAN Dress Goods.
We have a department thor
oughly organized to attend to
all letters Of inquiry, or for
samples or the filling of orders.
We guarantee to please you.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01
Royal Baking Powder
Leads All.

"The Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure
for have found it in many tests, made both for
them and the u S. Government The Royal Bak-
ing Powder is undoubtedly the purest and
reliable Baking Powder offered to the public.
"HENRY A MOTT, PHI. D."
Late Chemist fer L, S. Government
"Al chemical tests to which have submitted it
have proved the Royal Baking Powder perfectly
heathful and free from every deleterious substance
1t is purest in quality and highest in strength of
any Baking Powder of which have knowledge
OWN MCMURTRIE, E NJ. PHI. D.
Late Chemist in chief I, S. Debtof agriculture
Washington, d. C.
"rhe strength of the Royal is shown to be p per
greater than any other
GAS a result of my Investigations find the Royal
Baking Powder far superior to the others. 1t pure
contains but wholesome ingredients, and is Of
greatest strength
Of X. VALADE
"Pu6lc Ana5st, Ontario, Dominion Of Canada"
The latest Investigations by the United States
and Canadian Governments show the Royal Bak-
ing Powder superior to all others in leavenng
strength.
Statements BY other manufacturers to the con-
hu,y haOe been aech11e0 By tire QDFciaI authorities
itlslfcakonS 0fhhe official reports
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01

A COMPETITIVE examination OF applicants
Tor appointment to cadetship at the United
States military academy at West Point, to
NIL vacancy which will occurlin June, 1892,
Will be held at the Van Ness House in Bur-
hngton on May 28. Congressman Powers
Will appoint the person recommended by
the examining committee, which consists OF
Charles M. Wilds of Middlebury, #. H..
Dewart of St. Adams and DR.. l.. M. Bing-
ham Of Burlington.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-13
At Home.

Capt. Annie Skidmore, accompanied
by Ensign Hugh Dundas, both of Il
Baltimore division of the Salvation
Army, came up Tuesday on visit to
the formers mother, Mrs. William
Har, ison. of Borden mine. The two
officers are off on vacation. Capt.
Skidmore has been in charge of the
Baltimore work since February; will
probably not return to that city, but
does not know where she will go next
She will obey orders from headquarters
in New York. The captain is native
of this place, an excellent talker, fond
of her work, and altogether very at
tractive young lady. Her first mis-
sionary work in saloon was attempt
ed in Yonkers, N. Y. She entered,
sang, prayed and talked with so much
fervor that Il ha6itue of the place, a
young man, was convinced, CONVICTED,
converted and is now a collegiate
studying for the ministry. Ensign
Dundas' reputation as successful
worker is also we'll established. He
will enjoy the hospitality of Miss
Skidmore's friends while here.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-13
Married..

Tuesday morning, June 8, 1891, in
St. Michael's Church, by Rev. S. j.
Clark, William P. Sullivan, of this
place, and Miss Catharine Feldman, of
Eckhart. A largely attended reception
was held at the home of the bride,
where Mr.. and Mrs. Sullivan were the
recipients of many evidences of the
high esteem in which they are held.
A wedding tour of the east followed,
after which the happy pair will be at
home to friends at the St. Cloud hotel.
Mr.. Sullivan is the secretary of the
Hitchins Bros. Co., a position which
he fills with great acceptance to the
large body of people with whom he
comes in contact. The bride is pop
ular young lady and well worthy of
the suspicious future which opens up
before her.
A very quiet wedding took place
Thursday evening, June II, 1891 at
Charles Chidester's on Orman street.
Daniel Ort and Miss Maggie E..
Chichester were there united in mar
riage, Rev. C. A. Britt performing the
ceremony.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-13
SEMI.LOCAL NEWS.
Breyities.

Col. John W. Avirett, editor of the
Cumberland Times, lives in a mansion
of his own building. In location, ar
rangement and appointments it is
equalled by few, if any, in the city.
Above and beyond all, a charming
lady presides oyer the home thus ell
comprised. Which leads the JOUR-
NAL to determine that newspaper life,
with all its excuses of toll and vex-
ation-all its deficiencies of public APP
probation and compensation, need not
be wholly unblessed.
An interpreter was necessary at a
marriage "between the Savages" one
day last week. The bride came all the
way from Pocahontas to marry her
man, and Mr.. Pink Whiskels remark
ed to the JOURNAL that "she is so
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-13
Personal.

Rev. James Miller and Miss Mary
J. Dando attended the Baptist con-
vention in Hagerstown this week.
Miss Fannie A. Dixon, of Lonacon-
ing spent part of this week with Miss
Jane Scott.
G. E. Beckner, photographer, has
located his portable house on the corner
of Main and Water streets. and is now
ready to take everybody's picture. Be
sure and read his New Business
Locals"
Mrs. Maud Thompson, nee Sanner,
of Summerfield, Pa, was among
friends here Tuesday. Mr.. and Mrs.
j. j. dis accompanied her home.
Miss Annie E. McAllister is visiting
friends in Baltimore.
Rev. D. L. Mackenzie, of Sioux
city, Iowa, is paying visit to friends
here. Nearly twenty years ago he
was pastor of the English Lutheran
church, by whose membership and
adherents he is still remembered as an
able, faithful, eloquent preacher. He
is prominent figure in his church
and one of the enterprising spirits of
material and moral advancement in
the mighty West" He has consent
ed to preach in the English Lutheran
church tomorrow evening.
Rev's. Randolph Mccullough, A. B.
O'Neal and E. G.. Zwayer, of Crozier
Theological Institute, We're guests this
week of Rev. James Miller.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-13

Mr.. Gunnett-To settle this thing
move to strike out of Mr.. Hosken's mo-
ton so cents and insert 45 cents. Lost
Mr.. Michael called for the yeas and
nays on the previous questions
Ayes-Metzger, Lammert, Hosken and De
Witt,
Nays--Michael, Wright and Gunnett.
So the tax rate was fixed at 80 cents
per 500.
Mr.. Michael moved that 800 be APP.
propriated to the Fire department.
Adjourned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-13
At Pink's Home.

you're drunk ag'in, you Urinary
sot, are you9"
The voice came from an humble
dwelling in Pocahontas. 1t was pierre
ing, shrill and undoubtedly feminine.
You're nice lookin' old sot to be
the father of respectable family and
the husband of hard workin' woman,
now, arn't you p
Nov, Mirandy, d (hic) ont" an
swered a hoarse voice in gentle ex-
postulation.
"Don't9 I'll don't you! You red
nosed old sponge Not another word
D'you her me9 Not another word or
I'll slap your good for nothin' jaws until
| drive your whiskers in ~
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-13

The Cumberland Ne,cs reports the
following:
Beginning with Monday, June Is, all the
shoe and trunk stores will close at $50 o clock
each evening during the year excepting
Saturdays and the month of December.
The merchant tailors, clothiers and dealers
in gents furnishing goods have agreed to
close their places of business at o'clock
each evening from July to October Is,
Saturday excepted.
1t is almost shame that there is not
enough comfy and good faith among
Frostburg merchants to adopt and
keep similar compact here.